A/V CLUB #15 + MKM! PRESENTS

IT'S GONNA BE GOOD. A TWO-NIGHT TEAM UP WITH CELLIST LORI GOLDSTON (Seattle). A/V CLUB & MKM! ARE EXCITED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT ALL THESE TALENTED PEOPLE TOGETHER AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

A BIT ABOUT LORI :

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher based in Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic is full, textured, committed and original. A perpetual inquirer, she wanders recklessly across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography, performing in clubs, cafes, galleries, arenas, concert halls, sheds, ceremonies, barbecues, and sanctuaries; she toured with Nirvana and appeared with them in "Unplugged in New York".

Current and former collaborators, co-conspirators and bosses include Earth, Mirah, David Byrne, Nirvana, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Matana Roberts, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, John Doe, the Wedding Present, Laura Veirs, Secret Chiefs 3, Portland Cello Project, Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets, Marisa Anderson, Your Heart Breaks, Trey Gunn, Ô Paon, Tara Jane O'Neil, Natacha Atlas, LeRoy Bell, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick and Lynn Shelton. She is co-founder of the Black Cat Orchestra, and has toured the U.S. and Europe with Earth, and recorded Angels of Darkness Demons of Light, Parts 1 & 2; in 2010 she opened as a soloist on tour with Earth and Wolves in the Throne Room.

Her work has been commissioned by and/or performed at the Kennedy Center, TBA, WNYC, Northwest Film Forum, On the Boards, Frye Art Museum, Seattle International Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Museum of Fine Arts, Joe's Pub, the Stone, Wayward Music Series, Oregon State University, University of Chicago Film Studies Center and One Reel Film Festival. She has received awards from Meet the Composer, Artist Trust, 4 Culture and Seattle Arts Commission, and has taught at the University of Washington, EMP, Idyllwild Arts Academy, the Vera Project and the Bush School.
(from www.lorigoldston.com)


more info and updates to follow!

A/V CLUB #14 // BARN OWL / ANDY MOOR (THE EX) & ANNE-JAMES CHATON

AFTER YOU'VE RECOVERED FROM THE WOLF EYES SHOW ON SUNDAY (see post below) BE SURE SURE SURE TO GET SOME REST AND COME BACK TO OCCII ON THURSDAY, MAY 2ND! DOORS ARE AT 20:30 (that's 8:30pm for you yankees).

EVEN MY MOM IS GOING TO BE THERE. I KID YOU NOT.

BARN OWL (Jon Porras & Evan Caminiti) is a West Coast (SF) outfit that has been around since the early 2000's. ...
  "Barn Owl's year of fruition proved to be 2010; as well as starting their own label, Electric Totem, the band released three albums - 'Conjurer' on Rootstrata, Headlands on Important Records, and Ancestral Star after signing to Thrill Jockey.
The band kept up its head of steam by touring internationally as well as kicking off 2011 with the 24-minute Shadowland EP, which was recorded by Phil Manley (Trans Am) in San Francisco, and following the EP with the full-length 'Lost in the Glare' during the summer of that year. Also recorded by Manley, the sound of the harmonium -- which was so prevalent on earlier releases -- was replaced by a Farfisa organ for this outing. In 2013 the duo returned with fifth proper album V, which expanded their sound to include subtle drum machines and electronics." (AllMusic)

ANNE-JAMES CHATON
Taking to the road with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Andy Moor (the Ex), poet, performer, and visual artist Anne-James Chaton (voice & electronics) will be performing as a duo with...

ANDY MOOR
 Experimental musician and madman; long-term member of Dutch punk/experimental powerhouse The Ex, as well as guitarist for the Dog Faced Hermans, founding member of Kletka Red, and the Unsounds experimental music label.

 
Video curated by Helena Sanders, with selections from Virginie Dubois, Rogier Smal, and more...
Barn Owl - Void Redux from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

RIP IT UP

SO MUCH HAPPENING THESE SPRING DAYS. NEXT UP ON THE DOCKET, WOLF EYES RETURNS TO OCCII THIS SUNDAY!!!

OCCII / www.occii.org / Amstelveenseweg 134 / €8 / doors at 20:30

WOLF EYES (US) + SIGHTINGS (US) + DJ BRIAN TURNER (WFMU) + ANDRÉ AVELAS (PT) & FRIENDS ("friends" being : Alexander Krone, Brian McKenna, Cae Carvalho, Helena Sanders, Mike Ottink, PQ, Seamus Cater)

WOLF EYES (US)
Wolf Eyes is alive and plotting out more audio horror, always. Madman Mike Connelly has retired his slot last fall and the new guitarist is young gun Crazy Jim Baljo, as many of you might have heard stories of his exploits from the early Wolf tours and was one who first coined the term INZANE and plays and lives accordingly.
Some say Rock N Roll will never reach the same primitive raw vein hit of Bo Diddley at his more subhuman lurch or no unit can ever scramble the marbles left of what brain boiling suburban electronic punk outsiders did in the mid 70's: Whatever you think, there is no denying the homemade nuclear war Wolf Eyes has left on music. Wolf Eyes was birthed in the shadows by a few liked minded individuals: Nate Young, Aaron Dilloway and John Olson in the late 90's in Michigan. However, Wolf Eyes has become more than band, but a collective mutant ensemble, an art abstraction unit: musicians, print makers, photographers and more, all who share a primal shadowy vision of decoding the wilderness into the soul of humanoid from the deep audio arsenals.

