Talkdemonic
Vandiver
8:30 doors/9:00 show
$10
Thursday April 9th

Brooklyn composer Talkdemonic returns to the stage to perform his new melodic ambient album Very Cool Yesterday, recently released by the Los Angeles label Bathysphere Records. Opening the evening is neo-folk songwriter Vandiver, bringing his dynamic, Appalachian-inspired tunes to the stage.

Talkdemonic:
Brooklyn composer Talkdemonic returns with his sixth studio album, Very Cool Yesterday, a deeply evocative and transportive instrumental record. The synth-driven album unfolds with moody restraint before erupting into radiant, emotional color. Pulsing with vivid melody and raw texture, it creates a cinematic sonic landscape where ambient and experimental elements converge. Very Cool Yesterday is a collection of exposed emotion and sonic imperfection, channeling a journey through connection, disintegration, and the quiet transformation that follows, where longing, memory, and renewal dissolve into sound.

Talkdemonic is the long-running instrumental project of Brooklyn-based composer Kevin
Timothy O’Connor, known for his cinematic blend of analog synths, live drums, and ambient
textures. Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2004 as a solo exploration of percussion and
atmospheric sound design, Talkdemonic quickly gained acclaim for albums like Mutiny Sunshine and Beat Romantic, and has toured with The National, The Flaming Lips, and Modest Mouse. O’Connor has composed music for the award-winning jazz documentary Universe (IDA’s Best Music Documentary), Back Water, and Birds of Neptune, as well as collaborating with Jóhann Jóhannsson on Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!. His sixth album, Very Cool Yesterday, continues that evolution—lush, transportive, and evocative. The album was highlighted as a Bandcamp New and Notable release, describing it as a collection of “fourth world music, drone, and minimalism across a dozen intoxicating instrumentals”.

IG: @talkdemonic
Bandcamp: https://talkdemonic.bandcamp.com/album/very-cool-yesterday
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5POYv55NRLzTlbt5GLeCjM?si=xj8bW2J-TG2UEM37qKuEyA

Vandiver:
Songwriter Vandiver (Andrew Hammond) found his musical footing playing intimate rooms across New York City before refining his sound during a three-year stint in Asheville, North Carolina. Blending pseudo-Appalachian avant-neo-folk with a modern sensibility, Hammond’s dynamic voice anchors a distinctly lyric-driven approach to contemporary American folk. His debut EP, What May Rot, features five delicately intimate songs recorded in a barn studio at Basement Floods in Catskill, NY.

IG: @itspronouncedvandiver
Bandcamp : https://vandiver.bandcamp.com/album/what-may-rot
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2zxfUjkStR4vBAZRn5HbTS?si=iadpD6geTuyCNB8qtMj4Sg