Kohoutek LP release show w/ Human Eye, TV Ghost and Wizzard Sleeve: Sunday 10/11 at Velvet Lounge!!!
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Nicki P.
Oct 8, 2009, 12:28:03 AM10/8/09
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From our buddy Scott V!:
Yes, this is for real. Our second studio album and second vinyl
pressing, Lossless Loss, was officially released last night, and we
have them in our hands. Recorded two years ago in Virginia, and
completed in May 2008, we finally found a wonderful and supportive
home in Prophase Records (who also releases Yahowha 13, Acid Mothers
Temple, Plastic Crimewave Sound, and soon, the debut of VA's own Dark
Sea Dream). More info on the record can be found after the show
description, and what a show it is: you will not find four bands on
one bill who worship Chrome and Simply Saucer more than these bands.
So if you're not into synapse-frying space-punk, stay clear of this
one. This is also the DC debut of both Human Eye and Wizzard Sleeve,
who already have earned reputations as two of the most exciting live
bands in the underground garage-psych circuit. So...please celebrate
with us!
Also, there's an exciting experimental show at the Velvet this
Thursday, featuring two of Philly's best noise bands and three of DC's
most intriguing provocateurs of atonality. Yeah, five bands is a lot,
but these guys all play under 20 minutes, which is better than
watching some jam band wank on and on for two hours. Info below as
well, plus upcoming Clavius and Clavius-related events at the Velvet
Lounge and Bossa.
Sunday, October 11
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
202-462-3213
$8, 18+
doors at 8:30, show at 9pm
Kohoutek (LP release on Prophase!)
Human Eye (In the Red, Detroit, ex-Clone Defects)
TV Ghost (In the Red, Indiana)
Wizzard Sleeve (Confederate glue goth tard-wave from Alabama)
Kohoutek
http://claviusproductions.alkem.org/kohoutek
Lossless Loss, the second studio album from Mid-Atlantic improv
collective Kohoutek, covers most of the dynamic stylistic range
Kohoutek is known for: abstract and textural sound, atmospheric rock,
harsh noise freakouts, clattering percussion, guitar heroics, and
alien electronics congealing to form a multihued psychedelic
extravaganza. Recorded deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in
September 2007, the five members embarked on a psilocybic twilight
journey, and this 44-minute aural excursion is the result. No overdubs
and minimal editing create an experience as close as possible to a
Kohoutek performance. With longtime core members Scott Verrastro
(percussion, flute), Craig Garrett (bass) and Scott Allison
(electronics) augmented by Vic Salazar (electric guitar) and Damian
Languell (vocals, harmonica, clarinet, didgeridoo, Space Echo),
Kohoutek forge their own path in the improv universe, and Lossless
Loss is another burning fragment of this fleeting sonic comet.
Human Eye
http://www.myspace.com/humaneyedetroit
http://www.hookorcrook.com/start.htm
Watching Human Eye onstage is like being attacked by space aliens.
They are like something dreamed up by Philip K. Dick during an acid
flashback, a science fiction sound world with rock and roll roots
assaulting all of the senses. Their second full-length release,
Fragments of the Universe Nurse, continues their musical mission with
more mind-derailing time changes, laser-beam synthesizer blasts,
hallucinatory overdriven echoplex, and a generally brutal assemblage
of disparate elements from a sonic palette that ranges from mid-70's
punk rock to psychedelia, prog, free jazz, and Sci-Fi movie sound
effects. Writhing giant robot snakes, huge illuminated plastic
eyeballs, flying T.V. sets, and exploding flourescent paint-filled
balloons only heighten the atmosphere of transformed reality and
universal anxiety suggested by Human Eye's music. The musical
structures whirl and explode in an entangled storm of opposites fusing
together and colliding with strange precision. On first listen, you
might think you're hearing traces of Beefheart, Germs, Chrome, Soupy
Sales, the Residents, Hendrix, Gentle Giant, and the Boredoms. By the
second or third listen, you'll (hopefully) be too disoriented to
think, analyze, etc.
