Thursday 10/4/07 @ 8 PM
Technocultural Studies Building
University of CA, Davis
Yellow Swans (PDX, Load Recs)
Mouthus (NYC, Load Recs/Ecstatic Peace)
Oaxacan (Oakland, w/ mem. of Living Breathing Music)
This should be a monster of a show, Mouthus played a killer set when they played Tonevendor in Sac a few years back, and YS and Oaxacan ya may already know, but if not time to see em both in one spot! There is a Mouthus/Yellow Swans Split LP due out on Sacto's own Weird Forest soon!
Yellow Swans:
http://jyrk.com/yellowswans/
http://www.myspace.com/yellowswans
http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/yellowswans.html
A couple of things for yr viewing/listening pleasure...
Mouthus:
Review
Mouthus: Follow This House CD Major new Mouthus album peaks at a whole new level of barbarous sludge with what sounds like a fleet of electric razors burying steel raptors in six feet of concrete while the Angus MacLise Orkestra play pre-Lapsarian Morse codes on a handbuilt steel drum containers and whole choirs of ghosts sing madrigals somewhere just over the horizon. There's a beautifully lapsed, primitive rock feel to much of the atmosphere - the way guitar lines appear like silvery hallucinations fading in and out of corporeal reality from track to track - that reminds me of the weird non-hierarchical instrumental mix of early NZ bombs like Trash, Dead C or Dadamah. Either way, this is another supremely devolved rock set from these crudest of cousins.