Robert Aiki/Aubrey Lowe/Ariel Kalma - We Know Each Other Somehow

In the span of time they were given, the Lowe-Kalma duo covered a wide expanse of musical ground, before giving way to a cozy embrace at show's end. The title We Know Each Other Somehow was everywhere apparent in the performance, the theme of "new old friends" constantly weaving in and out of the texture of the show, as the two men poked and prodded each other, as if trying to remember where it all begun. Improvisation-as-memory, through the use of technology both archaic and newfangled: Kalma’s whole career suggests a sort of yearning for a knowledge of the capabilities of the self. His extensive traveling and multiversal bent lent itself well to Lowe and his imaginings, oscillatory and usually writhing in a single space. Their friendship-collaboration speaks to an immersion in the exchange of ideas and techniques to discover and better the self—even, perhaps, a musical "care of the self." ~ Music & Literature