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QUIVERS

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  • Genre: Experimental / Other / Rock

    Location BROOKLYN, New York, US

    Profile Views: 19737

    Last Login: 8/24/2010

    Member Since 5/3/2006

    Website http://www.tigerasylum.com

    Record Label Colour Sounds Records / Tigerasylum Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ++++REVIEW ON FOXY DIGITALIS - ..2012..++++ .......QUIVERS is a quartet, featuring the astounding Ninni Morgia on guitar, Adam Kriney on drums, Chris Welcome on cello, and upright bass from Jordon Schranz. Being more familiar with his rock/prog/psych outfit La Otracina and some of his jazz work, this is my first exposure to Quivers. The group achieves a superb level of cohesion here, reaching an elusive state of morphing collective sound in which particular instrumental contributions are subsumed into a much greater whole. Kriney is slightly more restrained than usual, yet manages to show off his chops in fine style. Welcome's cello playing is a joy here, working together with Morgia to take the string scrape to new levels of insanity. And Morgia - what to say? He's easily one of the most underrated noise/improv guitarists around, and he's an essential piece to the Quivers puzzle. Displaying shards of Sharrock, glimpses of Joe Morris, nods to Haino, and plenty of his own thing entirely, Morgia is the one to watch. And yet his playing never takes on an ego-driven role, instead working for the service of the group sound. This is a sprawling and beautiful record on almost all counts. There are moments where you'll think it's a much larger group, or that Welcome's cello is actually a flute (!). The range of ideas present here, the obvious joy in the playing, and the alechemical mystery of the groupthink is superb. This one takes plenty of ESP inspiration, the spacious innovation and ghostly dronescapes of a group like Graveyards, and marries them to rock and noise with total success. The only potential limitation is sonic - Schranz's bass is too low in much of the mix, and the overall impact of the sound is a bit lessened. That said limitation doesn't ruin the record is remarkable. It's just that what he does play seems excellent, and with a better mix, this would have been a total knockout. Still, don't let that stop you - if you dig free jazz, noise, and all the potential intersections between, find yourself a copy of this record immediately. There's a lot of awfully tired moves in the free jazz scene these days, and Quivers avoid them all with skill to spare, offering up a platter that's both inventive and highly compelling. 9/10 -- ..Eric Hardiman ..(17 September, 2009) .... ++++REVIEW IN WIRE - ..2012.. (January 2009)++++ .... Jazz based improvisation has seeped into outsider rock for decades, but lately that combination seems to be resurging in the American underground. One leading light in this bubbling culture is New York label Tiger Asylum. Energetic releases from The Eastern Seabord, Trauma Unit and Violence Jazz have bolstered their growing catalgue, but the best Tiger Asylum outfit is Quivers. A quartet featuring one current and two ex-members of Brooklyn psych rock outfit La Otracina, Quivers can rip out a rock riff, but their rushing music is firmly planted in the realm of ecstatic free jazz. The centre of Quivers' wide-open mix is the versatile guitar work of Ninni Morgia. Over the five untitled tracks on ..2012.., Morgia's sounds range from miniaturist pin-pricks to sheets of dense fuzz. He opens the second track with warped feedback that sounds nearly electronic, then drifts into a Hendrix-style wail over the crashing rolls of drummer Adam Kriney and sawing tones of cellist Chris Welcome. One track later, Morgia's slippery noise meshes precisely with Kriney's cavernous rumbles. One might not expect such intricate interplay from an ensemble whose approach is more garage throw-down than studied introspection. Yet it's the small details in ..2012.. that make the strongest impression. This is clearest on the two long pieces that stretch across the album's second side. Simultaneously spacious and cacophonous, the tracks traverse a wide swathe of moods: buiding tension from carefully-bowed strings, chilly ambience from cymbal washes, frantic breathlessness from all the sonic elements peaking together