Music Nights with Gentle Ohm, Unconventional Science and JC This Weekend

Fri 28 Jun, 9pm: Gentle Ohm
Sat 29 Jun, 8.30pm: Worlds Apart: Unconventional Science & JC (Hanoi Sessions)
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Come to these 2 interesting music gigs this weekend. Expect some experimental electronic sounds on Friday with Gentle Ohm (aka Josh Kopecek) and a great DJ night on Saturday with Saigon-based Unconventional Science and JC from Hanoi Sessions who is famous with the hit “Oi Gioi Oi”.

From the organizer:

Gentle Ohm: Friday 28 June

Gentle Ohm is the new moniker of Josh Kopecek, one of Hanoi’s most interesting musicians.

The British music graduate has built a reputation in the capital for his complicated compositions and home-made instruments. His live shows are rare and to be savoured, so if you like manic electronic mash ups of irregular time signatures and samples of traditional Vietnamese music that sound a bit like this:

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…and are made like this:
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Words Apart: Unconventional Science & JC (Hanoi Sessions): Saturday 29 June

Unconventional Science returns to Hanoi to team up with fellow Sub Elements maestro JC (Hanoi Sessions) for a night of eclectic music.

With the release of albums Open with Emotion and Tiger Mustache, Unconventional Science has left a trail of admirers in his wake. Rhythmic fusions of modern bass music with tribal drum patterns and samples from world music attracted remixes by producers from all over the globe and a headline slot at Kuala Lumpur’s Raising the Bar festival. His latest project Worlds Apart sees him team up with Sub Elements’ most eclectic selector JC (Hanoi Sessions) for a conceptual night.

Not a dance party, though you may well boogie, the evening will see juxtaposing musical styles jutting up against each other in ways that shouldn’t quite work, but somehow do. From jazz to hip hop to funk to drum and bass and psych rock or whatever else happens to fit, Unconventional Science and JC set out to find the thread that proves the Rev. Jesse Jackson right.

“On this program you will hear gospel,
And rhythm and blues, and jazz
All those are just labels
We know that music is music.”
– Rev. Jesse Jackson

Ticket

Worlds Apart: Unconventional Science & JC (Hanoi Sessions): 50k
Gentle Ohm: Free Entry