somesurprises / TALsounds / John Karvonen
Tue, May 14
|Rhizome DC
Time & Location
May 14, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012, USA
About the event
Tuesday May 14 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
somesurprises is a dynamic four-piece live band lead by Seattle-based songwriter and guitarist Natasha El-Sergany. Motorik beats, reverb-drenched vocals, washes of fingerpicked guitars, and hazy synths expand El-Sergany’s delicate and blissful songwriting. Their stage presence is otherworldly, meditative, and spectral, exuding a transcendent calm "highly unusual for a rock band" (Dave Segal, The Stranger.) They’ve drawn comparisons to Broadcast, Stereolab, Neu!, Grouper, Spiritualized, and Mazzy Star, “but somesurprises is nothing if not its own thing, with plenty of ambitious/unexpected moves that may, er, surprise you! A very good thing" (Tyler Wilcox, Aquarium Drunkard.)
Their upcoming tour is in support of their second full-length release, Perseids, to be released by LA's Doom Trip Records in April 2024.
TALsounds (Natalie Chami) is a Canadian-born Lebanese American musician and educator. Known for her work in drone, ambient, and improvisational music, she has cultivated a distinguished solo career over…