haino with bo ningen




bo ningen suck, they're like grand funk railroad, but haino had some sweet clarinet action going on...6/10

I saw them playing several times because at one point they seemed to be on the same bill of so many gigs I went to, and they normally sounded dull and left me with the impression they were a bit gimmicky. The only thing I enjoyed by them was an improv set by their drummer and guitarist at the now defunct Bardens Boudoir in London a few years ago.

Unsane with Plaque Marks, both really enjoyable excellent sets, unfortunately marred by amateur sound guy. The venue has a decent system, I've seen it work well for other bands, but the usual sound guy was absent. Also, the fucking door man was a rude little shit....

yeah that's it, pure gimmick. sort of seem like a bit of a pisstake on that high rise sound but without any passion....really proficient I suppose but totally hollow. very odd that haino was playing with them to begin with, but he's been doing some really odd shit domestically of late.

having said that, the bassist is playing in that new nanjo-less version of mainliner which isn't half bad.

Unsane was my last show too. Ottobar in Baltimore. They were loud as fuck and I was right in front of Chris. I scored his setlist too.

Wait...what? Unsane are touring again? Certainly going to check that out. Saw them a few times quite some time ago and fucking loved their show. Scattered... will always be a classic album in my eyes.

Edit: /Sadface. I see I am just a month too late to this news. Pretty bummed right now. I do see that they released a new album just a few months ago though. Does it hold up? Going to go check it out after lunch.

Saturday afternoon I went to Vinal Edge Records in Houston for a free show. Thickets is the Improvisational trio of Austin & Carol Cooley and Rebecca Novak. Voice manipulation, trumpet blast, continuous bell tones and chains being drug across metal.

Next up was Sjizka Ueda from Japan. She flew in the night before to play this gig.
Shizka is in Michigan this week recording her first album......she sounded very Laetitia Sadier-ish.

Two Houston legends, Tom Carter and John Kennedy have a project called, Morning Scales The Mountain. Watching John Kennedy play drums was worth the drive over.

I left Vinal Edge about 10:30 and headed to the next venue where I arrived in time to see, Yoo Doo Right. I wasn’t familiar with them, but they were great live. The perfect band to open for Acid Mothers Temple.

This was my third time seeing AMT in the past six years. I love the new lead singers voice......and smile!!! Their cover of Gongs - Flying Teapot, was the highlight of the set.

Several people from the Vinal Edge gig, including Tom Carter, showed up to see AMT. I couldn’t help wondering, when are Kawabata Makoto & Tom Carter going to record together?

no words

great line up! would like to see all of them bands

I got to see Minami Deutsch in a small venue called Mondo Bizarro (less than 100 people capacity), and it was really cool to be there and witness such a show.

WTF...June of 44...seriously?

Slayer's Dallas show was actually really fucking great. They scheduled a second leg after I bought those tix and are actually coming here to OKC next month, so seeing it again soon.

I've seen Kikagaku Moyo last friday and it could have been good. Could for it was marred by some audience members. The band's music doesn't really make me wanna jump around and holler, but some guys felt they had to. Paris crowds in new maybe-hip places will always be terrible.


They following day I crossed the border, entered Belgium and attended a festival in Belgium. No such problem there, and I've enjoyed Courtney Barnett (whose voice's really good now) and Dream Wife (whose show was too short; boy, can their guitarist play! and their bass player!).

Pan Daijing was a blast

I saw Pan American last Friday.
Very nostalgic music, I used to listen to that stuff some 15-16 years ago.
I enjoyed it a lot.

Cool. :)

John Carpenter. Not sure why the extra instruments in the live scenario are necessary when minimalism is what JC cut his teeth on. Drums?! Yea. Should've been the gig to complete life but turned out to be just ...pretty good.

Lucky you! I didn’t realize Mark Nelson was still performing......did he play anything new, did he mention a new album?

not really. I am not very familiar with his recent albums so I don't really know what he actually played. However, it sounded good. It was a combo of laptop electronics with live guitar (in a very Labradford-like fashion)

I saw Caterina Barbieri live last Saturday.

It was honestly one of the best concerts in a very long time. Just amazing.

Last night I made my way over to Houston to see CJ Boyd who is on a never ending tour that’s been going strong for 10 years now.

First up was Teasesrama from Houston. Female double bass player who did a bit of growling and a guitar player:


CJ Boyd was next starting with his standup bass. Once he got this looping thing started, he switched to guitar and started layering in drone......it was beautiful!


