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Showing posts with label improv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label improv. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Ham Radio Operator, Yohsiko Ohara, & Colorguard @ Lipgloss Crisis on 8/25
Friday, May 25, 2012
Paul Flaherty, Randall Colbourne, and Mike Roberson
Willimantic Records
744 Main Street
Willimantic, CT
860-450-7000
Paul Flaherty, Randall Colbourne and Mike Roberson converge at Willimantic Records on Sunday, May 27, 2012 for a free live performance. Celebrating the release of Smoke Shadows, long-time co-conspirators Flaherty & Colbourne are joined by Mike Roberson on guitar. Smoke Shadows marks Roberson's first ever recording. Although the show is free, be sure to bring coin to support the artists, and the store!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core
Thursday, October 15 at Real Art Ways6-10 PM, Part of Creative Cocktail Hour
$10/$5 for members
The Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core initially started as a throwback to the early days of blues - when lyrics were shouted and squaked, with only one backing instrument. They progressed to add in traditional chant singing of Asia and Africa and blended all of this together with a modern blend of free jazz saxophone. The band consists of tenor sax, trumpent, keys, and two (two!) drummers.
Monday, September 21, 2009
William Hooker
William Hooker is a drum prodigy from New Britain, CT. He has been trainined as a jazz drummer, but began branching out early in his career as an experimental improv precussionist. He's a pretty big name in the experimental jazz and noise scene. He has collaborated with Lee Renaldo, Thurston Moore, and DJ Olive, to name just a few.Hooker returns on Friday, Sept. 25 and Saturday, Sept. 26 to Real Art Ways with a new, multimedia percussion performance. This is improvisational drum genius at work here, people. It's going to be an awesome, brain-bending night.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Shaki this Sunday
Sunday, September 7, 2008 - at BAR:
LATITUDE/LONGITUDE w/Pillars and Tongues
LOCATION:
BAR
254 Crown St
New Haven CT
FREE - 9:00PM - 21+
DIRECTIONS: Click here
Latitude/Longitude are new to me and I'm absolutely loving everything I'm hearing of theirs online. They make me think of old Supreme Dicks as played in the distant future. They're a Bruce Conner film in musical form. They meld incidentals like no other improv band I've heard. It's music I imagine bees hearing in their little heads while drunk on the sun soaked juices of rotten apples.
New Haven's Advocate had a pretty good write up on this upcoming Shaki show. Here it is:
"Lucky for true lovers of the avant-garde and not just catchy rhythms in the guise of weird, one has to look no further than BAR on Sunday night to a performance by Latitude/Longitude, a truly uncategorizable instrumental trio that would leave Sincabeza scrambling for a better descriptor.
Latitude/Longitude's sound defies labels. The sparse instrumentation shifts. The tempos are sometimes non-existent. It's sort of jazz, if only because that's what critics may call it for lack of a better word, but jazzheads would scratch their
jazzheads.
In fact, it's hard to even call Latitude/Longitude a band, because the word "band" implies that there are songs, says drummer and New Haven resident Jason Labbe, and songs are something they don't do.
'We play with varying instrumentation and our performances are totally improvised,' he says.
A quick perusal of the videos on their website or a listen at their MySpace page and one knows Labbe ain't lyin'. These are some texture heavy, plinkity-plink, whackity-whack, thumpity-thump, go-with-the-flow sounds. The music ranges from gleeful to somber to droning to pulsing, sometimes within the same performance.
It breaks down like this: Labbe plays drums. Michael Garofalo plays keyboards (including a Farfisa — hello, 1967!) and various electronics. Rounding out the trio is Patrick McCarthy on guitar and mandolin.
'We stick with a single idea and play it until it's not interesting anymore,' says Labbe. 'You just have to find a good idea and develop it and go with any inspiration or good feeling you may have.'
The outcome is different each time. For musicians who can pull it off, the result can be exhilarating for the band and for the audience — if they're willing to submit to something new. Thankfully, Labbe and his cohorts are acutely aware of the challenge that improvised music can present to listeners and they make a conscious effort to keep it accessible.
