Gig Alerts: Baby Copperhead

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Alana Harper
Music Hub | May 14, 2010

Baby Copperhead
"Matter of Science"
Playing SUNDAY at: Vaudeville Park (26 Bushwick Ave., Williamsburg)
Get: Tickets ($7 at door) | Directions

Don't get the wrong idea about Benjamin Lee, the New York City-based performer and composer who performs as Baby Copperhead. Yeah, he plays the banjo, but he's not churning out bluegrass. Lee's specialty is taking the banjo and treating it with a sci-fi glaze, via an electronic sampler, trippy melodies and haunted vocals. This track, with its tumbling banjo line and otherworldly electronics, sounds like some cool avant-garde marriage of Devo and the music of Appalachian mountain folk. Sunday night he teams up with artists Caleb Nussear and Naomi Reis for a music and installation show at the art space Vaudeville Park.

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