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#986 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2007 8:33 pm
Subject: Plastic Crimewave/Ultimate VAG in DC, Friday 6/8 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents Thee Ultimate VAG meets Thee Uncomfortable Pricks:

Friday, June 8
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
9pm, $8, 21+

Plastic Crimewave Sound (Eclipse, from Chicago, heavy brain-frying space-punk fuzz-rock a la Hawkwind, Chrome, Stooges, Comets on Fire, Spacemen 3, etc)
Howdy Duty Band (old-school boogie-rock a la Canned Heat, featuring the legendary Max Ochs!)
Thee Ultimate VAG (guitar/percussion improv duo, mem. of Kohoutek/To Live and Shave in L.A.)
The Uncomfortable pricks (psych/noise-rock from Cleveland, mem. of Thee Scarcity of Tanks/Terminal Lovers/Prisonshake)


Plastic Crimewave Sound
http://www.myspace.com/plsticcrimewavesound
http://www.nihilistrecords.net/pcs/

"Plastic Crimewave Sound is something like the musical analogue to the Galactic Zoo Dossier fanzine, and their first single 'Grade Ceased,' is about what you’d hope for from that connection. It is loud, crude psychedelic sludge, with heavily amped and effected guitars slicing through the swamps of midnight, with vocals buried in tanks of Japanese laughing gas, and rhythms sliding along like moist candy dropped from the lips of Alan Vega." (The Wire, 2003)

"A wonderful ball of scuzz that will drag you down the psychedelic path to self-destruction, smashing your face into a CAN the whole ride. Dirty dirges of sound swirling around my head, start to make me worry who may be watching me through the windows and I start to see little glass spiders running up and down my arms in a paranoid haze. Mr. Crimewave has done an excellent job with the record, and if you have ever had re-occurring nightmares from too much cough syrup, then this will be the tasty dish you’ve waited for your whole life." (Horizontal Action, 2003)

4-5 piece spacepunk unit lauded in Mojo, Wire, Julian Cope's Head Heritage, etc. Plastic Crimewave also does the Galactic Zoo Dossier mag, soundscape duo Goldblood, Secret History of Chicago Music strip and radio show, Million Tongues Festivals, sits in with ensembles like Scarcity of Tanks and DRMWPN, yadda yadda. Mark Lux was in the formative Temple of Bon Matin and twiddles knobs with Folk and Violence. Nick Myers also heads up street toughs Vee Dee. Lawrence Peters does everything, including swell country bands like Hardscrabble and the Lawrence Peters Outfit. Andy Ortmann is Panicsville, runs the fine Nihilist label, and does a zillion other sick things. Releases: "Flashing Open" (Eclipse LP and Rocket CD), "No Wonderland" (Eclipse 2LP), split 12" with Oneida (Brah/Jagjaguwar), debut 45 'Grade Ceased" (Captain Spazz) and split w/ Michael Yonkers 45 (Capt. Spazz) upcoming LP on Eclipse 2007...has toured with: Acid Mothers Temple, Oneida, The Ponys, Comets on Fire, Josephine Foster and the Supposed, Pearls and Brass, Gris Gris, Miminokoto and upcoming with Simply Saucer!

Played shows with: Zolar X, Bardo Pond, Spectrum, Sky Saxon and the Seeds, The Creation, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Michael Yonkers, Wolf Eyes, Kinski, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Kevin Coyne, Fursaxa, Espers, Charalambides, Black Dice, Six Organs of Admittance, No Neck Blues Band, etc.


Howdy Duty Band
http://howdyduty.org/default.aspx

Max Ochs' Canned Heat-style boogie-rock band, featuring members of Maryland's early '70s underground rock scene (these guys were around when George Brigman and Orange Wedge were hangin' around Charm City). Some info on Max for the uninitiated:

http://www.tompkinssquare.com/max.html

Max Ochs was featured on the very first Takoma Records compilation, Contemporary Guitar, Spring '67, and has since been criminally unrecorded. He was born in Baltimore, is Phil Ochs' cousin, was responsible for turning Robbie Basho on to folk music, and played in the seminal, if obscure, ESP raga band Seventh Sons. Admittedly enamored with Pete Seeger, Ochs until recently operated Annapolis' 333 Coffeehouse, where he occasionally performed. More information on Max can be found in this interview:

http://www.bayweekly.com/year04/issuexii12/lifexii12.html


Thee Ultimate VAG
http://www.claviusproductions.org
http://www.myspace.com/accidentswithmagnets

Dreamy moonlit melodies as imagined by axeslinger Chris Grier (To Live and Shave in L.A./Sean McArdle Band/ex-Mungo Jerry) and skinpounder Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek/Insect Factory/Sequence Chair/ex-Falco). Setting a course for the heartland of America, this duo contructs ribald ditties derived from ancient Romanian ballads translated to these modern, not-so-chaste times. Bring your lambskin.


The Uncomfortable Pricks
http://www.myspace.com/theescarcityoftanks
http://www.davecintron.com/

Scarcity of Tanks is a fluid and changing group of fellow sound investigators formed in 2004 by Matthew Wascovich. For the End Times II fest, SOT included Steve Plastic Crimewave, Matt Hartman (Sic Alps/Coachwhips), Chris Davis (Cherry Blossoms), Sam Goldberg, Chris Smith (Keelhaul), and a surprise guest.

"Scarcity of Tanks. I don't know. I guess it seems not dark so much, but mysterious and imaginative. Yeah, it really seems mysterious, kind of like when you're dreaming and not having to wake up until you're ready. That's what the images do for me." -Jack Brewer/Saccharine Trust

Scarcity of Tanks have recordings released, or forthcoming, from Slow Toe Records, Textile Records, Folding Cassettes, and Phase! Records.


Upcoming Clavius events:

Sunday 6/10 @ Warehouse Next Door: Donkey (experimental synth composition from LA)/Bonnie Jones & Andy Hayleck/SKIF (of the N-Collective)/Myo 8:30pm, $8

Monday 6/11 @ Warehouse Next Door: These Are Powers (ex-Liars/No Things/Knife Skills)/Sons of Guns (ex-Snuff Project/Measles Mumps Rubella)/The Amoeba Men (spazzy no-wave from Richmond) 8:30pm, $7

Tuesday 6/12 @ 611 Florida: Madagascar (instrumental gypsy folk)/Lord Fyre (mem. of John Wilkes Booze)/Normanoak (mem. of Impossible Shapes, Secretly Canadian)/The Horns of Happiness (mem. of Impossible Shapes, Secretly Canadian)/Ryan Jewell (experimental percussion from Columbus OH) 8pm, $5 suggested donation

Thursday 6/14 @ Velvet Lounge: Blowfly (the legendary dirty rapper!)/La Otracina (Holy Mountain)/Plums/Pup Tent 9pm, $8

Friday 6/15 @ 101 Harvard St, Alexandria: Jack Wright/Agnes Palier/Olivier Toutlemonde (avant-improv sax/vocals/percussion trio from US/France)/Layne Garrett (of Cuterst Puppy in the World)/Isaac Linder (experimental percussion on one cymbal) 8pm, $5 suggested donation

Sunday 6/17 @ Warehouse Next Door: Kohoutek/Warmer Milks (Troubleman, psych from Lexington KY)/Ospreys (cello/electronics duo from Philly)/Barkitecture/Jason Simon (of Dead Meadow) 8:30pm, $8

Tuesday 6/19 @ Warehouse Theater: Alash Ensemble (Tuvan throat singers!) with Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra Arkestra!), Elliott Levin, and Other Extra-Terrestrial Guests 8pm, $15

Thursday 6/21 @ Warehouse Next Door: Forbes Graham (experimental trumpet, ex-Kayo Dot)/Insect Factory/FFFF's 8:30pm, $7

Sunday 6/24 @ Velvet Lounge: Dynamite Club/The Late Severa Wires (experimental noise rock from New Mexico)/Twilight Memories of the Three Suns (mem. of Piasa) 9pm, $8

Thursday 6/28 @ Warehouse Next Door: Francisco Lopez (sound artist from Spain)/Violet/LSD-March (Japanese psych) 8:30pm, $10

Friday 7/6 @ 611 Florida: Mike Tamburo (Music Fellowship)/Nick Schillace (Primitive American fingerpicker from Detroit)/Tunnels (solo experimental guitar, mem. of Jackie-O Motherfucker)/Acre/Yellow Crystal Star (psychedelic guitar noise symphonies from Tallahassee FL)/Black History Moth (percussion drone) 8pm, $5 suggested donation

Tuesday 7/10 @ Velvet Lounge: Ol' Scratch (VA sludge/doom)/Palace in Thunderland (stoner rock from MA)/Bundy (DC thrash-punk) 9pm, $7

Wednesday 7/11 @ Velvet Lounge: Kohoutek/Avarus (Finnish psych, Secret Eye)/Manbeard (mem. of Black Forest Black Sea/Kites/Urdog) 9pm, $8

Thursday 7/12 @ Velvet Lounge: Richard Pinhas Trio (of legendary French prog/psych band Heldon!)/Insect Factory 9pm, $12

Sunday 7/22 @ Tides Within (NYC sludge/doom)/Stifling (bass/drums sludge duo, ex-Valkyrie)

Thursday 7/26 @ 611 Florida: Thee Ultimate VAG/Neg-Fi/This Is My Condition/FFFFs 8pm, $5 suggested donation

Friday 7/27 @ Velvet Lounge: Wooly Mammoth/Rwake (Relapse)/Darsombra (ex-Meatjack)/Hull

Saturday 7/28 @ Velvet Lounge: Donny Hue & the Colors (CD release)/Marshall Costan (ex-Mazarin) 9pm, $7

Thursday 8/16 @ Velvet Lounge: Capillary Action/Zdrastvootie (Holy Mountain, CA experimental/prog rock) 9pm, $8

Friday 8/17 @ 611 Florida: Fat Worm of Error (ex-Caroliner, Load Records) 9pm, $5 suggested donation

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#987 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2007 2:35 am
Subject: Red Room Sat: Donkey Duo + Audrey Chen 		redroomhighzero
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Saturday, 6/9/07, 8:30, $6

The Red Room Presents:  Donkey (Hans Fjellestad + Damon Holzborn) and Audrey
Chen

*Donkey* is LA synthesizer player Hans Fjellestad and NYC sound manipulator
Damon Holzborn. The duo has been building intensive noise structures for over 15
years. "El Burro" is set to release a new live cd recorded at The Stone in
NYC...coming Spring '07 on Accretions Records.
<br/>
*Hans Fjellestad*, a Los Angeles musician and filmmaker, tours and records
extensively as a solo artist and in collaboration with numerous players on the
experimental music scene in well over a dozen countries. An "innovative
musician" (All About Jazz) and "mad scientist improviser" (IDJ), his music has
been described as "unbridled sonic freedom... raw, almost shamanic energy that
embodies the true essence of unrestricted music" (XLR8R) and a "spicy
concoction... refusing to behave itself, it screams, throws things and makes a
mess" (The Wire). A classically trained pianist, these days Hans concocts most
of his unbridled sound messes with analog synthesizers and vacuum tubes.
www.hansfjellestad.com <http://www.hansfjellestad.com/>,
www.myspace.com/hansfjellestad
<br/>
*Damon Holzborn* is an improviser and composer working primarily with
electronics. His performances make the familiar unrecognizable, manipulating
sound sources such as guitar and field recordings with custom instruments,
untraditional effects and interactive processes. Currently pursuing his doctoral
degree in composition at Columbia University, Holzborn has
presented his work in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, South Africa and Japan and has
collaborated with many innovative musicians and dancers. www.damonholzborn.com

<P> at The Red Room
c/o. Normals Books and Records
425 E. 31st Street
Baltimore

http://www.redroom.org

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#988 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2007 11:16 am
Subject: Red Room Saturday: Donkey (LA) + Audrey Chen 		redroomhighzero
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Saturday, June 9th, 8:30 $6

Hans Fjellstad (Donkey Duo)

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Audrey Chen (solo cello and voice)

*Donkey* is LA synthesizer player Hans Fjellestad and NYC sound manipulator
Damon Holzborn. The duo has been building intensive noise structures for over 15
years. "El Burro" is set to release a new live cd recorded at The Stone in
NYC...coming Spring '07 on Accretions Records.

*Hans Fjellestad*, a Los Angeles musician and filmmaker, tours and records
extensively as a solo artist and in collaboration with numerous players on the
experimental music scene in well over a dozen countries. An "innovative
musician" (All About Jazz) and "mad scientist improviser" (IDJ), his music has
been described as "unbridled sonic freedom... raw, almost shamanic energy that
embodies the true essence of unrestricted music" (XLR8R) and a "spicy
concoction... refusing to behave itself, it screams, throws things and makes a
mess" (The Wire). A classically trained pianist, these days Hans concocts most
of his unbridled sound messes with analog synthesizers and vacuum tubes.
www.hansfjellestad.com , www.myspace.com/hansfjellestad

*Damon Holzborn* is an improviser and composer working primarily with
electronics. His performances make the familiar unrecognizable, manipulating
sound sources such as guitar and field recordings with custom instruments,
untraditional effects and interactive processes. Currently pursuing his doctoral
degree in composition at Columbia University, Holzborn has presented his work in
the U.S., Mexico, Europe, South Africa and Japan and has collaborated with many
innovative musicians and dancers. www.damonholzborn.com

Opening up, *Audrey Chen*, Baltimore's lyrical, virtuosic and surprising
improvisor (cello, electronics, voice) with a set of solo music.

Don't miss what promises to be a great night of experimental improvised music.
at The Red Room
c/o. Normals Books and Records
425 E. 31st Street
Baltimore

http://www.redroom.org

The Red Room: expanding the definition of expanding the definition.

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#989 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Sat Jun 9, 2007 4:49 pm
Subject: Donkey/Bonnie Jones & Andy Hayleck/SKIF/Myo in DC, Sunday 6/10 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents a night of mindbending electronic music, from avant synth composition to minimal drone to laptop noise:

Sunday, June 10
Warehouse Next Door
1021 7th St NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
$8, all ages
doors at 8:30, show at 9

Donkey (LA/NY synth/noise duo)
Bonnie Jones & Andy Hayleck (Baltimore computer/digital delay pedal duo, mem. of Trockeneis/English)
SKIF (N-Collective laptop duo)
Myo (solo laptop/synths/voice from Baltimore, Sockets/MT6)


Donkey
http://www.accretions.com/artists/donkey.asp
http://www.hansfjellestad.com/

They come, riding fog, thirsty mules. A new breed with eyes on their arms, moving like hungry hunters, not yet poised to sleep. Inspecting valleys, terrain shifts, boasting blades and breathing machines, with ivory handles, and sharp edges, performing mid-air flips in such far-flung territories as California, the Pacific Northwest, New York, Japan and Mexico.

Donkey are LA synth player Hans Fjellestad and NYC sound manipulator Damon Holzborn, building intensive noise structures for over 15 years.

"Fjellestad and Holzborn create a dense, festering tropical sound texture...a compound sonic miasma reminiscent of the bubbling inventive density of Matmos and the psychotic drawl emerging from the bottom of a Frank Zappa cheeseburger." (The Wire)

"Noisy, occasionally brutal, this is not a Merzbow-esque assault. There is pace, tension and most of all invention." (All-Music Guide)

"A new sonic horizon, and booga to the 'Oh, electronic music! It's so cold! So unfeeling! Waah!' crowd, the excitement that the interchange of creativity and challenge these two are engaged in fairly leaps into your ear." (Signal to Noise)

"Donkey veer from the heady extremes of pure adrenaline noise to the more cerebral and chin stroking intellectual exercise that is improvisation at its most inventive." (Acid Attack Music)

"Leaping between towers of abstraction, dragging note clusters over cruelly sharp rough terrain, Donkey mess around in the margins of an ever-playful train of sonic events." (Metamorphic Journeyman)

"The intensely industrial sound is a heavy improv audio feast...Show is quite possibly the best experimental album of the new millennium." (Smother E-zine)


Bonnie Jones & Andy Hayleck
http://chelagallery.org/bonnie/
http://chelagallery.org/duet/

Bonnie Jones works with sound, text and performance. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. In sound performances Bonnie plays the circuit boards of digital delay pedals. Her primary sound collaborators are Joe Foster in Korea (as the duet "English") and Andy Hayleck. She is also a member of the Performance Thanatology Research Society, a inter-discipinary performance group dedicated to the advancement of a higher histrionics brought on by imminent finalities. Bonnie has performed at the Kim Dae Hwan Museum, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the ErstQuake Festival, and the 14 Karat Cabaret.

