Brainwashed dot com http://brainwashed.com Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:06:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7165 New stuff this week includes Kranky's own Benoit Pioulard and Windy Carl plus an LP release from Autistic Daughters (not on Kranky). Also look out for the return of Detroit Grand Pubahs, the Dead C, Eleh, and some reissues from Danielle Dax. Events - Release Dates Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:46:53 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7158&Itemid=67 The Brainwashed Email Announcement List has had a number of problems in the last month so it's being closed down in favor of a brand new one, hosted locally now by our own domain host. Go to brainwashed.com/list.html (/list.html) to sign up (you can conveniently sign off there too) for announcements on new releases, special events, and other exclusive announcements that don't go on the Web site here. News - Site News Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:57:47 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7136 Peter Christopherson (of Throbbing Gristle (/tg/), Psychic TV, Coil (/coil/) , and SoiSong) has confirmed that he will bring his North American debut performance of Threshold HouseBoys Choir to Brainwaves 2008 (http://brain-waves.org), completing this year's lineup. Brainwaves 2008 lineup now stands as: Threshold HouseBoys Choir (http://thresholdhouse.com), JG Thirlwell's Manorexia (http://www.foetus.org/), Meat Beat Manifesto (mbm/), Matmos (matmos/), Stars of the Lid (sotl/), Little Annie (annie/), Silver Apples (http://www.silverapples.com/), Windy Weber (of Windy Carl (http://www.brainwashed.com/wc)) Thomas Meluch (of Benoit Pioulard (http://www.pioulard.com)), Major Stars (http://www.myspace.com/themajorstars), Reformed Faction (http://www.the-edge.ws/pretentious/reformed/) (Mark (http://www.spybey.net/) and Robin of Zoviet France, Rapoon (http://www.the-edge.ws/pretentious/rapoon/), Dead Voices On Air), Andrew Liles (http://andrewliles.com/) and Jonathan Coleclough (http://www.coleclough.plus.com/), Nmperign (http://bhobrainey.net/) feat. Jason Lescalleet (http://www.jasonlescalleet.com/), Marissa Nadler (http://www.marissanadler.com/), Glenn Jones (http://www.myspace.com/glennjonesguitar), His Name Is Alive (http://www.hisnameisalive.com/), Gary Wilson (http://www.sixpointfour.com/), Rivulets (http://www.rivulets.net/), Strategy (http://www.myspace.com/strategymusic), Nudge (http://www.myspace.com/nudgetheband), Boduf Songs (http://bluebabyrecordings.com/), To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie (http://www.tokillapettybourgeoisie.us/), Lichens (http://www.kranky.net/artists/lichens.html) + DJ Steven Stapleton (nww/) a special Greater Than One (gto/) video presentation. Brainwaves 2008 will be at the Regent Theatre (http://www.regenttheatre.com/) in Boston (Arlington) from November 21-23. Tickets are still only $75 for the entire weekend and can be purchased through Brainwashed Commerce (/commerce.html).Tickets can only be bought for the entire weekend at this point and not individual days. See our Brainwashed Facebook Group page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13422654316) for forums and talks for ride and hotel shares and to ask questions of organizers and crew. Events - Concerts and Tours Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:51:02 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7174 The Legendary Pink Dots (/lpd/) touch down in North America this week to begin their tour supporting Plutonium Blonde, the group's latest full-length release, out now on ROIR. There's a brand new newsletter on all the LPD sites and keep in mind that Terminal Kaleidoscope (http://www.terminalkaleidoscope.com/) will be closed until December, when the group return from the road. Those in North America should read on to check out all the places will be hitting (as it's a big undertaking this time!) Events - Concerts and Tours Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:53:56 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7163&Itemid=67 In a recent mailout, David Tibet (/c93/) has announced the release of Birth Canal Blues Live CD 12 (with a 3D cover), a 2xCD reissue of Dawn, a 2xCD reissue of Live at Bar Maldoror, a 2xCD reissue of In Menstrual Night, and a purple vinyl repress for Of Rune or Some Blazing Starre. Read on for links to a radio interview with Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound (/nww/) along with The Continuous Accident: an audio/visual collaboration between visual artist/photographer Julia Kramer and Steven Stapleton. News - Site News Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:45:24 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7126&Itemid=67 From September through November you'll be able to hear music from all the acts performing at Brainwaves 2008 (http://brain-waves.org) on the Brainwashed Podcast (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=944 Itemid=58). We'll even keep old episodes up a little longer than usual. Regular Podcast listeners will know that we occasionally have contests and giveaways so don't be surprised if we give some stuff away between now and then. News - Site News Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:53:30 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7159 Daniel McKernan premieres a new video piece, A Well Hung Monk, for Black Sun Productions (featuring photographs of Jhonn Balance taken by Peter Christoperson), and a new interactive video installation, The Magick H8-Ball, featuring Sophia Lamar at MIX NYC (http://www.mixnyc.org) Queer Experimental Fim Fest. October 15-19, 2008. Events - Exhibitions Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:08:21 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7172&Itemid=64 The Dots are as focused and as diverse a group as I can name. For over 25 years they've been releasing record after record of bizarre and colorful music. Even with such a voluminous catalog behind them, their output remains completely unique and peerless. Plutonium Blonde is a trance-like, somewhat awkward record that meshes their eccentric pop sensibilities with dark, aggressive machine music. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:51:54 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7173&Itemid=64 Joseph Raglani uses sine/square wave generator, synth, guitar, voice, melodica, flute and electronics on five intriguing and accessible pieces. The engaging tension, emotional depth and narrative sensibility in Of Sirens Born feels similar to watching a film about explorers entering a strange landscape. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:00:23 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7162&Itemid=64 This Portland, Oregon group is probably my current favorite instrumental rock act (basically ever since Battles got all goofy). I've loved all the live shows I've seen and of all their releases on Neurot, Temporary Residence, Important, and Latitude, this, their first release of 2008, is easily my top pick. Here, the group utilize their arsenal of gear and found sounds to showcase their matured compositional skills, exploit some fine riffs, and weave songs together with sounds to make a seamless and blissful 32+ minute record. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:44:43 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7161&Itemid=64 While Grails' second release of the year isn't a mis-step, I simply don't find that I'm captivated by the melodies contained herein. For the second time this year the group have produced a 30+ minute long collection of pieces of epic magnitude, however, I'm often left waiting for songs to develop, and then let down as some of these pieces seem like incomplete thoughts when compared to the previous release. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:44:03 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7160&Itemid=64 After having explored the experimental possibilities inherent in the grand piano on his 1986 album Notturno, Tietchens visited the human voice on the 1988 follow up Aus Freude Am Elend. On it, this musical innovator raids recordings of religious ecstatics, people shouting and making love, people singing, and others, using these ‘stolen’ voices to create new frameworks, decontextualised and deconstructed, and in the process rendering the human voice as richly complex an instrument as any woodwind or stringed example. Under Tietchens' analytical gaze and craftsmanlike manipulation, we are left with something that is at once familiar and exotically alien, a veritable menagerie of species paraded before the gaze and designed to both appal and enthral equally. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:32:31 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7171&Itemid=64 As well as releasing some of the most important and exciting music of the 20th and 21st centuries, Sub Rosa have also acted as archivists when it comes to recordings of important non-musical artists. Previous releases from their aural documents wing include fantastic recordings by Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, W.S. Burroughs and a series of recordings covering avant garde art in Belgium over the course of the 20th century. This third volume in this Belgian art series covers the main movers and shakers of Belgian contemporary art from just before the Second World War up to the late 1970s. Overall it is a valuable but flawed document that needs more supplemental material to be fully of use to the public and academia at large. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:35:51 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7170 Following the release of their (so far) only album Chaos Is My Name a couple of years ago, this trio consisting of Khanate’s James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida and Thorr’s Hammer’s Runhild Gammelsæter played exactly one gig and seemed to have left it at that. Luckily the show was recorded on a couple of cameras and has made its way onto this DVD. As great as the album was, the video presented here shows that the studio fails to capture the full intensity of the group’s performance. Reviews - Home Theater Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:50:16 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7168&Itemid=64 The latest from Poland's Mort Douce is named after a poem by John Siddique. Given the title, I expected to be besieged with insect chittering or else the maddening rush of descending swarms. Instead, the sounds are almost geological, like dropping a microphone into the center of the Earth and amplifying minute tectonic shifts, documenting the secret life of continents. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:25:15 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7167 Using mostly guitar, Martin Kränzel explores foreboding vistas on his latest album as Wicked Messenger. He makes the instrument almost unrecognizable in his depiction of gathering darkness and thunderous portent. Heavy and chilling, these five tracks do an excellent job of sustaining a mythology of dread. Reviews - Sound Bytes Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:24:05 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7166 On this album, C.db.sn (aka Chase Dobson) makes beat-driven electronic music named after a variety of sea creatures like moral eels, anemone, and jellyfish. It's an appropriate theme, for this music, like the ocean, simultaneously soothes and invigorates a restless mind. While some of it may seem a little straightforward, Dobson adds enough emotional textures to keep the songs both absorbing and refreshing. Reviews - Sound Bytes Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:21:55 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7169&Itemid=64 Visual artist Jesse Pep'er, whose hallucinatory artwork adorns the covers of albums by the likes of Edward Ka-spel, Maëror Tri, and Kenji Siratori, finds inspiration in similar territory for his debut album. While not every song evokes the same majestic grotesquerie as his paintings, the best tracks are every bit as otherworldly on this solid, if a bit uneven, album. Reviews - Music Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:26:58 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7146 Wire (/wire/) begin their first North American tour in over five years in Montreal, Sunday October 5th and spend two weeks in Canada and the USA. This is the first full North American tour featuring guitarist Margaret Fiedler (Laika, Moonshake, PJ Harvey, etc...). Object 47 is available now on Pink Flag (http://pinkflag.com). Events - Concerts and Tours Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7151 Texas Filmmaker Chris Eska's award winning film AUGUST EVENING was acquired by Maya Entertainment after its debut at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Maya's CEO, Moctesuma Esparza (SELENA, WALKOUT), stated 'We're confident it will satisfy both traditional art house audiences and break through to the mainstream Latino market, achieving both critical and financial success.' Filmed in and around San Antonio, the 2008 Independent Spirit winning team of AUGUST EVENING has been preparing for the movie's theatrical debut with much anticipation. Events - Exhibitions Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:18:26 +0100