'Sometimes it's quiet and subtle and sometimes it will be louder. We try to have range,' he says. The crowd's vibe and other bands on the bill are something Labbe, Garofalo and McCarthy consider. (For those fearing a noise-fest along the lines of the Thurston Moore/Ryan Sawyer gig at the People's Center in May, delicious though it may have been, fear not.)
This Sunday's musical feast also features Pillars and Tongues, a Chicago band with more structure but no less adventure than Latitude/Longitude. How they'll recreate their classically-fueled sound should be a compelling listen.
The members of Latitude/Longitude soon plan to release a cassette — yes — on a label run by Titles drummer John Miller. Too bad cassettes aren't sold on iTunes. The 'Uncategorizable' category would be much more interesting."
LATITUDE/LONGITUDE w/Pillars and Tongues
LOCATION:
BAR
254 Crown St
New Haven CT
FREE - 9:00PM - 21+
DIRECTIONS: Click here
Latitude/Longitude are new to me and I'm absolutely loving everything I'm hearing of theirs online. They make me think of old Supreme Dicks as played in the distant future. They're a Bruce Conner film in musical form. They meld incidentals like no other improv band I've heard. It's music I imagine bees hearing in their little heads while drunk on the sun soaked juices of rotten apples.
New Haven's Advocate had a pretty good write up on this upcoming Shaki show. Here it is:
"Lucky for true lovers of the avant-garde and not just catchy rhythms in the guise of weird, one has to look no further than BAR on Sunday night to a performance by Latitude/Longitude, a truly uncategorizable instrumental trio that would leave Sincabeza scrambling for a better descriptor.
Latitude/Longitude's sound defies labels. The sparse instrumentation shifts. The tempos are sometimes non-existent. It's sort of jazz, if only because that's what critics may call it for lack of a better word, but jazzheads would scratch their
jazzheads.
In fact, it's hard to even call Latitude/Longitude a band, because the word "band" implies that there are songs, says drummer and New Haven resident Jason Labbe, and songs are something they don't do.
'We play with varying instrumentation and our performances are totally improvised,' he says.
A quick perusal of the videos on their website or a listen at their MySpace page and one knows Labbe ain't lyin'. These are some texture heavy, plinkity-plink, whackity-whack, thumpity-thump, go-with-the-flow sounds. The music ranges from gleeful to somber to droning to pulsing, sometimes within the same performance.
It breaks down like this: Labbe plays drums. Michael Garofalo plays keyboards (including a Farfisa — hello, 1967!) and various electronics. Rounding out the trio is Patrick McCarthy on guitar and mandolin.
'We stick with a single idea and play it until it's not interesting anymore,' says Labbe. 'You just have to find a good idea and develop it and go with any inspiration or good feeling you may have.'
The outcome is different each time. For musicians who can pull it off, the result can be exhilarating for the band and for the audience — if they're willing to submit to something new. Thankfully, Labbe and his cohorts are acutely aware of the challenge that improvised music can present to listeners and they make a conscious effort to keep it accessible.
'Sometimes it's quiet and subtle and sometimes it will be louder. We try to have range,' he says. The crowd's vibe and other bands on the bill are something Labbe, Garofalo and McCarthy consider. (For those fearing a noise-fest along the lines of the Thurston Moore/Ryan Sawyer gig at the People's Center in May, delicious though it may have been, fear not.)
This Sunday's musical feast also features Pillars and Tongues, a Chicago band with more structure but no less adventure than Latitude/Longitude. How they'll recreate their classically-fueled sound should be a compelling listen.
The members of Latitude/Longitude soon plan to release a cassette — yes — on a label run by Titles drummer John Miller. Too bad cassettes aren't sold on iTunes. The 'Uncategorizable' category would be much more interesting."
