Space Craft will host a dual concert event at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 22 at Rolling Bay Hall featuring Astro Tan and Campion.
Astro Tan is a three-piece psychedelic R&B outfit from Portland, Oregon, featuring Sam Wegman (vocals/guitars), Charles Tern (vocals/guitars) and Jed Overly (drums/percussion).
The Oregonian’s David Greenwald noted the group’s material for “blending sharp musicianship with daydream textures. It’s lovely, languid stuff.”
Alex Campion caught the attention of the Everett Music Initiative who gave him a spot at the 2016 Fisherman’s Village Music Festival, where he shared the stage with local luminaries such as Fauna Shade, Tellers and I Will Keep Your Ghost.
His debut single, “The Withering Oak,” coming soon and which opens his live set, deals with themes of unrequited love, frustrated desire and sexual shame, set to fizzing chords of sparse synth and Melotron choir, against a rolling, downtempo hip-hop inflected beat.
Campion spent his childhood somewhere between London and a rural upbringing in Suffolk in the United Kingdom. Being packed off to boarding school at 11 meant he had to forge himself an inner world where his thoughts and feelings could flourish freely. The fertile combination of outward struggle and inner sanctuary is what sets Campion apart from the rest: each song is its own world. His completely live looped set is the natural progression of moving from frustrated attempts to realize these insular worlds with other people, to finally striking out on his own and coaxing them spontaneously right in front of his audience, with roots-deep electronic beats and blooming canopies of synth and vocal exultation.
Tickets are on sale now at www.spacecraftpresents.org; admission is $12. Tickets will also be on sale at the door for $15 each.
Rolling Bay Hall is located at 10598 Northeast Valley Road.