Ensemble Mik Nawooj Announces SF Performance of Chamber Hip-Hop Opera August 21, 2010

Sat, Aug 21, 9-10:30pm in SF, also Sat, Aug 28, 8 pm in Berkeley and Sun, Sept 19, 2:30 pm in San Jose

JooWan Kim and Ensemble Mik Nawooj have announced a summer and fall series of performances in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose featuring the highly successful chamber hip-hop opera "Great Integration", which had two sold out performances in June at ODC Commons in San Francisco, as well as other works. Kim and Ensemble Mik Nawooj will perform the dynamically forging new musical style that collides genres from hip-hop and jazz to pop and classical. Performers include Kim, vocalist Christopher Nicholas and MC Kirby Dominant in the groundbreaking, genre-blurring style that has brought Kim and Ensemble Mik Nawooj to the attention of legends like Ahmad Jamal.

The concerts are presented by Golden Fetus Records. Information: http://www.goldenfetus.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Great-Integration-A-Chamber-Hip-Hop-Opera/170827364499

"Great Integration" is steeped in an electrifyingly contemporary alloy of Taoist tradition, hip-hop music and poetry; forward-looking philosophy and arresting performance presentation. In this penultimate installment of the ongoing Mik Nawooj saga, Black Swordsman of dominance is chosen as the one to trigger the Great Integration of the world before the arrival of Celestial King, who will wipe out all the impurities of the world. It is an allegory that Kim finds particularly apt for the approaching end times prophesied by the Mayan and other cultures in 2012 and, more importantly, for the new era that these tribulations will usher in.

Kim's music incorporates elements from hip-hop and classical, creating a unique hybrid that is in the spirit of Gershwin and Piazzolla, both of whom pushed and blurred the boundaries of vernacular and art music. Backed by his own Ensemble Mik Nawooj, featuring MC Kirby Dominant, JooWan Kim succeeds in accomplishing what most musicians want to but are unable to; creating a new kind of music that combines genres that are seemingly incompatible with each other.

Official Website: http://www.goldenfetus.com