07/11 @ 6:00pm - Summer Courtyard Concert: Bobb Trimble’s Flying Spiders + Loren Connors’ Haunted House + Gary War + Samara Lubelski

Please Note New Time (6:00 pm)

Bobb Trimble’s Flying Spiders
Bobb Trimble’s Flying Spiders (aka The Flying Spiders) became the live vehicle for Bobb’s music in the spring of 2008. Beginning as a joint reunion project (“The Prefab Messiahs with Bobb Trimble”) for the Wormtown 30th Anniversary Bash in Worcester MA, the group performed under their current name for the first time at the Somerville MA stop of the “No More Bush Tour” (curated by Byron Coley, and presented by Ecstatic Peace and Arthur Magazine) in the summer of 2008.

This Issue Project show marks Bobb’s 2nd-ever NYC appearance, the first having been the “After Dark” event (Rose Live Bar, Williamsburg 6/25/09) put on by Anthology Recordings, Viva-Radio and Rotter & Friends.

Bobb self-released two odd-but-brilliant albums in the early 1980s which within a decade became wildly sought-after by collectors, who regularly paid $600-800+ apiece for them.  Why all the fuss?  Well, the albums did strike a certain “outsider alert” by virtue of the cover art: Bobb with machine gun on the first one, and Bobb with a “real live” unicorn on the second. It’s the music, though, which cements music lovers’ fervor over Bobb. Described by many as “psychedelic”, it makes full use of studio techniques to unfurl onion-skin layers of dreams and feelings — some hopeful, some disturbing — into a unique fabric that doesn’t bear close resemblance to much else recorded before or since. Bobb’s angelic high harmonies shepherd the proceedings, which writer Byron Coley calls “incredible, multi-layered late night listening of the highest order”.

It should be noted that BobbMania is no longer a collectors-only sport: the albums were reissued late in 2007 on Secretly Canadian Records, to wide acclaim.

LINKS:
www.bobbtrimble.com
www.facebook.com/BobbTrimble
www.myspace.com/Bobb.Trimble

Loren Connors’ Haunted House

Haunted House played at Tonic, the Cooler, Brownies and other venues in the late 1990s, until one of its band members moved away. The band was comprised of avant blues guitarist Loren Connors, vocalist/lyricist Suzanne Langille, avant guitarist Andrew Burnes (of San Agustin) and Neel Murgai (soundtrack for “The Yes Men Fix the World”) on the daf. They re-unite for this performance, after roughly a 10-year hiatus. Simon Hopkins in Motion Reviews writes:  “…There’s something extraordinarily alien about the blues that all the ‘rootsy’ marketing in the world can’t deny. Loren MazzaCane Connors is one of a handful of musicians helping his audience rediscover that other worldliness, and seldom has he done so with more clarity than here, as single blues phrases are seemingly extended across minutes rather than bars. Langille’s ethereal voice adds to the tension and exoticism, Murgai’s daf perhaps even more so. Meanwhile, Burnes’s guitar is the perfect foil for LMCs.”

Gary War

“Gary War is taking sonic wizardry to levels as yet uncharted by man. While we sleep he is fashioning lyric webs like a yellow brick path thru the rawest of the honest…” -La Maladie Tropicale

Samara Lubelski (w/ Peter Nolan and Helen Rush)

Songwriter-singer-multi-instrumentalist-improviser-engineer Samara Lubelski is not what anyone could call ‘pigeonholed’ in the climate of contemporary music. She has split her time between Germany, where she works with the psychedelic group Metabolismus, and her Lower East Side home base, playing and recording with a who’s who of the art-punk and freely-improvised folk scenes (Tower Recordings, Hall of Fame, Matt Valentine), for she has been brewing a rich cup of aesthetic ingredients.  Lubselski will be performing with Peter Nolan, of Spectre Folk and Helen Rush of Metal Mountains and Tower Recordings.