ANNOUNCED
**REFLECTIONS** presents a night with **Alexis Taylor**, singer and co-founder of beloved UK band **Hot Chip**. He’ll share an intimate set of songcraft and electronic atmospheres, spotlighting his love for adventurous sound and pure emotion. We’ll pair Taylor’s performance with a projection-mapped light show, transforming this historic San Francisco church — and ourselves — in a state of reverential beauty. ⟴ **ALEXIS TAYLOR** is one of the UK’s most distinctive singer-songwriters. Since co-founding **Hot Chip** in 2000, Taylor has shaped their particular blend of dance floor euphoria and textured melancholia. Yet with each release outside of pop giants Hot Chip, he has moved effortlessly between intimate recital music (2016’s *Piano*), improvised music with *About Group*, avant-electronica (2018’s *Beautiful Thing*) and chamber pop (2021’s *Silence*). A singular voice, he’s built a substantial body of solo work over the years. But his seventh release, *Paris In The Spring*, feels like his magnum opus. It’s Taylor’s most revealing album yet, peeling back the layers of his psyche to reveal sentiments both specific and universal. He’s called on some impressive personnel to help create its effervescent sound world: **Air**’s **Nicolas Godin**, **The Avalanches**, **Lola Kirke**, and **Scritti Politti**’s **Green Gartside**, to name but a few. In this world, the confessional style of country greats is charged by the pop melodicism of Paul McCartney, the futuristic funk of Sly and the Family Stone and, as Taylor puts it, “synthesisers left out in the rain.” It’s where British Americana meets Gallic flair, somewhere on Mars. Is it his cosmic cowboy record? “Well,” he smiles, “the working title was Cocaine, Wild Horses and Real Love.” Ultimately, this is an album about freedom. From constraints, from preconceptions, from genre. Taylor has always been an open book in terms of his influences but one can’t help but think of **Arthur Russell**, sequestered away in a studio among his collaborators, recording during all-night sessions under the full moon, creatively and unanimously autonomous. Like Russell, Taylor experiments with all different musical styles – country, folk, disco – and has weaved it together here into something unique. ⟴ **7 PM** doors | **8 PM** performance **All ages** **Seated** (first-come, first-served) **ADA compliant** ⟴ **REFLECTIONS** is a deep listening event series, founded in 2023. We present legends of new age/ambient/experimental music with projection-mapped visuals, uniting sound, light, and sacred architecture for a singularly visceral experience ✨
1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California 94109, United States, San Francisco
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$49+
1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California 94109, United States, San Francisco
