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