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Artist:Travis Bird & Daniel Burke
- Date:Saturday, February 6, 2010
- Listen:MP3
- Comments:2 guitars No waiting. With influences as disparate as Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Robert Fripp, John Fahey, Steve Reich, Jimi Hendrix, This Heat, AMM, sex pistols, burt bacharach, throbbing gristle, brian eno, black sabbath, sonic youth, michael nyman, Slayer, Glenn Branca, Thomas Tallis,.....they present instrumental improvisation, minimal soundwork, in-depth cross genre composition, in a search for beauty and noise platform.
Since 2006, multi-instrumentalist Travis Bird has been active in several Chicago projects, currently including the psychedelic noise rock of the Leavitt Ours and the industrial-pastoral evocations of Dense Reduction..
complacency, perdition plastics, & notice-recordings present
a release party for the Perdition Plastics CD re-issue of IOS PROBE, & notice-recordings premier release of Dense Reduction
@ Hotti Biscotti
3545 West Fullerton Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 292-6877
SATURDAY JANUARY 23rd 10:30PM-1:30AM
with audio/visual performances by
Illusion Of Safety
Travis Bird & Daniel Burke
Dense Reduction
Jason Soliday & James Edgelake
- Recorded By:David Sumberg
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Artist:Conductive Alliance
- Date:Saturday, February 6, 2010
- Listen:MP3
- Comments:Return performance from this Chicago 4-piece with their exciting and unique guitar-driven chamber rock . Their mostly-instrumental compositions are nimble and jaunty, abruptly changing feel and time and swiftly maneuvering a complex sonic landscape. This set features Nick Hill (bass, vocals), Eli McLaughlin (guitar, vocals), Dan Larson (guitar, vocals), and Corey Brekher (drums, vocals).
- Recorded By:Matt Ludwig / Benjamin Keller
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Artist:Frode Gjerstad / Paal Nilssen-Love / Nick Stephens
- Date:Sunday, January 24, 2010
- Listen:MP3
- Length:27 min 39 sec
- Comments:Norwegian reedist Frode Gjerstad and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love were joined by British bassist Nick Stephens in this fiery free improv set on a Sunday afternoon in January . Gjerstad's polite, proper English accent contrasted profoundly with the immense ferocity of his sax and clarinets. Stephens seemingly tackled his bass, plucking, prodding, striking, and bowing, among other things. Most notable of Nilssen-Love on the throne, was his subtlety and patience, allowing his borrowed kit to rest up a bit, like it was recovering from a long Saturday night. Nice improvised set all around.
- Recorded By:Mike Corsa
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Artist:Gunnelpumpers
- Date:Saturday, January 2, 2010
- Listen:MP3
- Comments:A completely improvised performance from this unique Chicago-based ensemble. Consisting of, in this instance, 2 upright bassists (though 3 is the original number) plus angular, well-placed guitar, and some beautiful hand percussion, the sound of Gunnelpumpers is rooted more in complimentary textural layers than any kind of jazz or creative improv groove. The multiple basses are melodic and hardly the thumping/booming monstrosity you might expect; instead they combine with the world percussion to give this set a rare and great quality: non-traditional yet immediately accessible.
Michael Hovnanian - contrabass
Doug Brush - tabla, dried frog-liver shaker, tambourine, percussion, cajon, "rectoid (wooden)"
Dave Miller - guitar
Randy Farr - congas, percussion, doumbek
Douglas Johnson - electric upright bass
- Recorded By:Mike Corsa
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Artist:Jeff Marx / Steve Cohn / Dushun Mosely
- Date:Saturday, December 12, 2009
- Listen:MP3
- Comments:Jeff Marx (tenor & mezzo-soprano sax) and Dushun Mosely (drums) from Chicago were joined by New York keyboardist Steve Cohn in this brand new trio. Jeff and Dushun had just been on Airplay 6 months earlier to play a trio with another Chicagoan, Alex Wing (guitar & bass), but this set was quite different, wholly improvised and very adventurous. Steve brought with him his shakuhachi and an assortment of small percussive, twangy, and chirpy instruments. There are bluesy parts, loud skronky parts, and subtle, plaintive bits. Not to mention, Steve's abrupt and quirky vocalizations. At one point, Jeff referred to the ability to play this music on the radio as a representation of freedom of speech and we can't agree more.
- Recorded By:Mike Corsa
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Artist:Layne Garrett
- Date:Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- Listen:MP3
- Length:57 min 35 sec
- Comments:Layne Garrett works with found objects, found sounds, guitars, and self-built instruments. Recorded output ranges from assemblage-drenched americana to a new cd of improvisations on guitar and prepared guitar; a record of improvised duos (with Scott Allison, Christian Brady, Ryan Jewell, Janel Leppin, Sam Lohman, Anthony Pirog, and Jenny Tucker) is on the way shortly. Solo performances have lately hovered in the heady realm of freely improvised explorations on prepared resonator guitar and homemade light-sensitive electronics.
- Recorded By:Matt Ludwig / Lucas Segall
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Artist:Haptic
- Date:Saturday, November 7, 2009
- Listen:MP3
- Comments:2nd Airplay performance from this defiant minimalist electronic trio formed in Chicago. Featuring Steven Hess (Pan American, Dropp Ensemble, On,
Fessenden), Joseph Clayton Mills (Jonathan Chen, Dropp Ensemble),
and Adam Sonderberg (Dropp Ensemble, Civil War) each playing an assortment of electronics, devices, and contact-microphoned junk, Haptic create thick, textured, environments of sound. This set also features Adam Sonderberg playing 'WNUR trashcan'. Haptic just released a CD on Entr'acte called Trebuchet that has a track recorded at WNUR during their first Airplay visit. Check out Haptic every Tuesday in November at the MCA for a free/all ages show and experience their installation piece Triptych (2009) exhibited there as well.
- Recorded By:Christian Gero
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