Fans of squarepusher, jega, and u-ziq will really appreciate this live act...
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:27:38 -0700
From: Brian DeWaide <funkyjoint@earthlink.net>
To: siamese@siamesebeat.com
Subject: Siamese EastCoast Trinity announced
The SIAMESE TRINITY
ANNOUNCEMENT: New drum'n'bass trio Siamese provide EXTENSIVE auditory and
visual stimulation to the trained eye + ear. Lock In. Banging bass, massive
sin-wave washes, live jungle drum rhythms, bending intelligent light beams.
While inside, Find Out. Siamese gives sensations ordinary bands do not.
Obvious visible progression of music itself. Always challenging, always
changing, always ingenuitive. Fast, formidable and unforgiving.
Two years ago, amid the Seattle improv and loft scene, Three producer /
musicians collided into one entity -creating Siamese. The in-demand
drum-molester DJ Sawka -initially the most visibly innovative, for obvious
reasons- performs on a half-acoustic, half-electronic drum kit (with two,
sometimes three snares and a couple kick drums) alongside a rack of effects,
delays and wah-pedals to create realtime, acoustically-created, drum'n'bass and
jungle rhythms at tempos unheard of by any band before Siamese -sounding not
unlike Dieselboy or a more linear, driving Amon Tobin. Enter Concussion Head
(aka Dave Z) on Korg, Rhodes, keyboards, and Klein guitar; utilizing two
different output sources (two Fender amps) he often plays both instruments at
the same time, none of which sounds like one might expect by conventional
standards (this is drum'n'bass after all). Super sub-bassist / voicist Jeremy
Lightfoot, while onstage, leaves his body and selflessly gives himself to
achieving the most correct drum'n'bass bass riff impossible -he does not
perform, he channels. To reach this sub nirvana, his bass guitar is not all he
uses to achieve those massive sub-bass frequencies: Jeremy sometimes "sings"
the bass parts using his voice to fill out the frequency. And so -in the
interim- live drum'n'bass has ascended new levels and encounters the trio
Siamese. Welcome.
At first, it will be hard not to blink; later it will be hard not to watch.
But to only watch is to miss out on the true premise of Siamese alpha and
omega, the Answer to your question. Shake your boyfriends out of their trance
ladies, and tell them to Dance. Either shake it faster than you have ever
shaken it, or break it down half-time and look SOULFUL. Make him NOTICE. The
essence of Siamese is in the energy given. Intense, dirty, shaken to the core:
that's what they'll give you. A massive vibe, overwhelming and pure. The
Dance Floor. Deliberate, challenging, beautiful sounds. Time to Show Your
Stuff. The reward . . . is satiating.
The new masses find pleasure in dance. The new masses find pleasure in
hedonism, in tribalism, in revelry -and Siamese aims to please. Revel with us
in an overabundance of sounds ic, a bed of beats, and a sky of lights.
Uniquely and undeniably unlike any other band out there today, this is live
drum'n'bass Siamese.
Siamese residentializes in 3 East Coast vicinities this September-----
every Monday @ THE KNITTING FACTORY in NEW YORK CITY, NY
every Tuesday @ THE FIRE in PHILADELPHIA, PA
every Wednesday @ THE ORBIT in CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
and tours the east coast throughout September-----
09.01.03 / / New York NY . Knitting Factory . 212.219.3006
09.02.03 / / Philadelphia PA . The Fire . 367.671.9298
09.03.03 / / Charlottesville VA . Orbit . 434.984.5707
09.04.03 / / Baltimore MD . 13th Floor . 410.347.0888
09.05.03 / / Virginia Beach VA . Phil's Grill . 757.491.6525
09.06.03 / / Harrisonburg VA . Dave's Downtown . 540.435.1183
09.08.03 / / New York NY . Knitting Factory . 212.219.3006
09.09.03 / / Philadelphia PA . The Fire . 367.671.9298
09.10.03 / / Charlottesville VA . Orbit . 434.984.5707
09.12.03 / / Buffalo NY . Broadway Joe's . 716.836.9555
09.13.03 / / Pittsburgh PA . Mr. Small's Theatre . 412.822.4447
09.15.03 / / New York NY . Knitting Factory . 212.219.3006
09.16.03 / / Philadelphia PA . The Fire . 367.671.9298
09.17.03 / / Charlottesville VA . Orbit . 434.984.5707
09.18.03 / / Ithaca NY . Castaways . 607.272.1370
09.22.03 / / New York NY . Knitting Factory . 212.219.3006
09.23.03 / / Philadelphia PA . The Fire . 367.671.9298
09.24.03 / / Charlottesville VA . Orbit . 434.984.5707
09.29.03 / / New York NY . Knitting Factory . 212.219.3006
09.30.03 / / Philadelphia PA . The Fire . 367.671.9298
10.02.03 / / Baltimore MD . 13th Floor . 410.347.0888
More TBA
For Press Material + Info, Interviews, + promotional materials email:
brian@funkyjoint.com
<Do you hear that, Mr Anderson? THAT is the SOUND of INEVITABILITY.>
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