This Wednesday, July 4th, I’m proud to be releasing my new album with Paul Pinto, seven years in the making. It’s called Jeff Young and Paul Pinto, Patriots, Run for Public Office on a Platform of Swift and Righteous Immigration Reform, Lots of Jobs, and a Healthy Environment: an Opera by Paul Pinto and Jeffrey Young, available online from Gold Bolus Recordings with an accompanying set of commemorative political buttons. We’ll perform an album release show in Brooklyn on the 4th, then set off on a marathon tour to Texas and back. Details below!
One of our four commemorative buttons, designed by Paul Pinto.
Paul and I created our elaborately titled piece – which we refer to as …Patriots… for short – in 2011 as a parody of contemporary politics and politicians. We talk a lot about building walls in the piece, but this was a piece made squarely in the Obama era. Listening back, it’s an unsettling reminder that today’s turbulent conversations around immigration and national identity sometimes differ more in style than substance from what came before.
We had touring in mind from the start, designing a set out of cardboard boxes that easily fold up in the back of a car. We wanted to make sure we wouldn’t get bored of the piece, so we created room for improvisation: the question and answer sections of the piece are different every night. For a while we wondered if this ever-changing, theatrical piece would work in fixed, audio-only form, but eventually we found adaptations to bring it into the other medium. If you’ve seen it live, check out the recording, and vice versa – they’re different!
We’ll launch our album into the world with a 6pm hometown show on July 4th at cozy Williamsburg experimental venue Wonders of Nature. You can get in for just $7 by buying our album online in advance, or for $10 at the door. We’re sharing the bill with our fellow thingNYers, who will improvise with intrepid instrument-builder Dirk Johan Stromberg, visiting all the way from Singapore. There will be a solo set by Gelsey Bell, and a duo vocal set by Bonnie Lander and Kayleigh Butcher. We’re very pleased that Bonnie will also be joining us for the whole second half of our tour, performing solo works by Giacinto Scelsi, Kurt Schwitters, and others. After the show ends around 9pm, we’ll walk two blocks from the venue to the East River to watch the fireworks.
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Our nearly monthlong tour includes stops at two festivals devoted to new and experimental music, Omaha Under The Radar in Omaha, Nebraska, and NMASS (New Media Art and Sound Summit) in Austin, Texas. The women who run them, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett and Henna Chou respectively, are total badasses. I’ve been wanting to play at their festivals for years. At Omaha Under the Radar, in addition to …Patriots…, we’ll be playing in George Lewis’s emergent classic Artificial Life 2007/2017, and I’ll perform a solo violin and laptop set to kick off the festival. It should be a blast!
Along the way, we’ll stop in Harrisburg, Columbus, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita, Norman, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Tulsa, Iowa City, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Phoenixville (PA). I did most of the booking for this tour, and it’s been really gratifying connecting with awesome folks I already knew in these cities as well as making new friends. We’ve made an effort to share bills with as many women and people of color as possible, and I look forward to getting to see their work.
After the tour, I head for a few days to my family reunion, then I’m hanging out in Boston for the foreseeable future. Get at me with your creative projects, Bostonians…I’m excited to really become part of the local scene!
Trying to get into video games and just enjoyed this one,
Jeff