Saturday, November 23, 2024
10:00pm–midnight
Francis Kite Club
40 Loisaida Ave, New York, NY

Join us at Francis Kite Club to celebrate Transatlantik with three sets on piano and vinyl, featuring Alexis Marcelo on keys and a mix of soul, disco, R&B, house, and hip hop from DJ Buddy and DJ Jeff Brown.

Alexis Marcelo grew up studying classical piano in the vibrant musical landscape of 1980s and 90s New York City. He was influenced by a rich tapestry of sounds from the African diaspora, shaping his identity as a Black Latino artist. He studied under Dr. Yusef Lateef at the University of Massachusetts, exploring composition and improvisation through the unique lens of Yusef's audiophysiopsychic music, which fosters deep listening and the creation of new musical ideas that resonate with the essence of Alexis' heritage. He has performed extensively across Europe and the United States, and collaborated with artists including GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan and Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets. He released Nananom Xu in 2024, featuring JD Parran and Daniel Carter, and is preparing to release new material soon. 

About Transatlantik:
This November, FourOneOne presents Transatlantik,  two days of performances and conversation with diasporic artists engaged with the artistic and political concepts of negritude and créolité: Aruán Ortiz's Reimagining Tropiques: Then and Now ft. Anaïs Maviel and Aliya Ultan; Sélène Saint Aimé's Creole Songs; KāFOU (Val Jeanty and Cassie Watson Francillon); Renald St. Juste; and Patrick Chamoiseau, the Martinican author and theorist of créolité; plus an afterparty with Alexis Marcelo, DJ Buddy and DJ Jeff Brown. Transatlantik kicks off FourOneOne’s series of performances, discussions, and other public convenings exploring creolization, the fraught process of social, cultural, and linguistic mixing through the enforced cohabitation of racialized and subjugated peoples within the extractive contexts of slavery, colonialism and plantation societies.