Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Madame Gandhi  with special guest Brittany Davis   Tuesday Nov. 7th 7pm doors 21+  $20 adv/$23 dos  https://www.madamegandhi.com/ “Going deep, bravely into the pain” is how activist-artist Madame Gandhi describes Vibrations, her third studio album — and could easily double as a subtitle for it. For several years prior to the pandemic, the overachieving artist and public speaker had spent her life traveling on and off. (Here’s a sampling: Touring Oprah and MIA alike; leading a Ted Talk; writing a song for Hillary Clinton’s streaming series, Gutsy.) “While that time was beautiful, it distracted me from deeper emotional work that I didn’t know I had to do. Sometimes when we’re in that pain,” Gandhi says, “we forget that getting past it is possible. After all, pain are the pulsations that remind us we’re alive.  Vibrations (Sony Masterworks, 2022) is just as effervescently escapist as its name implies. Because when the vocalist-percussionist (real name: Kiran Gandhi) came out of isolation, she was a different person: uplifted, vivacious, content. A rush of joy and introspection, Vibrations manages to be everything at once: a psychic rebirth, a life’s plan, a celebration of existence. But mostly, Vibrations is the sound of Gandhi, transcendent storyteller that she is, bringing us together through her own vantage point. Even the album’s first lyric is the invitation, “Come with me.”  It opens with the idea of rebirth. The disarming “Past Life” is, she says, “a call to prayer, a mantra that honors the rawness that we all had to go through in the pandemic.” The song is satisfyingly tactile in its use of whispers, fluidic synths, earthy bongos, and otherworldly vocals. (Listen closely and you’ll also hear shakers, claves, crystal bowls, and even hand claps across the album.) Each layer of consciousness is executed mindfully. “You could play ‘Past Life’ backwards and uncover what I’m saying in the loop,” she notes. The song, written in just six hours, from dusk to dawn in her Downtown LA studio, set the tone for the rest of Vibrations: how healing yourself yields empathy for others. https://brittanydavismusic.net/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/3sRxyZAJO726wjCXfXZYuB?si=OD6GaBmeTWWEnyAOTCm2_Q&nd=1 I started playing piano at church as kid with a love of gospel and jazz. As I grew older I found my love of hip hop and R&B songs. I like to describe myself as a vessel of sound and experience music in spirit and colors. Everything is an instrument to me.