with Desert Liminal & Liv Mershon

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

On Bull Market on Corn, New Orthodox (Nicholas Merz) makes music that responds to the American expanse with plain-spoken thought. The pedal steel player’s songs paint pictures of the fractured ideologies that shape life in this country through the melodic haze of his instrument, the comedy of his lyrics, and the surreal choreography that accompanies his performances. The music is both intimate and grand, charged and claustrophobic, taking the tools of country and spinning them out of context.

On Bull Market on Corn, New Orthodox (Nicholas Merz) makes music that responds to the American expanse with plain-spoken thought. The pedal steel player’s songs paint pictures of the fractured ideologies that shape life in this country through the melodic haze of his instrument, the comedy of his lyrics, and the surreal choreography that accompanies his performances. The music is both intimate and grand, charged and claustrophobic, taking the tools of country and spinning them out of context.

Desert Liminal's unique sound centers dream-like poetry and vocal harmony within a cloud of analog synth textures and layered, swirling violin loops. Thoughtfully-constructed walls of sound wash over driving drum grooves as the trio's synergy results in signature sonic poems greater than the sum of their parts.

Liv Mershon is a Chicago based artist who performs with the harsh ambient duo, nunn, and co-organizes the Tierras Sonidas Sonic Rodeo in Marfa, TX. She recorded and produced nunn's releases- distributed by Damien Records, Trouble in Mind Records, and Death Bed Tapes. Through stylistic shifts, Mershon's work acts as a pursuit of beauty, absurdity, emotional release, and connection. Her performances journey like dreams do, drawing narrative toward spiritual integration- with tones and textures that penetrate.