lazyboy and Thomas Carnacki
lazyboy is an ambient “New Edge” duo made up of guitarist Bruce Anderson and bassist /electronic sampler Dale Sophiea, founding members of such diverse musical groups as the legendary MX-80 Sound, O-Type, Half Life, and The Screaming Gypsy Bandits.
Their music has been released by numerous labels, including Island Music, Superior Viaduct, Family Vineyard, Ship-To-Shore, Petit Mal, Quadruped, and Ralph Records.
lazyboy and companion quartet Grale are primary live performance outlets for these two, since core band MX-80 Sound now focuses primarily on studio work (most recently So Funny came out on Feeding Tube Records in 2017).
Thomas Carnacki is a Bay Area-based organism preoccupied with the recording and performances that tend towards the textural, the subtle, the disquieting and unsettling. The live performance instantiation of Carnacki consists of a varying (if moderately consistent) rotating cast of participants, regularly including Cheryl E. Leonard, Gregory Hagan, Jesse Burson, and Sheila Bosco.
Notable collaborators include luminaries such as Carla Bozulich (Evangelista, Geraldine Fibbers), Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi (Rabbit Rabbit, Tin Hat, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), and Dawn McCarthy (Faun Fables). Thomas Carnacki music has been featured in numerous dance and theatrical productions, HBO and PBS documentaries, and avant-garde experimental short films; and Carnacki has performed on both sides of the continent and as part of such festivals and entities as Activating The Medium, Project Soundwave, the Whitney Biennial, and the Illuminated Corridor. Carnacki has released a number of records in the past decade, including a split LP with Vulcanus 68 (the Quietus notes that the Carnacki half of the record is "a beautifully engaging and evolving series of crafted textures and tones to orbit our ears and enter our unconscious.") Brainwashed.com also notes, in reference to 2010's The Disappearance of This Terrible Spool EP, that Carnacki "attempts to open up listeners' worldview to the things that are best ignored; tapping into mental states that may tap back…this is a whole other world where art and the afterlife briefly touch."
Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for students with ID. Advance tickets are available at the link below, or you may purchase your tickets at the door the night of the show. Doors open one half hour before show time. We accept cash only at the door (ATMs are nearby).
The Back Room is an all-ages, BYOB (for those 21+) space, dedicated to (mostly) acoustic music of all kinds. You are welcome to bring your own adult beverage with no additional corkage fee. If you need more information or have any questions, please call us: #510-654-3808. Thank you for your support!