Anti-Ear, Tim Catlin (austrailia), Bullshit Detector, Hora Flora
Plus from Berlin and Germany:
PickaXe>>>>>>>>>> ----Michael Fink
www.michaeljonfink.com ------------Chas Smith
www.coldbluemusic.com/pages/CB0003.html
www.dustedmagazine.com/features/293
www.coldbluemusic.com/pages/CB0007.html ----------Ulrich Krieger
www.ulrich-krieger.de -------------------Marcelo Aguirre
www.myspace.com/marceloaguirre-----------------
Michael Fink (Los Angeles) was part of the LAMFS offshot Stillife together with Recchion/Le Donne-Bhennet/Dennis Duck; as well as with experimental and new music groups that have included The Negative Band, Musica Veneris Nocturnus, Ghost Duo and Gods of Rain. He recorded Stockhausen's music and has a bunch of releases on the Cold Blue label with concertos for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, violin and cello.
Chas Smith (Los Angeles) is famous for building, composing for and playing his own titanium pedal steel guitar "Guitarzilla" as well as a sound sculptor working with metal in the very tradition of Harry Bertoia. He studied with Morton Subotnick, James Tenney or Harold Budd and did a bunch of electronic music on Buchla and Serge systems. His pedal steel music is layered complex drones. He does work as a welder and sculptor for large scale work with the likes of Paul Mc Carthy and Mike Kelley.
Ulrich Krieger (Berlin, now Los Angeles) is one of the most radical sax players from Germany. He was the founder of the Zeitkrazter Ensemble and was the responsible of transcribing into notation Lou Reed's seminal "Metal Machine Music" for ensemble instruments. He did high-octane stuff alongside Zbigniew Karkowski or John Duncan with his saxophone quartet and is the interpret of choice for Phill Niblock's drone blocks since the mid eighties. He has recorded various volumes of John Cage's music for saxophones and plays live improv to the films of Stan Brackhage wih the group Text of Light.
Marcelo Aguirre's (Buenos Aires, now Berlin) free form drumming and vocals focuse on sound. His solo act, Spastic Dementia, is loud blasting goregrind performances backed by concrï¿?te tape constructions, with fast live drumming and distorted vocals. Has toured two times Europe with Michael Fink as a duo, and plays with Ulrich Krieger in the duo Sus Futuros, an improvised death metal/noise/feedback unit. Worked with Z'EV, John Duncan, John Hegre, Mattin, Campbell Kneale. His plays in the groups Onde (Belgium) and Compost (France). His most recent roject is the duo Abominations.
Cost: $6-10