RAWA Benefit featuring : Sagan w/guest, Wobbly + Zeek Sheck + Goerbels and Pregger + Aunt Bunny
Multimedia trio, Sagan, (J. Lesser, Blevin Blectum, and Ryan Junell), performs “Unseen Forces,” a live audio/video version of their upcoming cd/dvd release, featuring the Sagan Players' Big Bang, with historical re-enactments and dandelion fuzz. Detritus sampler, Wobbly performs with them on keyboards as a special guest.
http://blevin.lsr1.com/birds/nav.php
http://www.detritus.net/wobbly/
Zeek Sheck, one-woman wrecking machine, instrument designer and multi instrumentalist, presents a demented world of the chemically insane, the childishly inventive and the weirdly experimental, all rolled into one. Gloriously destabilising any normal relationship between the music and reality, her performance amuses, confuses and excites.
http://www.swezlex.com/zeek3.html
Goerbels and Pregger is a project of the bran…pos and Planetsize, which balances a fine line between harsh noise, 20th/21st Century experimental exploration, heavy psychedelia, opera, and modern electronic music, technically siphoning the natural unpredictable qualities of the voice as a source and trigger for far more unworldly electronic sounds.
http://www.soundcrack.net/
Aunt Bunny is a project of Duo Electro, a funky amalgam of electronic beats, bass and soulful vocals with a nice smattering of noise.
http://www.duoelectro.com/
About RAWA
Unfortunately, the defeat of the Taliban does not spell equality for Afghan women, nor freedom, nor human rights, nor democracy. With their blatant misogyny and oppression, the Taliban became a convenient and easy target for many. But the oppression of women that was the impetus for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)'s founding 26 years ago still remains as do many of the perpetrators of Afghanistan's 25 years of war and violence. Even today, in a supposedly liberated Afghanistan women are in prison for trying to marry the man of their choice, for seeking a divorce from an abusive spouse, for having been raped, for failing to listen to the male authority figure in their home; girls schools are being firebombed; in many places formal and informal edicts and threats are restricting girls and women from work and school. Clearly, RAWA's continued outspoken demands for political and social change, as well as their direct service to women in need, are still necessary. Through our moral, material and financial support, lending our voices to our Afghan sisters’ brave and ongoing struggle is as vital as it ever was.
http://www.museumfire.com