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I heard that the Ruins might be coming to Seattle. Does anyone know anything about them or when or where they're going to be playing? Thanx- Ami __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Kouen/9347/live.html --RUINS USA tour-- march 14 knitting factory/new york,NY 15 middle east/boston,MA 16 the flywheel/easthampton,MA 17 tonic/new york,NY (ronruins) 18 recording with ronruins 19 khyber/philadelphia,PA 20 ottobar/baltimore,MD 21 richmond,VA 22 the millvale industrial theater/pittsburgh,PA 23 speaking tongues/cleveland,OH 24 detroit,MI 25 the empty bottle/chicago,IL 26 i-spy/seattle, WA ruins/ghidra, 27 pine st theater/portland,OR ruins/ghidra/starantula, 28 cw saloon/SF 29 DAY OFF 30 rio theatre/santa cruz,CA 31 the smell/losangeles,CA april 1 the knitting factory/los angeles,CA 2 the fold/losangeles,CA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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>I heard that the Ruins might be coming to Seattle. > >Does anyone know anything about them or when or where >they're going to be playing? >

SIL2K (www.sil2k.org) is bringing the Ruins to Seattle on Monday, March 26th @ I-Spy. (It should be a good show, they're sharing the bill with Wally Shoup & Bill Horist's new band Ghidra.) Here's some info on the Ruins for in uninitiated: -Tim ======================================================================== Ruins - Ruins are pioneers of drums/bass duos. They are just two musicians, but their sound is an energetic blast of solid rhythm section and hard to believe they are but two. They mix elements of hardcore/progressive rock/contemporary music/free jazz/noize. Their explosive and intricately composed tunes are sung in a peculiar language of their own invention. Ruins have toured Europe and the USA many times. Ruins have worked with John Zorn/Derek Bailey/Keiji Haino and others. ruins discs 1990 stone henge shimmy 37 1991 early works bloody butterfly 1992 burning stone shimmy 57 1993 ii & 19 numbers sse8010cd 1993 infect sse8018cd 1993 graviyaunosch ng-d03 1994 ruins-hatoba magaibutsu mgc-04 1995 hyderomastgroningem tzadik7202 1995 jason willet & ruins megaphone 1995 derek & the ruins/saisoro tzadik 7205 1998 refusal fossil skingraft gr45cd 1998 vrresto magaibutsu mgc-14 1998 symphonica tzadik 7215 1998 derek & the ruins/tohjinbo (cd) may paratactile ple1102 1998 ronruins/ketsunoana pandemonium pan026 2000 palaschtom magaibutsu mgc-17 ======================================================================== [16/feb/1998 cmj] ruins refusal fossil the genre of japanese no-wave/experimental/avant-garde/noise-core music (pick your tag) has always been one of those love-it-or-leave-it phenomenons; its prog-rock power, deranged time signatures, blasts of free-jazz/hardcorenoise, screeching, alien vocals and obscene sonic textures are too much for most to bear. but ever since the boredoms took the lollapalooza stage and blew main stream minds in '93, more and more be wildered folk have gone from scratching their heads to cranking up the volume and "getting it." under the guise of ruins, drummer and vocalist yoshida tatsuya (along with a rotating cast of bassists) has been masterminding a chunk of japan's no-wave underground for more than a decade. refusal fossil, the band's latest (with new bassist/vocalist sasaki hisashi) is a 20-track collection of newly-recorded/previously-unreleased songs and live tracks which trace the madness all the way back to the band's rambunctious recorded beginnings. it would be absurd to try and recommend specific tracks from this expreimental monster. (but don't dare miss the hilarious and sometimes frightening "prog.rock medley," featuring the band's take on songs by yes, pink floyd, rush, genesis, etc. -you just kind a have to hear it.) pop it in.press play, listen to at high volume and "get it." it's that easy. m. tyecomer ======================================================================== ==== [time out new york 22-29/oct/1998] ruins/symphonica(tzadik) ruins/vrresto(sonore/magaibutsu) the herky-jerky kinetics of tokyo's ruins miraculously appeal to both indie noise nerds and '70s prog fans. plenty of young american math rockers have imposed king crimson - derived time signatures and arrangements onto hardcore and postpunk; this japanese duo outdoes its trans-pacific counterparts by boldly comprehending the overlooked, goofy sense of humor inherent in the cantabury school and incorporating that whimsiclity into a rhythm-sectioions only fit of abrasive heaviness. no progressive frill is too ridiculous or too difficult to master for drummer-singer tatsuya yoshida and new bassist hisashi sasaki. math rockers touch on musical ideas generated by robert fripp and john mclaughlin. but yoshida also takes cues from utopians such as magma, obscurities such as elf and the early works of the dreded kansas - bygones most hip americans wouldn't shoplift from the cut-out bin. deperting from the bare-bones bludgeoning of the recent odds-and-ends collection refusal fossil (skin graft), vrresto resumes yoshida's long-running search for a link between hypercomplex vocal arrangements and violent shifts in rhythm. sasaki is less harmonious than predecessor ryuichi masuda but adds a distinctive, growling vocal presence, youthful enthusiasm and staggering, pitch-shifted dexterity. the opening "snare" shows just how much these two can accomplish using only one drumand a single chord. although it's skimpy on ruins's more hummable charms and definiterly an acquired taste, vrresto will floor those inclined to seek it out. symphonica is the antithesis of the minimalism of "snare," bloating selec-tions from ruins's 1988-95 back catalog with a rick wakeman-ish keyboard player and two polar-opposite female vocalists one a wound-up, theatrical rasper, the other a classically trained diva. these reinterpretations exploit the frequently ignored