Fleshtone Aura & S. Glass, Cleav'd Cleaver, Marc Kate, Beast Nest
Wed, April 15; doors 7:30pm, show 8-10pm
at Second Act, 1727 Haight St $5 21+
Fleshtone Aura & S. Glass with projections by W.hacking
Fleshtone Aura is a licentious collaborator at the core of Toronto's underground. He operates the killer Bennifer Editions label known for its risographic, screenprinted, handsewn packages and Gastric Female Reflex his long celebrated noise duo. His multiple solo monikers frequently end up in lascivious collusion as well, this time with S. Glass, himself a known libertine (Glands of External Secretion, Bren't Lewiis Ensemble) and creator of Bananafish magazine and Tedium House. Making it a threesome, unmatched visuals by W.hacking will illuminate the whole torrid affair.
http://fleshtoneaura.bandcamp.com
https://archive.org/details/TheBrentLewiisEnsemblepalsy
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CLEAV’D CLEAVER
Cleav'd Cleaver is Chicago-based Jason Soliday (J.Soliday/Coeurl/Gunshop/Enemy) on modular synth and Jake Rodriguez (bran(…)pos) of SF/Bay Area weirdness fame on mouth/vox. Savory electronics collide with face-twisting vocal exhortations in an acutely well controlled yet freely improvised (noisy) forms. This will be Cleav’d Cleaver’s first tour after premiering the duo on Glossolalia on KXLU 88.9FM Los Angeles in 2013.
https://soundcloud.com/crank-satori/cleavd-cleaver-live-at
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Marc Kate
In a detour from his post-punk/synthgaze project, Never Knows, Marc Kate is creating static experiments in synthesis that embody the opposite of New Age music. These spacious sounds though haunting and ethereal are anything but spiritual; instead, Kate’s music is visceral and material. Faint outlines of melody and song are buried and burdened by an ocean of distortion, self-doubt and melancholy. In effect: a music that undermines itself, a tension between serenity and dissonance, and the crossing of vintage analog with laptop experimentation. This performance marks the release of “File #08”, his debut for the San Francisco label, Computer Tapes.
http://www.nvrknws.com
https://soundcloud.com/nvrknws
Beast Nest
Beast Nest is the primary performance vehicle for Sharmi Basu, a queer South Asian woman of color focused on creating experimental music as a means of decolonizing musical language. One day, Sharmi aspires to have an ensemble called “Dog Divas,” which will feature her lying in the grass surrounded by Casio keyboards played by overexcited 6-week-old puppies.
http://www.sharmi.info/
From BART, the N-Judah train is fastest, hop off at Carl St @Cole, right outside the Duboce/Gamble Park tunnel. http://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/transit/routes-stops/stops/3911
Cost: $5