Noveller:

”Noveller (a.k.a. Sarah Lipstate) replaces the spiraling webs of overdriven sound hysteria explored on 2009's Red Rainbows for a more delicate approach on Desert Fires. She’s still constructing massive and glorious buildings of elaborate, flowing shape with her pulsing, droning, looped guitar phrases, but the structures are embedded within more robust spaces that allow for tranquil navigations. As on previous recordings, she rips into gain heavy feedbacking on occasion but she’s showing restraint, thus allowing the nuanced aspects of her pieces to step out for the first time. On “Toothnest (for Chris Habib)” the sustained hum and minimal, clean finger-picking dissolve into an epic lead: it’s not quite a solo but somewhat resembles one from within her shifting conception of the instrument. The wonderfully titled “Three Windows Facing Three Doors” begins very sinister, as if a villain is slowly stepping into view and transitions into a playful exchange where harmonics and distortion patterns dance joyfully. On the closing track, “Fades,” it’s as if the two foundational waves of sound would drift forever in disparate directions without the looped four note lead phrase that perpetually reunites them. With Desert Fires, Noveller once again proves to be burning up the front of the movement to save the guitar from its jejune drift into trad nothingness and rock worthlessness.”- Elliot Sharp, Biomusicosophy

unFact:

unFact is the solo bass project of David Wm. Sims. He is known for his work in the rock bands Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard. He has toured as the bassist for Sparklehorse In 2009, Sims participated in the 200-guitar ensemble that performed Rhys Chatham’s “A Crimson Grail” at the Lincoln Center. He is currently collaborating on recording projects with various artists including Big Sir, Paul Amlehn, and Teledubgnosis. - bio

U.S. Girls:

”There’s a cool mixture of elements going on here: some first-wave musique concrete tape collage, some bad vibes rock, some blistering noise, and a touch of no wave. Fortunately, (Megan) Remy doesn’t entirely abandon the pop that defined her earlier work. "Blue Eyes on the Blvd.," my favorite track on the record, opens up some much-needed space toward the end of the album and is an excellent showcase for her trademark holler. Two chords outline the beat while she methodically unpacks a simple melody on top. Except that it’s not on top, it’s underneath, and she sounds like she’s drowning in the music, sucked under by the sludgy guitar. That level of obliqueness, that obfuscation of clarity and avoidance of easy answers, is what makes Go Grey as strong as it is. It’s not a crossover record, it doesn’t aim to please, and doesn’t make concessions. Instead, you get something more distilled, more pure. It’s heartening to see Remy make good on the promise of her earlier work and to dig deeper into the most personal aspects of her music. Whatever 2010 brings for the diaspora that spawned her, I’m confident she will remain a guiding light. Even if that light is grey.”- Daniel Martin-McCormick, Dusted

Fire Museum Presents:

Sam Hamilton

Metal Rouge

Modra

Monday, August 23rd 7:00PM
Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia, PA $5

Sam Hamilton:

Sam makes FREEWAVE music, a vibrant and explorative celebration of music from the first musical wailings of our primitive ancestors to the mind f*cking next-level leaps in musical evolution yet to come, but most of all it's an exploration of the music that is of the present. A 21st century sound typified by boundariless musical hybridisation yet melded into a unified ecstatic spectral explosion of sparkling rays of sound, throbbing voodoo pulsations and energetic sonic friction between spazz-out fun and magical transformation, retaliatingly ambiguous yet intrinsically universal music.

Sam has worked in numerous projects from recording with the Tall Dwarfs, played with Damo Sazuki of CAN, recorded sound in the Amazon rain forest with Francisco Lopez, playing psychedelic free rock with Dean Roberts, Expanded Cinema with the Parasitic Fantasy Band or composing music for major international dance company MAU. He has performed in such diverse settings as the Australian Outback Desert to ISSUE Project Room in NY, outdoor dance music festivals, indie punk rock clubs, house parties to major international triennial art exhibitions. - bio

Metal Rouge:

Metal Rouge was formed in 2006 by Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott in Auckland, New Zealand with no aim but to open themselves to the spontaneous psych tonalism running through the underbelly of popular music like a vein of pure lightning. Birthed from the rich history of New Zealand underground they began to mold a sound comprised equally of the forward motion of ecstatic jazz and the drugged stasis of NYC loft minimalism circa ’66. Drummer/Trombonist Caitlin M. Mitchell joined in 2009, bringing with her a night/day spectrum ranging from pure brass drone through to aggressive free rock. Related projects include Yek Koo, Nest, Un Ciego, Huzun, Warm Climate and Low Light Situations. Metal Rouge have releases on ROOT STRATA, NOT NOT FUN, STUNNED, DIGITALIS and EMERALD COCOON. - bio “ …there’s something about their unique blend of New Zealand “bedroom” guitar chorusing & extended voice-led byg-era fire music moves that’s so ... gratifying ; and fairly outside of the prescribed free-rock paths taken my most these days.”– Mimaroglu Music Sales

Modra:

New-ish group out of New York(3/4ths Australian ex-pats) with members who have performed in Bogan Dust, CoConuts, Venom P Stinger, Pink Reason, Psychedelic Horseshit among others. It’s still early on for this grouping but using the aforementioned groups as a reference point gives one a good idea where these folks are at.

coming soon:

8/26/2010 - Core of the Coalman (CZ) & tbd

8/28/2010 - Benefit for Highwire Gallery w/ Birds of Maya, West Vienna & tbd @ 2205 Frankford Ave (outdoors)

9/3/2010 - Benefit for KCFC w/ North Lawrence Midnight Singers, Taggart, Gringo Motel & Suckle Highway @ 2205 Frankford Ave (outdoors)

9/6/2010 - Caldera Lakes, HNY & tbd

9/7/2010 - Neo, Tribraco, iNFiNiEN & Gun Muffs @ J.R.'s

9/18/2010 - Snehasish Mozumder & Kedar Naphade @ Philadelphia Argentine Tango School

9/18/2010 - Illusion of Safety, Travis Bird & Daniel Burke duo & tbd

9/20/2010 - Corridors, Mike Wexler & Chris Forsyth/Koen Holtkamp duo

9/24/2010 - MV & EE, Expo 70 & Ancient Ocean

9/27/2010 - Diminished Men, Inzinzac & tbc

10/2/2010 - Maitrayee Patel & Shaily Dadiala

10/9/2010 - Alan Sondheim, Helena Espvall, Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblatt & Azure Carter Quintet & tbd

11/19/2010 - Barn Owl, Steve Gunn, high aura'd

12/3/2010 - Forbes Graham, Stephan Moore, Ben Owen, Byron Westbrook & Carver Audain

all shows at the Highwire Gallery (unless otherwise stated) & all ages

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2040 Frankford Ave
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