WEBVTT 00:18:25.954 --> 00:18:34.057 - This is Frank Coppina on drums. Mocha Fukushima playing bass. At Max ET, we're House of Auders. Really, 00:18:34.057 --> 00:18:42.083 - really grateful to be here. It's our first time playing at Lotus. I've played here with a couple other 00:18:42.083 --> 00:18:50.186 - bands, but first time in this band. This is our baby that we've been working on for 18 years. So that's 00:18:50.186 --> 00:18:54.238 - pretty crazy. We have a bunch of records and vinyl. 00:18:54.914 --> 00:19:00.462 - and all of that stuff over at the artist's merch tent. We'll be over there afterwards in that room. 00:19:00.462 --> 00:19:06.176 - So come say hi. We can sign some stuff. And it's very important that you get it. I mentioned it at the 00:19:06.176 --> 00:19:11.891 - earlier show because after our show, we're going to Madison tomorrow. After our show in Madison, these 00:19:11.891 --> 00:19:17.494 - guys fly out from Madison, but me in a Prius with this thing and too many boxes of merch. It's going 00:19:17.494 --> 00:19:22.654 - to be really tough, actually. We were looking at it like, okay, how are we going to do this? 00:19:23.746 --> 00:19:31.045 - And the only answer is we got to sell all the merch. So yeah, that guy's getting like nine CDs. It's 00:19:31.045 --> 00:19:38.560 - really a pleasure to be here and to offer our music to all of you. What we do, we'll talk more a little 00:19:38.560 --> 00:19:45.931 - bit about some of the things that are behind the music, but the last piece of the song called Hang in 00:19:45.931 --> 00:19:51.134 - the Air is dedicated to the absolutely amazing 55 Bar in New York City. 00:19:53.410 --> 00:20:01.141 - village that got this club, it has birthed a sound and it was around for 108 years until about like 00:20:01.141 --> 00:20:09.181 - two years ago. And now it's fancy sushi and or a Jamba Juice. I mean, so it's like, you know, it's very 00:20:09.181 --> 00:20:17.067 - crazy. But the point of bringing that up is that even something as institutionalized as 108 year old, 00:20:17.067 --> 00:20:22.942 - like very important place for jazz and jazz history is very fragile. And so 00:20:23.266 --> 00:20:29.631 - Lotus, as established as it is, and as many patrons have been coming over the years, people behind the 00:20:29.631 --> 00:20:35.995 - scenes can tell you it is also very, very fragile. So everybody that, what you all are doing right now 00:20:35.995 --> 00:20:42.236 - is exactly what you should be doing. But tell your friends, keep getting people out here, local live 00:20:42.236 --> 00:20:48.415 - music. Don't take this for granted. It's just, this theater could be a really fancy sushi spot, so. 00:20:48.415 --> 00:20:49.342 - Balcony sushi. 00:20:51.970 --> 00:20:58.279 - That would be the name of it. That would be the name of the place. It would be called Balcony Sushi. 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:05.025 - It would be like 45 bucks for, anyway. We're going to play a song from our most recent album. Got nominated 00:21:05.025 --> 00:21:11.584 - for a Grammy, which is pretty exciting. Yeah. It's a complex feeling. We could talk about it afterwards. 00:21:11.584 --> 00:21:16.894 - But it's over in the merch tent. It's called Unbecoming. This song is called Avalok. 00:35:32.066 --> 00:35:42.511 - Thank you so much. That song is called La Semana. We haven't played that song in a long time. It's awesome 00:35:42.511 --> 00:35:52.371 - to revisit. That kind of is a good tie-in, actually. Almost like I planned that. Spontaneity. That's 00:35:52.371 --> 00:35:58.814 - a major part of what's going on on stage, a lot of improvisation. 00:36:02.722 --> 00:36:08.164 - trying to essentially be a practice of presentness, trying to get really to the crux of the moment. 00:36:08.164 --> 00:36:13.715 - You know, in that space, there's nothing that exists other than the moment. You know, there's no ego, 00:36:13.715 --> 00:36:19.266 - because it's, you know, ego's, I will be awesome, or I was awesome, but now it's just like alive. And 00:36:19.266 --> 00:36:24.708 - so that aspect is actually a major part of what fuels Indian classical music, as well as many other 00:36:24.708 --> 00:36:30.151 - musics from around the world. But with my background there, it's been something that's been kind of 00:36:30.151 --> 00:36:32.382 - a guiding force musically and otherwise. 00:36:32.834 --> 00:36:38.897 - So what we like to do in our set is take a moment and create something just now, just for y'all. Never 00:36:38.897 --> 00:36:45.020 - to be repeated again. Can't be repeated again. I wouldn't know how to do it again. And that's something 00:36:45.020 --> 00:36:51.201 - that's kind of beautiful, right? It's just like, it's really just for here. We don't need to be anywhere 00:36:51.201 --> 00:36:57.088 - else, but just here. So we can all kind of go on this little journey together and see what happens. 00:36:57.088 --> 00:36:58.206 - It might be awful. 00:36:59.906 --> 00:37:05.848 - But it's not about that, right? It's about the practice of it. It doesn't really matter. It's like if 00:37:05.848 --> 00:37:11.790 - we're going into it, the judgment of it is irrelevant. Judgment, again, is similarly kind of like the 00:37:11.790 --> 00:37:17.790 - opposite of what we're trying to get here. We're really just trying to get to a place of just existing 00:37:17.790 --> 00:37:23.616 - creativity for the sake of creativity for no other reason. For 10,000 years, people sat under trees 00:37:23.616 --> 00:37:29.150 - and made music. They weren't doing it for TikTok streams and Instagram likes. It's mostly just 00:37:29.986 --> 00:37:36.705 - trying stuff you know and so we're gonna we're gonna try stuff now and and thanks for making a warm 00:37:36.705 --> 00:37:39.998 - place for us to attempt this thing appreciate it 00:55:58.146 --> 00:56:07.884 - Once again, that's Frank Opina. Moe to Fukushima. We're House of Waters. We have time for one more short 00:56:07.884 --> 00:56:17.437 - one, we can do that? One more short one? Yeah. We're going to be hanging out at the merch tent. Please 00:56:17.437 --> 00:56:21.982 - make my ride home more comfortable in the Prius.