Friday 1/27
Valerie Kuehne & the Wasps Nests / Vicki Brown / Algae&Tentacles

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Valerie Kuehne and the Wasps Nests is a band based in New York and Pittsburgh. Valerie leads the group on vocals and cello, Jeffrey Young plays violin, and Alex Cohen plays drums. In performance, they mix grindcore, cabaret, performance art, punk, and neoclassical art song, with a dash of free improvisation. Lucid Culture said that Valerie Kuehne is “part punk classical cellist, part performance artist, but her performance art isn’t the foofy, mannered kind – it’s old school 80s style and it has fangs. And it’s hilarious.” Shakefist Magazine called her “a fearless cello master with a relentlessly creative soul.” Her work in this project and others operates under principles of surprise and investigates obsession, comedy, decay, forensic pathology, sex, hypnogogia, viscera, spirituality, and death.

Ralph White (Austin) /Papa C. Nathan & Buddy Tom K. /Skincage/ Al Perry (oud) & Roman Barten-Sherman (guitar)

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A pre-season treat from Exploded View to YOU with a night of Folk Experimental, Psychedelic and Outsider Electronic !!

Are you familiar with Ralph’s music? Ralph was in a cow-punk band in Austin in the 1990s called The Bad Livers and now plays solo music that’s equally influenced by Appalachia and West African folksongs. He switches effortlessly between banjo, kalimba, fiddle, and accordion and his songs have an earthy psychedelic quality to them.

He’s played with Michael Hurley, Jandek, and Thurston Moore.

You can stream his most recent album with Thor Harris (of Swans) here:
https://soundcloud.com/self-sabotage-records/sets/ralph-white-thor-harris-tossing-pebbles-on-the-sleeping-beast/s-7w1hh

This is a short documentary about Ralph from a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp5xyRMR8fg

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Tues 1/17
Ralph White (TX)/ Papa C Nathan & Buddy Tom K/ Skincage/ Al Perry (oud) & Roman Barten-Sherman (guitar)

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A pre-season treat from Exploded View to YOU with a night of Folk Experimental, Psychedelic and Outsider Electronic music!!

Are you familiar with Ralph’s music? Ralph was in a cow-punk band in Austin in the 1990s called The Bad Livers and now plays solo music that’s equally influenced by Appalachia and West African folksongs. He switches effortlessly between banjo, kalimba, fiddle, and accordion and his songs have an earthy psychedelic quality to them.

He’s played with Michael Hurley, Jandek, and Thurston Moore.

You can stream his most recent album with Thor Harris (of Swans) here:
https://soundcloud.com/self-sabotage-records/sets/ralph-white-thor-harris-tossing-pebbles-on-the-sleeping-beast/s-7w1hh

This is a short documentary about Ralph from a few years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp5xyRMR8fg

MAD SONIC SCIENTISTS!: Tim Kaiser + Igloo Martian + Skincage + Fawn Bones

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An evening of electro-acoustic innovations featuring Minnesota’s mad genius Tim Kaiser!  Kaiser is a sonic inventor exerting prowess over his hand-crafted instruments. A rig of Frankenstein objects creates a wall of sound, reacting to light, the flip of a switch, a shifted knob or the plucking of a steel rod. Growing out of this array are audible undulations, sheets of reverb and unknown timbre– all mutable, amorphous and evolving. Kaiser’s tableau of instruments resemble a scientific laboratory, a steampunk console, entertaining our imagination and questioning our definition of music. Joining Kaiser are Fawn Bones, Skincage and Igloo Martian!!

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FRI 5/20
Årabrot (Norway) & Chronovorus & Eric Schlappi

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8pm, all ages, $10

Norwegian noise – rock pioneers Årabrot are just coming back to the US and Exploded View in May!! After a killer show last year at EV, they are touring in support of their new release The Gospel . The new album The Gospel was recorded partly with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio and partly in an old church in the woods of Dalarna, Sweden. Ted Parsons, Stephen O’malley and Erlend Hjelvik (Kvelertak) are some of the musicians contributing on this album along with noise-lord Lasse Marhaug and Andrew Liles (Currant 93/Nurse With Wound) who’s occasionally played live with the band. Local Black Metal mavens Chronovorus will support this ear/mind altering event.

WED 3/23
Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain w/ live music by Jeff Lownsbury & Connor Gallaher

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Just in time for un-Easter, EV presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s phenomenal filmic tale of occult psychedelic wonders! A scandal when first released in 1973, The Holy Mountain is a dazzling visual feast of ritual and symbol, an often sublime and grotesque satire on consumerism, militarism and the exploitation of third world cultures by the West.  Augmenting the film’s original Don Cherry soundtrack this film with be re-scored live with improvisational sonic interventions from Tucson sound wizards Jeff Lownsbury & Connor Gallaher (both of The Night Collectors). Come blow your mind and raise your eyes/ears/soul to the heavens!!

ERIC SCHLAPPI’S Poseidonis (premiere)

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with Skincage + Igloo Martian + sunfucked + Lunar Halo (featuring Nik & Grant of the Myrrors)

This show will a be a album release performance of Schlappi’s entire epic sound suite Poseidonis with accompanying live visuals.

Schlappi says “It’s from a story by Clark Ashton Smith. Poseidonis is basically Atlantis. Smith was influenced by Madame Blavatsky who was a medium around the same time as Aleister Crowley and wrote a lot about Atlantis and unearthed secret histories of the occult. “ Featuring the heavy sounds and wild manifestations of Tucson’s  DIY expanded NOISE community!

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SAT 2/20
ERIC SCHLAPPI’S Poseidonis

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with Skincage + Igloo Martian + sunfucked + Lunar Halo (featuring Nik & Grant of the Myrrors)

This show will a be a album release performance of Schlappi’s entire epic sound suite Poseidonis with accompanying live visuals.

Schlappi says “It’s from a story by Clark Ashton Smith. Poseidonis is basically Atlantis. Smith was influenced by Madame Blavatsky who was a medium around the same time as Aleister Crowley and wrote a lot about Atlantis and unearthed secret histories of the occult. “ Featuring the heavy sounds and wild manifestations of Tucson’s DIY expanded NOISE community!

MARK HOSLER (OF NEGATIVLAND) + Schlappi + Dauphinais + Hise

 

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Negativland founding member Mark Hosler takes a break from his Negativland duties to perform live and solo for the first time ever in his 35 years of making music. Using a performance set-up built around various homemade one-of-a-kind electronic noise making devices (including two of Negativland’s original “Boopers”), Tonight accompanied  by Steev Hise mixing visuals, Mark will create an engaging and musical soundscape performance with devices that are intentionally unstable analog feedback boxes. Tonight’s event also features Eric Schlappi and his handbiullt analog synth behemoths. UA professor Michael Dauphinais will open the show with a set of electroacoustic and electronic music!

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