FIRE MUSEUM EVENTS
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THREE SEPTEMBER GIGS! Fire Museum & Sherman Arts Present: Avarus Ashoke Sen Burrs Ducktails (The New) Green Line 4426 Locust St, Philadelphia Thursday, September 4th 7PM $8
Fire Museum & Sherman Arts come together to bring the return of the freewheeling Finnish juggernaut Avarus to Philadelphia! "The wide-eyed forest dwellers of Avarus come from the pool of Finnish musicians that spawned the magnificent Kemialliset Ystävät. They play a brand of music on the outer extremes of the free-folk movement. A spirit of drugged-out frenzy drives this relentlessly changing music, resulting in songs that evolve like a species: not on an obvious linear path, but in fits and starts-obeying a strange logic inaccessible to the players themselves. Avarus conjures a gorgeous and frightening musical object, and they capture the feeling of mystery of music on acid.” -Bryan Berge, Stylus.
Also performing this evening are: Ashoke Sen Making their debut performance this evening, this trio combines electro-acoustic sound collage and magic latern projections, weaving sound and vision mandalas as they go. Comprising of Mike Barker (Embarker, ex-Sharks with Wings), Mary Lattimore (Valerie Project) and Brooke Sietinsons (Espers), they merge their collective experience into intoxicating new forms. Burrs "Mining disaster kosmische hangover. It sounds sort of like Gunter Schickert, Limbus 4, Maschine Nr. 9, Cosmic Jokers, not like the motorik Kraut stuff but more like the sprawling, strung out wraith synthesizer aboard a haunted U boat sound." -DHW RecordsDucktails "(S)ome viscous loops and globs of translucent, FX-foamed guitar — the guy slings together some pretty Martian Malawi jams. A refried magic-mushroom curry smoothie, it's slightly sweet and gooey…" -L.A. Weekly
Fire Museum Presents: Highwire Festival Make A Rising Zaimph Helena Espvall Noa Babayof Eric Carbonara Katt Hernandez George Korein Christine Shields Blood Like Mine Dead Folk Radio Eris Highwire Gallery (Outdoors) 2040 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia Saturday, September 13th, 12 noon to 8PM $5
Fire Museum presents a day of frolicking musical adventure in the great outdoors, in the space right next to the Highwire Gallery in Fishtown. Performer Bios: Make A Rising: Tunneling their way out of the West Philadelphia nether worlds Make A Rising is a band that is beyond unique. The quintet’s debut record is a swirling
mix of violin, keyboard, guitars, drums, saxophone, trumpet, bells, whistles, and assorted noisemakers – all swelling together combined with off-kilter vocals and fast-changing tempos Make A Rising is the sound of chaos, bliss, bravado, nerves and
naivety – avant chamber rock at its most dynamic – like Daniel Johnston singing Beach Boys songs interpreted by Naked City. Zaimph: Marcia Bassett's work (under the usual moniker of Zaimph) freely moves within walls of sonic distortion, layers of heavy drone and blurred riffs that loop into warm blurs before crumbling away into decay. She has worked on a number of collaborations with Tom Carter, Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Carlos Giffoni, Dominick Fernow (Prurient), and is a member of GHQ, Hototogisu and Double Leopards. Helena Espvall: "Very diverse music, haunting. The two long, mostly solo cello tracks rank right up there with Joelle Leandre and Eugene Chadbourne, as far as wild passionate and extremely diverse playing goes. Spooky, dark, dissonant, often psychedelic.” -Mufaor, KZSUNoa Babayof: "Striking work by this Israeli singer-songwriter, possessing a willowy, chilling voice and milky lower register, delicately accented in the style of a femme Nick Drake channeling Nico, that lends a spectral presence to this gorgeously arranged set...Thrilling both instrumentally and in its welcoming, outstretched ambiance, its gentle, mildly unsettling facades chase the sun down with a bewitching drive..." -Other Music Eric Carbonara: Carbonara's playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk to form a kind of exalted pidgin style of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease.
His live solo performances range from contemplative acoustic meditations to aggressively loud electric sets. Carbonara is a regular collaborator in the improvisational outfit, Evil Eye Sound System & plays with the Philly psych-rock group, Soft People. Katt Hernandez: In my improvised work, I play extensively with multi-phonics, harmonics and melodies drawn from the Maneri/Sims 72-pitch micro-tone system. I also have an interest in Balkan music and Maqquam, and have spent the last few years playing folk and sacred music from Greece, Macaedonia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary. In Philadelphia I have been able to pursue this interest with the West Philadelphia Orchestra. George Korein: "I'm beginning to sense the emergence of a new generation's answer to Jason Willett, Baltimore's infamous inscrutable genius of Megaphone/Leprechuan Catering/Half-Japanese/Ruins/post-RIO-dada notoriety. Both worrisome and thrilling, this prospect." -Michael Anton Parker, BagatellenChristine Shields: Like a hallucinatory seascape, the music of Christine Shields brings on visions of floods, feral animals, and drifting spirits.
Her first album, "Treasure Gone Feral" will come out this November on Evengeline records. Former member of Steeple Chase and art contributor to Bananafish, among other publications. Blood Like Mine: New group consisting of Brother Buckroar & Rosali Middleman. Down home experimental swamp-a-delic americana to tickle your eardrum. Dead Folk: Even newer group of shining stars inmeshed in the contemplative folk constellation that bring elements of kosmisch sound to the table to a most pleasing effect. Radio Eris: " Five albums in, Philadelphia’s fringe-y Radio Eris still aren’t worrying about being accessible or smooth or, at their most far-out, even intelligible. They remain a happily insular troupe that once described their sound as "psychedelic garage poetry art punk rock." That still pretty much sums it up, considering they come off like Bardo Pond one minute and like the Raincoats the next." -Doug Wallen, Philadelphia WeeklyGet wound up while celebrating the winding down of summer!
Fire Museum Presents: Liz Allbee, Charles Cohen and Katt Hernandez trio Jon Barrios and Carlos Santiago Duo Latina Lickers Brickbat Books 709 South Fourth St, Philadelphia Monday, September 22nd 8PM $5
Liz Allbee (trumpet) from Oakland, Ca. is a major player in the Bay Area's experimental music scene. She is a voracious musician whose work spans many genres, including new music, improvisation, electronic composition, Asian folk and pop, noise, minimalist, free jazz and experimental rock. She has played with a wide array of musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Cecil Taylor, Hans Grusel, Birgit Uhler, Alberto Braida, Raed Yassin, Gino Robair and with members of Caroliner, Sun City Girls, and Rova. Fresh off performing at the renowned High Zero Fest in Baltimore, for her Philadelphia performance she is being joined by buchla master Charles Cohen and the equally genre-defying Katt Hernandez on violin. Jon Barrios (bass) is one of the most in demand improvisors in Philadelphia right now. Tonight he is performing in a duo with Carlos Santiago (violin), a member of Normal Love who is also at home with the most out there microtonal improvised sounds. Cecilia and Manya are the Latina Lickers. Charles says to expect cool low key electronic ambient sounds. Given the projects we are familiar with (musical and theatrical - ie Moth In Love) I'm not expecting it to be "that" low key... |
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