** HELP US CELEBRATE OUR 1 YR ANNIVERSARY WITH THIS AWESOME SHOW **
Saturday, March 3rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music – $5 – ALL-AGES!
Charalambides (Kranky)
– http://www.wholly-other.com/
– http://www.kranky.net/
Primordial Undermind (ex-Crystallized Movements, Vienna, Austria)
– http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind
The Ten Thousand Things (Bloomingtopia)
– http://myspace.com/things10thousand
To say that the words “unique” and “singular” are over-used in describing
music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created
by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides
over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are
numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist’s work
would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken
new ground in the primitive / folk / mystic / improv / psych valley in
which they toil. As Marcus Boon wrote in The Wire; “…here is a truly
21st century experimental ethnic music that explores quietness and
stasis… in the same way that musicians in the second half of the 20th
century discovered amplification, noise and speed.”
Primordial Undermind is led by ex-Crystalized Movements guitarist Eric
Arn. Active for more than a decade in different forms and in different
cities. Dark, spiritual, yin-and-yang paisley… These aren’t just
burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. They’re paranoid burnouts playing
loud, distorted psych. Behold the swirling madness and tranquility. From
streams of molten electric guitar sputtering geysers of fluid ectoplasm
into the air, to high desert country influenced elements left to blister
and bleach in the sun… so utterly gorgeous in places it’s like a long
view of paradise.
The Ten Thousand Things is a common phrase found in Taoist and Buddhist
writings to connote the material diversity of the universe. It represents
the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of
everything in the universe. Lao Tzu, for example, writes in the Tao Te
Ching:
Tao produced the One. / The One produced the two.
The two produced the three. / And the three produced the ten
thousand things.
The Ten Thousand Things is also the pen-name for Wes Covey. He is a kind
soul who is into finger-picked guitar loops, drones and eastern
instrumentation. This will be his debut performance so please be kind.
MP3:
Charalambides – Spring –
http://www.brainwashed.com/common/sounds/mp3/charalambides-spring.mp3
Primordial Undermind – Akaknow –
http://www.latinobuggerveil.com/ejmp3s/Akaknow.mp3