skinny wolves
Well-Known Member
Skinny Wolves Presents:
LUCKY DRAGONS (USA, Upset the Rhythm/Marriage Records)
SCHOOL TOUR
& WOVEN SKULL
Thursday 24th June '10
The Joinery, Stoneybatter, Dublin
B/Y/O/B/
Doors 8.30pm / Adm: 10e
LUCKY DRAGONS
( Click image to download hi-res version and go here to find more... )
“lucky dragons” means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and any sometimes collaborators. They try to do as many different kinds of things as they can, high and low, fast and slow. They would say they are “artists who use music” and if they make performance art it is to alter and append it, but they give respect to history and the people who live there.
today’s influences include: nikki de st phalle, joan didion, COBRA, hieronymous bosch, thomas jefferson, tina turner, allan kaprow, joan jonas, bruce nauman, mayan codices, ivor cutler, jacques ranciere, helio oticia.
lucky dragons shows are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures–creating equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, to build a fragile network of digital signals connected by touching on the skin. There have been hundreds of these simple yet shifting and unpredictable instances–with audiences ranging from the intense intimacy of one person to the public spectacle of over one thousand people. At the heart of it all is playing together–building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technology and live performance. It sounds–and looks–like simple and ancient patterns coming together and falling apart in a sincere attempt to let wires and screens and words become clear and crystal.
they keep a busy schedule of performances and visits and festivals and workshops and things, in the present, and in the past: NY’s PS1, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle, Los Angeles’ The Smell, NY’s The Kitchen, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and The Smithsonian Institute’s Hirshorn Museum,Tokion’s “Creativity Now” conference, etc. lucky dragons live in Los Angeles California and have recorded 19 albums which are all available for downloading.
lucky dragons’ sister projects include “sumi ink club“–a weekly collaborative drawing society, and “glaciers of nice“–a small press and internet community.
'Dream Island Laughing Language ' LP
'Dream Island Laughing Language' is the 18th release by Lucky Dragons. The album details the continuing pursuit of a humble and joyous, drippy and explosive, smoldering and upset music for our experience in America right now - messages of unrest have long failed to be clearly understood, while solitude and empty organization have given way to a very current volcanic desire for togetherness.
Genre has never been less important - influences and ideas are consumed and digested and released in the spirit of a culture larger than music as it is bought and sold. This is world music for a world that doesn't care about "music" as we have packaged it for the last 100 years. You could call it post-noise, or post-anything you like, but we would prefer to call it pre-something.
With a constantly shifting group of participants, each recording is a record of a specific time and place, and of those present and active as a community in the creation of the recording. For this recording, the time is 2007-2008, the place is California. The name of the record refers to the landfill-island in Tokyo harbour where the original lucky dragon now lives - "dream island" - and to the creation of imaginary languages - "laughing language" - that can be used to express things our own languages can't. As with Lucky Dragons' remarkable live performances, these recordings strive to create a space where community, memory and ritual all come together as a crystal and then vibrate and shatter.
PRESS
“Lucky Dragons… create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons’ live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward.” -artforum (March 2006)
“a line between the handmade and the distanced digital… …a successful forging of the personal detritus, the mic-ed moments between moments” -all music guide
“Lucky Dragons have managed to create a completely new strand of West Coast American psychedelia” -frieze
SCHOOL TOUR
"Solar flare gamelan disco brain rot from Mt. Errigal." - School Tour is Gerard Duffy of Children Under Hoof / Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands
"Weird, wonderful and space-age electronica from the wilds of Donegal to send shivers down your spine. "Skating With Another" is music for trekking along icy plateaux and frozen hills in the dead of winter." - The Irish Times
LUCKY DRAGONS (USA, Upset the Rhythm/Marriage Records)
SCHOOL TOUR
& WOVEN SKULL
Thursday 24th June '10
The Joinery, Stoneybatter, Dublin
B/Y/O/B/
Doors 8.30pm / Adm: 10e
LUCKY DRAGONS
( Click image to download hi-res version and go here to find more... )
“lucky dragons” means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and any sometimes collaborators. They try to do as many different kinds of things as they can, high and low, fast and slow. They would say they are “artists who use music” and if they make performance art it is to alter and append it, but they give respect to history and the people who live there.
today’s influences include: nikki de st phalle, joan didion, COBRA, hieronymous bosch, thomas jefferson, tina turner, allan kaprow, joan jonas, bruce nauman, mayan codices, ivor cutler, jacques ranciere, helio oticia.
lucky dragons shows are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures–creating equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, to build a fragile network of digital signals connected by touching on the skin. There have been hundreds of these simple yet shifting and unpredictable instances–with audiences ranging from the intense intimacy of one person to the public spectacle of over one thousand people. At the heart of it all is playing together–building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technology and live performance. It sounds–and looks–like simple and ancient patterns coming together and falling apart in a sincere attempt to let wires and screens and words become clear and crystal.
they keep a busy schedule of performances and visits and festivals and workshops and things, in the present, and in the past: NY’s PS1, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle, Los Angeles’ The Smell, NY’s The Kitchen, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and The Smithsonian Institute’s Hirshorn Museum,Tokion’s “Creativity Now” conference, etc. lucky dragons live in Los Angeles California and have recorded 19 albums which are all available for downloading.
lucky dragons’ sister projects include “sumi ink club“–a weekly collaborative drawing society, and “glaciers of nice“–a small press and internet community.
'Dream Island Laughing Language ' LP
'Dream Island Laughing Language' is the 18th release by Lucky Dragons. The album details the continuing pursuit of a humble and joyous, drippy and explosive, smoldering and upset music for our experience in America right now - messages of unrest have long failed to be clearly understood, while solitude and empty organization have given way to a very current volcanic desire for togetherness.
Genre has never been less important - influences and ideas are consumed and digested and released in the spirit of a culture larger than music as it is bought and sold. This is world music for a world that doesn't care about "music" as we have packaged it for the last 100 years. You could call it post-noise, or post-anything you like, but we would prefer to call it pre-something.
With a constantly shifting group of participants, each recording is a record of a specific time and place, and of those present and active as a community in the creation of the recording. For this recording, the time is 2007-2008, the place is California. The name of the record refers to the landfill-island in Tokyo harbour where the original lucky dragon now lives - "dream island" - and to the creation of imaginary languages - "laughing language" - that can be used to express things our own languages can't. As with Lucky Dragons' remarkable live performances, these recordings strive to create a space where community, memory and ritual all come together as a crystal and then vibrate and shatter.
PRESS
“Lucky Dragons… create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons’ live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward.” -artforum (March 2006)
“a line between the handmade and the distanced digital… …a successful forging of the personal detritus, the mic-ed moments between moments” -all music guide
“Lucky Dragons have managed to create a completely new strand of West Coast American psychedelia” -frieze
SCHOOL TOUR
- http://myspace.com/schooltourmusic
- http://soundcloud.com/munitionsfamily/school-tour-shadow-pup-edit
"Solar flare gamelan disco brain rot from Mt. Errigal." - School Tour is Gerard Duffy of Children Under Hoof / Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands
"Weird, wonderful and space-age electronica from the wilds of Donegal to send shivers down your spine. "Skating With Another" is music for trekking along icy plateaux and frozen hills in the dead of winter." - The Irish Times
