*This Sunday* Lambkin / Lescalleet + Nmperign + Weyes Bluhd - FREE @ The Rotunda
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UPCOMING EVENT
April 5th *FREE ADMISSION*
(sunday)
Lambkin / Lescalleet
Nmperign
Weyes Bluhd
8pm @ the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street *FREE*
--
*Please join us for a very special event featuring the fantastic
artists behind the 2008 release THE BREADWINNER, Graham Lambkin and
Jason Lescalleet.* To hear audio clips and read more about this
release visit here: http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/catalog/052.html.
Also appearing this night will be the Boston based duo NMPERIGN
featuring Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey, plus an opening set of Natalie
"WEYES BLUHD" Mering.
--
THE BREADWINNER
Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet are both highly respected artists,
with small but intensely hardcore followings. Since 2001, they've been
gradually moving closer towards realizing a collaborative project, and
The Breadwinner is the results of two years of recording, reworking
and polishing.
Lambkin first entered the public consciousness at 19 when he formed
his band The Shadow Ring, in Folkestone, a small town in Kent,
England. The band was memorable and built an rabidly passionate fan
base because of its sui generis approach, blending elements of folk,
noise, cracked electronics, and surrealist poetry, while radically
changing the overall formula with each release. A decade of
increasingly skewed and inspired work culminated in 2003's I'm Some
Songs, constructed long distance as Lambkin had relocated to the US in
1998. Over the last few years, Lambkin has primarily worked under his
own name, most notably with 2007's brilliant Salmon Run, a precursor
to The Breadwinner.
Lescalleet has gradually and painstakingly built a compelling
discography over the past decade. He uses reel-to-reel tape decks to
explore the textures of low fidelity analog sounds and the natural
phenomena of old tape and obsolete technology. He is one of a growing
list of master producer/musicians, whose skill lies as much in
reworking, assembling and mastering the material available as in
creating it (or helping create it) in the first place. He has worked
with such wide-ranging artists as Ron Lessard, Joe Colley and Phill
Niblock, and has released a string of superb solo discs in
Mattresslessness (Cut), Electronic Music (RRR) and The Pilgrim
(Glistening Examples). This is his second release for Erstwhile, after
2001's Forlorn Green (w/Greg Kelley), and his third is already in
preparation, a duo with Bhob Rainey, planned for release in early
2009.
The material for The Breadwinner was recorded at Lambkin's house in
upstate NY, over two recording sessions. The duo treated the entire
building and its surrounding grounds as a studio, welcoming in outside
sounds, which were later kept or eliminated as they felt appropriate.
The subtitle on the front cover is "musical settings for common
environments and domestic situations", layering numerous submerged
fragments to find beauty in everyday life.
Jason Lescalleet's influence was palpably present long before the
average Joe knew how many L's were in his last name (or could
successfully google it). He spun tape loops with nmperign from the get-
go, frequently signified the endings of his characteristically
foundation-shaking performances by hurling a nearly indestructible,
hundred-pound Peavy amp across the stage, and provided the bulk of the
"disaster" in legendary drummer Laurence Cook's "Disaster Unit 2000".
But as the smoke cleared and the Peavy met its demise in a white-
walled room, it became apparent to an awful lot of people that
Lescalleet was making some amazing music; beautifully constructed
symphonies of decay born of an intimacy with items and ideas lesser
minds might discard: tape machines, lo-bit samplers, the tedium of
everyday life. His ability to evoke powerfully complex emotional
experiences from such muck made a collaboration with Graham Lambkin
practically inevitable.
Composer Walter Marchetti once made a statement to the effect that he
was seeking to reach the "bottom" of music. Some more diligent
attention to this task might lead him to the music of Graham Lambkin.
Already marking out a glorious bottom with his former band, The Shadow
Ring, Lambkin has pursued a music so removed from prescribed
aesthetics that one is flooded by the beauty it seems to ruthlessly
avoid. He puts the mundane to tape and carves out its horror, its
sweetness, and its unsettling ambivalence. Shrouded in a disarming
naiveté, the music leaves the listener ill-prepared for its very adult
take on being-in-the-world. We are fortunate that humor can be so
black, that we may surrender happily and willingly to an experience
not many artists are willing or capable of delivering.
--
BOWERBIRD. LISTEN DIFFERENT.
