American indie rock band Algiers have announced a gig in Dublin.
They are set to play Whelan’s on February 8, 2020 and tickets for the gig will go on sale this Friday.
Tickets are priced from €15 and can be found on Ticketmaster.
Algiers have recently released the collaborative audiovisual piece, 'Can the Sub_Bass Speak?', a new work from the band and production duo Randall Dunn and Ben Greenberg.
The piece explores the structural racism within the disorienting resurgence of fascism across Europe and the United States.
Band members Franklin James Fisher said: “Who has the cultural authority to designate origin and authenticity? “Can the Sub_Bass Speak? “is a frustrated regurgitation; a re-contextualization; a re-appropriation; a shield and a mirror that projects back onto the world a lifetime of interpellating language rooted in weaponized ignorance and supremacist privilege.
“The improvised punctuation is provided by Skerik on the tenor saxophone and D’Vonne Lewis on drums and percussion.
“The underlying cacophony traces the evolution of African-American music, experience and identity.
“This is not for the mercenary architects: the Jacks and Queens of simulated experience.
“This is for anyone who has found themselves on the sharp end of insidious, rhetorical prying: “Where are you from?” “What are you?”
“This is for anyone who has had their identity assigned and determined by the agents of patriarchy. This is for the Subaltern.”
