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Very excited to welcome everyone back to Cables West for a very special performance by Tatsuya Nakatani @nakatanitatsuya. Join us at 7pm on May 19 at 1411 W San Antonio St in Marfa! Featuring a performance by Marfa-based artist Marcela Rodriguez @whoreticultre

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.

Nakatani's distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

Gonna have a great time this Wednesday! NEW LOCATION @the_wildmare @lost_horse_saloon_marfa big thanks to Astrid for hosting! @for_fust@mercelemon @thomasdollbaum

Show this Thursday! @_holy_people from nyc and @veronica._.anne from marfa. 7pm ! Don't ya miss it!! Poster by @will_fm

First show of the year! ✨ Jana Horn on Sunday, February 8th at 6pm, plus New Andrew Band 🥁

Monday 8/11 8pm ! @thomasdollbaum and slug hug

Poster by @nonotesposters @evaclaycomb