Authored By seanphippster

An exceptionally weird concert at Artifact Gallery will feature multiple bands and a performance by Basil Marceaux Tuesday night.

Yes, THAT Basil Marceaux.

NoogaNet presents The Simple Pleasures, Karamel Kittyy, Meinschaft, Tryezz and GMO Sharia Law in concert at 8 p.m.

Artifact is located at 1080 Duncan Ave. Tickets for the event are $7 at the door.

Marceaux will perform his original composition “The Ballad of Thomas Jefferson,” highlights of which can be seen in the video below. The 12-minute spoken-word piece features Marceaux offering political commentary over a music sample and various political images.

Marceaux is best-known for his multiple attempts to serve for both state and federal public offices, including governor of Tennessee, U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

His 2010 appearance on Nashville’s WSMV-TV as a candidate for Tennessee governor went viral.

Evan Lipson organized the showcase for The Simple Pleasure, a Philadelphia-based electro pop band. He said his goal for this show is to intentionally pair “seemingly disparate artists that have never been grouped together.”

“I find the conventional practice of idiomatic or aesthetic homogeneity-pairing artists that look or sound the same-for performance events to be incredibly tedious,” Lipson said. “I want as much aesthetic, intellectual and conceptual diversity as possible.”

On paper, his endeavor would seem to have succeeded. The Simple Pleasure will be joined by Karamel Kittyy, a poet turned independent rap artist; the noise pop-heavy Meinschaft; and the grooves of Tryezz. More bands could be added to the lineup before the show.

“Shows, concerts, gigs, whatever, can be so much more than mere conventional entertainment or escapism,” Lipson said. “They can be a form of social experimentation or they can be rituals of the highest order-crucibles of culture. When artists and audiences enter into unfamiliar territory, it sometimes forces them to discard their own knowledge and reputation like the Zen beginner’s mind.”

Refreshments will be produced by The Blind Tiger and visuals courtesy of Tape Canvas. DJ Lil Mishima will provide a musical soundtrack.

More information on the show can be found here.

Updated @ 2:30 p.m. on 2/22/17 to correct a typographical error.