Work/Death's sound runs from crumbling distortion and dense synth textures to delicate melodies and field recordings. "Shimmering string and organ drones...churning clouds of electronics accumulate over a haunting tonal core. There is a calm buried under all the bristling textures, a gentleness that hovers inside the static."-The Wire. Connect the dots between musique concrete, electro-acoustic improv, harsh noise and the pop song.
Lolly Gesserit is the latest project of Elijah Forest (formerly Terrors) which creates a warm grim meditative blur through tape collage, industrial/dub overtones and occasional crooning. Headphone listening for heavy rains. http://8marchen.blogspot.com/
Jefferson Pitcher is a guitarist, improviser, songwriter, and documentary filmmaker from northern California.
He will be joined by Mike Bullock-
...While much of his work explores free improvisation he also draws heavily from his love for melody, the simplicity of minimalist composers, a long love of flamenco. Pitcher has released numerous projects with Digitalis Recordings (USA), Camera Obscura (Australia), Tape Drift (USA), Moonpalace (Spain), Dutch East India (USA), and his own Mudita Records (USA). He has performed and recorded with many artists including Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori, Okkyung Lee, Scott Amendola, Christian Kiefer, J. Matthew Gerken, Denison Witmer, Sarah Weaver, Mark Dresser, Mike Bullock, & many more. In 2008, Pitcher completed an MFA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he studied improvisation with Pauline Oliveros.
Projections by Linda Aubry Bullock will accompany both sets. http://ocookie.net/
KILLER SPLIT CITY. Almost TOO much awesome running through this tape. High Aura’d, Boston’s “up and coming” guitar droner John Kolodij, who probably got a lot of worshippers when they saw him opening for Barn Owl on tour last year, teams up with André Foisy, one half of the Locrian duo, who somehow manages to singlehandedly retain all the brilliance of Locrian.
Kolodij takes the A side with “Dusk Latitudes,” a 20+ drift through hazey space/time curves. His Americana stylings don’t show up immediately, instead doing some heavy breathing with the strings & pulses, layin the foundation for the resonant steel slides to come. It’s a foreboding piece, the unnerving tones that ring in your head the moments between the challenge to an old fashioned gun slinging duel and the duel itself. And then at about 7:45, the fucking chaos reigns down, blood pounding through your ears and clouding your eyes, heavy scary shit, a wall of reverb that only lasts as long as the gunfight, and the remainder is you lying full of holes in the bloody dust, surrounded by thick layers of warm drones, looking up at the enlightening sky, thinking about the sincere & beautiful. Truly fantastic stuff right here.
Foisy’s untitled piece is an amazingly perfect companion to “Dusk Latitudes,” the blackened psych string drones that saturate the afterlife. Not overly bleak in the beginning, it weaves a grey SotL/KBD type classical, with distant thunder and a deep sobriety, building patiently upon layers of tension, each minute that passes increasing the sense of gorgeous dread, eventually bringing in somber monk-like vocals that are buried in the gloom. The elegance of this is that it escalates to pillars of dense, grandiose, and terrifying noise drone but you don’t notice until it’s toppling over you with tortured screaming, a fury of electronics, and buzzing riffage that pours out of your speakers, black, painful, and loud as fuck.
I definitely didn’t imagine that High Aura’d & André Foisy would make a solid gold split together, but holy fuck this tape is unbelievable. Stunned always does great work but they totally outdid themselves with this one. Just fucking incredible stuff from both of these guys. Now is it too much to ask for a collaboration?
ELECTRIC TEMPLE PRESENTS: GAMAN - A CEREMONY FOR JAPAN
The 2x Cassette/Digital curated compliation on Electric Temple Records entitled "Gaman: A Ceremony for Japan" is a benefit directly contributing the recovery of Japan. We have all been troubled by the happenings across the sea, but for almost all musicians in the experimental music scene, Japan is a place of sacred innovation, inimitable soul, and a relentless discipline unlike any other country. We know this will carry over in to the recovery process of the current natural disasters, but for us musicians, this is a small token of our appreciation for the things we've been given by such a beautiful country with so much tradition. All proceeds will go to Shelterbox: http://www.shelterbox.org/. This organization provides emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies for families around the world who are affected by disasters at the time when they need it the most. They also are currently set up in Japan, making sure these beautiful gifts are affecting families one by one. As the benefit proceeds, we will be tracking the boxes that make it to families in Japan -- that way each and every one of us that contributed know directly how we are helping and influencing, at least in some small way. This compilation features tracks from 24 artist across 2 cassettes including Sic Alps, Amen Dunes, Forma, Loren Conners, Glenn Jones, Steve Gunn, and many Thanks to John Kolodij, John Twells, Nicole Yalaz, and National Audio Company for their immense help in making this project a reality. Please join us in donating a small token for those in need.
Animal Hospital - Dreams William Fowler Collins - Autumn Lights High aura'd-Methodist Bells Phantom Family Halo - Guns and Violens Steven R. Smith-Regen Volt Glenn Jones-Portland Cement Factory Angel Olsen-She Came and She Touched Me
Pete Stampfel and Eli Smith - Castor and Pollux Zelienople - Smoked Lee Noble - August Loren Connors - Yesterday and Today
Cassette 2:
Forma - FORMA 178
GDFX - Forever a Bone Reuben Son - Dancing into Sandtraps Ancient Ocean - New Rising Sun
Sic Alps - Anasazi Chemist Herbcraft - Sunset Glow The North Sea - Sugar Clearing - Untitled Amen Dunes - Lower Class
Heavy Hymns - Prayer Swati (David First) Rambutan - The Kingfisher Steve Gunn - Taksim II (Live in Montreal)
Spectral Rehab present Deaf Center, live in Boston for the very first time. This is a very rare set we're very proud to announce, in a small intimate venue with GRAND PIANO. Support will come from : Ezekiel Honig (NYC) - Honig's new album 'Folding In On Itself' will be out on Type in May, so come see what it's all going to sound like. High Aura'd (MA) - Gorgeous, mysterious guitar soundscapes and hazy drones. Spectral Rehab lads John Xela (Type Records) and Ian Lawrence (Barge Recordings) will provide DJ support, just to ice that cake.
