FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE!
FOREST OF GREY
for those of you who missed the legendary 30+ minute song, or just still need to get a shirt it’s
FRIDAY JAN 15th @ 6:45 PM
Prime Evil (the fate of our existence)
t-shirts are very limited run, so grab one now! bring $15 (or $20 for ladies) cash tonight to buy them from the band.
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY DECEMBER 12, 2009
DAVE KNOTT
6:00 PM
He started playing with sound in his grandfather’s junkyard in the early 1970’s, began guitar in 1981, served in the US Army 1988-1991, became a luthier in 1994, performed guitar music, built instruments, co-creatively engaged audiences and completed a degree in Music Therapy in 2000.
Since 2002, Knott has practiced as a music therapist at both Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Bailey-Boushay House. The Sweet Little Guitar Ditties have been developed over the past seven years within a music therapy practice with critically ill and injured adults and children.
These guitar miniatures are musical offerings intended to engage and then calm individuals who face medical interventions and related anxiety and pain. Knott’s collaborators in the Messenger Girls Trio helped him to refine the Ditties in weekly improvised music sessions from 2001-2007.
For more information about David Knott’s music therapy practice, go to: http://www.seattlechildrens.org/about/stories/sound-of-music-therapy/
Music therapy is an allied health profession with a national independent certifying body. Knott obtained his board certification in 2001 and completed his advanced training in Neurologic Music Therapy in 2006.
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Dave Knott has recorded with Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Rob Millis & Jeffery Taylor (Climax Golden Twins), Animist Orchestra and Yes, Well (Jeph Jerman), Omake (Matt Shoemaker) & Johnson, Greasy, Erik Major, Mike Shannon, Steve Barsotti, Eric Lanzillotta and many others. He has had the great fortune of studying with Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster. Knott has created numerous installations for participants to realize kinesthetic expressions in sound and promote deeper listening and has organized large, semi-improvised community sound-making experiences. With instrument building, performances, workshops and recorded works, he seeks to stimulate the listener to a point of resonance and discovery of their own musical being.
Discography: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dave+Knott
We still have a few posters for the Kawabata Makoto performance left. While supplies last, you can get a free screen printed poster made for us by Broken Press. All you have to do is buy something by Kawabata or Acid Mothers Temple or make a purchase over $20 and we will give you a poster. It’s really beautiful and only 50 copies were made. So rush on down and grab yours before they are history!
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCEFRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
7:00 PM
KAWABATA MAKOTO
?ALOS
AERIAL RAIN
Founder of Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective, Kawabata Makoto has been recording and touring for 30+ years. His projects and collaborations have brought him all over the globe, working with many prolific artists along the way such as Keiji Haino, Mani Neumeier(Guru Guru), Daevid Allen(Gong), Damo Suzuki(Can) and Kinski. From beautiful ambient dreamscapes to full blown psychedelic freakouts by way of sonic experimentation(often in the same song!), Kawabata’s music is as unrestrained as it is inspired.
Where do these sounds come from? Who is sending them out? That is not something for me to know, and neither is there any way that I could find out. I simply believe that they come from the ‘cosmos’.
-Kawabata Makoto
Kawabata Makoto leads prolific psych-rock behemoths Acid Mothers Temple, but on his own he often opts for beatific guitar emanations that suggest a strict regimen of Zen Buddhist meditation rather than AMT’s grandiloquent jamming and sonic holocausts. You could say the man loves his extremes. The INUI series of albums Kawabata’s recorded for VHF Records—as well as I’m in Your Inner Most and Hosanna Mantra—stands as a beautiful, solemn monument to his mellower inclinations, but you should probably bring earplugs, just in case the Japanese ax master gets into one of his ornery moods. Bonus: Dissonant Plane will give you a limited-edition poster to commemorate this event with any Kawabata/Acid Mothers–related purchase or any $20-plus purchase of merchandise.
- DAVE SEGAL in The Stranger
http://www.acidmothers.com
http://www.myspace.com/kawabatamakoto
http://www.myspace.com/acidmotherstemple
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
6:00 PM
ALGIERS
RED SQUIRRELS
PHILLIP HARRIS
From Alaska to Seattle and now resident of Portland, Oregan, Levi Berner (Algiers) has almost secretly unleashed a series of small run cassettes of noise music. Most recently released through his new label Zen Enthusia, his work recalls the 1980’s glory days of Hands To and The New Blockaders while standing resoundingly in the present. Using analog open reel tape decks among other sources, he is able to create a full sound unheard in many other contemporary digital noise acts. Levi has curated this evening’s line up as a Zen Enthuisa showcase. http://www.myspace.com/isitstillasecret
Old Ballard resident Jason Young (Red Squirrels) has lived in the same house for something close to fifteen years. The inside is strewn with all manner of folk instrument. DIY/broken, acoustic/electric, drums, guitars, hurdy-gurdy, tone-generators, tape monsters, delay pedals, homemade speakers… Likewise his records inhabit similar space. Mod Podged sound collage of weird electronics, drones, space noise, raga, Sufi prayers, psych rock, field recordings, etc. Previous efforts have been realized with the likes of At Jennie Richie, Algiers, and a slew of other Seattle musicians including Tiny Vipers and a member (members?) of Kinski. He has had long OOP cassettes and CDRs on labels such as Scumbag Relations, Enteruption, Wasting, and Debacle. http://www.myspace.com/redsquirrelz
Phillip Harris recently disappeared into the neither world that is North Portland. Not particularly part of any local scene or genre yet aware of the giants of free jazz, drone, music concrete, etc.Rarely playing out, existing solely outside of the scenester noise circles, yet bringing a reckless abandon to his live performance when given the opportunity. He hails from the psychedelic/psychic wasteland that is Florida. http://www.myspace.com/philipgharris
TONIGHT!!!
