Hello my fellow music enthusiasts,
My name is Greg Jaspan and this is my first post to this list. I figure what better way to make a good first impression than...blatant self promotion!(hey, you know what they say...a shy ho is a broke ho). So please allow me to inform you of a show happening this Saturday which I truly believe will be excellent and at which I would be thrilled to see you. Here's the link to an excellent little piece Dave Segal wrote about it in The Stranger
http://www.thestranger.com/current/up_coming.html
Below I've included show details and info on all the performers. I really do hope to meet some of you there!
Saturday 4/23 @ CHAC Lower Level - 1621 12th Ave. Seattle
Static Factory, Substudios, and Kranky Records present:
Kranky recording artists Strategy, Loscil, and Nudge!
with special guest Sir Paul Edwards
doors 9pm show 10pm-2am $7 21+
(arrive before 10:30pm to be entered into a drawing to win Kranky CDs, mugs, posters, bumper stickers, etc)
Strategy
Portland dj, producer, and musician Paul Dickow is the man behind Strategy. He
has played drums in the art punk outfit Emergency, keyboards in Fontanelle, and
multiple instruments in Nudge. He has been performing and DJing as Strategy at
dance clubs, rock clubs, dance parties and galleries up and down the west
coast. Strategy wires together Dickow's programming and performing experience
via a hodgepodge of table top electronics, computers and realtime musicianship.
Combining a granular ambient aesthetic with an abstract, percolating rhythmic
sensibility, he unites small parts into complete melodies motivated by complex
pulsations. He has releases out on his own label Archigramophone, Outward Music
Company, Tigerbeat6, ORAC, Audraglint, Audio Dregs, Shockout, and Kranky. His
latest full-length release on Kranky, "Drumsolo's Delight", earned him rave
reviews and an invitation to perform at the SONAR festival last year in
Barcelona, Spain. He is currently at work on the third full-length Strategy
release, provisionally entitled Future Rock, due out later this year on Kranky.
Loscil
Vancouver, BC artist Scott Morgan is the man behind Loscil. He creates
sound-effects for video games by day and makes music by night. As a student at
Simon Fraser University he studied composition, electronic-acoustic music
production, and also played drums in various bands. He has toured in Europe and
played shows all over the Pacific Northwest, integrating sound and visuals. On
Locsil's latest full-length release, "First Narrows" (out on Kranky), Morgan
combined acoustic and electric-acoustic instruments including guitar, Rhodes
electric piano, and cello, with computer generated sequences created from sound
sources that ranged from sampled instruments to miscellaneous lo-fi
mini-cassette recordings, all using his own custom programming, sequencing, and
processing which he designed so that no two performances of the patches would
be exactly the same. Loscil will be performing with Jason Zumpano on Fender
Rhodes electric piano.
Nudge
Portland band Nudge has been a working group for five years, centered around
main members Brian Foote (who runs the Outward Music and Audraglint labels) and
Paul Dickow (also a solo artist who works under the name Strategy). Nudge works
through marathon improvisations and edits that cohese into perfectly formed
future music. Merging live instrumentation and singing with programmed
material, they play what most artists working in electronic music sequence,
perhaps accounting for the remarkable warmth at the center of Nudge's complex
technologies. Nudge's debut album "sounds like a sugared-up Tortoise splashing
vivid colors on to cool jazz's charcoal-hued canvas", wrote Dave Segal in the
Portland Mercury. With releases out on Tigerbeat 6 and Outward Music Company,
Nudge's third full-length album, "Cached", is due out on Kranky in May 2005.
While creating the new album, Foote and Dickow were joined in the studio by
Honey Owens, a member of Jackie-O Motherfucker and programmer at the Dunes Club
in Portland. Together they built a framework of acoustic and electric
instrumentation and the trio also edited and arranged the recordings
themselves. Their upcoming performance in Seattle will be among the first live
appearances on their North American tour as they set out to support the new
album.
Sir Paul Edwards
Recently knighted by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Paul Edwards
McCallick (aka DJ Paul Edwards) has been rocking shows in Seattle since 2001
with his tradmark micro/glitch house and dub/experimental sets, both dj and
live. Paul has also become one of the city's most active promoters, bringing
some of the best shows to our fair city, including such artists as Murcof,
Proem, and Geoff White. Besides DJing and performing live, promoting, and
recording in his studio, Paul is also Decibel Festival's technology director.
Recently he has been wowing crowds with his amazing live PA/DJ set hybrid
performances, creating quite a stir. "If somebody were to make a film about
intelligent dance music, Paul Edwards would merit a starring role...his
impeccable musical taste and skills as a DJ, plus his own excellent
productions, add to his stature", wrote Dave Segal in The Stranger. "I really
have no idea actually why he was knighted, I've never even heard of him. Who
the hell is he anyway?", Sir Elton John recently remarked when asked about Paul
Edwards, "I think Her Majesty the Queen, in her old age, must have confused
this Paul Edwards McCallick with Paul McCartney, whom she must have forgoten
she already knighted anyway", he went on to say. Accidental confusion or not,
Paul Edwards and his hybrid performance are not to be missed!
Greg Jaspan, DJ
KEXP 90.3FM
www.kexp.org
gregj@kexp.org
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