Singer/guitarist Timmy V. was previously in the Clone Defects, where
he would often do unexpected things in the middle of a song, like
attack himself with a vacuum cleaner until he was standing surrounded
by shredded metal and plastic, in a swirling cloud of lint. Human Eye
hasn't toned down any of these tendencies, they've just reorganized
the placement and frequency of these gestures. Their new album is
their strangest and best yet. They've been constructing this thing in
darkness, shrouded in secrecy. It is now ready to hatch and implant
itself into minds starved for action everywhere. With tunes like their
glam-anthem "Slop Culture," "Gorilla Garden," "Two Headed Woman," and
the epic "Poison Frog People," consciousness will be altered.
TV Ghost
http://www.myspace.com/televisionghost
"First things first: there is nothing catchy about this album. No
hooks, no prominent melody, no singalong vocals. Indiana post-punk TV
Ghost is one of those bands you discover at a show in someone’s
basement and become totally obsessed with by virtue of their energy
alone. Something in the raucous-to-danceable-and-back-again rhythms is
just too much to resist.
It doesn’t hurt that they obviously love The Birthday Party, The
Cramps and Antioch Arrow, probably in that order. There’s a serious
early '00s synth-punk thing happening on Cold Fish, but it’s more
about psychobilly and creepy surf than violent new wave a la Le Shok.
“The Network” may be anchored by a familiar thrashy dance beat, but
the ominous harmonies and moan-and-groan vocals give it a fresh, uber-
creepy atmosphere. Same goes for other standouts “Seasick”, with its
sleazy, cabaret trash riff, and the frenetic surf guitars on “The
Singularity”; there’s nothing all that new here, but something in the
deep, dark nightmare of it makes the best songs addictively good."
Wizzard Sleeve
http://www.myspace.com/wizzardsleeve
"I doubt iTunes recognizes “confederate glue goth tard-wave” as a
genre, but that’s the name Alabama’s WIZZARD SLEEVE have given their
music, and I’m hard-pressed to improve on it. Robo-trippy and
plodding, grindingly repetitive but oddly triumphal, the songs mix and
match Tubeway Army-era Gary Numan (if you replace the Asperger’s
syndrome with a case of Sparks Plus), effects-pedal ennui a la
Bauhaus, and greasy gray noise worthy of mid-'80s Butthole Surfers,
then filter everything through the warped lens of a deep Southern post-
everything aesthetic." (Brian Costello, Chicago Reader)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Thursday, October 8
Velvet Lounge
$7, 18+
doors at 8:30, show at 9pm
Magnetic Band (DC, thee legendary Gideon's new collective)
PJB (MD, thee legendary Paul Joyner's old collective)
http://www.myspace.com/psychedelicjamband
Drums Like Machine Guns (Philly noise goofballs and masters of the 7-
minute set) http://www.myspace.com/drumslikemachineguns
Nervous Sex (Philly noise rock with a serious Load Records
jones...think Six Finger Satellite without bass or guitar)
http://www.myspace.com/nervoussex
Ca$h $lave Clique (Northern VA's best example to keep the death
penalty) http://www.myspace.com/cashslaveclique
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
upcoming DC events:
Thursday 10/29 @ Velvet Lounge: The High Dials (awesome psych-pop from
Montreal)/The Receiver $8, 18+, doors at 8:30pm
Friday 10/30 @ Velvet Lounge: Beatnik Flies/Pup Tent/Ottley! $10,
18+, doors at 9pm
Friday 11/13 @ Velvet Lounge: Chinese Underground Tour (featuring some
of China's contemporary boundary breakers) $8, 18+, doors at 9pm
Friday 11/20 @ Velvet Lounge: The Numbers Band (legendary Cleveland
art-punk ensemble who were peers of Pere Ubu, Devo, Rocket From the
Tombs, The Mirrors, Electric Eels, etc.)
