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Tracey Yarad With Jim Ridl 'lost In Translation' at Soapbox Gallery
Courtesy of Soapbox Gallery | Posted on March 31, 2021
Where
Soapbox Gallery
636 Dean Street
New York, NY
Map
(516) 559-5099
When
Sat, April 10, 2021
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Tracey Yarad
pianoJim Ridl
pianoAbout
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Tracey Yarad knows the life of the ex-patriot, the hotel lobby singer, circling for seven years between Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya on a turntable of 1990's power ballads. Sofia Coppola's film of 2003 only scratches the surface. Playing six nights a week to the stereotypical Japanese businessman out for the night to impress his courtesans by intricately folding "ichi man yen" notes into flying paper cranes, soaring overhead to the stage with the request enclosed inside. Pandering to an autocratic, Swiss-German general manager whose musical taste halted at the slightest mention of augmentation away from a I–V–vi–IV progression...