Andy Hayleck (b. 1972) composer/musician and recordist. Explores the aesthetics of sound, especially regarding how sound is perceived by the ear. He uses extremes of volume, pitch, and sound complexity, and variations in change over time. For the past few years he has concentrated on using unamplified bowed metal (cymbals and saw) in performance and using contact mics, hydrophones and regular mics in recording. Although he has used a computer for many years, recently he has begun to use one live. Currently a member of Trockeneis, he recently made a solo tour of the West Coast of the United States (playing the amplified gong/wire). Recordings include: Gong/Wire (earlids), Various Recordings Involving Ice (HereSee), and The Disappearing Floor (Recorded).


SKIF
http://www.n-collective.com/index.cgi?article=17&dept=groups

Jeff Carey - laptop/SuperCollider
Robert van Heumen - laptop/LiSa

Being the electronic BrainPart of OfficeR, Jeff and Robert started performing together because the rest of OfficeR left the building. They decided to do a tour in New York, and became famous.

Playing music in many contexts, as a computer musician, electro-acoustic composer and improviser, Jeff Carey’s music ranges many aspects of computer music from non real-time acousmatic composition, electro-acoustic composition, to improvisation and performs in a number of units such as Office-R(6), USA/USB, the acclaimed feedback project 87 Central, and N-Collective related projects. Having spent years carrying around too much heavy gear playing no-input mixer he is happy to trade for a laptop: with feel that is more organic than digital -- drones, gentle and otherwise multiply against hyperactive noise bursts and crackling phrasing.

Robert van Heumen is an electronic musician, using STEIM's live sampling software LiSa with all kinds of controllers (some have called them sexy). He is an active member of the N-Collective, and has shared the stage with Michel Waisvisz, Jeff Carey, Oguz Buyukberber, Anne LaBerge, Guy Harries, Daniel Schorno, Roddy Schrock and Nate Wooley. His soundworld is a mixture of environmental sounds, toys, voices, sounds from kitchen appliances, half of the time smashed beyond repair. He is the SampleMan of SKIF.

"...melodic melancholy and sonic bursts..."
"...bursts, discontinuities, and beautiful carpets..."


Myo
http://myosound.com/
http://www.myspace.com/myo

Myo is Cory O'Brien from Balitmore, MD. Implimenting real-time processing of voice and objects to create live improvised post-digital/noise music. His music has been called: "louder, dirtier, gritty and angular" by Vital Weekly, "intricate atmospheres of sound" by Foxy Digitalis, "white out on your brain" by Baltimore City Paper, and "hardly music" by disagreement.net.



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#990 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:30 pm
Subject: These Are Powers in DC tonight, Madagascar at 611 Florida tomorrow 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Monday, June 11
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th St NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
$7, all ages
doors at 8:30, show at 9:30

These Are Powers (ex-Liars/No Things/Knife Skills)
Sons of Guns (mem. of Eyes of the Killer Robot/Owls & Crows/Snuff Project/Measles Mumps Rubella)
The Amoeba Men (CNP Records, Richmond spazzy art-punk)

"These Are Powers bassist Pat Noecker is the Billy Sheehan of Brooklyn post-punk. In other words, he’s the solid journeyman who constantly plays the same thing, but instead of working the chorus pedal and tapping harmonies behind David Lee Roth, Noecker specializes in slanted Jesus Lizard-style thumping. As a member of the Liars’ original rhythm section, Noecker surfed the first wave of Brooklyn hype until creative differences forced him and drummer Ron Albertson to leave the band in 2002. Subsequently he and Albertson formed No Things—which sounded surprisingly similar to the Liars. These Are Powers, Noecker’s latest project, is slightly twitchier but still lives and dies by the bassist’s trademark staccato buzzes and slanted rumbles. Mock Noecker’s singular vision if you will, but it’s better than being the Rick Wakeman of Montreal indie-pop. Take that, Spencer Krug!" These Are Powers performs with the Amoeba Men at 8:30 p.m. at the Warehouse Next Door, 1021 7th St. NW. $7. (202) 783-3933. (Aaron Leitko)

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Tuesday, June 12
611 Florida Ave NW WDC
http://www.claviusproductions.org
8pm, $5 suggested donations
call 202-360-9739 for info
BYOW!

Madagascar (instrumental gypsy folk from Baltimore, mem. of The Big Huge)
Lord Fyre (mem. of John Wilkes Booze, Emperor Jones)
Normanoak (mem. of Impossible Shapes, Secretly Canadian)
The Horns of Happiness (mem. of Impossible Shapes, Secretly Canadian)
Ryan Jewell (experimental percussionist from Columbus OH)


Madagascar
http://www.wearemadagascar.com/

Chamber music, Yiddish folk, gypsy laments -- the members of Madagascar draw on these influences, and more, on Forced March, their debut album for Western Vinyl. The nostalgic waltzes, melancholy dirges, and dance tunes on Forced March are powered by a seemingly disparate collection of acoustic instruments (accordion, ukulele, musical saw, and glockenspiel, to name a few) that seamlessly mesh together in the hands of Madagascar. Haunting, wordless vocals occasionally join the mostly instrumental mix, forming a music that is timeless yet unique, tragic one moment, joyous the next. It's like street music for some crumbled, forgotten city, folk songs for a long-extinct people. Engineer Rob Girardi, working at Mt. Royal Studios in the bands' home base and hometown of Baltimore MD, used a traditional approach in recording the band that makes Forced March a sonic delight as well as a collection of excellent songs. The musicians largely played together in one space, sounds were captured mostly by room microphones straight to 2” tape, and very few overdubs were done. T.J. Lipple's “purist” approach to mastering further ensured that Forced March sounds like actual musicians, playing real instruments, together in the same room -- a rarity in these days of made-in-Pro-Tools, hyper-compressed albums. It's the first effort, but certainly not the last, from a new, unique voice in music.

“Like sitting on a rooftop in Zagreb, watching the crowds go by.” - Dave Heumann (Abouretum, Anomoanon)


Lord Fyre
http://www.churchofsunra.blogspot.com/
http://myspace.com/lordfyre

"A founding partner of the John Wilkes Booze collective lets one fly (more or less solo) in Bloomington. The instrumentation is squiggly as hell, incorporating a lot of space without sacrificing a certain claustrophobic luster." (Bull Tongue's Top 80 of 2006)

This is the debut LP from John Wilkes Booze singer and co-founder Seth Mahern. Burning, explosive, paranoid drones emanate from the noisy grooves of this platter, tickling your ears and rattling your spine. You're in for a horrific swift boat ride down the Bay Hap River, where mangled vines of whoosh and mounds of acid steel guitar can crush your soul into a quivering, wasted piece of jelly. And that's just side A!

Destruction at 2013 was recorded at the Church of Sun Ra during the great tape scare of 2005 by his goddamn-self. Additional sounds were provided by others living in the garden. Bloomington, Indiana, is a magical place where you can see, feel and hear the light. Every audible sound was captured by analog signal onto magnetic tape before being transferred to metal masters and finally pressed into melted black vinyl bits.


Normanoak
http://www.normanoak.com/
http://myspace.com/normanoak

Chris Barth re-emerges with A Double Gift Of Tongues to share once again Normanoak's mysterious fibrillation of heart and lung. Unbound from his share of duties with The Impossible Shapes, Barth chronicles a world "of acorns, blood, and sacrifice; of the holy hexagram of intertwined triangles; of the holy books writ in the sands of madness; of the Prince of Cups charioting across the steady sea, eagle drawn; of the planets Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Luna spiraling through the darkness of Nuit; Of the language behind language and the seeds of the unspeakable."

Barth's ability to chew up, unbuckle, and alternate between sanguine sanctity and life's whimsical playfulness has never shown itself in a purer light than throughout the 14-song landscape of this limited vinyl release. Fans of the inwardly mobile mysticism of Donovan or the soul damaged guitar skree of George Brigman's Jungle Rot in its most minimal state should book their ticket to A Double Gift Of Tongues immediately. Aum.


The Horns of Happiness
http://www.myspace.com/thehornsofhappiness

"Horns of Happiness began as the lo-fi pop side project of Impossible Shapes' Aaron Deer, whose 2004 release A Sea as a Shore featured an array of instruments delivering a somewhat uneven group of songs. The addition of drummer Shelley Harrison, however, helps to make Would I Find Your Psychic Guideline more engaging. The six songs on this 12"-only release are hypnotic, cyclical affairs, relying on dense, fuzzy organ drones and simple, driving drum beats. The arrangements are often simple -- typically featuring no more than two or three parts -- but the results are far from boring or generic.

Organ and drums are the most prominent instruments utilized here -- although keyboard flourishes, strings, and guitars find their way in as well. Deer's pure, clean vocals are the perfect counter to the eerie, robotic sonics, but they're only featured on about half of the songs. As a result they become part of the mix in a unique way -- not by demanding your attention, despite their clarity, but by snaking their way through the tracks." (Cory D. Byron, Pitchforkmedia)

Horns Of Happiness provide the two sides to the second half of their newnew sound with What Spills Like Thread. With the follow-up 12" to last year's Would I Find Your Psychic Guideline, they're now navigating the waters of hypnotic, organ-driven thump rock. On this record, the HoH have expanded into a trio, with new member Elaina Morgan providing the bottom end to the disjointed fuzz of Aaron Deer and Shelly Harrison's organ/drum combo. Played out in two extended jams, side A evokes ESG on the dance floor with Can at an absinthe-fueled afterparty, while side B is a woozy pop-drone undulation.


Ryan Jewell
http://www.myspace.com/ryanxing

Ryan Jewell was born in a small Appalachian river town in southern Ohio in a landscape set between the rundown post-industrial factories and train yards and the natural beauty of the forested foothills and the Ohio River. The juxtaposition of these two seemingly conflicting environments has profoundly affected his aesthetic. He studied percussion and electronic composition techniques at Capital University and has since studied drumset with Susie Ibarra and tabla with Dr. Lowell Lybarger. His improvisations are equally influenced by Midwestern underground experimental noise, free jazz, psychoacoustics, reductionist impov, and certain schools of avant-garde composition. Ryan likes both long and short durations of sounds and tries not to make a big deal about it. He has performed or recorded with C. Spencer Yeh, Tatsuya Nakatani, Reuben Radding, Larry Marotta, Mike Brown, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, Seth Meicht, Nate Wooley, Napolean Maddox, Queen Mae and the Bells, Terribly Empty Pockets, Luasa Raelon, and Ed Chang.

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And later this week:

Thursday 6/14 @ Velvet Lounge: La Otracina (NYC psych-rock, Holy Mountain, mem. of Owl Xounds/Blizzards/Lust Ionics)/Plums/Pup Tent

Friday 6/15 @ 101 Harvard St, Alexandria: Jack Wright/Agnes Palier/Olivier Toutlemonde (sax/vox/percussion improv), Layne Garrett/Scott Verrastro/Brit Powell (guitar/percussion/upright bass improv), Isaac Linder (solo improv on one cymbal)
see www.claviusproductions.org for more details

Sunday 6/17 @ Warehouse Next Door: Kohoutek (w/ very special guest)/Warmer Milks (Troubleman, Lexington KY psych)/Ospreys (cello/electronics improv duo from Philly)/Barkitecture/Jason Simon (of Dead Meadow)




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#991 From: "Nicholas" <chairs@...>
Date: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:12 pm
Subject: YUKON/ARCHAEOPTERYX - TOUR DATES 		cavemouth
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YUKON [Baltimore-Human Conduct/Terra Firma]
ARCHAEOPTERYX [Brooklyn-Unfun/I and Ear]




FINAL UPDATE:

June 13th - Pittsburgh @ 31st St. Pub [3101 Penn Ave.] w/ Persona
Grata

June 14th - Cleveland @ Tower 2021 w/ Clan of the Cave Bear, Self
Destruct Button and Double Dagger

June 15th - Kalamazoo @ Rocket Star Cafe w/ Double Dagger and Matt
and Kim

June 16th - Chicago @ Ronny's Bar w/ Scalpels, Double Dagger and
Binges [posters galore and more]

June 17th - St. Louis @ The Fun Dungeon [1102 Yale Ave.] w/ Muscle
brain & mclain/stone duo.

June 18th - St. Louis @ LEMP Arts w/ Kevin Shields, Tik//Tik, Swill
and Spunky Toofers

June 19th - Iowa City @ The Practice Space w/ The Pharmacy and Best
Friends Forever

June 20th - Aberdeen [SD] @ Red Rooster Cafe

June 21st - Bozeman [MT] @ The Zebra Lounge w/ The Touchers

June 22nd - Missoula [MT] @ The Loft

June 23rd - Seattle @ Artworks w/ Pillow Fight Fight

June 24th - Portland @ Rotture

June 25th - Arcata @ The Arcata Playhouse

June 26th - Chico @ Cafe Coda w/ Swims

July 27th - Day Off  - [possible SF show]

June 28th - San Francisco @ SF Eagle w/ Oso and Sword & Sandals

June 29th - Day Off   -  [possible Santa Barbara Show]

June 30th - Los Angeles @ The Smell w/ The Epsilons, thee makeout
party, the redhearts and the babes [set is a YKN/AX collab.]

July 1st - Day Off

July 2nd - Phoenix @ Trunkspace w/ ??? Deathbombarc showcase [many
bands]

July 5th - Lubbock @ House w/ Animal, Archaeopteryx and the Numerators

July 6th - Houston @ Super Happy Fun Land w/ Animal, Archaeopteryx,
Maidenstorm

July 7th - La Porte TX @ Fairmont Park Baptist w/ Animal,
Archaeopteryx and "B"

July 8th - Day Off [possible fayetteville AR show]

July 9th - Chattanooga @ 621 Bell Ave.

July 10th - Atlanta @ 141 Moreland Ave.

July 11th - Columbia @ TBA w/ Calabi Yau

July 12th - Charlotte @ Yauhaus w/ Calabi Yau

July 13th - Philadelphia @ TBA

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#992 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:03 am
Subject: La Otracina/Plums/Pup Tent at the Velvet Lounge in DC tonight 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Thursday, June 14
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$7, 21+, doors at 9pm

La Otracina (Holy Mountain, NYC psych-rock, mem. of Owl Xounds/Blizzards/Lust Ionics)
Plums (DC instrumental psych/post-rock, mem. of Hat City Intuitive/Spaceships Panic Orbit)
Pup Tent (DC noisy post-punk in the vein of Dream Syndicate)


La Otracina
http://vorg.net/csr/artistslaotracina.htm

LA OTRACINA is a trip...
................................. through watermelon atmospheres......
................and...............................
.........................a diagonal eclipse of magical lemon wedges

current creators of La Otracina music are:

Adam Kriney - drums
Ninni Morgia - electric guitar
Evan Sobel - electric bass

past members and collaborators include:

Joshua Anzano - electric guitar
Dan Bates - electric bass
Nick Chapman - synthesizer, fender rhodes
Kris D'agostino - synthesizer
Joshua Hilson - electric guitar
Matt Lavallee - electric guitar
Tyler Nolan - electric guitar
Marc Orleans - electric guitar
Sara Palmquist - electric bass
Greg Vegas - electric guitar
Rylan Scherer - synthesizer
Jordon Schranz - electric bass


"Brand new limited to 100 hand-numbered copies double disk set from this heavy psychedelic/free rock group out of NYC based around the duo of drummer Adam Kriney (Owl Sounds et al) and electric bassist Dan Bates. Both discs come wrapped in covers slipped inside colour plastic sleeves, with the whole deal sealed inside a large, spray-painted envelope. Love Love Love starts out in a kinda delay-channeled almost Cul de Sac circa Doldrums style before exploding out of the gate with some dazzling string rassle that works luminous smears of fuzz into phantom architectures with alla the string vision of Robert Fripp, Tsijiz Munoz or Sonny Sharrock circa Last Exit. Keyboards give some tracks an ornate, gothic edge while later jams sound as dense as The Blue Humans instant-composing candlelit hymns to the alter-destiny with nothing but a bunch of scrap iron Sun Ra sculptures, a buncha vague jam-co-ordinates intuited from repeat-spins of the Flower Travellin’ Band’s back catalogue and a bunch of Hendrix fuzz/octave pedals. Killer! Recommended." (David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue)

"Scalp-lifting cosmic crescendos and sprawling psychedelic rock dominate this latest handmade set from La Otracina, a New York duo of percussionist Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano. The blatant hippy title, craft-infected artwork, and spraypainted CDs are an inappropriate package for music this powerful. Rather than a further helping of New Weird America mung bean boogie, we are instead treated to a rich psychotic blend of ruptured free-jazz, Improv excess and even a passage which nearly crashes into something that's not far away from Hawkwind's Space Ritual. Augmented by the bass rumble of Dan Bates, Nick Chapman's keyboard flourishes and Kris D'Agostino's synthesizer constructions, La Otracina's freeform inferno is well worth huddling around." (Edwin Pouncey, The Wire)

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#993 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:06 pm
Subject: Jack Wright/Agnes Palier/Olivier Toutlemonde in Alexandria tonight 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents an evening of far-out improv with sax great Jack Wright collaborating with a French vocalist and percussionist:

Friday, June 15
101 Harvard St., Alexandria VA
http://www.claviusproductions.org
9pm, $5 suggested donation
call 202-360-9739 for info
BYOW!