For more information visit: www.bowerbird.org
UPCOMING EVENT
April 5th *FREE ADMISSION*
(sunday)
Lambkin / Lescalleet
Nmperign
Weyes Bluhd
8pm @ the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street *FREE*
--
*Please join us for a very special event featuring the fantastic
artists behind the 2008 release THE BREADWINNER, Graham Lambkin and
Jason Lescalleet.* To hear audio clips and read more about this
release visit here: http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/catalog/052.html.
Also appearing this night will be the Boston based duo NMPERIGN
featuring Greg Kelley and Bhob Rainey, plus an opening set of Natalie
"WEYES BLUHD" Mering.
--
THE BREADWINNER
Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet are both highly respected artists,
with small but intensely hardcore followings. Since 2001, they've been
gradually moving closer towards realizing a collaborative project, and
The Breadwinner is the results of two years of recording, reworking
and polishing.
Lambkin first entered the public consciousness at 19 when he formed
his band The Shadow Ring, in Folkestone, a small town in Kent,
England. The band was memorable and built an rabidly passionate fan
base because of its sui generis approach, blending elements of folk,
noise, cracked electronics, and surrealist poetry, while radically
changing the overall formula with each release. A decade of
increasingly skewed and inspired work culminated in 2003's I'm Some
Songs, constructed long distance as Lambkin had relocated to the US in
1998. Over the last few years, Lambkin has primarily worked under his
own name, most notably with 2007's brilliant Salmon Run, a precursor
to The Breadwinner.
Lescalleet has gradually and painstakingly built a compelling
discography over the past decade. He uses reel-to-reel tape decks to
explore the textures of low fidelity analog sounds and the natural
phenomena of old tape and obsolete technology. He is one of a growing
list of master producer/musicians, whose skill lies as much in
reworking, assembling and mastering the material available as in
creating it (or helping create it) in the first place. He has worked
with such wide-ranging artists as Ron Lessard, Joe Colley and Phill
Niblock, and has released a string of superb solo discs in
Mattresslessness (Cut), Electronic Music (RRR) and The Pilgrim
(Glistening Examples). This is his second release for Erstwhile, after
2001's Forlorn Green (w/Greg Kelley), and his third is already in
preparation, a duo with Bhob Rainey, planned for release in early
2009.
The material for The Breadwinner was recorded at Lambkin's house in
upstate NY, over two recording sessions. The duo treated the entire
building and its surrounding grounds as a studio, welcoming in outside
sounds, which were later kept or eliminated as they felt appropriate.
The subtitle on the front cover is "musical settings for common
environments and domestic situations", layering numerous submerged
fragments to find beauty in everyday life.
Jason Lescalleet's influence was palpably present long before the
average Joe knew how many L's were in his last name (or could
successfully google it). He spun tape loops with nmperign from the get-
go, frequently signified the endings of his characteristically
foundation-shaking performances by hurling a nearly indestructible,
hundred-pound Peavy amp across the stage, and provided the bulk of the
"disaster" in legendary drummer Laurence Cook's "Disaster Unit 2000".
But as the smoke cleared and the Peavy met its demise in a white-
walled room, it became apparent to an awful lot of people that
Lescalleet was making some amazing music; beautifully constructed
symphonies of decay born of an intimacy with items and ideas lesser
minds might discard: tape machines, lo-bit samplers, the tedium of
everyday life. His ability to evoke powerfully complex emotional
experiences from such muck made a collaboration with Graham Lambkin
practically inevitable.
Composer Walter Marchetti once made a statement to the effect that he
was seeking to reach the "bottom" of music. Some more diligent
attention to this task might lead him to the music of Graham Lambkin.
Already marking out a glorious bottom with his former band, The Shadow
Ring, Lambkin has pursued a music so removed from prescribed
aesthetics that one is flooded by the beauty it seems to ruthlessly
avoid. He puts the mundane to tape and carves out its horror, its
sweetness, and its unsettling ambivalence. Shrouded in a disarming
naiveté, the music leaves the listener ill-prepared for its very adult
take on being-in-the-world. We are fortunate that humor can be so
black, that we may surrender happily and willingly to an experience
not many artists are willing or capable of delivering.
--
BOWERBIRD. LISTEN DIFFERENT.
For more information visit: www.bowerbird.org
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