#psychojazz

[villainessbian]

Psychojazz induction

jazz-induced psychosis

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Crazy Doberman, —/haunted, non/haunted (Torn Light, 2019)

Having spent the better part of the year locked in my home with no access to the joys of playing with people, I started having real feelings towards Crazy Doberman. Their MO is almost completely at odds with my current situation, and I started listening to them with a mix of envy and escapist fervor.

They are an open collective that mostly operates by storming any studio and recording free-form jams with a variable number of musicians (2 to 17), editing them down to a digestible size and releasing them. By releasing practically everything they do, they fuck with the essence of what making music means. Most musicians are lakes: a river of creativity flows in and another, different stream comes out. Crazy Doberman are a shallow pool in between waterfalls. Everything is in constant flux, and the music is so raw, the musicians are barely there.

Unfortunately, living in Europe, I haven’t been able to find most of their records and tapes at affordable prices, but I recently scored —/haunted, non/haunted from a local distro. In comparison to other CD works, this one is, excuse the pun, more haunting. Whereas in the s/t album on Mastermind they had adopted a psychedelic, colorful approach to their psycho-jazz skronk, they went way darker on this one. Everything is wailing in pain: synths, horns, vocals and strings, at times challenged by unruly drums and percussions. And when they’re not wailing, they’re booming, crackling, slithering out of control.

The record is short (33 minutes) but moves slowly, alternating cold, sharp stretches of industrial noise and disjointed free jazz, until everything comes together for the last monster track “No Body” (one of their finest moments in my opinion), equally frightening and exciting. This isn’t background music: it requires your full attention and is best enjoyed at high volume and without distractions. This came out in 2019, which means that CD have probably released a dozen more sessions of fucked-up improvisations filled with bum notes, sharp cuts and a glorious sense of freedom.

Click here to listen to ---/haunted, non/haunted on Bandcamp.

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[sweetblahg]

sweetblahg 2018 year in review

75 Dollar Bill (big band) - 9.23.2017 @ The Hideout Block Party

CAVE - 12.31.2017 @ Hungry Brain

Wolf Eyes - 3.1.2018 @ The Owl [5 sets]

ADT - 3.9.2018 @ Elastic

Nick Millevoi’s Desertion Trio - 3.14.2018 @ Elastic

2018 Festival of Large HearingOrgans - 3.22-25.2018 @ Knoxville, TN

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - 4.21.2018 @ The Hideout

Gunn-Trucinski Duo - 4.21.2018 @ The Hideout

Wet Tuna - 5.3.2018 @ The Hideout

Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - 5.4.2018 @ The Hideout

Sunwatchers - 5.4.2018 @ The Hideout

Universal Eyes [Wolf Eyes + Universal Indians] - 5.25.2018 @ El Club

The Art Ensemble of Chicago - 5.25.2018 @ El Club

Bitchin Bajas - 6.15.2018 @ Hungry Brain

Neil Young - 6.30.2018 @ Auditorium Theatre

Radiohead - 7.6-7.2018 @ United Center

CAVE - 7.28.2018 @ The Empty Bottle

Guerilla Toss - 9.22.2018 @ The Hideout

[guri-shiningpath]

Beast and beast . #80s #lady #doberman #psychojazz (at דיזנגוף סנטר תל אביב) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpRV9oJBjMJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1slyqr7tweuwl

[pfcidb]

johnolson #solo #psychojazz #zones (at Hideout Inn)

[teguicigulpa]

KILLER STACKED PACKAGE IN RICHMOND TONIGHT. 

FAR FUCKING OUT POSTER BY JOE LEGZZ.

[protein-music]

Groxi (Drums, Percussion, Guitar), Boris Baral (Double Bass, Guitar, Perkussion, Piano) Tobias “Protein” Laemmert (Guitar Percussion) Live at Import/Export on the @munichagain Liquid jams night 27.6.2018

Some weird PsychoJazz or whatever...recorded by Daniel Door on a Handheld Recorder. Sounds pretty good.

[peeboy-moved-blog]

its your best friend wolf eyes psychojazz

[tinymixtapes]

Music Review: OBNIVM - Robot!