Jack Wright/Agnes Palier/Olivier Toutlemonde (sax/vox/percussion improv from US/France)
Layne Garrett/Scott Verrastro/Brit Powell (guitar/percussion/bass improv from DC, mem. of The Cutest Puppy in the World/Kohoutek/Barkitecture)
Isaac Linder (solo percussion on one cymbal)


Jack Wright/Agnes Palier/Olivier Toutlemonde
http://www.springgardenmusic.com/agnes-olivier-jack_trio.html
http://www.agnes-palier.net/Ukindex.htm
http://olivier.toulemonde.free.fr/

This trio is the convergence of two duos, Jack Wright and Agnès Palier, which performed the first time in Paris in April 2005, and Agnès and Olivier Toulemonde, who have performed extensively in Europe. The three toured together in Fall 2006 in Mulhouse and Strasbourg France, Bern Switzerland, Munster, Hamburg, and Berlin Germany. They will be on tour in June 2007 in
Quebec Canada, and numerous cities in the US.

Over the past twenty-five years Jack Wright has been a bold saxophonist, as well as an influential musical personality. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the US, and many in Europe as well. In 1982 he created Spring Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music community, with a home base at his house in Philadelphia, now a residence for improvisers. He has been called the Johnny Appleseed of free improvisation for his encouragement to young players. As a musical explorer as well, his music passes through radical shifts of style and approach from one year to the next, yet always somehow identifiable as his own. These days he is playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every possible direction, sometimes even recognizable as such. He lives in Easton, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and Phila. He is also increasingly active in Europe, touring both sides of the Atlantic with European musicians.

The Washington Post once allowed this to be printed: "In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king." And a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say of his solo: "Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he transforms it with a naiveté of another order. It grows into a sound river, he is part of the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous whispers."

Jack has over sixty partners around the US and in Europe with whom he plays on his travels and records. His most recent tours have been with Fabrizio Spera and Alberto Braida in Italy; with Agnes Palier and Olivier Toutlemond in France, Switzerland and Germany, with Michael Johnsen and Sebastien Cirotteau in Europe; with French soprano sax player Michel Doneda and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani in Japan, France and the US; Carol Genetti, sound vocalist of Chicago, and Jon Mueller, percussionist of Milwaukee; cellist Bob Marsh of the Bay area; Nate Wooley, trumpet, of NYC in Europe; Michael Griener percussion and Sabine Vogel flute of Berlin; Reuben Radding, NYC bassist; and Phil Durrant, English laptop musician.

After formative years highlighted by classical singing, French songs, and jazz, Agnes Palier has been devoting herself to free improvisation.

Besides a long term duo with saxophone player Stéphane Rives, she has collaborated and performed with many artists, musicians, visual artists and dancers from France and other countries.

Member of Klac-Sons (setting up concerts at Théatre Sur le Pavé, Paris) together with S. Rives, F. Blondy and B. Denzler, 1999-2001.

She is trained in the Feldenkraïs Method (Awareness Through Movement and
Functional Integration) in Paris. She runs classes and workshops on sung and spoken voice and improvisation for adults and children.

She has performed extensively in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy with Olivier Toulemonde, Pascal Battus, Jean-Philippe Gross, Christine Sehnaoui, and Mathias Forge. A recent tour with Jack Wright and Olivier Toulemonde took her to Mulhouse, Bern, Strasbourg, Munster, Hamburg, and Berlin.

Olivier Toutlemonde: Born 1972. Plays improvised music with amplified objects, tight threads and springs. Composes electroacoustic music, for concerts, radio and video.

In 1993, he was a co-founder of "Collectif Ishtar" (in Bourg-en-Bresse) together with 20 other musicians and dancers. A year later, he joined "Collectif et Compagnie" (in Annecy), where he first started working with electro-acoustic music.

Since then, he has played in several festivals and clubs such as Musique Action (Vandoeuvre), Densités (Fresne-en-Woëvre), Synthèse (Bourges), LEM (Barcelona), Glasgow International festival, 38èmes Rugissants (Grenoble), Musiques 97 (Marseille), Concerts d'Hiver et d'Aujourd'hui (Annecy), Festival des Musiques Innovatrices (St Etienne), Curva Minore (Palermo), Cruce (Madrid), ZDB (Lisbon), Festival Luisances (Brest), Extrapool (Nijmegen), Instants Chavirés (Paris), Horlieu (Lyon), Panonnica (Nantes), Malterie (Lille), APO33 (Nantes), Kafé Myzik (Lyon), Petit Faucheux (Tours), Contemporary art centre (Caen), Modern and contemporary art museum (Strasbourg).

He likes to work with dancers (many projects with E. Borgo, L. Terrier, L. Chourlin).

Since 1997, composes music for Muriel Toulemonde's videos, which have been exhibited in many contemporary art museums.

Works often with N. Desmarchelier, M. Doneda, A. Palier and A. Basso.

Has crossed the paths of countless artists, such as Le Quan Ninh, Erik M, Jérome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, Alain Savouret, Camel Zekri, Lelio Gianetto, Elio Martisciello, J.C. Camps, Carole Rieussec, Alessandro Bosetti, Norbert Möslang, with whom he has shared defining musical experiences.

"Singer Agnès Palier moved from classical music, chanson to jazz. In the last few years she concentrates on singing in a free improvised context, which is the case on this new CD Rocca. For this occasion she is accompanied by Oliver Toulemonde on electroacoustic set. Toulemonde may be known as one of the founding members of the Collectif Ishtar. Palier screams, yells, murmurs, growls, etc., with her voice in a way one aspects from vocal artists like her. Toulemonde creates a great diversity of sounds, textures, etc., with his electro-acoustic set. The noises he produces are the perfect company for Palier's voice: the same in atmosphere, color, intensity, etc. I can't detect exactly what Toulemonde is doing on his so called 'electroacoustic set,' but he seems to use all kind of objects. They are played and used by him in a very physical, lively and elegant way. Another reason that makes Toulemonde and Palier an interesting duo. Their improvisations play at a highly abstract level. But on the other hand their sound poetry stays 'on the floor': it's dramatic and dynamic, and very human. Their explorations evolve within a wide range of sounds and musical possibilities. I never had a dull moment with this one. (Dolf Mulder, Vital Weekly)


Isaac Linder
http://www.myspace.com/vibratinggoldenrecord
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I was born in DC and will perform/collaborate in/with any venue/situation/person I am invited to. These days I have been staying in, drawing, working on compositonal ideas, and thinking about paradoxes, contradiction, (parallax, Möbius strips, Necker cubes), Situationism, ghosts, meditation, perception -- like translucent sheets layered one atop another.

All sounds are unprocessed, unedited, improvised recordings using one cymbal played in unconventional ways. Long sounds, quiet sounds, enticing, hollow, cutting sounds. I am also interested in more traditional composition for unique groupings, and performances have recently found me incorporating an unamplified laptop into my set up.

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#994 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:36 pm
Subject: Kohoutek/Warmer Milks/Jason Simon in DC, Sunday 6/17 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Sunday, June 17
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th St NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
$7, all ages
doors at 8:30, show at 9

Kohoutek (with very special guest!)
Warmer Milks (psych from Lexington KY, Troubleman)
Ospreys (cello/electronics improv duo from Philly)
Barkitecture (DC youth crew psych/prog-rock)
Jason Simon (of Dead Meadow)


Kohoutek
http://www.claviusproductions.org/kohoutek/

Improvised psychedelia ranging from harsh noise to delicate melodies, inspired by the likes of Can/Amon Duul 2/Krautrock, Acid Mothers Temple/Ghost/Japanese psych, Bardo Pond, Dead C, Skullflower, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Sun Ra/Art Ensemble/free jazz, Sonic Youth, MBV/shoegaze, drone, doom/sludge metal, etc. Textures and mood over technical proficiency by an ever-evolving line-up. For this show, Kohoutek will be joined by a very special guest.

Some new praise from Aquarius Records regarding our soon-to-be-out-of-print New Milk collaboration CDR with Soil Sing Through Me:

"Second release we've been able to get our hands on from Soil Sing Through Me, a sort of underground freak-folk supergroup featuring members of Feathers and Sunburned Hand Of The Man, who for this disc have teamed up with DC outfit Kohoutek for an evening of communal music making. The results should be no surprise, a druggy blown-out meandering laid-back psychedelic folk free-for-all. Blasted, stoned, groovy and fucked up.

You can definitely hear more SHOTM than Feathers, or maybe it's Kohoutek who we had never heard anyway, but this is not so much folky as sort of spaced-out and trippy. Simple propulsive tribal rhythm jams and simple stripped-down rock beats are the framework for these inner-space excursions, wah guitar and slivers of silvery feedback drift to-and-fro, melodies are spread out over the proceedings like a tattered old blanket, there seem to be vocals too, but they are minimal and are usually buried under a ton of FX and psychedelic shimmer. Keyboards buzz and huge spacious expanses offer the players plenty of space to stir up subtle bits of percussive clatter, glistening flurries of blurry buzz, strange spidery little melodies all tangled up amidst the stumbling drums and rumbling bass. This definitely has a Dead C vibe, but then what improvised noise-rock psych jam doesn't? No good ones, that's for sure.

The usual suspects will eat this up. Sunburned Hand obsessives for sure need this, as do all you free-folk noise-rock cd-r freaks...LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, most likely already out-of-print. Packaged in the instantly recognizable skull and crossbones Wabana purple painted digipak."


Warmer Milks
http://www.warmermilks.com/
http://www.myspace.com/warmermilks

Nevermind Chinaboise, THIS is my pick of the issue. From Lexington, Kentucky, consider Warmer Milks a real "band to watch." I really thought this was going to be a jam-noise album, with its John Olson/American Tapes-style artwork, right down to the cubist lettering. With two of the Hair Police playing on here, I figured it would be the October Faction to Hair Police's Black Flag...But oh my GOD. This is not a jam-noise album. Not at all. This is an album of songs, and they are golden electric-guitar folk-rock dreams. I was definitely digging the first three songs right away, but it was during the fourth and fifth, both recorded live, that the jaw went ahead and dropped. The fourth track "Dogs All Slain," without really sounding like My Bloody Valentine, features some of the best glide guitar playing I've heard since that band gave us Loveless. After the first 2 or 3 minutes (the part with the words and vocals), it settles on a lovely circular guitar-chord cycle and just goes and goes, until it ends over ten minutes later to small-crowd whoops of applause and a "hell yeah!" But that's nothing compared to the goes-and-goes you get with "Penetration Initials," the last track on here, a 30-minute epic that winds its way through soft uninterrupted moods and golden-slow-chord folk forms, beautifully progged-out with occasional soft-yelp vocals. On first listen, about 10 minutes in, I realized something special was happening, so I stopped the work I was doing and just laid on the floor like I was on a blanket in the grass at an outdoor concert. Everybody who is alive or has ever lived was there. Neil Young finally stopped staring out at the ocean, looked back over his shoulder and raised an eyebrow. Keiji Haino and Jandek strolled by, Jandek eating an ice cream cone, dressed up just like he was onstage in Scotland. They stopped and listened, closing their eyes and nodding their heads. After the song/set ended, they went over to the merch table and Jandek bought Keiji a Warmer Milks CDR. The 24-year-old Tim Buckley was there listening, deciding that he should stick it out with the whole Starsailor vibe after all, even though it wasn't selling too well. Even the controversial but ticket-selling headliners Simon & Garfunkel, who had been confidently having a pre-party in the backstage tent with an entourage that included Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, got a little quiet and pensive during the last half of this epic song, quietly realizing that the folk-world winds were changing direction. (Blastitude)




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#995 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:01 pm
Subject: Red Room, Saturday, Palier, Toutlemounde, Wright 		redroomhighzero
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This Saturday at the Red Room, hear the "B side," as it were, of Jack Wright's
free-jazzy last visit a few weeks ago.  Tonight, he will push the boundaries in
a very different direction with his friends Agnes Palier and Olivier
Toutlemounde.


Saturday, June 16th, $6
Jack Wright, muted saxes; Agnes Palier, wordless vocals; Olivier Toutlemonde,
glasses, kitchen objects, springs and paper


  Jack Wright has been a full-time saxophonist of strange music since the late
70's, one of the most tour-obsessed musicians around. In Europe he finds
like-minded players and drags them back to the states to tour and make friends
here. He plays a lot of different ways, from the "real notes" of free jazz to
no-recognizable-sax-sound. He wears shorts in all kinds of weather so he can
mute against his bare leg, which is his trademark. Known to play with everyone,
but actually he only plays with people who interest him musically, which is
still a lot. He may be obscure but he comes close to doing exactly what he
wants, and that is no simple matter for any of us.


Agnes Palier is a vocalist of sound who lives in Rambouillet France (close to
Paris). She tours extensively with the latest crop of brilliant French
improvisers: Stephane Rives, Pascal Battus, Bernard Denzler, Sophie Agnel,
Christine Sehnaoui and Olivier Toutlemonde. Agnes also teaches Feldenkreis
Method in Paris, incorporating spoken voice and improvisation in her work. She
met and played with Jack Wright in Paris in 2004, and then Olivier joined the
collaboration last fall for a European tour.


Olivier Toutlemonde improvises with objects that can be found in any
kitchen--wine glasses and metal wisks, as well as springs and taut string, all
of which are scraped or coaxed slowly across a simple board. He is unamplified,
on this tour, his preference. His finesse is in his exquisite timing--the right
sound at exactly the right moment. His playing is neither minimal nor maximal
but perfectly appropriate to the setting. He performs at all the usual festivals
in which Europe cultivates its avant-garde. He and Agnes have collaborated
frequently, and have an album together, Rocco.

More information on the trio at
http://www.springgardenmusic.com/agnes-olivier-jack_trio.html


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#996 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:27 pm
Subject: Forbes Graham/Insect Factory/Garbaj Kaetz in DC, Thursday 6/21 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Thursday, June 21
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th St NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
$7, all ages
doors at 8:30, show at 9

Forbes Graham (solo experimental trumpet, ex-Kayo Dot)
Insect Factory (mellow polka-psych)
Tim Byrnes (of Friendly Bears, solo synths)
FFFFs (solo guitar/electronics, Sockets)
Garbaj Kaetz (ex-Crack W.A.R., from San Francisco)


Forbes Graham
http://www.polyrhythmatics.net/

Forbes Graham's newest composition, "Kleinman", was written specifically for the new music ensemble Normal Love. Maddeningly complex and rife with numerological symbolism, it represents the pinnacle of his uncompromising principles.

