The Free Folk Phantasmagory

awesome…whoever shows up better introduce themselves! i've already met econo.

nkotbie, the show will go late, well past midnight. if you've got shit to do during the day, come later.

excepter will blow minds. i can't begin to describe what kind of mindfuck performance i saw them do in july. there might just be a little audience participation.

sabir mateen is as good a post-coltrane saxist as any. we don't get much free jazz in DC, so this will be a rare treat.

i've had sharron kraus play in DC twice this year, and whoever sees her ends up buying her CDs. she's that good.

the rest will be a solid variety of finger-picking, folk-psych, and atonal noise.
Got a few updates.

Daniel McCormick-Martin will not be performing solo, but instead in the debut of Flowers, a guitar/violin improv duo.

Added:

Madagascar
From Baltimore, featuring Michael Lambright of The Big Huge
Fashioning gypsy dirges and broken down waltzes from instruments including musical saw, glockenspiel and bowed cymbal.

DJ Panic
From DC, vinyl and hacksaw improvised explorations

Experimental free improvisation performed through the medium of a vinyl LP played with a hacksaw. The resulting miniature atonal sounds are picked up, amplified and modified through electronic effects. Though atonal, the resulting sounds are strange and provocative. I have developed an extensive vocabulary and several possibilities for syntax, including rhythmic attack, drones and fast-paced chatter.
Metaphorically, I consider this process to be cutting the residue of commercial death culture from the music and discovering the sound of love on these hardened grooves.

The order of appearance will be (first being last):

Excepter
Sabir Mateen
Sharron Kraus
From Quagmire
The Big Huge
Madagascar
Niagara Falls
Eric Carbonara
DJ Panic
Dense Fog
Flowers

Flowers will start promptly at 4:30, and there will be mostly continuous music for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately I will have to bow out of this event. I had some dates confused and will be up in NYC this weekend. Please let me know how this went!