Busy, But Not Too Busy For A Post Re: Friday
Who doesn’t wish there were more hours in the day? If we had an extra hour, I could use it for my writing. Then again, I’d probably just sleep for an extra hour. Actually, in reality, I’d probably just stay out an hour later, giving me an extra hour to consume another drink, lowering the quality of sleep I get and making it even less likely that I actually write anything. I guess we should just leave the day at 24 hours. Here’s my super rushed synopsis of what’s happening this Friday, wish I could tell you more about them all and provide you with links and audio samples, but I am a busy man today:
At the Independent, it’ll be organ and drums improvisation of the jazz with a little rock variety, courtesy of Benevento/Russo Duo. Jacob Fredd Jazz Odyssey will start your Friday night off right when they open up with keys/bass/drums groovin’ rockin’ jazz. Just think of this show as tiding you over until Medeski, Martin & Wood play here on the 26th.
Is Megadeth still around? Apparently, because they’re playing the Oakland Arena with Lamb of God and Opeth and a shit ton of other metal acts. If you’re interested in going to this show, you probably already know about it. I just feel the need to plug it because I love Lamb of God and their new album kills. Maybe it’s the fact that my first couple of years of high school were spent listening to Pantera, Machine Head, Biohazard, Sepultura, et al., but Lamb of God just sound so tight.
For the East Bay folks, check out Oxbow and Genghis Tron at the Stork Club. I’ve heard different things about who else is on the line up. Maybe it’s Totimoshi, and maybe it’s The Thrones (more on that later). Who cares? Your ears will already be bleeding when Oxbow drops its super heavy, super weird set. I finally saw them at SXSW and they were rocking so hard (Is it metal? Some weird form of harcore? Just really heavy experimental rock?) that I had to be dragged away by friends so that I wasn’t left in some strange part of Austin. Oh and Genghis Tron, who I have not had the pleasure of seeing will no doubt cause not only your ears to bleed, but also perhaps your brain to just melt inside of your skull, what with their grindcore-electronica. You’ll be nice and relaxed during one of their electronic melodic breakdowns until they come right back with an insane blast of grindcore fueled by a drum machine that surely will cause you to hear jackhammers for weeks. That is, if your brain doesn’t just melt.
Where will I be when there are all these other shows? At Bottom of the Hill, where KUSF is co-presenting the Japanese New Music Festival featuring Acid Mothers Temple and Ruins. These legendary psych/noise/rock/experimental/wtf bands (in the loosest sense, given the configurations of these collectives, centering around one member in each group) will be performing in seven different configurations throughout the evening. Want to learn more? Here’s what I snagged off of Bottom of the Hill’s website about each of the acts:
ZUBI ZUVA X (Yoshida/Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Eccentric poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble. It covers from Gregorian chant to ethnic music, to do-wop to hardcore screaming, heavily using irregular rhythms and polyrhythm. All sorts of ideas and aberrant musicality overturn the image of a cappella. their totally meaningless lyrics and desperate performances throw the audiences into the abyss of the laughter and admiration. it makes the concept of "singing ability"nonsense.
AKATEN (Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Formed in 1995 with the motto of "irresponsibleness" and "perfunctoriness." They easily free themselves from the spell of the traditional seriousness of the art. Using daily commodities like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera, and plastic bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand names over and over as the "songs," the show is performed under the concept of low cost and maximum sound effect. AKATEN is the experimental convenience store punk band that provides the sound images of cheap and simple daily lives.
RUINS ALONE (Yoshida)
RUINS is pioneer of Drum & Bass duo. Tunes are complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung in the language of their own invention. It's high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and powerful tremendous ensemble never sounds like they are only two players. since last bassist left Yoshida still seeking a bassist and currently he has been playing as RUINS ALONE. playing RUINS songs with sampling bass. this time Yoshida will play songs from Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn too.
ZOFFY (Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Formed in 1998. Zoffy's music hints both at the members' deep musical knowledge via their improvised performances of troubadour music and European trad, and also at their deep love for rock via their destructivist covers of classic rock songs, thatno longersounds like anything but ZOFFY. The group believesthat humor is essential in music, and their unprecedented performances stray far from the beaten track. Is this the Ultima Thule that rock music has long been aiming for?
SHRINP WARK (Kawabata/Yoshida)
A new improvising duo consisting of Yoshida from Ruins and Kawabata from AMT. group inspired by This Heat and band name taken from their song "Shrink Wrap". Cosmic chemical reaction sound that embraces a multidimensional chaos based upon the principles of minimalism, an anarchistic warping of the time axis, and ultra-accelerated revolving of time particles.
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on labels around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. SWR is the AMT Family's most powerful battle-formation yet. featuring Tsuyama and Kawabata from the original AMT and Yoshida from Ruins. their crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the world's legions of wannabe psych groups.
SEIKAZOKU (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Formed in 1996. The expansive musicality of the group, which nonchalantly references classic prog and rock, ethnic music, jazz and contemporary composition, is backed up the three members' impressive backgrounds and the depth of their musical knowledge. Improvised music for holy trinity heresy that runs the full gamut of ethnic and electric instruments, primitive stupidity, the suspicious stench of medieval alchemy, the raw power of early rock music, all leavened with a pinch of cosmic incoherency.