OBNIVM Robot! [Never Anything; 2019] Rating: 3.5/5 Despite popular perception, Seattle sees less yearly rainfall than other US metros like Chicago or New York. During the fall and winter months, though, the Olympic rain shadow does experience a higher percentage of “rain days.” In this time, a constant cloudiness and light shower is like a faucet drip or encyclopedia of breezes. It is a perennial hail-haze, one that seems to blotch out time, space, and all matter. Like something out of J. G. Ballard, the perception of consistent foul weather and the performance of its avoidance engenders a sometimes surreal sort of micro-social recess in the Emerald City. This is a time when coprophagic grins dance like trash-happy gulls, a time when you see some truly upsetting and/or wacked-out shyt on Third. Naturally, though, Seattle’s seasonal siesta also provides fertile ground for indoor re-creation, of which there are, of course, numerous thankless vectors. At the top of the break appears Robot!, the latest from Seattle’s very own Never Anything, c/o OBNIVM. Possessing precise magnitude and direction, Robot! also retains a certain whimsy and playfulness. This endows it with a necessary human signature that thankfully clouds any overweight themes. Robot! by OMNIVM So, is that a question or a comment? Regardless, it all begins now, before the drama happens, with rhetorical exercise “Who Are The Parents, Here?,” introducing the record’s rich palette of glacial synths and blippy-rhythmic start-stutters. Timbre and time signature so obfuscated it could be anything, an aura, or homework, or it could be your next screen-induced memory lapse. Robot! organically liquidates itself with novelty to remain fresh at each movement. This is the part where you probably expect me to talk about A.I. And so consider “Human or Mechanical Hands?” Starting with a multilayered synth plucked straight from Rosecrans, the sketch achieves ascent with a moderate vibrato, coupled with a slow-bumping grind. As far as sequencing goes, it’s like nothing before or after it, staking an individually-earned place in Robot!’s sonic toolkit. Regurgitated radio chatter babbles to a froth on the next track, “They Don’t Like Psychojazz,” recapitulating some whispered digital-oral phylogeny as it signs on and off. It’s the only unambiguously human voice on the whole record. Each track provides something slightly different while making a logical next step from the last. In this way, Robot! benefits from cohesion, indicating a considered and apropos artificial nature. Likewise defined by an un-lyrical sense of humor (e.g., “All Robots Watch Clockwork Orange”), the following tracks, too, remain slippery while wet. And yet the record lacks defined hooks; it’s more of a freewheeling exercise in rhythmic improvisation and general instrumental provocation. Technological portraits emerge like pale ghosts, but stubbornly refuse to reveal meaning in any self-reflexive way. Unpredictable variations on the face and form give light to the compositions, but the ciphers themselves do not stand on their own; each one only makes sense in the context of its genus. And so Robot! aspires to singularity, but really comes off more like grey goo; there is no tragic climax. Like a libretto, this product of Seattle’s regular rain-check follows Asimov’s laws along the barest geometries of time and space, making for an adequate expression of life before the future. http://j.mp/2n4opK4

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Tropical Trash, Southern Indiana Drone Footage (National Waste Products, 2019)

So between Louisville, KY, where the Tropical Trash band lives, and Southern Indiana runs the Ohio river. I’ve never been to neither of these places, but I grew up on the South Bank of the biggest river in Italy. If I’d written a post-punk-psychedelic-noise-rock record of my own, I could’ve called it South-Eastern Lombardy Drone Footage (‘Filmati da Drone del Sud-Est Lombardo’) and it would’ve probably had a similar sentiment. To grow up by a border means not belonging to any place. It’s easy to feel like a mutant, and SIDF is definitely the product of mutants.

It just sounds like they’ve been playing together a lot, which is definitely true because they’ve been touring a lot and they’re constantly working on music either with TT or various side projects. So you can feel the comfort and the confidence in these songs. Some are “hits", straightforward rock songs that grab you by the collar and shake you until you burst out laughing; some are free-noise fragments sent hurling in space that could easily land this record in the “psycho-jazz” section at the record store; some are a little bit of both, catchy songs that experiment with structure and sound.

But the real magic is in the details. The recording: crisp and clean, but also alive with little sounds that reverberate in the background. The lyrics: a long string of non-sequiturs and absurd images that could irritate you or fascinate you, but are impossible to ignore. And the drums: behind the wall of guitars and clarinets and whathaveyou, the drummer Sal does such an amazing job on this record—he's never over-the-top and he's appropriately repetitive when he needs to, but he also takes chances and adds a lot to the mood.

