Let’s let Saul Williams know that San Diego can get down!
Saul is a friend of Ken’s and was recently featured on Integral Naked.
Maybe we can drive together or at least hang out at the show? Email me if interested…
From Integral Naked…
Introducing Niggy Tardust.
Saul Williams, Slam poet and Hip Hop emcee-extraordinairre, who has just released his exceptionally beautiful new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust.
For anyone who has yet to listen, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust is an absolutely amazing collaboration between Saul and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Saul has always been known for his post-conventional approach to Hip Hop, and nowhere does this come through more than on this album. It is truly a trans-genre masterpiece, perfectly blending Saul’s powerful vocals with the industrial “wall of sound” orchestration that has come to define Nine Inch Nails. But even more impressive than Saul’s impulse to transcend genre is his ability to use art to transform and transcend identity itself, breaking through the self-imposed limitations of the finite self, and opening to the clear, limitless consciousness at the heart of this and every moment.
This move toward more freedom and more fullness is, of course, a gradual process, and one that requires a tremendous amount of practice. For Saul, performance is that practice?whether it’s acting, poetry, or music, performance is a place where the phoenix can cycle through its own creation and destruction, losing itself and finding itself again and again through greater and greater degrees of identity and awareness. Art has always been Saul’s primary path of transcendence, and has led him through some of the most extraordinary experiences available to human consciousness?from “me” to man, from man to black man, from black man to human being, and from human being to just one of an infinite number of masks God wears to make existence a little more interesting….
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17 advance ticket price and 20 at the door.