01/29 @ 8:30pm - Steve Gunn & John Truscinski + Spectre Folk + Bill Nace + Tom Carter

Steve Gunn

Steve Gunn plies his trade in the Northeast, calling Brooklyn home.  He’s best know for the major role he plays in the group GHQ.  Over the course of numerous excellent releases, it became clear that Gunn was a real force in experimental music.  Once his solo music started being unearthed, there was no turning back.   Steve will be performing a mix of improvisational blues based guitar works.

Spectre Folk

“As a founding member of The Magik Markers, prolific solo artist , and collaborator; Pete Nolan‘s work exists in it’s own space/time. Untethered to any scene or movement, Pete‘s sound has it’s roots in the classic psych/folk/noise underground without betraying the originality that seperates true artist from flash-in-the blog hype spew.”   -Jeff Conklin

Tom Carter

Born barely south of the Mason-Dixon line, and just in time for the Summer of Love, Tom Carter led a decidedly non-hippy existence being shuffled around various farm and mining towns in Maryland and Ohio by his newspaperman father, before finally making his way to Texas in 1985, just in time to watch all the good hardcore bands die. Already obsessed with American pre-punk and British post-punk, Carter dove into the lysergically spiked musical waters of Texas with both feet, augmenting rudimentary guitar skills with unreliable instruments, cranky analog electronics, and disintegrating practice amps. Over the ensuing decades, he managed to forge his evolving ideas of complete tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty and unrefined proficiency.

Best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001, playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included Christian Kiefer, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thurston Moore, Shawn David McMillen, Dredd Foole, Loren Connors, Pip Proud, Inca Ore, Jandek, Bardo Pond, and Matt Valentine, among many others.

Most recently, Carter has focused on his solo performances and recordings, touring constantly from 2007-2008, and finally settling in New York City in early 2009. His solo work covers a vast territory, but latter-day sightings show him to be concentrating on looped guitar drones of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, with heaps of psychedelic melodic content missing from the repertoires of many noise and drone bands.

Bill Nace

Bill Nace is an itinerant guitarist in the improv-minstrel mode. His best known projects are X.O.4(with jake meginsky and john truscinski), Northampton Wools(with thurston moore), Vampire Belt (with chris corsano) and in duo with chris cooper, but he is happy to work without a net in a variety of settings.—–Byron Coley