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TIM BARNES :: DE∆D-LOOP LP

Tim Barnes DE∆D-LOOP LP (AMI038R/W) is now officially out both digitally and physically.

Tim Barnes :: DE∆D-LOOP (AMI038R/W) :: album announcement :: song available now :: album pre-order

Amish is pleased to announce Tim Barnes’ latest full-length: DE∆D-LOOP (AMI 038R/W), his first solo release since 2002’s All Acoustics.  DE∆D-LOOP offers another arm in Barnes’ wide-ranging body of music and work, as well as supplying an additional thread connecting the House, pop and sound art conversations the album engages. 

 

First track "Byeek" 

 

DE∆D-LOOP will be released digitally 12/27/2019 and on LP 1/10/2020. PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM 

 

In many ways DE∆D-LOOP is House music that takes a sideways approach to the language of dance music.  As both a concept and a practice, Barnes aims to turn House on its side, reconsidering its structure and form.  The tracks on DE∆D-LOOP reflect Barnes’ status as a renowned percussionist, offering rhythms and textures that both draw the listener in and maintain a spatial and temporal distance/uncertainty.  This distance can best be heard on the quiet closing track “NAKU,” but also in the hyperactive and layered percussion of “AEMO” and “GUALA.”  This record isn’t all concept, however, as the lead off tracks “HORNA” and “KONQR” sound like something you might hear at rave, albeit standing outside the club in the middle of day after everyone has crashed.  The foggy celebration continues on this record, however; listen to “JAPE” and its play with language, cracking words open and hearing what comes out of the space between syllable and sound.    

Since 1995, Tim Barnes has been internationally acclaimed as a musician, having played with a range of artists including Tony Conrad, Ikue Mori, Sonic Youth, Glenn Kotche, P.G. Six, Mike Watt, Royal Trux, Stereolab, Jim O’Rourke, Beth Orton, among others.  Barnes has most recently become known for his radical site-specific sound art duo with Jeph Jerman (Erstwhile, IDEA Intermedia, Feeding Tube).  Working across both genre and instrumentation, Barnes’ singular history as a musician reflects his versatile ear and performance range.     

Barnes has also done important research and work as an archivist and engineer, most notably through his Quakebasket-imprint.  Quakebasket made available and distributed the work of artists like Henry Flynt, Pandit Pran Nath, Christopher Tree and, most notably, Angus MacLise.  In looking forward, Quakebasket released music by Michael J. Schumacher, Tetuzi Akiyama, Nick Hennies, and Valerio Tricoli, among many others. 

DE∆D-LOOP is the latest installment of Amish’s in-house label Required Wreckers, pairing music and sound art with visual artists who share a thematic or process-based methodology.  DE∆D-LOOP features the work of American-born and French-based artist/filmmaker and current Guggenheim Fellow Erick Baudelaire’s Blind Walls series.  These recordings were mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

 

 

TRACKLISTING: 

1. HORNA (3:19
2. KONQR (4:29)
3. JAPE (2:30)
4. AEMO (5:48)
5. GUALA (4:38)
6. XAY (4:58)
7. BYEEK (4:34)
8. NAKU (4:30)

Total running time: 35 minutes

 

photo: Erica Bricking 

GOSPEL OF MARS LIVE :: JULY

 

GOSPEL OF MARS LIVE

Thu July 11 8PM
Desertion Trio / Gospel of Mars / Smiley and Nazary
Ceremony224 224 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn

Sat July 13 9PM
Derek Monypeny / David Watson / Gospel of Mars
Hart Bar 538 Hart Street, Brooklyn

Mon July 29 7:30PM
Andrew Livingston featuring ThingNY with Holy Hell / Gospel of Mars / Joe White
Sunnyvale 1031 Grand Street, Brooklyn

 

BUY GOSPEL OF MARS MUSIC 

 

 

 

SUNWATCHERS w/ EUGENE CHADBOURNE :: EAST COAST DATES :: ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

Sunwatchers have been on the road almost constantly since the release of their excellent third album, ILLEGAL MOVES, earlier this year. But in celebration of the release of the band's double LP, 3 CHARACTERS, that they made with Doc Eugene Chadbourne... the band and Doc are doing a short run of East Coast shows (before heading to Europe) including a special album release show in New York City on May 10.

