prepare to be confused!

> prepare to be confused!
>
> coming up THIS SUNDAY, August 28th, the Free-Psych-Folk-Noise
> Express makes yet another stop at Montague's Bookmill. And they
> had to add a few cars to the caravan to accommodate this crew:
> from Finland, Tomutonttu, Pekko Kappi, Islaja, Kuupuu, Lau Nau,
> Hertta Lussu Ässä and Taikuri Tali; from Wisconsin, Davenport; from
> Rhode Island, Black Forest/Black Sea; and from California, The
> Skaters (I think they are actually not playing this night, but
> they'll be there for chatting up, purchasing fine recordings,
> etc.)?!! Plus W.Mass' own High Flying Bird, Joshua Burkett is
> rumored to be sitting in with our foreign guests (anyone who has
> heard their By The Fruits You Shall Know The Roots side is
> beginning to water at the mouth in anticipation...). WOW! How can
> all these groups be performing??? who knows?! I hear that
> different combos appear on different nights (Sweetapple: that's
> "combos" as in slang for "combinations." NOT the "combos" from the
> supermarket snack aisle... lest too many mouths are watering for
> the wrong reasons...) Anyway, just to be sure we can fit it all
> in, the show is starting at 6pm. That's 6pm! And the exciting
> news just keeps coming in: this show is $5!!! That's right... the
> elitist/capitalist shell built up around the purportedly commie ABC
> ("collective;" ha!) is beginning to crack! MUSIC TO THE PEOPLE!!!
> Don't be confused by what you read elsewhere... apparently the
> Bureaucratic Behemouth that the ABC has become cannot process a
> price change... or, perhaps there are still some old-guard
> traditionalists who have somehow survived the revolution, and are
> now trying to undermine our efforts to break open the doors that
> have blocked us poor, disenfranchised Artists and Musicians and
> People from experiencing the nourishing Experimental Performance!
> Don't be fooled, friends! $5 will get you in! Now is the time
> when we must stand firm and tall! With your support, we will prove
> that the $5 event is not only viable, but in fact preferable!
>
> in brief:
>
> THIS SUNDAY, August 28, 6pm
> @ Montague Bookmill (http://www.montaguebookmill.com/)
> in association with ABC (http://autonomousbattleshipcollective.org/)
>
> only $5 to see these artists:
> Tomutonttu
> Pekko Kappi
> Islaja
> Kuupuu
> Lau Nau
> Hertta Lussu Ässä
> Taikuri Tali
> Joshua Burkett
> Davenport
> Black Forest/Black Sea
> The Skaters (hangin' out)
>
>
>
> and, to futher indulge your scandinavian habit, check this out:
>
> The Creative Music Collective and the Music Program at Hampshire
> College Present:
>
> FE-MAIL
> with
> COSMOLOGIC
> Tuesday, September 6, 7:30pm
> Recital Hall, Music & Dance Building
> Hampshire College
> Amherst, Massachusetts
> FREE!!
>
> From Norway comes Fe-mail, the wild experimental musical duo
> consisting of Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord. Conservatory
> trained, the two women have played together for more than a decade,
> most notably in the anarchistic improv quartet SPUNK. Fe-mail's
> violently ecstatic music combines voice (Ratkje), french horn
> (Tafjord), electronics, live sampling, and field recordings. In
> 2003, Fe-mail released their debut record _Skylubb fra Haelvete_
> (which translates as "Sewing Club from Hell") on TV5/Important
> records. Reviewing the record, Thurston Moore wrote: "[Skylubb fra
> Haelvete is] the most exciting noise LP I've heard to date. These
> two women romp through stimulating noise compositions fresh and
> clean with a distinct Scandinavian frost. But there's always an
> undercurrent of warm embrace, sweet and masterful." Writing for the
> _New York Times_, Kalefa Sanneh described the record as "full of
> splintered, screaming sounds that hinted simultaneously at terror
> and joy." Assessing a live set in _CODA_ magazine, Andrew Chocate
> wrote "[Fe-mail] approached the incredible range of sound sources
> at their disposal -- electronic, acoustic, physic -- with equal
> musicality, creating a rare conflagration of sensitivity, speed,
> and sonic pleasure. The set was so strong that it was equally
> intimidating and inviting." Fe-mail toured Europe with Wolf Eyes
> this summer and is currently working on a record with Otomo
> Yoshihide and Ikue Mori that will be released by Asphodel.
>
> For more information on Fe-mail: http://www.femailmusic.com
>
> Founded in 1999, the California-based quartet Cosmologic traverses
> the broad terrain of creative jazz and improvised music,
> integrating high-energy playing, intense introspection, rich
> grooves, open textures, and collective alchemy. While dedicated to
> group improvisation, Cosmologic also performs complex compositions
> written by individual membesr and then transformed through
> extensive group work. The quartet has released two CDs, _Staring at
> the Sun_ (2000) and _Syntaxis_ (2002), both on the Circumvention
> label. "Intense peaks of clamorous excitement . . . Near spiritual
> communication . . . The group dynamics of Cosmologic are in full
> effect, and the music is commanding," writes _Cadence_ magazine.
> The _LA Weekly_ says: "Cosmologic embodies every value that hooked
> me on improvised music." And the _LA Times_ calls the group "wildly
> spontaneous . . . fascinating."
>
> For more information on Cosmologic: http://www.cosmologic.org/
>
> For more information on this event, contact Christoph Cox
> .
>
> Directions to the venue: Hampshire College is located in south
> Amherst at 893 West Street (Rt. 116). A map of the campus can be
> found at: http://www.hampshire.edu/cms_html/map.shtml. The Music
> and Dance Building is number 8 on the map.
>