Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black Sun (1 Viewer)

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November 7th
Black Sun at the Granary Theatre
www.myspace.com/solnigerire

Debut Irish performance by Oblivia + Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma).|..|**This is the only Irish date**
Jozef Van Wissem
Laura Sheeran

Oblivia and Ju Suk Reet Meate!!!

Jozef Van Wissem

Laura Sheeran

Vegan treats from Paula...

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Blasting out of Los Angeles in the early 1970s, Smegma took the logic of Captain Beefheart, the Velvets and free jazz to new places: an improvising troupe that thinks it’s a rock band, a weird folk band that plays free jazz, a garage band that plays experimental noise music, they have influenced generations of the best and strangest artists. Freaks rather than hippies, they recorded with ‘outsider’ artist ‘Wild Man’ Fischer, they found like minds in Portland’s punk and post-punk worlds, and collaborated in the late 1980s with the Butthole Surfers. They have inspired American and European industrial artists, they have played with free jazz musicians and the even freer. Their monstrous sound is driven by combining the energy of rock with the power of noise, and all this through an array of homemade instruments that make their music unique. Ever-strange, they have continued to draw the most creative of musicians to them, making records with Japanese noise legend Merzbow and the pin-ups of the American noise scene of today, Wolf Eyes. Members of Smegma have worked with Earth, Chris Corsano, John Fahey. If this seems like a roster of the great, then this is due to Smegma’s position at the top of the heap of free and noise music-making. Noise music finally caught up with them. Now it’s your turn. x

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Wonderful stuff!

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Photos from Jean Louis Costes' performance at Black Sun in September here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflinge/sets/72157622553665790/

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Ju Suk Reet Meate at No Fun 2007

Oblivia + Ju Suk at PDX Pop Now! festival 2008


here are some smegma tracks for anyone unfamiliar with them ...

Difference (1979 - Glamour Girl 1941)
Mutant Baby (Live 29/10/79 - Pigs For Lepers 2006 CD Reissue Bonus Track)
ID-O-MATIC (1982 - Pigs For Lepers)
Happy Baby Rhumba (1988 - Nattering Naybobs Of Negativity)
Limp Dynamics (1988 - Nattering Naybobs Of Negativity)
Hoedad (1993 - Ism)
Jungle Nausea (1993 - Ism)
Walkie-Talkie (1993 - Ism)
I'm Pooped (1996 - The Mad Excitement, The Barbaric Pulsations, The Incomparable Rhythms of Smegma)

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

... and some boomkat wreckchord reviews ...

Pigs For Lepers

Smegma are one of those bands that nobody heard, but everyone who heard them seemed to start a band... I have to be honest with you, maybe it was the name or something but until recently I'd never heard the band (other than the blistering collaboration with Wolf Eyes), and on listening to this I'm really wondering why. Amazing! Influential! Weird! Freaked-out! Visceral! I may as well not bother listing any more words like this as truly my jaw was on the table, drool escaping from the lip-line as I listened to 'Pigs for Lepers', an album which although originally came out in 1982, was started in the early 1960s. Shocking... they were there before anyone, and even more worryingly this album still sounds totally futuristic, totally groundbreaking. Sure they've had their sound re-appropriated by a blossoming noise scene (Wolf Eyes, Hair Police, Prurient, The Skaters et al) and the New Weird America crew are desperately trying to out-weird the Portland originators (and not succeeding by the sounds of it) but Smegma sounds only like Smegma. Distorted tape loops, dirty percussion, looped vocals and screams, plucked strings and flute all fired through the grimiest sounding processes you can imagine - this album is like being kicked head-first into a parallel dimension, a dimension that lost the plot so long ago it can barely remember what the plot is. How these guys came into being is totally beyond me, but the fact that CD evidence exists is a modern marvel... do records come more essential than this? It's not just an essential purchase, this is modern music history... BUY.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=33500



Nattering Naybobs of Negativity

Holy headf*ck Batman... it's another Smegma re-issue and yet again I am dumbfounded by the sheer creative force on offer here. I'm not sure whether this is free-jazz, improv, noise-core, tape music or all of the above, what I am sure of is that it's absolutely bonkers and recorded evidence of one of the most singular and important acts in experimental music history. Okay so they might not be as universally acclaimed as say, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band (possibly one of the closest comparisons...) but that's just because hardly anyone has actually heard them, it's just that everyone who has heard them ended up making records. That's the power this kind of music has on people, that's the sheer force of Smegma - this particular album for instance bears a striking resemblance to No Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Vibracathedral Orchestra and all of those weird, wonderful bands. Of course, Smegma were bashing out preternatural weirdness way before these kiddles were even apples in their parents' eyes, and the fact that this record (originally issued in 1987) still sounds fresh, still sounds totally contemporary is a testament to the band's shocking skill. I must say I'm still reeling from hearing this stuff, to one day be totally unaware of the band and the next day feel like I've been his with a concrete block of inspiring noise - it's something that's difficult to explain and even more difficult to get over. Let me just say that you need to buy this record and probably anything else by the band that you can get your hands on, killer doesn't even begin to explain it. You want something unusual? Well you'd better buy this and pretty damn quickly - the cd is limited to a measly 1000 copies for the world. So, so good.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=33501



33 1/3

The fourth crucial Important release this week, and blow me down it's by Portland's finest and one of the most influential experimental acts ever to spew out of the 20th century - Smegma. Their latest album interestingly is touted as being a tribute to their 20th century influence - free jazz and the world of the avant garde, but they have neatly brought this into the 21st century by proving to all the young noise makers that they still have what it takes to produce something shocking, demonic and visceral. All the core members are here too and the band are on blistering form blending their signature free jazz noodling with crushing tape jams and synthetic noise to create something that sounds like you've fallen off a cliff and woken up on another planet, dazed and slightly drugged. It's almost frightening how forward thinking this band are and how pivotal their work has been to the evolution of the noise scene - I mean Wolf Eyes worship them, what more evidence do you need of their ultimate power? Whether you just hear it as folk clumping and clanging about, or whether you hear this as the logical progression of outré sound from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in all its surreal avant-beauty it doesn't matter, you should listen to '33 1/3' and listen up good, because here's a band that really know the meaning of the word 'punk'. Hell yeah, just invest.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=34202

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Good work!

I saw Dr. Id midday in a gelato cafe a few months back at No Fest. It was savage fun.

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

+ JOZEF VAN WISSEM +
http://www.myspace.com/vanwissem
http://ubu.com/sound/van-wissem.html

"Once some music dropped through my letter-box; let's summon their sounds into our world now, and deliver their names as Roses or Stations. The picture they imagined was both clear and cryptic: the certainties of the 17th century holding tight the ugly beauty that we now see scattered around us. I loved these CDs by Jozef van Wissem, A Rose by any other Name and Stations of the Cross. And then I received a new album, A Priori, and I immediately played it and heard its stark and repetitive intensity, its stately and glacial march. There is nothing quite like it that I have heard before - it is timeless, breathing deeply and exhaling showers of snow, endless circles, mirrors, spirals, the sea. When Jozef plays the lute, he pours out endless space. What can I say but let the rain come, close your eyes and watch the stars fall and rise and fall again." - David Tibet (Current 93)

Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual take on the Renaissance and Baroque lute, probably the most unlikely instruments in the world of contemporary music. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings This wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an absolutely original amalgam of contemporary folk and early music, where seventeenth century lute and twenty-first century contemporary music meld. Whilst using subtle electronic sound manipulation, he stays faithful to the timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. He has deconstructed existing compositions, by playing them backwards. He has also composed his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. His music is not so much about linear progression, more about an unfolding intensity, which brings the listener in a state of concentrated listening. He runs the Incunabulum label, and performs extensively around the world. He also works with M.B. / Maurizio Bianchi, James Blackshaw, Tetuzi Akiyama and Gary Lucas. With Blackshaw he formed the duo “ Brethren of the Free Spirit’ which has two releases out on Important records.

On other records, Van Wissem has re-contextualized the lute by treating its sounds with electronics, juxtaposing it with field recordings of large public transit facilities, using it to improvise with Tetuzi Akiyama, or enlisting Mauricio Bianchi to transform its resonance into grim noise. A Priori offers his unadulterated take on the instrument, performed without accompaniment or outboard effects. Its sonorities, articulated in unhurried cadences, may sound ancient, but the language of dissonant harmonies, tone clusters, and rare bluesy flourishes to which he applies them is rooted in the 20th century avant-garde, not the time of bards in tights. The way Van Wissem traces and retraces A Priori's seven palindromes, denying the listener any resolution or catharsis, is also pretty contemporary in its attitude of refusal; has there ever been a time besides now when more musicians refuted the expectations of audiences and authorities?

A Priori does not reward casual listening. Its slow cadences and well-proportioned tones feel contemplative, but the lack of pay-off makes the music potentially maddening; it actually stymies linear thought. If you want easily approachable Van Wissem, try his album he and James Blackshaw made as the Brethren of the Free Spirit. This record is best approached as obsessively as it was played. Spin it over and over and eventually the pieces really do lose beginning and end, seeming instead to hover in a timeless now.

By Bill Meyer

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4KVFX5XhhI"]YouTube - Jozef van Wissem and Gary Lucas-The mirror stage[/ame]

+ LAURA SHEERAN +
http://www.myspace.com/laurasheeranmusic

Laura Sheeran is a 22 year old solo artist based in Dublin.

Her musical path began at the age of 15 when asked by Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle, Current 93) to sing for a then embryonic project later to be known as Fovea Hex. She has continued to sing with Fovea Hex (also playing accordion and bowed saw) alongside Cora Venus Lunny, Kate Ellis and Michael Begg. Other contributors to this project include the likes of Roger Doyle, Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Robert Fripp, Percy Jones, Donal Lunny, Andrew Mckenzie, Matmos and Steven Wilson.
Throughout the summer Laura has been putting the finishing touches to her debut double album, experimenting with instruments such as harp, flute, cello and the accordion. This on top of writing for strings, vocal experimentation and using appliances like old and new sewing machines, fans and broken pens (thanks to Cicely Irvine). Entitled 'lust of pig and the fresh blood' the album is due for release early in the new year.
At Black Sun Laura will be previewing material from the album and also including some improvisational work. Her set up on this occasion will include laptop, 6 string ukulele, flute and bowed saw

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgBVscDdkGY&feature=related"]YouTube - laura sheeran - below is golden[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqu9S_6yCY&feature=related"]YouTube - Your Heart Serbia[/ame]

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Anyone interested in composition ought to read up on musician Jozef Van Wissem who's playing at the Granary Theatre as part of Black Sun this November 7th.

Jozef will also give a lecture on the lute as part of the night in the studio space of the theatre at 8.15pm.
Tickets for the night are Eur10 and will be available from Plugd closer to the time. Limited capacity.

He has lectured at Wesleyan Universtity, Mills College and Cambridge University on ‘the liberation of the lute”. Van Wissem has received numerous commisions and grants, most recently from National Gallery, London Van Wissem performs around 80 lute concerts per year and has performed at prestigious festivals and venues like Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain, Kr-aa-k Festival , Belgium, ZXZW Festival, Holland, Sonorités Festival, France, Serralves em festa Festival, Portugal, Seattle Improvised Music Festival, Suono Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, Sintra Music and Dance Festival, Portugal, Byzantine Fresco Museum, Texas, I.C.A, London, and Glasgow, Schindler House, Hollywood.

