Alex Asher 'Slow Motion'
Birds64 Downing Street, New York 10014
At Birds, Alex Asher presents Slow Motion, a live-band project built around the trombone’s voice and analog and digital production techniques. The project is described as a quartet, although no personnel are listed for this date. Its music brings together trombone and effects, synthesizers, tropical rhythms, R&B and indie pop with jazz, giving Asher’s producer’s approach a full-band setting.
Alex Asher is a Grammy-award-winning trombonist, producer and bandleader from Brooklyn. His bio says he has performed and recorded with Beyoncé, Boy George & Culture Club and Slavic Soul Party! He also leads the future-soul band People’s Champs and organizes the electronic-cumbia project Los Cumpleaños. A venue description says Slow Motion “synthesizes the international sounds of Brooklyn with a jazz ethos and a producer’s touch,” while NYS Music says the record fuses Asher’s jazz performance experience with his love for production. That balance is central to the project’s stated sound in performance.
Birds NYC is a basement club in Manhattan where live music takes center stage in a room that holds about 150 people. The space is a listening room with a bar, so you can drink and talk between sets. Shows are ticketed, with two performances each night starting at 8 PM and ending at 10 PM. The audience sits on wooden benches, close to the stage, and the acoustics carry well from the back. It's a place where people come to hear music, whether it's soul and funk, jazz, or Latin jazz, and the room feels like a shared space for music lovers. The club has a history of booking top-tier acts, and the atmosphere is warm and focused on the music.