Saturday, March 26th 8 pm (Detroit): Elder Ones @ Trinosophes

Sunday, March 27th 7:30 pm (Chicago): Elder Ones @ The Empty Bottle

Monday, March 28th 7:30 pm (Iowa City): Elder Ones Feed Me Weird Things @ Trumpet Blossom Cafe

Tuesday, March 29th 8:00 pm (Omaha): Elder Ones LIVE @ Lowend

Wednesday, March 30th 7:00 pm (Rock Island): Elder Ones: @ Rozz-Tox/Outlet Series

Thursday, March 31st 7:00 pm (Madison): Elder Ones: @ Arts + Literature Laboratory

Musicians
Amirtha Kidambi: Vocals, Harmonium, Synthesizer, Compositions
Matt Nelson: Soprano Saxophone
Eva Lawitts: Bass
Jason Nazary: Drums and Electronic Sensory Percussion

From Untruth builds upon the bedrock foundation of Kidambi's previous compositional and conceptual work with Elder Ones, while forging uncharted territory. After a journey into wordless abstraction on Holy Science, Kidambi felt the urgency of the political moment required a direct and verbal call to action. The lyric fragments critique power structures of capitalism, racism, colonialism and fascism, distilling theory into visceral battle cries of protest. The instrumentation adds a layer of technology, with Kidambi on analog synthesizer and Max Jaffe's drumming talents extended to electronic Sensory Percussion. The frenzied improvising of Matt Nelson on soprano sax and gravity of Nick Dunston on bass, anchor the music in the tradition of free jazz, while it pushes into new futurist realms. The aesthetic seamlessly reels from modal meditation, atonal expressionism, free improvisation and melodic invention, to unabashed bursts of punk rock energy. In its most recent incarnation featuring Eva Lawitts on bass and the addition of Lester St. Louis on cello, the compositions reflect the themes of the tumultuous years of the pandemic and global unrest of violence against Asian Americans, the crises of late capitalism and inequity exemplified by vaccine apartheid, the rise of global fascism and odes to the racial justice movement and labor movements.