Turiya Rising: Deluge Presents: Naliah Hunter & Adee Roberson

Step into the galleries of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal every Sunday for special performances on a stage designed for the exhibition by artist GeoVanna Gonzalez. Each performance is presented in celebration of Coltrane’s legacy as a musical innovator and as an ode to her Sunday services at the Sai Anantam Ashram. Limited seating in gallery will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Deluge is a music performance series that seeks to explore the depths and outer reaches of ambient, experimental and avant-garde sound. The series aims to create environments for deep listening and discourse around boundary-pushing work by BIPOC artists, building upon the rich landscape of ambient and experimental music performance with a socially and critically engaged approach.

The music of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Nailah Hunter opens gateways into magical worlds. Shimmering with dulcet harp tones and dreamy electronics, her first debut EP Spells was released by LA’s acclaimed Leaving Records in May 2020 and described by Rolling Stone as “one of the best recent releases of its kind.” Nailah was born in Manhattan and raised in LA, the daughter of a Belizean pasto,- playing drums and acoustic guitar in her dad’s church band and singing in its choir. As a teenager, her growing interest in artists like Erik Satie and Alice Coltrane and the soundtracks of Miyazaki films began to crystallise into delicately ethereal musicality. A key turning point came aged 19 when she received a baby harp as a gift while she was already a student at CalArts, developing a keenly trained compositional sense and a perfectly smoky singing voice. Today Nailah hosts a monthly NTS radio show, Astral Garden, and has collaborated with Lyra Pramuk, No Joy, John Carroll Kirby, and Bing and Ruth. In June 2020, she released the standalone single “Black Valhalla” to raise funds for the Loveland Foundation, a charity providing therapy to young black girls. Not long after, Nailah reimagined Radiohead's original track, “Talk Show Host“, which found broad recognition. In 2021, her tranquil sound led her to write Sleeping Sea, a sleep-aiding soundscape album as part of Endels' collaborative series with Leaving Records. Continuing her way into soundtracks, in 2022, Nailah featured on an original score for The Lazarus Project for Sky TV series by accomplished composer Ben Lukas Boysen. Nailah has written soundscapes for NIKE, Union Station in LA, and VUE TV, with her most recent work being a soundtrack for a digital novel for The Quest of Evolution. In addition, her collaborative track ''Lua'' was recently placed in an Apple campaign.

Adee Roberson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a meditation on symbolism and texture. Synthesizing performance and installation, her work melds vibration and technicolor visions through paintings, video, and melodic compositions. These works offer a refracted timeline of black diasporic movement, weaving sonic and familial archives, with landscape, rhythm, and spirit.  Color, shape, and rhythm become constellations, locating a call and response with ancestral memory. This visual language is a way to process the viscerality of grief, celebration, trauma, and healing.

She has exhibited and performed at numerous venues including, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Antenna Gallery, Project Row Houses, Palm Springs Art Museum, Human Resources , Charlie James Gallery, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, MOCA Los Angeles, and Art Gallery of Ontario.  She is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Cutting Edge Grant, and has been an Artist-In-Residence at Echo Park Film Center, Treehouse Lagos, and ACRE.  She is based in Los Angeles, California.

Adee Roberson is the recipient of the 2021 Los Angeles Artadia Award supported by Capital Group.

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Ticketing: This free program is not ticketed. Limited seating in gallery will be available on a first come, first served basis.
Parking: Under the museum, $8 flat rate on weekends. Cash or credit card.

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