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Omkar “Otis M. Karson” Lewis

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Tech Start Up / Writer / Music Artist / Vedic Astrologer / Chef

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BOWERY BEATS V > MARCH 11th WEDNESDAY at the @bowerypoetry hosted and curated by @marcos_delafuente
6:30 PM Open Doors – Room Music

7 PM Marcos de la Fuente intro “The Beats now”

7:10 PM The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”… but it will be felt.
Saiban & Mr B from France invite audiences into a vibrant, immersive tribute to the legendary poet, musician, and revolutionary voice Gil Scott-Heron — the godfather of rap, the bluesologist of truth, the prophet of spoken word.
This is not a cover show. This is a resurrection of spirit.

7:40 PM Peg live band.
Peg is an Anarcho-Impressionist music collective with two members: Rachel Swaner and Sparrow X.
Sparrow is a longtime poet/activist of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He has published several chapbooks of poetry in collaboration with the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and other poetry organizations, and he has served as the editor for the literary journal Big Fish. He gained notoriety in 1995 by picketing The New Yorker, holding a sign that read, “My poetry is as bad as yours.” Since then, he has been published in that magazine as well as The Quarterly and The New York Times. In 1996, he ran for president and published the book Republican Like Me: A Diary of My Presidential Campaign about his experiences. In addition to his work as a poet, Sparrow is a member of the Unbearables (along with Ron Kolm, Richard Kostelanetz, and Rob Witz), and the founder of the East Village Militia and the One Size Fits All Movement. He is also a member of the musical group Foamola.

8 PM Foamola live band.
Foamola is one of the longest running “aspirin rock” groups. They have appeared at Alice Tully Hall, Irving Plaza, Siné and CBGB’s Gallery. Allen Ginsberg said of one of their performances: “That was cute!”

8:30 PM Truffles live band.
Truffles is a multi-generational music collective in the spirit of the pre-digital 20th century, loosely arranged from musicians, poets, visual artists and professors aimlessly exploring the great questions of our time—such as whether Luddites can wear eyeglasses pancakes are like basset hounds—as they search for the elusive Mother Mary Synagogue in Cleveland that will let them in.

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i arrived at 7:50pm at @noraruthgriffin ‘s wonderful ‘1999 T-Shirts’ @moon_and_newyorkcity at @fiermangallery on the Lower East Side and i was 10 minutes too late to meet & Others (Nat) yet an hour early as well. & Others (Nat) is very social but not on social media at all until he appears in the 1st slide wearing one of Nora’s brilliant and creative t-shirts commemorating a time when NYC was simpler and more creative as they bring it into the present with each tie-dye burst paint stroke bloom on these shirts.

the show is open for two more days, word is @rr.rhame who i saw perform with @garciapeoples last summer and performed with two weeks ago at @unnameablebooks is reading poetry at the show tomorrow night.

the t-shirts reminded me of the wonderful NYC art my friend @jonasbrewers made while he was in Bellevue for seven weeks recovering from MRSA. Jonas has a show coming up on the LES soon, so look out for it if you can remember. apparently people remembered things in 1999.

the t-shirt on 7th slide reminded me of the time in 1999 i played a wedding on the top of WTC towers. we played a cover of John Lennon’s ‘Love’ with me and Phil on guitar, Ethan on Flute and Jerome on vocals. apparently it’s on video somewhere, i have to track down Kevon Ford. i want that t-shirt; there are good deals at the show.

Nora’s t-shirts reminded me of my brother @newyorkromantic who i love and miss since he jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge two summers ago, he is in the 8th slide with his iconic ❤️ tag on one of @christenripleystudio ‘a marbled t-shirts from when he came to visit me in Hudson in 2018. he was a visionary and always wanted to get into handmade art clothing. like a true artist, he never capitalized or self-promoted well, but everytime i walk past heart art in NYC i’m proud of him for starting heart art on the downtown streets nearly a decade ago.

nearly a quarter century later, traces of the millennial fin de siecle zeitgeist are still living as we head into the unknown together joyously grasping onto less than 70 million threads 🙄😜 of our past and revolt against the technological onslaught of dopamine hits and we simply hang out with our dope inner kids.

