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“Zevious split the difference between the Tony Williams Lifetime and the 80s Downtown scene...[they make] algebraic music feel wholly organic , almost swinging."
– Jazz Times

"...Zevious is for anyone who loves aggressive, rock-oriented improv with grooves and some semblance of a song...these guys put their music degrees to work...letting us know that being intense doesn't mean you can't have arrangements and following a script doesn't mean you can't let your hair down."
– DownBeat

Zevious are a trio—guitarist Mike Eber, drummer Jeff Eber (cousins, not brothers), and bassist Johnny DeBlase. They started out as jazzbos in 2006, but they got over it; they "went electric," as the old folks say, with DeBlase putting down his upright bass and Mike Eber picking up the Telecaster that gives his tightly knotted lines their sting. The music they wrote shifted from jazz chords and head-nodding swing to tumbling, noisy rock that recalls instrumental-skronk powerhouses like Don Caballero, the Nels Cline Singers, Dysrhythmia (for whom Jeff also plays), Behold…The Arctopus, Hyrrokkin, King Crimson (circa 1975), James “Blood” Ulmer, and more.

Their first release for Cuneiform, After The Air Raid, rightly gained them a lot of attention for their modern and powerful approach to electric jazz. The group gathered good press and enthusiastic audiences, as the band spent a good bit of 2010 and 2011 touring.

According to the band, the goal on 'Passing Through The Wall' is to induce a trance-like state in the listener through repetition, non-conventional melody and challenging song structure. The compositions are based around large cycles of layered poly-rhythmic patterns against octave displaced melodies; the individual parts working together to create dense, pulsating textures. The title 'Passing Through The Wall' is fitting for the music on this album because the band is challenging the listener to literally “pass through a wall” of sound, transforming their state of mind in the process. As Mike explains, "Every piece that we write, we’re trying to explore a particular concept, and on this album we really tried to play with layered time. So at some point or throughout entire tracks, we’re actually playing in three time signatures at once—I might be in one, Johnny’s in another, Jeff is playing both and then on top of that, another one."

On 'Passing Through The Wall,' the trio is tighter, crazier and more intense than ever and this is certainly their greatest achievement to date. Working once more with engineer Colin Marston (Behold… The Arctopus, Dysrhythmia), their live sound has been clearly and accurately captured in all its hugely roaring, polymetric glory! It's a ferocious 48-minute slab of muscular, intelligent instrumental music that breaks musical and stylistic barriers.

Zevious, "Entanglement" from 'Passing Through The Wall' (Cuneiform Records)

'Rooms Of The House' Available March 18, 2014.

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Rooms of the House

Woman (reading)

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Track 3 from Henge Beat album out now on Iron Lung Records lifeironlungdeath.blogspot.com or digitally from http://hengebeat.bandcamp.com/album/henge-beat


One More Tonight

Paul Walker

Drug Church - Riding the Bus To Schenectady

The brooding bass line meanders with dreamy vocals,lush clarinet and tripped out drumming to create a hypnotic fresh sound skirting somewhere along the borders of jazz and alternative post rock.

Nose Ring Piggy by Gertrude

Back So Soon?

"414 Seconds" is taken from Pere Ubu's brand new album 'Lady From Shanghai' which is due out 7 Jan/8 Jan (US) on Fire Records. 
 
Smash the Hegemony of Dance. Stand still. The dancer is puppet to the dance.

Order here: http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00000000974

Pere Ubu will be embarking on a UK tour in April, see tour dates here: http://www.ubuprojex.net/calendar.html


Pere Ubu - 414 Seconds

This single is a blend of two different mixes. The blend was crafted at Dib Dib Dub studios and uses the work of Felix from Tigersonic studio as well as using a mix from the band's own studio, Bentstring. It is taken from Gertrude's  forthcoming album which will be released in October 2013. 'Perfect O' is edgy feminist pop with a groove! It takes you on a white rabbit trip into the murky world of gender stereotyping and sexualised conformity. Laden with off kilter guitar hooks and driving cello, the track also gives a nod to a seventies kid's show and the video features oddball characters plus a dance routine -that you can learn!

Perfect O by Gertrude

written word: http://fairlyconfusing.blogspot.com/2013/06/looney-buns-captain-paperheart.html

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Looney Buns: Captain Paperheart

London based eclectic musician  - former member of the all female post punk band Gertrude and current member of Focus E15 housing campaign.