Clavius Productions is extremely pleased to present a rare DC solo performance by electronic music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Krautrock legends Cluster and Harmonia. Roedelius is 74, so this might be your last chance to see him in this area, so if you're a fan of minimal electronica and Satie-esque piano vignettes, this is a can't-miss opportunity.
Wednesday, October 12
Velvet Lounge
915 U St NW WDC
http://www.velvetloungedc.com/202-462-3213
$10, 21+, doors at 7:30pm
Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Germany, Cluster/Kluster/Qluster/Harmonia)
XAMBUCA (Asheville, multimedia improv collective)
Kohoutek (Philly/DC, Prophase Records)
Blue Sausage Infant (DC)
Hans-Joachim Roedeliushttp://www.roedelius.com/index.htmlGerman electronic music legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius, with a discography of more than 80 releases, has been active in music for over 30 years. He is a pioneer in electronic music, not least for his collaborations with such prominent musicians/composers/producers as Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream), Holger Czukay (Can), Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius, Conny Plank and Michael Rother (Kraftwerk/Neu!). He has worked as a soloist and founded several groups, most notably Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia.
Over his prolific career, Roedelius? musical output has covered a great deal of sonic territory and emotional range: from deeply introspective to rhythmically dancy, from experimental improvisations to heart-felt vignettes, Roedelius is a musician of depth and breadth. His influence on the genre of electronic music will be felt for many years.
XAMBUCAhttp://erototoxdecodings.com/artists/xambuca/XAMBUCA is an ongoing multimedia collective of a constant Chandra Shukla with help from several other trusted authoritites; namely RK Faulhaber, Dave Jones (Sturgeon Hoof), Elisa Faires, Larry Thrasher, Todd Mellors (Saifir), M.S. Waldron (irr. app. ext.) along with the video and audio expertise of Jason Scott Furr and the visuals of Megan McKissack. The crew has been seen if not heard sonically feeding the beast known as XAMBUCA.
XAMBUCA is not limited to any particular style or category of music and would like to establish that it not be limited to the confines of musical categorization?experimental you say? Well we?ve experimented and know the possibility of most usable sonic results. So has the rest of mankind now that we together embark upon the footprints of human unoriginality.
As the name implies, XAMBUCA, is a non-sensical arrangement of letters spelling out what most often confuse to be the Italian liqueur made from elderberries known as sambuca. In actuality the name lacks any direct definition whatsoever, the similar spelling only a mere coincidence. Cause it?s never what you think it will be, but it might and we?d like you to start thinking it?s whatever you want it to be?even if it?s horrible. This being indicative of the chance operational, improvisational, free-for-all element of approaching art with a naivete free from distinction, categorization, organization, limitation and imitation while also struggling with the confines of these simultaneously as we would be naive also to ignore that these phenomenon exist wherever humans are possible.
XAMBUCA strives to be just as much visually compelling as it is sonically. Moving aesthetics are as equal a prority when it comes to
XAMBUCA?s presentations. Our performance rider is simple: No darkness, no video, then no music = no show.
Chandra Shukla previously played in/performed/recorded with Squim, Scribble Seven (Nurse With Wound), Genesis P-Orridge: Psychic TV/Splinter Test/Thee Majesty, Tipsy, Vaccuum Tree Head, Thrasher Qawwal, Bachir Attar, Scarab, Qaballah Steppers, DiViD, Thomas Dimuzio, Saifir, Flak Bond, Larry Thrasher, RK Faulhaber, Matt Waldron (irr. app.ext.), Costa Cross, Poo Poo Shoe, Naut Humon?s ISO Orchestra, Esperik Glare, Cardinal Pecci, Paw of Zing, and many others.
Kohoutekhttp://www.claviusproductions.org/kohoutek?People interested in music that defies the pop song convention, music that challenges that part of your brain that lies dormant during most aural experiences, need a band like Kohoutek. This [ensemble] began their wildly meandering journey across the more peripheral realms of free-form psych rock a few years back and from the very beginning they seemed determined to try to cross swathes of interstellar drone, guitar squall and loose, slowly evolving improvisations of drum and bass grooves and squelchy electronics with tapestries of gravitationally flowing darkness.? (Mats Gustafsson)
?If I was still young and devious (not that I ever was devious, of course?) I?d be tempted to slap a United Artists label on this one, scuff up the sleeve and palm it off as a lost classic from 1971. Filed alongside a host of highly collectable Can, Man, Hawkwind and Amon Duul II LPs nobody would ever be the wiser. And that, to my mind, is no bad thing.? (Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope)
Blue Sausage Infanthttp://www.bluesausageinfant.com/BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT is the work of Chester Hawkins of Washington DC. Since 1986, BSI has produced music that combines aspects of noise, drone, Krautrock, sample-plundering, dark ambient, and kosmische electronics to produce a multi-layered feast for the brain. Hawkins describes his music as "mean-spirited euphoria," an improvised form of psychedelia with a glaze of paranoid tension.
BSI has collaborated in recordings and live performances with Violet, Dave Newhouse (The Muffins), Thee Maximalists, Insect Factory, Pilesar, Gary Rouzer (Nine Strings), Reanimation, Changes To Blind, Haunted Toilet, New Carrollton, Stolen Government Binder Clip, Lida Husik, and others...
"But even amid the squall, it's obvious that Hawkins values skill as much as impulse?and it's his command that makes Negative Space a vital document of DC's noise scene....And on this album, at least, he's all about the ride, the turns, the surprises, and the visions." (Washington City Paper)
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Upcoming Clavius events:
Saturday 10/29 @ Amma House (505 N. Naylor St., Alexandria): Glenn Jones, Nathan Bowles & Scott Verrastro, Layne Garrett
$5 suggested donation, 9pm, all ages!
Sunday 10/30 @ Velvet Lounge: Fuxa, Kuschty Rye Ergot, one more TBA
$10, doors at 7:30, 21+
