Dawson, ya beat me to the punch, here is what I've got for Charalambides and CGT:
Thursday 2/15/07 9:30 PM
Charalambides
http://www.wholly-other.com/
Climax Golden Twins
http://www.climaxgoldentwins.com/
Factums
www.myspace.com/factums
No history of the modern “free folk/freak folk/New Weird whatever you want to call it” music scene would be complete without a major discussion of Charalambides. From their early 90’s releases on the legendary Siltbreeze label to the present day, they (along with the Sun City Girls and a precious few others) were plowing the fields LONG before there was such a "scene", and continue to be one of the major influences on this axis of the contemporary music underground. And in one of those crazy touring schedule crossovers, two fantastic Seattle bands who were looking to play our humble burg the same night, the Climax Golden Twins and Factums, will be sharing the bill. Climax Golden Twins have been kicking around the Seattle scene for over ten years making great all over the place music (ranging from ambient dronescapes desert-fried instrumental rock), and are involved in some capacity with the fantastic Sublime Frequences. They don’t tour all that often either, although they were kind enough to stop in at DOV last year with Sea Donkeys and Herb Diamante, they turned in a great set. Dawson told ya about Factums already, there are some great songs up on their myspace site as well.
This is actually the first time Charalambides are playing Sac after a couple of amazing DAM HAUS performances (in 2000 and again in 2005 I do believe), so come on out!
Charalambides bio, courtesy of Krank Records website:
To say that the words "unique" and "singular" are over-used in describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist's work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken new ground in the primitive/folk/mystic/ improv/psych valley in which they toil. As Marcus Boon wrote in The Wire; "...here is a truly 21st century experimental ethnic music that explores quietness and stasis... in the same way that musicians in the second half of the 20th century discovered amplification, noise and speed."
Originally a duo comprised of Tom Carter (who had been playing guitar in the Houston grunt-psych band The Mike Gunn) and Christina Carter, Charalambides released a cassette called Our Bed Is Green on their own Wholly Other label in 1992 (later reissued on CD and double LP). The two Carters showed a firm grasp on the haunting nature of American blues and country, as well as a mastery of tape manipulation, a disregard for genre boundaries, and a marked tendency towards vertically stacked guitar drone. A full length album called Union was released by the Siltbreeze label, and many other releases followed, both as a duo and trio (first with Jason Bill, and later with pedal steel player Heather Leigh Murray). Although better known as a trio through their various tours with both Heather and Jason, Tom and Christina have returned to concentrating on their duo work in more recent years, fusing introspective, open-ended, and often spacious song structures with blasts of feedback and explosive sound often startling to fans familiar only with the band's deceptively low-key reputation.
:YO, ME BUDDY MATTHEEWS BAND THAT IS CALLED FACTUMS IS PLAYING AT FOOLS FRAGDATION ON THURSDAAY NIGHT.. RECOMEND IT. DUDE'S IN THE INTELLGICNE AND STUFF. HERE'S A VID TO TEASTE YOU WITH:::
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:PROBABLY FAULKNER OR SOME KDVS GUYS SHOULD TALK ABOUT TH ERES FO THE SHOW WITHC IS WITH CHARLAMBIDES AND CLIMZA GOLDEN TWINGS.
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