The Precipice Community Band at Con Alma

Synthesizing elements of Caribbean and indie folk musics while taking aesthetic inspiration from weird fiction like Night Vale and Marble Hornets, The Precipice Community Band presents a music that evokes a dark, perpetual twilight. Their sound-world transports the reader to a parallel version of normal life, where all of the basic elements are present but are reconstructed somehow, and where the same location may look different on each subsequent visit. The Precipice juxtaposes beauty and fear, horror and comedy into one shifting-but-same gestalt, a liminal place that has one foot on either side of the familiar and the mysterious...

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Synthesizing elements of Caribbean and indie folk musics while taking aesthetic inspiration from weird fiction like Night Vale and Marble Hornets, The Precipice Community Band presents a music that evokes a dark, perpetual twilight. Their sound-world transports the reader to a parallel version of normal life, where all of the basic elements are present but are reconstructed somehow, and where the same location may look different on each subsequent visit. The Precipice juxtaposes beauty and fear, horror and comedy into one shifting-but-same gestalt, a liminal place that has one foot on either side of the familiar and the mysterious.

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