Velvet Lounge/611 Florida/Clavius Productions schedule

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snailhook, can you please bring Carla Bozulich to Velvet Lounge?[/b]

i would do it if her booking agency (kork) asked. i booked her at the warehouse in july 2006 and it was awesome.

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from the Washington City Paper:
 
 A number of rock musicians have sought to make bedfellows of Ren-faire harmony and electrified boogie: Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Nigel Tufnel. But few have approached the idea as earnestly as Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. On Proletarian Drift, Akiyama doesnâ??t simply settle for plucking out a few mid-shredfest Vivaldi riffsâ??he brings in Dutch lutist Jozef van Wissen to really lace up the doublet. However, the resulting duets will hardly send listeners skipping through the gilliflowers. Akiyamaâ??s sparse and textural style combines with van Wissenâ??s traditional plucking to create a series of hushed melodic improvisations that fluctuate between tranquil meditation and unsettling emptiness. Akiyama performs with van Wissem and Max Ochs at 9 p.m. at the Velvet Lounge, 915 U St. NW. $8. (202) 462-3213. (Aaron Leitko)

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Clavius Productions and Marc Masters present a celebration of No Wave, Masters' recently finished book on the history of no wave. There will be sets by Vapour Theories (the Gibbons Bros of Bardo Pond laying down some mighty guitar drone), locals Kohoutek and Dark Sea Dream, and DJ sets by Mark C (of Live Skull) and Masters. Now's your chance to hear Mars and UT blasting through club speakers!
 
 Saturday, February 9
 Velvet Lounge
 915 U St NW WDC
 http://www.velvetloungedc.com
 202-462-3213
 $8, doors at 9pm, 18+
 
 Kohoutek (Music Fellowship/Sockets, DC improv psych)
 Vapour Theories (mem. of Bardo Pond, guitar drone overload)
 Dark Sea Dream (VA heavy psych)
 plus DJ sets by Mark C (Live Skull)
 
 More info on No Wave coming soon...
 
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 Sunday, February 10
 Velvet Lounge
 915 U St NW WDC
 http://www.velvetloungedc.com
 202-462-3213
 $8, doors at 9pm, 21+
 
 Jack Wright (saxes)
 Stephane Rives (saxes)
 
 Andrea Neumann (inner klavier)
 Bonnie Jones (circuits)
 Andy Hayleck (bowed metal, laptop)
 Paul Neidhardt (percussion)
 
 Anthony Pirog (solo experimental guitar, mem. of Janel & Anthony/The Bang/PRV Trio)
 
 
 About the players:
 
 Andrea Neumann
 http://www.japanimprov.com/profiles/aneumann/
 
 Born 1968 in Freiburg, grew up in Hamburg. Since 1996 primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of experimental and new music. In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, she has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds (sometimes to make parts of the sound audible which are inaudible without amplification), she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument. Because the original inside piano is very heavy, a piano builder (Bernd Bittmann, Berlin) constructed a new and lighter one for her. She has worked intensively in the crossover area between composition and improvisation, and in the field between electronic and handmade sounds, with Berlin musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ignaz Schick, Axel Dörner, Robin Hayward and Burkhard Beins.
 
 
 Stephane Rives
 http://www.myspace.com/stephanerives
 
 "The mechanism of the saxophone permits a concrete-acoustic approach to the instrument. The possibilities of acting directly on the pads and the flexibility of the reed offer subtle means of altering the sonic wave generated by breath. Once one adopts a way of thinking based on the sort of filtering any electronic musician does, oneâ??s attention is drawn to the tiny micro-events that are barely audible in a traditional approach. The sonic planes twist and acoustic distortion emerges, revealing the subtle grains and textures lying "inside" the acoustic sound. New materials arise as though they had always been right there, hidden behind the immediately perceptible. In order to gain control of them, one reduces any idea of willful intervention to an absolute minimum, leaving only the flow of air through the metal cone, an action that is discrete in certain parameters. My playing is not about arriving at something; instead, it is an instant that answers to that logic. My musical reflection focuses on questions of praxis. I am not driven by musical intention in the strict sense of the term, but the experience of sound I propose represents a means of "exciting" the listener, a way of questioning, of shaking up his feeling of psychological security and transforming his relationship to listening."
 
