Re: Z'EV & SIKHARA @ FOOLS 4/30
Posted by vv on 2007-04-30 3:05:59pm
ride from davis anyone? I'm out of gas.
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:Z'ev is a legend, but if you do not know of him, here's the Cliff's Notes on his amazing and long story which you can piece together with oodles of Google search results...
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:He's a percussionist who's been active in margins of hard-to-classify music since the late 1970's when he rose to prominence at the intersection of industrial and punk in the San Francisco Bay Area. Even as his last two decades of music has seen him become incredibly more diverse, Z'ev has retained a primal-ness and intensity that still makes him crucial to fans of his early work. Oh, and he drummed on most of the few great moments of Psychic TV (and none of the many crappy moments!). As for what to expect from him...I think you're gonna see him set up a fortress of international percussion instruments which he will make reverberate all throughout Fools Foundation, and it will make us all collapse in contentment. Fans of Sun City Girls, especially be ready!
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:Here's his website --> http://www.rhythmajik.com/
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:Not much to it, so check this from the Z'ev Wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z'EV)...
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:Z'EV (born Stefan Weisser, at 7:58 a.m. on February 8, 1951 in Los Angeles) is a text-sound artist who is perhaps best known for his work as a catacoustic (reflected sound-based) percussionist.
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:After studying at CalArts with Concrete poet Emmett Williams, he produced works using the name S. Weisser, primarily concentrating on visual and sound poetries. In 1969, he was included in the "Second Generation" show at the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco.
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:Beginning in the early 1970s, he developed a personal technique utilizing self-developed instruments formed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, titanium, and PVC plastics. Initially these instruments were assemblages of these materials with a movement-based performance style that was a form of marionette (although with the performer visible). It was at this time that he began performing using the name Z'EV.
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:In 1981, 'Shake Rattle & Roll', a VHS video documenting his first performance on the East coast (produced by video artist John Childs), was released by Fetish Records in the UK and was the first ‘music’ / art video to be commercially released.
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:Since 1984, he has been concentrating on performing in a more traditional mallet-percussion style.
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:Both performance modes have been described as cacophonous when considered in Western terms, because of the dense elemental acoustic phenomena these instruments produce. In point of fact, Z'EV doesn't actually consider the results as "music" per se, but more as orchestrations of highly rhythmic acoustic phenomena.
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:His work with both text and sound has been influenced by the Middle Eastern mystical system best known as Kabbalah (although not of the Jewish variety), as well as - but not limited to - African, Afro-Caribbean and Indonesian rhythms, musics and cultures. He has studied Ewe (Ghana) music and Balinese gamelan, and Indian tala.
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:His recordings have been released by labels such as CIP, Cold Spring, Die Stadt, Soleilmoon, Tzadik Records, Subterranean and Touch Records.
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:Would you believe that this Z'ev discography is not totally complete? --> http://www.discogs.com/artist/Z%27ev
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:Here's an interesting interview with Z'ev...
:http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/adventures/articles/zev.htm
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:Z'ev is touring with an outstanding band called Sikhara, who I believe will amaze you, too. They skirt the edges of genres such as RIO/prog and pre-homogenization industrial music of the early 1980's. They sound like probably no band you've heard...I could be a jerk and namedrop some bands like Collectif Nox and Une Drame Musicale Instantane, but what use would that serve? The music's seriously got appeal. If you're a simultaneous fan of the USA Is a Monster, the Gyuto Monks, and Test Department, here's a band you oughta really like!!!
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:Have a listen...
:http://www.myspace.com/sikhara
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:Here's what they say for themselves:
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:Sikhara exists in a constant state of motion, claiming no land as home. This rotating members project, lead by Scott Nydegger was co-founded by drummer Sam Lohman and synth player Paul Beauchamp in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1999. Since then, Sikhara have gone on to perform over 300 concerts in The US, Europe and Japan. Utilizing both machinery and acoustic elements, Sikhara creates a disturbed enviroment of ritualistic sound. Manipulated sources of primitive voices are collaged into a hypnotic new language, which melds instinctively with animalistic tribal percussion. Numerous Sikhara releases are available on cd and vinyl, but from conception, it is foremost a live band. On stage, Sikhara manifests itself in a trance induced mayhem, blurring the lines between the music and the audience. Having given concerts in a variety of conventional venues such as clubs theaters and galleries, a constant theme of Sikhara is to seek out somehow extraordinary locales. Amongst the examples of these events are: Directly next door to the police station in the bustling Taxim district of Istanbul, Turkey, deep within the tunnels of a Polish coal mine, an abandoned metro passage underneath the city of Linz, Austria, and within the 1400 year old Zenjouki Temple near Kobe, Japan. For this session, they were joined by the master monk of the temple, who was born 55 years earlier in the same room. Sikhara's growing work with non-profit and cultural organizations has opened the opportunity to gain an audience outside the realm of night-life concert goers. Sikhara have appeared on multiple events of Slovenia's DMRK collective, Portland's 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts and in city funded venues such as Lisbon, Portugal's Fiera do Livro, Bratislava, Slovakia's Dubravka an the Palais de Tokyo inside the Paris Museum of Modern Art. At the beginning of 2004, Sikhara relocated to Europe for a period of about 2 years, establishing an international line-up as an American, French and Portuguese trio with Gustavo Costa and Yann Geoffriaud. In the duration of this stay, Sikhara performed nearly 100 times in 16 countries, as well as recording the material featured in the concerts, for the cd "Bardos State". In the coming months, Sikhara will expand the scope of their travel, to include yet unvisited countries and regions. Scott Nydegger In addition to his work with Sikhara, Scott Nydegger occupies himself with a wide variety of activity, having toured with such acts as Steve Mackay's Radon Ensemble (a rotating band for which Nydegger serves as a musical director) Damo Suzuki's Network, Mecanosphere, Master Musicians of Hop-Frog and Temple of Bon Matin. These numerous collaborations have been documented by such labels as Bar La Muerte (Italy) Chrome Peeler (New York) Samboat (France) and Bulb (USA). In the studio, he has worked as an engineer, producer and guest musician including projects such as Steve Mackay's Michigan and Arcturus, the USA is a Monster cdr Weedblood, and co-producing a series of releases in co-operation with the Fonoteca Municpal Lisboa. Agrafistolagem A permanent member for the past 2 years, Geoffriaud earned a reputation as one of Europe's fastest drummers during his time with fast core unit George Bitch Jr. Before their implosion, the group became one of the most recognized bands in the genre, giving memorable performances on some of central Europe's most important festivals. For his infusion into the sound of Sikhara, he has adapted techniques including double kick bass drum into an un-categorizable style that has shaped the very nature of Sikhara's current sound.
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