#tasy hudson

[spilladabalia]

BIG|BRAVE - "I felt a funeral"

[dustedmagazine]

BIG|BRAVE—nature morte (Thrill Jockey)

nature morte by BIG|BRAVE

This is music of extremes: abstract in its forms and lyrical figures, but also grounded in visceral, palpable waves of sound; dissonant and volatile, punctuated by sharp swings in mood, but also profoundly integrated; keyed to the reedy fragility of Robin Wattie’s voice, but also building to huge crescendos, powered by Tasy Hudson’s intuitive and intense drumming and Mathieu Ball’s singular techniques of amp abuse. And soon enough, Wattie reminds you that she can holler and howl with as much aggressivity as any other singer in heavy music. She can play, too, complementing Ball’s sheets of sound. But even more so than on previous BIG|BRAVE records, Wattie’s voice is the guiding force, the emotional fulcrum on which nature morte turns. The band fuses its remarkable access to elemental flows of desire and dread to its strong and very specific aesthetic sensibility. It’s a terrific record.

We should underscore: nature morte is not music for the background or for casual pleasures. Many listeners will find it too loud, or too mercurial, or too remote from the shapes of conventional songcraft. Songs like “carvers, farriers, and knaves” and “the fable of subjugation” are indeed mercurial, unconventional and often quite loud. The compositional approach is somewhat similar to Sumac’s on 2020’s May You Be Held, and one could also cite Fleetwood Mac’s Then Play On (1972) as a precedent for how mood might be tracked across a record’s expertly arranged ebbs, flows and thematic structures. But mostly Ball, Hudson and Wattie are following their own shared vision for how music might work, and for how it might work on its audience.

It works, but it’s not an easy thing to endure or to tune in to closely. Opening song “carvers, farriers, and knaves” incorporates the aforementioned shifts in tonal extremes, and that dynamic also informs Wattie’s lyrics. The title is instructive: “farrier” may be a less familiar term, meaning a craftsman who specializes in caring for horses’ hooves and fitting them with iron shoes. In that context, “carver” takes on powerful ambiguity. That could be the farrier himself, tending to the shape of a hoof, or it could be the butcher, to whom the horse is sent when the animal is exhausted, old and injured. So who is the knave?

Wattie and the band are not forthcoming with a direct answer, but “the fable of subjugation” is suggestive. The song comes at the midpoint of nature morte, and it’s tempting to call it the heart of the record. It may be the most agonized display of musical intensity, escalating from folkish foreboding, to keen yearning, to the kind of sonic violence the band so expertly builds. The listener is compelled, subject to those intensifications. They track alongside the lyrics, which are plaintive and insistent; Wattie sings, “Allow me to prevail / Over all your lure,” and then, “Your force—it’s so lawless and rash / Give me your gift and I will relish with you!” Two of those clauses are imperatives (“Allow me to prevail,” “Give me your gift”), and the imperative structure in effect inverts the meaning of key terms: allow, gift. There are multiple syntactic manipulations that hide the flow of power, the means by which the song’s addressee is subjugated, and perhaps rendered knavish by listening to the lyric speaker’s voice.

That’s all pretty hifalutin, and thinking the lyrics in absence of the music in part undoes their power. One loses the electric desire coursing through the song, and the whole record. The title of nature morte might reference death, but this music is frightfully, joyfully and overwhelmingly alive.

Jonathan Shaw

[blueskygirl22]

Opis Jessici

Imię: Jessica

Nawisko: Hudson

Wygląd: Sukienka w kratki w kolorach biały i niebieski i różowe, białe buty

Zawod: Stri***z

Crush- Tord

Wlsoy- Rudy blond

Orientacaj- Bisexual

Ulubione jedzenie- Suszi, krab

Ulubione picie- Wino, piwo

Co lubi robić?: Ssać k*tasy,

Ulubione zwięrze- Kot

Na chłopaka?: Tak- Jon ( tak,ten Jon)

[ghostcultmagazine]

ALBUM REVIEW: BIG | BRAVE - Vital - Southern Lord

ALBUM REVIEW: BIG | BRAVE – Vital – Southern Lord

The role of mythology is to inspire both individual and collective growth through storytelling. Myths do that by making sense of the world. Vital (Southern Lord) by BIG | BRAVE is a mythical-sounding album that does just that. Of the colossal yet intimate Vital, the Doom-Sludge trio from Montreal featuring Robin Wattie, Mathieu Ball, and Tasy Hudson says, “This album involves what it means…

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[johnthestitcher]

QUILT #9 - GRANDMOTHER’S FAN-TASY

Size: 70" x 71"  

Completed:  January 1982

This quilt created several projects, including writing a 'how-to' article for the December 1982 issue of Quilt World Omnibook Christmas Special, the making of kits for blocks, and teaching embroidery classes.

