June 20, 2010 – CASA – 9PM – Talibam! + Tonstartssbandht + Panopticon Eyelids

TALIBAM!

Audio terrorists Talibam! is a NYC duo formed by Kevin Shea (member in bands like Storm & Stress, Coptic Light and People) who plays drums, and Matt Mottel (synth).

In 2007, after several limited CDR releases, they released their first CD studio album on Azul Discografica called ‘Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts’. The NYC group’s first-ever studio record is the result of one non-stop, three-day session of furious improvisation. The duo of Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea, collaborating with former member Ed Bear (baritone sax, electronics), recruited an ensemble that includes some of New York’s most advanced improvisers: Peter Evans, Cooper-Moore, Michael Evans, Anders Nilsen, Moppa Elliott, Jeremy Wilms, Jon Irabagon, and Robbie Lee. They emerged from the studio with this luminous, unexpected masterpiece of cracked, American noise. The sonic maelstrom they work up in the course of these eight songs and forty-five minutes highjacks the vocabularies of free-jazz, Appalachia, Afropop, psychedelia, electro-acoustic composition, and noise and spins them out in vivid constellations of sound. Its antecedents include Bat-Chain Puller, Astro-Black, Machine Gun, Rock In Opposition, Moon in June, Keith Moon, Ground Zero, Dancing in Your Head.

http://www.myspace.com/talibam

Ghost Cloud by Talibam!

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TONSTARTSSBANDHT

While many bands present themselves as “a band from [insert well known metropolitan area with all kinds of unspoken connotations, associations, and implications]” Tonstartssbandht want none of that. Eschewing any kind of geographical loyalty, they describe themselves simply as “a brother band” and would hope you would be so kind as to leave it at that. Though both musicians from a young age, Andy and Edwin White were in different bands as teenagers in Central Florida. They watched one another play, and occasionally teamed up in what they describe as “formless noise bands.” It was not until they were separated by distance that they realized that the only people they should be playing with were each other. “It was a match made in heaven” says Edwin of their partnership, and it has led the brothers to settle, for now at least, in Montreal.

Their music is youthful, with both classic harmonies and modern, spaced out soundscapes that seem as though they could go for days. A combination of the brother’s influences—classic pop harmonies and an encyclopedic knowledge of psych rock, jazz, and noise music—it is both innovative and connected to modern musical tradition. It is music that “takes you there” as the brothers themselves say. It takes them there in their energetic live shows and it takes the listener there through their headphones.

http://www.myspace.com/tonstartssbandht

PANOPTICON EYELIDS

Panopticon Eyelids was born in 2002 just before the city of Montreal was taken over by the Ethiopium Biker Rock gang. The band formed to explore Internal Panoramic Visions of organized chaos. At first inspired by a myriad of styles and approaches, Panopticon evolved throughout the years to develop their own personal style. The beginnings were informed by No Wave primitivism, free improvisation and fucked up psychedelia. In order to survive, the band learned how to make their own Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie. This was necessary to achieve Internal Panoramic Visions. Without the Beanie the brain wouldn’t stay functional after the Psilocybin satellite had broadcast its sound-waves through the eardrum’s mechanism. This would melt your Broca within the blink of an eye… and then you wouldn’t be able to speak, think or understand shit!

http://www.panopticoneyelids.com/
http://www.myspace.com/panopticoneyelids