SciFiPhilly!

Sunday, May 3rd @ Gojjo 4540 Baltimore Ave.
>>music starts at 9pm:

I'll play a short set.

Also:

LOADBANG ENSEMBLE
Philip Everall - bass clarinet
Andy Kozar - trumpet
Will Lang - trombone
Jeffrey Gavett - baritone voice
www.myspace.com/loadbangensemble

UNTITLED ORIGINAL
Thomas Razler - tenor
Alexander Maio - drums
Jarrett Gilgore - alto
Chris Covatta - guitar
www.myspace.com/jarrettgilgore

MICROKINGDOM (Baltimore, MD)
Marc Miller - guitar
Will Redman - drums
www.myspace.com/willredman

$5 cover, injera bread

May 3 BEFORE SCI*FI @The Rotunda/ 4014 Walnut St.:

SHREDfest V: Festival of SHRED
7 pm sharp/ Donations accepted

Featuring improvising shredders from Philadelphia and NY:
Nick Millevoi
David Fishkin (of Gun Muffs)
Dan Scofield (of Shot X Shot)
Drew Ceccato
Dan Blacksberg (of Clesmer)
Jesse Moynihan (of Make A Rising)
Adam Caine (of Brooklyn)
Alison Conard (of Voodoo Economics, Upholstery)
John DeBlase (of Zevious, Altamira)
Matt Engle (of Shot X Shot)
Robert Ludington (of Circles, Sentinel)
Pete Angevine (of Illuminea, Special What?)
Eric Slick (of Adrian Belew Power Trio)
Eli Litwin (Normal Love, Knife the Glitter)

SHREDfest is a series of experimental compositions by Nick Millevoi.  Each composition is performed only once
with a unique group of musicians, around whom each piece is based.  When SHREDfest occurs, the music performed
is mostly improvisation-based high-energy shredding.

SHREDfest V: Festival of SHRED will consist of three 30-minute sets of music composed specifically for this
epic event.

Set I will be performed by Nick Millevoi (guitar/conductor), Adam Caine (guitar), Jesse Moynihan (violin),
Johnny DeBlase (el. bass), Alison Conard (keys), Robert Ludington (drums), and Pete Angevine (drums).

Set II will be performed by Nick Millevoi (guitar/conductor), David Fishkin (baritone and tenor sax/electric sax),
Dan Scofield (alto sax), Drew Cecatto (tenor sax, EVI), Dan Blacksberg (trombone), Larry Toft (trombone) Matt Engle (bass), Eli Litwin (drums), Eric Slick (drums).

Set III will be a full combination of both sets I and II.

This show will be over in time for the official afterparty Sci Fi show at Gojjo/ 4540 Baltimore Ave.
w/Untitled Original, Microkingdom, and Loadbang Ensemble

I provide content.

Thus, I have a new disc called Content Provider.

Order it from me for $5.

 

Also, I'm playing tomorrow at the Solstice Daytime Magic Art Garden Sh'bang. Info below.

 

(ALSO: check my show listings for 2 shows next weekend)

 

Fire Museum Presents:

Summer Solstice Reverie at The Magic Gardens!

Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
1020-1022 South Street, Philadelphia
Saturday, June 21st 3-6PM
$5



Fire Museum brings you Summer Solstice Reverie at the Magic Gardens, three hours of continuous music taking place on 4 staging areas with 23 different sets in total. This afternoon of sound, vision and movement features (in no particular order):

Ashley Deekus, Charles Duquesne (Public Record, etc), Toshi Makihara, Lisa Spero (Radio Eris, etc), Daniel Fishkin (Dandelion Fiction), Eric Carbonara, George Korein, Katt Hernandez, Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Serpents of Wisdom, Grass Hair, Jack Wright and Alban Bailey, Ryan Frazier, Emit Es, Brother Buckroar, Jon Barrios, Megan Cauley & Mike Mc Dermott (Gemini Wolf), Tom Madeja, Tony Cenicola, Adoration, Charles Cohen & Tyler (Color is Luxury), Weyes Bluhd, Latralmagog and Lenny Siedman's Tabla Choir.

