Tom Carter/Shawn David McMillen/Steve Gunn/Boy Who Spoke Clouds @@Metropolis 6/20!!!
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New Thing Productions
Jun 15, 2009, 7:33:42 PM6/15/09
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Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 8PM
Tom Carter
Shawn David McMillen
Steve Gunn
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds
Live at Metrpolis Underground
615 S. Main Street (Route 11), backside of building
North Syracuse, NY
http://metropolisunderground.wordpress.com/
$5-10 donation
Tom Carter is best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone
iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter
in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001,
playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia
Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and
Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area
sound artist Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included
Christian Kiefer, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thurston Moore, Shawn David
McMillen, Dredd Foole, Lorren Connors, Pip Proud, Inca Ore, Jandek,
Bardo Pond, and Matt Valentine, among many others.
Most recently, Carter has focused on his solo performances and
recordings, touring constantly from 2007-2008, and finally settling in
New York City in early 2009. His solo work covers a vast territory,
but latter-day sightings show him to be concentrating on looped guitar
drones of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, with heaps of psychedelic
melodic content missing from the repertoires of many noise and drone
bands.
Shawn David McMillen met Tom and Christina Carter Charalambides—now
considered early pioneers of the present avant-folk movement—as well
as Heather Leigh Murray. Heather and Shawn moved to Galveston, where
she attended Texas A&M/Galveston while “working at an animal clinic,
recording music constantly, and having cataclysmic experiences on acid
together at the beach.” Shawn and Heather recorded together as Ash
Castles on the Ghost Coast, releasing one CD on Charalambides’ Wholly
Other imprint and playing one show with Palace Brothers. Circa 1999,
the pair moved to Austin where they played with Rick Reed in Abrasion
Ensemble and later formed Iron Kite. Recorded mostly at night, Catfish
is acoustic-based only because Shawn had no electric guitar at the
time. Other instruments include autoharp, Roland keyboard, Indian goat
bell, Indonesian gongs, bowed electric bass, African kalimba (thumb
piano), and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). Cited influences at
the time include American Indian lore, music from the Middle East and
India, Phil Yost, Robbie Basho, and Malachi.
Steve Gunn plies his trade in the Northeast, calling Brooklyn home.
He’s best know for the major role he plays in the group GHQ. Over the
course of numerous excellent releases, it became clear that Gunn was a
real force in experimental music. Once his solo music started being
unearthed, there was no turning back. Steve will be performing a mix
of improvisational blues based guitar works.
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds is the moniker of Adam Casey, former
guitarist and singer of Australian sextet, Seascapes of the Interior.
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds began as a musical departure point from
Seascapes of the Interior, amalgamating Adam’s love of gypsy and
indigenous music and the polyrhythmic approach of composers such as
Steve Reich and Gyorgi Ligeti with his bittersweet shamanic-folk based
compositions.
Show starts @ 8pm
TOM CARTER >> http://www.wholly-other.com/
SHAWN DAVID MCMILLEN >> http://www.tompkinssq.com/shawn_mcmillen.html
STEVE GUNN >> http://www.myspace.com/pyramidmerchandise
THE BOY WHO SPOKE CLOUDS>> http://www.theboywhospokeclouds.com/
Tom Carter
Shawn David McMillen
Steve Gunn
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds
Live at Metrpolis Underground
615 S. Main Street (Route 11), backside of building
North Syracuse, NY
http://metropolisunderground.wordpress.com/
$5-10 donation
Tom Carter is best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone
iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter
in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001,
playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia
Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and
Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area
sound artist Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included
Christian Kiefer, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thurston Moore, Shawn David
McMillen, Dredd Foole, Lorren Connors, Pip Proud, Inca Ore, Jandek,
Bardo Pond, and Matt Valentine, among many others.
Most recently, Carter has focused on his solo performances and
recordings, touring constantly from 2007-2008, and finally settling in
New York City in early 2009. His solo work covers a vast territory,
but latter-day sightings show him to be concentrating on looped guitar
drones of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, with heaps of psychedelic
melodic content missing from the repertoires of many noise and drone
bands.
Shawn David McMillen met Tom and Christina Carter Charalambides—now
considered early pioneers of the present avant-folk movement—as well
as Heather Leigh Murray. Heather and Shawn moved to Galveston, where
she attended Texas A&M/Galveston while “working at an animal clinic,
recording music constantly, and having cataclysmic experiences on acid
together at the beach.” Shawn and Heather recorded together as Ash
Castles on the Ghost Coast, releasing one CD on Charalambides’ Wholly
Other imprint and playing one show with Palace Brothers. Circa 1999,
the pair moved to Austin where they played with Rick Reed in Abrasion
Ensemble and later formed Iron Kite. Recorded mostly at night, Catfish
is acoustic-based only because Shawn had no electric guitar at the
time. Other instruments include autoharp, Roland keyboard, Indian goat
bell, Indonesian gongs, bowed electric bass, African kalimba (thumb
piano), and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). Cited influences at
the time include American Indian lore, music from the Middle East and
India, Phil Yost, Robbie Basho, and Malachi.
Steve Gunn plies his trade in the Northeast, calling Brooklyn home.
He’s best know for the major role he plays in the group GHQ. Over the
course of numerous excellent releases, it became clear that Gunn was a
real force in experimental music. Once his solo music started being
unearthed, there was no turning back. Steve will be performing a mix
of improvisational blues based guitar works.
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds is the moniker of Adam Casey, former
guitarist and singer of Australian sextet, Seascapes of the Interior.
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds began as a musical departure point from
Seascapes of the Interior, amalgamating Adam’s love of gypsy and
indigenous music and the polyrhythmic approach of composers such as
Steve Reich and Gyorgi Ligeti with his bittersweet shamanic-folk based
compositions.
Show starts @ 8pm
TOM CARTER >> http://www.wholly-other.com/
SHAWN DAVID MCMILLEN >> http://www.tompkinssq.com/shawn_mcmillen.html
STEVE GUNN >> http://www.myspace.com/pyramidmerchandise
THE BOY WHO SPOKE CLOUDS>> http://www.theboywhospokeclouds.com/
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