Jozef being interviewed:

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Some press clippings:
“In “The Mirror of Eternal Light,” the Dutch lutist Jozef van Wissem catches his own reflection in tender, minimalist picking and gold-spray overdubs.”- - Rolling Stone Magazine

"Hypnotic minimalist figures seem to breeze across musical boundaries with effortless fluency" -Pitchfork

"Jozef van Wissem has been slowly reinventing the lute for the last three decades. Among the slew of fast-picking, fancy-fretting guitar players so prevalent today, his lute’s voice is a quiet oasis, and Stations of the Cross a small masterpiece”.
The Wire

"The way Van Wissem traces and retraces denying the listener any resolution or catharsis, is also pretty contemporary in its attitude of refusal; has there ever been a time besides now when more musicians refuted the expectations of audiences and authorities? The lack of pay-off makes the music potentially maddening; it actually stymies linear thought On an even more symbolic level, by constructing pieces that begin where they end and are therefore potentially endless, he subverts the march of time" – Dusted Magazine

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Good work!

I saw Dr. Id midday in a gelato cafe a few months back at No Fest. It was savage fun.

owner of the most amazing beard i've ever seen. when i saw smegma a few years ago, dr id came on stage swinging what i thought was a rope but turned out to be a dread from his beard. must reach all the way down to his knees. he had wrapped it up around the rim of his hat for most of the night. inspirational!
dr id/ju suk reet meate - acnode one has just been reissued on 2xLP ... http://www.discogs.com/Ju-Suk-Reet-Meate-Dr-Id-ACNoDEONE/release/1888047 ... can't wait to get my mitts on it

Watch this beautiful excerpt from a concert at Schindler House:
YouTube - Jozef van Wissem / sound. at the Schindler House pt. 1/4

that footage is amazing. i'd almost forgotten about jozef in my oblivia/ju suk excitement

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Ju Suk Reet Meate:
..."like a one person tank filled with a million whacked-out sounds but driven by one maniac....I think after hearing [his solo lp] you can make more sense to the human racket of knucklehead sound of the Smegma camp. Maybe Ju Suk is the man of the crew? No way in that anarchy unit but his vision def. looms huge shadows over the group's output. The world would be a duller place if this Ju Suk dude never decided to call off his public service gig for a year and tend to his goats in his pink house and concentrate rough and long on laying down a soundtrack to his amazing wacky scattered Barnum and Bailey via bottom of the sea sound world....an inspired and inspiring listen. They should launch a thousand copies into the Earth's atmosphere just to see what the outcome would be. A generation of horrible children with scratchy vinyl skin? Eyeballs for teeth? Molten lava for Language? Carpet for Brains? Pigface Forever!!!

-John Olson/Ypsilanti reprinted from liner notes to Ju Suk Reet Meate "solo 78/79" CD reissue put out by the good folks at De Stijl


Oblivia:
Portland based experimentalist Jackie Stewart (a.k.a Oblivia) started working with sound as a medium in 1979. After early experiments involving electric guitar and vocals, Jackie Stewart found her voice on the turntables when she discovered the link between her visual collages and her sound work. Usually found performing with avant/psych/folk pioneers Smegma, her recent solo project entitled "uncracked" reveals a playfully disturbed sound world where toys and turntables are manipulated to conjure sound as faded memory, familiar to all, yet just beyond the far side of recognition.

In 1979, Stewart started performing live improv pieces, inspired by the so-called "punk" music" scene, joining Gumby Antichrist with X.J.Elliot and Jerry A. (later known as Poison Idea), where she played guitar and performed experimental vocals. In 1983 she joined joined Smegma where she also played guitar, saxophone, cow bell, tape loops, Casio, electronics, Drums, Bass, turntables and vocals and has been known under such assumed names as, "rock and roll Jackie" and "Oblivia."

As a member of Smegma, Stewart has performed live with the Dead Kennedys, the Butthole Surfers, Perry Robinson, 1/2 Japanese, Merzbow, the Boredoms, Wolf Eyes, Tom Recchion, Steve Mackay, Aaron Dilloway and Joe McPhee/Chris Corsano with many performances resulting in recorded collaborations.

