Clavius Productions presents the Kuschty Rye Ergot South US tour kickoff:
Thursday, November 8
CD Cellar
2607 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA
703-248-0635
$5 sugested donation
8pm, all ages
Kuschty Rye Ergot (mem. of Kohoutek)
Borborites (Andrew McCarry's farewell show!)
Teething Veils (mem. of Silo Halo/The Antiques)
Domesticated Wild Drones (mem. of Lorelei)
Kuschty Rye Ergot
http://www.myspace.com/kuschtyryeergotKuschty Rye Ergot is the new project from long-time DC area multi-instrumentalist/vocalist John Stanton. A collective as opposed to a fixed lineup, performances range from drifty slowburn Popol Vuh-ish watercolour solo guitar/synth constructs to full blown ensemble sonic exhaust blasts, along with occasional stripped down acoustic folk musings. Elements of many of Stanton's wide-ranging previous efforts (Redeemers, Cash Slave Clique, Nik Turner/Harvey Bainbridge of Hawkwind, Spaceseed, Promise Breakers, Cotton & Billawtm) are in evidence, refracted via a prism of spatial folk, electronics, and whatever else the lineup du jour shakes loose from their collective tree. A universe where Ronnie Lane and COB channel Dome and Peter Hammill? You decide. In addition, John sometimes performs as a member of DC improv-psych band Kouhotek, playing guitar, synth, electric piano, and other instruments. Kuschty Rye Ergot has three self-released recordings and a 3" EP on Kendra Steiner Editions, and has shared stages with acts as varied as Flower Travelin' Band, Love with Johnny Echols, Bobb Trimble, Amps For Christ, Horseback and Sharon van Etten.
Volcanic Tongue on the new KRE 3" on Kendra Steiner Editions:
Hand-numbered edition of 75 copies CD-R from psychedelic pioneer, out guitarist and exemplary head John Stanton aka Kuschty Rye Ergot. This is a pretty incredible recording, a multi-layered trip through American Primitive guitar, howling peyote ritual, Folkways environmental sounds and the kind of DIY madmanisms of Charlie Nothing before cohering into some fantastic pulse-based psychedelic rock. KSE have released a ton of great material this far but this has gotta be my favourite from the label to date. "Kuschty Rye Ergot mainman John Stanton has been a psychedelic soldier for decades, providing the greater Washington, DC area with a much-needed pure higher-key presence. When I lived in Virginia in the 1980s, I always looked forward to visiting DC two or three times a year and catching John Stanton with bands such as Gigolo Aunt, and I had the privilege of listening to many a Psycho and Heyoka and Breeder reissue with Mr. Stanton back then. A fine technician on the guitar, he exists somewhere within that rainbow running from Robbie Basho and Sandy Bull through Djinn Aquarian through Matt Valentine, yet he's always been his own man. When KSE began issuing music cdrs last year, one of my first tasks was to find John Stanton and get him to release something with KSE. SENESCENCE is the result. A three-part seamless swirling trip recorded live in DC in 2008, SENESCENCE has the warm glow and viscous flow of the best trips, musical or otherwise. You'll be reminded of everything from Ya Ho Wa 13's PENETRATION to Tony Conrad and Faust's OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE on this 19-minute inner journey, but it's 100% Stanton. KSE is proud to offer this unique 3" cdr from one of the East Coast's greatest psychedelic warriors. Don't wait for some European or Japanese label to proclaim Stanton a genius and issue a multi-cd box of his rarities dating back to the early 80s. He's still at it, both with Kuschty Rye Ergot and also as a member of Kohoutek, and this must-own disc captures him at his purest." Bill Shute.
Teething Veils
http://etxerecords.com/teething-veils/Teething Veils is a band perpetrated by songwriter Greg Svitil. It began in 2006 in a beige-carpeted second-story bedroom along Florida Avenue in Washington, DC. Its first live show was on November 25, 2006 at the Montgomery College Planetarium, and featured a star show orchestrated by Dr. Harold Alden Williams as well as music from Chicago?s doom-folk troupe Unlucky Atlas. Following an ill-received impromptu performance in Dayton, Ohio, shows took place in such venues as Artomatic; WMUC?s Third Rail Radio; Radio CPR; and 611 Florida, at the storied house?s final show before its denizens quit the premises and the landlady installed new floors. Teething Veils continues to make songs, a stone?s throw away from where it was born.
Domesticated Wild Drones
Domesticated Wild Drones will bring their moody Persian string figures and drones to the CD Cellar. Moog synth and percussionist Davis White will be joined by Paolo Valladolid on strings and Chris Videll on drones. Additionally, they will be opening with their arrangement of "Imaginary Landscape" by John Cage.