At present, he is working on a new composition for trumpet, two drum machines and live electronics which will be premiered at this year's Festival of New Trumpet in New York City. The piece is currently entitled "Variations on the Fibonacci Sequence".

Forbes is currently playing music with The Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra and the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble. He also works with a number of other musicians in the Boston area, and has his own quartet featuring Ryan McGuire, Raqib Hassan, and Luther Gray.

Forbes has toured America numerous times playing in various groups. He has also lent his trumpet to many studio recordings for the likes of such artists as Daughters, One AM Radio, The Red Chord, Love Life, Irepress, and more.

His label Ricecontrol helped introduce the music of Jeromes Dream, The Day of Man as Man, Dysrhythmia, and XThoughtstreamsX to unsuspecting audiences. Ricecontrol has returned and will be releasing Forbes' newest album I Won't Stop this summer. Self-recorded and produced and mastered by James Plotkin (O.L.D., Khanate, Phantomsmasher), I Won't Stop is a provocative electro-acoustic document. Never one to stick to one style I Won't Stop traverses the genres of free improvisation, drum n' bass, abstract glitch electronics, noise, and more.

Besides music Forbes enjoys vegan cuisine, comedy, studying Taoism, and hanging out with his beautiful girlfriend Lillian.


Insect Factory
http://www.insectfields.org
http://www.myspace.com/insectfactory

Insect Factory is the project of minimalist sounds from guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing explores subtle and detailed textures with acute
attention to overall composition, creating hypnotic fields of dense sound. Barsky frequently adds additional minimal instrumentation to Insect Factory performances. In the mid 90's, Barsky studied classical guitar and composition for several years at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. Barsky also currently plays with the DC improv band Kohoutek, which combines elements of abtract noise, heavy rhythms, free jazz, and psychedelic rock. In addition to having collaborated onstage with avant-trumpeter Forbes Graham and bass player Joe Lally (FUGAZI), his various projects have performed on bills with acts as diverse as Kayo Dot, Mazen Kerbaj, Peter Wright, Bardo Pond, Double Leopards, Charalambides, and Carla Bozulich, and he has performed with Kohoutek at Suoni Il Per Popolo festival in Montreal. Barsky also co-runs Insect Fields cd-r, which serves as an outlet for musical projects he is involved with, as well as his contemporaries.


FFFFs
http://www.myspace.com/scdr

FFFFs is Sean Peoples' solo project. Non-ornamental, melodic loopworks, pure and clean. It explores the various impact of vocal loops and otherwise unconventional noise loops in a controlled and song-based environment. Songs contain atmosphere usually tending toward ambient but also including beat and minimal synth-oriented material. I also use found sound recordings. My music taste is all over the map -- beat-oriented, tape loop noise, accessible, experimental. The music tends to reflect that wide-reaching map.

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#997 From: "marlo_bean" <marlo.d.w@...>
Date: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:45 am
Subject: nyc noise band: want a gig on august 2nd? 		marlo_bean
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this is from my friend alex. if y'all know of any new york projects who may
wanna let alex
know. thanks, eggplant
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I need to find 1 or 2 NYC bands that want to play Thurs. Aug. 2nd at the
Pussycat Lounge. IT
is located 2 blocks south of Worldtradecenter/groundzero.
Newagehillbilly (noisey experimental) and Bo Lee Da(acoustic experimental) are
both from
baltimore and would be playing.

we need to get local bands to confirm the date. please contact if you think you
want to play
or know anyone that would!


Thanks!
Alex

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#998 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:01 pm
Subject: Forbes Graham/Insect Factory/FFFFs/Garbaj Kaetz in DC tonight! 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Thursday, June 21
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th St NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
$7, all ages
doors at 8:30, show at 9

Forbes Graham (solo experimental trumpet, ex-Kayo Dot)
Insect Factory (mellow polka-psych)
Tim Byrnes (of Friendly Bears, solo synths)
FFFFs (solo guitar/electronics, Sockets)
Garbaj Kaetz (ex-Crack W.A.R., from San Francisco)


Forbes Graham
http://www.polyrhythmatics.net/

Forbes Graham's newest composition, "Kleinman", was written specifically for the new music ensemble Normal Love. Maddeningly complex and rife with numerological symbolism, it represents the pinnacle of his uncompromising principles.

At present, he is working on a new composition for trumpet, two drum machines and live electronics which will be premiered at this year's Festival of New Trumpet in New York City. The piece is currently entitled "Variations on the Fibonacci Sequence".

Forbes is currently playing music with The Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra and the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble. He also works with a number of other musicians in the Boston area, and has his own quartet featuring Ryan McGuire, Raqib Hassan, and Luther Gray.

Forbes has toured America numerous times playing in various groups. He has also lent his trumpet to many studio recordings for the likes of such artists as Daughters, One AM Radio, The Red Chord, Love Life, Irepress, and more.

His label Ricecontrol helped introduce the music of Jeromes Dream, The Day of Man as Man, Dysrhythmia, and XThoughtstreamsX to unsuspecting audiences. Ricecontrol has returned and will be releasing Forbes' newest album I Won't Stop this summer. Self-recorded and produced and mastered by James Plotkin (O.L.D., Khanate, Phantomsmasher), I Won't Stop is a provocative electro-acoustic document. Never one to stick to one style I Won't Stop traverses the genres of free improvisation, drum n' bass, abstract glitch electronics, noise, and more.

Besides music Forbes enjoys vegan cuisine, comedy, studying Taoism, and hanging out with his beautiful girlfriend Lillian.


Insect Factory
http://www.insectfields.org
http://www.myspace.com/insectfactory

Insect Factory is the project of minimalist sounds from guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing explores subtle and detailed textures with acute
attention to overall composition, creating hypnotic fields of dense sound. Barsky frequently adds additional minimal instrumentation to Insect Factory performances. In the mid 90's, Barsky studied classical guitar and composition for several years at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. Barsky also currently plays with the DC improv band Kohoutek, which combines elements of abtract noise, heavy rhythms, free jazz, and psychedelic rock. In addition to having collaborated onstage with avant-trumpeter Forbes Graham and bass player Joe Lally (FUGAZI), his various projects have performed on bills with acts as diverse as Kayo Dot, Mazen Kerbaj, Peter Wright, Bardo Pond, Double Leopards, Charalambides, and Carla Bozulich, and he has performed with Kohoutek at Suoni Il Per Popolo festival in Montreal. Barsky also co-runs Insect Fields cd-r, which serves as an outlet for musical projects he is involved with, as well as his contemporaries.


FFFFs
http://www.myspace.com/scdr

FFFFs is Sean Peoples' solo project. Non-ornamental, melodic loopworks, pure and clean. It explores the various impact of vocal loops and otherwise unconventional noise loops in a controlled and song-based environment. Songs contain atmosphere usually tending toward ambient but also including beat and minimal synth-oriented material. I also use found sound recordings. My music taste is all over the map -- beat-oriented, tape loop noise, accessible, experimental. The music tends to reflect that wide-reaching map.

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Sunday 6/24 @ Velvet Lounge: Dynamite Club (featuring master percussionist Mike Pride)/Twilight memories of the Three Suns (DC experimental improv)/The Late Severa Wires (experimental noise from New Mexico)  $8, doors at 9pm

Wednesday 6/27 @ Velvet Lounge: Alzo Bozsormenyi & the Acid Achievers (Northern VA's finest!)/TITS (all-girl psych-rock from SF, mem. of Death Sentence Panda)/Facemat/Church Clothes   $7, doors at 9pm

Thursday 6/28 @ Warehouse Next Door: Francisco Lopez (sound artist from Spain)/Violet/LSD-March (Japanese psych)   $10, doors at 8:30   *sadly, this will be Clavius' LAST Warehouse show*

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#999 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:23 pm
Subject: Red Room Sat: Carly Ptak Opens, Late Severa Wires from Santa Fe 		redroomhighzero
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Saturday, June 23rd, 8:30, $6

The Red Room presents a double concert:

Carly Ptak (conceptual music/performance)

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The Late Severa Wires:
Ultraviolet-turntables
Mike Rowland-drums
Yozo Suzuki- guitar
Carlos Santistevan-bass

..

Carly Ptak, of Nautical Almanac fame, is one of Baltimore's formost noticers of
and explorers of Baltimore. It is hard to describe her approach because she
tends not be redundant. Many of her manifestations have involved sound, but
often sound put to unusual uses or as a vehicle for something else. Her work is
often conceptual, in that it requires viewers to think about unfamiliar things
or in unfamiliar ways. It often also has an unusual emotional intensity, or may
involve setting up unfamiliar/challenging/thought provoking psycho-social
situation. She's probably too smart and two multi-dimenstional to be a cult
leader, but it has become a commonplace to say she might make a good one.

The Late Severa Wires are a great, unusual electro-acoustic improvising group
from Santa Fe and part of that areas burgeoning High Mayhem scene. Their music
is non-idiomatic and has tons of character and strangeness, and an intense
spirit shins through. This is their Red Room premier.

Don't miss what promises to be a great concert! at The Red Room
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#1000 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:52 pm
Subject: Dynamite Club/Late Severa Wires in DC, Sunday 6/24 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents a night of avant-garde music, Kung Fu fighting, and wrestling:

Sunday, June 24
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$8, 21+, doors at 9pm

Dynamite Club (featuring master percussionist Mike Pride of MDC and Fushitsusha!)
Twilight Memories of the Three Suns (DC experimental improv, mem. of Piasa/Kohoutek)
The Late Severa Wires (experimental rock from New Mexico)


Dynamite Club
http://www.dynamiteclub.com/
http://www.myspace.com/dynamiteclub

Dynamite Club was formed 2001 in New York City by musicians Kentaro Saito and Mike Pride. Conceived as a "Rock Band", their avant-grade influenced sound and extraordinary energetic and unique stage performances -- involving actual Kung Fu fighting and wrestling! -- gathered attention from all around the New York City area.

After giving unforgettable performances at nearly every club in the New York City & Brooklyn areas, including CBGB's and Knitting Factory, Dynamite Club released their first full length CD The Legend Of Tiger Mask. Released on New Jersey-based label, Big Sleep Records, in late 2002, the album left an unforgettable impression in the U.S, Canada, and even Australia, Japan & Taiwan, gathering heavy college radio play throughout North America. Before long, the 1000 CDs were sold out, and with minimal distribution and ads.

Their first international tour, in 2003, included Taiwan, Japan, and Australia, and had a great reception. While in Taiwan, Dynamite Club gave its wild performance, not realizing the magnitude of accepting the headlining position at Spring Scream Goat, one of the biggest music festivals in the country. They don't know why exactly, but DYNAMITE CLUB gets wild love from the Taiwanese now, and was asked to headline Spring Scream Monkey in 2004 that was followed by sold-out concerts in Taipei. This was followed by the band's second successful tour of Japan.

Since then, Dynamite Club has released its 2nd full length CD It's Deeper than Most People Actually Think -- an assault on pop music rather than the avant-garde it feverishly attacked on their 1st CD -- on Funhole Records. This CD has already sold over 1000 copies since being released in February 2005 (again with little distribution or ads), and reached #107 on CMJ charts and was the 2nd-most added record in CMJ charts on its initial release date. The band has since gathered much radio play and a rabidly devoted cult following. Seen once, their live performance is not forgotten. They have also been included on two compilations, one Taiwanese & American, one French. Dynamite Club have also released a limited, and now sold-out, and EP entitled S.

Dynamite Club has kept a hectic tour schedule in the past 2 years and have embarked on 7 US tours (with bands like Peelander-Z, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Magik Markers & Dynasty), a European tour with punk legends MDC, Canadian tours with Daiquiri and Mindy Wind, and toured Asia (Japan & Taiwan) a total of 4 times now.

A new CD is completed and will be released shortly.

Meanwhile, the members of Dynamite Club work in an endless string of bands with the "who's who" of new rock music including: MDC (millions of dead cops), Haino Keiji's Fushitsusha, John Zorn, Trevor Dunn (of Mr. Bungle & Fantomas), Gary Lucas' Captain Beefheart repertoire band Fast N' Bulbous, Japan's RUINS and RonRuins, Anthony Braxton, Sonny Simmons, PAK, Otomo Yoshihide, Time Of Orchids, Dr. Nerve, and Eugene Chadbourne.

Dynamite Club is:

Kentaro Saito - Guitar/Vocals
Mike Pride - Drums/Vocals
Evan Lipson - Bass


The Late Severa Wires
http://www.highmayhem.com/artists/thelateseverawires/
http://www.myspace.com/thelateseverawires

Ultraviolet - turntables
Mike Rowland -drums
Yozo Suzuki - guitar
Carlos Santistevan - bass

The Late Severa Wires are a great, unusual electro-acoustic improvising group from Santa Fe and part of that areas burgeoning High Mayhem scene. Their music is non-idiomatic and has tons of character and strangeness, and an intense spirit shines through.

Founded in 2001, The Late Severa Wires has been an institution in High Mayhem’s philosophical and artistic development. The group consists of Ultraviolet on turntables, Yozo Suzuki on guitar, Mike Rowland on drums, and Carlos Santistevan on bass. The group creates sonic collages where the lines between instruments are blurred and new sounds emerge out of the collision and interaction of air molecules. Of “late” the ensemble has been incorporating drum machines, samplers and electronics to add to their already immense sound palette. They just released their second full-length release, an LP three minutes a second in November 2006, and have been touring the West Coast to enthusiastic crowds for 4 years.

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#1001 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:25 pm
Subject: Francisco Lopez/Violet/LSD-March on Thursday 6/28, last WND show! 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents its last ever show at the Warehouse Next Door, and it's a special one, with Spanish sound artist Francisco Lopez returning and Japanese psych voyager Shinsuke Michishita making his DC debut. Come celebrate three years of the Warehouse hosting excellent avant-garde and fringe music, and mourn its passing into the ever-growing graveyard of righteous venues:

Thursday, June 28
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th St NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
$10, all ages!
doors at 8:30, show at 9:30

Francisco Lopez (drone/conceptual sound artist from Spain)
Violet (DC improv noise/drone)
LSD-March (Japanese psych, Last Visible Dog/Archive/Siwa)

from the Washington City Paper:

For Francisco López, less is more. His numerous records are cryptically underpackaged affairs that feature one or two extended minimal drones, often derived from field recordings. Live, the Spanish sound artist prefers his audience to remain blindfolded for the duration of his set in order to concentrate more fully on the nuanced dynamics and textures of his music. In all honesty, that sounds pretty damn pretentious: It takes a sympathetic listener to tie a rag around his head and sit in the dark for an hour listening to processed insect noises. Yet records such as 1998’s La Selva­, with its otherworldly squalor and abstracted rain forest sounds­, make a case for indulging López’s wish and digging down into the world inside your head -— a world that is in all likelihood more fascinating than the grease stains on the Warehouse Next Door’s walls. Lopez performs with Violet and LSD-March at 8:30 p.m. at the Warehouse Next Door, 1021 7th St. NW. $10. (202) 783-3933. (Aaron Leitko)


Francisco Lopez
http://www.franciscolopez.net/

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the
underground experimental music scene. Over the last twenty-five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, and sound installations in 50 countries of the five continents. His extended catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 140 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded twice with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. The audience will be blinded during the performance.


Violet
http://www.zeromoon.com/violet/index.html

Jeff Surak (aka Violet) is a veteran experimenter from Washington, DC. Since the early 1980s, he has explored the netherworld between improvisation and composition to create something between the two auditory realms of experimental music. Found objects, microcassettes, damaged CDs, prepared acoustic instruments, and old record players outfitted with foil are the tools of choice.

Since his early recordings under the name -1348-, Surak established himself in the international hometaper underground network of the 1980s, releasing tapes on the his own Watergate Tapes imprint, along with such artists as Controlled Bleeding, F/i, and Kapotte Muziek; and collaborating with such icons as Zan Hoffman, Crawling with Tarts, and John Hudak. At the same time Surak performed with the notorious DC-area industrial band New Carrollton.

The 1990s found Surak living and performing in Russia. There he formed the group Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye which created site-specific works using found materials and sounds.

