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Soriah: Post-wWorld Shaman   by Noah Mickens

Oregon Music News

By Noah Mickens on November 14, 2009

Soriah performs Nov. 13th and 14th in the dark fairy tale ritual opera Bogville 3: Eye of Retribution, at The Lotus Seed Church, tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/82888

And shortly thereafter performs the material from his new album, Atlan, at Pimp Out Your Dead, a fundraiser for Anabel Ramirez at The Bossanova Ballroom.

It’s early evening. Enrique Ugalde has been upstairs rehearsing with my flatmate Nolan Ashley (aka Cult of Zir) for the past hour or so, preparing for a scene together in the coming Bogville performances. Throughout the first two chapters of Bogville, Nolan’s character has held down a side plot wherein he escapes the village and joins the mystics who live in the swamp. This chapter concerns the return of these beings to power. But I’ve already said too much. I’m in the show too-I play the mayor of Bogville, Tungsten Bob Clements. That is how terrible of a conflict of interest I’ve got on this article.

In fact, it’s worse than that. I’ve actually performed a number of times with Soriah, even went on a short tour with the project once. I’m on one of his CDs, though admittedly only available in Mexico. But then, it’s been years since I felt I was able to truly appreciate the music of people I don’t know personally.

My old hand-held cassette recorder is barely working. I have to tap it every few seconds or the gears will seize up. When I play the recording back later, there are little skips and yelps throughout, and I have to reconstruct sentences like an NSA spook.

Soriah is Enrique’s ritual and performative identity. I don’t suppose that I’ve ever seen him perform as any other character-the boundaries of any fictional identity are always small enough to fit within his primary persona. Even when we had him play The Sun in Societas Insomnia, it was Soriah as The Sun.

The full article can be read HERE

About the Author

Noah Mickens is a theatrical performer and artist, as well as a contributor to Oregon Music News
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