ok.. i figured y'all might like to read this, especially since we all know
how popular gil gershman is around here ;-)
seriously, tho.. .anyone tape this show, or for that matter the radio show
that was supposed to take place the night before...
and what about this rekanstankerwerkersorhoweveruspellsit mix CD someone
mentioned??
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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 17:10:06 -0400 (EDT)
To: ambient@hyperreal.org
From: GuerillaG2-G4 <gg2g4ink@javanet.com>
Subject: Re: (amb) dark/death ambient recommendations/Mego @ PS1
quoted 1 line At 01:56 PM 8/2/98 -0400, Manny wrote:
>At 01:56 PM 8/2/98 -0400, Manny wrote:quoted 13 lines were any other AMB-Lers else at the PS1/Mego event in Queens on Saturday?
>were any other AMB-Lers else at the PS1/Mego event in Queens on Saturday?
>Pita was forced into a blink-and-you-missed it (i did) 20 minute set.
>Hecker, the new kid on the Mego block (_I T IS0161975_ CD out soon; review
>later, if i can ever get "track -1" to play...) played an impressive set of
>drones and loops, duelling subconsciously with the frequent trains passing
>nearby. a sedative balm before Farmers Manual (reduced for this performance
>to co-founder Matthias and recent recruit, Eugene) assaulted all in
>attendance with a barrage of disfunctional computer noise which displayed
>little rhyme, rhythm or purpose. anyone expecting the glories of _FM_,_FSCK_
>or (especially) _No Backup_ was no doubt dismayed. those who didn't think
>that the most recent album was a double-disk electronic wank were probably
>in bleep-hogs' heaven. FM occasionaly locked into something identifiable as
>a degenerative groove, but they showed no real adeptness at live
improvisation.
quoted 51 lines Russell Haswell is better known for coordinating London's Disobey events; he
>
>Russell Haswell is better known for coordinating London's Disobey events; he
>stepped out of the shadows to record the "Ich Schnitt Mich In Den Finger" LP
>with Masami Akita, Reiko Azuma, Tetsuo Sakaibara (collectively: Merzbow and
>his/their wife) for Mego. on this gorgeous cloudless Saturday he emerged in
>all his conspicuous white sun-hatted glory to assault the PS1 revellers (who
>were an extremely sedate and unemotional lot, i thought. only the rupture of
>an enormous water-filled balloon sculpture elicited any sort of audience
>response or enthusiasm. and if you only knew of the hassles which Haswell
>and the Mego-ites went through to get to the City for this lone event...!)
>Haswell was obviously having a blast (literaly), tweaking and twiddling up
>an outrageously confrontational noise-storm in the Japanese or Irdial style.
>all in good fun, if slightly repetitive and offering less than total melodic
>satisfaction.
>
>but any qualms or quibbles about the previous acts were dashed when all FIVE
>musicians took the Powerbook reins and steered through a course of
>wonderfully crunchy electronic noise. iceberg tips of silence loomed in
>their choppy sea, but the Good Ship Mego-Haswell avoided so catastrophic a
>fate as prolonged stretches of quiet by veering to and fro violently, with
>ten restless hands at the helm. a batallion of armored tanks plowing through
>a china shop couldn't have caused a more contumacious public (and aesthetic)
>disturbance. if this wasn't the electronic musicians' version of a
>frat-house food fight (or a housewives' White Sale melee at the local
>five-and-dime), then it was at least an especially enthusiastic
>feeding-frenzy in the noise-sharkiest depths of the Big Blue. Peter (Pita)
>Rehberg later told me (appropriately enough, while we were standing in a
>gigantic working fridge, made from...other working fridges. that's PS1 for
>you!) that the Mego brand of musical mayhem is their version of the "new
>Rock n' Roll." so don't look for intellectual meaning or confuse their
>ruckus for some sort of highbrow academic statement. it's very simple,
>really; from Bayle and Schaeffer to Ice, SPK, Hanatarash, the Gerogerigegege
>and back, boys just love their noise.
>
>and before you dismiss it as juvenile indulgence of the most despicable
>stripe, keep in mind that Pita and Farmers Manual have been jamming their
>way across Europe with the likes of Keith Rowe and the latest incarnation of
>AMM. so, while it may all be fun, games and catharsis, there is no doubt as
>to the musical validity of the Mego experience.
>
>
>np: tesco disco: heavy electronics II
>
>gil gershman/
>gg2g4ink@javanet.com
>
>KING ? --->
>
>
>"fish cannot carry guns!" - h.f.
>
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