TBA:09 THE WORKS
SweetBerry Sampled and LeftOva
Kalup Linzy with Ben Darwish, Sam Howard, and Kevin van Geem
In SweetBerry Sonnet (2008), Linzy performs a variety of characters, including Taiwan, Labisha, Katonya, Nucuavia, and Jada. With titles such as "Dirty Trade" and "Edge of My Couch," the songs—all written and performed with sublime theatricality by Linzy—trace a melodramatic arc of desire and loss. Linzy created a music video for each R&B-inspired song on the album. Linzy's sophomore album Sampled and LeftOva will be released in the fall of 2009.
Linzy will peform songs from SweetBerry Sonnet, interwoven with video segments produced as a result of an April PICA residency, along with local jazz and rock rising stars Ben Darwish, Sam Howard, and Kevin van Geem. Singer/performance artist Jamie Lee Christiana and singer Saqualla Allen perform as Linzy's soulful backup for this special performance.
See Linzy's video work Conversation Wit de Churen VII : Lil' Myron's Trade in TBA:09 On Sight. This project is made possible in part by a grant from the National Performance Network's Visual Artists Network. Major contributors are the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.org.