There will also be dance performances by members of Amnesiac Dance Company & magic lantern projections by Brooke Sietinsons.

New sound combinations will emerge as you wander through the gardens during the performances. Inside, electronic music performances will accompany the magic latern projections - culminating in a performance of tabla tarang by a three person "tabla choir".


(Rain date: Sunday, June 22nd 3-6pm)


more info: http://ww.museumfire.com/events

The show went great. Here's a video from that:

It Came From The Woods: Theme

And here's videos from the March Lobe Stub NYC show:

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Art Jerks!

I've posted a song "Reach Out" from my completed album Art Jerks: Dysphemism Treadmill. The whole album is a collaboration with Dan Scofield (Shot x Shot), Ricardo Lagomasino (Capillary Action, Altamira) and Yanni Pappadopoulos (Stinking Lizaveta).

If anyone wants to help me release it, please contact me.

My terms are veeeeery agreeable.

Posthumous I?/C! Appreciation Day

This week's metal column in Pitchfork features some points of interest for me and my Philly brethren. A Philadelphians Javelina are interviewed, the Philly scene is praised by the interviewer, and Marylander Half Makeshift names Infidel?/Castro! as his primary influence for his music under that moniker.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/50073-column-show-no-mercy

He also gives a shout-out to semi-Philadelphians Genghis Tron.

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/04/17/restless

 

also, Lobe Stub strikes Madrid:

 

Another Corpse, Too Many Days and Naked Mall Rats all available now at CrucialBlast.net.


Reviews:

?The newest disc from George Korein goes darker than his previous solo releases, exploring a series of grim, dimly lit distorted soundscapes captured within the smoking ruins of a destroyed hard drive... There’s no doubt that the sounds on this disc are some of the harshest I’ve ever heard from George. Massive metallic drones are draped in incandescent electronic sinewaves and punishing digital cut-ups. Blasts of deformed synthetic noise rock and black metal riffing show up later on, along with nauseating fretless bass riffs and brutal oil drum percussion. Definitely the darkest, harshest, heaviest solo work that George has created since Infidel?/Castro!, but still as weird and damaged as anything else the guy has been doing, a strange mishmash of hyper-stressed computer noise abstraction, mongoloid noise rock jamming, instrumental mutant black metal, and deeply creepy dronescapes. The disc comes in a simple wallet sleeve with stark twilight imagery.
- Crucial Blast

Guess who’s back again with yet another crazy project to terrorize the senses and question the sane man’s very notion of music? That’s right, it’s George Korein, this time wheeling his way into your living room supported by various other musicians. The best thing about his projects is that it is impossible to have any expectations about them, just because it’s all so different. The one single thing you can count on with this Philly mad music scientist is that it won’t sound like your regular cup of tea. That is, unless your daily cup of tea is green, bubbly, and smelling of chemicals.

’Another Corpse’ is a "meditation on various sonic textures", but you can also just call it noise, or drone because that sounds more like he knows what he is doing. And make no mistake, he does. If you dive deep into this record you can almost see him sitting there, by himself, with all kinds of pulsating machines around him, experimenting with vibrating sounds like mad professor. Suddenly he has discovered an amazing sound, and often the violin of Helena Espvall (Espers) is involved in that. At times you will be hearing sounds that seem completely random, like an accelerating intercity train, a rumbling street drill, or a broken refrigerator. The humor is also typically "Koreinian", just listen to the wild grinding ’Pulsing Corpse’ , and the funny bleeps that break the violence.