$10, 21+, doors at 9pm
Wednesday 12/2 @ Bossa: Chromatic Mysteries w/ Khan Jamal (legendary
Philly avant-jazz vibraphonist), Kohoutek Dashin Gassoudan $5, 21+,
doors at 8pm
Yes, this is for real. Our second studio album and second vinyl
pressing, Lossless Loss, was officially released last night, and we
have them in our hands. Recorded two years ago in Virginia, and
completed in May 2008, we finally found a wonderful and supportive
home in Prophase Records (who also releases Yahowha 13, Acid Mothers
Temple, Plastic Crimewave Sound, and soon, the debut of VA's own Dark
Sea Dream). More info on the record can be found after the show
description, and what a show it is: you will not find four bands on
one bill who worship Chrome and Simply Saucer more than these bands.
So if you're not into synapse-frying space-punk, stay clear of this
one. This is also the DC debut of both Human Eye and Wizzard Sleeve,
who already have earned reputations as two of the most exciting live
bands in the underground garage-psych circuit. So...please celebrate
with us!
Also, there's an exciting experimental show at the Velvet this
Thursday, featuring two of Philly's best noise bands and three of DC's
most intriguing provocateurs of atonality. Yeah, five bands is a lot,
but these guys all play under 20 minutes, which is better than
watching some jam band wank on and on for two hours. Info below as
well, plus upcoming Clavius and Clavius-related events at the Velvet
Lounge and Bossa.
Sunday, October 11
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com
202-462-3213
$8, 18+
doors at 8:30, show at 9pm
Kohoutek (LP release on Prophase!)
Human Eye (In the Red, Detroit, ex-Clone Defects)
TV Ghost (In the Red, Indiana)
Wizzard Sleeve (Confederate glue goth tard-wave from Alabama)
Kohoutek
http://claviusproductions.alkem.org/kohoutek
Lossless Loss, the second studio album from Mid-Atlantic improv
collective Kohoutek, covers most of the dynamic stylistic range
Kohoutek is known for: abstract and textural sound, atmospheric rock,
harsh noise freakouts, clattering percussion, guitar heroics, and
alien electronics congealing to form a multihued psychedelic
extravaganza. Recorded deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in
September 2007, the five members embarked on a psilocybic twilight
journey, and this 44-minute aural excursion is the result. No overdubs
and minimal editing create an experience as close as possible to a
Kohoutek performance. With longtime core members Scott Verrastro
(percussion, flute), Craig Garrett (bass) and Scott Allison
(electronics) augmented by Vic Salazar (electric guitar) and Damian
Languell (vocals, harmonica, clarinet, didgeridoo, Space Echo),
Kohoutek forge their own path in the improv universe, and Lossless
Loss is another burning fragment of this fleeting sonic comet.
Human Eye
http://www.myspace.com/humaneyedetroit
http://www.hookorcrook.com/start.htm
Watching Human Eye onstage is like being attacked by space aliens.
They are like something dreamed up by Philip K. Dick during an acid
flashback, a science fiction sound world with rock and roll roots
assaulting all of the senses. Their second full-length release,
Fragments of the Universe Nurse, continues their musical mission with
more mind-derailing time changes, laser-beam synthesizer blasts,
hallucinatory overdriven echoplex, and a generally brutal assemblage
of disparate elements from a sonic palette that ranges from mid-70's
punk rock to psychedelia, prog, free jazz, and Sci-Fi movie sound
effects. Writhing giant robot snakes, huge illuminated plastic
eyeballs, flying T.V. sets, and exploding flourescent paint-filled
balloons only heighten the atmosphere of transformed reality and
universal anxiety suggested by Human Eye's music. The musical
structures whirl and explode in an entangled storm of opposites fusing
together and colliding with strange precision. On first listen, you
might think you're hearing traces of Beefheart, Germs, Chrome, Soupy
Sales, the Residents, Hendrix, Gentle Giant, and the Boredoms. By the
second or third listen, you'll (hopefully) be too disoriented to
think, analyze, etc.