Smegma is a frequent headliner at international festivals recently appearing at K(RAA)K3 Fest (Hasselt, Belgium,2005), Subcurrent Festival (Glasgow, Scotland,2006) and No Fun Fest (New York, 2006 and 2007) as well as being feature at End Times Festival (Minneapolis, MN, 2006) and Three Million Tongues Festival (Chicago, 2006).

As a member of Smegma, Stewart has appeared on more than sixty recordings including Wolf Eyes/Smegma (De Stijl Records, 2003) Smegma with Steve Mackay - Thirty Years of Service (Radon, 2004) and Rumbings (Hanson Records, 2005). Recent years have seen the re-release of several early Smegma cassettes and Lps on CD including Pigs for Lepers (Pigface, 1982/Harbinger Sound, 2006), Live 1991-1993 (Pigface Mojo 1994/ Resipiscent, 2006), and Acnode One (Poo-Bah Records 2007).

Working solo, Stewart recently performed as Helen Blazes 1904 at the Color Out of Space Festival in Brighton, UK (November 2006). She also appeared at the 7th annual High Zero Festival in Baltimore, performing alongside Jenny Graff (US) and Fuyuki Yamakawa (Japan) as well as performing solo. Other live collaborators have included The Beast, Replicock, Alessandro Bosetti, Dave Smollen, Joseph Hammer and Caroliner among others.

Her current projects include compositions for Smegma, Replicock and Rodney Forest and collaborations with Nate Young of Wolf Eyes and John Weise.

Stewart was featured on the cover of modern music magazine The Wire in conjunction with a feature article on Smegma.

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

yeah have been dying to see Josef Van Wissem since the whisky show last year, pretty mesmerising stuff

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Like I mentioned up above, Jozef will be delivering a lecture on "The Liberation of the Lute" as part of Black Sun. In December we will be teaming up with the Cork Film Centre and Maximilian Le Cain for a unique film programme for the night.

mp3s are up now from Tenses (Oblivia and Ju Suk), Smegma, Jozef Van Wissem and Laura Sheeran!! Get ready for Black Sun #3 at the Granary Theatre -Sat Nov 7th x

Listen at www.myspace.com/solnigerire

 

[Lungs]

Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Really wanted to make the last one, but I couldn't swing it. I'm determined to head to this though, once I can sort out somewhere to stay.

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Hey Lungs, hope you find somewhere to stay. If you need a hand finding a cheap hostel or something, throw me a pm. Here are some shots taken from the last one. More on our myspace picture section. xv

Browsing through Bold Lump distro...

Nervous audience...

Smoking area

Costes at September Black Sun

All photos taken by Tanja Warkentin
More on our myspace

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Really wanted to make the last one, but I couldn't swing it. I'm determined to head to this though, once I can sort out somewhere to stay.

An Oige on Western Road is only five mins from the Granary, clean, quiet, no curfew and dorms are cheap (€13?).

http://www.anoige.ie/hostels/cork-international

The cakes alone are worth the trip!

 

[Lungs]

Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Sounds perfect, thanks for the tip!

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

I've the train ticket bought so the Bold Lump distro is going to be in Cork once more.

Most exciting line up yet! .|..|

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Tickets on sale in Plugd now! YEOwtch!! This is gonna be awesome. Can't stop listening to the Tenses (Oblivia and Ju Suk duo) mp3s on myspace. Reports are out that Bernard Clarke (Nova on Lyric fm) will be in Cork to review the scene. Purrfect timing, there's loads of other cool stuff on in Cork during the film festival. .|..|

 

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Re: Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate (Smegma),Jozef Van Wissem,Laura Sheeran ~Nov 7th@Black

Hey all, just letting you know that Sweet Oblivion is back on air.
The first show will be on RTE 2XM - http://www.rte.ie/digitalradio/twoxm/index.html - which is a digital radio station, this Wednesday at 8pm. It will be repeated on Sunday at 10am.
Aoife mentioned that the first show will feature some Cork-related stuff - two tracks and some info on the next Black Sun event on 7 November and music by Toby Kaar.
Do tune in!