Richmond Synth Collective: Elabor, Vitereo Vignette, The Painless Plainness

at The Camel

Mon, Oct 13th, 2025

Doors 7 pm, Show 8 pm

Elabor

/eːˈlaː.bor/

Taken from Latin meaning “To slip or glide away,” Elabor is the moniker for multi-instrumentalist and performing/visual artist Eric Eckhart. Crafting sprawling and melancholic soundscapes of guitar, synthesizer, and tape-loop driven drone, Elabor’s compositions and live performances confront the listener’s expectations of duration and melody, transforming frozen moments of temporal stagnation into a sonic funeral pyre.

Vitreo Vignette is an ebm/industrial act born out of necessity. Utilizing hardware synths and multifaceted vocals, Vitreo Vignette has a simple mission: break the silence, flip the narrative, and scream what was never meant to be said. Through the use of heavy Christian symbolism, fragmented language, and unrelenting lyrical intensity, Vitreo Vignette plunges into psychological territory that few dare to explore.

The Painless Plainness have gone by many names, Drone Strike, Dante’s Inferno Visitor Center Girls’ Choir, Drone Luc Piccard, among others. One thing has stayed true over the ten years the trio has existed: they play slow and they play loud. While no-one knows where they are originally from, rumors abound. Some say they are aliens who picked up a transmission from a live Swans show while visiting our Solar System. Others say they are extra dimensional beings who feed off of raw decibels. While the truth may never be known, we do know that the trio have adopted human names and appearances and play earth instruments, though the sounds they make are completely alien. The Painless Plainness is Nova Aletheia on woodwinds, percussion, and electronics, Kari Azure on violin, and Channing Azure holds it all together on bass and guitar.