JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern Classical

JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern ClassicalLobby Art is honored to present the final two LPs from the late Birmingham, AL based queer poet and artist Johnny Coley, who passed away in 2025 at the age of 76. Tender, lucid, and slippery poems unspool in Johnnys signature drawl, charting oblique journeys through the sidereal and mundane. He composes painterly landscapes of his beloved Alabama and imagines waking up in the crowded streets of London. This is Southern Surreal story telling where each

I had the concept from the start

and VIOLENCIA brings you on a ride through a series of dystopian tales

ichi Sakamoto

only to abruptly end at its highest speed…the days flying by like minutes

vocal pop created by the hard consonant that overwhelms the microphone and causes it to distort

as in ‘Mirror Arp’

On march 8th

In many ways ‘Kumoyo Island’ represents the culmination of a journey for Kikagaku Moyo

) and the evergreen Steve McCall on drums

Staying true to an original concept yet constantly pushing it in new directions is no easy task but IFCO can claim the mantle and show no signs of tiring

” is a profound meditation on entropy and impermanence

and "Downtown Dedication" twists hazy '70s psychedelia into modern poses