Obsequium Funeris -- Final Rites of Orbis Nex
Serpentine bellydance from Portland, Oregon
With Saturday's passage came too the end of Orbis Nex, one of the bastions of Bay Area underground venues. Though the reasons were different than budget and economy, it follows a long list of other recently closed venues that will also be missed: the Xenodrome, the first underground I called a second home; Ace Auto, where Death Guild set up Thunderdome and Cookie Mongoloid growled out his ode to cookies; and the Parkway, which I only recently rediscovered several months ago after first being dragged to a Rocky Horror Picture Show there some five years prior.
Final rites at Orbis Nex
Being the last night of a space so infused with the heart and soul of its curators, it was steeped with ritual and ceremony. And from Portland, the world-class Tuvan throat-singer Enriqué, performing as Soriah and joined by Serpentine delivered a staggering performance.
The Tuvan throat-singer Soriah
Orbis Nes is dead and buried, and she will be missed.
Please find a small gallery of the final turn of Orbis Nex here.
Orbis Nex was fronted by Patricia Cram of the darkly beautiful Vial Magizine.
Originally posted at theblight.net