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Night Music #270: Ripgloss

Join us for Night Music #270, hosted by Ripgloss.Ripgloss is an electronic musician, songwriter, and multimedia artist from St. John’s, NL who creates sound collages and mixes out of field recordings, rearranged pop songs, and the sounds nature to create textures that could be described as ‘fairies playing tag in a haunted house.’

Inspired by whimsy, drum and bass, italo disco, and post punk, Ripgloss combines the elements in a way that is off-putting but puts the fun in funeral. They also write poems that will probably be sung or spoken over music.

October 15th | The Ship | 9:30pm | $10

More info on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1586725463465192

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