Amish Records News

Sunwatchers + Eugene Chadborne collab now available on 2xLP :: Sunwatchers live this week

SUNWATCHERS And Eugene Chadborne-  3 Characters (AMI050) 2xLP/DA AVAILABLE !!

Firstly, for those who have not yet had the privilege, Eugene "Doc Chad" Chadbourne is an incredibly prolific artist, guitarist, improvisor,writer and interpreter of music of all origins who's hundreds of releases over five decades run the gamut from the seminal 1980's avant-punk band, Shockabilly, to collaborations with Violent Femmes, Camper Van Beethoven, Jimmy Carl Back, John Zorn, Sun City Girls, Susan Alcorn, Anthony Braxton, and on and on. He's also the author Dreamory, an 1000 page semi-autobigraphical novel. 

Kismet and many emails between Doc and Sunwatcher Jim finally found Chadborne and Sunwatchers in the studio together for two days of recording in October 2016, the result of which is the double LP, 3 Characters. These sessions were dedicated exclusively to the music of the Minutemen, Doug Sahm and Henry Flynt.

"The three characters invoked on these recordings offer models for our current political and societal struggles. Creating a music that is both personal and political, artistic and activist, these three figures were/are soulful and practical examples of the artist-as-laborer, addressing a call for social justice and musical spontaneity. 3 Characters is a reverential labor of love, where musical labor becomes a form of both love and resistance. Mike Watt joins the conversation with spoken interpretations of lyrics, poetry, speeches and assorted agit-prop. Having Watt's contemporary voice alongside so many songs that he wrote and defined suggests this, and all artistic collaborations, function as part of a long continuum that inform future callings." 

Eugene's performance brings his incredible history and perspective as a voracious listener and interpreter- omnivorous in regards to idiom. He bonds these three voices together with an effortlessness that only comes with the experience of a life in music.  Backing him up and embodying this music with Sunwatchers was an all around expanding experience that you always hope to have. The tracks on this record are all first or second takes. Sometimes its a slog. Here it just poured out.

3 Characters is available as a double LP gatefold design by Meredyth Sparks featuring photographs kindly provided by.  Available in our store or get directly from the band (See below).

:: SHOWS THIS WEEK ::

THURSDAY 12/6 8PM
Union Pool
CAVE / SUNWATCHERS /  MACRODOSE LIGHTSHOW
$12

SUNDAY 12/9 8PM
Baby's Alright
ADHOC PRESENTS:  HERON OBLIVION / SUNWATCHERS / HEADROOM
$12 21+

Metabolismus & Samara Lubelski - Europe Tour 2018

TOUR DATES

Wed. 14th Nov. Strasbourg (F)– Diorama Doro
Thu. 15th Nov. Freiburg (D) – KTS
Fri. 16th Nov. Biel (CH) – Stadion Gurzelen
Sat. 17th Nov. Lyon (F) – Grrrnd Zero
Sun. 18th Nov. tba
Mon. 19th Nov. Paris (F) – Le Non Jazz/La Treize
Tue. 20th Nov. Amiens (F) – Acceuil Froid Nuke
Wed. 21st Nov. Brussels (BE) – La Cheminee
Thu. 22nd Nov. Antwerp (BE) - De Audio Plant
Fri. 23rd Nov. Gent (BE) – Estern Daze V/Kunstencentrum Vooruit
Sat. 24th Nov. Köln (D) – King Georg
Thu. 29th Nov Stuttgart (D) – Neue Schachtel

METABOLISMUS

    AMI009   METABOLISMUS Spriebwartsdrall LP/CD/DA

    AMI043   METABOLISMUS Mauser O.K. Seven Inch EP

    AMI046   METABOLISMUS SUS LP     

HALL OF FAME

    AMI006   HALL OF FAME s/t LP/CD/DA

    AMI008   HALL OF FAME Coliseum Rising Seven Inch Single

    AMI012   HALL OF FAME First Came Love, Then Came the Tree... CD/DA

 

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY

Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, American composer Keith Fullerton Whitman pays rare visit to NYC for two intimate live performances at Control in Williamsburg on 10/2/18 and 10/3/18. KFW will be performing two of his landmark works "Redactions" and "Generators".

 

First known for his electroacousticrecordings for Kranky and his drill-n-bass project Hrvatski, Whitman's mature work involves a hybrid software and hardware system that, in his words, "attempt[s] to wrest a viable performance-based music out what had until then been a solitary set of sound-design tools."  Whitman's compositions also involve musique concrète elements and some of the most dynamic modular work of our generation. In short, Whitman is one of must rigorous and interesting composers working today.    