It’s also worth noting that the album doesn’t have any of those toxic mean vibes that have driven a lot of people away from noisier shades of rock. It’s a feel-good record made by mutants, “a psychic fold in the wind”, a road map for car-dogs on their way home.

Click here to listen to Southern Indiana Drone Footage on Bandcamp.

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[madeinpop]

Made In PoP™ ǁ eventi Rock in Veneto dal 18 al 24 Gennaio 2018 ǁ stagione 15

Ciao Made-In-PoPpers, quasi quasi c'è da augurarsi di essere influenzati nel weekend, talmente pregna d'eventi che la scelta è davvero ardua. CHECcO & LoRIS «Sostenete la Musica, Andate ai Concerti» ► segnalazione Made In PoP ◄ Siete invitati a mettere Mi Piace alla pagina di SHYREC, etichetta indipendente di cui Made In PoP è parte, in quanto ci sono delle novità che vi invitiamo a scoprire https://www.facebook.com/Shyrec/ ► SETTIMANA  ◄ ► GIOVEDÌ 18 Gennaio ᴥ CA'SANA Cibo Arte e Cultura via SS. Fabiano e Sebastiano 13 PADOVA salirà sul palco la cantautrice triestina Irene BRIGITTE con il suo trio. ᴥ BEERIOT via Tassello 3 MONSELICE (Pd) a presentare il suo recente disco, sarà qui il cantautore napoletano GUY LITTELL. ᴥ GREENWICH Pub via S.Andrea 48 CURTAROLO (Pd) serata di band emergenti, suoneranno infatti The CRY of LOVE (Ro) NERA ESSENZA (Vi) OUTWAVE (Pd) e LEONORA ELKO (Pd). ᴥ COMARÒ via F.M. Presti 26 CASTELFRANCO Veneto (Tv) We/Net ospita le due bolognesi PAOLO DOESN'T PLAY with US folkrock. ᴥ Teatro Fondaco dei Tedeschi calle del fondaco dei Tedeschi Rialto VENEZIA dalle 19.30 ospite di VenetoJazz il duo composto da Emidio CLEMENTI (Massimo Volume) e Corrado NUCCINI (Giardini di Mirò) nello spettacolo Quattro Quartetti tratto dalei testi di Thomas S. Eliot. ᴥ EL CABALLITO via Pastengo 17 BUSSOLENGO (Vr) per il giovedì live si esibiranno i PEPE Le PEW psychojazz e IANT spigoloso punkrock. ► VENERDÌ 19 Gennaio ᴥ BARCHESSA Villa FINI via Roma LIMENA (Pd) presso la chiesetta i ragazzi del Porto Vecchio Festival e Ottavo Miglio presentano "Suoni in Pescheria" con ospite il gruppi furlano CINQUEUOMINI sulla CASSA del MORTO rock-irish folk. ᴥ LABORATORIO I'M via Brustolon 3 ABANO Terme (Pd) presentazione album per EDO & i Bucanieri padovani di nascita ma milanesi d'adozione, in apertura Joe D.PALMA pop cantautorale. ᴥ Cso PEDRO via Ticino 5 PADOVA serata Electronic Fog dedicata alla musica d'avanguardia, ospite live DOC ENTHUSIASTIC e le sue ricerche soniche, a deguire djset IDGA e altri. ᴥ Le CHAT NOIR via Silvestri 36 ROVIGO all'angolo con viale Trento arriva il giovane cantautore pop-rock ALESSANDRO RAGAZZO, evento in collaborazione con Dimora Festival.  