Full Disclosure: Carol Lipnik in Goddess of Imperfection
About This Show
Live performance has always been at the center of Carol Lipnik’s music. Her style and songs are born from a desire to create a cathartic experience that transports the audience on a journey through the power of her expansive voice and poetry into a mystical dreamworld. Her songs explore themes related to myth, nature, the mutability of water and other elements, world chaos, outer space, and the beauty and loneliness of the outsider.
Coming from a background of visual arts, the sonic pallet of Lipnik’s music and poetic lyrics are cinematic, a bravely singular overlapping of art song and popular music that defies categorization, and has ranged ranged from semi-classical dreamy and ethereal soundscapes to primal screams and cabaret carnival, and also incorporates sonic loops of natural sounds. In performance, the songs are presented with a sense of theater. Pianist and multi-instrumentalist Matt Kanelos is Lipnik’s long time collaborator and his minimalist, spacious phrasing and odd chordal inversions imbue a haunted Debussy-on-opium bed for Lipnik’s voice.
About the Artist
Carol Lipnik, the spellbinding, darkly-humorous singer and songwriter recently called an “ethereal vocal phenomenon” by The New York Timesis the artist in residence at the East Village Boîte Pangea (performing weekly with pianist Matt Kanelos in an unprecedented two year long run). Carol also completed a three week run at Joe’s Pub in Spring 2016 and is the the winner of the 2015 Broadway World New York Cabaret Award for best Alternative Cabaret Show. Her acclaimed new CD Almost Back To Normal was funded by a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. In addition to Joe’s Pub and Pangea, Carol has performed at such venues as Abrons Arts Center, PS 122, the Hudson Opera House, the Ancram Opera House, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Spiegelltent at Bard, and FringeArts at La Peg. The inimitable Coney Island native has released six CDs on her Mermaid Alley Music label. She has collaborated with and composed music for performance artist John Kelly’s latest work The Escape Artist and for his newly released debut CD Beauty Kills Me. She was recently an artist in residence at The Kimmel Center and the Yaddo Art Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY. Visit carollipnik.com for more info.
Saturday, January 7 at 8:00pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$20 at the door
Students/Seniors/idNYC
$12
Presenters attend FREE
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Credits
Photo credit: Albie Mitchell