At the turn of the millenium Surak created a new duo, V., which quickly blew out of its initial framework of free improv into a unit that pushed the limits of composition, constantly reinventing itself with each recording and performance. After 11 albums in two years, the duo disbanded, leaving Surak to further continue explorations under his solo project called Violet. Violet has collaborated with Alexei Borisov, Frans De Waard, Betrand Denzler, Michael Gendreau, Andrey Kiritchenko, Kotra, Francisco Lopez, Andreas Tilliander and many others. Since 2002 Violet has released numerous recordings in a variety of formats and has performed across the USA and Europe.


LSD-March
http://www.myspace.com/lsdmarch

"More PSF-worthy psychedelia. Strong comparisons can be made to Les Rallizes Denudes, the first PSF Fushitsusha, White Heaven, Shizuka, etc." "LSD-March, named for a track on the first, heaviest album by krautrockers Guru Guru, slowly whisper and wander through a veil of feedback and plodding rhythms. There's both gentle and searing stuff to be found here. These guys are more serious, mysterious and melancholy than Acid Mothers Temple, with a definite Velvets vibe at times. And when the guitars get cranked, this sounds like the Neil Youngiest of Nagisa Ni Te freakouts." (Aquarius)

LSD-March, led by Shinsuke Michishita, is well established in Japan as an example of what might be called the post-apocalyptic power trio. The granddaddies of this decidedly underground style are Fushitsusha (completely alien-sounding, with almost no reference points to earthly music) and High Rise (recording levels in the red, like the MC5 taken to its extreme). LSD-March falls between these two poles, alternating avant-garde instrumental explorations with almost bluesy garage-rock. (Bob Bannister, Time Out New York)


RIP Warehouse Next Door!!!

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#1002 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:17 pm
Subject: Red Room Double Fri:Royer/Berndt Record Release with Bender Twins; Sat: Evan Rapport + Les batteries 		redroomhighzero
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This is a two-night, language-packed weekend for all of you who like your
reality enclosed in protective spheres of apprently meaningful vocal sound:

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Friday Night, 6/29/07, 7:00 (early!), Free

NARROW HOUSE presents the release of

"There Were One and It Was Two"

A cd/book publication with text by Ric Royer and sound by John Berndt. This
artifact is perhaps the most poetic & developed multiemdia fiction on the
eeriness of twins. If you know any twins PLEASE convince them to come,
especially if there are "identical." (Sic.) We are trying to load the Red Room
with Twins.

The schedule of entertainments:
7pm  "event start"
7:30  Narrow House Speaks
7:45 – 8pm A performance by identical Bender twins
8:10 – 8:25 John Berndt Twin Solo
8:25 – 8:40 intermission
8:40 – 9:25 Ric Royer/John Berndt
9:30 – 9:35 outro – after-party
(Rocket to Venus in Hampden, 10-ish)

Publications will be on hand for a $4 discount (i.e. $8)

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/thepixelplus/nhroyer.html

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Saturday, 6/30/07, 8:30, $6
Red Room presents a night of improvised music & high personality with

LES BATTERIES

Evan Rapport : reeds, percussion

Dan Breen: percussion, concussion

Bob Wagner: percussion, beer-cushion


The fresh-faced and virtuosic Mr. Rapport is an improviser/composer with one of
the broadest-and most incongruously heterodoxical-musical sensibilities...
joining in this homecoming reunion with Bob Wagner and Dan Breen to form Les
Trois Batteries. Previous Les Batteries have been spirited, weird, and woody.

Evan Rapport is a great musician, improvisor, and reverse-conceptualist,
probably best known for co-founding the Red Room and for playing lots of shows
with 2 or 3 reed instruments in his mouth, nose, etc. at the same time. He lives
in NYC now but is still a favored son of Baltimore, or, er, Columbia. Studied
with Steve Lacey, played in the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, and deeply influenced by
the absurdities of ingrown, cultic thinking--in other words, always fresh.

His sidemen, Wagner and Breen, have a debt to pay to society and are paying it
off in music, which they view as the safest way to do so.

The combination should be delightful and entangled!
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#1003 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:33 pm
Subject: Francisco Lopez/LSD-March tonight, last Warehouse show! 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents its last ever show at the Warehouse Next Door, and it's a special one, with Spanish sound artist Francisco Lopez returning and Japanese psych voyager Shinsuke Michishita making his DC debut. Come celebrate three years of the Warehouse hosting excellent avant-garde and fringe music, and mourn its passing into the ever-growing graveyard of righteous venues:

Thursday, June 28
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th St NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com
$10, all ages!
doors at 8:30, show at 9:30

Francisco Lopez (drone/conceptual sound artist from Spain)
Violet (DC improv noise/drone)
LSD-March (Japanese psych, Last Visible Dog/Archive/Siwa)

from the Washington City Paper:

For Francisco López, less is more. His numerous records are cryptically underpackaged affairs that feature one or two extended minimal drones, often derived from field recordings. Live, the Spanish sound artist prefers his audience to remain blindfolded for the duration of his set in order to concentrate more fully on the nuanced dynamics and textures of his music. In all honesty, that sounds pretty damn pretentious: It takes a sympathetic listener to tie a rag around his head and sit in the dark for an hour listening to processed insect noises. Yet records such as 1998’s La Selva­, with its otherworldly squalor and abstracted rain forest sounds­, make a case for indulging López’s wish and digging down into the world inside your head -— a world that is in all likelihood more fascinating than the grease stains on the Warehouse Next Door’s walls. Lopez performs with Violet and LSD-March at 8:30 p.m. at the Warehouse Next Door, 1021 7th St. NW. $10. (202) 783-3933. (Aaron Leitko)


Francisco Lopez
http://www.franciscolopez.net/

Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the
underground experimental music scene. Over the last twenty-five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, and sound installations in 50 countries of the five continents. His extended catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 100 international artists) has been released by more than 140 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded twice with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival. The audience will be blinded during the performance.


Violet
http://www.zeromoon.com/violet/index.html

Jeff Surak (aka Violet) is a veteran experimenter from Washington, DC. Since the early 1980s, he has explored the netherworld between improvisation and composition to create something between the two auditory realms of experimental music. Found objects, microcassettes, damaged CDs, prepared acoustic instruments, and old record players outfitted with foil are the tools of choice.

Since his early recordings under the name -1348-, Surak established himself in the international hometaper underground network of the 1980s, releasing tapes on the his own Watergate Tapes imprint, along with such artists as Controlled Bleeding, F/i, and Kapotte Muziek; and collaborating with such icons as Zan Hoffman, Crawling with Tarts, and John Hudak. At the same time Surak performed with the notorious DC-area industrial band New Carrollton.

The 1990s found Surak living and performing in Russia. There he formed the group Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye which created site-specific works using found materials and sounds.

At the turn of the millenium Surak created a new duo, V., which quickly blew out of its initial framework of free improv into a unit that pushed the limits of composition, constantly reinventing itself with each recording and performance. After 11 albums in two years, the duo disbanded, leaving Surak to further continue explorations under his solo project called Violet. Violet has collaborated with Alexei Borisov, Frans De Waard, Betrand Denzler, Michael Gendreau, Andrey Kiritchenko, Kotra, Francisco Lopez, Andreas Tilliander and many others. Since 2002 Violet has released numerous recordings in a variety of formats and has performed across the USA and Europe.


LSD-March
http://www.myspace.com/lsdmarch

"More PSF-worthy psychedelia. Strong comparisons can be made to Les Rallizes Denudes, the first PSF Fushitsusha, White Heaven, Shizuka, etc." "LSD-March, named for a track on the first, heaviest album by krautrockers Guru Guru, slowly whisper and wander through a veil of feedback and plodding rhythms. There's both gentle and searing stuff to be found here. These guys are more serious, mysterious and melancholy than Acid Mothers Temple, with a definite Velvets vibe at times. And when the guitars get cranked, this sounds like the Neil Youngiest of Nagisa Ni Te freakouts." (Aquarius)

LSD-March, led by Shinsuke Michishita, is well established in Japan as an example of what might be called the post-apocalyptic power trio. The granddaddies of this decidedly underground style are Fushitsusha (completely alien-sounding, with almost no reference points to earthly music) and High Rise (recording levels in the red, like the MC5 taken to its extreme). LSD-March falls between these two poles, alternating avant-garde instrumental explorations with almost bluesy garage-rock. (Bob Bannister, Time Out New York)


RIP Warehouse Next Door!!!

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#1004 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Tue Jul 3, 2007 12:59 pm
Subject: Red Room Tonight (Tuesday): The Nth Volunteer's Colelctive's Crapshoot 		redroomhighzero
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The Nth Volunteer's Colelctive's Crapshoot
(Since 1996)

Seasoned and brand new improvisors meet at the Red Room for two hours of
listening, playing, and exploring new combinations of players and new music.

*Not a jam session*, whatever that means.

For people interested in freely improvised experimental music as a method,
process, intention.

Bring amplification and extension chords, if you need them.

Starts promptly at 8:30--don't be late!



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#1005 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Fri Jul 6, 2007 12:36 pm
Subject: Red Room Sat: Language and Sound Poetry with 		redroomhighzero
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Saturday, July 7th, $6

The Red Room presents a Night of Experimental Language Language with...

Stacy Szymaszek (NYC)
+ Stephanie Barber

Tara Fournier (Baltimore)

Twig "James" Harper (Baltimore)

Outstanding NYC experimental poet Stacy Szymaszek performs, with and without
great Baltimore theatric/film/musician mind Stephanie Barber.

Also on the bill, local experimental language surgeons Tara Fournier and Twig
Harper act as extenders of the denotative parlance in their Red Room poetry
premier.

Don't miss this great reading.

..

last name change not reported to authority”

speech.   so   who can say    they    love      m.e

wonder no — I mean ?no   I ******   inflect

my grammatical blunders?   ?    ?   damask rose was code

mathematically sound    as any control

what?   what      she likes ask?ing     — I mean,

no   some       other pronoun

this is      a bad day

-- Stacy Szymaszek

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#1006 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Fri Jul 6, 2007 7:05 pm
Subject: Kohoutek/Avarus/Cutest Puppy in the World in DC, Wednesday 7/11 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Wednesday, July 11
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$8, 21+, doors at 9pm

Kohoutek (DC improv psych, Music Fellowship)
Avarus (Finnish improv psych, Secret Eye)
Manbeard (Providence freak prog-rock, mem. of Black Forest Black Sea/Urdog/Kites/Xerxes)
The Cutest Puppy in the World (DC improv duo)


Kohoutek
http://www.claviusproductions.org/kohoutek/

Improvised psychedelia ranging from harsh noise to delicate melodies, inspired by the likes of Can/Amon Duul 2/Agitation Free/Krautrock, Acid Mothers Temple/Ghost/Japanese psych, Bardo Pond, Dead C, Skullflower, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Sun Ra/Art Ensemble/free jazz, Sonic Youth, MBV/shoegaze, drone, doom/sludge metal, etc. Textures and mood over technical proficiency by an ever-evolving line-up.

Some new praise from Aquarius Records regarding our soon-to-be-out-of-print New Milk collaboration CDR with Soil Sing Through Me:

"Second release we've been able to get our hands on from Soil Sing Through Me, a sort of underground freak-folk supergroup featuring members of Feathers and Sunburned Hand Of The Man, who for this disc have teamed up with DC outfit Kohoutek for an evening of communal music making. The results should be no surprise, a druggy blown-out meandering laid-back psychedelic folk free-for-all. Blasted, stoned, groovy and fucked up.

You can definitely hear more SHOTM than Feathers, or maybe it's Kohoutek who we had never heard anyway, but this is not so much folky as sort of spaced-out and trippy. Simple propulsive tribal rhythm jams and simple stripped-down rock beats are the framework for these inner-space excursions, wah guitar and slivers of silvery feedback drift to-and-fro, melodies are spread out over the proceedings like a tattered old blanket, there seem to be vocals too, but they are minimal and are usually buried under a ton of FX and psychedelic shimmer. Keyboards buzz and huge spacious expanses offer the players plenty of space to stir up subtle bits of percussive clatter, glistening flurries of blurry buzz, strange spidery little melodies all tangled up amidst the stumbling drums and rumbling bass. This definitely has a Dead C vibe, but then what improvised noise-rock psych jam doesn't? No good ones, that's for sure.

The usual suspects will eat this up. Sunburned Hand obsessives for sure need this, as do all you free-folk noise-rock cd-r freaks...LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, most likely already out-of-print. Packaged in the instantly recognizable skull and crossbones Wabana purple painted digipak."

and from Volcanic Tongue:

"New instalment of Wabana's limited to 200 CD-R series is a big band collaborative shot from these two North American psych/drug units, with Kohoutek go up against a Soil Sing Through Me line-up that features Ron Schneiderman of Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Some of the backwoods garage style of the attack has a nice Crazy Horse/Savage Sons Of Ya Ho Wha meets ballroom Kosmiche feel, with plenty of serpentine string action and upper atmosphere analogue tweaking. There's even some shots of Miles '70s electro/brass confusion, albeit transmuted in a similar style to Sunburned Hand's acid funk. All laid down with a great recorded-through-a-cheap-stereo feel."


Avarus
http://www.secreteye.org/se/avarus.html
http://www.haamu.com/lallallal/

Avarus was formed in Tampere, Finland in 2001 by members of bands The Anaksimandros and Pylon. The group has gotten larger and looser (including folks from Kiila, Munuaissymposium 1960 and Kemialliset Ystävät), but the spirit is still the same. There are about 10 core members in Avarus in three different cities, and the number of occasional members is 10-20. But it's not at all important to know who's playing and when. It's about a collective sound, a play or a game. Avarus' sound is primitive, child-like, joyous and free.

"Using a muse found deep in the woods this collective base their sound on fumbling lurches of folk-rock drug groove, interspersed with weevilly keyboard stuff and quite extraordinary, persistent yowling." (The Wire)

Avarus combine psychedelic folk rock, motorik Krautrock, free jazz and modern noise into a totally mesmerising, totally unique modern avant noise/folk, unfurling lengthy, meandering, almost funereal jams, desolate and mournful, but dreamy and pastoral, machinelike and hypnotic at the same time. Strummed acoustic guitars frame distant throbbing caveman percussion, dreamy soundscapes are punctuated by occasional clang and clatter, all swaddled in the warm drone of amp buzz and ambient hum. Lo-fi, rambling, ramshackle blues jams mutate into wildly propulsive psych-folk with intensely strummed guitars and far-away flute melodies.

Dipping their toes into whatever variant of their unique 'sound' that strikes their fancy, Avarus sway woozily from atonal Jandek-ian campfire hippy hoedowns, to wild jams with spastic drumming and sing-songy melodies plucked out on beat-up, strangely tuned guitars, to wild clattery bursts of percussion splattered haphazardly over a Skullflower-ish skree, to stripped-down, jangly hyperactive psychedelic rock to loose ambient soundscapes of whir and buzz and twang, with slithery, sitar-like guitars. Occasionally Avarus kick up quite a racket, a thick slab of sound, with LOTS of guitars, feedback and some seriously dense drumming, recorded hot and overblown, adding just the right amount of distortion and haze to the recording. It almost sounds like some New Zealand noise rock band like Gate or UK psych/drone ensemble Sunroof!

Epic and endless, rumbling and stumbling, spacy psychedlic folk jams. Imagine Total or Dead C playing Finnish forest music. Or Tower Recordings covering International Harvester next door to Reynols' practice space? Droning, damaged clatter, like the wild drunken cavorting of drugged out hippy carpenters. Spacy and druggy and totally mesmerizingly beautiful.

Avarus will melt your mind and free your soul. Wander into their dark forest and join the tribe.


The Cutest Puppy in the World
http://www.questionthetruth.com/noise/cutestpuppy/
http://www.myspace.com/thecutestpuppyintheworld

The Cutest Puppy in the World is Bryan Rhodes (of Baltimore) and Layne Garrett (of Washington, DC). We explore emergent forms, extremes of saturated and empty space, scorched remnants of the familiar. We play electric piano, analog synthesizer, combo organ, guitars, found-object percussion, thumb piano, bass clarinet, styrofoam, whatever is within reach. Our music is all improvised.

Since the summer of 2005, we have performed extensively in DC and the mid-Atlantic region. Highlights include: creating improvised soundtracks for experimental films by DC artists Heather Levy, Christopher Lynn, and Jay Rees; several appearances at the Electric Possible experimental music showcase at George Washington University; the 2005 Sonic Circuits Festival in DC; and a 2-hour pyrotechnic-enhanced set in the middle of the night at Soundquilt Music Festival last summer. We've had the pleasure to play alongside a number of spectacular musicians, including: Jack Wright, Reuben Radding, Andrew Drury, Nate Wooley, Mazen Kerbaj, Mike Bullock, Vic Rawlings, Joseph Hammer, Sayo Mitsuishi, Michael Thomas Jackson, Hans Buetow, Ben Hall, John Dierker, Matt Weston, Charalambides, Volcano the Bear, Kohoutek, Na, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, Whelp, Insect Factory, Big Cats, Zach Mason, Tone Ghosting, WZT Hearts, Echolalia, Piasa, Mass Movement of the Moth, Slim Castle, Cash Slave Clique, FFFFs, etc!

In 2005, we self-released a CD-R entitled ::shut in the basement::. It made free103point9's Top 150 of 2005. Sockets put out Finfolk in early 2006, with cover art by Joseph Mills. The record received critical praise from Terrascope, Fakejazz, and Noiseweek, among others. Apotrope is due out in April on New American Folk Hero.

"What fundamentally seems to set The Cutest Puppy so far apart from the larger portion of the experimental scene is that for all their variations and stylistic diversity, they still seem very much concerned with the making of music, with all its robustly humanistic implications....The Cutest Puppy allows their pieces to flow together organically, taking in melody and discord in whatever quantities that might instinctually seem to be right....through their unpretentious, wildly humanistic ministrations on this release [FINFOLK], The Cutest Puppy in the World does succeed in underscoring some of the impressive potential that experimental music regularly fails to live up to. This record demonstrates in brilliantly unassuming terms that experimental music can not only exist without all its intellectual poses, but can also beat and shake with all the delicate passion and warmth of a heart and a soul." (Germ Ross, ArtNoise)

"The DC-Baltimore duo sound like the soundtrack to a soap opera by David Lynch." (Bob Massey, Washington Post Express)

"[The Cutest Puppy in the Worlds's] Shut in the Basement is a walk through a macabre circus sideshow, each booth revealing another bizarre character, another dark vision that laughs with joyful madness." (The Ptolemaic Terrascope online)

"Cutest Puppy in the World's songs are like Calder mobiles, made of wire, string, and dense, sweet-smelling wood." (Molars)


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#1007 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Fri Jul 6, 2007 7:21 pm
Subject: Richard Pinhas Duo (of Heldon!)/Insect Factory in DC, Thursday 7/12 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents the only East Coast show for legendary French drone guitarist Richard Pinhas of Heldon:

Thursday, July 12
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$12, 21+, doors at 9pm

Richard Pinhas Duo (Cuneiform, from legendary French psych/prog band Heldon!)
Insect Factory (DC improv drone)


Richard Pinhas Duo
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/pinhas.html
http://www.richardpinhas.com/

Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France’s major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the international development of electronic rock music, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. The pioneering, aggressive music produced by his band Heldon during the 1970s, fusing electronics, guitar and rock, heralded the industrial and techno to come and remains today vital and unsurpassed. The ‘Father’ of electronic music in France is also recognized as a world-class guitarist whose “diabolical guitar work” (Progression) earns comparisons with Robert Fripp.

Pinhas received a degree in guitar at 17, and a PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne, studying under philosopher Gilles Deleuze and writing on time and science fiction. He taught philosophy before abandoning an academic career for Heldon, his 3rd band, whose name derived from Normal Spinrad’s writing. Over the course of his subsequent musical career, Pinhas’ ongoing philosophical studies and interest in science fiction have fired, infused, and continually renewed his music.

Heldon released 7 groundbreaking, critically acclaimed albums between 1974-78. Simultaneous with his Heldon work, Pinhas released 5 solo albums between 1976 and 1982. All of the Heldon and Pinhas recordings from this period have been reissued by Cuneiform, in a major Heldon/Pinhas CD reissue project that the US label began in 1991. Critics have lauded these 20-year-old recordings, remarking that Heldon’s “trailblazing electronic pathways have rarely been eclipsed even today” (i/e).

Pinhas returned to music with a vengeance in the 1990s after spending much of the 1980s away. Beginning with DWW (1992) on Cuneiform, his numerous 90s releases included projects with Peter Frohmader (Fossil Culture Cuneiform 1999), John Livengood, Scanner, Pascal Comelade, and others, as well as solo works. He also resumed performing.

During the ‘90s, Pinhas began developing a system of electronic processing to use in performing live solo guitar concerts. Experimenting with tape loops and infinite delays, he expanded, transformed and even transcended the “Frippertronics” technique Fripp used in his work with Eno, and “developed a set of personal parameters that stand on their own legs, his looping strata giving birth to interlocking patterns, chordal waves and even harmonic movements...” [Touching Extremes].

Pinhas also began experimenting in the late '90s with projects using spoken word, first used in his work with Heldon. Spoken by prominent 20th C. visionaries and futurists, including the philosopher Deleuze, science fiction writers Spinrad and Philip K. Dick, and French novelists Maurice Dantec and Chloe Delaume, the words -- either taped or live/real time, in English or French –- add another layer of sound, texture and conceptual meaning to Pinhas’ rich soundfields.

In 1998, Pinhas formed an on-going project, Schizotrope, with noted cyber-punk author Maurice Dantec that fused guitar, electronics and spoken word from texts by Dantec and Deleuze. Spinrad also played a role. Schizotrope toured and released three CDs, including a live recording on Cuneiform, The Life and Death of Marie Zorn (2000), which Carbon 14 called: "A totally unique and personal approach to "electronica"; "...a veritable deluge of sounds...triumphant music."

In 1999, Pinhas released his first solo CD based solely on guitar and processing systems, De L’Un Et Du Multiple (Spalax). In 2002, Cuneiform released his 2nd, Event and Repetition to widespread acclaim. Critics praised it as one of Pinhas’ very best works, a sophisticated and mature manifestation of his experiments with electronically processed guitar and unique interpretation of Frippertronics. In the words of Touching Extremes, “Absolutely deep and rich, this record is a diamond.” The BBC described it as “Music that is in flux and stasis at the same time, with an almost sculptural presence, stuffed with overtones and rich textures.” The All Music Guide, however, summarized Event and Repetition the best: “...a sporadic but constant thread in Pinhas’ music has been his experimentation with guitar feedback, loops and effects boxes, even in the early days of Heldon...Event and Repetition may well signal the full realization of Pinhas’ long-time vision. The drifting, hypnotic patterns of the five pieces on this CD...have a shimmering beauty and depth that seems to suggest a destination at the end of a long journey –- and perhaps the beginning of a new journey.” – Bill Tilland, All Music Guide

In Tranzition, Pinhas augments his guitar-and-electronics palette to weave a more elaborate and textured tapestry of sound. Additional instruments such as laptop (Jerome Schmidt), violin (Philippe Simon) and drums (Antoine Paganotti, of Magma) provide additional color, while spoken-word tapes provide another layer of sound and conceptual depth, rich in detail and texture. The late Philip K. Dick can be heard on “Moumoune girl”, in a 1977 tape that he gave Pinhas. The Simsi/The Sims/Sims Voice on “Aboulafia Blues” is that of Chloe Delaume, whose writings explore the notions of virtual reality + reality simulation. Arresting and provocative, Tranzition is a multifaceted and richly jeweled work in which cause and effect, acoustics and electronics, taped sound and live playing change roles and even realities.


Insect Factory
http://www.insectfields.org
http://www.myspace.com/insectfactory

Insect Factory is the project of minimalist sounds from guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing explores subtle and detailed textures with acute
attention to overall composition, creating hypnotic fields of dense sound. Barsky frequently adds additional minimal instrumentation to Insect Factory performances. In the mid '90s, Barsky studied classical guitar and composition for several years at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. Barsky also currently plays with the DC improv band Kohoutek, which combines elements of abtract noise, heavy rhythms, free jazz, and psychedelic rock. In addition to having collaborated onstage with avant-trumpeter Forbes Graham and bass player Joe Lally (FUGAZI), his various projects have performed on bills with acts as diverse as Kayo Dot, Mazen Kerbaj, Peter Wright, Bardo Pond, Double Leopards, Charalambides, and Carla Bozulich, and he has performed with Kohoutek at Suoni Il Per Popolo festival in Montreal. Barsky also co-runs Insect Fields cd-r, which serves as an outlet for musical projects he is involved with, as well as his contemporaries.

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#1008 From: Stacie Slotnick <stacie_slotnick@...>
Date: Mon Jul 9, 2007 8:55 pm
Subject: Thurs. 7/12 @ ICA/Boston: Deerhunter, Keith Fullerton Whitman 		stacie_slotnick
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ica/boston and the critique of pure reason present

deerhunter
keith fullerton whitman

thursday, july 12 2007
7pm
barbara lee family foundation theater
the institute of contemporary art/boston

$10 (students/seniors/members)
$15 (general public)
all ages
tickets available at the ICA by phone, in person, or
online

http://www.icaboston.org
http://www.thecritique.org
http://www.myspace.com/deerhunter
http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com

ticket info:
http://www.icaboston.org/calendar/?start_range=2007-07-12&end_range=2007-07-12



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#1009 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:56 pm
Subject: Richard Pinhas Duo (of Heldon!)/Insect Factory in DC, Thursday 7/12 		scottverrastro
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THE RICHARD PINHAS DUO  (from France):

Richard Pinhas (HELDON) (guitar & loops/electronics)
Jerome Schmidt  (laptop/ electronics)

Performing live at:

Velvet Lounge
July 12, 2007 (9 PM)
915 U St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-462-3213
for more info:
opening: Insect Factory

Ceaselessly innovative in a career spanning more than 30 years, Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France’s major experimental musicians. A composer, world-class guitarist and electronics innovator, he is a key figure in the international development of electronic rock music. His band Heldon fused electronics, “diabolical guitar work” and rock to create a pioneering, aggressive music that was a precursor to industrial music and techno. Throughout his career, Pinhas has created music that is both visceral and visionary: aggressive, emotional and seductively hypnotic, his music intertwines philosophical, literary and musical theories at its core. Pinhas’ work over the past decade, featuring his “Metatronic” system of electronically treated solo guitar compositions, is as radically innovative as anything in his early career. Comparable to the work of Fripp, Eno and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pinhas’ new guitar / electronics / spoken word works shine on his latest album, Metatron, a landmark work in his career, where music, meaning, word, sound and process find full unity.

The Velvet Lounge show is the Richard Pinhas Duo's only US East Coast appearance, following the group's extensive West Coast tour and its performance at the Montreal Jazz Fest; don't miss it!!!!


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“…Pinhas's solo work has often been conducted with an electric guitar and the kind of infinite tape delay system associated with Robert Fripp and his collaborations with Brian Eno… Though Pinhas adopts the same, pure fuzzed tone and a liking for big slides up and down the fretboard, closer listening reveals a more personal aesthetic at work. He generates billowing clouds of processed guitar which shift through different tonal centres, sometimes ambiguously, sometimes gently, sometimes suddenly. …” – Peter Marsh, BBCi, www.bbc.co.uk

“Richard Pinhas is a relentless sonic experimentalist, and his latest solo effort finds him processing soothing guitar sounds into understated, undulating environments. …engaging and genuinely enthralling.” – Jeff Berkwits, SciFi, Feb. 2003

“…Pinhas is a musical innovator, whose works speak directly to the questions of how to integrate Electronic Music with the energy and rhythmic nature of “Rock” music. …” – Doug Walker, Aural Innovations, #21 Oct. 2002

“…he demonstrates that he is capable of constructing some of the most formidable but exhilarating sonic edifices ever heard by mortal ears. 4 stars.” – Bill Tilland, All Music Guide, www.allmusic.com

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#1010 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:43 pm
Subject: Whitehorse (Australian doom/drone/art-metal) in DC, tonight 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Tuesday, July 10
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$7, 21+, doors at 9pm

Ol' Scratch (VA doom metal)
Whitehorse (doom/drone/art-metal from Australia, 20 Buck Spin/Conspiracy, mem. of Grey Daturas)
Palace in Thunderland (MA stoner rock)
Bundy (DC harcore/thrash)


Ol' Scratch
http://www.olscratch.com/
http://www.myspace.com/olscratch

Beginning life in 2004, Ol' Scratch began as a five-piece monster in a garage in Northern Virginia. Playing metal with a sludgy southern tinge, they began playing shows locally in 2005. Switching bassists halfway through the year, the new lineup went on the road for a few tours and a ton of DC-area shows supporting such acts as Alabama Thunderpussy, Trouble, and Dixie Witch.
Early 2006 saw the release of Blood Puddin', a five-song EP recorded at Harmonia Studios with engineer Greg Clark (Clutch, King Valley) and mastered by Uncle Punchy. More shows followed, playing with doom icons Unorthodox, Earthride and War Injun. On the road again, they made a strong showing at 2006's “Maine Stonerfest” and played shows everywhere from Maine to Florida.

Late in 2006 the band recorded and released a split CD with Fredericksburg, VA metal band LORD, recorded by engineer Tim Otis (Admiral Browning, Black Canary) and mastered by Vince Burke (Sourvein, Beaten Back to Pure).

2007 brought big changes with the loss of another bassist, Steve changing from rhythm guitar to handle the low-end duties, and their vocalist, Joel, mysteriously quitting the band.

The new lineup, a solidified three-piece, finds Matt Williams still on drums, Steve Payne on bass, and James Haun handling guitar and vocals. The new lineup shows the band evolving into a darker, heavier doom-metal style in the vein of Goatsnake, Weedeater and Electric Wizard. A busy summer is ahead with many shows on the horizon, including a tour with MD sludge-prog outfit Admiral Browning, and a tentative slot on the legendary “Stoner Hands of Doom” festival in November.


Whitehorse
http://getonthehorse.com/whitehorse.htm
http://www.myspace.com/getonthehorse

The Whitehorse Story:

Whitehorse was formed in mid-2004 when vocalist Pete gathered together guitarists Dase and Brent, drummer Emile, and tweaker Grover. Drawing from a range of influences, Whitehorse began to form epic, noise-ridden sludge songs.

Playing shows around Melbourne with bands such as Grey Daturas, Agents Of Abhorrence and the like, Whitehorse passed around a recording of their 4th and 5th shows, attracted the attention of Melbourne artist Seldon Hunt, word passed around and Whitehorse was invited to open for Isis in Sydney on their first Australian tour in February 2005.

The CD-r that was being passed around was released on CD as West of the Sun/Ocean Turns to Black in a pressing of 500 on Sweat Lung with artwork by Brent Stegeman and "doom text" by Seldon Hunt. This somewhat rough document of the beginnings of Whitehorse gathered favorable reviews from the likes of Aquarius Records and Decibel Magazine.

Whitehorse began planning a tour of Japan, changes were made to the lineup with guitarist Dase leaving the band, his place was filled by Bob, and Simon was added playing bass.

In May, the new lineup recorded the track "Caverns" live in the studio for a Japanese tour EP released by Sweat Lung.

The 11-show Japan tour took place in June/July of 2005 where the band played with Ryokuchi, Palm, Birushanah and Corrupted amongst others.

Shortly after the band's return from Japan, Bob and Brent left the band and Yeap (Pisschrist, ABC Weapons) took up guitar duties.

In October 2005, the new lineup of Whitehorse returned, unleashing a heavier, more developed body of material in support of touring acts Electric Wizard, Dismember and Pod People in Melbourne.

Since their return show, Whitehorse recorded two Live to Air sessions at PBS 107.5 FM in Melbourne and played shows with Artimus Pyle, Birushanah, Ryokuchi, Birchville Cat Motel & 1/3 Octave Band.

In October 2006, Conspiracy Records in Belgium released Fire to Light the Way/Everything Ablaze as a part of their 10 Year Anniversary LP series. The one-sided LP with screen-printed B-side features material recorded at the second of the PBS Live to Air Sessions.

