Several years in the making, a full evening performance at majestic St. Mark’s Church, historic home of art and activism, Sunday,
Nov. 18th, 7:30 pm, $12, celebrating the debut album (which will be available for the first
time) of The Children…, my music
collaboration with Jim Coleman of
Cop Shoot Cop, with other members of Cop,
Swans and Barkmarket (Phil Puleo, John
Nowlin, etc.) joining us for this project.

I’ll let the work speak for itself (there’s ample
description in the attached documents, St.
Mark’s being the press release, The Children
the artist’s statement, and the MySpace link,
where you’ll find some representative new tracks, is below), but let’s just say we aim to
bring you a truly transcendent evening.

Prefacing the set will be a dreamy series of
very succinct performative vignettes of various sorts,
including my life partner Elizabeth’s hauntingly sung
prayer soliloquy to her, for those of you who don’t
know, recently departed father, potent experimental
neoclassical pianist Steven Lynch, beloved macabre
storyteller Edgar Oliver, and two emerging
choreographers, razor sharp, DC based Melanie Lalande
and her fierce collaborator and soloist Toy Falcone,
and the sinuous and imaginative Emily Vetsch. these
pieces will fade one into the other, dissipating as
the other emerges, until, abruptly, The Children…
arrive.

Above the stage hover weather balloons and
projection screens, where images will flicker,
providing a visual counterpoint to the silent
movie enacted by myself, vocalist-lyricist, the
music’s channeler, its vessel, producer
Coleman, its conductor, wizard, weatherman,
and the visceral, complex, relentless,
nuanced sounds of Puleo (percussion and beyond),
Nowlin (bass) and guests, including cellist Martha Siegel.
Elegiac documentary-narrative filmmaker Joel Fendelman
provides a portrait of modern China, both abstract and
journalistic, and noted human rights photographer
Srini Kuruganti offers visions of India.

I’m very excited about this one. I promise
this will be an unforgettable evening. join us
for this very special performance/service,
located somewhere at the intersection of
heart, soul,family, love, romance, sex,
global politics, the human condition, fantasy, reality,spirituality, art, the real, the imagined,
societal mores, ritual practice. really. all that.
I mean it. We’d love you to share this with us.

love,
Michael

The Children… Album Debut Performance
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 E. 10th St.
NYC, NY
Sunday, November 18th
7:30 pm
$12 at the door, album also available to the public,
for the first time

preview the album at: myspace.com/thechildrensmusic