 
 Jack Wright
 http://www.springgardenmusic.com/jackbio.html
 
 Jack Wright has over sixty partners around the US and in Europe with whom he plays on his travels and records. His most recent tours have been with Fabrizio Spera and Alberto Braida in Italy; with Agnes Palier and Olivier Toutlemond in France, Switzerland and Germany, with Michael Johnsen and Sebastien Cirotteau in Europe; with French soprano sax player Michel Doneda and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani in Japan, France and the US; Carol Genetti, sound vocalist of Chicago, and Jon Mueller, percussionist of Milwaukee; cellist Bob Marsh of the Bay area; Nate Wooley, trumpet, of NYC in Europe; Michael Griener percussion and Sabine Vogel flute of Berlin; Reuben Radding, NYC bassist; and Phil Durrant, English laptop musician.
 
 
 Bonnie Jones
 http://bonniejones.wordpress.com/
 
 Bonnie Jones was born in South Korea in 1977 and until recently her work has focused largely on text and performance. However, a recent trip back to Korea introduced her to the digital delay pedal and circuit bending. For the last year she has been collaborating with Korean musicians, such as the duo Astronoise (Choi Joon-yong & Hong Chul-ki), and expat Joe Foster. A very pleasant trip to Japan gave her the chance to play with percussionist Toshi Makihara and saxophonist Kenichi Matsumoto. Bonnie likes to imagine that she makes sound the way she has always tried to make text - focusing intently on various unique tensions within the space, meaning, and connectivity of the things we use to make art. She also finds collaborative/collective action the most useful thing to do with her time.
 
 
 Andy Hayleck (b. 1972) composer/ musician and recordist. Explores the aesthetics of sound, especially regarding how sound is perceived by the ear. He uses extremes of volume, pitch, and sound complexity, and variations in change over time. For the past few years he has concentrated on using unamplified bowed metal (cymbals and saw) in performance and using contact mics, hydrophones and regular mics in recording. Although he has used a computer for many years, recently he has begun to use one live. Currently a member of Trockeneis, he recently made a solo tour of the west coast of the United States (playing the amplified gong/wire). Recordings include: "Gong/Wire" (earlids), "Various Recordings Involving Ice" (HereSee), and "The Disappearing Floor" (Recorded).
 
 
 Baltimore's Paul Neidhardt is one of the countries most astonishing new music percussionists. A trained, highly disciplined player with a flair for complex textural sound produced by friction, Neidhardt's approach to improvising covers the majority of the terrain explored by the explosive side of European free music and subtle textural players like Sean Meehan and Jason Kahn, while retaining a freshness and flexibility of purpose all his own. His background playing rock and African music adds a potential for propulsive intesnivty to his playing not usually found in players so skilled in the arts of minimalist reductionism. Despite recovering from injuries that limited his time playing in recent years, he is a highly in-demand player, working with groups like Trokeneis, Death in the Maze, and Multiphonic Choir, as well as frequent collaborations with Jack Wright.
 
 
 Anthony Pirog
 http://anthonypirog.com/
 http://www.myspace.com/janelandanthony
 http://www.myspace.com/thebangband
 
 from a nice piece in DCist on Anthony:
 
 "A jazz guitarist by training, having graduated from New York University's music school and having spent time at the Berkelee School of Music, Pirog is technically brilliant and able to take that brilliance into the experimental realm. Taking the stage already chock full of effects pedals (23 in total), Anthony began the night with an almost ambient post-rock song and progressed through the night with pieces that were at times jarring, calming, challenging and multi-dimensional. By the second song, Pirog was pulling the rug of "ordinary" out from under us. He introduced a variety of sounds through both the electronics he had onstage and his guitar (at one point playing a child's keyboard into his guitar) â?? tweaking them, processing them, looping them and then layering them.
 
 Throughout the night, he painstakingly set up all his pieces; he continued to layer sounds until that moment when the cacophony could not get any more intense and then would pull everything together into one coherent and melodic piece, playing his guitar soaringly above the fray. It was at those moments when chaos triumphantly became ordered that Pirog's genius was most exposed. As he revealed to us in his interview, "I had the first loop prerecorded to get me going and that was it. The rest was improvised." His facial expressions while doing so revealed his genuine interest and curiosity in each new sound he was creating and in figuring out how best to fit those sounds into an overall melodic structure. Using his extensive knowledge of music and combining it with electronics-galore, Pirog is essentially a one-man experimental orchestra, taking the roll of composer, musician and conductor. At the end of the show, all the music geeks came out of the woodworks to look at all his pedals and discuss with him his process â?? which he kindly did."
 
