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 | Indian Jewelry, Krush the Tumul!, Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells and City Harvest Black Thu Sep 11th 9PM - |
| Indian Jewelry www.myspace.com/indianjewelry INDIAN JEWELRY has toured and recorded as NTX+ELECTRIC, TURQUOISE DIAMONDS, the CORPSES of WACO, and the PERPETUAL WAR PARTY BAND. We come from the SWARM of ANGELS. At various times the group has included Erika Thrasher (sympathizer, guitar, & vox) Brandon Davis (guitar) Rodney Rodriguez (drums) Jimi Hey (ozark percussion) Michael Belfer (guitar) Abi Cohen (pandemonium) Candice Vincent (saxophone) Leslie Keffer (static) Nic Barbeln (vox) Rosalinda Gonzalez (violin) Don Bolles (drums) Margeaux Cigainero (guitar) Andrew Scott (guitar) Donna Huanca (drums) Pete Czechvala (saxophone) Bryce Martin (drums) Kim System (electro) Anna Bechtol (drums) Ken Consumer (electronics/gongs) Bobby Deeds (electronics) Domokos (projecting gongs/feather axe) Mary Mary (why you buggin') Travis (war rattles) J-Morrison (ghostworm) Squeaky (pizazz) Ralf Armin (starmaker/saxophone) Chad Colehower/Sequential Sheik (sequential circuits) Nathan + Ben + Russ + Weber (havocking) Krush the Tumul! ctj.carbonrecords.com tumul.carbonrecords.com a collaborative crushing set between Crush the Junta and Tumul. a combination of CTJ's improv rock/stoner/doom with Tumul's noise/antics. Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells www.myspace.com/meddlesomemeddlesomemeddlesomebells City Harvest Black www.myspace.com/harvestblack | |
| Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans, Tuurd and Stone Baby (Bug Jar) Sun Sep 21st 9PM - | |
| This Show is at the Bug Jar Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans Weasel Walter site Mary Halvorson site Peter Evans site Weasel Walter is a composer and instrumentalist that founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell. Over the years, the band has included noted Chicago musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, while creating an uncompromising and mercurial body of abstract music drawing equally from no wave, death metal, free jazz, gamelan, noise music, hardcore punk and modern classical. Walter relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green (Burmese), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez (ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio). Singular guitar phenomenon Mick Barr (Octis, Orthrelm) joined the group in 2005. The Flying Luttenbachers ceased to operate in late 2007. In addition to leading various free jazz ensembles under his own name, currently he is a member of XBXRX and Burmese. (wikipedia) Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris, Nels Cline, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Andrea Parkins, Marc Ribot, Tony Malaby, Oscar Noriega and Jason Moran. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone (On and Off, Skirl Records, 2007); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant-rock band People (Misbegotten Man, I & Ear Records, 2007). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jason Cady, Matthew Welch, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring. Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. As a performer, Evans has been working to break through the technical barriers of his instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of players and composers. Current bands include the Peter Evans Quartet, Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the hyperactive improvisation duo Sparks (with Tom Blancarte), duo with trumpeter Nate Wooley, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance. In New York, Peter also performs contemporary notated music with groups such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Contiuum, and Ensemble 21. He has continued to perform on piccolo trumpet in Baroque settings, performing Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 at the Bargemusic series, and in Bach's Mass in B Minor at St Peter's Church. Peter is also an experienced teacher, haven given workshops on music, trumpet, and improvisation at institutions including the University of California in San Diego, Buffalo University, University of Oregon, and the Walden School. In June 2008 Peter traveled to the Philippines with the Cultures in Harmony project, teaching, collaborating