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Chanel Beads I Support: urika's bedroom
In the organizer's words:
First things first: yes, Chanel Beads’ second album, *Your Day Will Come*, shares the same title as the experimental project’s breakthrough 2024 debut. But this is a completely new body of work—not a “part two,” a rehash, or a re-do. If his initial impulse was to poke fun at the system that divides music into chapters, as the songs developed, Shane Lavers found that the phrase carried deeper nuance, evoking the struggle between certainty and doubt that preoccupied his mind. Though the phrase is delivered with conviction, a slight shift in emphasis can give rise to unsettling ambiguities: Will your day come? What will it be like? How can you be sure?
Raised in the suburbs of Minnesota, Lavers began making music under the name Chanel Beads while living in Seattle back in 2016. When he wasn’t working at a library for the blind, he was collaging synthetic sounds and real instruments into beguiling songs that were fundamentally averse to genre. By 2022, he was living in New York, as tracks like “Ef” and “True Altruism” captivated certain online circles with their androgynous vocals, uncanny artifice, and stirring intimacy.
Lavers’ fragmented lyrics are full of open-ended questions, exploring the dichotomies that shape our reality. Emotional sublimation is central to Chanel Beads, as if you can cling to something so tightly that it becomes transcendent. Drawing from Lavers’ own experiences, *Your Day Will Come* uses dream logic to delve into liminality and precarious memory.
Price information:
VVK: 24€ plus fees
Location
Betonhalle
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin
