shows april 2008
Thursday April 3rd Middle East Club (upstairs) 472 Mass. Ave Cambridge, MA 18+ $9
Wolf Eyes
Howard Stelzer
Quits
Brendan Murray
I’ll be playing the first set at 9:15pm SHARP. Come early.
Tuesday 4/15 Middle East Upstairs 472 Mass. Ave Cambridge, MA 18+ $8
Mystery Palace (fr. MN),
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Hands & Knees
Paper Summer
I play drums and guitar in the rock band Paper Summer. This is our first show in nearly two years.
Wed April 16 Twisted Village 12B Eliot St. Cambridge MA 8ish?
Jed Speare/Asher/Brendan Murray
Our first outing as a trio. We will be we working with translations of the earliest recorded material known to exist, recently discovered from 1860. Read about the material here.
At all of these shows, I will have copies of Commonwealth, my new solo record, which will also be available from distributors very soon.
loops
The phrase “American maverick” can get thrown around a lot, but I think it actually fits William Basinski. He’s been doing what he does longer than most people who do it and played all kinds of music everywhere and has reached that point that all artists hope to reach but never admit to: his music has become an inevitable comparison. How many times have heard someone say “It’s kinda like William Basinski” in relation to someone else’s work? Exactly.
I’m not saying anything new here, of course.
As an Emusic nerd, I was excited to discover that Billy’s entire catalog is available there now. Consider yourself lucky when your downloads roll over and dive in.
and one more very important thing
What happens when someone reaches inside your young mind (or rather your brother’s 8 track collection) and makes the most perfect collision of sound art, collage, additive minimalism and the sickest pop-disco beat ever recorded?
Scroll down and download “Bridget O’Riley” right now.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/licht.html
PS: I made a little mashup photo thing to go with this, but it sort of ruins the surprise of the track.
on the daily
Here is what has been on the iPod every morning for a few weeks:
Autechre-”Tankakern” from Quaristice (arguably the first banger on the new record, hot shit.)
Autistic Daughters-”Bird In The Curtain” from Uneasy Flowers (I would listen to Martin Braydlmeyer play on ANYTHING at this point).
Earth- title track from The Bee Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull. (That sitar intro KILLS ME).
Eric Copeland-”Green Burrito” from Hermaphrodite. (I really dig songs with lyrics I can’t understand, or songs that are just vocal loops you can’t make out. What he is saying, I don’t know. It sounds like “mohorahyaiyeahhuarashamoehehhuhhuh”)
Fairport Convention “Matty Groves” from Liege and Lief. (Oh sure, it’s a big scary story about wives and husbands and lovers all killing each other, but mainly I’m in this for the knotty-branch sounding guitars and the FRESH drums, as tragic as they are).
Suishou No Fune-all of Prayers For Chibi (I DON’T CARE what they are singing about and I don’t care that one song is a one chord through a delay, I want to live in this weird gauzy world of ghosts forever).
Nico-”Janitor Of Lunacy” (starts about 2:30 in) from Desert Shore. Not much to say besides that.
