Slashed Tires // regularfantasy, PHNK, Cake "Alchemy!"

The Vera Project Presents SLASHED TIRES // regularfantasy PHNK Cake "Alchemy" Thursday December 8 7:30 doors / 8pm show SLASHED TIRES Slashed Tires is the ongoing musical endeavor of Seattle-based producer Kenneth M. Piekarski. Classically trained as a trumpet player, Piekarski discontinued playing any instruments on a consistent or serious basis after graduating high school. It wasn't until many years later– in 2007– that they adopted the alias of Slashed Tires and 2009 that they began to experiment with home recording. Through the influences of dance, funk, post-punk, and jazz, they’ve produced five EP’s, and a trove of unreleased and oddball one-off recordings. The release of their greatly anticipated debut album, “Don’t Party” is planned for 2017 regularfantasy Regular Fantasy (stylized regularfantasy) has been the musical project of Vancouver Island born artist and producer Liv Carmen* since 2011, starting after a series of displacements from other musical projects and living arrangements. “I was working in a studio that was being turned into a condo, and then when I went to another one, that happened again. So I bought an MPC and started doing my own thing with that” Basing her sound and synesthesia on a pastiche of influences– sometimes hard to put your finger on often not un-ironic– that are characterized by fine blends of genre that you might expect when you roll into a shared space and sense a suddenly enthusiastic smile. One that can indicate deep appreciation for the tastes from 90s house, acid, eurodance, new wave and all the way to dips of good old fashioned rock & roll, country, and radio pop— in an “up-to-date” fashion. Sometimes these expressions of taste come out in the many other aliases and collaborative projects Liv Carmen is a part of like Lonely Flute, DJ SILK, Plush Management and about 11 others. www.soundcloud.com/regfant PHNK (pronounced: funk) PHNK is an American recording artist, songwriter, and music producer based in Seattle. Talented in all fronts of art, PHNK produces all of his original songs and have articulated strong visual performance to describe his sound through his experience in motion design and conceptual art. Cake "Alchemy" In times of moral, spiritual, kinetic & time-hollowed crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. It's cake. Sure, we could offer other musings to oversolemn cosmic entertainments or 11th dimensions and quantum reverberations but we won't. Today's gold is cake. Cake "Alchemy!" brings the magic mystery of the perfect slice to your ears: MUSIC. MAGICK. Alive and well in service, solidarity & sound.