link here.
Locrian – Drenched Lands (At War With False Noise / Small Doses)
Although the prolific Chicago based Locrian duo, André Foisy and Terence Hannum, had quiet a few releases since Drenched Lands, I’m still enjoying this dense, drone heavy, massive album. Released on a Scottish drone/noise label, At War With False Noise and Small Doses in 2009, and later repressed by BloodLust!, Utech, and DeathSmile, Drenched Lands is a dark voyage into post-apocalyptic land of abandoned concrete highways and obsolete ruined structures. The inner desperation of desolate landscapes and overgrown wastelands is conveyed with howling vocals, growling guitars and power electronics, blending dark ambient and black metal into cacophony of thick layered sonic palette. With its narrative structure, the album “starts with a slow descent into a dark abyss, moving torturedly, gradually rediscovering the light, then leaving you where everything began – completely transformed”. Background distorted riffs are punctuated with foreground guitar strums in an epic buildup, appealing to cinematic soundtracks of deep caverns and cold cells. The last, 30-minute track, is a complete trip. If you dig this sound, be sure to also pick up Locrian’s Rain of Ashes (Fan Death, 2009) and their latest album, Territories (2010).
Monday, July 12, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Locrian @ Brooklyn Vegan
Link here.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Locrian, John Zorn, Bill Laswell & others appearing @ the new Museum & elsewhere
by BBG
DOWNLOAD: Locrian - "Invisible/Visible" (M4A)
Locrian (photo by Lenny Gilmore)
Locrian will play NYC on Saturday July 10th as part of a artist Scott Treleaven's The Touching Of Hands exhibit at Light Industry in Brooklyn. The show will consist of the band playing a full set, as well as performing "Visible/Invisible" (downloadable above) as part of the artist's "Last 7 Words" video, an "affectionate and ethereal Super-8 portrait of [Genesis] Breyer P-Orridge".
The Touching of Hands
Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 7:30pm, $7
...An evening of solo and collaborative projects by Scott Treleaven and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, focusing on the shared influence of artist and mystic Brion Gysin. Gysin's close friendship with Breyer P-Orridge, and in turn her friendship with Treleaven, has over time given rise to a number of aesthetic and philosophical affinities found in the work of all three, communicated from one to the other.
Each has explored, in his or her own way, the nature of extreme mental states, ideas of eros and thanatos, and modern applications of occult thought. Permutations of the cut-up technique, invented by Gysin in the 1950s, can be found in the reordering of visual information by both Breyer P-Orridge and Treleaven. A preoccupation with the legend of the Cult of the Assassins led to Gysin collaborator William Burroughs's novel The Wild Boys, Breyer P-Orridge's collective Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and, later, Treleaven's The Salivation Army, his VHS classic about a mid-90s movement centered around a Wild Boys/Psychick Youth-inspired zine. All demonstrate what Treleaven calls a "pre-Web concept" of "total intimacy and privacy, unmediated by uncontainable social networks."
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will not be in attendance that day, as s/he will be preforming as part of Thee Majesty in Torino Italy on July 10th. However, Genesis will be in attendance for a lecture on Brion Gysin on July 15th as part of a program put on by the New Museum.
Two nights earlier, July 13th, the New Museum hosts a related event - "8pm Dream Machine, A Celebration with performances by York Factory Complaint and John Zorn & Bill Laswell". Flyer for that one below with info on how you can help get a movie about Genesis and Lady Jaye funded...
-- the New Museum will present "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine," the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK-died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin was an irrepressible inventor, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit whose considerable innovations continue to influence musicians and writers, as well as visual and new media artists today. The exhibition will include over 300 drawings, books, paintings, photo-collages, films, slide projections, and sound works, as well as an original Dreamachine--a kinetic light sculpture that utilizes the flicker effect to induce visions when experienced with closed eyes. "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine" is curated by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and will be on view in the New Museum's second floor gallery.
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PLEASE HELP SUPPORT MARIE LOSIER'S FILM
ABOUT GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
"After 5 years of shooting, making costumes, interviews, working on the film on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, I need some help to make this film happen finally. I need an editor to help shape the film to a good solid story, a sound engineer and transfer of films to HD. The goal is to have the film completed by November so that it's ready for premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011.
In order to meet this goal I need all the support I can get and I'm excited to announce an online fundraiser via Kickstarter.com.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marielosier/ballad-of-genesis-and-lady-jaye
In order to make your support worthwhile, I have included a variety of amazing and unique rewards from Genesis Breyer P-orridge, Invisible Exports, Bernard Yenelouis and Tony Conrad. This is an opportunity to not only help me complete my project, but also get a wonderful piece of artwork to boot!
