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BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival

Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Emel Mathlouthi

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the legendary Montréal collective, will join us with an earth-rattling, wall-of-sound experience at the Bandshell.

Date

FRI, AUG 10, 2018
6:30PM Doors / 7:30PM Show

Cost

FREE

Location

Prospect Park Bandshell (2020)
9th Street & Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  • Emel Mathlouthi


The legendary Montréal experimental collective GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR drives music writers to abandon caution with its "swelling, torrential compositions that also gracefully loom, like a dewed spiderweb, squaring the circle of neo-classical and punk rock." (NPR) During their formative years in the early 1990s, the band swelled from a bedroom trio to an earth-rattling, wall-of-sound experience with as many as 14 live musicians. Their first batch of records before a nine-year hiatus included 2000's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, which is hailed as a post-rock classic. The music is deeply political, with vocal samples and liner notes that suggest anarchist-collectivist views. And though they have mostly declined to subscribe to particular movements or parties, founding member Efrim Menuck began openly identifying as an anarchist in 2014. Their newest record, Luciferian Towers, brings a melodic maturity even as it rumbles through an apocalyptic contemporary landscape. Pitchfork calls it "impeccably composed" and "their most powerfully positive-sounding music to date."

In EMEL MATHLOUTHI, whose electronica-infused songs were the soundtrack of the Tunisian revolution, "you hear a person refusing to compromise, a searing vision founded on real risks and the necessity of truth." (Pitchfork)




Venue Seating
- All Seats In - Click here to see the various seat set-ups at the Bandshell.
- Lawn open for blankets/lawn chairs

Information for Friends of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
- Friends Member Seating:
 Front seats open to Seat-Pass and Tent-Pass members
- Friends Tent: Open to Tent-Pass members
- Sponsor Tent: Open to Tent-Pass members

 


 

Venue Information:

The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival is one of New York City's longest running, free, outdoor performing arts festivals and is held every summer at the Prospect Park Bandshell. View seating arrangements here.

All Performances Rain or Shine. In the event of dangerous weather we will be communicating updates on our website, Facebook, and Twitter.

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