I remember creating this quilt concurrently with working on the blocks for quilt #10 - the Twelve Days of Christmas. It also gave me the chance to work with satin, moire and velvet, and helped develop my embroidery skills. Looking through my notes it seems that my initial design was to be all blue fabrics - and cottons - but that was quickly abandoned. I also experimented with the placement of the fans and concluded that the fans should be made small enough that the black satin edge of the fans would connect and form a central medallion surrounding a circle of four fans. Once again, costume fabrics from shows and my job as a sewer for a costume shop supplied most of the fabrics used in this quilt. This quilt would also entail handfuls of embroidery floss, still an inexpensive commodity in the early 1980′s.

The quilt is constructed of thirty-six twelve and one-half inch blocks in six rows. The fans were constructed first and appliqued to a corner of the base blocks; scraps of satin in various shapes were then added and basted in place to fill the remainder of the block. The black satin bands and handles would be added last to cover the raw edges. All 36 blocks were basted before starting the embroidering, and I would carry whatever block was being currently worked on around with me, doing some embroidery at odd moments. It was a very portable project, contrasting nicely with concurrent project #10 that turns out to be one of the largest quilts I would make. For its rather compact size of 6' x 6', Grandmother's Fan-tasy would also turn out to be one of the heaviest.

 There are many interesting items in this quilt. There are lace appliques sprinkled liberally and embroidered roses on many of the fans. On the first row in block #4, there is an embroidered picture of a black and white dog labeled 'Fuzzy' - the treasured family pet. My name is also embroidered in the center circle of fans, blended into the block embroideries. In the lower right-hand corner is a black satin brocade piece that is embroidered 'J M 1982'; beneath that patch is the great hidden mystery of the quilt. On the day I was finishing the border, I inserted a square of muslin beneath the patch on which is written the headlines of the day in permanent marker. I remember two of the headlines being the invasion of Afghanistan, and the awaiting of the birth of the first prince of Charles and Diana. My name is embroidered into the black band of one of the central fans.

The backing of the quilt is a brilliant sky blue moire faille. The quilt is bound in maroon cotton binding and a maroon silk tassel hangs from each corner. The quilt is tied in sky blue embroidery floss.

I remember this quilt hanging at a show called 'Victorian Splendor', sponsored by the Quilters of the Hudson Highlands. What makes that occasion memorable is that I and fellow quilter Richard Zimmerman attended this show dressed in Victorian finery! [See: QUILT, Summer 1983] Also- there was a Victorian quilt block contest sponsored at this same show, and I made a smaller version of one of my blocks to enter the contest, and won First Prize for the block (the quilt show was non-judged). The story of those blocks and how they were lost and recovered and turned into a wall hanging is detailed in a future installment of this chronicle.

This quilt was appraised for $650 by a professional appraiser.

Owner: the quilter

Condition: never used

PLEASE VISIT MY ARCHIVE FOR MORE PICTURES OF MY QUILTS, QUILTING, WALL HANGINGS, HOOPS, AND PATCHWORK CLOTHING! MORE TO COME IN THE FUTURE!

 Exhibitions & Prizes:

 1982 -  NQA #13 (New Orleans, LA) - Third Prize

           Goshen, CT Fair - First Prize

           Bethlehem, CT Fair - First Prize

Mad River Grange Fair - First Prize {note: This quilt did not win Best of                Show because it was exhibited along with quilt #10, which did}

1983 -  NSQG World of Quilts #4 - Second Prize

           Thames River Quilt Show

           First United Methodist Church Show

1984 -  Corning, NY Quilter's Guild Show

           Ninnigret Quilters of Rhode Island

1985 -  Narragansett Bay Quilters Association - Narragansett, RI

1987 -  Trumbull Piecemakers -'April Shower of Quilts #2,' Trumbull, CT

 Magazine Pictures and/or Articles:

 Quilt World Omnibook Christmas Special, December 1982, p43-45 “Victorian

           Crazy Quilting”. Four color pictures of Grandmother’s Fan-tasy with

           ‘how-to’ article.