Last but not least was John Kennedy aka Cyclops Joint. It had been 25+ years since I last witnessed a proper Cyclops Joint show and it was worth the drive over. Working from a laptop and some sort of touch pad with color squares all over it, John whipped up a rhythmic vibe that sounded to me as if it was working within the confines of Terry Riley’s - In C.

I'm back home after a show by the Ex.
It was awesome!

Radiohead, last summer.

I saw The Coolies and The Renderers in London on Saturday night, The Renderers were very good and I spoke briefly to Maryrose Crook after the show and she was super nice. The Coolies I wasn't that familiar with, put simply they were phenomenal.

Lonnie Holley´s gig I saw last night was just amazing. never heard of him before and therefore it was even more of a pleasant surprise. goosebumps. oh boy and 2 musicians he is playing with right now were tight as fuck. amazing.

I can confirm. It was jaw-dropping.

Chie Mukai. Puzzling OG improv lady, no idea what her intentions are but would deffo see her again.

Sun Ra Arkestra. It was absolutely amazing. Marshall Allen is almost 95 and he still plays the sax with so much gusto. Each member of the Arkestra got their moment to shine. That wasn't a gig, it was an experience.

I'd kill to see her!

I recently saw Acid Mother Temple with openers Yamantaka/Sonic Titan. Best show I've seen in a long time. Kawabata is a monster:eek:

I'd been waiting about 15 years to see her play, and now i feel none the wiser for having done so, and i that is exactly perfect, the mystery has not been revealed.

Tonight i saw Glands of External Secretion and Twig Harper + Bill Nace duo, both were fucking fantastic and in totally different ways.

She’s done some gigs with Haino, “ massive heterodyning murk”

Yeah they were incredible at Colour Out of Space over the weekend. I only went on the Saturday though, so missed Chie Mukai unfortunately.

There were so many weird and amazing performances on the Saturday, but highlights for me were Twig Harper/Bill Nace, Beyt Al Tapes, Af Ursin and The Elks.

The Af Ursin set was really spaced out, he was creating layers of ringing drone textures by scraping these large sheets of hanging metal.

Beyt Al Tapes was a particularly mad performance. He was playing high frequency synth pulses whilst simultaneously riding an exercise bike full pelt for 30 minutes, with the sounds getting progressively more intense as he was getting more burned out, to the point where he was practically collapsing after his set finished.

Bill Nace is playing with samara lubelski tonight at iklektik

I saw the af ursin dude playing a couple of months ago in the duo Ilta Hamara with Bart de Paepe who runs Sloow Tapes, their recorded stuff is great but the show was fairly dull, just mucking around on synths for what seemed like a very oong time, the recorded stuff has more variety and doesn't last for too long either

I had listened to an album of his beforehand that Ultra Eczema put out a couple of years ago, basically a free jazz record, which sounded very different to his set at COoS and I was expecting something along those lines. Since listening to more of his output over the last few days, his minimal drone stuff more resembled that set, but yeah his albums do sound really varied.

I went to the Bill Nace and Samara Lubelski show last night and it was really great, even if it was very short.

My wife, daughters and friends had tix to Blue October playing in Beaumont last night. Someone couldn’t make it so I went. Our oldest daughter (now 27) was listening to Blue October 10+ years ago when she was in High School, so I was somewhat familiar with their sound.

The Cure - Plainsong played in its entirety and with a minute or so left, Blue October’s keyboardist started matching keyboard sounds as the bass player joined starting the show. That sounded really cool and they had one really good song, but the majority of it was KILLERS (and I don’t mean Iron Maiden) sounding.

Some dude/group named -MONA- opened (from Nashville).

Overall, not my cup of tea.

 

sick of it all
two weeks ago...nice concert...now in my 40's its fun to see kids in crowdsurfing
while i was enjoying the music with my beer lol.

Crawl, 2 string " bass" big drum kit, electronics, lights, fog machine and unusual stage art presence. LOUD. enjoyed it!

https://www.facebook.com/CrawlBlindl...9407618130020/

Courtney Barnett. That wasn't a concert, that was a nuclear reactor blowing away the venue, the city, the continent. It was like watching Nirvana at their absolute prime, but with a frontperson intoxicated on words instead of lethal drugs. (Well, CB's words are fucking lethal, though). And she blew a kiss at me for giving her flowers (right after "Avant Gardener", of course!).

Cool. Wife got us tickets to see her next month. Haven't followed her much but definitely looking forward to it. Also, going to see Bill Callahan in July. Will report back from both shows on this thread.