FIRE MUSEUM EVENTS
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Fire Museum Presents: Yuganaut Why Are We…Hear?! Trio (Elliott Levin- sax, flute & poetry, Alexi Papadopoulos - bass & Gregg Mervine-drums) Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 7PM Highwire Gallery 2040 Frankford Ave Philadelphia, PA $5
Yuganaut: Drawing from the traditions of Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago as well as Miles Davis in his '60s and '70s electric period, multi-instrumentalists Steve Rush, Tom Abbs and Geoff Mann expand the trio format to new heights. From frenzied free-for-alls to delicate compositions, Yuganaut take the music out into outer space and back. – band bio “Stephen Rush, Tom Abbs, and Geoff Mann create genuinely unpredictable soundscapes throughout this highly diverse disc, but always with attention to organic development and flow... Yuganaut proves that their chosen style of musical expression can be the sound of something genuinely startling.”- Dave Lynch / All Music Guide Why Are We…Hear?! Trio: A trio consisting of Elliott Levin (New Ghost, Interplay, countless other collaborations), Alexi Papadopoulos (Stinking Lizaveta) and Gregg Mervine (perhaps best known as the leader of the West Philadelphia Orchestra, he has also collaborated with Ari Up, Jack Ohly & many others) the disparate influences each of the players involved in this trio brings to the collective sonic palette are certain to result in an evening of rewarding music making.
Fire Museum Presents: Theo Angell The New Heaven and The New Earth Geb, The Great Cackler! Pile of Girls Saturday, February 20th, 2010 8PM Highwire Gallery 2040 Frankford Ave Philadelphia, PA $5
Theo Angell: “To the uninitiated, there are hints of different influences in Theo Angell’s music: bluegrass legend Bill Monroe, the Italian field recordings of Alan Lomax, Syd-Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Dino Valente, Desmond Dekker, The Velvet Underground, and Moondog. But the way that Angell has crafted this record almost single-handedly, during a two-week whirlwind of improvisational “chanting and jamming,” has yielded unclassifiable and weighty results. It is not classifiably folk, bluegrass, or psychedelic, yet it conjures up dynamic elements of each of those styles. The acoustic guitar treatments and the swirling waves of vocal experimentation create a delirious and cinematic effect that ranges from minimal to kaleidoscopic. The music sounds like hallucinogenic campfire songs with a UFO hovering above the tree line. There are both crawling dirges and scampering ditties here.” – Todd Simmons/Under The Radar The New Heaven and The New Earth: “Roger Alejandro Martinez named his latest outfit after a verse from the freakiest part of the Bible, the Revelations chapter that envisions the end of days and beyond. The music, though, is a gentler kind of apocalypse, hand-made folk with shadowy plainsong harmonies, unearthly chimes and bells and angelic harp strums. Martinez—who has lately been playing with the dronier, more freeform Br’er—crafts pretty, vaguely unsettling chants and ditties in the Philly freaked tradition of Espers and Fursaxa.” – Jennifer Kelly/Philadelphia Weekly Geb, The Great Cackler!: Justin Duerr (Northern Liberties, Hex Nine, et al) and Mandy Slipoj Katz (Beware The Blunted Needle, Vulgar Remedies, etc) join together as Geb, The Great Cackler!, an acoustic duo drawing upon their shared experiences of over a decade, personally, creatively, and both as one. "Geb was thought to represent the earth, he is often seen reclining beneath the sky goddess Nut. Geb was called 'the Great Cackler', and as such, was represented as a goose. It was in this form that he was said to have laid the egg from which the sun was hatched. He was believed to have been the third divine king of earth. The royal throne of Egypt was known as the 'throne of Geb' in honor of his great reign." - Richard Deurer Pile of Girls: The solo project of Sam Cusumano of Niagara Falls. Circuit bent Barbie Keytars and other castoff electronic devices create a grime groove that'll make you move! Shocking syncopation that rocks the rhythm nation, Pile of Girls always gets the party started and leaves no one broken hearted. coming soon: 3/6/2010 – Arborea, Koen Holtkamp (Mountains) & Adamu/Carbonara/Masri/Sparhawk Quartet 3/12/2010 - "Inside Out In The Open" screening & Sonic Liberation Front 3/13/2010 - Alice Cohen, J Graf & Lillie Ruth Bussey 3/20/2010 - Jozef van Wissem, Hunter Gatherer, Living Things (NYC) & Erik Ruin all shows at the Highwire Gallery (unless otherwise stated) & all ages |