DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH
ALBUM IN CONCERT - ROBESOИ
A CLASSICAL AMERICANA ELECTRO-GOSPEL ACID TRIP
Friday, September 27, 2024 | 8 PM
Zipper Hall at the Colburn School
200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Zipper Hall at the Colburn School
200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
“DAVÓNE TINES IS CHANGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CLASSICAL SINGER” - Alex Ross (The New Yorker)
Davóne Tines & THE TRUTH. Photograph by Noah Elliott Morrison
TICKETS:
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PROGRAM:
DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH
ALBUM IN CONCERT – ROBESOИ
A CLASSICAL AMERICANA ELECTRO-GOSPEL ACID TRIP *
* First live concert performance of album (more information about pre-ordering below)
PERFORMERS:
Davóne TINES, bass-baritone
Khari LUCAS, sound artist
John BITOY, piano
DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH
ALBUM IN CONCERT – ROBESOИ
A CLASSICAL AMERICANA ELECTRO-GOSPEL ACID TRIP *
* First live concert performance of album (more information about pre-ordering below)
PERFORMERS:
Davóne TINES, bass-baritone
Khari LUCAS, sound artist
John BITOY, piano
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
“Like his predecessor [Paul Robeson], Mr. Tines has always been more than just a performer,” says the Wall Street Journal,
“using his richly expressive, wide-ranging instrument and theatrical skill to excavate his own stories, dark side and all.”
“using his richly expressive, wide-ranging instrument and theatrical skill to excavate his own stories, dark side and all.”
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DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH present the album ROBESOИ. In Tines’ solo recording debut, the musician grapples with the legacy of a hero. Exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson, Tines and his band THE TRUTH — pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas — take listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon not through aspiring to his monumentality, but through connecting to his vulnerability.
The album’s sprawling and kaleidoscopic musical landscape brings together elements of classical, funk, Fauré, gospel, John Adams, r&b Shakespeare, and Bach. Tines says of ROBESOИ, which he co-created with director Zack Winokur, “This album is my most personal artistic statement to date. I’ve endeavored to compare and contrast my journey as an artist with that of my artistic ancestor and hero, Paul Robeson, the unparalleled singer, actor, and activist. Standing on his beliefs of egality for the disenfranchised led to governmental and public attacks that almost ended his life. This album is the fever dream of the universal journey to battle internal and external persecution in order to find one’s self and decide what you need to say the most now that you’ve survived.”
The album’s sprawling and kaleidoscopic musical landscape brings together elements of classical, funk, Fauré, gospel, John Adams, r&b Shakespeare, and Bach. Tines says of ROBESOИ, which he co-created with director Zack Winokur, “This album is my most personal artistic statement to date. I’ve endeavored to compare and contrast my journey as an artist with that of my artistic ancestor and hero, Paul Robeson, the unparalleled singer, actor, and activist. Standing on his beliefs of egality for the disenfranchised led to governmental and public attacks that almost ended his life. This album is the fever dream of the universal journey to battle internal and external persecution in order to find one’s self and decide what you need to say the most now that you’ve survived.”
ROBESOИ, THE ALBUM (NONESUCH RECORDS):
ARTIST BIOS:
Photograph by Noah Elliott Morrison
DAVÓNE TINES:
Heralded as a "singer of immense power and fervor" and “[one] of the most powerful voices of our time” (Los Angeles Times) "the immensely gifted American bass-baritone Davóne Tines has won acclaim, and advanced the field of classical music." (New York Times) This “next generation leader (Time Magazine) is a path-breaking artist at the intersection of many histories, cultures, and aesthetics, his work blends opera, spirituals, gospel, and anthems, as a means to tell a deeply personal story of perseverance and human connection.
KHARI LUCAS:
Khari Lucas is a songwriter/composer/producer with an artistic voice that reaches into several disciplines, some of these being radio, film, and journalism. His current musical output exists somewhere between jazz, soul, and psych rock, but he considers himself a student of all areas of music, and intends to cover as much sonic and thematic ground as possible over his artistic life. His work explores such themes as self-exploration, self determination, love and its iterations, isolation, and black cultural context. His recent collaborations include work with TELFAR, Dweller, and Locally Grown TV amongst others.
JOHN BITOY:
John Bitoy is an Afro-Dominican pianist and composer originally from Chicago, where he enjoys a multi-faceted career as a soloist and collaborative pianist. His recent solo engagements include performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the South Loop Symphony and Symphony of Oak Park. He has performed in esteemed halls such as the Eastman Theatre, Chicago Symphony Center, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millenium Park, Perelman Theater, Edward Pickman Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, The American Repertory Theater, Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall at Northwestern, Epiphany center, The Apollo Theater, Salle Bourgie, and the Copernicus Center.
John is a passionate advocate for new music in performance spaces. Past projects include the recording and world premiere of several pieces from Steve Wallace’s Solo piano and chamber compositions in 2020, followed by his opera in 2021. As an avid chamber musician, John has been invited to play at the Gateways Music Festival, The Boston Celebrity Series, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The Bienen School of Music, the Philarmonic Society of Orange County, the American Repertory Theater, Caramoor, The Bold Tendencies festival, and has performed works by Marcus Norris, Tyshawn Sorey, Davóne Tines, Ahmed Alabaca, and Brian Raphael Nabors.
Mr. Bitoy enjoys playing standard repertoire, yet he is simultaneously devoted to shedding light on the new music of composers of the African Diaspora. In addition to taking pleasure in his classical engagements, John is well versed in other genres. He was invited to perform with Sigur Ros during their 2019 United States Tour of Riceboy Sleeps, performed his own original Jazz compositions with at Epiphany Center, and has performed at the Jazz Showcase and Andy’s Jazz Club. He also has his own avant-garde Jazz fusion band: Aśe, where he performs exclusively his own original compositions within the Jazz idiom.
John is a passionate advocate for new music in performance spaces. Past projects include the recording and world premiere of several pieces from Steve Wallace’s Solo piano and chamber compositions in 2020, followed by his opera in 2021. As an avid chamber musician, John has been invited to play at the Gateways Music Festival, The Boston Celebrity Series, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The Bienen School of Music, the Philarmonic Society of Orange County, the American Repertory Theater, Caramoor, The Bold Tendencies festival, and has performed works by Marcus Norris, Tyshawn Sorey, Davóne Tines, Ahmed Alabaca, and Brian Raphael Nabors.
Mr. Bitoy enjoys playing standard repertoire, yet he is simultaneously devoted to shedding light on the new music of composers of the African Diaspora. In addition to taking pleasure in his classical engagements, John is well versed in other genres. He was invited to perform with Sigur Ros during their 2019 United States Tour of Riceboy Sleeps, performed his own original Jazz compositions with at Epiphany Center, and has performed at the Jazz Showcase and Andy’s Jazz Club. He also has his own avant-garde Jazz fusion band: Aśe, where he performs exclusively his own original compositions within the Jazz idiom.