Saturday, May 4th
Sunwatchers w/ Guerilla Toss, others at Waking Windows (Winooski VT)

 

Sunday, May 5th
Sunwatchers w/ Guerilla Toss & Dan Friel at Hawks & Reed (Greenfield MA) 

 

Thursday, May 9th

Sunwatchers & Eugene Chadbourne at Quinn’s (Beacon NY)

 

Friday, May 10th

Sunwatchers & Eugene Chadbourne ‘3 Characters’ 2xLP Release w/ Dire Wolves at Nublu Classic (NYC)

 

Saturday May 11th

Eugene Chadbourne & the Modified Sunboys w/ Dire Wolves at Jerry’s on Front (Philadelphia)

 

 

EUROPEAN SHOWS 

 

Sunwatchers + Eugene Chadborne "3 Characters" Album Release show

The Sunwatchers have been pretty busy releasing records and playing across the US but we are happy to announce that the band are playing a show to celebrate the release of their album with Eugene Chadbourne from late last year.

3 CHARACTERS ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

FRIDAY MAY 10
8PM
NUBLU
62 Avenue A

SUNWATCHERS & EUGENE CHADBOURNE
DIRE WOLVES

 

3 Characters still available

 

BANDCAMP

APPLE

SPOTIFY

SUNWATCHERS ON WORLDWIDE TOUR NOW !!

 

SUNWATCHERS "Beautiful Crystals" live at Babys Alright 12.9.18 

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SUNWATCHERS are criss-crossing the US, UK and EU over the next few months supporting their new record, 'Illegal Moves', out now on Trouble in Mind Records which is a real burner and their Amish Records release SUNWATCHERS and EUGENE CHADBORNE 'Three Characters' (AMI050) that was released a few months back.  Some venues are still TBA.

Sunwatchers are on the west coast now! 

SUNWATCHERS ON THE WEST COAST
3/14 - LA - Zebulon FREE
3/15 - Oakland - Martial Arts
3/16 - San Franciso - El Rio (w CCR Headcleaner)
3/17 - Reno - The Loving Cup
3/19 - Portland - TurnTurnTurn
3/20 - Seattle - South Gate Roller Rink (w Mega Bog)
3/21 - Sisters, OR - Freedom Garden West
3/22 - Sacramento - Gold Lion Arts
3/23 - Santa Cruz - The Church House
3/24 - LA - Rec Center

SUNWATCHERS IN THE MIDWEST
4/11- Madison, WI - Mickey's Tavern
4/12 - Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Psych Fest
4/13 - Chicago, IL - The Moustache

SUNWATCHERS NORTHEAST SHOWS W GUERILLA TOSS
5/4 - Burlington, VT - Waking Window Fest
5/5 - Greenfield, MA -  Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center 

SUNWATCHERS & EUGENE CHADBOURNE "THREE CHARACTERS"  BELATED RECORD RELEASE SHOW!**
5/10 - NYC - NuBlu(w Dire Wolves)

SUNWATCHERS UK/EU TOUR
5/18 - UK London, The Shacklewell Arms
5/19 - UK Manchester, The Soup Kitchen
5/20 - UK Brighton, East Street Tap
5/21 - UK Bristol
5/22 - FR Paris, L'Atalante
5/23 - ES San Sebastian
5/24 - ES Madrid, El Perro de la Parte de Atràs del Coche 
5/25 - ES Valencia, Magazine
5/26 - ES Barcelona, Sala Vol
5/27 - FR Montpelier
5/28 - FR Marseille
5/29 - IT Genoa, Teatro Bloser
5/30 - IT Faenza, Clan Destino
5/31 - IT Milan, Zuma Festival 
6/01 - IT
6/02 - CH Geneva, Cave 12
6/03 - CH 
6/04 - CH Zurich
6/05 - FR Strasbourg
6/06 - BE Brussels, Chaff
6/07  - NL Amsterdam
6/08  - NL Rotterdam, Herman

   

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)