from the live performance at Bushwick Starr in 2019

Recit 1 from Waterboy And The Mighty World by The HawtPlates

Step Back - A psychedelic jaunt through a dream space.

DREAM FEED

STEP BACK

Hawtplates + Juse Live (CB Roughs)

Lucid Dream (Live) 2

Wendy_new take

The prophetic dream / Everything is Everything(live)

...a series of vocal musings on ownership set in a single house under numerous households, inspired by Toni Morrison’s novel “Home”, and the experimental writing of French author Georges Perec. The music speaks with voices from a myriad of lifetimes in an urban dwelling - a fragmented libretto of shifting murmurs, calls, shouts, whispers, sermons and songs. Through discrete studies of characters from children’s stories like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and episodes of The Twilight Zone, the subtly racialized and under-breath utterances of a community in “flux” become a census built of inherited language, the layered vocabularies of gentrification, and conversations on progress.  The songs tally the perspectives and serve to perform a mixing up of the results.

hawtplates ramp showing

5. we got out of the water _ face hiding

6. from place choosey people _ hot plate

7. foot to face outro improv

Live performance at Jack in Brooklyn NY.  The third nite of 3 evening performances.  Jade Hicks, Justin Hicks perform live.  Kenita Miller Hicks appears as VO.

690 WISHES AT JACK

690 wishes at JACK nite 3

More a performance trio than a band, the HawtPlates make conceptual live vocal works through breaking down and abstracting musical forms that include blues, rock, hip hop, r&b, folk, mantra, gospel, and various vocal traditions from around the world. In hearing their work, there is a sense that the music is specific to them as a family, and that it can only be made by them. By amassing a pantry of sights, ideals, persons, and places, they produce potent tonics and “one pots” hearkening the spirit of the family heirloom recipe.  

Sounds like….
OUTKAST, Mahalia Jackson, Kirk Franklin’s Nu Nation, Dirty Projectors, Throbbing Gristle, Georgia Sea Island Singers, and Andy Bey at a family reunion in upstate New York eating at a global soul food buffet, drinking mango lassi.

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