??Once again, there is so much happening on this next record by sonic artist George Korein. Will all you angry metal fans want to know about it? Probably not. But if you open our ears, maybe even turn them inside out a little bit, I am sure you can handle more than you thought. It is definitely worth a try you know. This little trip called ’Another Corpse’ will take you to places you can’t even dream of, and to sounds you did not even know they exist.
- LordsofMetal.nl

Yet another strange experiment in sonic immolation from the Infidel? / Castro! noisemaker. This time around the concept is "gray metal" -- that is, quasi-ambient droning and machine bleating, heavy on the high-pitched noise tip. Much of this is basically drone noise, especially on the first five tracks (three versions of "Gleaming Corpse" and two versions of "Singsong Corpse"); it’s a diabolical headfuck strategy, though, because just about the time you grow used to disconnected deep drones and drawn-out glitch noise, "Pulsating Drone" kicks in with hyperactive drumming (courtesy of Keith Abrams), sounding like a low-rent noise impression of Marduk followed by lots of squealy tone-fu. The two tracks in the middle of the album are part of a "rotodrone encroaching!" suite, and they are indeed riddled with cyclotron droning, along with other noisy effluvia and something vaguely approaching actual song structures, sort of (at least more so than the previous tracks). The remaining seven tracks, all part of the "flying corpse" suite, burn through an ever-expanding palette of strange noises, from grinding white noise to more high-pitched squealing, strange processed vocal chants, and other weirdness; by "Evasive Manuevers," the noises are starting to approach something resembling actual music (extremely devolved and noise-riddled music, true, but music nevertheless), and "Acceleration" sounds like an avant take on power metal using only severely untraditional instruments and noise over a rubbery bass line. The final track, "Flying Corpse Flies Again," sounds like the noise-age equivalent of space rock over a heavy (and simple) beat, minimalist but intriguing. As avant and utterly mutant as this sounds, I have the strange feeling it will be considered almost pop music in another few years. Well, maybe. It’s certainly a different take on ambient metal / noise, that’s for sure.
- The One True Dead Angel


Oh, and come to my show this month -- I don’t play out often and when I do I make it count.

This will be my first show since December and my first NYC show in much longer. The cast is stellar and the cause is important. Read on:


March 14, 2008
Andrew D'angelo Benefit Concert featuring Jesse
Krakow, We Are The Musk Brigade, Lobe Stub, Naked Mall
Rats, Giggle The Ozone, Y2Keith!, Blastex, and Da
Groove Commanders
Lit Lounge - 93 2nd Ave. btw 5th + 6th sts. (F to 2nd
Ave.)
9:00 pm SHARP!
$6

Andrew - a well-respected saxophonist best
known for his groundbreaking work with percussionist
Jim Black - was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor
and is expected to undergo surgery in the very near
future. Unfortunately Andrew is one of the millions of
Americans who cannot afford medical insurance, let
alone an expensive medical procedure, so all of his
friends are chipping in whatever they can to help him
pay for an operation that will save his life.

There have been multiple benefits arranged by
musicians all over the world, which so far have been
extremely helpful in raising funds, and the one this
Friday hopes to be equally as helpful. Jesse Krakow, George
Korein, Dylan Sparrow, Keith Abrams, and Eric
Fitzgerald are all pooling our collective talents and
doing a kind of round-robin/musical-chairs thing, and
it should be very entertaining.

Entertainment, odd music, good people, and a worthy
cause benefiting a truly wonderful human being. What
else can one hope for?

Please come and help support a good guy who deserves
to live as much as the rest of us. If you cannot come
but wish to contribute to a fund that has been set-up
for Andrew, please contact Mike Pride, at
mp@mikepride.com.

it's available,
you can order it from

BatHotAxe.com/store.html
or majmua.museumfire.com
or by messaging me.


I would've posted some lobe stubs today but my computer stopped working.

I'll be playing at the Lit Lounge in NYC on Friday March 14 with my illustrious comrades Jesse Krakow, Dylan Sparrow, Keith Abrams, and Eric Fitzgerald. This will be the first live appearance of the NAKED MALL RATS, and the first NYC appearance of LOBE STUB. Don't miss the mischief!

miss chief?

My various CDs (including Another Corpse preorder) are available at:

http://bathotaxe.com/store.html

 

(questions? comments? complaints? message me)

 

 

Fire Museum's Majmua series presents:

 

ANOTHER CORPSE

A study in Grey Metal ambience, noise and texture.

 

15 tracks, 46:30.

 

If you preorder it now I'll send it you as soon as I have them in my paws.

Message me if you're interested.