Fay Victor's Soundnoisefunk at VBI Theatre at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center

“Ms. Victor is a singer with her own brand: She’s theatrical and extreme without being campy. Expectations about a jazz vocalist’s demeanor — that it can’t be too aggressive, or that if it’s biting it can’t also be warm — don’t mean a thing to her...her playing sounds firmly planted in the age of digital media. When she does sing even or discernible pitches, her precision is remarkable. But even more striking is how conversational and direct it feels. She’s essentially invented her own hybrid of song and spoken word, a scat style for today’s avant-garde.”
— Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times...

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“Ms. Victor is a singer with her own brand: She’s theatrical and extreme without being campy. Expectations about a jazz vocalist’s demeanor — that it can’t be too aggressive, or that if it’s biting it can’t also be warm — don’t mean a thing to her...her playing sounds firmly planted in the age of digital media. When she does sing even or discernible pitches, her precision is remarkable. But even more striking is how conversational and direct it feels. She’s essentially invented her own hybrid of song and spoken word, a scat style for today’s avant-garde.”
— Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

Elysium Furnace Works continues its 2024 season with an appearance by the superlative creative vocalist Fay Victor's thrilling, incendiary ensemble SoundNoiseFUNK. This acclaimed, kaleidoscopic supercollision of maverick virtuosi — leader/singer Victor, guitarist Joe Morris, soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and drummer Reggie Nicholson — unleashes music of unrelenting energy unlimited by tradition.

That said, they're not kidding about "FUNK"!!!

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