Double Dip Opportunity to See Two Living Legends - Fri 12/9
Posted by DJ Rick on 2005-12-08 2:28:38pm
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When:::Friday, December 9th:
Featuring:::
* Emil Beaulieau (MA, RRRecords)
Can't (upcoming Load LP/CD; current releases on RRRecords)
Kevin Shields
Brian Miller
AT:::KDVS Is My Life House located at 1114 Cypress Lane in Davis
Start Time:::7:00PM
End Time:::10:00PM
$3-6 DOnation
ALL Ages
AND THEN>>>
* Calvin Johnson
Tender Forever
@ Fools Foundation, Sacto
Says it starts at 10...probably gets started around 10:30 or a bit later, right?
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It should be pointed out to everyone that the Emil show in Davis will get over at 10, and the Calvin Johnson/Tender Forever show at Fools Foundation starts at 10...which probably means starts no earlier than 10:30. So you can plan on making both of these shows, and I hope more than a few of you do!
Emil Beaulieau is legitimately deserving of the title "living legend." Emil's real name is Ron Lessard, and for over 20 years, he has run the awesome RRR label and record store in Lowell, Massachusetts...
http://www.rrrecords.com/
Emil Beaulieau describes himself as "America's Greatest Living Noise Artist." Many fans including well-respected artists like Merzbow and Kapotte Muziek will back him up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Beaulieau
He makes his sonically dense and timbrally rich music using a custom-built four-armed turntable called the "Minutoli." Every tonearm is a different grade, from Fisher Price toy to state of the art. He may fix one arm inside a locked groove to make a circular rhythm (maybe you'll even dance to it!), while he may use others to tap percussively like a drumstick. Each of the four arms gets its own channel on his mixing board so he can remix each on the fly without the use of a sampler.
If you've been bored to death by humorless "noise artists" who randomly twiddle knobs in search of a perfect sound that they never seem to create before killing their set, don't expect that from Emil Beaulieau. He does not mess around, and he can clinically cull every sound that he wants to create. The guy's also a total goof and very fun to see! Take a look at this for proof...
http://blastitude.com/15/pg23.htm
Can't is a woman from Boston named Jessica Rylan who's blowing up in noise-fan blogosphere for her intimate, personal, performance-art-driven shows and radical new "New Secret" picture disc 12" and CD on RRRecords...
http://www.irfp.net/
Matthew from the Coachwhips said this after seeing her SF show:
"holy crap. some part of Masonna broke off and was reborn as a deranged librarian from 1960."
George Chen said this after her Oakland show:
"totally blew my mind on saturday. dropped 21 grand to dead silence with a capela songs, then said something about "throwing fits," shrugging and saying "isn't that why we play noise?" before turning on a wooden box oscillator and singing through it. doing that helicopter sound with the waves fluctuating according to her tones. kind of performance artsy tap dance posi peace schtick but it was a perfect capper to my night. rrr picture disc is totally zonk-eriffic too."
Brian Miller is the ringleader of Deathbomb Arc, Neonhatesyou Distro, Gang Wizard, and Rose for Bohdan. As a solo artist on this tour, he's what I'd call "slapstick noise comedy." I have laughed out loud uncontrollably twice at him on this tour.
Kevin Shields is Eva, sometimes of Gang Wizard. She played a surprise performance to open the last DAM House show, and she makes power-electronic noise with various devices and contact mics, and she is brief and occasionally really awesome and never less than sweet.
Brian and Kevin are selling a split/collab 3"CDR in a knit baggie with a copper nameplate attached to it. Best packaging of 2005, perhaps? Cool little EP for a few bucks.
I will try to make both shows myself.
Hope to see many of you there.
Bye
Rick
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