The Kitchen Continues Synth Nights Series with Champagne Jerry & More Tonight

The Kitchen will present the next installment of Synth Nights, its series devoted to the live performance of electronic music, tonight, December 16, with hip-hop performer Champagne Jerry, feminist punk act Penis and Swedish electronic artist Tami Tamaki. The bill brings together artists forming new performative personae, each from their own radically different place on the musical spectrum and has been organized by Matthew Lyons.

Champagne Jerry is the hip-hop project of Neal Medlyn that seeks to "continuously create and provide the most significant moments in everyone's lives." Champagne Jerry has been named one of the top ten best performers in New York by Time Out, and has been profiled in Rolling Stone and Interview among others. Frequent collaborators include Max Tannone, Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz and his onstage entourage of Tannone, Sophia Cleary, Farris Craddock and the Ghost of Champagne Past. He has routinely sold out shows at Joe's Pub and has played the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Union Pool, Pianos, and various rock clubs, parties, Walmart parking lots, art venues and theaters on tour across the U.S. His latest album, For Real, You Guys, was released in 2014.

Penis is a feminist punk band committed to transformation, remaking value systems and vulnerability. Conceived by best friends Samara Davis and Sophia Cleary with the help of friends Neal Medlyn (Champagne Jerry) and Joseph Teeling, Penis originated as a project for the artists to find their voices and learn their instruments. Penis has performed at music venues, comedy shows, and most recently at Artists Space in New York City and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Samara Davis (bassist) is a writer and PhD candidate of Performance Studies at NYU. She is an editor at Art & Education and one of the founders of the Kate Bush Dance Troupe. Sophia Cleary (drummer) is an artist working in performance and video, and has presented her work at Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, and e-flux. She is a co-editor of the performance annual Emergency INDEX, and the founder of works-in-progress performance series, REHEARSAL. Earlier this year, Penis released their first EP, Too Big to Fail, produced by Sara Landeau, guitarist in The Julie Ruin.

Swedish born, Berlin-based electronic pop artist Tami Tamaki crafts sweeping, shimmery dance tracks that combine soft-focus romance with frank sexuality. Tami Tamaki began performing in 2013, the same year her song "I Never Loved This Hard This Fast Before" was featured in Ester Martin Bergsmark's film Something Must Break. She has composed and performed music for the multidisciplinary performance Versus at Atalante (Gothenburg) in addition to having released the singles "Fancy Hotel" and "Strong Hands" in 2014. Recently, Tamaki has completed a residency in collaboration with Doron Sadja at Future Legends (Malmö) performing for Live Art Strömstad and has composed music for the dance and performance film Norður. She has performed at festivals and clubs in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Poland and in the US. Tami Tamaki is currently working on the video for her new single "Despicable."

The concert will begin at 8pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at www.thekitchen.org; by phone at 212.255.5793 x11; or in person at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street), Tuesdays - Saturdays, 2:00 - 6:00 P.M.

With roots in The Kitchen's original electronic music program, held on Monday nights beginning in 1971, Synth Nights represents a broad spectrum of practitioners from across generations. Participants have included Laurie Anderson,David Behrman, Nels Cline and Yuka Honda, Eli Keszler, Musica Elettronica Viva, Ebe Oke, Oneohtrix Point Never, Laurel Halo, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Helado Negro, James Hoff and C. Spencer Yeh.

The Kitchen is one of New York City's most forward-looking nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines. Our programs range from dance, music, performance, and theater to video, film, and art, in addition to literary events, artists' talks, and lecture series. Since its inception in 1971, The Kitchen has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country, and has helped launch the careers of many artists who have gone on to worldwide prominence.

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