Post by thrench on Apr 19, 2008 14:57:58 GMT -5
Well, what can I say.
One hell of an evening. Four bands in all, however, I missed Totten Glass who were on first (too busy eating in Wagamama's). Second on was Carlos Giffoni. I have to admit that he was only ok, I did feel that I could have produced something as good. I didn't dislike it, but I did feel that it was very linear with little going on. It seemed like lets start a sample, now lets run it through a synth and change some of the settings. now lets make it vibrate a bit...goodnight.
Third on was the Corsano/Flowers duo. I really didn't know what to expect. Well I can now say that they were fucking out of this world. Absolutely brilliant. Very hypnotic and slightly indian with the drones and things. Just ordered their CD.
Finally up was Merzbow. This is the second time I've seen him. The first time he was just sat at his laptop twiddling and things (still a huge sound and very exciting), however, this time it was very hands on. Set up the sample groove on the laptop and then went on to produce some massive noise with some weird homemade one spring guitar and contact mic type thingy. Loads of peddles and things. Then came the even weirder baked bean can/therimin. I really can't review what I saw and heard. All I can say was that he is and always will be the god of noise. Absolutely blows away many of the other noise acts I've seen. Even better than KK Null and he's pretty well up there with the gods as well.
Two pics to follow but Flickr is being a cow this evening so tomorrow if I have time.
Thrench
One hell of an evening. Four bands in all, however, I missed Totten Glass who were on first (too busy eating in Wagamama's). Second on was Carlos Giffoni. I have to admit that he was only ok, I did feel that I could have produced something as good. I didn't dislike it, but I did feel that it was very linear with little going on. It seemed like lets start a sample, now lets run it through a synth and change some of the settings. now lets make it vibrate a bit...goodnight.
Third on was the Corsano/Flowers duo. I really didn't know what to expect. Well I can now say that they were fucking out of this world. Absolutely brilliant. Very hypnotic and slightly indian with the drones and things. Just ordered their CD.
Finally up was Merzbow. This is the second time I've seen him. The first time he was just sat at his laptop twiddling and things (still a huge sound and very exciting), however, this time it was very hands on. Set up the sample groove on the laptop and then went on to produce some massive noise with some weird homemade one spring guitar and contact mic type thingy. Loads of peddles and things. Then came the even weirder baked bean can/therimin. I really can't review what I saw and heard. All I can say was that he is and always will be the god of noise. Absolutely blows away many of the other noise acts I've seen. Even better than KK Null and he's pretty well up there with the gods as well.
Two pics to follow but Flickr is being a cow this evening so tomorrow if I have time.
Thrench
