Saturday, june 8th, 2013
La Sala Rossa
12-14$
Kevin Drumm
Emerging from the city’s improvised music scene, in the 1990s, he became one of the world’s pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers. His early recordings contain mostly sparse, quiet sounds; recent works have been more loud and dense.
Drumm has collaborated with many artists working in similar fields, including Japanese guitarist Taku Sugimoto, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jim O’Rourke, and many European improvisers such as Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and German trumpeter Axel Dörner. He has also worked with the artist group Simparch, composing a piece for their installation Spec, shown at Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany and at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Drumm has also worked with saxophonist Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, which brings together American and European players who work in both jazz and free improvisation.
Drumm’s work draws upon musique concrète, electronic sound, improvisation, heavy metal, and noise music. Musical influences include Iron Maiden, Ralf Wehowsky, Heavy Load, and The New Blockaders. He is also a black metal fanatic.
Lussuria
Standing in the rain, hands deep in raincoat pockets. This ruin of crumbled stone and ivy was once a
bath, the public kind, so rarely seen now in our age of modesty. We’re in provincial Europe somewhere. The ghosts, of beautiful, naked women, still frolic amongst the apparent decrepitude. A sense of loss, unbearable loss, and almost inevitable melancholy, accompany the rumblings of lust in one’s blood, conjured up by mind’s-eye pictures of what once happened here. When the wind blows a certain way, you can even smell the soft essence of virgin skin, and other subtle perfumes, almost detected. Such is the salsalacious, heady ambience,the visions conjured by the music of New York’s industrial ambient artist Lussuria.
Alberich
Kris Lapke began recording as Alberich in 2005 to explore themes of romance, existentialism, mythology and warfare. An enthusiast of classic industrial bands like Genocide Organ, Militia and Grey Wolves, his productions started with a wall-of-noise approach, eventually incorporating more rhythmic influences such as Esplendor Geometrico and PAL. Over the years Alberich tapes were issued by Rare Youth and Hospital Productions; Boomkat has made these hard to find cassettes available as digital collections. Alberich’s debut LP was released by Hospital in 2011, he is currently working on a followup. Lapke’s techno project Bronze Age saw its first 12” released by Bed Of Nails in 2012, with a second EP coming later this year.
Âmes Sanglantes
Âmes Sanglantes is the moniker adopted by Pierre-Marc Tremblay, a leading light of Canada’s industrial music scene. He’s also known through his other solo acts: Guerre Solitaire, Cockeyed and the Teashop Madman.Tremblay debuted in 1996, releasing two cassettes on his own Psychoelectronic Sounds Recordings label. His music was an interesting noise collage with numerous elements of power electronics. His subsequent releases had a similar sound, based on cacophonous structures made with the use of a large variety of analogue sources. Through the application of an extremely intensified sonic expression, he managed to saturate his works with the atmosphere of psychophysical violence, sexual deviations and one’s helplessness in the face of socio-technical methods of manipulation and total control exercised by social and religious state institutions.
