Lizard and Gecko presents Claire Brooks, MIXIE, & Micah Giovanni
February 1 9:30 pm PST
Second Stage
Doors Open: 9:00
$18CLAIRE BROOKS was born in Los Angeles into a family of artists. A rattle was swiftly replaced with her mom’s paint brushes, and her dad made up elaborate original stories for her and her brother every night before bed.
As she grew older, she became obsessed with patterns; making them, breaking them, on all spectrums and planes. She found that she loved math– beautiful proofs, symmetry within fractals, and the rush of excitement when she finally discovered the solution to a problem. She also has a tangential affinity for numbers, and memorizing them all– license plates, phone numbers, unit conversions. And then, of course, there’s music, math’s sexier cousin. She writes music as she sees it, the shapes of melodies and the personality of a chord, along with the colors of the numbers as they appear in her head.
Brooks just graduated from Stanford University with a B.S in Mechanical Engineering. She’s a multi-instrumentalist, a burgeoning producer and is currently working on mastering and releasing her first EP. Her cult following of listeners appreciate the hypnotic, genre-bending compositions they hear through her snippets, private demos and few public releases. Her soundscape lies in the realm of psychedelic-indie-pop, entwined with R&B vocals and raps, all laced with a sexy, jazzy flair.
https://www.clairebrooksmusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/clixr/
Find LGBTQI+ Gen-Z artist MIXIE at the crossroads where Vivienne Westwood meets The Shangri-las. Already having made her mark as a model, digital artist, fashion designer, and member of the queer Manhattan and Los Angeles nightlife scene, MIXIE is celebrating her journey into music with a style all her own. Her sonic pallet blends 60s nostalgic rhythms and chords with modern hard hitting productions and bold lyricism. With production collaborations from Yoshi Flower, Kyle Shearer (Caroline Polachek, Carly Rae Jepson), Reaper (FKA Twigs) and Michael Keenan (Bebe Rexha, Melanie Martinez), MIXIE has begun to turn heads behind the scenes while quickly putting on display the start of an exciting catalog.
https://www.instagram.com/lilmixie/
Micah Giovanni is a 22 year old Indie-Rock singer/songwriter & actor. A beacon for the LGBTQ+ community, he identifies as gender non-conforming, and is comfortable with any pronouns. Born in the beautiful paradise of Maui, Hawaii, he has had the benefit of being raised in an island community, as well as living his teenage years in the busy city of Los Angeles. Teetering between these two extremes, he has been able to find his own unique voice, using the contrast as inspiration.
He writes of personal, yet universal themes, combined with a lyrical depth & a creative vision rarely seen in someone so young. Immersed in music daily, from writing, recording, to producing everything on his own from his bedroom studio. His style is heavily influenced by 90s alternative rock, inspired by artists such as Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Smashing Pumpkins, Fiona Apple, & Lorde (to name a few). He says he appreciates true artistry & courageous experimentation.
https://www.instagram.com/micahgiovanni/
https://micahgiovanni.com/home
Profits from this show will be donated to The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ+ young people
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