Here's how the Kickstarter fundraiser works:
1) Go to our Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marielosier/ballad-of-genesis-and-lady-jaye
2) Take a look at the Rewards and see how much you'd be willing to donate. No matter how small, ALL donations are deeply appreciated.
3) Click on "Back This Project".
4) Enter your amount and select your reward.
5) You will need to sign up with Kickstarter.com.
6) Enter your credit card info using a secure Amazon.com account
I have 90 days to reach my fundraising goal. But, in the end if I don't meet it, you won't get charged.
This is just a small part of what we need to finish our film.Whether you can help by making a pledge or not, please spread the word about this campaign, I am endlessly grateful for your help and support. Pass this info along to any friend, family member, fan club, user group, mailing list who might be interested.
Thank you for all your support!
Marie
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Locrian, John Zorn, Bill Laswell & others appearing @ the new Museum & elsewhere
by BBG
DOWNLOAD: Locrian - "Invisible/Visible" (M4A)
Locrian (photo by Lenny Gilmore)
Locrian will play NYC on Saturday July 10th as part of a artist Scott Treleaven's The Touching Of Hands exhibit at Light Industry in Brooklyn. The show will consist of the band playing a full set, as well as performing "Visible/Invisible" (downloadable above) as part of the artist's "Last 7 Words" video, an "affectionate and ethereal Super-8 portrait of [Genesis] Breyer P-Orridge".
The Touching of Hands
Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 7:30pm, $7
...An evening of solo and collaborative projects by Scott Treleaven and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, focusing on the shared influence of artist and mystic Brion Gysin. Gysin's close friendship with Breyer P-Orridge, and in turn her friendship with Treleaven, has over time given rise to a number of aesthetic and philosophical affinities found in the work of all three, communicated from one to the other.
Each has explored, in his or her own way, the nature of extreme mental states, ideas of eros and thanatos, and modern applications of occult thought. Permutations of the cut-up technique, invented by Gysin in the 1950s, can be found in the reordering of visual information by both Breyer P-Orridge and Treleaven. A preoccupation with the legend of the Cult of the Assassins led to Gysin collaborator William Burroughs's novel The Wild Boys, Breyer P-Orridge's collective Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth and, later, Treleaven's The Salivation Army, his VHS classic about a mid-90s movement centered around a Wild Boys/Psychick Youth-inspired zine. All demonstrate what Treleaven calls a "pre-Web concept" of "total intimacy and privacy, unmediated by uncontainable social networks."
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will not be in attendance that day, as s/he will be preforming as part of Thee Majesty in Torino Italy on July 10th. However, Genesis will be in attendance for a lecture on Brion Gysin on July 15th as part of a program put on by the New Museum.
Two nights earlier, July 13th, the New Museum hosts a related event - "8pm Dream Machine, A Celebration with performances by York Factory Complaint and John Zorn & Bill Laswell". Flyer for that one below with info on how you can help get a movie about Genesis and Lady Jaye funded...
-- the New Museum will present "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine," the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK-died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin was an irrepressible inventor, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit whose considerable innovations continue to influence musicians and writers, as well as visual and new media artists today. The exhibition will include over 300 drawings, books, paintings, photo-collages, films, slide projections, and sound works, as well as an original Dreamachine--a kinetic light sculpture that utilizes the flicker effect to induce visions when experienced with closed eyes. "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine" is curated by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and will be on view in the New Museum's second floor gallery.
----
PLEASE HELP SUPPORT MARIE LOSIER'S FILM
ABOUT GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
"After 5 years of shooting, making costumes, interviews, working on the film on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, I need some help to make this film happen finally. I need an editor to help shape the film to a good solid story, a sound engineer and transfer of films to HD. The goal is to have the film completed by November so that it's ready for premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011.
In order to meet this goal I need all the support I can get and I'm excited to announce an online fundraiser via Kickstarter.com.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marielosier/ballad-of-genesis-and-lady-jaye
In order to make your support worthwhile, I have included a variety of amazing and unique rewards from Genesis Breyer P-orridge, Invisible Exports, Bernard Yenelouis and Tony Conrad. This is an opportunity to not only help me complete my project, but also get a wonderful piece of artwork to boot!
Here's how the Kickstarter fundraiser works:
1) Go to our Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marielosier/ballad-of-genesis-and-lady-jaye
2) Take a look at the Rewards and see how much you'd be willing to donate. No matter how small, ALL donations are deeply appreciated.
3) Click on "Back This Project".
4) Enter your amount and select your reward.
5) You will need to sign up with Kickstarter.com.
6) Enter your credit card info using a secure Amazon.com account
I have 90 days to reach my fundraising goal. But, in the end if I don't meet it, you won't get charged.
This is just a small part of what we need to finish our film.Whether you can help by making a pledge or not, please spread the word about this campaign, I am endlessly grateful for your help and support. Pass this info along to any friend, family member, fan club, user group, mailing list who might be interested.