QUILT, Summer 1983, p23-24 “Victorian Splendor at Vail’s Gate, NY”, color

           picture of author and Richard Zimmerman in Victorian costume. The

           Victorian wall hanging blocks came from this show.

 Book:

“Gallery of American Quilts 1860 – 1989; Book 2” – published by the American Quilter’s Society. Detail of quilt #9 appears on cover and in whole on page 23.

[prettyinnoise-blog]

KRITIK: BIG|BRAVE – Vital

KRITIK: BIG|BRAVE – Vital  Robin Wattie, Tasy Hudson und Mathieu Bernard Bali sind BIG|BRAVE, gegründet in Montreal, donnern sie auf ihrem fünften Album perfekt arrangiert in Richtung Trommelfell. Emsig wie ein Schwarm isländischer Bienen, bringt das Trio in regelmäßigen 2 Jahresabständen seit 2015 Platten via Southern Lord Records unter die Menschen. Untermauerte schon der Vorgänger ihren Status, eine der innovativsten Bands im weit gefächerten Bereich des Post-Metal zu sein, zeigte nicht zuletzt die dazu gehörige Tour das hier drei Musiker:innen am Werk sind, die auf ganzer Linie überzeugen. Diverse Effektgeräte und ein schier unendlicher Fundus an Ideen zelebriert das Können von BIG|BRAVE. Keine Band klingt wie sie und umgekehrt. Einzigartig, ein Unikat und Rohdiamant, der mit jedem Schliff neue Seiten für geneigte Gehörgänge freigibt. Einen kleinen Tacken professioneller fällt die Produktion auf Vital im direkten Vergleich zu A Gaze Among Them aus. +++ Unter folgenden Link kannst du unseren NO)))ISELETTER kostenlos abonnieren: https://steadyhq.com/de/pin ++ Schaue auch gerne mal im Shop auf www.prettyinnoise.de/shop vorbei. Dort findest du allerhand Vinyl, Merch, Bücher und andere pinteressante Dinge. + Hier findest du die TOP 200 PLAYLIST von prettyinnoise.de auf Spotify: www.bit.ly/PiNTop200 Read the full article

[prettyinnoise]

KRITIK: BIG|BRAVE – Vital

KRITIK: BIG|BRAVE – Vital  Robin Wattie, Tasy Hudson und Mathieu Bernard Bali sind BIG|BRAVE, gegründet in Montreal, donnern sie auf ihrem fünften Album perfekt arrangiert in Richtung Trommelfell. Emsig wie ein Schwarm isländischer Bienen, bringt das Trio in regelmäßigen 2 Jahresabständen seit 2015 Platten via Southern Lord Records unter die Menschen. Untermauerte schon der Vorgänger ihren Status, eine der innovativsten Bands im weit gefächerten Bereich des Post-Metal zu sein, zeigte nicht zuletzt die dazu gehörige Tour das hier drei Musiker:innen am Werk sind, die auf ganzer Linie überzeugen. Diverse Effektgeräte und ein schier unendlicher Fundus an Ideen zelebriert das Können von BIG|BRAVE. Keine Band klingt wie sie und umgekehrt. Einzigartig, ein Unikat und Rohdiamant, der mit jedem Schliff neue Seiten für geneigte Gehörgänge freigibt. Einen kleinen Tacken professioneller fällt die Produktion auf Vital im direkten Vergleich zu A Gaze Among Them aus. +++ Unter folgenden Link kannst du unseren NO)))ISELETTER kostenlos abonnieren: https://steadyhq.com/de/pin ++ Schaue auch gerne mal im Shop auf www.prettyinnoise.de/shop vorbei. Dort findest du allerhand Vinyl, Merch, Bücher und andere pinteressante Dinge. + Hier findest du die TOP 200 PLAYLIST von prettyinnoise.de auf Spotify: www.bit.ly/PiNTop200 Read the full article

[stephaniemarlowftw]

BIG | BRAVE SHARE WEIGHTY MUSIC VIDEO FOR "OF THIS ILK" 

The song appears on their new album Vital, out this Friday on CD + digital formats from Southern Lord. // LP release to follow.