 http://dcist.com/2007/03/29/three_stars_ant.php

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Clavius Productions presents:
 
 Tuesday, March 4
 Velvet Lounge
 915 U St NW WDC
 http://www.velvetloungedc.com
 202-462-3213
 $7, doors at 9pm, 18+
 
 Debate (from Brazil, experimental post-punk a la Shellac, just recorded with Albini)
 The Convocation (GSL/Tiger Style, ex-Moss Icon/Born Against/UOA/Great Unraveling)
 Double Dutch (DC)
 
 from the Washington City Paper:
 
 D.C. postrock bands like the Sorts and their peers drank deeply from the well of Brazilian Tropicália music, so you can't fault Debate for borrowing back some of the District's postpunk grit. São Paulo's Debate scoops up some of Jawbox's angularity and a little bit of Faraquet's math and crossbreeds it with epic, Rush-inspired arena riffs and an affection for the Ex's screeching improvisations. But Debate wisely refrains from lodging its music too firmly in the summer of '93. On its most recent recordings, the group bravely dabbles in electronicsâ??throwing crackling synthesizers and dub delays into an already cacophonous mix. (Aaron Leitko)
 
 http://www.myspace.com/debaterock
 
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 Thursday, March 6
 Velvet Lounge
 915 U St NW WDC
 http://www.velvetloungedc.com
 202-462-3213
 $7, doors at 9pm, 21+
 
 Screen Vinyl Image (ex-Alcian Blue, DC nu-goth-crunk)
 Julie Ocean (ex-Velocity Girl/Tree Fort Angst/Swiz)
 
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 Friday, March 7
 The Lighthouse
 1421 Buchanan St NW WDC
 9pm, $5 suggested donation
 202-360-9739 for info
 BYOB!
 
 Sunburned Hand of the Man (Ecstatic Peace/Eclipse)
 Kohoutek (DC improv psych, Music Fellowship/Sockets)
 Bill Nace (solo electric guitar from MA, mem. of Vampire Belt/Northampton Wools)
 Chris Grier (solo electric guitar from DC, mem. of To Live and Shave in L.A./Thee Ultimate VAG/Sean McArdle Band/Scarcity of Tanks)
 Lexie Mountain (Baltimore's finest chanteuse)
 
 *If you're not in the mood for tweaky psych, go to the Velvet Lounge to check out: The Hall Monitors, The Shalitas (NYC garage-pop), The Right Ons (garage-rock from Spain)    $8, doors at 9:30pm, 21+
 
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 Saturday, March 8
 Velvet Lounge
 915 U St NW WDC
 http://www.velvetloungedc.com
 202-462-3213
 $8, doors at 9pm, 21+
 
 Len Bias (DC)
 Appomattox (NYC mathy post-punk in the vein of Unwound/Chavez)
 Mussels  (NYC)
 
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 Sunday, March 9
 Velvet Lounge
 915 U St NW WDC
 http://www.velvetloungedc.com
 202-462-3213
 $8, doors at 9pm, 21+
 
 Nadja (epic drone/doom from Toronto)
 Field Shaman (DC guitar/cello duo)
 Pacific Before Tiger & Andrew Marino (minimal drone duo from NC)
 Ami Dang (solo sitar from Baltimore)  
 
 
 Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitars/vocals/piano/woodwinds/drums) & Leah Buckareff (bass/vocals) currently based in Toronto, Canada. Nadja originally began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient guitar-based music. In 2005 Buckareff joined in order to make the project more than just a studio endeavor & allow Nadja to perform live.
 
 Nadja creates music that has been variously described as drone, ambient doom, and shoegazer-metal. The duo combines soundscapes, electronics, & atmospheric vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs & dirge-like percussion, tempering the cacophany with a certain ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of amorphous sound.
 
