Stereo Mandrax (FREE w/ RSVP) Hisham Akira Bharoocha & Ka Baird Duo • Ben Vida & Alex Zhang Hungtai Duo • Chuck Bettis & Bonnie Baxter Duo
About This Event
Stereo Mandrax headlines a mixed bill at Pianos that straddles club rock and downtown experimental practice, the band favoring economy and momentum in short, collaborative sets. The lineup pairs them with duos: Hisham Akira Bharoocha & Ka Baird (Bharoocha performs as Yokubari, plays in Kill Alters and formerly in Lightning Bolt and Black Dice), Ben Vida & Alex Zhang Hungtai (Vida’s electroacoustic and drone work alongside Zhang Hungtai’s texture-focused, atmosphere-driven sets), and Chuck Bettis & Bonnie Baxter.
About the Artists
Stereo Mandrax
Stereo Mandrax is a rock/pop group heard in New York City rooms such as Pianos, often on bills that blur the line between club rock and downtown experimental music. Their recent appearances have placed them alongside Council Of Foreign Relations, Excepter, Marcia Bassett and Taralie Peterson, as well as Pink Must Animal, Surrender, Jeff Tobias, and Chris Forsyth’s What is Now.
Hisham Akira Bharoocha
Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a multimedia artist based in New York City. His work touches on the intricacies of mental architecture and self-made symbolism.
Ben Vida
Ben Vida is a New York–based artist and composer with an MFA from Bard College. For roughly two decades he has moved through the international experimental music community, working across electroacoustic composition, drone, musique concrète, and other avant-garde forms.
Alex Zhang Hungtai
Alex Zhang Hungtai is an individual artist whose work moves between composition and performance, often presented in intimate club settings in New York City. At Cassette, he has appeared in bills such as ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI & LEO CHANG, alongside collaborators including Leo Chang, Medium, Melissa Achten, and Misty.
Chuck Bettis
CHUCK BETTIS BIO RECORDINGS PERFORMANCES PROJECTS sample Contact: info{at}chuckbettis{dot}com