[atlantaprog] Re: [atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] May 16 – May 20, 2007

Yea ya'll - note the Convergence events this Friday & Saturday. I expect a strong ARIA showing!

Also note the May podcast info...

On May 16, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Scott Burland wrote:

Eyedrum events May 16 – May 20, 2007


Friday May 18  9:00pm  $8
Convergence One:  Outer Space


Saturday May 19  9:00pm  $8
Convergence Two:  Inner Space


May 18  Friday

Convergence One:  Outer Space
Music
9:00pm
$8

Spaceseed

Founded in 1988 in Atlanta Georgia by guitarist John Pack. The group broke onto the international scene in 2003 when it joined forces with Charter Hawkwind member Nik Turner. With the release of it's debut disc Future Cities Of The Past in 2004 the group hit the road for it's second tour with Nik It also featured the out of this world synth's of Gal Axxxy. After two tours with Turner the group found itself paired with another former Hawkwind alumni, synth legend Harvey Bainbridge who came into the fold in 2005. Spaceseed has completed 2 U.S. Tours w/ Bainbridge. And recorded a series of discs. The first of which The Empire Of Night has been released by Zeta Reticuli Records. Spaceseed is currently in the studio preparing for the release of two new discs in 2007 once again on the Zeta Reticuli label. Pick up new cd @ http://cdbaby.com/cd/ spaceseed2

http://www.myspace.com/43134154

http://www.spaceseed.org/

Z-Axis

Post-progressive rock; new-edge ambience; psychedelia with a world- beat flavor; synths, guitars and percussion; funky, frenetic jams; eclectic instrumental soundtracks to surreal multi-media experiences.

http://www.myspace.com/zaxismusic

http://www.z-axis.org

Lid Emba

Prologue:
Circa 1991, a 2:00 a.m. show at CBGB’s with porno-core provocateurs the impotent seasnakes. Mid-set, Hilly Krystal’s geriatric, Bosch- type hound squatted in front of the stage and took a pungent dump. Post-show, I was sucker punched with "you're such an asshole" by the grizzled soundtech for being older than 22 and still drumming my ass off in public. Ever since, I've often wondered: Was that sneering, blowjob hungry casualty actually an all knowing oracle of truth? If so, then I'm even more of an asshole now.
Delusions of grandeur:
Early in my naivete, I taught myself to hit things with sticks. Since then, I've played in many bands that history has blissfully ignored, navigating from graceless garage rituals to mercenary disco to new romantic brain damage to tight-assed honkie funk to snooty college-radio fodder, ad nauseam. A few years after leaving the seasnakes, I formed post-prog unit 3d5spd, contributing sampling and synths in addition to boom crack boom. The noise that was rejected kick-started Lid Emba, my "fuck off, I’m an island" project. 3d5spd evaporated in 2004 after four CDs. Lid Emba became the new monkey on my back.

http://www.myspace.com/lidemba

Strix Varia

Strix Varia is a fluid collective of musicians who, armed with a diverse array of musical experiences, life experiences, thought processes and such, recombine and transmute these experiences into a viscereal improvisational musical experience.

Starting with not much more than a key, a ryhthm or some skeletal idea, the ensemble fearlessly builds on the idea resulting in colorful and oft-times unpredictable improvisational flights that could include elements of psychedelic rock, jazz, funk, prog-rock or anything else that comes to mind. Without the constraint of vocals, Strix Varia finds itself quite free to explore in detail

The ensmble's name is the scientific name of the Barred Owl, a firece, nocturnal and mysterious bird, a lot like it's namesake's music.

http://www.geocities.com/theowlwatches

http://www.myspace.com/theowlsmusic



May 19  Saturday

Convergence Two:  Inner Space
Music
9:00pm
$8

Shush

The celestial voice of Drolma floats over Mark Baker’s loopy guitar (both founding members of Bleu Velveta) and Crafty Guitarist David Smart’s ambient bass, forming Shush, a lush dreamscape of textured melody. Shush now.

p. d. wilder

p. d. wilder, aka chaos is a texas drone/noise musician; using acoustic & electric guitars with interspersed samples and incoherent vocals in an attempt to recreate in an improv setting the time spent traveling across the uncomfortable calm and urgency of the vast rolling plains and desert valleys of Texas, through a philosophy of allowing for a pattern of sound to overtake if not replace any confinement, attempting to reestablish the listener, musician, and music itself as the pattern; interconnected.

"if a broom swept the tile floor of a ghost town's back porch, with infinity in its breadth, it might resemble the sound of this guitar..." – david caddell, the local.

"expansive soundscapy guitarist with a patient mastery of timbre & texture, light & shadow" – womblife.

"he creates dense atmospheres, restrained but brimming with feedback and pulsing guitar drones." – richard di santo, incursion.

"consists of swirling and scratching string manipulations and percussive patterns, along with a lazy valium laced vocal style that makes for an interesting marriage of psychedelic and experimental free-improv elements." – jerry kranitz, aural- innovations.

"stratospheric post-rock for sad, sensitive wanderers ... powerfully resonant guitar drones evoke densely textured tracts of space." – dave segal, alternative press.

http://www.myspace.com/pdwilder

Duet For Theremin and Lap Steel, whose name describes its instrumentation in exactly the way it does not give you the full spectrum of what sonic sundries they impart, open with rich textures, swooning collages, and hypnotic pulses, like a warm bath in the aural abyss.

Tannhauser Gate

Spontaneous synthetic textures. Improvised electronic soundscapes. Soundtracks to films that don't yet exist. Loops, drones, sequences, samples, oscillations, modulations, syncopations, arpeggiations, C-beams glittering in the dark...


Miscellany

May’s Podcast started with some live recordings of The Subliminator, Team Gina, GFE (playing again May 8th with GKduo), Bent Frequency (May 20th), Atlanta Poets Group (dedicated radio show next month, June 3rd), Wilbert de Joode, Peter Brotzmann Trio and even Amy Ray. We played a field recording of the Eyedrum crew blowing minds in the annual Inman Park Parade on April 28th. We then continued with some recordings of Lid Emba, Spaceseed, The Strix Varia and Z-Axis -- all playing at the May 18th "Outer Space"- themed show. Todd Nickelson and Nashville Nuns (members of Stovall) were up next, appearing at the Peter Loose art event on May 12th, and finally we closed with some industrial noise / percussion by Z'ev (playing at Eyedrum on May 16th). Another show that was stylistically all over the musical map. Something for everyone! Studio guests included Allen Welty-Green, Bryan Dodd and John Gillett; hosted by Chris Campbell. Download link or Podcast feed.


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