Clavius Productions presents a rare Kohoutek percussion ensemble performance:
Tuesday, July 15
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW DC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com 202-462-3213
$8, doors at 9pm, 18+
Kohoutek Dashin Gassoudan (Music Fellowship/Sockets, 100% percussion set!)
Vialka (turbo-folk gypsy-punk micro-orchestra guitar/drums duo from France)
Wise Light Born (DC prog-psych, mem. of Barkitecture/Antlers/Meadows, ex-Mass Movement of the Moth)
Ryan Jewell (experimental solo percussion)
Kohoutek Dashin Gassoudan http://www.claviusproductions.org/kohoutek The standard Kohoutek bio is thrown out the window for this performance, which will be the 4th all-percussion set. Joining me will be Sam Lohman (36/Cash Slave Clique/Nimrod/Nik Turner/Acid Mothers Temple/Radon Ensemble/Sikhara), John Howard (Hat City Intuitive/Plums/Spaceships Panic Orbit/Foreign Press), and the amazing Ryan Jewell (Pink Reason/Psychedelic Horseshit), who will open the night with a mindblowing solo percussion set. Lohman and Howard are two of my favorite percussionists in the DC area, and I am pleased to have us all onstage simultaneously. Think Milford Graves' ESP record, Tony Oxley, Han Bennink, and Bruford/Muir circa 1973 Crimson and you're on the right track.
Vialka http://www.vialka.com Vialka is an inflatable submarine that survived the commercial war. It travels unrestlessly around the world to explore the rich diversity of its cultures before it is too late. Vialka is a noisy comedy not ashamed of its own way by scorn or ridicule. It is an invitation to dance to steady explosive rhythms, terror melodies and experimental movements. It is a symphony for humble flesh through the high spirits of rock 'n' roll.
The dynamic duo of Marylise Frecheville and Eric Boros have been bringing their gypsy turbofolkpunk music and lifestyle to all corners of the world for six years, originally as the rhythm section of the Swiss-based performance striptease jazz-punk trio NNY, as the experimental/noise performance project Hermit, and now with Vialka. They have lived in Switzerland, Slovenia, Canada, and are currently calling France their home between tours. Vialka's music, based on the interaction between Marylise's drumming and singing and Eric's guitar playing, draws its influences from traditional and modern music from around the world played with ecstatic energy and a sophisticated musical language all their own. They released their first two albums Tonight I Show You Fuck and Republic of the Bored & Boring on Manufracture Recordings, and have released Everywhere & Nowhere, a DVD documenting their work together over the first five years, and first full-length album Curiosities of Popular Customs, recorded by Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrénées, and their latest release -- a split with Israeli klezmercore unit Kruzenshtern I Parohod (co-released with AurisMedia in Israel); all on their newly founded VIA label. Vialka is not just a musical project, but a social scientific experiment, attempting to meet and communicate with interesting and unknown musicians and artists from around the world -- with particular interest in polluted dictatorships, bleak colonies, and monarchic democracies. They have toured extensively in over 40 countries (100+ concerts per year) across Europe, Africa, North America and Asia, and have collaborated with Italian saxophonist Jacopo Andreini, Macedonian artist collective OPA, French cinematographer Laurent Varlet, Swiss cinematographer Sébastien Riond, French eco-designer Cédric Carles, members of the Chinese punk band SDL, the legendary former CAN singer Damo Suzuki, and New Zealand drummer Kieran Monaghan.
Eric Boros (Erik Boroš) began his musical career as a school-band trumpetist at a young age. Since then he has performed many times in many different "nation states" around the globe, and has participated in a wide variety of phonographic recordings --despite having crumpled his trumpet a long time ago in a fit of rage. For his work with different ensembles he plays stringed acoustic and electric guitars, while producing complex operatic "sounds" with his own voice. Although he lives without electricity, or any modern appliances (other than his solar-powered shortwave radio), he is a completely unskilled electrician, and has used this "unskill" to construct electronic gadgets to generate accompaniment frequencies to his symphonic pieces. Boros has been living in seclusion on an island, but travels regularily by kayak for Vialka repetitions and tours. He is a breath-air-ian, book reader, practicing pacifist, and tea drinker.
