Tuesday, July 7, 9pm, $8--free folk stalwarts CASTANETS
Wednesday, July 8, 9pm, $8--a night of structural chaos and improvised fragmentation feat. METALUX (M.V. Carbon & Jenny Gräf) with
BILL NACE (electric guitar)/ STEVE BACZKOWSKI (saxophones, turntables) duo
Castanets were one of the more prominent proponents of the so-called freak folk movement (also known as psychedelic folk and New Weird America) that took place in the U.S. music scene in 2003-04. While Raymond Raposa is the only constant member of the band, his records and live performances often feature a rotating cast of musicians, the line-up often changing from night to night in a single tour.
Bill Nace you may know from his killer duo throwdowns with Chris Corsano as Vampire Belt as well as the more recent weirdness with Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Lollypop as Ceylon Mange and in duo with Thurston Moore as Northampton Wools. This will be his first duo encounter with Buffalo's Steve Baczkowski after having played together in 2005 with Moore's Dream Aktion Unit at the Festival Musique Actuelle in Quebec.
M.V. Carbon is a Brooklyn based musician and composer who sometimes incorporates film into live performances. She uses fragmented field recordings, analog synthesizers, samplers, tape manipulations, and photosensitive oscillators to assimilate structural chaos and decomposition. She creates eerie and unsettling compositions using her voice as an instrument and processing it through tape machines. She plays cello through tape loops and guitar pedals and uses 16mm film imagery as a backdrop for her performances. She is interested in the structural decomposition and fragmentation that occurs within architecture, landscape, human physiology, and perception.
Jenny Gräf is a sound and visual artist. Several of her works are long-term collaborations with individuals and groups, including several long-term collaborations with people with memory loss. One such project was The Guitars Project, in which 6 women with Alzheimer’s developed strategies for playing electric guitar that challenged notions of memory, identity and age. She is currently working with Chiara Giovando on Proud Flesh, a Western shot in the Badlands of South Dakota that features two older female protagonists as well as many Baltimore artists and musicians. Release date is set for early 2008.
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