Buke & Gase's New York farewell

in Brooklyn on April 16 —and— in Hudson on April 25

UPDATE: the first Brooklyn show on April 16 has sold out so we added another one the day before.

These performances are intended as our farewell to our home, New York State:

• Wednesday April 15: Brooklyn, New York @ Public Records — TICKETS

• Thursday April 16: Brooklyn, New York @ Public Records — TICKETS (SOLD OUT)

• Saturday April 25: Hudson, New York @ The Half Moon — TICKETS

You may have seen the news yesterday on Pitchfork, Stereogum, or Brooklyn Vegan — some of which used the words “break up” in their headlines. We prefer to call it a “lull,” and hope you’ll read my full statement.

photo credit: Lucy Bohnsack

Buke and Gase!
How I love thee,
Let me count the ways…
Oh wait, no. That time signature is way too convoluted.

My Buke & Gase collaborator Aron Sanchez and I have been in each other’s worlds for a while now, nearing twenty-six years! We’ve traveled a lot, much like a family, or perhaps more than a typical family. And we’ve become family because of it. And now it’s time to break up that family, and start our own…

Case in point: I’m pregnant! Which means big (welcome) changes.

At my most recent Dronechoir, on Monday 2/16 as a part of PS21’s The Dark is the Light Festival, my new extra-belly was only noticable to those familiar with me… Photo Credit: Lucy Bohnsack

I’m sitting here trying to write a blurb explaining why we, Buke and Gase, are throwing in the towel, and it’s annoying to admit, but the income-factor is a part of it. Everywhere we go, music is being played in the background, and somehow the money for that usage never reaches the people who create the art. Streaming has made the selling of albums nearly impossible! And now artists have to contend with AI? Really? Is this what the kids are into? (More like what a small number of money-making adults are forcing upon all of us.) Do you really want to listen to music made by…let’s be real, it’s not Intelligence, but Artificial IMITATION? Pah! Mere mimicry! (I feel like I need to note that no AI was utilized to write this.)

I digress.

And yet: we love our fans. We want to share our energy with you one last time. Or two or three last times. Brooklyn and Hudson are both places that are essential to our story—the former is where we met; the latter is where we both ended up living by the early 2010s.

So we’re calling this our New York farewell!

Let us give you a warm hug goodbye.

photo credit: Peter Runkewitz

P.S. “Throwing in the towel” comes with a caveat: Should we be Royally Knighted, invited to play cities we’d like to visit, asked to collaborate with artists we adore, or tempted by other possibilities we’re not even going to dream about, perhaps we’ll reconsider our lull.

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LIVE RECORDINGS

Here’s the most pristine sounding Buke & Gase live recordings to tide you over ahead of the shows — Bandcamp | Listen Elsewhere

Here’s another pair of live recordings available exclusively to members of our Scholars Alliance on Bandcamp.

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ARONE DYER, FIREFIGHTER

Below are easy links to the earlier installments of my journey into firefighting.

Pt 1: from Freak to Firefighter: Training for the volunteer firefighting squad in a tiny upstate New York town

Pt 2: Paperwork! Gear! Hound Dog Heroes! Initiation (hazing?) in the volunteer fire fighter style

Pt 3: Fast Forward FireFighter! Learning to fight fires without losing my politics

Pt 4: Interior Complex: Eight weeks of interior fire fighting operations classes

Pt 5: (Hu)ManPower! ...and the search for community engagement: Finding new recruits.