 After several limited edition CDR releases, Nadja released their first official album Truth Becomes Death on Montreal's Alien8 Recordings in 2005. They have since released material on Conspiracy Records, Profound Lore Records, Archive Records, & The End Records. They perform regularly in Toronto and Montreal, and have toured Europe and USA, sharing the stage with such artists as Kayo Dot, Knurl, Khanate, Francisco Lopez, Isis, Ocean and Bloody Panda.
 
 http://www.nadjaluv.ca
 http://www.myspace.com/nadjaluv
 
 "The band's latest long-player, Radiance of Shadows, finds the duo scaling Lovcraftian peaks of oversized terror in pursuit of an unfathomable union of beauty and barbarousness. Commanding, encompassing and occasionally savage, the album employs all of the band's hallmarks: sinewy strands of guitar layered beyond individual recognition, errant yet powerful percussion and an unconstrained but no less purposeful sense of buildup." (Casey Rae-Hunter, Dusted Magazine)
 
 "When Toronto electro-metal duo Nadja are at the height of their powers, the entire world feels as if it could collapse beneath the pressure of a manipulated guitar, a drum machine, a bass, and two bent voices. Radiance of Shadows...pushes to and pulls from such apocalyptic promise for 80 minutes, saturating their cathedral volume with sounds both thick and rich." (Grayson Currin, Pitchfork Media)
 
 "Nadja have all the style, velocity and impact of a Stealth bomber. To label their work simply as drone, however, would be to do it a disservice, as the music is more multi-layered and complex, with slabs of guitar, bass and drum machine rising up and then falling back without warning into an abyss of strummed chords and hovering Ambience. Elsewhere Nadja's sound resembles that of a full symphony orchestra, a maelstrom of different tunings blended into a single thrust...Nadja [is] one of the most exciting groups to emerge in recent years, and Radiance of Shadows is one of their finest achievements." (Edwin Pouncey, The Wire)
 
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 Tuesday 3/11: Ghastly City Sleep, Pygmy Lush, Tideland (all of these bands are ex-Pg. 99 and probably City of Caterpillar)   $7, doors at 9pm, 18+!
 
 Wednesday 3/12: Big Noose's birthday bash w/ Dark Sea Dream (VA psych, ex-VOG), Pastures (mem. of The New Flesh/Vincent Black Shadow, ex-VOG/Piasa), and more!    $5, doors at 9pm
 
 Friday 3/14: The Hounds of Hasselvander w/ very special "ghoul" (ex-Pentagram/Raven/Blue Cheer/Spirit Caravan -- a real doom supergroup), Revelation (original MD doom!), Ol' Scratch
 $10, doors at 9:30pm, 18+!
 
 Friday 3/21: The Lookies (ex-Velvet Monkeys/Gumball), The Rambling Shadows, 7 Door Sedan    $8, doors at 9:30pm
 
 Saturday 3/22: Spontaneous Infinity pre-festival show w/ Steve Lehman (avant-garde saxophonist from NYC), DCIC   $10, doors at 9pm, 18+!
 http://sponinf.alkem.org/
 
 Sunday 3/23: Admiral Browning, Scale the Summit (Houston prog-metal), Periphery   $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Monday 3/24: Make a Rising (Philly art-rock/indie-prog), Gestures
 $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Tuesday 3/25: The World That Summer, Xeper    $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Thursday 3/27: Suns of Guns, Vincent Black Shadow, Rise of Man
 $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Friday 3/28: Spontaneous Infinity w/ Elliott Sharp (legendary experimental guitarist, SST Records), Blaise Siwula/David Wilson/Toshi Makihara (sax/sax/percussion), Jaimie Branch/March Riordan (trumpet/percussion duo from Chicago), Thus (sax/inventions duo from Baltimore), Nate Scheible & Matt Wascovich (Cleveland, drums/guitar)    $15, doors at 8pm, 18+!
 http://sponinf.alkem.org/
 
 Saturday 3/29: Spontaneous Infinity w/ Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra Arkestra) & Elliott Levin, Uri Caine (experimental keyboardist from NYC), Sabir Mateen & Michiko Duo (sax/voice, mem. of TEST/No Neck Blues Band), Matthias Muller & Christian Marien (trombone/percussion duo from Germany), PRV Trio (DC guitar/percussion trio, mem. of Kohoutek/Ultimate VAG/Janel & Anthony/The Bang)    $15, doors at 8pm, 18+!
 http://sponinf.alkem.org/
 
 Sunday 3/30: Kuschty Rye Ergot (ex-Redeemers/Promise Breakers, mem. of Kohoutek), Dame Satan (folk-psych from SF)   $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Wednesday 4/2: Twin Earth, Women, Plums   $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Friday 4/4: Apes (Gypsy Eyes/Birdman), Health (LA noise-rock)    $8, doors at 9:30pm
 
 Sunday 4/6: Eat Forever, Snack Truck (mem. of Ultra Dolphin)   $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Thursday 4/10: Nick Schillace (Detroit acoustic fingerpicker), Eric Carbonara (Locust, Philly solo flamenco guitar)   $8, doors at 9pm
 
 Friday 4/11: Turbojugend (Turbonegro tribute society) party w/ The Shirks (featuring Al Bud!), The Cheats  
 
 Sunday 4/13: Three Faces of Eve/Battlemaster/Jefferson Plane Crash/Monarch
 $7, doors at 9pm, 18+!
 