Since the release of the LP, Whitehorse drummer Emile made the decision to re-locate to Los Angeles and played his final shows with the band in Melbourne, Sydney, and at the 15th and final Metal for the Brain Festival in Canberra, Australia.

Currently with Rob Mayson (Grey Daturas/Bone Sheriff/EOH, etc) taking up duties behind the kit, Whitehorse are planning a June-July 2007 US tour in support of a double CD collection of material to be released on 20 Buck Spin.

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#1011 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:52 pm
Subject: Kohoutek/Avarus (Finnish psych!)/Manbeard in DC tomorrow 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Wednesday, July 11
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$8, 21+, doors at 9pm

Kohoutek (DC improv psych, Music Fellowship)
Avarus (Finnish improv psych, Secret Eye)
Manbeard (Providence freak prog-rock, mem. of Black Forest Black Sea/Urdog/Kites/Xerxes)
The Cutest Puppy in the World (DC improv duo)


Kohoutek
http://www.claviusproductions.org/kohoutek/

Improvised psychedelia ranging from harsh noise to delicate melodies, inspired by the likes of Can/Amon Duul 2/Agitation Free/Krautrock, Acid Mothers Temple/Ghost/Japanese psych, Bardo Pond, Dead C, Skullflower, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Sun Ra/Art Ensemble/free jazz, Sonic Youth, MBV/shoegaze, drone, doom/sludge metal, etc. Textures and mood over technical proficiency by an ever-evolving line-up.

Some new praise from Aquarius Records regarding our soon-to-be-out-of-print New Milk collaboration CDR with Soil Sing Through Me:

"Second release we've been able to get our hands on from Soil Sing Through Me, a sort of underground freak-folk supergroup featuring members of Feathers and Sunburned Hand Of The Man, who for this disc have teamed up with DC outfit Kohoutek for an evening of communal music making. The results should be no surprise, a druggy blown-out meandering laid-back psychedelic folk free-for-all. Blasted, stoned, groovy and fucked up.

You can definitely hear more SHOTM than Feathers, or maybe it's Kohoutek who we had never heard anyway, but this is not so much folky as sort of spaced-out and trippy. Simple propulsive tribal rhythm jams and simple stripped-down rock beats are the framework for these inner-space excursions, wah guitar and slivers of silvery feedback drift to-and-fro, melodies are spread out over the proceedings like a tattered old blanket, there seem to be vocals too, but they are minimal and are usually buried under a ton of FX and psychedelic shimmer. Keyboards buzz and huge spacious expanses offer the players plenty of space to stir up subtle bits of percussive clatter, glistening flurries of blurry buzz, strange spidery little melodies all tangled up amidst the stumbling drums and rumbling bass. This definitely has a Dead C vibe, but then what improvised noise-rock psych jam doesn't? No good ones, that's for sure.

The usual suspects will eat this up. Sunburned Hand obsessives for sure need this, as do all you free-folk noise-rock cd-r freaks...LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, most likely already out-of-print. Packaged in the instantly recognizable skull and crossbones Wabana purple painted digipak."

and from Volcanic Tongue:

"New instalment of Wabana's limited to 200 CD-R series is a big band collaborative shot from these two North American psych/drug units, with Kohoutek go up against a Soil Sing Through Me line-up that features Ron Schneiderman of Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Some of the backwoods garage style of the attack has a nice Crazy Horse/Savage Sons Of Ya Ho Wha meets ballroom Kosmiche feel, with plenty of serpentine string action and upper atmosphere analogue tweaking. There's even some shots of Miles '70s electro/brass confusion, albeit transmuted in a similar style to Sunburned Hand's acid funk. All laid down with a great recorded-through-a-cheap-stereo feel."


Avarus
http://www.secreteye.org/se/avarus.html
http://www.haamu.com/lallallal/

Avarus was formed in Tampere, Finland in 2001 by members of bands The Anaksimandros and Pylon. The group has gotten larger and looser (including folks from Kiila, Munuaissymposium 1960 and Kemialliset Ystävät), but the spirit is still the same. There are about 10 core members in Avarus in three different cities, and the number of occasional members is 10-20. But it's not at all important to know who's playing and when. It's about a collective sound, a play or a game. Avarus' sound is primitive, child-like, joyous and free.

"Using a muse found deep in the woods this collective base their sound on fumbling lurches of folk-rock drug groove, interspersed with weevilly keyboard stuff and quite extraordinary, persistent yowling." (The Wire)

Avarus combine psychedelic folk rock, motorik Krautrock, free jazz and modern noise into a totally mesmerising, totally unique modern avant noise/folk, unfurling lengthy, meandering, almost funereal jams, desolate and mournful, but dreamy and pastoral, machinelike and hypnotic at the same time. Strummed acoustic guitars frame distant throbbing caveman percussion, dreamy soundscapes are punctuated by occasional clang and clatter, all swaddled in the warm drone of amp buzz and ambient hum. Lo-fi, rambling, ramshackle blues jams mutate into wildly propulsive psych-folk with intensely strummed guitars and far-away flute melodies.

Dipping their toes into whatever variant of their unique 'sound' that strikes their fancy, Avarus sway woozily from atonal Jandek-ian campfire hippy hoedowns, to wild jams with spastic drumming and sing-songy melodies plucked out on beat-up, strangely tuned guitars, to wild clattery bursts of percussion splattered haphazardly over a Skullflower-ish skree, to stripped-down, jangly hyperactive psychedelic rock to loose ambient soundscapes of whir and buzz and twang, with slithery, sitar-like guitars. Occasionally Avarus kick up quite a racket, a thick slab of sound, with LOTS of guitars, feedback and some seriously dense drumming, recorded hot and overblown, adding just the right amount of distortion and haze to the recording. It almost sounds like some New Zealand noise rock band like Gate or UK psych/drone ensemble Sunroof!

Epic and endless, rumbling and stumbling, spacy psychedlic folk jams. Imagine Total or Dead C playing Finnish forest music. Or Tower Recordings covering International Harvester next door to Reynols' practice space? Droning, damaged clatter, like the wild drunken cavorting of drugged out hippy carpenters. Spacy and druggy and totally mesmerizingly beautiful.

Avarus will melt your mind and free your soul. Wander into their dark forest and join the tribe.


The Cutest Puppy in the World
http://www.questionthetruth.com/noise/cutestpuppy/
http://www.myspace.com/thecutestpuppyintheworld

The Cutest Puppy in the World is Bryan Rhodes (of Baltimore) and Layne Garrett (of Washington, DC). We explore emergent forms, extremes of saturated and empty space, scorched remnants of the familiar. We play electric piano, analog synthesizer, combo organ, guitars, found-object percussion, thumb piano, bass clarinet, styrofoam, whatever is within reach. Our music is all improvised.

Since the summer of 2005, we have performed extensively in DC and the mid-Atlantic region. Highlights include: creating improvised soundtracks for experimental films by DC artists Heather Levy, Christopher Lynn, and Jay Rees; several appearances at the Electric Possible experimental music showcase at George Washington University; the 2005 Sonic Circuits Festival in DC; and a 2-hour pyrotechnic-enhanced set in the middle of the night at Soundquilt Music Festival last summer. We've had the pleasure to play alongside a number of spectacular musicians, including: Jack Wright, Reuben Radding, Andrew Drury, Nate Wooley, Mazen Kerbaj, Mike Bullock, Vic Rawlings, Joseph Hammer, Sayo Mitsuishi, Michael Thomas Jackson, Hans Buetow, Ben Hall, John Dierker, Matt Weston, Charalambides, Volcano the Bear, Kohoutek, Na, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, Whelp, Insect Factory, Big Cats, Zach Mason, Tone Ghosting, WZT Hearts, Echolalia, Piasa, Mass Movement of the Moth, Slim Castle, Cash Slave Clique, FFFFs, etc!

In 2005, we self-released a CD-R entitled ::shut in the basement::. It made free103point9's Top 150 of 2005. Sockets put out Finfolk in early 2006, with cover art by Joseph Mills. The record received critical praise from Terrascope, Fakejazz, and Noiseweek, among others. Apotrope is due out in April on New American Folk Hero.

"What fundamentally seems to set The Cutest Puppy so far apart from the larger portion of the experimental scene is that for all their variations and stylistic diversity, they still seem very much concerned with the making of music, with all its robustly humanistic implications....The Cutest Puppy allows their pieces to flow together organically, taking in melody and discord in whatever quantities that might instinctually seem to be right....through their unpretentious, wildly humanistic ministrations on this release [FINFOLK], The Cutest Puppy in the World does succeed in underscoring some of the impressive potential that experimental music regularly fails to live up to. This record demonstrates in brilliantly unassuming terms that experimental music can not only exist without all its intellectual poses, but can also beat and shake with all the delicate passion and warmth of a heart and a soul." (Germ Ross, ArtNoise)

"The DC-Baltimore duo sound like the soundtrack to a soap opera by David Lynch." (Bob Massey, Washington Post Express)

"[The Cutest Puppy in the Worlds's] Shut in the Basement is a walk through a macabre circus sideshow, each booth revealing another bizarre character, another dark vision that laughs with joyful madness." (The Ptolemaic Terrascope online)

"Cutest Puppy in the World's songs are like Calder mobiles, made of wire, string, and dense, sweet-smelling wood." (Molars)




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#1012 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:17 pm
Subject: Jessica Pavone & Mary Halvorson/Judith Berkson in DC, Sunday 7/15 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Sunday, July 15
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$8, 21+, doors at 9pm

Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone (experimental guitar/viola duo, mem. of Anthony Braxton's Septet)
Judith Berkson (solo Wurlitzer organ)
Motreb (improv guitar/drums duo from VA)


Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
http://www.myspace.com/maryandjess
http://maryhalvorson.com/
http://www.jessicapavone.com

"Their experimental instincts, sharpened by an affiliation with Anthony Braxton, commingle with a folksy lyricism; sometimes they even sing, without a trace of protective irony." (Nate Chinen, The New York Times)

"They listen as though they're hotwired into each other's brain, their taut structural discipline prompting a domino effect of great ideas." (Philip Clark, The Wire)

Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris, Nels Cline, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Lee Ranaldo, Andrea Parkins, Marc Ribot, Tony Malaby, Oscar Noriega and John Hollenbeck. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone (Prairies, Lucky Kitchen, 2005); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant-rock band People (People, I & Ear Records, 2005). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Peter Evans, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jason Cady, Matthew Welch, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring.

New York native Jessica Pavone is a string instrumentalist and composer based in Brooklyn who holds degrees in viola performance, music education and composition. She's studied viola with tons of classical teachers, improvisation with Leroy Jenkins and is continuously learning by working within a community of creative musicians in New York, most notably through her work with composer Anthony Braxton.

Most recently, she tours Europe and the United States with The Anthony Braxton Sextet and Twelve+1tet and in a collaborative duo with Mary Halvorson (guitar, viola, and voice). She currently leads two ensembles; The Pavones and Quotidian and improvises in groups led by William Parker,Taylor Ho Bynum, and Matana Roberts. She plays bass guitar with; Minnows, Christy and Emily, and Jason Cady and the Artificials.

She has performed at a number of international music festivals including, the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway, The Banlieues Blues Festival in Paris, The Victoriaville Festival of New Music in Canada, the Santa Annarresi Jazz Festival in Italy, All Tomorrows Parties in England, Jazz em Augusto in Portugal, The Wels Unlimited Festival in Austria, and at the Ciclo Jazz Foundation in Spain.

As a composer, she has received commissions to write chamber music for The Eastern Winds and Till by Turning, and her pieces have been heard throughout the northeast in venues such as the Kitchen and Issue Project Room in New York and Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut.

As an instrumentalist, she has interpreted new music by musicians such as Glenn Branca, Butch Morris, Matthew Welch, James Fei, Matt Bauder, David Grubbs, Loren Dempster, Aaron Siegel, and Andrew Raffo Dewar.

Since 2000, she has documented her music via her self-run label Peacock Recordings, which was recently awarded a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program, and her growing discography and list of works can be witnessed via her web site, www.jessicapavone.com.


Judith Berkson
http://judithberkson.com/
http://www.myspace.com/judithberkson

Judith started singing when her father taught her the blessing over wine in 1981. She joined the family group which toured Chicagoland and the Midwest playing shows at community centers and synagogues. After music conservatory she moved to Brooklyn where's she's been writing music and playing in bands. Judith likes the challenging music, teaching Schoenberg harmony, speaking in 3rd person, finding good clothes and hanging out with her sick creative friends.

Judith has played with folk legend Theodore Bikel, saxophonist Steve Coleman and has performed new music by Milton Babbitt, Joe Maneri and Osvaldo Golijov. Her voice was the basis of "Twilight" a multimedia project by Hans Breder and Carlos Cuellar at DOSA museum in Germany. She has worked with composer Gerard Pape who runs the Center for Music Iannis Xenakis in Paris (CCMIX) and sang the American premier of his "Two Electro-Acoustic songs" in 2004. Judith is also a Cantor and works at Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation on Long Island.

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#1013 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:35 pm
Subject: Pinhas/Insect Factory in DC tonight! Pavone/Halvorson on Sunday 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents the only East Coast show for legendary French experimental/drone guitarist Richard Pinhas of Heldon:

Thursday, July 12
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$12, 21+, doors at 9pm

Richard Pinhas Duo (Cuneiform, from legendary French psych/prog band Heldon!)
Insect Factory (DC improv drone)

Check this fantastic interview in the Express:
http://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2007/07/metatronics_richard_pinhaus.php

Richard Pinhas Duo
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/pinhas.html
http://www.richardpinhas.com/

Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France’s major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the international development of electronic rock music, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. The pioneering, aggressive music produced by his band Heldon during the 1970s, fusing electronics, guitar and rock, heralded the industrial and techno to come and remains today vital and unsurpassed. The ‘Father’ of electronic music in France is also recognized as a world-class guitarist whose “diabolical guitar work” (Progression) earns comparisons with Robert Fripp.

Pinhas received a degree in guitar at 17, and a PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne, studying under philosopher Gilles Deleuze and writing on time and science fiction. He taught philosophy before abandoning an academic career for Heldon, his 3rd band, whose name derived from Normal Spinrad’s writing. Over the course of his subsequent musical career, Pinhas’ ongoing philosophical studies and interest in science fiction have fired, infused, and continually renewed his music.

Heldon released 7 groundbreaking, critically acclaimed albums between 1974-78. Simultaneous with his Heldon work, Pinhas released 5 solo albums between 1976 and 1982. All of the Heldon and Pinhas recordings from this period have been reissued by Cuneiform, in a major Heldon/Pinhas CD reissue project that the US label began in 1991. Critics have lauded these 20-year-old recordings, remarking that Heldon’s “trailblazing electronic pathways have rarely been eclipsed even today” (i/e).

Pinhas returned to music with a vengeance in the 1990s after spending much of the 1980s away. Beginning with DWW (1992) on Cuneiform, his numerous 90s releases included projects with Peter Frohmader (Fossil Culture Cuneiform 1999), John Livengood, Scanner, Pascal Comelade, and others, as well as solo works. He also resumed performing.

During the ‘90s, Pinhas began developing a system of electronic processing to use in performing live solo guitar concerts. Experimenting with tape loops and infinite delays, he expanded, transformed and even transcended the “Frippertronics” technique Fripp used in his work with Eno, and “developed a set of personal parameters that stand on their own legs, his looping strata giving birth to interlocking patterns, chordal waves and even harmonic movements...” [Touching Extremes].

Pinhas also began experimenting in the late '90s with projects using spoken word, first used in his work with Heldon. Spoken by prominent 20th C. visionaries and futurists, including the philosopher Deleuze, science fiction writers Spinrad and Philip K. Dick, and French novelists Maurice Dantec and Chloe Delaume, the words -- either taped or live/real time, in English or French –- add another layer of sound, texture and conceptual meaning to Pinhas’ rich soundfields.

In 1998, Pinhas formed an on-going project, Schizotrope, with noted cyber-punk author Maurice Dantec that fused guitar, electronics and spoken word from texts by Dantec and Deleuze. Spinrad also played a role. Schizotrope toured and released three CDs, including a live recording on Cuneiform, The Life and Death of Marie Zorn (2000), which Carbon 14 called: "A totally unique and personal approach to "electronica"; "...a veritable deluge of sounds...triumphant music."

