3/22 Songbath Salon

You are cordially invited to North Figueroa Bookshop for our Songbath Salon. The world around us actively fragments our attention all day. At the Salon, musicians Daniel Talton and Kyle Bates will be providing ambient “furniture music” to create an atmosphere of rest and deep focus. We hope you’ll use the space to discover something new on shelves, dive into a book of your own, or just rest a while and drone out with us. Tea and cookies will be provided! Space is limited so please RSVP soon.

Daniel Talton is a Los Angeles-based songwriter/experimentalist. His work explores the intersections of American old time music, folk music of the British Isles, and modern ambient practices. With a keen eye for the fantastic and uncanny, Talton weaves together faerie stories, love ballads, and dream songs into a vivd tapestry of sound.

Kyle Bates is a West Coast based audiovisual artist, musician, and writer. He actively creates and performs in the project Drowse and has produced a range of releases for The Flenser, Whited Sepulchre Records, The Native Sound, Glowing Window Recordings, Apneic Void, and Television. His video work has been desBates is focused on exploring sound in tangible spaces, the bipolar experience, and making personal internal worlds public through sonic metaphor and autofiction techniques; he is influenced by Roland Barthes’s practice of reading the self as text. He plays with themes of memory, shame, detachment, sleep, fear, and human connection. His practice has included sound and text based performance art, installations, film and video game scores, and various writings.