This is just some fantastic playing. Serious headbanging going on here in Stockholm

THAT :: CONCERT CHAMPÊTRE
Unpopular Classics (Poulenc)
Live at QUEERING SOUND, 06 June 2021
Rhizome DC, Washington DC USA

THAT :: JS Adams + Christopher Mathews-Larsen
RECORDING :: Steve Sanford
MIX :: JS ADAMS

THAT :: CONCERT CHAMPÊTRE :: LIVE

Am7 CHORDS! MOTORIK BEATS! CICADAS! BUZZSAWS! KAZOOS!

LIVE @ QUEERING SOUND 2021 :: 13 JUNE 2021 :: RHIZOME DC :: WDC

CK BARLOW :: SAMPLER / ELECTRONICS
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN :: GUITAR / DRUM PROGRAMMING / AZTEC DEATH WHISTLE
JS ADAMS :: PROCESSING + EFFECTS / FIELD RECORDINGS / LOOPS / AZTEC DEATH WHISTLE / AUDIO PLAYBACK
JEFF BARSKY :: GUITAR
JOSH MAXWELL :: BASS
+
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION :: KAZOOS
AUDIENCE COORDINATOR :: CHRIS VIDELL

RECORDING :: STEVE SANDERS

ONE CHORD PONIES :: A LIFE OF INDETERMINATE REWARD

DECONSTRUCTION/RE-ADAPTATION OF LA VOIX HUMAINE (THE HUMAN VOICE), AN OPERA BY FRANCIS POULENC BASED ON THE ONE-ACT PLAY BY JEAN COCTEAU. HELLO? HELLO!

LIVE @ QUEERING SOUND 2021 :: 15 JUNE 2021 :: RHIZOME DC :: WDC

[ live performers ] 
CK BARLOW :: SAMPLER / ELECTRONICS
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN :: GUITAR
JS ADAMS :: PROCESSING + EFFECTS / FIELD RECORDINGS + LOOPS / SAMPLES / CALIFONE + PREPARED VINYL / AUDIO PLAYBACK
JEFF BARSKY :: GUITAR
JOSH MAXWELL :: BASS

[ digital contributitors ]
BLEEDINGBLACKWOOD . {AN} EEL . JASSIE RIOS . ROSHI NASEHI . SARAH O’HALLORAN . KATIE MACYSHYN 

RECORDING :: STEVE SANDERS
MIX :: JS ADAMS

LA VOIX HUMAINE :: 13 JUNE 2021 :: LIVE

Buy it here
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/other-worlds

Andrew Niven – drums, percussion, synth, sequencers
Eric Klerks – bass, 8-string guitar, synthbass
Max Kutner – electric and acoustic guitar

with
Mike Keneally ¬– keyboards, guitar, samples
Jonathan Sindelman – keyboards, organ
Daniel Rosenboom – trumpet
Jessica Lurie – baritone sax
Gregg Bendian ¬– vibes

Produced by Mike Keneally and Android Trio

Concentric Lines

ANDROID TRIO "Concentric Lines" from "Other Worlds" (Cuneiform Records)

Dylan Ryan / Sand, "Trees, Voices, Saturn" from 'Circa' 
(out September 30, 2014 on Cuneiform)

Dylan Ryan: Drums 
Timothy Young: Guitar 
Devin Hoff: Bass 

"Dylan Ryan is a drummer adept at combining his jazz skills with adventurous rock, resulting in music that maintains the cerebral and visceral qualities of both.” 
—JazzTimes 

“With an ass-kicking palate of sonic texture, Ryan, Young and bassist Devin Hoff offer something in between John Zorn's raucous free-jazz and the romantic stylings of Black Sabbath." 
– L.A. Weekly 

Two years after the release of their acclaimed debut 'Sky Bleached,' Dylan Ryan/Sand will release 'Circa' on Cuneiform Records on September 30th, a purposeful continuation of the aesthetic that the group had fostered on its first record. Sand, which features guitarist Timothy Young (David Sylvian, Reggie Watts, Wayne Horvitz) and Devin Hoff (Nels Cline Singers, Yoko Ono, Cibo Matto), has a wholly unique styling, which ranges from the fearlessly improvisational to the tender; the abrasive to the understated. 