JD
Heirloom Arts Theatre tomorrow plus secret noise Sunday
Saturday, September 6, 2008 HAT CITY INTUITIVE CD Release Party with LA OTRACINA, OPEN STAR CLUSTERS, A SNAKE IN THE GARDEN, SALVES and OAK
LOCATION:
Heirloom Arts Theatre
155 Main St
Danbury CT
$5 - 7:00PM
DIRECTIONS: Click here
HAT CITY INTUITIVE - you know them.
LA OTRACINA - Brooklyn.
OPEN STAR CLUSTERS - homegrown.
A SNAKE IN THE GARDEN - Vermont.
SALVES - ??
OAK - Vermont.
...enough said.
And then on Sunday more A Snake in the Garden and Oak:
LOCATION:
To find out where this event is happening, go to Redscroll Records before 9PM.
24 North Colony Road
Wallingford CT
$5 - 9:00PM
DIRECTIONS: Click here
The Vermont-born noise acts stay over for a second night. Oak, A Snake In The Garden and Tucker Andrews, also from Vermont, take their Summer Ender tour through Connecticut on Sunday, playing with natives Medicine Lake and Glace-Neuf.
LOCATION:
Heirloom Arts Theatre
155 Main St
Danbury CT
$5 - 7:00PM
DIRECTIONS: Click here
HAT CITY INTUITIVE - you know them.
LA OTRACINA - Brooklyn.
OPEN STAR CLUSTERS - homegrown.
A SNAKE IN THE GARDEN - Vermont.
SALVES - ??
OAK - Vermont.
...enough said.
And then on Sunday more A Snake in the Garden and Oak:
LOCATION:
To find out where this event is happening, go to Redscroll Records before 9PM.
24 North Colony Road
Wallingford CT
$5 - 9:00PM
DIRECTIONS: Click here
The Vermont-born noise acts stay over for a second night. Oak, A Snake In The Garden and Tucker Andrews, also from Vermont, take their Summer Ender tour through Connecticut on Sunday, playing with natives Medicine Lake and Glace-Neuf.
JD
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Manic Productions Presents: florida=DEATH, mammoth hunter, and Cold Snap - Aug 24th, 2008
MANIC PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
LOCATION:
Cherry Street Station
491 N Cherry Street Ext
Wallingford CT
Cost: donation$
florida=DEATH
mammoth hunter
Cold Snap
florida=DEATH is a collective of experimental musicians from the Southington area. They have their own label (AMOD Records), their own venue (The New Hawaii), and a penchant for recording elaborate lo-fi noise musiks. They're a fixture in the area and a CT Indie fave.
mammoth hunter is an instrumental duo from New Britain. Back in May, they released a limited edition 7" on Hot Air Press consisting of songs they recorded with Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr., Witch, MV and EE and the Golden Road) at Verdant Studio in VT and Bank Row Recording up in Greenfield, MA. They play melodic, 90's-influenced minimalist rock, heavy on the dissonance and fuzz boxes.
Cold Snap is a hardcore band from Wallingford. This show will find them returning from an August tour of the southeastern US.
This show is also going to feature a collaborative improv set with florida=DEATH and mammoth hunter. Who's got the Advil?
KB
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Tonight at Cafe 9
Ecstatic Peace joins Byron Coley and the entire Ecstatic YOD collective in promoting this ground breaking event: NO MORE BUSH TOUR 2008
LOCATION:
Cafe Nine
250 State Street
New Haven CT
8:00PM - 21+
DIRECTIONS:
Click here
Zaika + Paul Flaherty
Jack Rose
Valerie Webber
50 Foot Women + Axolotl
Byron Coley (Click here for a good interview with Coley)
Matt Krefting
Bill Nace + Jacqui Ham
"Five years ago, in a time of woe for the underground, the country and the world, the members of the Ecstatic Yod Collective organized a tour called More Hair Less Bush. Including a variety of musicians and writers, the tour brought the flame of hope to cities cast into darkness by the hideous secretions of the Bush Twins.
Now, in 2008, as we prepare to enjoy the long-promised fruits of regime change, we felt it was time to bring our show on the road again. But this time, rather than offering balm and apologies to the psychically wounded, we would like to celebrate the pre-dawn of a new day -- a day when the word "cheney" is once more an empty phrase we use to terrify youngsters.
