Oblivia+Ju Suk Reet Meate(Smegma), Jozef Van Wissem, Laura Sheeran-Nov 7th Cork (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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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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+ JOZEF VAN WISSEM +
http://www.myspace.com/vanwissem
http://ubu.com/sound/van-wissem.html

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.

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+ 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

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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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Watch this beautiful excerpt from a concert at Schindler House:

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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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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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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

 

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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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Black Sun feature in this weeks copy of The Cork News.

 

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The upcoming Black Sun got a mention and Jozef Van Wissem was played on Nova (Lyric Fm) on Sunday. The show is available to listen to here:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/