Snailhook...

Damn, R5's bringing Omar Souleyman to JB's?  and they're also getting Roky Erickson?  Precisely the kind of stuff I got canned for.  Go figure.

I'll talk to Rick Bishop on Friday and see if he has anything to do with this since Souleyman's on Sublime Frequencies.  My guess is he has a big-wig booking agent on Windish or Agency Group now.  I'd hate to see this at the Blowtel. The Black Cat would be rad.

Arguably the show of the year…that is, for anyone who appreciates mind-melting, life-altering psychedelia. I couldn't think of a better "supergroup" to form in recent years, comprised of three musicians and proven innovators who continually push the threshold of experimental music. Kohoutek is honored to open for them and the fantastic Major Stars, and DC should feel honored to be able to see Rangda live.

Clavius Productions presents:

Saturday, September 4
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com/
202-462-3213
$10, 18+, doors at 9pm


Rangda
http://www.myspace.com/calonarang
Many centuries ago on the island of Java lived the witch queen Mahendradatta. When she was exiled from her kingdom for practicing her dark arts, she took revenge by using her witchcraft to spread chaos among the people. In defeat, she was transformed into Rangda, the demon queen of the leyaks. Rangda leads an army of witches in endless battle against Barong, the force of good. When witch-gods collide, it might sound something like this. Six Organs of Admittance?Richard Bishop?Chris Corsano. Riders of the apocalypse, it?s them vs. us. After absorbing their uber-holy dynamo, you?ll be prepared to join up with these wraiths, making it all of us against?well, whomever?s fool enough to stand in our way. To evil! Rangda?s been building up behind the scenes for some time now. As label mates and members of an exclusive mutual admiration society, Sir Rick and Kid Chasny thirsted for a conflagration involving two electric guitars plus a drummer. In such an environment requiring excellent survival skills as well as composition and improvisation rhythms, who better than Chris Corsano to work the skins? On paper, this was colossal, but actually getting everyone together proved awesomely impossible, with each man in a different city sprawled across the vastness of the United States ? not to mention each man?s diverse state of mind sprawled across the vastness of inner space. And so, time passed. Chuckling, the guitar men dreamed of visiting Rangda on our world, working figures on their necks in anticipation. Finally, with the desperate recklessness of the ancient witchsoul herself, they booked a live show, followed by a studio session with Seattle sound guru Scott Colburn. Beforehand, a mere ninety minutes was allotted for the three to further discuss ideas and play together for the very first time. What would happen? What do you think happened, stupid? Of course they planted a garden of lyricism seeded with several compositions and several improvisations! Placed end-to-end, the six pieces of the Rangda saga (part the first) rock from splintering onslaught to soulful meditation and back again with manifest precision ? this was a planned attack. Unceasing battery slides suddenly into ritual form with elemental ease. The fretworks of Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny split time while Corsano shapes the air around them. Each players moves as part of the whole of Rangda, and whether surging, cycling, or in pastoral, they are never less than explosive. This initial foray flies under the banner of FALSE FLAG.
www.sixorgans.com
www.cor-sano.com
www.sirrichardbishop.net

The Major Stars
http://www.myspace.com/themajorstars
Nobody shreds like Major Stars -? they probably couldn?t if they wanted to. The Boston-based sextet (led by outsider/psych record label owners Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar of Twisted Village) packs three full-time guitarists, all of whom, it?s fair to say, play lead. While on past Major Stars records, songwriting was treated as a necessary evil, on the group?s latest, Return to Form, precision and concision prove just as important as the guitar squall.

Kohoutek
http://claviusproductions.alkem.org/kohoutek/frizz.html
"People interested in music that defies the pop song convention, music that challenges that part of your brain that lies dormant during most aural experiences, need a band like Kohoutek. This [collective] began their wildly meandering journey across the more peripheral realms of free-form psych rock a few years back and from the very beginning they seemed determined to try to cross swathes of interstellar drone, guitar squall and loose, slowly evolving improvisations of drum and bass grooves and squelchy electronics with tapestries of gravitationally flowing darkness. What we get is a sonic bag that is raw, gorgeous, loud, dreamy, dissonant and mystical at the same time, somehow managing to transcend all sorts of seemingly limited genre barriers. Dedicated followers of bands such as the Spacious Mind, SubArachnoid Space and Ash Ra Tempel will for sure want to check these cats out, with a musical style that at its best rarely goes wrong in the live setting." (Mats Gustafsson)

Roky is hip now that he made an album with those Okkervil River hacks.

