Sengoko (formerly T0W3RS) w/ Lonnie Walker, Nightblooms

224 S Blount St,Raleigh NC 27601

19 March, 2022

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Sengoko (formerly T0W3RS) w/ Lonnie Walker, Nightblooms The Pour House Music Hall & Record Shop Ages 21+ Doors 8pm, Show 9pm. Sengoko (formerly T0W3RS): For eight years, Derek Torres performed as the pop outfit T0W3RS. Worn out from industry grind and the political climate, he took a hiatus to become an activist and co-filmmaker with his wife Julianna Villarosa. He is back with his new project Sengoko. As a multi-racial kid raised by a single white mother, Derek has always struggled with his racial identity. For most of his life, he was told his Japanese surname was Sengoko, which turned out to be a mispronunciation of his real surname Sengoku. Like T0W3RS (Torres) before, Sengoko represents his conflict to find identity. Recently intent on marrying his love of film and music, he set out to make a fictional film soundtrack. As a latchkey kid of the VHS age, the films of the eighties introduced him to pop and electronic music. What would it sound like if John Hughes and John Carpenter had collaborated? Lonnnie Walker: Lonnie Walker is a rock band formed in Greenville, North Carolina. After relocating to Raleigh, the band recorded its ethereal, Americana debut These Times Old Times in 2010, and after years of touring, followed it up with the more visceral Earth Canals in 2015. Its third album, the raucous and intensely personal album titled Easy Easy Easy, which draws on Corum’s experience of being swept up in the national opioid epidemic and subsequent crawl back towards normalcy, is underway. Nightblooms: Nightblooms is a songwriting project from Sam Logan (Lilac Shadows, No One Mind) based out of Greensboro, NC. If you’re into lush psychedelic undertones, melody + harmony, melancholy, climate-induced anxiety, George Harrison, or just plain pretty sounds, you’ll probably dig.