To this end, we have assembled a revolving cast of musicians and writers, all of whom honk the horn of freedom with both hands. We trust it will be a gas.
Trinkets will be available at all shows. Tour schedule and bios follow. Support is being provided by Ecstatic Peace Records & Arthur Magazine."
Info/photos/etc: glasseye@yod.com
NO MORE BUSH BIOS (PERFORMERS APPEAR ONLY AT SHOWS NOTED)
50 FOOT WOMEN (all shows) is a San Francisco-based duo with Jessi Leigh Swenson and Elaine Barry Kahn. Swenson is known for her trance-forming work with the Believers and Duck, Kahn is a wild card. Combined, they create and destroy small forms with the ease of kettle fish. They promise to have several secret weapons up their sleeves.
AXOLOTL (all shows) is the ghost-wolf of New Jersey and all points west. Currently resident in the head of Karl Bauer, this ghost takes many forms, and uses many tools to do its jobs. On this tour, there is a functional involvement with several things. Psychedelic? You bet!
TOM CARTER (Philadelphia only) will be performing outside of Zaika on this evening. See the Zaika listing for further details.
BYRON COLEY (all shows) is a writer from Western Massachusetts. His organizational abilities are dwarfed by his capacity for letting a participle hang. He is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
LOREN CONNORS (New York City only) is one of the great string inventors of our age. Precision stellar blues, played in the Martian style, for the pleasure of all. A veteran of More Hair.
DREDD FOOLE (Florence only) is the legendary Vermont singer, whose power-meditations for throat and fingers more or less defined a secret generation. For this event he will be performing naked and glistening, stripped of everything but his acoustic guitar. A More Hair veteran.
PAUL FLAHERTY (New Haven only) is one of the progenitors of the free New England concept, which is something that he along swung with for many years. Now, finally, heralded as one of the permier sax-thinkers of the era, he prepares himself for action. Paul is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
JAQUI HAM (New Haven only) was a founding member of the No Wave group, UT, whose trajectory across 1980s was a magnificent thing to behear. More recently, she had lead Dial into discordian chop shop jungles with equal applomb. This is a rare stateside gig.
MATT KREFTING (Florence & New Haven only) is a Lou Reed devotee from Western Masschusetts. His projects include Believers, Duck, Son of Earth, Shackamaxon, and so on. A tireless performer and elegant hambone, he will be reading from new work.
DAMON KRUKOWKSI (Somerville only) is one of the best-regarded men of letters in all of showbiz. He is perhaps most lauded for his musical performances, but his writing is an lovely extension of a mind tuned to the Intelligence Network. Tonight, he will rants
WILLIE LANE (Philadelphia only) is a current resident of Pennsylvania, but his teeth were whittled in the snowy wilds of New England's ice clouds. He has involved himself with such combos as Rotch and MVEE's Golden Road. Tonight his blare is of the Gutbucket variety. Power on.
TOM LAX (Philadelphia only) is the guiding light of the Siltbreeze empire - the 'zine, the label, the blog. He is a stone genius and we hope we have convinced him to read this evening. His voice is akin to that of Mel Torme's - golden fog wrapped in a tuxedo.
THURSTON MOORE (Florence only) will be wearing his authorial hat this evening. His writing has been called "tall," by more than one critic. He survived the More Hair tour.
JOHN MORTON (Albany only) is legend that begins in Cleveland, with the Electric Eels and spasmodic guitar art bonged against the arc of the infinite. Later, in Brooklyn, these inpulses devolved into more insanity and writing and art and phlug. Now, here he is again. He promises a theremin. Think fast! A veteran of the More Hair process.
MV+EE (DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia,New York City only) will be a stripped-down duo this go-round. Matt, Erika and Zuma, caterwauling into the dark jug of night. As only veterans of the More Hair tour can.