Man, every real Roky fan I know thinks that the record with Okkervil River and those live shows they did fucking blow. I saw them at SXSW and Okkervil River was WEAK. No balls whatsoever, and balls are a necessity to properly play Roky's songs. I don't even mind Okkervil River when they do their own stuff; they've never impressed me nor disgusted me. But they are simply not the right band to be backing the Rok.

That was what I figured. I have not even listened to it yet in order to avoid the assured disappointment.

I sent Mondo Drag an email asking about a DC "loft party" they had listed on their myspace set for Sunday and got this in response:
We were supposed to be playing a loft party but that just fell through so we don't have a show for the date.  If you know of anyone who can throw a party
or has a diy spot send em our way! Thanks!

John

He also left a cell number I can PM you if you can hook up something.

Britt's place would be perfect for them.

Now that The Points don't any longer have a gig on 10/31 due to the DC9 incident, you should snag them up and put them on the Zeros/Shirks bill. Would make for the best DC punk lineup in a little while.

I don't have room to add them to the Zeros show.  They were supposed to be on it in the first place but they fucked up taking a DC9 gig the same night.  The show is packed full as it is, and I'm not worried about it not drawing.  It will be sold out.

Sounds as though that was supposed to be their last gig anyway. They've broken up.

You try booking Ut?

Kind of shocked that there isn't a Philly or DC date.

Tempted to do that Ut>Kemialliset Ystävät weekend in NY.

is there anywhere to possibly rebook the legendary pink dots in the city?

Hey Azaghal, when are Ut and Kemialliset playing? I would have 100% booked both bands had anyone asked me. When we did our No Wave tribute night for Marc masters' book, we were trying to get Dial, which is Jackie Ham's new band (and who are quite good, btw). Maybe it isn't too late to do something about it? I think Jackie lives in France now so they are probably on limited time.

And Teepo, it's too late for me to do anything about LPD (and besides, I'll be on tour with Masaki Batoh that week anyway). LPD are another band that I would have loved to book at the Velvet, and they really belong at the Black Cat or Iota or 930 and definitely NOT the Blowtel or the Red Palace. I bet they got shafted for some hipster indie rock band on Windish, or their agent just flat-out refused to agree to pay $1000 in expenses at the Blowtel. LPD sold out the Velvet back in 2005 when the Velvet was like 80 capacity.

Ut tour:
Friday, November 5
ISSUE Project Room
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Sunday, November 7
Maxwell?s
1039 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030

Monday, November 8
AS220
115 Empire St.
Providence, RI 02903

Wednesday, November 10
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave.
Allston, MA 02134

KY show (only US date as far as I can tell):
11/6 at Issue Project Room and check out the list of collaborators!
Raphael Lyon (aka Mudboy) is an established sound designer, musician and installation artist working around the world. His work focuses on the conceptual
frameworks of living systems design and fractal organization with an interest in creating a sense of wonder and magic as a primary practice.

Samara Lubelski has split her time between Germany, where she works with the psychedelic group Metabolismus, and her Lower East Side home base, playing
and recording with a who?s who of the art-punk and freely-improvised folk scenes for she has been brewing a rich cup of aesthetic ingredients.

Marcia Bassett predominately uses guitar and vocals to create sounds that shimmer in a dark metallic buzz of sonic noise and drone, before a swift shift
into blissed out ragas or crippling, brutal, white-hot noise.

Michael Bernstein performing primarily on modular synthesizer was founding member of Brooklyn group Religious Knives formed after the demise of drone legends
Double Leopards.

