Tuesday, 17. Juli 2007 / Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg Keller:
Religious Knives (US), (Black Drone)
Airport War (US), (Feedbacks, Voice Manipulation)
Heatsick (Birds Of Delay) (UK), (Yellow Tar Visions)
Doors: 9 pm/show: 10 pm.
religious knives by bridget burns
Religious Knives is Maya Miller, Michael Bernstein and Nate Nelson residing in Brooklyn. Maya and Michael run the Heavy Tapes cassette and art label and have played over 100 improvised shows with New York Drone mainstays Double Leopards. Nate Nelson co-runs the Our Mouth label and plays with kings of brutality Mouthus. Religious Knives is an extended song-based trio who explore the finer points of the "now" - an elusive thing, at best. Transitioning from improvised noise to tight melodic inverted song forms, and back, Religious Knives evoke Goblin, Popul Vuh, and many other favorable comparisons amongst critics. Close your eyes and enjoy.
airport war
Airport War made its debut in November 2005 at PERFORMA with an installation and performance at the White Box Gallery in New York. This occasion also marked Airport War’s first release—Over and Over the Endless Corner, a 16 record album/carry-away installation. Airport War has since played at many galleries and museums in New York City, including the New Museum and PS1, as well as clubs in an around New York City.
Taking its cue from the sound poetry of Henri Chopin and the pioneers of power electronics, Airport War’s music is created through electronic feedback, voice manipulation, and signal processing. Airport War’s current set up is comprised entirely of two turntables.
Heatsick
HEATSICK is the solo guise of Steven Warwick, one half of ecstatic psychedelic duo Birds of Delay. Releases on own Alcoholic Narcolepsy Label and upcoming on New Age cassettes, Hiul City and Not Not Fun.
"dense tarp honey fly cobweb former and smashers. like being carried through a new portal at dusk with hazy recollections of the previous. looped memory melts transporting into a whole new fucked hybrid. sunset melts and babbling brook carries you along for the ride. January River and the lost sediment. Akin to travelling through sinotays (sic) with gaseous clouds of various densities"
File Under: Jimi Hendrix
"New jams recorded over the last few months. Yellow tar visions... more trickly... cavernous. Honey comb like fly visions slow motion ascent flying into a candle..." - AN.
Heatsick is Steven Warwick, half of the up-and-coming sound abusers Birds of Delay, has been using his own Alcoholic Narcolepsy label to spread his solo Heatsick project. Any more releases like this one and it’s only a matter of time before the bigger underground indies come calling. Warwick performing the same kind of magic that Richard D. James did with soldering irons on Selected Ambient Works II. The cut-price ambience of the keyboard’s melody is easy to get lost in; the sound quality and tape hiss just adds to the charm. (dusted reviews)
BIRDS OF DELAY - live Berlin 27. Juni 2007
Performance:
Festsaal Kreuzberg Keller: Skalitzer Strasse 130, U-Bhf: Kottbusser Tor.
