What's Going On In Your Town?

[croatoan]

A bit of both, probably. I went on short tour with them and Chie Mukai last year but only participated in one Maher show during it.

Bought my ticket tonight at Uramado for the show on Tuesday. Can't wait! Finally my first time to see Haino.

[chameleon]

Wow, gotta be lots of fun to play with MSHB.

Wanted give Kenji Haino a try for a while, seeing his named mentioned a few times here and there, but never knew where to start. Have you got any recommendations of essential recordings to seek out? I'm so envious you get to go to this event.

[croatoan]

He does quite a lot of different things, so it kind of depends on what you are into. In general, though, most people I think are into his noisy psychedelic playing. For that, I recommend Fushitsusha's double live album (1st) on PSF. His first solo album (Watashi Dake) is also great. For a different side, his band Vajra is really interesting; him on guitar and occasional vocals, long-playing free jazz drummer Toshi, and the rather extreme folk stylings of Kan Mikami. All improvised folk intensity.

[chameleon]

Awesome. Thanks a bunch. Will definitely check it out.

[polishmike]

Warp20 in nyc:

Sept. 3-6, 2009
WARP20 NYC: TWO DECADES OF WARP RECORDS
WARP FILMS RETROSPECTIVE
FREE AND CONTINUOUS SCREENINGS
Co-presented with Warp Records, Warp20 NYC is the second and only U.S. installment in a series of worldwide events taking place this year in Paris, Tokyo, London, and Sheffield. The Warp Films Retrospective will offer free and continuous screenings of full-length features, music videos, and shorts released by Warp Films, and is produced in collaboration with The New Museum.
The New Museum 235 Bowery, at Prince Street

Sept. 5, 2009
WARP20 NYC: TWO DECADES OF WARP RECORDS
CHRIS CLARK
HUDSON MOHAWKE
WARP DJS TBA
(A FREE CONCERT!)
Doors open at 8pm, show at 9pm.
The Winter Garden At the World Financial Center
WARP20 NYC: TWO DECADES OF WARP RECORDS
WARP20 NYC CLOSING PARTY
WITH NEW WARP SIGNINGS AND DJS TBA
Doors open and show at 11pm.
Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street

[chameleon]

general recommendation, while we're sort of on the subject of music events in Tokyo (or NYC for that matter) - Hauschka is playing two shows in two weeks in Tokyo. One at the Hara museum, and one somewhere in Ueno. I'd love to go to one, or both.

He's also playing in NYC in mid-october. Ferndorf was one of my favorite releases of last year so I wanna encourage people to go see, and support, this man!

[Sergei_S]

Hey Londoners

Im going to London next week 16/09/09 till 20/09/09. I appreciate if anyone can reccomend some good parties or gigs please.

Hey Snafu, I hope I'll meet you this time ))

[.thejass.]

not sure if this has been mentioned already in this thread (or elsewhere) but Sunnn O))) returns in september with Earth, Pelican, and some other Southern Lord acts at the masonic temple in Fort Greene. I regretably missed their show in October at the knitting factory so i'm quite excited about this.. Anyone else here going?

this will be my 5th Sunn O))) experience:
i've always wondered who exactly made their cloaks?

[mrbeuys]

this will be my 5th Sunn O))) experience:

Sunn O))) is amazing live, aural assault.

In other news, just got back from the private view of Rick Owens' furniture exhibition here in London. It's... ok from a sculpture point of view, love the sofas as actual furniture, but at 22 grand a bit dear.
Rick and Michelle were there, lovely affair altogether. Worth having a look at if you are in the area, 19 Bruton Place.

[mamaboy]

jurgen teller signing books on fri 11 AT dashwood bookstore (nice foto bookstore by the way) .... u can see his puffy alcoholic face

[Vanna]

Open house at the Kennedy center in DC this weekend. Just get off at the Foggy Bottom metro stop (Yes, its really called Foggy Bottom) and take the Kennedy center shuttle to the venue. Live musical performances, ballet, opera etc. Excited to go.

[droogist]

La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine (http://metamkine.free.fr) will be playing in New York on September 18 at 8pm, at the FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street.

If you are in New York, by any and all means, go and see this. I saw them about 14 years ago, and it remains one of the most remarkable things I've ever witnessed.

[Faust]

Got tickets to see Cate Blanchett in Streetcar named Desire at BAM. So psyched!

[klangspiel]

La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine (http://metamkine.free.fr) will be playing in New York on September 18 at 8pm, at the FIAF, Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street.

hopefully it isn't too late to second this recommendation. i saw them about 2-3 years ago and they were astounding. certainly one of the more original outfits going at the moment. very effective and beautiful their improvised co-mingling of sensibilities that draw from expanded cinema (ala the london filmmakers' co-op), the organic materiality of film (ala brakhage), and electro-acoustic / musique concrete.

not to take anything away from the other guys in the group but jerome noetinger with the tape machine is a force unto himself. the way he moves and handles the machine / instrument is as good as watching the hands of a masterly artisanal craftsman at work. i don't know how much of the way he works the machine one'd get to see at a usually pitch-dark or dimmed metamkine performance but if he does a solo gig somewhere, don't miss out.

[AKA*NYC]

some familiar faces laying down the molten heat tonight: