April 10 — WINONA BEAMER Hawaiian native culture expert, folk activist, hula dancer.
APRIL 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Christian GOOD FRIDAY.
* Florence, Italy: EXPLOSION OF THE CAR. A large wooden carfull of fireworks and explosives sits in the piazza. A wire runs to the cathedral. A dove-shaped rocket is ignited at the altar, runs along the wire and explodes the car.
ALSO ON APRIL 9 IN HISTORY…
1841 — Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune begins publication.
1866 — American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) founded.
1919 — Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata dies, Chinameca, Mexico.
1959 — Utopian architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies, Taliesin West, Arizona.
1981 — UN approves world treaty assuring no civilians should be attacked with “napalm, mines or booby-traps.” Defeated by U.S. veto.
2008 — Hawaiianist Winona Kapuailohiamanonokalani Desha Beamer dies, Maui.
Extra Golden will be playing one of the first shows of their U.S. tour with Audrey Chen, Matthew Papich (of Ecstatic Sunshine) and Ami Dang. Alongside Extra Golden’s Kenyan sunshine pop, be prepared for some throat singing, warbling, wailing, psychedelic sitar/electronics and blissed out washes of guitar…
Date & Time: Friday, April 10th, 8:30pm Venue: Floristree Location: 405 W. Franklin / Baltimore, MD 21201 Price: $5 before 9:30, $10 after (Get there early!)
April 9 — CHARLES BAUDELAIRE “Be drunk always, on wine, virtue, poetry, whatever! But drunk!”
APRIL 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Name Yourself Day.
*All is ours Day
ALSO ON APRIL 9 IN HISTORY…
1553 — Writer François Rabelais dies, Paris, France.
1821 — Decadent poet Charles Baudelaire born, Paris, France
1839 — Eadweard Muybridge born, Kingston upon Thames, England
1866 — Congress grants all born in U.S. Citizenship… except Native Indians.
1898 — Renaissance man, radical, Paul Robeson born, Princeton, New Jersey.
1932 — Realist editor Paul Krassner born, Brooklyn, New York.
Daniel Higgs, live at Verve (Somerville, New Jersey), April 1st, 2009
And this:
Bill Nace, live at That’s Not Class (Cleveland, OH), April 3rd, 2009
Remaining Dates:
April 8 – Salt Lake City, UT – Ken Sanders Rare Books – with Eagle Twin & Andy Cvar
April 10 – Portland, OR – The Artistery – with Naked Future & Powernap
April 11 – Olympia, WA – The Eagles Hall – with Arrington de Dionyso
April 14 – Hayfork, CA – TBA
April 15 – Oakland, CA – TBA
April 16 – San Francisco, CA – TBA
April 19 – Los Angeles, CA – TBA
April 22 – Albuquerque, NM – Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice – with William Fowler Collins
April 24 – Kansas City, MO – TBA
This Saturday, Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY) celebrates its sixth anniversary with “EDO9”, a 17-piece drone composition by artist-in-residence Duane Pitre. Working primarily with acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments—here, strings, woodwinds, and bowed guitar—Pitre combines long-tones and microtonal tuning schemes to create mile-long blankets of flickering, overtone-laden bliss. Also on the menu for the evening, a second ensemble performance by the prodigious Tony Conrad, the title and nature of which have yet to be disclosed.
Tony Conrad & Duane Pitre
Saturday, April 11th, 8pm
Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
“In 1995, while living with his future wife, the singer Cindy Lee Berryhill, in Encinitas, California, Paul suffered a traumatic brain injury in a spill from his bicycle, and was never completely able to resume his full activities as a writer. The injury likely triggered an early onset of Alzheimer’s disease; some symptoms were immediate, while others revealed themselves in tragic slow motion: fading powers of memory, then of comprension and speech. In 2008, unable to continue caring for Paul while also taking care of their eight year-old son, Cindy began to arrange for Paul to live in managed care outside the home. Like so many freelancers, Paul lived without any structure of institutional support. The burden on Cindy and their son has been immense.
Plans are underway for a benefit music-anthology, and for re-publication of some of Paul’s books. In the meantime, direct donations, small or large, are urgently needed. The community of Paul’s friends and professional acquaintances is large – the community of those affected by Paul’s writing and his other enterprises – from music fans to Philip K. Dick fans to readers of his other books – is simply immense. Few, until now, have been aware of the urgent need for help.If you count yourself among those learning of Paul’s disability here for the first time, please consider responding with a donation, as others have before you – and as we hope many more will soon choose to do.”
1. Narcolepsia is a new fetish noise tape label out of Portugal. The first two releases show a promising wide view of what fetid broil squirms in the contemporary noise landscape. First is someone/something called N, with a tape titled Smash My Brain I Can’t Tolerate, which is basically this Italiano dude Davide Tozzoli obsessing on fairly traditional noise moves a la M.B., Atrax Morgue, Merzbow et al. But the dedication and intent is genuine and is decent…nothing too startling or new but that’s kind of the point, the aesthetic. So be it. All you have to do is be beat, dulled and lose yrself in unrequited fantasies of erotic death. Second release is Body Count by An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, the duo of Houston noise honcho Richard Ramirez and compatriot Isabella K. This duo has been documenting itself quite regularly through Ramirez’ Dead Audio Tapes imprint in super tiny editions. Not that this tape is going to reach that many more harsh wall noise freaks but it is a fine addition to their insane legacy.
2. Holy Crap. Screamingest, wobbliest No Wave screech of the year comes not from the bowels of New York, but from the lost tape archives of Vancouver, Canada. Tunnel Canary was an extremely raw co-ed trio whose entire previous known ouevre was some obscure cassette comp action. Now, Rundownsun has released a massive 2LP set, Jihad, collecting studio and live smeech that is some of the most pugnacious art punk you’ll ever hear. Ebra Ziron’s vocals make Lydia Lunch sound like Dean Martin in a mellow mood. Really fucking ripe! Lotsa weird bass stylings, scuzz generation from both electronics and guitar…what a pretty goddamn picture. Amazing to think this jabbering, destroyed masterpiece has been unheard for almost 30 years. Nice work. Somebody.
Talk Normal
For ass-burning contempo No Wave sludge, nothing has been in higher recent rotation than Secret Cog, the self-released debut CD Brooklyn’s Talk Normal. Andryo Ambro and Sarah Register create a feverish hybrid of Lydia’s “crying guitar,” the maniacal yodel-power of Die Kleenex, and the part of the Magic Band the Minutemen also embraced, which probably means the Urinals are a shadow influence. Regardless, the five songs here are totally wired, and just blow away the imaginary competition.
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