Marylise Frecheville was put on stage when she was three years old and became addicted to it. It is a matter of intestine regulation you see. After classical training in dancing, singing, drama and piano, she joined her first "rebel-without-a-cause" teenager garage band in 1993, where she played keyboards, sang out-of-tune, and eventually beat the skins. So now instead of building cathedrals, running after rabbits, or boozing until brain failure, she performs in various ways; constantly pushing insanity and constipation further away. Vialka is her latest baby, it shouts, it cries, it laughs, it whines -- oh no! -- it shit itself again, but it is still the most beautiful in the world. By the way, Marylise likes the little thing so much that she made a cartoon and movie of it; a story to actively remember the beginning of the millennium in which we are all going to die from severe screeningitis.
Wise Light Born Finally the clouds have spoken through their wanting whispers and the group has formed.... WISE LIGHT BORN is a new group featuring individuals of great character, warm hearts, hungry stomachs, and wide smiles. DC prog is finally back in a gigantic way. It makes you ask where did it go to begin with? The group includes Leo "Viva Las Vegas" Svirsky (Baby Killer Estelle) on organ, Britton Powell (Hume, Barkitecture) on bass, Christian Brady (Antlers, Meadows, Mass Movement of the Moth) on guitar, and Wilson Kemp (Canopy, Bark) on drums. We're looking forward to playing our songs that go like Biggada-Biggada boum boum Biggida Biggida Ba Boum Boum Boum.
Ryan Jewell http://www.myspace.com/ryanxing Ryan Jewell was born in a small Appalachian river town in southern Ohio in a landscape set between the rundown post-industrial factories and train yards and the natural beauty of the forested foothills and the Ohio River. The juxtaposition of these two seemingly conflicting environments has profoundly affected his aesthetic. He studied percussion and electronic composition techniques at Capital University and has since studied drumset with Susie Ibarra and tabla with Dr. Lowell Lybarger. His improvisations are equally influenced by Midwestern underground experimental noise, free jazz, psychoacoustics, reductionist impov, and certain schools of avant-garde composition. Ryan likes both long and short durations of sounds and tries not to make a big deal about it. He has performed or recorded with C. Spencer Yeh, Tatsuya Nakatani, Reuben Radding, Larry Marotta, Mike Brown, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, Seth Meicht, Nate Wooley, Napolean Maddox, Queen Mae and the Bells, Terribly Empty Pockets, Luasa Raelon, and Ed Chang.
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Wednesday 7/16 @ Velvet Lounge: Eagle-Ager (NYC performance art/sculpture/theatre/music)/Ilya Monosov/Pulse Emitter/Grasslung (mem. of Cloudland Canyon) $8, doors at 9pm, 18+
Thursday 7/17 @ Velvet Lounge : King Giant/Ol' Scratch/Scribes of Fire/Kaemon
$8, doors at 9pm, 21+
Friday 7/18 @ 611 Florida (2nd-to-last 611 show!): Kuschty Rye Ergot/Noa Babayof (Language of Stone, folk-psych from Israel)/Sharon van Etten (Language of Stone, NYC solo folk)/Sun Tornado (DC/Pittsburgh instrumental psych) 9pm, $5 suggested donation
Sunday 7/20 @ Velvet Lounge: Flying Eyes (MD stoner rock/heavy psych)/The Wrong Reasons (Providence alt-country/rock)/Women (MD shoegaze)
$7, doors at 9pm, 18+
Monday 7/21 @ Velvet Lounge: Sugarcane Crawl/Mick Bassett & the Marthas (Detroit garage-pop-psych)/Doug Bailey (ex-Ropers/The Still/Sounds of Kaleidoscope) $7, doors at 9pm, 21+
Tuesday 7/22 @ Velvet Lounge: The Mae Shi/Fever $8, doors at 9pm, 18+