Singer/guitarist Timmy V. was previously in the Clone Defects, where
he would often do unexpected things in the middle of a song, like
attack himself with a vacuum cleaner until he was standing surrounded
by shredded metal and plastic, in a swirling cloud of lint. Human Eye
hasn't toned down any of these tendencies, they've just reorganized
the placement and frequency of these gestures. Their new album is
their strangest and best yet. They've been constructing this thing in
darkness, shrouded in secrecy. It is now ready to hatch and implant
itself into minds starved for action everywhere. With tunes like their
glam-anthem "Slop Culture," "Gorilla Garden," "Two Headed Woman," and
the epic "Poison Frog People," consciousness will be altered.
TV Ghost
http://www.myspace.com/televisionghost
"First things first: there is nothing catchy about this album. No
hooks, no prominent melody, no singalong vocals. Indiana post-punk TV
Ghost is one of those bands you discover at a show in someone’s
basement and become totally obsessed with by virtue of their energy
alone. Something in the raucous-to-danceable-and-back-again rhythms is
just too much to resist.
It doesn’t hurt that they obviously love The Birthday Party, The
Cramps and Antioch Arrow, probably in that order. There’s a serious
early '00s synth-punk thing happening on Cold Fish, but it’s more
about psychobilly and creepy surf than violent new wave a la Le Shok.
“The Network” may be anchored by a familiar thrashy dance beat, but
the ominous harmonies and moan-and-groan vocals give it a fresh, uber-
creepy atmosphere. Same goes for other standouts “Seasick”, with its
sleazy, cabaret trash riff, and the frenetic surf guitars on “The
Singularity”; there’s nothing all that new here, but something in the
deep, dark nightmare of it makes the best songs addictively good."
Wizzard Sleeve
http://www.myspace.com/wizzardsleeve
"I doubt iTunes recognizes “confederate glue goth tard-wave” as a
genre, but that’s the name Alabama’s WIZZARD SLEEVE have given their
music, and I’m hard-pressed to improve on it. Robo-trippy and
plodding, grindingly repetitive but oddly triumphal, the songs mix and
match Tubeway Army-era Gary Numan (if you replace the Asperger’s
syndrome with a case of Sparks Plus), effects-pedal ennui a la
Bauhaus, and greasy gray noise worthy of mid-'80s Butthole Surfers,
then filter everything through the warped lens of a deep Southern post-
everything aesthetic." (Brian Costello, Chicago Reader)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Thursday, October 8
Velvet Lounge
$7, 18+
doors at 8:30, show at 9pm
Magnetic Band (DC, thee legendary Gideon's new collective)
PJB (MD, thee legendary Paul Joyner's old collective)
http://www.myspace.com/psychedelicjamband
Drums Like Machine Guns (Philly noise goofballs and masters of the 7-
minute set) http://www.myspace.com/drumslikemachineguns
Nervous Sex (Philly noise rock with a serious Load Records
jones...think Six Finger Satellite without bass or guitar)
http://www.myspace.com/nervoussex
Ca$h $lave Clique (Northern VA's best example to keep the death
penalty) http://www.myspace.com/cashslaveclique
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
upcoming DC events:
Thursday 10/29 @ Velvet Lounge: The High Dials (awesome psych-pop from
Montreal)/The Receiver $8, 18+, doors at 8:30pm
Friday 10/30 @ Velvet Lounge: Beatnik Flies/Pup Tent/Ottley! $10,
18+, doors at 9pm
Friday 11/13 @ Velvet Lounge: Chinese Underground Tour (featuring some
of China's contemporary boundary breakers) $8, 18+, doors at 9pm
Friday 11/20 @ Velvet Lounge: The Numbers Band (legendary Cleveland
art-punk ensemble who were peers of Pere Ubu, Devo, Rocket From the
Tombs, The Mirrors, Electric Eels, etc.)
$10, 21+, doors at 9pm
Wednesday 12/2 @ Bossa: Chromatic Mysteries w/ Khan Jamal (legendary
Philly avant-jazz vibraphonist), Kohoutek Dashin Gassoudan $5, 21+,
doors at 8pm
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