ᴥ La STAZIONETTA via Leopardi 25 CASTELFRANCO (Tv) concerto acustico per il cantautore pontino PAPPA (alias Francesco Pappacena). ᴥ VIRGO Club via Padana 32 SANT'ANGELO di Piove di Sacco (Pd) segnaliamo l'avvio di una serie di attività "rock" presso questo club, stasera proiezione del e discussione sul monumentale "LIVE at POMPEII" dei PINK FLOYD, a seguire jam session guidata dal mitico CAIO RUSSO. ᴥ LA STAZIONETTA via Borgo Pieve 109 CASTELFRANCO Veneto (Tv) Sweet Noise presenta l'esordio live per band GUMMY NIPPLES rock vigoroso. ᴥ ARG0 16 Arci Club via delle Industrie 27 MARGHERA (Ve) sonorità postpunk con i sardo-veneziani NAIROBI e i mitici SOVIET SOVIET in giro tra Italia e Europa a portare il loro ultimo "Endless" a seguire djset. ᴥ Bar ASTRA contrà Barche 14 VICENZA dalle 19 troverete qui le ballads per REDIMEMN e l'esplosione garage/punk dei bolognesi The JACKSON POLLOCK. ᴥ CENTRO STABILE di CULTURA via Leogra 4 San VITO di Leguzzano (Vi) una delle uniche due date italiane per l'immenso musicista avanguardista qual è MARC RIBOT (Us). ᴥ ARCADIA Csa via Lago di Tovel 18 SCHIO (Vi) serata potente con tre ottimi live, il post-HC dei giovani BRUUNO, il turbo-HC dei ravennati ACTIONMEN e il post/not-everything dei granitici ZEUS!. ᴥ AL BARCO via Basilio Dalla Scola 255 VICENZA presso il bar della Cooperativa Insieme si esibirà il cantautore LIMONE che presenta il suo secondo disco uscito recentemente, "Secondo Limone", per Dischi Soviet Studio. ᴥ TERZO PONTE Arci via Ceramica 7 BASSANO del Grappa (Vi) presentazione del disco "Avventure Tropicali" per GIANNUTRI duo pop-rock tropicale, in apertura i ravvenati KUF!. ᴥ BOCCIODROMO via Rossi 198 VICENZA presentazione ep per i locals DRY poppunk accompagnati dagli amici RAVINE e WINTERBREED. ᴥ PIKA Future Club via Salisburgo 10 Zai VERONA serata pop-punk con i concerti delle band CENTURY of the WALL, STAGE 97 e The OTHERS. ᴥ COHEN Pub via Scarsellini 9 VERONA ospite internazionale sarà il cantautore THOM CHACON da Durango-Colorado, folk/blues/rock. ᴥ JACK the RIPPER via Nuova 9 RONCÀ (Vr) rock potente ed arrogante quello delle band imepgnate qui stasera, Un GIORNO di ORDINARIA FOLLIA (Pd) assiemie ai BLUTBAD (Vi). ► SABATO 20 Gennaio ᴥ Cso PEDRO via Ticino 5 PADOVA presentazione ufficiale del terzo album "Abdita" (La Tempesta dischi) del fantastico sestetto multiforme UNIVERSAL SEX ARENA, a dar loro manforte ULTRAKEVIN (Macina Dischi) + Momostock djset. ᴥ Circolo NADIR piazza Gasparotto 10 PADOVA serata in collaborazione con i Sotterranei che vedrà i live della giovane band locale SEVILLE e dei magnifici NEW CANDYS in giro a presentare il loro terzo album "Bleeding Magenta". ᴥ BRUS Bar via Roma 162 FOSSONA di Cervarese Santa Croce (Pd) release party per metal-punx ZËNE, con loro i punkrockers CUOREMATTO. ᴥ RICKY’s Pub via Commerciale 12 ABBAZIA PISANI Villa del Conte (Pd) un sabato votato all'energia rock delle donne, si esibiranno le KILL THE MAYOR punkrock e FLAT FIFTY indie/alt