In 1999, Pinhas released his first solo CD based solely on guitar and processing systems, De L’Un Et Du Multiple (Spalax). In 2002, Cuneiform released his 2nd, Event and Repetition to widespread acclaim. Critics praised it as one of Pinhas’ very best works, a sophisticated and mature manifestation of his experiments with electronically processed guitar and unique interpretation of Frippertronics. In the words of Touching Extremes, “Absolutely deep and rich, this record is a diamond.” The BBC described it as “Music that is in flux and stasis at the same time, with an almost sculptural presence, stuffed with overtones and rich textures.” The All Music Guide, however, summarized Event and Repetition the best: “...a sporadic but constant thread in Pinhas’ music has been his experimentation with guitar feedback, loops and effects boxes, even in the early days of Heldon...Event and Repetition may well signal the full realization of Pinhas’ long-time vision. The drifting, hypnotic patterns of the five pieces on this CD...have a shimmering beauty and depth that seems to suggest a destination at the end of a long journey –- and perhaps the beginning of a new journey.” – Bill Tilland, All Music Guide

In Tranzition, Pinhas augments his guitar-and-electronics palette to weave a more elaborate and textured tapestry of sound. Additional instruments such as laptop (Jerome Schmidt), violin (Philippe Simon) and drums (Antoine Paganotti, of Magma) provide additional color, while spoken-word tapes provide another layer of sound and conceptual depth, rich in detail and texture. The late Philip K. Dick can be heard on “Moumoune girl”, in a 1977 tape that he gave Pinhas. The Simsi/The Sims/Sims Voice on “Aboulafia Blues” is that of Chloe Delaume, whose writings explore the notions of virtual reality + reality simulation. Arresting and provocative, Tranzition is a multifaceted and richly jeweled work in which cause and effect, acoustics and electronics, taped sound and live playing change roles and even realities.


Insect Factory
http://www.insectfields.org
http://www.myspace.com/insectfactory

Insect Factory is the project of minimalist sounds from guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing explores subtle and detailed textures with acute
attention to overall composition, creating hypnotic fields of dense sound. Barsky frequently adds additional minimal instrumentation to Insect Factory performances. In the mid '90s, Barsky studied classical guitar and composition for several years at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. Barsky also currently plays with the DC improv band Kohoutek, which combines elements of abtract noise, heavy rhythms, free jazz, and psychedelic rock. In addition to having collaborated onstage with avant-trumpeter Forbes Graham and bass player Joe Lally (FUGAZI), his various projects have performed on bills with acts as diverse as Kayo Dot, Mazen Kerbaj, Peter Wright, Bardo Pond, Double Leopards, Charalambides, and Carla Bozulich, and he has performed with Kohoutek at Suoni Il Per Popolo festival in Montreal. Barsky also co-runs Insect Fields cd-r, which serves as an outlet for musical projects he is involved with, as well as his contemporaries.

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Sunday, July 15
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$8, 21+, doors at 9pm

Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone (experimental guitar/viola duo, mem. of Anthony Braxton's Septet)
Judith Berkson (solo Wurlitzer organ)
Motreb (improv guitar/drums duo from VA)


Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
http://www.myspace.com/maryandjess
http://maryhalvorson.com/
http://www.jessicapavone.com

"Their experimental instincts, sharpened by an affiliation with Anthony Braxton, commingle with a folksy lyricism; sometimes they even sing, without a trace of protective irony." (Nate Chinen, The New York Times)

"They listen as though they're hotwired into each other's brain, their taut structural discipline prompting a domino effect of great ideas." (Philip Clark, The Wire)

Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris, Nels Cline, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Lee Ranaldo, Andrea Parkins, Marc Ribot, Tony Malaby, Oscar Noriega and John Hollenbeck. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone (Prairies, Lucky Kitchen, 2005); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant-rock band People (People, I & Ear Records, 2005). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Peter Evans, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jason Cady, Matthew Welch, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring.

New York native Jessica Pavone is a string instrumentalist and composer based in Brooklyn who holds degrees in viola performance, music education and composition. She's studied viola with tons of classical teachers, improvisation with Leroy Jenkins and is continuously learning by working within a community of creative musicians in New York, most notably through her work with composer Anthony Braxton.

Most recently, she tours Europe and the United States with The Anthony Braxton Sextet and Twelve+1tet and in a collaborative duo with Mary Halvorson (guitar, viola, and voice). She currently leads two ensembles; The Pavones and Quotidian and improvises in groups led by William Parker,Taylor Ho Bynum, and Matana Roberts. She plays bass guitar with; Minnows, Christy and Emily, and Jason Cady and the Artificials.

She has performed at a number of international music festivals including, the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway, The Banlieues Blues Festival in Paris, The Victoriaville Festival of New Music in Canada, the Santa Annarresi Jazz Festival in Italy, All Tomorrows Parties in England, Jazz em Augusto in Portugal, The Wels Unlimited Festival in Austria, and at the Ciclo Jazz Foundation in Spain.

As a composer, she has received commissions to write chamber music for The Eastern Winds and Till by Turning, and her pieces have been heard throughout the northeast in venues such as the Kitchen and Issue Project Room in New York and Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut.

As an instrumentalist, she has interpreted new music by musicians such as Glenn Branca, Butch Morris, Matthew Welch, James Fei, Matt Bauder, David Grubbs, Loren Dempster, Aaron Siegel, and Andrew Raffo Dewar.

Since 2000, she has documented her music via her self-run label Peacock Recordings, which was recently awarded a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program, and her growing discography and list of works can be witnessed via her web site, www.jessicapavone.com.


Judith Berkson
http://judithberkson.com/
http://www.myspace.com/judithberkson

Judith started singing when her father taught her the blessing over wine in 1981. She joined the family group which toured Chicagoland and the Midwest playing shows at community centers and synagogues. After music conservatory she moved to Brooklyn where's she's been writing music and playing in bands. Judith likes the challenging music, teaching Schoenberg harmony, speaking in 3rd person, finding good clothes and hanging out with her sick creative friends.

Judith has played with folk legend Theodore Bikel, saxophonist Steve Coleman and has performed new music by Milton Babbitt, Joe Maneri and Osvaldo Golijov. Her voice was the basis of "Twilight" a multimedia project by Hans Breder and Carlos Cuellar at DOSA museum in Germany. She has worked with composer Gerard Pape who runs the Center for Music Iannis Xenakis in Paris (CCMIX) and sang the American premier of his "Two Electro-Acoustic songs" in 2004. Judith is also a Cantor and works at Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation on Long Island.

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#1014 From: "Red Room" <announcements@...>
Date: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:53 am
Subject: Red Room Sat: Reuben Radding Solo + Jonathan Zorn and Rachael Thompson Duo 		redroomhighzero
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Saturday, July 14th, $6

The Red Room Presents: Solo by Reuben Radding (bass) + Duo of Rachael Thompson
(violin) and Jonathan Zorn (electronics)

Reuben Radding:
Reuben Radding was born in Washington DC to a family of classical musicians, and
relocated to New York City in 1988 where he studied contrabass with Mark Dresser
and quickly became a busy stalwart of the downtown/improv scene. His powerful
sound and sensitive listening has contributed to countless ensembles ranging
from Jazz, to Classical, as well as ethnic genres, and he has been featured on
over 40 recordings on labels such as Leo Records, AUM Fidelity, Tzadik, Clean
Feed, and Knitting Factory Works.
more info at: http://reubenradding.com

Jonathan Zorn and Rachael Thompson duo:
Jonathan Zorn (electronics) and Rachel Thompson (violin) have been working
together on collaborative/interactive works for strings and electronics for over
five years. Like musical variations on a three-legged race, no one player has
control over their sound. Instead both performers must cooperate to create a
group instrument. The current incarnation of their collaboration uses an
interactive computer environment that moves between sharply divided electronic
sounds and violin sounds to noisy hybrids where the violin becomes both sound
source and controller.
more info at: http://set-projects.com/summer07.html


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#1015 From: Scott Verrastro <scottverrastro@...>
Date: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:08 pm
Subject: Pavone/Halvorson in DC tonight, Thintap Woodsap/Afuche on Tuesday 		scottverrastro
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Clavius Productions presents:

Sunday, July 15
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$8, 21+, doors at 9pm

Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone (experimental guitar/viola duo, mem. of Anthony Braxton's Septet)
Judith Berkson (solo Wurlitzer organ)
Motreb (improv guitar/drums duo from VA)


Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
http://www.myspace.com/maryandjess
http://maryhalvorson.com/
http://www.jessicapavone.com

"Their experimental instincts, sharpened by an affiliation with Anthony Braxton, commingle with a folksy lyricism; sometimes they even sing, without a trace of protective irony." (Nate Chinen, The New York Times)

"They listen as though they're hotwired into each other's brain, their taut structural discipline prompting a domino effect of great ideas." (Philip Clark, The Wire)

Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris, Nels Cline, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Lee Ranaldo, Andrea Parkins, Marc Ribot, Tony Malaby, Oscar Noriega and John Hollenbeck. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone (Prairies, Lucky Kitchen, 2005); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant-rock band People (People, I & Ear Records, 2005). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Peter Evans, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jason Cady, Matthew Welch, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring.

New York native Jessica Pavone is a string instrumentalist and composer based in Brooklyn who holds degrees in viola performance, music education and composition. She's studied viola with tons of classical teachers, improvisation with Leroy Jenkins and is continuously learning by working within a community of creative musicians in New York, most notably through her work with composer Anthony Braxton.

Most recently, she tours Europe and the United States with The Anthony Braxton Sextet and Twelve+1tet and in a collaborative duo with Mary Halvorson (guitar, viola, and voice). She currently leads two ensembles; The Pavones and Quotidian and improvises in groups led by William Parker,Taylor Ho Bynum, and Matana Roberts. She plays bass guitar with; Minnows, Christy and Emily, and Jason Cady and the Artificials.

She has performed at a number of international music festivals including, the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway, The Banlieues Blues Festival in Paris, The Victoriaville Festival of New Music in Canada, the Santa Annarresi Jazz Festival in Italy, All Tomorrows Parties in England, Jazz em Augusto in Portugal, The Wels Unlimited Festival in Austria, and at the Ciclo Jazz Foundation in Spain.

As a composer, she has received commissions to write chamber music for The Eastern Winds and Till by Turning, and her pieces have been heard throughout the northeast in venues such as the Kitchen and Issue Project Room in New York and Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut.

As an instrumentalist, she has interpreted new music by musicians such as Glenn Branca, Butch Morris, Matthew Welch, James Fei, Matt Bauder, David Grubbs, Loren Dempster, Aaron Siegel, and Andrew Raffo Dewar.

Since 2000, she has documented her music via her self-run label Peacock Recordings, which was recently awarded a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program, and her growing discography and list of works can be witnessed via her web site, www.jessicapavone.com.


Judith Berkson
http://judithberkson.com/
http://www.myspace.com/judithberkson

Judith started singing when her father taught her the blessing over wine in 1981. She joined the family group which toured Chicagoland and the Midwest playing shows at community centers and synagogues. After music conservatory she moved to Brooklyn where's she's been writing music and playing in bands. Judith likes the challenging music, teaching Schoenberg harmony, speaking in 3rd person, finding good clothes and hanging out with her sick creative friends.

Judith has played with folk legend Theodore Bikel, saxophonist Steve Coleman and has performed new music by Milton Babbitt, Joe Maneri and Osvaldo Golijov. Her voice was the basis of "Twilight" a multimedia project by Hans Breder and Carlos Cuellar at DOSA museum in Germany. She has worked with composer Gerard Pape who runs the Center for Music Iannis Xenakis in Paris (CCMIX) and sang the American premier of his "Two Electro-Acoustic songs" in 2004. Judith is also a Cantor and works at Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation on Long Island.

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Two Safranin bands plus the amazing Echolalia...

Monday, July 16
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$6, 21+, doors at 9pm

The Antiques (Washington DC black jangle post-funk)
The Offering (VA shoegaze)
Echolalia (solo theremin)

The Antiques
"For fans of semi-obscure '80s British acts such as Comsat Angels and the Chameleons UK ... well, here is your new favorite band. The songs are dramatic without being overwrought, as the band doesn't get bogged down with unnecessary instrumentation. A thick organ sound envelops tracks such as "Painted Post Road" and "Don't Stand in My Room," which plod along gingerly while Greg Svitil gives a perfect deadpan delivery of lines like, "Don't light up my life / Yours is the light I don't need / When did you become such a creep? / When did you become so psychotic?" Things are more sprightly on "One Day You'll Be Sorry Too" and "Auburn Aumbry," recalling some different obscure '80s U.K. acts -- let's say Felt and Orange Juice this time. People who are serious about their 7" record collection will seriously love this album." –Washington Post
The Offering
The Offering of Fredericksburg, Virginia are no stranger to noise violations. Started in 2005 by Charles Pinto and former guitarist and vocalist Andrew Cooke, the band's mission to modernize, but experiment with, what the two considered to be "the classics" was clear. As many bands had done in the past, the two forged their music on the foundation of guitar, bass, and drum machine, forgoing a drummer for no better reason than to create a unique sound. The result was nothing short of that. Pinto's dark, primal rhythms encompass what becomes epic turns song after song, and his driving sometimes distorted bass lines compliment the percussion amply.
Upon Cooke's parting, guitarist Billy Noom took the role of lead quite naturally. His jangly but somehow still melancholy guitar work, leads the band efficiently guiding second guitarist Shane Huffman's harmonious and piercing riffs throughout the journey. Coupled with Huffman, keyboardist Chris Critzer provides at times eerie background soundscapes, but also fills the role as a strict keys player nicely. Critzer also fills in as second percussionist on many songs, yielding only a single tom-drum as his tool. The band's live show is a finely tuned psychedelic freak-out and their tendency to sound check and tune instruments at higher volumes than most band's entire sets has earned them a spot as one of the noisier independent bands in America.
"Dark vocals, sheets of blistering paint-peeling guitars, and a propulsive drum rhythm combine to make some fantastic music akin to New Order, Skywave, Ceremony, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Chameleons, etc."- Tonevendor
Echolalia
Influenced by Found recordings, random thoughts while daydreaming, things around the apartment, walking down the street, and "ideas or phrases I hear on tv, the radio, or in everyday conversation.," Echolalia is "sometimes quiet, sometimes noisy, sometimes spooky, sometimes funny, sometimes sad or other times a mix of everything."  A member of DC's legendary freak champions Alzo Boszormenyi and the Acid Achievers. 
www.safraninsound.com
www.theantiques.org
www.myspace.com/echolalianova

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Tuesday, July 17
Velvet Lounge
915 U St St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
$7, 21+, doors at 9pm

Thintap Woodsap (experimental psych-pop)
Afuche (Latin free jazz from Brooklyn)

Thintap Woodsap
www.myspace.com/thintapwoodsap
www.myspace.com/thintapwoodsapone

The press calls Thintap Woodsap "frighteningly talented" (Boston's Weekly Dig), but he isn't so frightening anymore. See, he will have eaten only bananas and water for a week by the time you see him and he will have lots of paper and crayons and other fun activities for you to do. He'd bring a durian for fun and sniffing but the last time he did that, the authorities ripped out the floor of the studio where he was recording thinking there was a gas leak.

So, now for the credentials and name dropping in one long, confusing sentence: Thintap's compositions and improvisations range from very complex, mammoth pieces for orchestra to neo-vaudeville musicals, noise rock operas, long term collaborations with the thaumaturgical Stormy Laughter, and with the utterly original dancer, Zack Fuller, percussionists Tatsuya Nakatani, Will Redman, and Jeff Arnal, and violinist Katt Hernandez, and reed players John Dierker and John Dikeman to intimate songs that he sings and plays on the piano and
accordion all by himself, which you will hear this evening. He has also enjoyed many lentil dinners with Joe Maneri and if you want to do some snooping, he also has the name, "Jonathan Vincent". He is a completely original and nutritious protein without any gimmicks or fashionably processed sarcasm. Missing him in your lifetime will really dissapoint your children.



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