We are excited to be bringing out
@derek_monypeny on tour with his shahi baaja from Yucca Valley / Joshua Tree CA on 3/1! The show will also feature a “new” project Errands In Other Worlds, a devotional improvised group featuring Julio Lopez, Cecyl Ruehlen and Christopher Alagna, as well as a solo set from blue dust archive //
“Born in the Arizona desert, a veteran of multiple explorations into the Sahara desert via Morocco and Western Sahara, and now a resident of the Mojave, Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the “desert continuum;” the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over.”
“Errands In Other Worlds has been gathering for a year, in the quietude of Friday morning improvised sessions, and until now, without an intention to perform. First formed by
@pseudo_psuedo /
@cecylruehlen /
@christopheralagna (and often including
@cabron_dioxide and
@_chel.lee_ ) with a desire to listen, be gentle, and share musical energies with one another.”
At once expansive, exhaustive and emotionally algebraic, Blue Dust Archive’s Blue Lilies emerges as a sophisticatedly engineered soundboard, providing home to an exceedingly complex musical ecosystem. It’s one borne of an admiration of the “inscrutable and natural genius of life” that Blue Dust Archive, AKA Samuel Christopher, describes as a ‘’symphonic, art-pop epic with spiritual and mystical overtones”.