BILL NACE (Somerville & New Haven only) is an itinerant guitarist in the improv-minstrel mode. His best known projects are Vampire Belt, X.O.4 and Northampton Wools, but he is happy to work without a net in a variety of settings.
GARY PANTER (New York City only) is best known as a visual artist, but his additions to the shelves of writage and music-making are not insubstantial. Not sure tonight if he'll be whistling ot playing ot reading or what. He is no timorous bloke. He is a vet of the More Hair events.
CHARLES PLYMELL (Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City only) is a one of the great writers of our age, and a ferociously talented/opinionated editor, publisher and reader as well. Based for the last few decades in Cherry Valley, NY, Plymell's evil eye and exquisite grasp of language and image are a deadly combination. It's always an extreme pleasure to hear him read. A veteran of More Hair.
ROXIE POWELL (Baltimore only) is one of the great secret poets of the Kansas vortex. A lifelong friend of Charles Plymell, Powell has released only four small books over the years, but each is coated with diamonds and wheat. If he deigns to read, we will all be happy.
JACK ROSE (all shows) is one of the pre-eminent geniuses of acoustic guitar creation and dissemblage. In the years since he left Pelt, Jack has toured and recorded incessantly, inventing moves that would make past masters blush. His fingers are magic fever generators.
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN (Somerville only) is like an organ, waiting to be squeezed by god's own hands. Mutable to an almost insane degree, the music & line-up can vary from electro-krank duo to massed tub orchestra. Whatever will it be tonight?
BOBB TRIMBLE (Somerville only) is the Marc Bolan of Wormtown. His first two albums, recently reissued, are classics of mystery-webbing. The unveiling of his new direction is eagerly anticipated.
KATE VILLAGE (Albany & Somerville only) is one of the most savage guitar players our planet has yet produced. Her most blues-wailing style with Crystalized Movements, Vermonster, B.O.R.B., Magic Hour, Major Stars and solo have made her an ikon to the youth of every nation. Watch her bring it to the masses.
MIKE WATT (Philadelphia only) is going to try to make this date during one of the Stooges' days off. His bass playing is the food of love, his writing a manic blast of frayed orgone trembling. Tonight, if possible, he'll back Charles Plymell.
VALERIE WEBBER (all shows) is a Montreal-based writer whose poetry and prose combines a naive belief in perefection and a wise-ass sneer at its collapsing facade. Her work has been widely published in Canada and the U.S., and her voice has a soft purity, oftimes at odds with its content. She is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
WOVOKA (Albany only) is an upstate channeler of mystery-volk in all its drugged and writhing splendor. Rarely spied except through a cloud of basement smoke, their vibes are their amplifiers.
ZAIKA (all shows except Phildelphia) is a duo comprised of Marcia Bassett and Tom Carter. Both are long-time and very active members of the American underground scene: Marcia with Uns, Double Leopards, Shackamaxon, Hototogisu, GHQ and others; Tom with The Mike Gunn, Charalambides, Badgerlore, Friday Group, Kyrgyz, Spiderwebs, etc. Together, they create very special kinds of silver cloud eruptions.
ZAIMPH (Philadelphia only) is the name under which Marcia Bassett operates as a solo entity. But her reach is so long, she is never alone. She will performing outside Zaika this evening.
ZIAMALUCH (Albany only) represents the bridge between ERL and Burnt Hills in terms of Albany's underground continuum. Unseen in public since opening a gig for Universal Indians, Ziamaluch once again scales the scales.
LOCATION:
Cafe Nine
250 State Street
New Haven CT
8:00PM - 21+
DIRECTIONS:
Click here
Zaika + Paul Flaherty
Jack Rose
Valerie Webber
50 Foot Women + Axolotl
Byron Coley (Click here for a good interview with Coley)
Matt Krefting
Bill Nace + Jacqui Ham
"Five years ago, in a time of woe for the underground, the country and the world, the members of the Ecstatic Yod Collective organized a tour called More Hair Less Bush. Including a variety of musicians and writers, the tour brought the flame of hope to cities cast into darkness by the hideous secretions of the Bush Twins.