Amish released a split Ben Vida/Keith Fullerton Whitman (AMI033R/W) LP as part of its Required Wreckers series.

SUNWATCHERS and EUGENE CHADBORNE :: 3 Characters :: 2xLP/Digital coming soon :: Two songs available now :: Sunwatchers on tour

 

 

 

 

- Digital release date 9/28
- Gatefold 2xLP out October (pre-order coming soon)

Amish is pleased to announce a timely, and sorely needed collaboration: SUNWATCHERS AND EUGENE CHADBOURNE’s 3 Characters 2xLP/Digital (AMI 050). Sunwatchers teamed up with Eugene Chadbourne for two days of recording in October 2016. These sessions were dedicated exclusively to the music of the Minutemen, Doug Sahm and Henry Flynt. Having never played together before, all the songs were completed in one or two takes and the recordings reflect an urgency and immediacy that audiences have to come to expect from these musicians.

The three characters invoked on these recordings offer models for our current political and societal struggles. Creating a music that is both personal and political, artistic and activist, these three figures were/are soulful and practical examples of the artist-as-laborer, addressing a call for social justice and musical spontaneity. Chadbourne and Sunwatchers have taken up this struggle, touring and recording, writing and collaborating, throughout their respective careers. Pushing this ethos out into the field and on this recording, 3 Characters is a reverential labor of love, where musical labor becomes a form of both love and resistance.

The backstory for his record speaks to both our current times and more recent histories. Sunwatcher Jim McHugh has counted Eugene an influence since his formative years in North Carolina. At 15, Jim watched Doc take apart a Dead Kennedy’s song at his local record store, Crunchy Music Stuff (later Gate City Music). Later, Chadbourne played benefits at Jim’s Greensboro punk-space.  While touring Russia in the Spring of 2016, Chadbourne reached out for help booking upcoming shows in NYC; email was spotty, booking was slow-going, and the intermittent exchange felt very much like a redacted transmission from our Cold War past. This discussion eventually developed into a loose dialogue about a punk/American genealogy threading together hardcore, folk, country and soul, and an outsider’s take on American minimalism/hillbilly Marxism. In short, they wanted to create a relevant and modern body of Protest Music.

Mike Watt joins the conversation with spoken interpretations of lyrics, poetry, speeches and assorted agit-prop. Having Watt’s contemporary voice alongside so many songs that he wrote and defined suggests this, and all artistic collaborations, function as part of a long continuum that inform future callings.

Sunwatchers will be touring with Eugene Chadbourne in the fall of 2018 . . . The record should be bought directly from the band, directly from the label, or at independent record shops. It is also available digitally, but please support artists, independent shops and labels. The resistance continues, on all fronts.  

 

 

TRACKLISTING

SIDE 1

1. THE PRICE OF PARADISE (D. Boon)
2. POLITICAL SONG FOR MICHAEL JACKSON TO SING (Watt)
3. GHOST SPIEL (Text: Edward R. Murrow / Music: Sunwatchers)
4. JOE MCCARTHY’S GHOST(S) (Watt/Ayler/Chadbourne/Sunwatchers)

SIDE 2

5. THE ANCHOR (Hurley/Watt)
6. I FELT LIKE A GRINGO (Watt)
7. THEMSELVES (D. Boon)
8. THE PRODUCT (D. Boon)
9. BOB DYLAN WROTE PROPAGANDA SONGS (Watt)
10. THIS AIN’T NO PICNIC (D. Boon)

SIDE 3

11. CHICANO (Sahm)
12. IT’S GONNA BE EASY (Atwood Allen)
13. TOO MANY DOCILED MINDS (Sahm)
14. GIVE BACK THE KEY TO MY HEART (Sahm)

SIDE 4

15. UNCLE SAM DO (Henry Flynt & The Insurrections)

 

 

SUNWATCHERS TOUR DATES

08/26 - Brooklyn, NY - Secret Project Robot (MUSIC AGAINST MASS INCARCERATION 3 with Guerrilla Toss, Kyp Malone, Rhyton and more)

09/27 - Philadelphia, PA - Jerry’s (with Purling Hiss Solo)

09/28 - Washington DC - Rhizome (SONIC CIRCUITS FESTIVAL)

09/29 - Winston-Salem, NC - Monstercade

09/30 - Macon, GA - Fresh Produce Records

10/01 - Nashville TN – Third Man Records (with Sons of Kemet)

10/02 – Ashville, NC – The Mothlight (with Nest Egg)

10/03 – Athens, GA – GA Theatre Rooftop (with Calico Vision)

10/04 – Boone, NC – 441 RPM

10/05 – Charlotte, NC – Skylark (with Paint Fumes)

10/06 – Raleigh, NC – Anisette (with Kuzu)

Rare West Coast appearance by Metal Mountains tomorrow

Helen and Pat are working on finishing up some new music and decided to play a rare show in Portland this week along with Tall Sirs (Aaron Mullen of Tall Firs) and local Portland group Guillotine Boys. 