SIGHTINGS (US)
Sightings' deconstuctionist noise rock removes the melodies and hooks of standard rock & roll, leaving a mash of growls and feedback from the high-pitched grind in the guitar strings to the groan inside a bass amp. It's a destructive post-punk mess that beautifully references weird outfits like Einstürzende Neubauten as well as the early-'80s no wave scene and noisy contemporaries like Wolf Eyes, Black Dice, Lightning Bolt, and Ruins. Sightings formed in New York City in 1997 with Mark Morgan (guitar and vocals) and John Lockie (drums) getting together and jamming. A year later they met bassist Richard Hoffman, and the trio put out a slightly more traditional, straight-ahead rock single on the Freedom From imprint. After realizing their art rock potential and drawing inspiration from the likes of Yoko Ono, Cabaret Voltaire, and Red Transistor, Sightings recorded their self-titled debut, released on Load Records in 2002. The group released two more albums for Load 2003’s Absolutes and 2007’s Through the Panama before switching labels to Jagjaguwar and releasing City of Straw in 2010.

BRIAN TURNER (WFMU)
Music Director at radio WFMU in New York/New Jersey since 1996
Order and disorder in a freeform haze of terribly played guitars, shorted-out electronics, found audio detritus, strange sounds from strange lands all around. Psych-punk-junk, collage, even pop. Lots of in-studio live performances to boot.
On WFMU 91.1 fm 90.1 fm wfmu.org | Tuesdays 3pm - 6pm
http://wfmu.org/playlists/BT

TONIGHT //

TONIGHT I'M HELPING CURATE A EVENING OF IMPROVISED EVERYTHING AT THE OORSPRONG CURATOR'S SERIES HERE IN AMSTERDAM. COME OUT!
MY 'SET' WILL BE FEATURING CAE CARVALHO, ARVIND GANGA, AND CHARLOTTE CALDWELL.
It's definitely going to be worth the trip to the other side of the IJ!

KUNST ON YOUR PLATE

IN SOME NON-A/V CLUB RELATED NEWS!

A/V Club lady (aka Ti Femme, aka Big Whiny Baby, aka Helena Sanders, aka Me) is having an open-studio day on APRIL 20th from 13:00 until 18:00ish, along with my two excellent studio mates Maartje and Lisa!
You're all invited - there will be snack, drinks, and DJ's Datnapoku and Mark will be hanging out spinning records as well.
And of course there will be some art. Art you can touch, some that you can't touch because it's glass and if you break it you buy it, and some art you can buy, and some you can just look at and stroke your chin thoughtfully at.
Come see what we get up to back here.

(Atelier GA is tucked away on the Binnenpret, sort of behind the OCCII - through the big red gates at Eerste Schinkelstraat 14-16, Amsterdam...studio is through the blue doors)

poster by Helena Sanders

If that's not enough for you this April, artist Maria Guggenbichler has just set up a hell of a program for her month-long residency S.I.S.T.E.R. in de Bijlmer neighborhood of Amsterdam. There are screenings, walks, talks, familiar faces and new ones, zine-making, performance, other things you can shake a stick at.
You can check out the schedule of events HERE and mark your calendars. 

S.I.S.T.E.R.

 

SPACE TRAVEL ISN'T SO EXPENSIVE THESE DAYS

A/V Club last Friday was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who came out to the show for making it such a special night.
Our next evening is on MAY 2nd with Barn Owl.

Here's a little clip from the action courtesy of Luc Pilmeyer:

LEY LINES UNDER OCCII // A/V CLUB APRIL

THIS GOING TO BE A SPECTACULAR NIGHT.

poster by Helena Sanders

JAMES HARRAR'S CINEMA SOLORIENS and the GONG-O Drama ft.
 DAEVID ALLEN (AUS) guitarist, co-founder of SOFT MACHINE and leader of GONG, MARSHALL ALLEN (US) leader of Sun Ra Arkestra, 
JAMES HARRAR (US),
RORO & FRIENDS
Since beginning this ambitious project 18 years ago with Marshall Allen, leader of The Sun Ra Arkestra, filmmaker/musician James Harrar sees Cinema Soloriens as a constantly evolving creative and spiritual learning centre.
Cinema Soloriens is a multi-media performance consisting of James Harrar’s experimental and highly personal film and video images with a live musical rendering of soundtracks for each film. The musical concepts are created, directed and performed by Harrar (tenor sax, flute, bulbul tarang, reeds, voice and effects) with Marshall Allen (alto sax, flute, keyboards, EVI and effects), Daevid Allen (guitar, effects and voice) and Rogier Smal (percussion and electronics) plus a stellar changing line-up of gifted musicians.

Also performing this evening, a one-time trio featuring ANNE LA BERGE & FRANKIE VIS

and I (Ti Femme) will actually be making a small guest appearance performing vocals along with the Cinema Soloriens super-group. So excited!!!


http://www.dirtroadtech.blogspot.nl/
http://www.cinemasoloriens.com/