lyrical and melodic richness ofyoshida's work, as well as the tonal joys of his invented-language singing. the expanded quintet lineup configures such favorites as "big head","infect" and the unforgettably baroque "praha in spring" into wound-up, saturnine operettas. although it's impressive, this ambitious project could induce nausea in neophytes and in those unaccustomed to such gaudy, if highly entertaining, fare. it's recommended to advocates of ruins's good-natured, wheedling singsong side. and, of course, to prog-rock fans. jordan n. mamone> ======================================================================== refusal fossil another chicago "now-wave" indielabei with a prog-rock duo gone nuckin'futs. ruins, a two-piece with guests, is japan's answer to american 70's progressive rock done with 90's deconstructionist sensibilities. this 60 minutes of churn, attack and riff-swagger comes off sounding like a sales demo for the latest hi-end keyboard/sampling mo'sheen at your local music shop. only this duo creates that sound minus the keyboard. ruins uses bass, drums, and vocals. (with an occasional sax or guitar thrown in) to prepare a palate of thousands of sounds and styles within 20 songs. think of the ex and yes laid over hardcore punk.the carefuliy scripted chaos makes tortoise look derivative and uninspired. thefinal 8 tracks are iive which is, i imagine, how i would enjoy this most, and the last song is a cover of about 20 bands incfuding elp, pink floyd, king crimson, gong, kansas and gobiin containing 3-10 seconds ripped off of each and thrown into one big japanese orgasm. the vocals would be like watching the movie sybil in fast motion . lf you want a cataiog of almost evry thing that's been tried in music in the 20th century in one song coming out of your boombox with rapid-fire intensity, then this is your drink.truly destructive, nihlistic art here. - mr.hugo ball ======================================================================== [new york times 1/jan/1 994] full-tilt rock with only bass and drums by jon pareles who needs guitars? certainly not ruins, the two-man japanese band that turned the knitting factory into a mosh pit on wednesday night. with only bass, drums and voices, ruins played full-thronle rock songs, embracing styles both assaultive and, now and then, melodic. ruins' songs are patchworks, with one crisp, brawny rift after another. the band opened its late set with quick songs, barely a minute each, that cobbled together four or five difterent ritfs: stop-start hard-core rock, slow-rolling heavy metal and something like a pile-driver jig. odd meters were interspersed with conventional ones; the music kept jumping forward in ever-changing fits and starts that pushed more and more listeners into motion. gradually, the songs expanded, and where the two instruments had played in tandem, they also allowed themselves to ramble for quasi-psychedelic jamming, with the bass moving up to a lead-guitar register and the drummer using electronic samples to play bell-like gamelan tones and booming tympani. there were stretches of speeded-up hoedown and syncopated funk, of hard rock and twitterimg, frank zappa-style sprints, of frenzied clatter and terse thumps. sometimes the drummer sang; he also whooped, screamed, yelped and cackled in low, guttural tones, answered by the bassist in a less outlandish voice. except for one song, with a chant of "very fast car, 'the words were unintelligible; they may have been in japanese or accented english. for the last two songs, john zorn, who is producing an album by the group, added squeals, trills and siren wails on alto saxophone. at times, ruins echoes some american avant-gardists, includilg mr. zorn, the late mr. zappa and the drummer and singer david moss. but with its punk-rock core, its stripped-down lineup and its explosive impact, ruins makes distinctive music, all muscle and sinew. ======================================================================== [san diego bay guardian] ruins/refusal fossil (skin graft) ruins is as apt a name as any, i suppose, for a band with such a proclivity for dismantling the dynasty of music from which it came. a frenetic, mind-fuck oollision of' 70s french progressive rock. roots-era sepultura, and high opera, ruins has been the sort of singular presence in the japanese avant scene that helped to finally bring it the accolades it so long deserved. ruins is a drum and bass duo that has been around for years. though the bass slot has always been a revolving door, foundng member tatsuya yoshida--a seminal figure in the japanese umderground who has been involved with everyone from zeni geva to vaselisk--has managed to consistently recreate and buoy the band through its evolution. john zorn once said: "yoshida lives his music like sun ra lived it_ it can't be more real." for anyone who's seen one of the band's rare live perfomances, or followed its fairly prolific recording career, that is truer than one might expect. yoshida's most recent effort as ruins, this time with six-string bassist sasaki hisashi, formerly of the grindcore band jam jack, is another defining and cataclysmic monument. the record is 20 songs strong and features the darting rhyihmic shifts, funtastical operatic vocals, and frenetic syncopation ruins has long been renowned for--and the concluding "prog rock melody" manages to somehow reference magma, pink floyd, king crimson, rush, and others, all in the context of the ruins' own delirious musicality. this is a record as apt to blow your head off as any, or at the very least, elicit the same sort of wonderment you might experience while looking on as ancient and incomprehensible monolith is dismembered and blown apart by some unseen force. =================== Tim Rhodes memes@sil2k.org Eyes, Ears & Memes, SIL2K Strategic Improv Laboratories 2000 www.sil2k.org =================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org