FOREVER Presents:
DAVID GRUBBS
+ special guests
Whelan’s, Jan 24, 2009
Tickets €15 (excl. booking fee) Tickets.ie, City Discs, Road Records, Tickemaster
“It's scary because it's so simple and spare, a quietly cresting and
falling apocalypse that soothes the crap out of you.” – Pitchfork, An
Optimist Notes the Dusk review
“A lovely and peculiar album, satisfyingly complex but welcoming too.” – Time Out, New York
“…one of his most compellingly poetic works – a sober challenge for the daydreamers of today.” – Dusted Magazine
Louisville, Kentucky-born David Grubbs has been making records since
1982. Since then he has made ten solo records, was a founding member of
Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol, and has worked with Stephen
Prina, Cosima von Bonin, Angela Bulloch, Anthony McCall, Susan Howe,
and Kenneth Goldsmith. He has also played in The Red Krayola and The
Wingdale Community Singers.
Grubbs’ latest solo album, An Optimist Notes the Dusk (Drag City) was
released in October 2008. His other long-term project that is nearing
completion is his five-channel soundtrack to Leaving, a film
installation by Anthony McCall.
Grubbs’s most recent releases include Souls of the Labadie Tract and
Thiefth (Blue Chopsticks), two collaborations with poet Susan Howe; Two
Soundtracks for Angela Bulloch (Semishigure); and 2004’s A Guess at the
Riddle (Drag City/FatCat). In 2000, his album The Spectrum Between
(Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times.
He operates his own label, Blue Chopsticks, which has released both new
and archival recordings by Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey and Noël Akchoté,
Workshop, Circle X, Van Oehlen and Mats Gustafsson. With Jim O’Rourke,
Grubbs co-directed Dexter’s Cigar, an acclaimed label that reissued
out-of-print recordings by, among others, Arnold Dreyblatt, Henry
Kaiser, and Merzbow.
Grubbs’ sound installation Between a Raven and a Writing Desk was
included in the 1999 group exhibition “Elysian Fields” at the Centre
Pompidou. He has collaborated with Matmos on music for Thierry Jousse’s
feature film Les Invisibles, and has contributed music to Augusto
Contento’s Onibus, Braden King and Laura Moya’s Dutch Harbor:Where the
Sea Breaks its Back, and John Boskovich’s North.
Grubbs is an assistant professor of Radio and Sound Art at Brooklyn
College, CUNY, and director of Brooklyn College's graduate programs in
Performance and Interactive Media Arts (
www.interactivearts.org).
He has been called one of two “Best Teachers for an Indie-Rocker to
Admire” in the Village Voice and “le plus Français des Américains” in
Libération.
www.bluechopsticks.org
www.myspace.com/davidgrubbsbluechopsticks
www.dragcity.com
