June 11, 2010 – LSR – 8:30PM – No Neck Blues Band + Stellar Om Source + Gavin John Sheehan and Identity Protest Unit II
NO NECK BLUES BAND
The No-Neck Blues Band, also known as NNCK, is a seven-member free-form improvisational musical collective from New York City. Formed in 1992, the original band was of eight members (until John Fell Ryan left to join noise group, Excepter), and has practiced weekly in a space in Harlem since. Membership includes Dave Nuss, Keith Connolly, Dave Shuford, Jason Meagher, Pat Murano, Matt Heyner, and Michiko (aka Mico).
Members of NNCK have been involved in numerous side-projects and off-shoots, including Angelblood, Eye Contact, Izititiz, K. Salvatore, Malkuth, Enos Slaughter, Suntanama, Egypt is the Magick #, Test, Coach Fingers, Under Satan’s Sun, and D. Charles Speer & the Helix.
Along with their many releases on their own label, Sound@One (or s@1, as it often appears), NNCK has released albums on Ecstatic Yod, New World of Sound, 5RC &, recently, locust music. Singles have been released on Dry Leaf Disks (UK), New World of Sound, and Ecstatic Peace. Their first studio album was Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Names Will Never Hurt Me, produced by Jerry Yester on John Fahey’s Revenant Records after a particular interest on Fahey’s part. This was followed by Qvaris on 5RC, and Embryonnck, a collaboration with the German band Embryo released on Staubgold Records. The most recent releases by the band are Nine for Victor, a recording from a live performance in Quebec & a 2007 deluxe reissue of the band’s privately issued “Live at Ken’s Electric Lake” originally released a decade earlier, Clomeim in 2008, and At 6am We Become the Police in 2009 on Locust Music.
http://www.soundatone.com/
http://locustmusic.com/index.php?option=com_artists&cid=84&task=view&Itemid=6
STELLAR OM SOURCE
Stellar OM Source is the solo project of electronic musician, composer, visionary artist and architect Christelle Gualdi. She began to play electronic music as a teenager while recording soundtracks for exhibitions, assisting her father at the radio studio using Yamaha MSX and Atari 1040 systems. Next to this, her music taste has been influenced by early fascination for fusion, guitar heroes and ECM artists, as well as disco and new-age music. She studied music theory, electro-acoustic composition and architecture.
She plays today a range of analog synthesizers and make an extensive use of electronic systems and MIDI. Stellar OM Source involves musicality as a transport to the ocean realm within the stars. She combines gorgeous keyboard style with clusters of overtone gravity so thick they seem to simply hang in the air and unravels true beauty. Beyond the interface of the machine, she conveys spirituality and an emotional body to the piloting of the future. Her sounds can be related to Terry Riley, Doris Norton or Ryuichi Sakamoto.
She extensively tours throughout Europe and the United States and played with numerous members of the international experimental and avant-garde scene.
After several years of collaborative releases, her solo debut LP came out in March 2009, recorded and released by the American Black Dirt Records label in New York State. She self-released a CD trilogy in May 2009, spanning four years of recording.
http://www.myspace.com/omsource
GAVIN JOHN SHEEHAN & IDENTITY PROTEST UNIT II
Gavin John Sheehan has been composing and performing music since 1990. Early experiences produced albums and performances as drummer, guitarist, and co-composer in a number of local bands from his home town.
From 1998 to 2001, he composed, recorded and released “Reno Air” a 74 minute minimalist drone piece. He attended Vancouver Community College for Musical Composition and Concordia University for Electro-acoustic studies. Between 2003 and 2010, he composed, performed and improvised in several ensembles in Montreal including The Identity Protest Unit for his piece “October the Two” (2004), Rivers and Mountains as co composer and guitarist (2004 through present), Pas Chic Chic for live performances (2007-2008), “Shell of the Curved Centennial” as composer and performer (2008), and regularly with Montreal based composer Sam Shalabi in both his Land of Kush and Egyptian Light Orchestra ensembles (2007 to present).
As of late, he is completing work on his Piece “Hate is all ‘Around’” which is due to debut at Montreal’s Suoni Per Il Popolo under the name Gavin John Sheehan and Identity Protest Unit II. He presently lives in Montreal.