Indeed, this range of influences and openness to various sonic possibilities is what initially drew Ryan to his bandmates. “I saw Tim Young play somewhat by chance in an old bar The Doors used to play in and I was so impressed that I wanted to be in a band with him immediately. He was doing a great combination of Meat Puppets meets The Dead and completely killing it. Then he sat in with our friends from Portland, The Blue Cranes, and did the most amazing ballad. I just hoped something would work out down the line with him so when I had the idea for the band I called him first.” Hoff and Ryan had long held a mutual admiration for one another’s work, and after many conversations hoping to play, they finally did, and Sand was born. 

After the release of 'Sky Bleached', Ryan knew that he needed to release the group’s sophomore record quickly. Ryan, who was accustomed to composing in, as he says, “an old-fashioned, stereotypical, French-Guy-chain-smoking-at-a-piano-with-some-staff-paper way”, was forced to write most of 'Circa's material while on tour with Los Angeles band Rainbow Arabia. Consequently, most of the material on 'Circa' was crafted on Pro Tools, with an Akai Midi keyboard which allowed him to sketch out riffs, and progressions. When he would happen upon a guitar, Ryan would elaborate on these parts, visualizing and trusting that Timothy Young’s guitar prowess would actualize these ideas and add flesh to them in a way that would fit into the sound that the band had built. 

Regarding his intentions for this record, Ryan said, “the most important thing for me while putting this record together was the idea of playing on the strengths of the first record without completely abandoning the sound we stumbled onto. When I did the first record, Hoff, Young, and I hadn’t played a single show, or even played that much together yet so we were kind of feeling things out. After touring that record, I knew that I wanted to build on four main things; the harmonic openness or simplicity, the dramatic dynamic shifts, the ensemble passages, and especially group unison parts as on songs like ‘Visionary Fantasy’.” 

'Circa' takes the most memorable elements of the debut record and expands upon them, honing the craft, and further distinguishing their sound. The sheer size of the band’s sound has increased immensely. Introspective pastoral moments of “Visionary Fantasy” are book-ended by sludge-trodden group passages and the shadows of Dark Americana in “Slow Sculpture”, which in turn are countered in “Possession” with highly imaginative Melvins-esque ensemble figures. Young’s blissful guitar phrases lend an almost vocal capacity to these songs as Ryan And Hoff offer a perfect vehicle for his exuberance. 

This rapport only adds to the success in execution of what Sand created on their debut. While 'Circa' might not be a radical departure from 'Sky Bleached', the fostered intensity and the ease with which the three deliver the music surely comes across on this impressive second release.

Dylan Ryan / Sand, "Trees, Voices, Saturn" from 'Circa' (Cuneiform Records)

From our upcoming release "Somnambulist" coming out on Cuneiform records January 20th! Preorder is available now here: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/somnambulist

The Kandinsky Effect  - Somnambulist

X (Part 1)

Gyp The Blood

Nice Day for a Lynching-Kenneth Patchen

The bloodhounds look like sad old judges
In a strange court. They point their noses
At the Negro jerking in their noose;
His feet spread crowlike above these
Honorable men who laugh as he chokes.

I don’t know this black man.
I don’t know these white men.

But I know that one of my hands
Is black, and one white. I know that
One part of me is being strangled, 
While another part horribly laughs.

Until it changes, 
I shall be forever killing; and be killed.

Recorded by The Claudia Quintet +1 with Special Guest-Kurt Elling


The Bloodhounds

Recorded at Avatar Studios NYC May 2012 (Katherine Miller)
Mastered at Pinch Recording NYC May 2020 (E. Scott Lindner)

Personnel:
Matt Steckler - alto/soprano sax, flute
Curtis Hasselbring - trombone
Todd Neufeld - guitars
Dave Ambrosio - bass
Satoshi Takeishi - drums & percussion

01 Night Cravings - Master A 44

Cuneiform Records is an independent record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. Founded in 1984.

Dylan Ryan / Sand, "Trees, Voices, Saturn" from 'Circa' (Cuneiform Records)

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