Now, in 2008, as we prepare to enjoy the long-promised fruits of regime change, we felt it was time to bring our show on the road again. But this time, rather than offering balm and apologies to the psychically wounded, we would like to celebrate the pre-dawn of a new day -- a day when the word "cheney" is once more an empty phrase we use to terrify youngsters.
To this end, we have assembled a revolving cast of musicians and writers, all of whom honk the horn of freedom with both hands. We trust it will be a gas.
Trinkets will be available at all shows. Tour schedule and bios follow. Support is being provided by Ecstatic Peace Records & Arthur Magazine."
Info/photos/etc: glasseye@yod.com
NO MORE BUSH BIOS (PERFORMERS APPEAR ONLY AT SHOWS NOTED)
50 FOOT WOMEN (all shows) is a San Francisco-based duo with Jessi Leigh Swenson and Elaine Barry Kahn. Swenson is known for her trance-forming work with the Believers and Duck, Kahn is a wild card. Combined, they create and destroy small forms with the ease of kettle fish. They promise to have several secret weapons up their sleeves.
AXOLOTL (all shows) is the ghost-wolf of New Jersey and all points west. Currently resident in the head of Karl Bauer, this ghost takes many forms, and uses many tools to do its jobs. On this tour, there is a functional involvement with several things. Psychedelic? You bet!
TOM CARTER (Philadelphia only) will be performing outside of Zaika on this evening. See the Zaika listing for further details.
BYRON COLEY (all shows) is a writer from Western Massachusetts. His organizational abilities are dwarfed by his capacity for letting a participle hang. He is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
LOREN CONNORS (New York City only) is one of the great string inventors of our age. Precision stellar blues, played in the Martian style, for the pleasure of all. A veteran of More Hair.
DREDD FOOLE (Florence only) is the legendary Vermont singer, whose power-meditations for throat and fingers more or less defined a secret generation. For this event he will be performing naked and glistening, stripped of everything but his acoustic guitar. A More Hair veteran.
PAUL FLAHERTY (New Haven only) is one of the progenitors of the free New England concept, which is something that he along swung with for many years. Now, finally, heralded as one of the permier sax-thinkers of the era, he prepares himself for action. Paul is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
JAQUI HAM (New Haven only) was a founding member of the No Wave group, UT, whose trajectory across 1980s was a magnificent thing to behear. More recently, she had lead Dial into discordian chop shop jungles with equal applomb. This is a rare stateside gig.
MATT KREFTING (Florence & New Haven only) is a Lou Reed devotee from Western Masschusetts. His projects include Believers, Duck, Son of Earth, Shackamaxon, and so on. A tireless performer and elegant hambone, he will be reading from new work.
DAMON KRUKOWKSI (Somerville only) is one of the best-regarded men of letters in all of showbiz. He is perhaps most lauded for his musical performances, but his writing is an lovely extension of a mind tuned to the Intelligence Network. Tonight, he will rants
WILLIE LANE (Philadelphia only) is a current resident of Pennsylvania, but his teeth were whittled in the snowy wilds of New England's ice clouds. He has involved himself with such combos as Rotch and MVEE's Golden Road. Tonight his blare is of the Gutbucket variety. Power on.
TOM LAX (Philadelphia only) is the guiding light of the Siltbreeze empire - the 'zine, the label, the blog. He is a stone genius and we hope we have convinced him to read this evening. His voice is akin to that of Mel Torme's - golden fog wrapped in a tuxedo.
THURSTON MOORE (Florence only) will be wearing his authorial hat this evening. His writing has been called "tall," by more than one critic. He survived the More Hair tour.
JOHN MORTON (Albany only) is legend that begins in Cleveland, with the Electric Eels and spasmodic guitar art bonged against the arc of the infinite. Later, in Brooklyn, these inpulses devolved into more insanity and writing and art and phlug. Now, here he is again. He promises a theremin. Think fast! A veteran of the More Hair process.