Incestuous bunch, no? That’s it for Friday. Hopefully I will have a chance to get the rest of the weekend out there tomorrow, but I should point out that Saturday brings the annual Power to the Peaceful Festival to Golden Gate Park featuring Michael Franti and Blackalicious and bunch of others. Should be good and it’s for a great cause. Who doesn’t want some fucking peace?
At the Independent, it’ll be organ and drums improvisation of the jazz with a little rock variety, courtesy of Benevento/Russo Duo. Jacob Fredd Jazz Odyssey will start your Friday night off right when they open up with keys/bass/drums groovin’ rockin’ jazz. Just think of this show as tiding you over until Medeski, Martin & Wood play here on the 26th.
Is Megadeth still around? Apparently, because they’re playing the Oakland Arena with Lamb of God and Opeth and a shit ton of other metal acts. If you’re interested in going to this show, you probably already know about it. I just feel the need to plug it because I love Lamb of God and their new album kills. Maybe it’s the fact that my first couple of years of high school were spent listening to Pantera, Machine Head, Biohazard, Sepultura, et al., but Lamb of God just sound so tight.
For the East Bay folks, check out Oxbow and Genghis Tron at the Stork Club. I’ve heard different things about who else is on the line up. Maybe it’s Totimoshi, and maybe it’s The Thrones (more on that later). Who cares? Your ears will already be bleeding when Oxbow drops its super heavy, super weird set. I finally saw them at SXSW and they were rocking so hard (Is it metal? Some weird form of harcore? Just really heavy experimental rock?) that I had to be dragged away by friends so that I wasn’t left in some strange part of Austin. Oh and Genghis Tron, who I have not had the pleasure of seeing will no doubt cause not only your ears to bleed, but also perhaps your brain to just melt inside of your skull, what with their grindcore-electronica. You’ll be nice and relaxed during one of their electronic melodic breakdowns until they come right back with an insane blast of grindcore fueled by a drum machine that surely will cause you to hear jackhammers for weeks. That is, if your brain doesn’t just melt.
Where will I be when there are all these other shows? At Bottom of the Hill, where KUSF is co-presenting the Japanese New Music Festival featuring Acid Mothers Temple and Ruins. These legendary psych/noise/rock/experimental/wtf bands (in the loosest sense, given the configurations of these collectives, centering around one member in each group) will be performing in seven different configurations throughout the evening. Want to learn more? Here’s what I snagged off of Bottom of the Hill’s website about each of the acts:
ZUBI ZUVA X (Yoshida/Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Eccentric poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble. It covers from Gregorian chant to ethnic music, to do-wop to hardcore screaming, heavily using irregular rhythms and polyrhythm. All sorts of ideas and aberrant musicality overturn the image of a cappella. their totally meaningless lyrics and desperate performances throw the audiences into the abyss of the laughter and admiration. it makes the concept of "singing ability"nonsense.
AKATEN (Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Formed in 1995 with the motto of "irresponsibleness" and "perfunctoriness." They easily free themselves from the spell of the traditional seriousness of the art. Using daily commodities like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera, and plastic bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand names over and over as the "songs," the show is performed under the concept of low cost and maximum sound effect. AKATEN is the experimental convenience store punk band that provides the sound images of cheap and simple daily lives.
RUINS ALONE (Yoshida)
RUINS is pioneer of Drum & Bass duo. Tunes are complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung in the language of their own invention. It's high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and powerful tremendous ensemble never sounds like they are only two players. since last bassist left Yoshida still seeking a bassist and currently he has been playing as RUINS ALONE. playing RUINS songs with sampling bass. this time Yoshida will play songs from Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn too.
ZOFFY (Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Formed in 1998. Zoffy's music hints both at the members' deep musical knowledge via their improvised performances of troubadour music and European trad, and also at their deep love for rock via their destructivist covers of classic rock songs, thatno longersounds like anything but ZOFFY. The group believesthat humor is essential in music, and their unprecedented performances stray far from the beaten track. Is this the Ultima Thule that rock music has long been aiming for?
SHRINP WARK (Kawabata/Yoshida)
A new improvising duo consisting of Yoshida from Ruins and Kawabata from AMT. group inspired by This Heat and band name taken from their song "Shrink Wrap". Cosmic chemical reaction sound that embraces a multidimensional chaos based upon the principles of minimalism, an anarchistic warping of the time axis, and ultra-accelerated revolving of time particles.
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on labels around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. SWR is the AMT Family's most powerful battle-formation yet. featuring Tsuyama and Kawabata from the original AMT and Yoshida from Ruins. their crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the world's legions of wannabe psych groups.
SEIKAZOKU (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Formed in 1996. The expansive musicality of the group, which nonchalantly references classic prog and rock, ethnic music, jazz and contemporary composition, is backed up the three members' impressive backgrounds and the depth of their musical knowledge. Improvised music for holy trinity heresy that runs the full gamut of ethnic and electric instruments, primitive stupidity, the suspicious stench of medieval alchemy, the raw power of early rock music, all leavened with a pinch of cosmic incoherency.
Incestuous bunch, no? That’s it for Friday. Hopefully I will have a chance to get the rest of the weekend out there tomorrow, but I should point out that Saturday brings the annual Power to the Peaceful Festival to Golden Gate Park featuring Michael Franti and Blackalicious and bunch of others. Should be good and it’s for a great cause. Who doesn’t want some fucking peace?
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