rock. ᴥ BAHNHOF Live via Sant'Antonio 34 MONTAGNANA (Pd) sonorità math/avantgarde per le band protagoniste stasera, VALERIAN SWING (Re) e i mitici MORKOBOT (Lo). ᴥ La STANZA Associazione Culturale via Leopardi 25 San MARTINO di Lupari (Pd) in collaborazione con We//Net sarà qui AMAURY CAMBUZAT in acustico dove ripercorrerà l'epopea della sua band, i grandi ULAN BATOR. ᴥ BLACK LOTUS Pub via Cardinale Agostini 109 San MARTINO di Lupari (Pd) riformati e con un album in vista si esibiranno qui i DELTAMETRINA scanzonato pop-punk. ᴥ LABORATORIO I'M via Brustolon 3 ABANO Terme (Pd) in collaborazione con Rock In Park suoneranno qui i gruppi MARTIAN PATRIOTS postgrunge AMBER post-HC KRASHAH metal e i milanesi SINATRAS death'n'roll. ᴥ Osteria del VICOLO via Pagiola 7 CITTADELLA (Pd) qui stasera il cantastorie veronese JOE SANKETTI già collaboratore di Morgan e Megahertz. ᴥ ALTROQUANDO Osteria Musicale via Corniani 32 SANT'ALBERTO di Zero Branco (Tv) serata marchiata THREE BLACKBIRDS che vesdrà protagonista il combo BOLOGNA VIOLENTA, tra echi grindcore del passato e escursus nel prog attuale. ᴥ RADIO GOLDEN Bar piazza San Martino 13 CONEGLIANO (Tv) una delle migliori band del panorama underground veneto, i MOONSOON folktronica triphop. ᴥ EDEN Cafè via XV Luglio TREVISO ospite della serata organizzata da Sisma sarà il cantautore pop-rock GERMANÒ trasteverino di nascita e australiano d'adozione. ᴥ NASTY BOYS via Pellicciaio 4 TREVISO serata punkrock con due storiche band, i fiorentini KEROSENE e i locals TRAGICZ. ᴥ CATEN Pub via San Pio X 208 CASTELFRANCO Veneto (Tv) crossover/alt rock per i MYOWNSIN sul palco stasera. ᴥ GALA via Canva 288 ASOLO (Tv) seconda tappa del tour di presentazione disco per il duo GIANNUTRI dal titolo "Avventure Tropicali". ᴥ ARG0 16 Arci Club via delle Industrie 27 MARGHERA (Ve) one night dedicata alla musica e alla cultura del continente africano, stasera protagonista il Senegal con Jali DIABATE (Kro Griot), Djobilé Djembè FAMILY e il PEACE DIOUF Quartet afrobeat afrojazz. ᴥ LIGHTHOUSE Pub via Noalese Sud 2 NOALE (Ve) cantautorato rock/folk/pop per i GAS Gruppo di Artigiani del Suono. ᴥ Teatro BERSAGLIERI via Roma 221 SPINEA (Ve) perfomance per il collettivo CONNESSIONI SONORE che farà un concerto totalmente al buio, in collaborazione con l'unione Ipovedenti/Ciechi italiana. ᴥ Bar ASTRA contrà Barche 14 VICENZA dalle 19 serata BSide con performance lice dell'ottimo BLAK SAAGAN psichedelia visionaria e cinematica a seguire djset Ale Riptapes. ᴥ ARCADIA Csa via Lago di Tovel 18 SCHIO (Vi) presentazione del libro "Il tempo bucia le tappe" di Massimo Fagarazzi, reconto della scena underground dei nineties, a seguire live dei TRIFLE, punk/HC del nuovo millennio. ᴥ VINILE Club via Capitano Alessio 92 ROSÀ (Vi) serata History of New Wave con gradito live dei DIAFRAMMA