Spend this weekend at Delta of Venus?
Posted by Brian F on 2006-09-11 7:42:17pm
Saturday 9/16/06 $4

Larkin Grimm
Mike Tamburo
Dead Western

This should be a great show?all the stuff that you need to know can be found here:

http://www.deltaofvenus.org/events/mike-tamburo-larkin-grimm/view



Sunday 9/17/06 $5

Zaika (Members of Charalambides/GHQ/Double Leopards)
Skaters
Axolotl

Here is a review of the last zaika release:

"Brand new full-length CD-R, the follow-up to their fantastically damaged LP on Eclipse, No Cat features the duo of Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/Hototogisu/GHQ/Zaimph et al) across three dilated tracks recorded and released to tie-in with their recent US west coast tour. Carter guides slow trumpets of E-bow from the cup of his pick-ups while Bassett guides an ever-haemorrhaging railroad of F/X into huge dissolves of sound. Less about notes and more about spectral wow than their Eclipse LP, this one builds into a blitz of lung action, with the last track touching on epic Hototogisu-scale silver metal. "- David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue)

and the bio:

Tom Carter is best known for his work in Charalambides, who have been producing improvised, psychedelic, folk, and longform drone/ experimental guitar music since 1992. Since leaving Texas in 2003, Tom has also become involved in an ever growing handful of collaborative groups including recordings with Bay Area improviser/ instrument builder/ sound hacker Robert Horton; duos with Christian Kiefer, Pete Swanson (D. Yellow Swans), and Inca Ore; and group improvisers like the Friday Group, Spiderwebs, Mudsuckers (a collaboration with Robert Horton and D. Yellow Swans), and Kyrgyz (Horton and Jewelled Antler folks Loren Chasse and Christine Boepple). Tom currently lives in Oakland, CA.

Marcia Bassett was a member of seminal Siltbreeze group UN, and currently is a pillar of the emerging US psycholytic noise scene. She performs additionally as Zaimph; and with Double Leopards, Hototogisu (with Matthew Bower of Skullflower and Sunroof!), and GHQ (with Pete Nolan of Magick Markers and Spectrefone). She lives in Brooklyn.

And a bit about Axolotl?

?Eagerly awaited new album from Karl Bauer's celestial solo project takes off beautifully from his last Gipsy Sphinx EP, with a blush of simmering, translucent string excitation that forms itself into huge tonal helixes that just seem to hang and vibrate in the air. Some nice deformed vocal work too, with semi-sung wordage skittering on the very edge of your ears while tiny hammers punch the softest of holes into your massively distended eardrums. Jaw-droppingly beautiful and another precisely-articulated ton of trance from one of the modern masters of the form. Up there with Yoshi Wada, Takehisa Kosugi, Coil, the Angus MacLise Orkustra, Skaters and Double Leopards in terms of the purest expression of void forms.? Volcanic Tongue

http://www.myspace.com/axolotl

http://www.volcanictongue.com/?p=96


And some stuff about Skaters (Scott Miller?s fave band of 2005!):

From Volcanic Tongue:

?Staggering low-grade psychedelic murk and splintered free jazz soul from this new American duo (James Ferraro & Spencer Clark) who deal in the same kind of densely populated occult space as Double Leopards, using destroyed vocal loops, cracked stomp-boxes and endless layers of accumulated fug. Somewhere between Aspen?s flexi-disc recording of ?The Joyous Lake?, Rat Club-era Throbbing Gristle and Takehisa Kosugi Sings The Songs of William Bennett. Highly recommended ? see Matthew Bower?s VT column for more on The Skaters. NB: This disc features the deliberate use of digital clicks, yr player isn?t faulty.?

Matthew Bower?s VT column on Skaters:

http://www.volcanictongue.com/?p=15

And some more just in case yr not convinced?

http://www.fakejazz.com/fake/archives/2005/06/the_skaters_-ga.php

http://www.fakejazz.com/fake/archives/2006/05/the_skaters_-_r.php





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