Thank you for all your support!
Marie
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Interview Magazine on Scott Treleaven/Genesis Breyer P-Orridge/Locrian Screening/Performance Next Saturday -- Join the Occult
Link here.
There's no shortage of people behind a museum exhibition—curators and artists, for sure, and installers, and security, and administrators. However, the exhibition of Brion Gysin opening tomorrow at the New Museum required more storytellers and historians of sub-culture, and so curator Laura Hoptman enlisted artist Scott Treleaven.
Treleaven came of age in the gay scene of late-90s Toronto, defined by its storied mix of radical culture and community spirit assembled by nightlife impresario Will Munro. In 2002, Treleaven directed a short film called The Salivation Army, which earned a reputation as being a Blair Witch Project of sorts for the queer experimental cinema set. The film is a faux (or perhaps totally real) document of the blood rites exercised by a band of young men. Treleaven's visual art digs even deeper into the legacy of his esoteric culture's more flamboyant conspirators like Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger, and undersung radical artist Brion Gysin, for whom he has a particular affinity. Perhaps then, it's no surprise that Treleaven has written a catalog essay for the New Museum's Gysin retrospective, which opens tomorrow. But a more intimate and interdisciplinary investigation into Treleaven's adoration of Gysin will take place on Saturday evening at Light Industry in New York. This will be a collaborative event of film, music, and performance curated by Treleaven and the always-titillating Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV fame, who was a close associate of Gysin in the 1970s.
According to Treleaven, the event will begin with some "very psychedelic and possibly unsettling" videos created by P-Orridge that date to about 1990. A requisite encore of The Salivation Army will lead up to Last 7 Words, a film portrait of P-Orridge shot by Treleaven in Paris last year, accompanied by a live score performed by Chicago-based drone metal band, Locrian. The evening as a whole has been titled "The Touching of Hands," which Treleaven describes as, "A sort of magical precept Gysin had taught [P-Orridge]: that magical teaching is transferred from one person to another by direct contact. I suppose the idea is about a line of friendship as much as it is about three artists who've sometimes had very, um, peripatetic ways of working in service of some bigger concepts."
LIGHT INDUSTRY IS LOCATED AT 177 LIVINGSTON, BROOKLYN.
There's no shortage of people behind a museum exhibition—curators and artists, for sure, and installers, and security, and administrators. However, the exhibition of Brion Gysin opening tomorrow at the New Museum required more storytellers and historians of sub-culture, and so curator Laura Hoptman enlisted artist Scott Treleaven.
Treleaven came of age in the gay scene of late-90s Toronto, defined by its storied mix of radical culture and community spirit assembled by nightlife impresario Will Munro. In 2002, Treleaven directed a short film called The Salivation Army, which earned a reputation as being a Blair Witch Project of sorts for the queer experimental cinema set. The film is a faux (or perhaps totally real) document of the blood rites exercised by a band of young men. Treleaven's visual art digs even deeper into the legacy of his esoteric culture's more flamboyant conspirators like Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger, and undersung radical artist Brion Gysin, for whom he has a particular affinity. Perhaps then, it's no surprise that Treleaven has written a catalog essay for the New Museum's Gysin retrospective, which opens tomorrow. But a more intimate and interdisciplinary investigation into Treleaven's adoration of Gysin will take place on Saturday evening at Light Industry in New York. This will be a collaborative event of film, music, and performance curated by Treleaven and the always-titillating Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV fame, who was a close associate of Gysin in the 1970s.
According to Treleaven, the event will begin with some "very psychedelic and possibly unsettling" videos created by P-Orridge that date to about 1990. A requisite encore of The Salivation Army will lead up to Last 7 Words, a film portrait of P-Orridge shot by Treleaven in Paris last year, accompanied by a live score performed by Chicago-based drone metal band, Locrian. The evening as a whole has been titled "The Touching of Hands," which Treleaven describes as, "A sort of magical precept Gysin had taught [P-Orridge]: that magical teaching is transferred from one person to another by direct contact. I suppose the idea is about a line of friendship as much as it is about three artists who've sometimes had very, um, peripatetic ways of working in service of some bigger concepts."
LIGHT INDUSTRY IS LOCATED AT 177 LIVINGSTON, BROOKLYN.
TWISTED SHAPES OF DOOM
For those of you that are in Chicago next weekend, be sure to check out this great lineup.