di Federico Fiumani, a seguire djset EMY Night Breeze Carlito CAZALE e WHIPPING Boy. ᴥ VIAROMA17 via Roma 17 DUEVILLE (Vi) musica d'avanguardia, psichedelica, acida quella prodotta dall'incontro tra lo JOOKLO DUO e Matt BORDIN (Squadra Omega) e che darà vita a JOOKLO GANG. ᴥ BOCCIODROMO via Rossi 198 VICENZA la Vicenza Magnagatti Crew organizza una giornata di live, dalle 17 acustici per SUNSET at DAWN, WIND & the NORTH e REDIMEN, dalle 20 palco grande con BRIGHT END, Mr.DAY, RISING OVER, DECACY e DEFECTUS. ᴥ Circolo MESA via L.Da Vinci 50 MONTECCHIO Maggiore (Vi) stasera spazio al cantautorato con TOMMASO DUGATO e KEROUAC. ᴥ LEM Cafè via Archimede 4 San MARTINO Buon Albergo (Vr) serata rockabilly con due band sul palco, PETE & the Shine Bright + RebHELL RAISE a seguire djset tematico. ᴥ Bar the BROTHERS via Olimpia GREZZANA (Vr) tappa obbligata qui per i redivivi NIÙ TENNICI storica band alt-reggae veronese. ► DOMENICA 21 Gennaio ᴥ PUNKY REGGAE Pub via Barbarigo 15 LIEDOLO si San Zenone degli Ezzelini (Tv) dalle 17 infuocato aperitivo rock'n'roll con i bolognesi HELLVIS speed metalrock e la nuova fantastica band BORDERLINE sguaiato r'n'r Detroit-style. ᴥ Osteria al MAJO via Camerini 6 PIAZZOLA sul Brenta (Pd) torna l'aperitivo musicale con l'acustico del JOE SHAMANO Trio tra ballads e spirital songs. ᴥ RADIO GOLDEN Bar piazza San Martino 13 CONEGLIANO (Tv) dalle 18:30 qui a presentare il suo libro "Cane Sciolto" l'ex leader dei Timoria OMAR PEDRINI, con la voce narrante di Federico Scarioni. ᴥ Bar Al CASTELLO starda Brussa 501 CAORLE (Ve) dal Capota torna l'appuntamento Porky's International con ospiti live The VANILLE acid rockers francesi + djset Porky's. ᴥ ARG0 16 Arci Club via delle Industrie 27 MARGHERA (Ve) Power Acoustic Sunday dalle 19 con due terzetti freejazz, OPHIR e Allulli-Diodati-Baron Trio. ᴥ Osteria AL CASTELLO via Rossi A. 15 CHIUPPANO (Vi) aperitivo cantautorale con il giovane vicentino Francesco BALASSO. ᴥ Circolo MESA via L.Da Vinci 50 MONTECCHIO Maggiore (Vi) aperitivo sludge/stoner con i gruppi GUFONERO (Trento) e BIGG MEN (Palermo). ᴥ Circolo NADIR piazza Gasparotto 10 PADOVA dalle 21 alternative hip-hop per l'americano BOOM BIP. ► LUNEDÌ 22 Gennaio ᴥ prima puntata, tutto qua?. ► MARTEDÌ 23 Gennaio ᴥ seconda puntata, dove si spegne? ► MERCOLEDÌ 24 Gennaio ᴥ COCKNEY London Pub via garibaldi 9 CORREZZOLA (Pd) grande ospite dagli States LEBURN MADDOX chitarrista cantante rock/blues/funk. ᴥ SHERWOOD OPEN LIVE vicolo Pontecorvo PADOVA per il consueto appuntamento del mercoledì, ospite la band del momento, i fantastici HIT-KUNLE e il loro accattivante tropical rock. • https://telegram.me/madeinpop/ • https://www.facebook.com/Shyrec/ • https://www.facebook.com/threeblackbirdsfree/ • https://www.facebook.com/NewsletterMadeinpop/ • http://shyrec.bandcamp.com/

