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new music series Thursday, Nov 10, 2005 8:00 PM 8pm FRENCH RADIO
9pm THE SPASMOLODIC DUO
David Noel Moscovich, prepared guitar, keyboard
Shane Schneider, percussion, tenor sax $6-$10 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds
all ages welcome
"French
Radio is a sporadic project of improvisation and drone music involving
Andrew Way processing abused turntables and microphones, James Kaiser
manipulating tapes and bowed metal, and Bruce Anderson of MX-80 infamy
with effected guitar. multiple looping devices are usually employed by
each player, helping build complex structures of sometimes meditative,
other times harrowing nature. This Bay Area trio has performed together
over the past 3 years, and has recorded at least 2 discs of soon to be
pressed material."
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The
Spasmolodic Duo is a free improvising, crypto-psycho-rhythmic organism
ranging from angry meditations on neo-imperialism to absurdist
postal-modern treatments of jazz standards to west african percussive
free-noise.
David Noel Moscovich (prepared
guitar, keyboard) has studied and played with ghanaian master drummer
ni ardey alotee, bassist glen moore, and grupo afrocuba matanzas. he
has composed music for several nationally broadcast ed documentary
films, played with tucsonplayback theatre, cexfux, portland bike
ensemble, slack variables, and collaborates closely with novelist mike
daily. he has been known to infiltrate political conventions with a
homemade press pass. Shane Schneider (percussion, tenor sax) a
force for dyslexistential improvisational music, his penchant for
avant-performance art, garnished from decades as a comedian and
performer, informs all his playing. shane has toured internationally
with the magic theatre, and for many years has been an irrepresible
presence in the west coast improv scene and based in portland, ore,
touring with tat vamasi, portland bike ensemble, 411 collective.
"Purely
spontaneous improvisation from Noel Moscovich (guitar/sampler, bell,
war-protest screaming) & Shane (trap set, saxophone, wind
instruments, etc. Their improvs are actually pretty interesting...
th'"screaming" gets in th' way a bit (sometimes), but I've "been here",
& it's often a necessary element of getting far enough "out" that
you can transcend the political & begin to speak the true language
- MUSIC! Low-fi, to be sure, but not low energy! I've been in duos like
this, & th' key thing (I believe) that determines "good" from "bad"
in this kind of setting or group is - ARE they having FUN with it? &
"Spasmodic
Duo" is unquestionably having a blast! There are no comparisons that
can be made, because these guys are in their own zone... I enjoyed
listening to it, but gramma' prob'ly wouldn't.. in fact, SHE'd run 'em
outta' th' garage! In the overall, this is good (meaning fun) enough to
rate a RECOMMENDED for those hardcore improv listeners who want
something they haven't heard before. " - Rotcod Zzaj
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