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DAVID GRUBBS (Drag City/US)
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Sat. January 24th, 2009
Whelans, Dublin
Tickets: €15.00 inc booking fee
Doors: 7.30pm
Available from: www.tickets.ie (no service charge) and www.ticketmaster.ie
We're delighted to announce this performance from one of Americas true musical personalities. David Grubbs (Bastro/Squirrel Bait/Gastr Del Sol) has a long, rich association with innovation and this show will see him performing select tracks from his new album 'An Optimist Notes The Dusk' which is out now on Drag City.
David Grubbs , guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. He has also played in The Red Krayola and The Wingdale Community Singers.
Squirrel Bait was a 1980s Louisville, Kentucky punk rock group that released a 12' EP and an album on Homestead Records. Grubbs's next group was Bastro, which released two albums on Homestead. In 1991 Bastro morphed into the more avant-garde Gastr del Sol. This project soon became essentially a partnership between Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. The albums released by the duo (including Crookt, Crackt, or Fly, Upgrade & Afterlife, and Camoufleur) have been described as a visionary and theoretical deconstruction of the songwriting process.[citation needed]
Since the partnership's breakup in 1997, Grubbs has released numerous solo and collaborative records, mostly on the Drag City label. In 2000, his album The Spectrum Between 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 from Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey and Noël Akchoté, Workshop, Van Oehlen, and Mats Gustafsson. He has appeared on recordings by Tony Conrad, Matmos, Palace Music, Pauline Oliveros, and many more. Grubbs is also known for his collaborations with writers Susan Howe, Rick Moody, and Kenneth Goldsmith as well as with visual artists including Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, Stephen Prina, and Cosima von Bonin.
Grubbs's soundtrack work includes music with Matmos for Thierry Jousse's feature film Les Invisibles. He has composed the soundtracks for Angela Bulloch's installations Z Point and Horizontal Technicolour, and his music appears in two installations by Doug Aitken. Grubbs's sound installation “Between a Raven and a Writing Desk” was included in the 1999 group exhibition “Elysian Fields” at the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs has also contributed music to the Red Krayola's soundtrack to Norman and Bruce Yonemoto's film Japan in Paris in LA as well as to Augusto Contento's film Strade Trasparenti, Braden King and Laura Moya's film Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back, and John Boskovich's film North. Music by Gastr del Sol appears in the P.B.S. television series The United States of Poetry, Hal Hartley's film The Book of Life, and Doug Aitken's film The Diamond Sea. Grubbs composed music for Karl Bruckmaier's radio adaptation of Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, which was named “Hoerbuch des Jahres 2007” (Audio Book of the Year) by Hessischer Rundfunk.
www.myspace.com/davidgrubbsbluechopsticks
www.foreverpresents.ie
DAVID GRUBBS (Drag City/US)
plus guest
Sat. January 24th, 2009
Whelans, Dublin
Tickets: €15.00 inc booking fee
Doors: 7.30pm
Available from: www.tickets.ie (no service charge) and www.ticketmaster.ie
We're delighted to announce this performance from one of Americas true musical personalities. David Grubbs (Bastro/Squirrel Bait/Gastr Del Sol) has a long, rich association with innovation and this show will see him performing select tracks from his new album 'An Optimist Notes The Dusk' which is out now on Drag City.
David Grubbs , guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. He has also played in The Red Krayola and The Wingdale Community Singers.
Squirrel Bait was a 1980s Louisville, Kentucky punk rock group that released a 12' EP and an album on Homestead Records. Grubbs's next group was Bastro, which released two albums on Homestead. In 1991 Bastro morphed into the more avant-garde Gastr del Sol. This project soon became essentially a partnership between Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. The albums released by the duo (including Crookt, Crackt, or Fly, Upgrade & Afterlife, and Camoufleur) have been described as a visionary and theoretical deconstruction of the songwriting process.[citation needed]
Since the partnership's breakup in 1997, Grubbs has released numerous solo and collaborative records, mostly on the Drag City label. In 2000, his album The Spectrum Between 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 from Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey and Noël Akchoté, Workshop, Van Oehlen, and Mats Gustafsson. He has appeared on recordings by Tony Conrad, Matmos, Palace Music, Pauline Oliveros, and many more. Grubbs is also known for his collaborations with writers Susan Howe, Rick Moody, and Kenneth Goldsmith as well as with visual artists including Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, Stephen Prina, and Cosima von Bonin.
Grubbs's soundtrack work includes music with Matmos for Thierry Jousse's feature film Les Invisibles. He has composed the soundtracks for Angela Bulloch's installations Z Point and Horizontal Technicolour, and his music appears in two installations by Doug Aitken. Grubbs's sound installation “Between a Raven and a Writing Desk” was included in the 1999 group exhibition “Elysian Fields” at the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs has also contributed music to the Red Krayola's soundtrack to Norman and Bruce Yonemoto's film Japan in Paris in LA as well as to Augusto Contento's film Strade Trasparenti, Braden King and Laura Moya's film Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back, and John Boskovich's film North. Music by Gastr del Sol appears in the P.B.S. television series The United States of Poetry, Hal Hartley's film The Book of Life, and Doug Aitken's film The Diamond Sea. Grubbs composed music for Karl Bruckmaier's radio adaptation of Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, which was named “Hoerbuch des Jahres 2007” (Audio Book of the Year) by Hessischer Rundfunk.
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