 

Metal Mountains || Guillotine Boys || Tall Sirs

Thursday August 23rd 8PM
Turn Turn Turn 
8 NE Killingsworth Street Portland, OR
 

 

GOSPEL OF MARS ALBUM RELEASE SHOW 1|4|2018

Gospel Of Mars self-titled debut (AMI049) is out now! Come celebrate with them at Union Pool! 

Also on the bill are Sunwatchers and Headroom!!

Thursday Jan 4, 2008 8PM
Union Pool. 484 Union Avenue. Brooklyn

https://www.facebook.com/GospelofMarsBand/
https://www.facebook.com/sunwatchers/
https://www.facebook.com/headroomnhv/
http://amishrecords.com

photo: Sierra Starno

GOSPEL OF MARS LP/Digital OUT NOW

GOSPEL OF MARS Gospel of Mars (AMI049) is available today on LP and digitally/streaming.

Order it directly from us for $25 postpaid in the US

 

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GOSPEL OF MARS :: ANNOUNCE SELF-TITLED LP/DIGITAL OUT DEC 1 :: NEW SONG / VIDEO FOR 'HAMISH'

 

 

Gospel of Mars today debuts “Hamish,” the first song from their self-titled debut album (AMI049), due to be released on December 1, 2017. Gospel of Mars consists of Jef Brown, Bob Jones and Aaron Moore, musicians with a long individual histories spread across two continents. Regularly playing TROOST in North Brooklyn the band have self-released two live albums digitally (available on Bandcamp) but their self-titled debut LP on Amish Records is the culmination of two years of recording. Hundreds of recorded hours allowed ideas to develop slowly, and the album has a organic ecstatic improvisational feel, leaning in part on jazz, rock and long-form minimalism. From the looping rhythms of “Scarabs” to the plaintive middle-eastern influenced guitar lines in “Octopus” to the bombast of the album’s closing song “Tesla,” Gospel of Mars are a live act to be reckoned with. Now making their first landing on vinyl, please help Amish introduce: Gospel of Mars.

Beyond Gospel of Mars, these musicians have played in Eaters, Volcano the Bear, Evolutionary Jass Band, Micro East Collective and Jackie O’Motherfucker, among others projects.

Gospel of Mars plan to tour in early 2018.

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Hamish video credits:
Footage shot by: Efrain Gonzalez
Edited by: Bob Jones

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GOSPEL OF MARS
Gospel of Mars
AMI049
LP/Digital

PRE-ORDER NOW

TRACKLISTING
Total running time: 41:27

Side A

1. Moon (6:38)
2. Scarabs (5:06)
3. Octopus (7:56) 

Side B

4. Hamish (6:37)
5. (Something) about Cones (6:18)
6. Tesla (9:07) 

SAMARA LUBELSKI || European Duo Tour with Marcia Bassett

Nov. 9th - De Audio Plant - W/DJs Bart Sloow and Christian Pallin - Antwerp, Belgium
Nov. 10th - Le Guess Who? - Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nov. 11th - Sonic City - Kortrijk, Belgium
Nov. 14th - Ground Zero - Lyon, France
Nov. 15th - Cave 12 - Geneva, Switzerland
Nov. 16th - Neu Schachtel - w/Olimpia Splendid - Stuttgart, Germany
Nov. 17th - Skanu Mesz at One One - Riga, Latvia
Nov. 19th - Modellbahn - Berlin, Germany
Nov. 20th - Ausland - Berlin, Germany

PG Six playing solo harp at Sunview Luncheonette this week

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

7-10 pm

Sunview Luncheonette
221 Nassau Ave
Brooklyn 11222

Cynthia Nelson rare east coast appearance playing songs from forthcoming album "Out of the Cave"
(Album available for pre-order at the show with limited-edition record-art prints by Andrice Arp)

Sue Garner and Talice Lee duo set!!!!!

PG Six solo set (harp)