[hotjellyinthemorning]

#psychojazz #psychojazzfamily #jazz #wolfeyes #trippy #family #lsd #weed #hash #art

[art--damage]

NO RESPONSE PRESENTS:   A NO RESPONSE FESTIVAL PRE-GAME! W/ WOLF EYES (Michigan Psychojazz Tripmetalists) http://wolfeyes.net/ PHARMAKON (Sacred Bones Industrial Noise) https://pharmakon.bandcamp.com/ CONTAINER (Raw Minimal Techno Heavyweight) https://soundcloud.com/gentledefect TWIG HARPER (Ex-Nautical Almanac Weirdo) -------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 24th Doors: 8pm Music: 9pm 18+   $10 The Mockbee 2260 Central Pkwy. Note: We'll have tickets for the upcoming No Response Festival available at this show.  More info on that shortly. ---------------------------------------------------------- WOLF EYES Born in the dead, dread-filled haunted hills of Michigan, Wolf Eyes are the rabid beasts of Trip Metal & have been plowing thru new tunnels of the underworld since 1997. Pure audio stunn, homemade post-nuclear terror & claustrophobic atmospheres -- the most shattered and confusing horrorvision since Bo Diddley dropped the duct taped warhead on all humans in 2024. ---------------------------------------------------------- PHARMAKON Margaret Chardiet was born and raised in New York City. She has been making power electronics / death industrial music under the name Pharmakon for five years. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of seventeen. Several projects emerged from the Red Light home/ venue during the four years Chardiet lived there including Yellow Tears, and Halflings amongst others. She points out that the environment there amongst so many other experimental artists inspired her to keep pushing herself and making increasingly challenging work. She describes her drive to make noise music as something akin to an exorcism where she is able to express, her "deep-seated need/drive/urge/possession to reach other people and make them FEEL something [specifically] in uncomfortable/ confrontational ways." The project is also an opportunity to exorcise her own demons and examine her own wild thoughts by pushing them outside of her head. Engineered by Sean Ragon of Cult of Youth at his self-built recording studio Heaven Street, Abandon is Pharmakon's 1st proper studio album and also her first widely distributed release. ---------------------------------------------------------- CONTAINER Container is the stripped-down, beat-oriented electronic project of Providence, RI's Ren Schofield, who somehow sculpts viscous punk sonics into raw jackhammer rhythms that groove in the most relentless, hypnotic, unstoppable and psychedelic ways currently working the grid. This lo-fi mesh of maxed-out drum patterns, spiralling loops and mesmerising arrangements makes for live music of serious weight and function, suitable for both high-end dancefloors and filthy warehouse parties alike.Started in 2009 in response to his discovery of nineties minimal techno, Container combined elements from his background in noise and cassette collage music with a new found interest in repetitive beats to create this raw and damaged rhythmic sound. After a string of various cassette releases, the debut full-length LP was released by Editions Mego sub-label Spectrum Spools in 2011, and has since been followed up by a second Spools LP, the Treatment 12" on the Morphine label, and a new 12" on Mute's Liberation Technologies imprint which will be dropping this Fall. ------------------------------------------------- TWIG HARPER The oceanic movement, convergence, and collision of underground networks is something Americans have become honor bound to celebrate —it’s cool, and it’s been cool. The coolness factor rises the more said network affects the larger, uncool, mass culture, so Twig Harper’s multi-decade sweep of the underground gradually modifying it, inventing it, sculpting it, and often just giving gentle suggestions, probably isn’t going to be served up documentary flambéed anytime soon —no coffee table books of circuit bent electronics, homemade lathe cuts, or consciousness awakening book covers coming anytime soon. There’s something disingenuous about the connection between lack of mass cultural awareness of Twig Harper’s work and his impact on collective consciousness shift. The story goes Twig spent some time growing up in Pennsylvania, moved to Jupiter (you can find it on an American map, HINT: it’s at the bottom), then moved to Michigan where he attended high school with the Wolf Eyes crew, got served up Caroliner records from one Jim Magas, met Partner In Everything and future Nautical Almanac Co-Captain Carly Ptak, and showed high school classmate Andrew W.K he could be come a pop star if he just tried. Things got really hot and ended poorly in Michigan once the cops caught wind of what was really going down, but before splitting to Chicago, Twig formed Nautical Almanac with purveyor and architect of the modern American Noise Underground, Nate Young, figured out how to make homemade circuit built instruments, helped in the cultivation of the limited release cassette label, the midwest house show circuit and generally got across that this whole culture could be fun, connective, ridiculous and a bit pushy (if you ask me), as much as it could be about anything. An escape to Chicago, a junk store, more music, more weird releases on more weird media (lathes, CD-Rs, weirdly sized records, cassettes of all sorts), and then eventually Twig ended up with massive warehouse, used as a performance space and artistic & spiritual cultivation center in West Baltimore called Tarantula Hill. During the 15 some odd years as an occupant of T-Hill, Twig, with Ptak, made records and toured with everyone from the Fort Thunder gang to the Wham City gang to Daniel Higgs, unearthed and moved the outsider street musician Little Howlin’ Wolf to Baltimore, and hosted every important underground band of the 21st century. Perhaps most centrally, the Tarantula Hill mission helped grow the artistic pursuits of countless artist’s and allowed Twig to generally put together work that mixes text and electronic unconstrained convulsions in the full on experimentation and creation of backlashing gems of confusion. A lot of people got touched, a lot of people made records, and some of the people who ran through Twig’s life got famous, some very much so, but also a crop of people across the country got warehouses, booked shows, released tapes, made music out of trash, got interested in psychedelia and consciousness expansion (oh, yeah, Twig gets into that too, he put a sensory deprivation tank and conducted salvia divinorium research after the performance space had run its’ course), most of all a lot of people made music in their own voice, their own bizarre floppy convulsing smashing silly voice, a voice built upon Twig’s shrill yelps.

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Twin peaks noise posting

[all-the-albums]

Wolf Eyes - “Dread” [Hanson Records, American Tapes 2001]

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January

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@wolf_eyes_psychojazz excellent show at the Brooklyn Bazaar #noise #psychojazz #electronic #experimental #trance #music #incredibleexperience #afavorite #greenpoint #brooklyn (at Brooklyn Bazaar)