“I consider myself an artist who chose music as their medium because it can truly define people's identities.If I can't create a universe in my art where I have control, then where can I do that in the world? Eventually I hope it takes me to where I belong.” — Tamaryn Tamaryn Debut Live in Hong Kong Pre-Sale $320 Walk-In $400 Guest Band to be announced ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-sale Ticket 預售票 $320 per person Online ticket is now available at https://tamaryn2018.eventbrite.hk Printed ticket is now available at Post Wave Music, White Noise Records, ZUK Studio and Zoo Records soon. Printed Ticket Outlet: 1. Post Wave Music Office (Enquiry: tel:6719 1413 / 5936 7718) Harbour Ciry, Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui Station A1 EXIT, East Tsim Sha Tsui Station L5 EXIT) *Please contact us in advance when you need to buy printed tickets in our office. 2. White Noise Records (Enquiry: tel:2591 0499) 1/F, 720 Shanghai Street, Prince Edward, Kowloon (Mongkok Station A2 EXIT) 3. 觸Studio/ZUK Studio (Enquiry: tel:2395 3332) 311, Sincere House, 83 Argyle Street, Mongkok, Kowloon 4. Zoo Records (Enquiry: tel:2309 2911) Shop 325, 3/F President Commercial Centre, 608 Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowloon Total Information：tel:6719 1413 (Hannah) E-mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tamaryn Brown, better known solely by her forename, "Tamaryn", is a vocalist born in New Zealand and now living in New York City. She has worked with longtime collaborator Rex John Shelverton (Portraits of Past, The Audience, Vue and Bellavista) since 2008. Since 2011, Tamaryn has collaborated with several different artists on a vast array of multimedia projects. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Time and changes distance Tamaryn’s Cranekiss from her earlier efforts, and for that matter, from everyone else’s. Time, by way of the long period spent crafting this material, both on her own and with Weekend’s Shaun Durkan, who with producer Jorge Elbrecht (Violens, Lansing-Dreiden), make up the creative team behind Cranekiss. Changes, by relocating across the country from San Francisco to New York City, by expanding the approach taken on her two previous albums (2010’s The Waves and 2012’s Tender New Signs), by making music that pulls you closer to it despite the enormity of the sounds within. Tamaryn’s first two full-lengths stood out in a crowd of shoegaze/ethereal revivalists as much for what they were (careful, gorgeous, thrilling tapestries of guitar-based textures) as what they weren’t (simplistic, trendy, disposable signposts made to be broken). With Cranekiss, Tamaryn emerges from her past in a way that’s inviting, warm-blooded, and shockingly direct. She’s made a big record, loaded with samples, synth triggers and processing that was missing from her previous efforts, the result of long nights grinding it out at the Brooklyn studio Gary’s Electric, where the record was born. The Waves and Tender New Signs focused on the sounds Tamaryn and her group could coax out of guitars, but with Cranekiss her sonic palette has exploded with maniacal abandon, pressed into service of a post-adolescent love letter to all the music that she and her collaborators hold dear, drawing influences from the feelings that fell out of her. Anyone familiar enough with those times should be able to draw their own comparisons, recognizing the modes of musical respect and adoration flashing past as the record spins. From there, though, Tamaryn has modeled these elements into simulacra, where despite the nods and glances to the past, play as a totally new sound. Lyrically, this is Tamaryn’s most personal collection of songs to date, and Elbrecht has placed her voice front and center across the entire record, elevating her presence like never before. Cranekiss explores dark rock, dance pop, and glistening melancholy with a uniformly commanding presence across it all, in stormy, unsettled brushstrokes that apply pressure behind Tamaryn’s words. Cranekiss represents a long journey, and a new phase in Tamaryn’s music unfolding before you, a blood-red kaleidoscope of desire and late night abandon, a bold step forward. *from Xiami Profile