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009
7:00 PM
MOOD ORGAN
COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
from this week’s issue of The Stranger:The Score
Rejections and Emerald City Debacles
by Christopher Delaurenti
I still feel guilty for peering over his shoulder, but I had to look. Musicians usually launch their work into the world from onstage, yet here he was, doing one of the bravest things any artist can do: waiting in line at the post office to mail a stack of demo discs to various labels.
It’s an anonymous act that compels musicians to wonder at the fate of their work. Someone either says yes and agrees to champion the music, or the uncertain, uneasy void—few labels take the time or have the courtesy to send rejection letters anymore—continues and maybe grows.
Peering over Timm Mason’s shoulder, I espied his moniker, Mood Organ, affixed to packages bound for labels famous and unknown. Every artist gets rejected; by the time we find them, the ones we know and love have been ignored, rebuffed, and rejected countless times. Yet Mason seemed calm, as if mailing Christmas cards. The pensive, gloaming tones of the disc, Visiting a Burning Museum (Debacle), reflect this confidence. Mason inscribes his music with poetic details that reward headphone listening: lonesome guitar, rustles of wind, swelling tones, and keyboards that sound like they’re underwater, blurred by shivering eddies and ripples.
Mood Organ celebrates the release of the excellent Burning with an in-store show (Fri Aug 28, Dissonant Plane, 5459 Leary Ave NW, 784-5163, 7 pm, free). Previous performances have ranged from a set on solo electric bass to pieces for prepared piano and harmonium; expect an approach that explores a continuum from the visibly instrumental to abstract, unseen sound.
Another local sound artist, Colin Andrew Sheffield, shares the bill. Sheffield performs too infrequently; but when he does (full disclosure: I’ve only had three short conversations with him, but I opened for his duo performance with James Eck Rippie in 2007), he hews glacial, heaving drones from a turntable and an old-school sampler. Released earlier this year, Sheffield’s gorgeous Signatures (Invisible Birds) processes bird recordings, freezing skyward shrieks and swooping wings, into drones that refract hidden, shimmering harmonies.
Burning is another installment in “The Emerald City Debacle Vol. II,” an ongoing series by Debacle Records devoted to documenting local experimental music. From scabrous electronics such as on the eponymous Summon Thrull to charmingly perverted plunderphonics, most notably Fuck Rockin’ in American Airspace by the Broken Penis Orchestra, this series testifies to a gradual revival of the avant scene in Seattle. Be warned that Emerald City Debacle follows the current (and probably permanent) trend of avant CDs toward limited-run (usually 100 or less) discs that can get hard to find quickly. If you want it, get it. My list of discs I’ve missed gets frustratingly longer every week!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-score/Content?oid=2120557
FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCEFRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009
7:00 PM
MOOD ORGAN
COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
Mood Organ is the solo project of Seattle-based musician Timm Mason. Timm is best known as the bass player for diverse acts including funk juggernaut Eldridge Gravy & the Court Supreme, psych-rock supergroup Midday Veil, and instrumental hip-hop cover band Hamburger Pimp. Mood Organ is a platform for exploring different modes of listening and intersections between musical (& non-musical) genres. Each Mood Organ performance is unique; recent performances have included a solo performance on electric bass, a duet between saxophone and amplified objects, and a solo composition for harmonium and prepared piano. The first full-length album “Visiting a Burning Museum” has just been released on Debacle Records. Begun over 9 years ago, it is a meditation on memory and abstraction. The album folds instrumental performances, treated field recordings, and evolving drones into a towering block of sound that evokes power and sadness all at once. for fans of Drone, Charlambides, Gregg Kowalsky, Greg Davis.
http://www.myspace.com/moodorgan
Colin Andrew Sheffield was born in El Paso in 1976 and lived in various cities in Texas prior to 2004, when he relocated to the Seattle area. He is a self-taught drummer, playing in various collaborative situations in his home state before eventually making a total transition to electronic music. After initially working with exclusively digital sources, in recent years, Sheffield has refined his approach and now focuses on the strict re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings. His aim is to distill the essential qualities of these works and to then utilize that essence for new recordings. Usually only very brief sections of the original works are selected. These raw components are then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new is forged. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding, offering subtle nuance and quiet restraint. His recordings often seem to have much in common with ambient electronic music, though are equally akin to “plunderphonic” audio collage. In 1998 Sheffield founded the Elevator Bath Recording label which has continually issued experimental works from a variety of artists from the United States and abroad. Sheffield has released a number of solo recordings since 1998, including 2005’s ‘First Thus,’ his debut long-player. His collaboration with turntablist James Eck Rippie is ongoing. 2009 will saw the release of Sheffield’s sophomore full-length solo release, ‘Signatures,’ via the Invisible Birds label.
Dissonant Plane will be open late for the Ballard Art Walk on Saturday August 8th. To celebrate, Sparkle Girl (Jim) will be making fun noises to mix with the sounds of the space. Jim is moving away in less than two weeks, so this might be one of your last chances to catch him for a good while!
Get ‘em while they are hot - another free local CDR. “Frequencies in Formed Concrete” is by Ruby Von Monster and consists of 13 untitled tracks mixing weird electronics and guitar with some strange rhythms. A numbered edition of 30 copies, Dissonant Plane was given 10 of them to give away freely to customers. So come down and pick one up next time you buy something.