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Saturday, Jul. 9, 4-5pm
LIVE STARR SUMMER STAGE EVENT!
All ages outdoor concert by Otis M. Karson!

beyond grateful to my dear friend Tara Foley @tara_pockets_foley inviting me to play music with my dear friend Nicole Lobue @nicolelobue tomorrow July 9th during a garden walk Nicole will lead at Starr Garden @starrlibrary in Rhinebeck between 1-2pm. invite to this is on the 3rd slide. I will be writing songs on the spot about our plant friends and inviting you and whoever is there to contribute the word gems sprouting from the garden of their minds i will turn into lyrics. pictures of the garden and flowers are on slides 5, 6 and 7.

then between 4-5pm i will play songs of my own and covers on the beautiful stage in the 4th slide, and share some of the stories that brought them about in my awareness and ability to perform them for you. i am very heartened be able to share an epic empowering anthem that came through me in Berlin in 2004 —just as George W. Bush was about to be re-elected— and to contextualize how the lyrics of being disempowered by the government and culture are even more relevant today, 18 years after these words needed to be voiced. the 2nd slide has more information about that.

the 8th slide is a portrait i took of a young fresh faced man sitting in Tompkins Square Park engaging with a stranger who was down on his luck. we all need more of these acts of blind kindness in public, as this country heads into deeper uncertainty and volatile darkness unleashed. i love Laurie Anderson, her practice and the term “Strange Angels.”

the 9th slide is myself and Madeline Gins @reversibledestinyfoundation taken a decade ago in NYC, just before i moved to the Hudson Valley in 2013 for the next six years. Madeline left us early 2014 and has been a strange angel to me, and i’ll be wearing her glasses. i’m wearing them in the photos in the 1st slide and the last slide which were taken spring 2021 in Prospect Heights by Jonas Brewer @brewerjonas

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a great mystical magical meeting of so many souls at @elfofnyc variety show 'The Cosmos Is Mostly Empty' at @knickerbockermarket smack dab in the middle of eclipse season as the Moon joins Jupiter for serendipitous social shared experience outside of media, in "real" life. so many great spirits were there, outside of my visual diary. the slides are:

1. @oliverhalsmanrosenberg and the new/old/ever-present @silver.matthew and me blurring the boundary between humans and technology in joy and smiling surrender

2. Oliver and Matthew as two clowns reminding each other that we are all united in the engagement with each other as characters on the stage of life. what a joy to bear witness!

3. their two good heads and hearts meeting in a swirling sea of so many shining shards of God reflecting each other. this one is my favorite.

4. the favorite blessed Elf of NYC asked me to perform and Oliver captured my premier of an ode to giving instead of taking in the face of the woman in black, the divine mother Kali, as she twists and turns in the perfect air on a warm pre-summer night

5, Oliver, Matthew and Me playing three fools in a silly no-Selfie

6. Matthew's keep it simple message to my brother @newyorkromantic in the words of Ram Das: "heal yourself, heal others. love yourself, love others"

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showing my true face/form before the birth of @soyeste and @saraelana ✨💞🃏🕺🏿🕴🏿🧞‍♂️🕷🔮💫

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tonight @hilocatskill Wednesday May 16th, 2018

ALDEBARAN (9pm)

Aldeberan is the improv free-form local zuper gruppe of drone guitarist david garland (solo) guitarist @alexanderturnquist (solo, slow collins), keyboardist/melodicist @rossgoldstien (solo, gary david and ross), pianist/etceterist @m_trecka (pillars & tongues, dark dark dark) and multi-instrumentalist @omkarson (proto-solo, etc) and others playing or not playing their first and possibly only ambient-psych happening. also some guy’s son named lincoln who happens to be in town and (psycho)jazz plays tenor sax will most probably bring his horn!

MOSSES (8pm)
Mosses emerged from the heart and mind of @ryan.jewell (Ryley Walker, CIrcuit des Yeux, Solar Motel Band) as an outlet for his songs/experiments that didn’t quite fit in existing projects. Eclectic with elements of folk, psych, free jazz, and modal improvisation that are played on 6 and 12-string acoustic and electric guitars, organs, synthesizers, dulcimers, tabla, drums and voice, This night at HiLo, Mosses will be the life-partner duo of Ryan and @danetterenee

BULLE (7pm)

Bulle is the duo of clark and wednesday @pigeonsband (Pigeons, Weeping Bong Band)

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Tonight, May 16 at HiLo 🌈🔁🌈AMBIENT PSYCH🌈🔁🌈
•7pm BULLE (duo) •8pm MOSSES @ryan.jewell @danetterenee •9pm ALDEBARAN (including @omkarson and @alexanderturnquist )

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happy birthday to me! come to @orgalleryandtavern tonight at 9:30pm after @beccavank opening 6-9pm at @hilocatskill and before guitar show @halfmoonhudson to see me play some songs and battle @master_yoda for supreme position on the altar. green #chartreuse drink specials! ‘omkar’s last word’ (gin) vs. ‘yoda’s silent treatment’ (mezcal). no cover! ✨🎸🛸💫🎉🤢🌈⚡️

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hudson

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Happy Sweet Potato Pie!! 🍂🍁🍽🦃🍁🍂 Thankful for family, friends, love, life and food comas :)

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Gangs all here #sixofsix #lewistribe #selfiemaster

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Twenty Nine 🎂Lewis Time

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