Celebrating a new album from Crystal Quartez! (featuring guest performer Qu Metcalf) Crystal Quartez: Crystal Quartez is a musician, sound designer, and installation artist out of Portland, Oregon. On their upcoming release they break from ambient music into the world of avant-pop. Infusing their trademark lush synth textures with dreamy vocals, spoken word, and flute merged under danceable beats. Dim Wit: Originally a stripped down, poppy, punky, funky two-piece, Dim Wit has evolved into what is now an eclectic electronic one piece. While the instrumentation and genre has shifted, the lyrical content remains the same, playfully dark. Some might even say it sounds both dim and witty. With influences ranging from Deerhoof to DOOM, Dim Wit manages to form an unexpected and unique sound of their own with a live performance to match. YAWA: Yawa AKA Amenta Abioto is a songwriter and producer from Memphis, TN and currently based in Portland, OR. In her one-woman performance, she builds vocal and instrumental loops from synth, drum machine, and kalimba creating atmospheric textures. Amenta surprises and tantalizes audiences with mind bending ideas while skipping vocally from soul-shaking gospel to smooth jazz. Her music is boldly mystical and soul-fired, and her raw live performances invoke elements of both theatrical and magical surprise.