organically. It's the kind of tonal range that's only achieved by familiar, thoughtful collaborators playing free of external restrictions. - ..Marc Masters.. ...... ++++REVIEW IN VOLCANIC TONGUE - ..Once There Were Some.. July 2006++++ .. Another absolute killer from Adam Kriney's Colour Sounds stable, this time documenting a beautifully out avant garage/jazz group with Kriney on drums, electric guitarist Ninni Morgia on post Sharrock/Takayanagi jazz/skronk moves, upright bass from Jordan Schranz and freely extrapolated lyrical/wordless vocal blurts from Marie Evelyn. Parts of this have the same kind of euphoric metal edge that marked out the best of the last Exit back catalogue while others sound as locked-down and monolithic as Mars. Limited to 52 hand-numbered copies in classic Colour Sounds-style art packaging. - ..David Keenan.. ...... ++++REVIEW IN WIRE - ..Once There Were Some.. (2007)++++ .. .. Brooklyn's labels Tigerasylum Records / Colour Sounds have co-released the debut by Quivers, a quartet including electric guitarist Ninni Morgia, upright bassist Jordon Schranz, vocalist Marie Evelyn and drummer Adam Kriney. On 'Once There Were Some', they seem to be using early Sonny and Linda Sharrock combos as a model. The guitar is promonent and dense, the bass and drums fill out the bottom with bustle, and the vocals attack the upper register with post tongue abandon. They do veer off into softer-focus sections fairly often, but keep a good level of intensity going most of the time. - ..Byron Coley.. ...... ++++REVIEW IN CRUCIAL BLAST, October 2006++++.. This new CD-R from QUIVERS is definitely one of my favorite releases in Adam Kriney's discography, travelling through the noisier/louder spheres of the improv plane. "Once There Were Some" is a killer debut outing that creeps through a battlefield of explosive improvised avant-noise/punk and speed skronk, only to stumble upon some moments of beautiful haunted avant-jazz that crawl out of the deep shadows and sets your hair on end. It's all powered by Adam Kriney's manic improvisational drumming and guitarist Ninni Morgia (a member of White Tornado and Wizard trio), who heaves gobs of expressive fretboard mangle and twisted out-shred across these 7 jams that evokes some kind of weird Sonny Sharrock/Mick Barr vortex. The group is rounded out with upright bassist Jordan Schranz (also of free-jazz trio Eastern Seaboard) and the eerie wordless vocals of Marie Evelyn. Limited to 52 numbered copies, and housed in a cool hand painted/assembled/pasted sleeve. ...... ..DISCOGRAPHY..: .... OUT NOW: CHORA / QUIVERS split LP (2010 Ultramarine Records) ...... .. .. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ .. ......"2012".. LP (2008, Tigerasylum Records)............ .. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ .... ...."Once There Were Some".. CDr (2007, Tigerasylum/Color Sounds).......... .. ++++REVIEW FROM WWW.KINDAMUZIK.NET++++ .... Nog meer explosiviteitsbewegingen van Colour Sounds’ Adam Kriney. Ditmaal in de vorm van nerveuze garagerock geïnterpreteerd door mislukte jazzheads. En dat is geen disrespect. Kriney, Ninni Morgia (gitaar), Jordon Schranz (staande bas) en Marie Evelyn (sporadische voalen) kruipen door de schaduw van Velvet Undergrounds meest minimalistische avantrockuitspattingen. Lou Reed meets Sonny Sharrock gitaarbespelingen en de ruwe garagefuck schaduw van Pussy Galore. Uitgebracht in een editie van 52 exemplaren. Opschieten dus! -..Joris Heemskirk.., October 2006 .. .. .. .. 

  • Members

    Ninni Morgia - guitar (Trauma Unit, The Right Moves, Wizard Trio, White Tornado, ex-La Otracina) .. Jordon Schranz - upright bass (THE eASTERN sEABOARD) .... Others have included: Adam Kriney (Owl Sounds, La Otracina), Marie Evelyn (marievel knievel), Chris Welcome (Stoney Mountain, Chris Welcome Quartet), Daniel Carter (Sun Ra, Wizard Trio), Mike Pride (Dynamite Club, From Bacteria To Boys, Period), Luke Moldof (Catholic Skin, Craniopagus), Alex Lambert (Multitudes), Jade Larson (Trauma Unit, Wizard Trio), Ed Chang (Trauma Unit, Spin-17), Kevin Shea (Storm & Stress, Aji No Moto, The Right Moves, Coptic Light, Talibam!)

  • Influences

    psych, noise, nature, Albert Ayler, Black Flag, Nausea, Sonny Sharrock, Smegma, Mars, Japanese Classical, AMM...

  • Sounds Like

    the future

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