Over the course of three albums and five years, Jack Whitescarver’s Amiture project has developed from a solo experimental synth-pop outlet to a full band exploring the noise-rock canon’s earliest and most iconic entrants. There’s a sense of unease on these tracks that’s familiar to 2024’s more minimalist Mother Engine album (a duo collab with bandmate Coco Goupil), yet Amiture Music maintains a baseline sound that’s heavier, more dissonant, and less predictable.
And given the unconventional nature of the band, it makes sense that Whitescarver would introduce the album within an unconventional performance space. Performing on the evening of the album’s March 27 release date, Amiture set up at Bed-Stuy’s buzziest venue The Hancock, a massive “Gilded Age palazzo-brownstone” where the band performed in the billiards room joined by opener Threshold (a.k.a the new project of Strange Ranger’s Isaac Eiger) and a special appearance from Bella Litsa.
Check out photos from the evening below, and listen to Amiture Music here.
Setting up our backline at The Hancock with a beautiful mirror that the architect Le Xie designed specifically for this show.
Max watching patiently as things come together
Beginning our soundcheck and figuring out lights
The stage is set for Threshold
Trying to run to get a bite to eat before doors
Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Pei Pei Barth Wu finding each other at the door
A stunning moment during Threshold’s opening set; Bella Litsa joins Isaac Eiger for a duet that called out to cupid’s arrows
Angelina Hoffman and Sharleen Chidiac in the wings
The time has come—we must collect our guitars and get to the stage
And just like that we start the show
Jake Lazovick dutifully archiving and looking very sharp
This image speaks for itself
Bella and Natalie: a moment of afterglow
The subtle humble expression of a man who drummed well
