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Zola Jesus, Talk Normal & Liturgy @ Webster Hall (pics,setlist)

photos by Amanda Hatfield

Zola Jesus

Zola Jesus was an extraterrestrial apparition who looked like she could start hovering Linda Blair-style at any moment. “Swords,” the glitchy overture to Zola’s latest album, Conatus, ushered the four-piece band onstage through fog and a wall of artificial blue starlight, Zola positioned front and center in a flowing white gown. She didn’t stay put for long. Bolstered by synth, drums and electric violinist Christiana Key (whom audience members praised by name more than once throughout the night), Zola beautifully belted out “Avalanche,” “Shivers” and most of the tracks from Conatus while floating, hopping and jazzercising across the smoky stage. After a hot hour Zola was already gone and back for the encore, stationed behind a double-decker Akai keyboard while Key’s violin groaned along to the somber ballad “Skin.” -[CMJ]

Zola Jesus lead the charge on an all-star cast at Webster Hall on 2/18. Liturgy (who is now down to a duo and a MacBook Pro) and Talk Normal opened the show. Pictures adorn this post.

Zola Jesus plays Lincoln Hall in Chicago tonight and her full slate of tour dates (including Sasquatch) are below. The dates ALSO include an appearance at SXSW as part of the Sacred Bones Showcase on 3/14 at Elysium with Amen Dunes, Led Er Est, The Men, Psychic Ills, and Wymond Miles.

All dates, pictures from Webster Hall, and Zola Jesus’s setlist, below…


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ZOLA JESUS at WEBSTER HALL (2/18) SETLIST
Swords
Avalanche
Hikikomori
Stridulum
Collapse
Sea Talk
In Your Nature
Shivers
Seekir
Lick the Palm of the Burning Handshake
Night
Ixode
Vessel
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Skin
Poor Animal


ZOLA JESUS – 2012 TOUR DATES
02.21.12 Chicago Lincoln Hall with Talk Normal and Chris Connelly
02.22.12 Grinnell Grinnell College
02.23.12 Saint Louis Luminary Arts
02.24.12 Lawrence Granada
02.25.12 Denver Larimer Lounge with Talk Normal
02.27.12 Salt Lake City Urban Lounge with Talk Normal and Night Sweats
03.01.12 San Francisco Great American Music Hall with Wymond Miles and Talk Normal
03.02.12 Los Angeles Natural History Museum with EMA
03.03.12 San Diego Casbah United States with Talk Normal
03.14.12 Austin, TX Elysium
03.28.12 Copenhagen Rust Denmark
03.29.12 Malmö Babel Sweden
03.30.12 Umea Umea Open Festival Sweden
03.31.12 Stockholm Debaser Sweden
04.01.12 Helsinki Tavistia Finland
04.02.12 Riga Palladium Latvia
04.04.12 Warsaw Hydrozagadka Poland
04.07.12 Budapest A38 Hungary
04.08.12 Lubijana Kiniosikia Slovenia
04.10.12 Luzern Sudpol Switzerland
04.11.12 Strasbourg Artefact festival France
04.12.12 Rouen L106 France
04.13.12 Dijon Kill your Pop France
04.14.12 Tel Aviv Zappa Club Israel
04.21.12 San Pedro Garza Garcia, NL Noise Music Festival Mexico
05.25 – 05.28.12 George, Washington Gorge Ampitheatre