BIG | BRAVE have shared a video for "Of This Ilk" - taken from their forthcoming album VITAL which arrives on CD and Digital formats this Friday via Southern Lord (with vinyl to follow on July 9th). 

About the new song and video, which originally premiered via Roadburn Redux, BIG | BRAVE vocalist Robin Wattie comments: "This video and song is an ode to those that understand this all too well, all too deeply. There is a silent form of suffering that most do not share. It is a private shame that is very public. The percentage of the global population that take these painstaking, costly efforts in whitening, or rather more aptly, bleaching their skin is higher than a lot would understand, let alone, would ever consider. There is a billion dollar industry in injectables and cream-like products containing harsh and even life-threatening chemicals to lighten, clarify, and whiten one’s skin. This video is an ode to my younger self, and to all the other children, teens and adults of the past, present and future that have used bleach in every way possible, that withdrew from the sun, used clothespins on their nose, scraped their skin raw, buying every product available, in trying every means they can think of to achieve this exclusive coveted lightness, whiteness." 

Watch (+ share) the "Of This Ilk" video on YouTube (or listen on Bandcamp).

On their fifth album VITAL, the core trio of Robin Wattie, Mathieu Ball and Tasy Hudson traverse minimalism and instinct, structure/freedom and meticulous timing, elements that have been the cornerstones of BIG | BRAVE's precise, rhythmical sound. Lyrically the album explores the weight of race and gender, endurance and navigating other people’s behaviours, observation and protest. VITAL was recorded with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets.  

Pre-orders are now live and available via the Southern Lord store, Southern Lord Europe and Bandcamp.  

VITAL, track list:

1. ABATING THE INCARNATION OF MATTER

2. HALF BREED

3. WITED. STILL AND ALL...

4. OF THIS ILK

5. VITAL

[johnthestitcher]

Wall Hanging - Victorian Splendor

Be sure to check my archive for more pix of quilt blocks, quilts, pillows, wall hangings - and more!

Size: 25”x 48 ½”

Materials: Cottons, satins brocades, embroidery floss, lace, beads, sequins

Completed: November 1985

“Victorian Splendor” was the title of an exhibition of Victoriana put together by an organization called the Quilters of the Hudson Highlands. The show included quilts, clothing, and crafts from the Victorian era, and I had gotten my Grandmother’s Fan-tasy quilt to be included in the exhibition. An article about the show appeared in QUILT Summer 1983 issue titled ‘Victorian Splendor at Vail’s Gate, NY.’ Richard Z and I decided to go to the show dressed in Victorian finery and QUILT snapped a photo of us and included it in the article.

As part of the exhibition, the QHH also had a crazy quilt block contest, which I entered, of course! Eight participants submitted blocks; I am sure the QHH was expecting a larger turn out to make a quilt to commemorate the occasion. I received First Prize for my block.

The show was winding down and the QHH had no idea what to do with eight blocks, so they decided to give them all to me as a prize. I suggested that they make a ninth block to commemorate the show and make it into a three by three block wall hanging. That was the fall of 1982.

A couple of years went by; the memory of the blocks faded from my mind until one day in 1984 I read an article in a quilting magazine searching for missing quilts. It seems the QHH had sent some quilts to Canada for a quilt show and they never arrived! They were hoping that by placing notices in periodicals that possibly they might be found and hopefully returned. I sent them a letter expressing my sadness at the loss of someone’s work, and mentioned who I was and what had transpired two years’ previous, and that I wondered what had ever happened to the blocks I never received. A couple of weeks later I received a letter from someone stating that the club was not aware that I had never received the blocks (seems to be an unfortunate trend with them) and someone started to search out what happened. It turns out that the person in charge of them had left the club soon after the show, and no one knew that she hadn’t completed her duties! Someone went through the trouble of trying to contact them, and about a month later the blocks arrived – almost three years later than expected.

I decided to assemble them as a long banner two by four blocks. Some of the blocks still had the names of the participants and two of them still had their ribbons attached. The banner is backed with the same sky blue moiré from my Grandmother’s Fan-tasy quilt, bound in maroon, and has maroon tassels at the bottom. On the back a muslin plaque lists the names of the known, and the winners. This piece hung in my sewing studio – out of the direct sunlight – for many years.

