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CREATIVE MUSIC SERIES LUGGAGE STORE, 1007 MARKET STREET $6-10 SLIDING SCALE DONATION, NO ONE REFUSED FOR LACK OF FUNDS Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:00 PM Double CD Edgetone Release Performance
8pm Lords of Outland - "You can sleep when you're dead!"
9pm Eddie the Rat - "Insomnia Sound Bible"
Rent Romus - alto, soprano, and C-melody saxophones, voice, accordion | CJ Borosque - fx pedals
Ray Scheaffer - 6-string electric bass | Philip Everett - drums, autoharp, electronics
The
Lords of Outland present their latest black metal deth jazz sequel to
Culture of Pain. In this day, this dawn, when privacy rapidly begins to
dwindle…where the difference between inside and outside of one’s head
or one’s house or one’s inbox are growing more blurred….we find
ourselves in new territory, a no man’s land where everyone has fifteen
hours of fame, whether they know it or not. There is no choice anymore
in what is open to the electronic voyeur. The eyes of the world are
upon us and we are all stripped naked on the internet, over the phone,
in our email and in our very thoughts. Nothing is hidden from the
watchful eyes of the 'gods'. We are on display for their amusement.
However,
as the watcher watches so too do we watch him. So too do we indulge in
voyeuristic fashion, in the analysis of his behavior. He is the wolf to
our sheep, but we are the hunter to his wolf, and as the spiral turns
so to the watcher and the watched become one in a dance, the pull
eternal, between fascism and freedom.
Eddie the Rat is the
pseudonym for composer and multi-instrumentalist, Peter Martin.
Starting in 2000 as a one-man electro-acoustic experiment in sound and
composition, within a year Martin’s vision evolved into a performing
group bearing the same name. During the first two years of the group’s
existence, the ensemble usually consisted of no less than 12 members
and included members of 7 year rabbit cycle, Secret Chiefs, Zen
Guerrilla, and others. “Insomnia Sound Bible” is a recording of the
shorter songs that were being played alongside larger scale pieces in
the group’s live sets at this time.
”Insomnia Sound Bible” is the songbook to a sleepwalker’s guide through oblivion.
Its
soundscape is made of violins and cellos, trumpets and clarinets, lots
of percussion and homemade instruments, and telepathic harmonizing and
other voices. As with all Eddie the Rat recordings, the intention is
for the CD to be listened to as a whole, however, these are songs which
can also be taken in their own context. |