Come to Spectacle for an intimate show with:
UK folk legend Michael Chapman
Guitar great Glenn Jones
Rising local phenoms Quilt
Michael Chapman:
http://michaelchapman.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/fullyqualifiedsurvivor
Glenn Jones:
http://www.myspace.com/glennjonesguitar
Quilt:
http://www.myspace.com/quilt
Boston Premier Screening! Live set by Glenn Jones.
Tuesday, November 24 at 8pm
End of an Empire Presents:
Sandy Bull: No Deposit, No Return Blues
by KC Bull (director in attendance)
Plus: Glenn Jones (solo acoustic set)
Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3
Chinatown, Boston
$5-$10 requested donation
http://spectacle.nu/
“On recess from her job as a primary school teacher in Oakland, California, KC Bull has recently been touring with her illuminating documentary No Deposit, No Return Blues, a sensitively assembled homage to her father, the pioneering psychedelic folk musician, Sandy Bull. Active from 1950 until his death in 2001, Bull’s legendary performances, blending elements of American folk with jazz, classical, Indian and Arabic-influenced modes, and later rock n’ roll, made him a cult hero to a generation of musicians and artists, many of who, including the likes of “clown activist” Wavy Gravy and Nubian musician Hamza El Din, are seen here paying their respects.
Bull’s eclectic borrowings transcended conventional ideas of what an instrument could, or indeed should, sound like – no one had ever thought of playing a scenic cantata on a five string banjo (Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”) before, much less a bossa nova on an electric oud (Luis Bonfa’s “Manha De Carnaval”). And while the film depicts his early career, zooming around with Hunter S. Thompson, as maybe a little regretful (despite a clutch of classic albums released on Vanguard, including Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo and Inventions), it’s also clear that Bull’s peripheral position offered him space to gestate and experiment.” – Dazed & Confused Magazine
Links:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=55836839
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bull
http://www.myspace.com/404819447
http://digital.othermusic.com/wp/index.php?tag=k.c.-bull
Presented by SoundPool
- Ben Owen (from NYC)
- Asher
- Jay Sullivan
- DJ Ning Nong playing tunes in between sets
@ Spectacle in Chinatown
8pm, $5 donation for the artists
Ben Owen is a microsound, multimedia, and print artist based out of New York. He has collaborated with a wide variety of other musicians including Albert Ortega, Murmer, Bryan Eubanks, Andy Hayleck, and many more. Rather than just filling it, Ben’s work is marked by his use of silence and pulling sounds out of it, creating a highly focused and engaging sonic environment. Ben is also the head of Winds Measure Recordings and Middle Press.
http://www.windsmeasurerecordings.net
Asher is a Somerville based artist who processes recordings of acoustic instruments and field sounds. While often minimal and restrained, Asher’s compositions have the ability to evoke a wide range of emotions. Everyday environmental sounds and decayed piano recordings seem to flow together seamlessly creating something much greater than the sum of its parts. Asher runs the Sourdine label, and has collaborated with artists such as Jason Kahn, Brendan Murray, and John Hudak.
http://www.sourdine.net/
Jay Sullivan is a Massachusetts native and has been honing his craft for years manipulating records, turntables, electricity, and detritus to create unique layered compositions. Jay is also a member of the duo Skeletons Out (with Howard Stelzer), trio Ouest (with Howard Stelzer and Brendan Murray), and is currently working on a mail collaboration with sound artist Jeph Jerman.
http://www.webreakmore.com
DJ Ning Nong is the host of his very own Ning Nong Radio show every week on WZBC and has enough records to make your head explode. Expect to do some serious shoegazing.
Thursday, November 5th at 9pm
Spectacle
$8. All ages.
Ashtray Navigations (rare stateside appearance!)
Jason Lescalleet
“Ashtray Navigations are an English psychedelic noise project
centered upon Phil Todd, active since 1991. Sometimes referred to
as “Ash Nav”, the group operate out of Todd’s home in Stoke-on-
Trent, England. While the music evades easy categorization due to
variations in sound, approach and personnel, it often incorporates
extended droning and lengthy guitar pieces. James Blackshaw
described the Ashtray Navigations sound as ‘sub-aquatic synth
bubble, busted-up cassette-tape hiss and distorted electric guitar
hover that sounds like a mythical god banished from the realm of
light and trying desperately to clamber his/her way out of a dark
bottomless void where time itself stands still.’ The Wire’s David
Keenan has described Phil Todd/Ashtray Navigations as ‘a trashcan
antidote to LaMonte Young.’ Reviewing Todd’s 36th album, The Love
that Whirrs, critic Larry Dolman wrote ‘Trash drone, free skiffle,
new electric raga, sun blindness music, call it what you will,
this is a powerful statement.’”
http://www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations
myrmyr is Agnes Szelag and Marielle Jakobsons creating electroacoustic songs on many instruments including the violin, cello, voice, bass, gezhong, piano and accordion. They combine experimental recording techniques, production and MAX/MSP patches with scores that are often conceptually or process-driven, resulting in their unique style of electroacoustic music, reminiscent of Scandinavian folklore, lullabies, dramatic film scores, electronic and improvised music.
“The Amber Sea” — myrmyr’s debut album is all about the story of amber inspired by the mythology, Baltic folklore, and geology of this magical gem.
http://www.myspace.com/myrmyr
http://www.myrmyr.net/
Supporting:
Baba Yaga, our local jewel. Sounds like wind sighing through trees. ocean moan. scuttling dry leaves. gypsy lullabies.
http://www.myspace.com/thisisbabayaga
The Glass Shivers w/ Architecture of the Sun: Providence’s improvised electronic and acoustic dreamstate sound ying framed by Jamaica Plain’s dual 16mm projection film yang.
http://www.myspace.com/theglassshivers
at Spectactle
17 Edinboro Street #3
Boston, MA
$5 suggested donation