and performing with tribal musicians in Mindanao. Other collaborators include: Mary Halvorson, Dave Taylor, Steve Beresford, Okkyung Lee, Taylor Ho Bynum, Perry Robinson, Jim Black, Evan Parker, Ned Rothenberg, Peter Brotzmann, Mark Gould, Weasel Walter, Matt Bauder, Dan Blake, Chris Speed, and Luka Ivanovic. Recent travels have brought Peter to venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the UK, and Southeast Asia. Recordings include "More is More", a solo trumpet album on psi, the self-titled first album of the Peter Evans Quartet (on firehouse12), the self-titled "Sparks" on Creative Sources and Shamokin!, the second album by MOPDTK, on HotCup Records. Tuurd tuurd.carbonrecords.com Tuurd rises from the ashes of Hilkka. featuring Nuuj and Joe, on bass and drums respectively. its a loud loud stink. a large intestine full of metal/stoner/doom/spazz/noise. In the tradition of Ruins, godheadsilo, Halo, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Hella, Orthrelm and Om. Influenced by Corrupted, Abruptum, Sleep, Harvey Milk, Crom, Melvins, Karp, Killdozer, Zeni Geva, Thrones, Earth, Sunn 0))), Codiene, Painkiller, Oxbow, Cheer Accident, Slug, Unsane, Pelican, Meshuggah, 400 Blows, Isis, and of course Black Sabbath. Stone Baby www.myspace.com/stonebabyband "Stone Baby creates a twisted noise sculpture, emitting at various times hum and drone-scapes, fractured string grinding, primitive oscillations, squashing guitars and so much more." -Mats Gustasson, Broken Face | |
 | John Wiese, Tumul and Pengo (Bug Jar) Wed Sep 24th 9PM - |
| This Show is at the Bug Jar John Wiese www.john-wiese.com John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Dave Phillips, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari. Tumul tumul.carbonrecords.com Tumul is Cameron Farash (aka Dr. Hamburger) and Joe Tunis (aka Joe+N, etc), long lost twins. this is electronics, mics, bowls, samples, drums, etc. Pengo pengo.carbonrecords.com Pengo: noise heathens, bashing out the psychedelic chaos since 1998. Tons of releases on tons of labels from all over the world. Tours all over the U.S. & Canada. Soundtrack to the Center of the Cyclone inside your head. | |
| Sole & The Skyrider Band and more at Bug Jar Tue Oct 14th 9PM - | |
 | Jack Rose, Michael Chapman and Nod (Bug Jar) Sun Oct 19th 9PM - |
| This Show is at the Bug Jar Jack Rose with Michael Chapman Jack Rose website Michael Chapman website Jack Rose will be teaming up with acclaimed U.K. singer/songwriter Michael Chapman for a U.S. tour in October. This is a rare stateside appearance for Chapman, a recording artist with the Harvest label through the 1960's and 70's. "Since 2001 Jack Rose has pursued his own path in the solo acoustic guitar genre as invented by John Fahey. Like Fahey, Rose draws his inspiration from early rural American musicians like Charley Patton, Skip James and Blind Blake. In addition to those influences he gleans inspiration from Robbie Basho, Ry Cooder, Zia M. Dagar, La Monte Young, Terry Riley. Jack incorporates all of these elements into his own idiosyncratic style and it is his sound and his alone. Since 2002 he has released 3 critically acclaimed LPs for the Eclipse label, 2 CDs for VHF, and various compilation albums and a live document. From 1995-2006 Rose was a member of the legendary drone / noise / folk group Pelt. Pelt--along with Tower Recordings, UN, Charalambides--was one of the early groups who forged a new sound that combined free improv, drone, traditional folk music in the early to mid nineties, later coined "weird new america" by The Wire's David Keenan in the early oughts." Nod Nod website Since 1990, Nod has been releasing music which runs the gamut from experimental to conventional yet always wonderfully astray. The Rochester, NY-based band is led by "Scrappy" Joe Sorriero on guitar and vocals, and rounded out by Tim Poland on bass and Brian Shaffer on drums, as well as occasional 4th member, the mysterious Hugh Edwards. The Nod muse is a many-hued beast -- simultaneously funky, crushing, and just plain spaced out. There is a Shaggs-like innocence in their execution, which shouldn't be mistaken for indifference; precious few rock units become as intimate with their sound as Nod does with their creepy as all get-out caucasoid funk, which swings like Lynfield Pioneers fronted by Drungo LaRue Hazewood. | |