Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Unfortunately Mr. Flower was deported and will not be able to make the gig)
Living Breathing Music (members of Dead Western, My Whole Wand Was Wet, Weird Forest)
1915 1/2 22nd Street
8:00, $5, all ages
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GHQ:the trio continues to explore the intricacies of electric/acoustic drones and ragas in what is their most intense set of recordings to date. for this recording the band consisted of marcia bassett (double leopards, hototogisu, zaimph), steve gunn and pete nolan (magik markers, spectre folk, the vanishing voice, etc).heavy elements churns with the deeply layered drones that marked previous GHQ releases. while these sounds are present, this album differentiates itself from the band's prior outings through the addition of nearly-tribal drums and a more intense overall aural atmosphere. this is music that, while blissfully transcendent and beautiful, is not for the faint of heart.
Living Breathing Music: These days, when I hear a longer work that actually holds my attention, I'm shocked at the improbability of the miracle. To my delight and grateful surprise, Living Breathing Music accomplish such a task with their recent CD- release Happiness Is Fabulous on Weird Forest. On the recording the group pours out under an hour's worth of vocal gibber and chant sprawl spewed live on KDVS FM in Davis, California. My interest was kept captive by the vocal cord emanations accompanied by pots and pan percussion, flute blowing, guitar skitter and horn skronk from members of Antennas Erupt!, Klondike And Yorke and other Sacramento groups. If this was the late sixties, Bernard Stollman would surely sign them to ESP-Disk in seconds. More importantly, Living Breathing Music have performed something that I actually want to listen to again and I am willing to the invest my time into knowing that future listens will provide further auditory rewards, which is infinitely more than I can about most of the bozos sailing the same waters in their leaky patchwork boats.