MV+EE (DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia,New York City only) will be a stripped-down duo this go-round. Matt, Erika and Zuma, caterwauling into the dark jug of night. As only veterans of the More Hair tour can.
BILL NACE (Somerville & New Haven only) is an itinerant guitarist in the improv-minstrel mode. His best known projects are Vampire Belt, X.O.4 and Northampton Wools, but he is happy to work without a net in a variety of settings.
GARY PANTER (New York City only) is best known as a visual artist, but his additions to the shelves of writage and music-making are not insubstantial. Not sure tonight if he'll be whistling ot playing ot reading or what. He is no timorous bloke. He is a vet of the More Hair events.
CHARLES PLYMELL (Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City only) is a one of the great writers of our age, and a ferociously talented/opinionated editor, publisher and reader as well. Based for the last few decades in Cherry Valley, NY, Plymell's evil eye and exquisite grasp of language and image are a deadly combination. It's always an extreme pleasure to hear him read. A veteran of More Hair.
ROXIE POWELL (Baltimore only) is one of the great secret poets of the Kansas vortex. A lifelong friend of Charles Plymell, Powell has released only four small books over the years, but each is coated with diamonds and wheat. If he deigns to read, we will all be happy.
JACK ROSE (all shows) is one of the pre-eminent geniuses of acoustic guitar creation and dissemblage. In the years since he left Pelt, Jack has toured and recorded incessantly, inventing moves that would make past masters blush. His fingers are magic fever generators.
SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN (Somerville only) is like an organ, waiting to be squeezed by god's own hands. Mutable to an almost insane degree, the music & line-up can vary from electro-krank duo to massed tub orchestra. Whatever will it be tonight?
BOBB TRIMBLE (Somerville only) is the Marc Bolan of Wormtown. His first two albums, recently reissued, are classics of mystery-webbing. The unveiling of his new direction is eagerly anticipated.
KATE VILLAGE (Albany & Somerville only) is one of the most savage guitar players our planet has yet produced. Her most blues-wailing style with Crystalized Movements, Vermonster, B.O.R.B., Magic Hour, Major Stars and solo have made her an ikon to the youth of every nation. Watch her bring it to the masses.
MIKE WATT (Philadelphia only) is going to try to make this date during one of the Stooges' days off. His bass playing is the food of love, his writing a manic blast of frayed orgone trembling. Tonight, if possible, he'll back Charles Plymell.
VALERIE WEBBER (all shows) is a Montreal-based writer whose poetry and prose combines a naive belief in perefection and a wise-ass sneer at its collapsing facade. Her work has been widely published in Canada and the U.S., and her voice has a soft purity, oftimes at odds with its content. She is a veteran of the More Hair tour.
WOVOKA (Albany only) is an upstate channeler of mystery-volk in all its drugged and writhing splendor. Rarely spied except through a cloud of basement smoke, their vibes are their amplifiers.
ZAIKA (all shows except Phildelphia) is a duo comprised of Marcia Bassett and Tom Carter. Both are long-time and very active members of the American underground scene: Marcia with Uns, Double Leopards, Shackamaxon, Hototogisu, GHQ and others; Tom with The Mike Gunn, Charalambides, Badgerlore, Friday Group, Kyrgyz, Spiderwebs, etc. Together, they create very special kinds of silver cloud eruptions.
ZAIMPH (Philadelphia only) is the name under which Marcia Bassett operates as a solo entity. But her reach is so long, she is never alone. She will performing outside Zaika this evening.
ZIAMALUCH (Albany only) represents the bridge between ERL and Burnt Hills in terms of Albany's underground continuum. Unseen in public since opening a gig for Universal Indians, Ziamaluch once again scales the scales.
JD
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
People's Center back in May
Back on May 31, 2008 Thurston Moore came down to play at the People's Center with Ryan Sawyer. Opening for this noise duo were CT heavy hitters Hat City Intuitive with free jazz saxophonist Paul Flaherty, New Haven based noise phenoms Heaven People and acousmatic noise tapesters Barnes. Here is some video from the show:
JD
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