Condition: minor light fading on the more delicate fabrics

This piece was never exhibited.

[stephaniemarlowftw]

BIG | BRAVE ANNOUNCE NEW LP, ‘VITAL’

Incoming on CD + digital formats April 23rd, with vinyl release to follow on July 9th, from Southern Lord.

Watch the music video for VITAL’s first single “Half Breed” now.    

Minimalism and instinct, structure/freedom and meticulous timing form the cornerstones of BIG | BRAVE's precise, rhythmical sound.  On their new album VITAL (available on CD/digital formats April 23rd and vinyl on July 9th via Southern Lord), the recording features the core trio Robin Wattie, Mathieu Ball and Tasy Hudson, for their most collaborative record they’ve made so far. The band comments, “having cut our teeth in very different musical backgrounds respectively, our intuitions vary, which has an interesting effect on our individual approaches and ears.”  Lyrically, VITAL explores the weight of race and gender, endurance and navigating other people’s behaviors, observation and protest. The band further commented “this album involves what it means navigating the outside world in a racialized body and what it does to the psyche as a whole while exploring individual worth within this reality.”

Our first glimpse of the album arrives today in the form of a video for the track "Half Breed", consisting of a single shot of a single performative action that can be read as the representation of the damage an external force can have on someone or something without ever having to bear any responsibility and consequence.  BIG | BRAVE adds, "The action of shoveling dirt onto the person, also acts a way to discredit, shame and discriminate the individual. With the victim (on screen), being painfully covered with dirt by the perpetrator (off screen), all we have to witness is the damage done and left behind. We are aware of what is happening, what has happened, but the source is kept anonymous and can easily be missed and overlooked."  

Watch (+ share) BIG | BRAVE’s music video for “Half Breed” on YouTube. 

(Also available on Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify.)

On VITAL, BIG | BRAVE once again made the trek down to Rhode Island to record with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets. They remark “we fully trust his instinct as an engineer and his creative output, getting to experiment with textures, concepts, layers, and with pretty much every single recorded sound,  the process of making records with Seth is an absolute journey in sonic exploration". 

VITAL, track list:

1. ABATING THE INCARNATION OF MATTER 

2. HALF BREED 

3. WITED. STILL AND ALL... 

4. OF THIS ILK 

5. VITAL

BIG | BRAVE - BIOGRAPHY: 

With the initial seeds planted in 2012, with no other goal than simply experimenting with the instruments in their possession, Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball started writing subtle ambient/minimalistic folk songs together. When long time friend Louis Alexandre Beauregard joined on drums, the goal still remained to play as tranquil as possible. After an incident where Wattie’s acoustic guitar broke, and having borrowed a friend’s electric as a replacement, larger amps that Ball had in storage from previous bands started to get incorporated to the outfit.  Now with amplitude as a compositional tool, BIG | BRAVE never lost interest in the power of minimalism and fragility. It became clear that loud volume would become just as effective as the lowest possible ones and the juxtaposition of both would become something BIG | BRAVE still uses as their main M.O. to this day. 

After self-releasing Feral Verdure in 2014, the band had the opportunity to open for Thee Silver Mt Zion in Montreal QC. After which, Efrim Manuel Menuck found something meaningful in the members and the band and invited them to open on future shows with Mt Zion and with Godspeed! You Black Emperor. 

In 2015, the band entered the studio with Menuck and recorded Au De La. With no home for the record, they decided to take a chance in writing to Southern Lord. As luck would have it, Greg Anderson happened upon their email among hundreds and responded. Since then, the band has had a home with Southern Lord Records. (Along with Au De La, Southern Lord has released Ardor in 2017, A Gaze Among Them in 2019 and VITAL in 2021). 

After Beauregard’s departure in 2018, the band traveled down to Rhode Island with Loel Campbell on drums to make a first record with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets. After the album’s release, with Campbell unable to tour, Tasy Hudson joined the ranks and the band spent most of the year touring their 2019 album A Gaze Among Them. 

In 2020, the core trio of Ball, Wattie and Hudson once again made the trek down to Machines with Magnets to record their fifth LP VITAL. 

Since their inception, the band has had many honours and privileges of touring a number of times in North America and Europe with bands such as Sunn O))), MY DISCO, The Body, Thou, Primitive Man and Thee Silver Mt Zion.