Saturday July 10, 2010
The Viaduct Theater
3111 N. Western Avenue
Chicago IL 60618
10:00 PM
18+
$7.00
BloodLust! Presents
Wolf Eyes
Anatomy of Habit
Neil Jendon
Rabid Rabbit
Saturday July 10, 2010
The Viaduct Theater
3111 N. Western Avenue
Chicago IL 60618
10:00 PM
18+
$7.00
BloodLust! Presents
Wolf Eyes
Anatomy of Habit
Neil Jendon
Rabid Rabbit
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Metal - Temple on "Territories" and Locrian "Land of Failure" 2x Loop CS
We're fairly certain that we'll have LOD 008 - Locrian "Land of Failure" 2x Loop CS out later this week. Keep your eyes peeled since this will be a very limited edition of 13 copies.
link here.
LOCRIAN is a band that, while only having been around for about five years at the time of this review, has a large number of releases under their belt. These releases range from 7”, cassette tapes, splits, CD-r’s and LP’s. Their sound is a mix of drone, Black Metal, ambient. One could classify parts as “avant-garde” and “experimental.” The last album of theirs that I reviewed, “Rain of Ashes,” wasn’t my cup of tea. However, there is a noticeable change towards actual songwriting on “Territories.”
The opening song, “Inverted Ruins,” is a very simple song, with a series of long, drawn out notes which is actually successful in creating an atmosphere. I enjoy listening to this song (as well as the similar “Ring Road”) when I’m stressed out and it helps me relax. On the other end of the spectrum, you have “Procession of Ancestral Brutalism,” which is rather brutal, in a black metal sense. There’s plenty of tremolo riffing along with some barely-above-demo quality sound that fans of the genre seem to enjoy so much.
However, I would classify the majority of the material on here “post black metal,” and for what it is, it’s actually very good. It’s not going to bludgeon you with riffs or in-your-face attitude, but when I’m in the right mood for this type of music, “Territories” will usually find its way into my music player. As individual songs shuffled with other music on an Ipod, “Territories” is less successful. However, it is not meant to be listened to in that manner, which is probably why, as far as I know, this is only being released on vinyl (although I received my copy on CD-r). When put in a music player and listened from start to finish, one will be able to appreciate the full value of this release.
link here.
LOCRIAN is a band that, while only having been around for about five years at the time of this review, has a large number of releases under their belt. These releases range from 7”, cassette tapes, splits, CD-r’s and LP’s. Their sound is a mix of drone, Black Metal, ambient. One could classify parts as “avant-garde” and “experimental.” The last album of theirs that I reviewed, “Rain of Ashes,” wasn’t my cup of tea. However, there is a noticeable change towards actual songwriting on “Territories.”
The opening song, “Inverted Ruins,” is a very simple song, with a series of long, drawn out notes which is actually successful in creating an atmosphere. I enjoy listening to this song (as well as the similar “Ring Road”) when I’m stressed out and it helps me relax. On the other end of the spectrum, you have “Procession of Ancestral Brutalism,” which is rather brutal, in a black metal sense. There’s plenty of tremolo riffing along with some barely-above-demo quality sound that fans of the genre seem to enjoy so much.
However, I would classify the majority of the material on here “post black metal,” and for what it is, it’s actually very good. It’s not going to bludgeon you with riffs or in-your-face attitude, but when I’m in the right mood for this type of music, “Territories” will usually find its way into my music player. As individual songs shuffled with other music on an Ipod, “Territories” is less successful. However, it is not meant to be listened to in that manner, which is probably why, as far as I know, this is only being released on vinyl (although I received my copy on CD-r). When put in a music player and listened from start to finish, one will be able to appreciate the full value of this release.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Land of Decay Related: NEGATIVE ALTARS: Terence Hannum @ Peregrine Program
Please join us for LOCRIAN member Terence Hannum's solo exhibition.
July 16th through July 31st 2010
OPENING: July 16th, 2010 - 6-8pm
Peregrine Program | 500 W Cermak Rd #727 | Chicago, IL 60616
Our dark ages. A spectral gathering of amplifiers. The ghostly smear of hair in mid-headbang. A charred chapel, blasted out windows, candles burn in some arcane rite and a bonfire menaces in the distance. What are we in? A concert gone wrong? A cult ceremony, the apocalypse?
For the past few years, Terence Hannum's oneiric gouache drawings have culled the periphery of heavy metal subculture and amplifier worship to analyze the nexus of music, myth and ritual. In ‘Negative Altars’ the drawings are combined in triptychs, arrangements that position them akin to medieval narrative devices. In many of the pieces, the focus falls upon a shrine composed of (mostly) vintage amplifiers from an era where maximum volume was the aim, and that has only enhanced these monoliths' collectibility and further fetishization. Echoing the obsolescent amplifiers and speaker cabinets incorporated in the drawings, Hannum has made a wall and floor installation using analog magnetic tape and a reel-to-reel tape player. Containing a loop of voices and acting as a functional frame for a drawing, this piece is the formal invocation of the unholy order the artist is conjuring with this show.
Welcome to his blossoming cult.
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