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so! its finally happening. this weekend. no more "do it later" action. so here it is. I'm [pandatone] playing live this sunday, the 28th at tonic [lower east side] tonicnyc.com [for directions]. it starts a 8pm.. upstairs. and its 8$ at the door. [drinks are resonable to cheap at tonic imo] I'm joining up with 2 nice groups.. "stars like fleas" and "akron/family" also, mumbleboy will be doing some live video madness during my [pandatone] show.. it will be fun, cause it will be mad lights flashing. robots eating doughnuts and people eating robots. or maybe the robots.. are people? and I'm mostly playing stuff that is NOT on "lemons & limes".. I know next to nothing about akron/family.. I think they tour with like DEVENDRA BANHART, or something.. ?? mysterious.. and stars like fleas is a whole bunch of crazyness.. here are some press clippings for them, and their last album.. and just for giggles.. I'll put some neat press clipping for me [pandatone] below SLF's clippings. please come and enjoy it! it should be really cool, and fun! yep, fun. you heard me. Recent Press for Stars Like Fleas "Of the many bands trying to combine song craft with true, flexible, reactive group improvisation, none I've heard is quite so successful as Stars Like Fleas...few bands have the resolve to push their music as far toward formlessness, as well as the skill and concentration to coax that formlessness into something listenable, coherent and beautiful….brilliant"

quoted 1 line Salon.com

>>Salon.com

" will surely appeal to fans of [Robert] Wyatt's later material the album floats in a dreamy state of consciousness. …Each song is a dense amalgam of acoustic, electronic, abstract and pop elements. The balance is at times fragile, but Fields turns this fragility into an uncanny form of charm… requires many listens [and] grows on you in unexpected ways. Highly recommended."

quoted 1 line All Music Guide

>>All Music Guide

[8.2 out of 10] "engaging and relentlessly subtle there are two types of virtuosity present: sonic manipulation and instrumental prowess. Fields and Knott take the immensity of musicians and concentrate their disparate ideas into one intimate and wonderfully realized statement. It's hard to tell whether this record is the cerebral read-out of its entire populous lineup, or of two very complex minds, but the finished result is intimate and utterly beautiful."

quoted 1 line Pitchfork

>>Pitchfork

"Excellent electro-acoustic quirktronica" - among Best of 2003

quoted 1 line Simon Reynolds

>>Simon Reynolds

Pandatone "Lemons & Limes" on Neo Ouija records, 2004 -the wire uk New York's Trevor Sias goes all pastoral, the way only a city dweller can, composing a series of wordless songs for his acoustic guitar and then fragmenting them across the board into a collection of tiny scintillations. Expressing a joy that can only be found in the kind of artificially controlled enviroments where nature is a vile outcast and ants are busy chewing through the wiring, Lemons and Limes has it's moments of weightless gravity. Cellophone and Go f7 chime and reverbarate in a neat sequence with each other. Toshiba Sounds and Stat make play of shuttling tempi, while Bureen broods and recedes and Broadwalk settles into a melancholy pop groove. Welcome to the great indoors. -small fish uk A delectable album release from the reliable Neo Ouija imprint witch sheds the predominantly electronic skin that most of the back catalogue seems to favour. Mostly made up of processed guitars and gently melodic, subtly put togeather electronic elements, it has a lovely tuneful feel but an oddly pleasing abstract edge. Whether it's a bluesy lick or a country lick or something altogether more contemporary, each cut has an engaging and enjoyable feel. Light, airy... splendid stuff. -staalplaat The guy who runs the small label Music Related is Trevor Sias who makes music as Pandatone and has just released his (I think) first full-length album on one of my most favourite melodic labels, Neo Ouija. Cool that Lee Metamatics, who runs Neo Ouija, releases music from lots of unknown artists if they're good enough of course, many new names are featured on the forthcoming 4th volume of the classy Cottage Industries compilations. Neo Ouija's releases are one of the finest and most fascinating of that kind. Pandatone mixes electronics and acoustics (acoustic guitar) too, as Shugo Tokumaru, but there's no singing here, only pa-pa-ra-pa once. Pandatone is more electronic and more experimental. There's a sketch-like aspect in his pieces too, it takes time for the melodies to develop through a bit confusing glitches sometimes, but never too harsh. It's a programming meets songwriting thing going on here, without the singing typical for this context. But maybe Trevor will start to sing along with the intimate music he produces one day, just like Dave Pajo did. But even if not, it's alright as it is now. Very nice album. (BR) -afterhours japan Almost like the freshness of citrus fruits, the album is full of the youthful reverberations of synths, guitars, and even vocals. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org