Unsound Festival New York Labs @ Littlefield: Skull Defekts w/ Daniel Higgs + Zomes + Paul Wirkus
Unsound Festival New York Labs and ISSUE Project Room presents Gospel of the Skull featuring the New York debut of The Skull Defekts with Daniel Higgs at Littlefield. Baltimore-based Zomes (a project of another ex-Lungfish member Asa Osborne) and the Polish-born musician Paul Wirkus will open the night.
This event will take place at Littlefield at 622 Degraw Street, presented by ISSUE Project Room and Unsound New York Labs.
Peg Simone + Wrekmeister Harmonies + MV Carbon and Zach Layton duo
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(listen): the Sun is Leaking – Peg Simone
Peg Simone, out of NYC, employs the slide to bone-chilling effect, fracturing raucous rock choruses and sepia-toned ballads into ghost images with its off-tuned eeriness & pure blues tones stuttering across hectic post-punk rhythms. Her upcoming release “Secrets From The Storm” is due in February/March 2010 & will be released on Table of the Elements. Peg is also a guitarist in Jonathan Kane’s February and collaborated with Kane on the upcoming album for their own 22 minute version of When The Levee Breaks titled “1927/Levee” with intro narrative written by Holly Anderson.
Chicago-based sound artist J.R. Robinson has been creating live, ambient tonefields in museums around the US and Europe over the past two years-including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and The Art Center Berlin.
Robinson has injected these recordings into collaborations with some like-minded heavy hitters from the noise, post-rock and jazz worlds such as David Yow (Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid), Mark Shippy & Pat Samson (US Maple), Azita Youssefi, John Herndon & Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Keefe Jackson, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Ken Vandermark. The result (dubbed Wrekmeister Harmonies), is a distinctive hybrid of sound art and avant-garde musics, evoking the essences & influences of masterworks like Joe McPhee’s Nation Time, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music and the sound collages of Stockhausen.
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