Just in case any SF residents haven't yet seen this...
TROUBLE (Lucky) 13
Saturday, May 24 (9pm-?)
Featuring, from Paris, in his only Bay Area LIVE performance,
ARK
(Perlon, Playhouse, Circus Company)
http://www.alleluyark.com
Plus residents:
SUTEKH (Context, Mille Plateaux)
KIT CLAYTON (~scape, Orthlorng Musork)
SINDRI (Imputor?)
PICADUB (XLR8R, The Wire)
214 Valencia St @ Duboce
(NOT Amnesia!)
$5
http://www.musork.com/trouble
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True story: I was playing records one night in Montreal when a frizzy-headed
gentleman walked up to the booth, squatted in front of my record crate, and
started flipping through my vinyl. Highly irregular activity, but I am a
generous soul, and so I left him to his flipping.
Flip, flip, flip, pause. Flip, flip, flip, pause. And then, in a French
accent, he exclaims: "You have very good records, yes! Zee best!" I thank
him, although I am not, I must admit, entirely unperturbed.
And then he asks me: "May I play zem?"
May he what? This - this is beyond the pale. Unheard of! I am tempted to
demand that he unhand my vinyl immediately - but then a curious thing
happens. He holds up a copy of an obscure 12" called "Le magicien d'os," a
convulsively brilliant record that rides on the irresistible line, chanted
over and over in a ridiculous falsetto, "I like the way your booty shake, uh
huh!"
"I made this record," he says, and it hits me in a disco flash that this -
this crazy Frenchman - is none other than ARK, the Parisian microhouse
genius, the shufflepunk, clicks-and-crunk producer, remixer of HERBERT and
MR. OIZO, collaborator with PEPE BRADOCK, veteran of labels like PERLON,
PLAYHOUSE, and TIGERSUSHI, a figure whose grasp of funk is no less demented
than SF's own Sutekh and Safety Scissors (who wisely commissioned a remix
from him). A kindred spirit, if you will.
Naturally, I granted him full access to my humble box, and unsurprisingly,
he played my own records far better than I could ever hope to do. Two days
later, he rocked Montreal's 2000-person Metropolis venue with a shuddering
live set, and as far as North America was concerned, the legend of Ark was
established.
This Saturday, May 24, TROUBLE is proud to present Ark's only live
performance in San Francisco, at a very special venue in the Mission. We're
no longer throwing our parties at Amnesia (due to a misunderstanding between
the owner and a dozen or so loaves of bread), so for one night only we'll be
getting down at 214 VALENCIA, the former Pond Gallery space, kitty-corner
from Zeitgeist - house party stylee, baby. - Philip Sherburne, Trouble
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philip sherburne
full sentences on demand
some articles:
http://www.neumu.net/needledrops
a blog:
http://minima-moralia.blogspot.com
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