Join us for a magical evening of music featuring Lea Thomas' Album Release show ~ COSMOS FOREVER with special guest Iruka Maria Toro
7 PM Doors
8 PM Gong Song with Iruka Maria Toro
9 PM Lea Thomas
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Lea Thomas' album “Cosmos Forever” unfurls in a moment of exquisitely gentle suggestion: “Let’s go for a walk/Don’t talk.” Hers is a voice that is at peace with itself, that is trusting of its own ability to convey the truths of her experience and her personal philosophy, and to express her enduring love for the natural world. These truths, inspired by growing up on Maui, are embroidered with elegantly simple imagery. Fragments and fine details of a myriad different landscapes–a spray of leaves, a winding river, a bracing trade wind–seem to weave themselves together into a blanket of sound that is warm and wholly enveloping.
Lushness without drama, honesty without sharpness–rare and fine qualities that suffuse every song. Like a friendly hand resting on the shoulder, this music encourages the listener to become more at ease with the unanswered questions they might contain within themselves. It suggests that to forgive oneself for being uncertain, to allow oneself to experience pure and simple goodness, is to feel more at home in the world, and to better feel the embrace of the all-encompassing universe itself.
Iruka Maria Toro is an artist whose work across disciplines and mediums in an investigation of image, sound, plants, medicine, ritual, prayer, and the body. She has exhibited internationally: is a NYFA painting fellow, and has works in many museum collections including the collection of the United States Embassy. Her current research involves studying various forms of bodywork, plant mysticism, and singing.
Gong Song
Autumn is the season of the metal element. In this opening prayer for Lea's album: Cosmos Forever, Iruka will be invoking prayer songs and playing healing sounds with a focus on the gong and deep earth energy.