 Tuesday 4/15: Public Record (from Philly, High Two Records, ex-Ropers/Saturday People), The Mantras   $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Wednesday 4/16: Carla Bozulich's Evangelista (Constellation Records, ex-Geraldine Fibbers), Tom Greenwood & Joanne Robertson (mem. of Jackie-O Motherfucker), Vampire Hands (Minneapolis psych-rock on Freedom-From)
 $10, doors at 9pm, 18+!
 
 Thursday 4/17: The Holy Attack, Trouble vs Glue (synth-punk from Italy)
 $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Friday 4/18: 9353, Unorthodox    $10, doors at 9:30pm
 
 Saturday 4/19: Gary Higgins (Drag City, legendary folk-psych from CT)/Brandon Butler   $10, doors at 9:30pm
 
 Wednesday 4/23: Nudity (heavy psych from Olympia, ex-Tight Bros From Way Back When)    $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Thursday 4/24: Dora Bleu (folk-psych from Montreal, ex-Laconic Chamber/From Quagmire, mem. of Shalabi Effect)   $7, doors at 9pm
 
 Thursday 5/1: Pinche Gringo (one-man garage band from Mexico)
 
 Saturday 5/3: Iron Man (original MD doom!), Revelation, Pale Divine
 $8, doors at 9:30pm
 
 Sunday 5/4: Sudden Infant (experimental noise from Germany), Violet, Twilight Memories of the Three Suns, Caustic Castle    $8, doors at 9pm
 
 Thursday 5/8: Portable Noise Kremator (experimental noise from Belgium), All Violet  
 
 Sunday 5/11: Gildon Works (mem. of Relay, shoegaze/psych rock from Philly)
 
 Wednesday 5/14: The Midgetmen (trash-punk from Austin)
 
 Thursday 5/15: Mouthbreather
 
 Friday 5/16: Deceased (Relapse, VA thrash/death metal), Sacrificial Blood, Vermefug    $10, doors at 9pm, 18+
 
 Tuesday 5/20: The Mutators, Modern Creatures (noise-rock from Vancouver)
 
 Thursday 5/22: Adam Caine-Nick Lyons Duo (sax/guitar improv duo), Circus of Saints
 
 Thursday 5/29: Lo-Pan (stoner rock from Columbus)
 
 Friday 5/30: Fern Knight (CD release show on VHF), Alexander Turnquist (VHF)
 
 Friday 6/6: Dysrhythmia (Relapse)
 
 Thursday 6/26: Sharron Kraus (amazing folk singer from the UK)/United Bible Studies (improv folk-psych from Ireland)
 
 Tuesday 7/15: Vialka (prog/psych/punk from France)

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new velvet lounge website is up!!!

[Bombay Chutney]

Wow.  A real website.  Nice!
 
 Friday 04.04.08  Apes
 Friday 04.18.08  9353
 
 Even better  

[chromataphors]

gary higgins???
 is this a current date or from last year?
 i can't tell from this post.

[ggw]

Originally posted by chromataphors:
  gary higgins???
 is this a current date or from last year?
 i can't tell from this post.

According to the Velvet Lounge website - http://www.velvetloungedc.com/calendar.html - it is this year.  But the date is 4/26, not 4/19 as shown above.

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yup, gary higgins is indeed coming here. i just switched the date from 4/26 to 4/19 because his keyboardist couldn't make the 26th.

[azaghal1981]

Nice...now I can make that Gary Higgins show.
 

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cool...i saw him in november 2005 with espers and he was 75% great (he played a few new songs that were a little too CSN for me, but otherwise, he was fantastic).

[azaghal1981]

Magik Markers and Mammatus are touring together?
 
 
 That at the velvet would be huge.

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this i did not know. i'll get on that...

[azaghal1981]

Only west coast as of now.

[azaghal1981]

How about trying to get a hold of Lou Reed and convincing him to play a 3-hour version of Metal Machine Music at the velvet after the 930 show?