Taylor Richardson (Infinity Window, Purple Haze, Human Teenager) channels the more damaged moves associated with lost psychedelic and industrial private
press records released throughout the 70?s and 80?s. The sounds emitted reveal a communion with the outsider spirit by re-contextualizing their meaning
through various processes utilizing analog systems, so as to disrupt connotations or expand awareness of secret vocabularies.

Tom Carter augments rudimentary guitar skills with unreliable instruments, cranky analog electronics, and disintegrating practice amps. He has managed to
forge his evolving ideas of complete tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty and unrefined
proficiency.  Best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, he has branched
out into other collaborations since 2001, playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben
Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton.

Dave Nuss has been an active part of the NYC musical community for nearly twenty years.  Nuss is founding member of the No-Neck Blues Band (NNCK), the longest-running
American musical group dedicated exclusively to improvisation, and has toured the band more than a dozen times around Europe, Canada, and America. Throughout
2007-2009 he toured as a member of the Japanese group The Boredoms, leading performances of 77 and 88 drummers.  Currently he is working on promotional
projects with Feral House Press (Seattle) and Process Media (LA, CA) on music related to new American religious movements.  After completing an extensive
audio-archiving project on the the Source Family and Yahowha 13 (based in Hawaii), he created the band Sabbath Assembly to perform the hymns of the Process
Church of the Final Judgment, a UK-based 70s cult.

As a founding member of The Magik Markers, prolific solo artist and collaborator, Pete Nolan?s work exists in its own space and time. Untethered to any
scene or movement, Pete?s sound has its roots in the classic psych/folk/noise underground without betraying the originality that separates a true artist
from flash-in-the-blog hype spew.

Minor Musics, a new thematic series focusing on cultural exchange, will provide visibility and exposure to micro-communities of experimental musicians from
around the world. Taking its name from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guiattari?s Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature, Minor Musics refers to the personal diary
of a nation (as opposed to its official historiography) within which localized practices lead to the creation of dynamic new communities and innovative
forms of expression. The series will foster critical inquiry into the symbiotic relationships between art practice, geography, and culture.

Artists performing in the series will be given an outlet for the rehearsal and presentation of works to an established community of devoted NYC experimental
art supporters. By facilitating unique collaborations with NY-based artists, the series will host a cross-cultural pollination of contemporary artistic
practices and establish a formal bridge between ISSUE and a number of vibrant international communities.

Minor Musics: Finland is made possible through the generous support of the American-Scandinavian Foundation; the Consulate General of Finland; and ESEK,
the Finnish Performing Music Promotion Centre; and Luses, the Popular Music Committee of the Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music.

Man, UT. Are Bush Tetras next?

I just saw that Talk Normal and Buke & Gass were supposed to play DC9 in December. If DC9 are really done, it would be cool if you could snatch that one before they try moving it to the Red Palace if possible. Talk Normal are too good for H St.

azaghal1981 wrote:
I just saw that Talk Normal and Buke & Gass were supposed to play DC9 in December. If DC9 are really done, it would be cool if you could snatch that one before they try moving it to the Red Palace if possible. Talk Normal are too good for H St.

Buke and Gass moved to the RnR Hotel on 12/9.

Well shit.

So, Ut are playing Providence and Boston but no Philly/Baltimore/DC?  New England and NY tour only, I guess.  I'll be on the road with Batoh so I'm gonna have to miss that weekend.  That KY collab thing looks insane.

The Bush Tetras actually reformed in the late '90s and I saw them twice. Those shows were pretty good if not spectacular.

Who is Buke & Gass? They must be booked through one of the pseudo-corporate agencies if Lambert is booking them, as he wouldn't touch Talk Normal with a ten-foot pole otherwise. Kuschty Rye Ergot is playing with Woody Sullender & Seamus Cater at the Cherch on December 9.

the Agency Group

snailhook wrote:

Who is Buke & Gass? They must be booked through one of the pseudo-corporate agencies if Lambert is booking them, as he wouldn't touch Talk Normal with a ten-foot pole otherwise. 

quelle surprise!

Talk Normal must be Buke & Gass' choice as opener…they are doing 5 or 6 dates with them.