Present line-up: Joseph Budenholzer, Micki Pellerano, Tyler Jacobsen, Zef Noi$e
Others I've played with include: Greg Shakar,Meagan Palmer, Laura Kraber, Joan Dalin, Julia Kent, Connie Pertuk, Jarboe, Michael Cashmore, Isobel Campbell, Rose McDowall, Paul Geluso, Laura Cromwell, Claudia Chopek, Drew McDowall, Annabel Lee, Michael Moynihan, Ian Read, John Contreras, Robert Lee, Laura Rogers, Kirstin McCord,Joe McGinty, Jeff Zweiback, Dereck Higgins, Bill Eustice, Gary Foster, Sharon Kraus, Little Annie, Lydia Lunch, Larsen, David Tibet, Pantaleimon, Joolie Wood, Anissa Tonberg, John McGruther, Alex McChesney, Richard Colburn, FOETUS, Maya Elliot, Baby Dee, Ben Chasny, Simon Finn...
Influences
Roxy Music, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Nico, Psychic TV, Current 93, Coil, Nature and Organization, Swans, Incredible String Band, Eno, Arvo Paart, Henryk Gorecki, Hildegaard of Bingen, Debussy, Wojciech Kilar, Andrzej Wajda, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, C.S. Lewis, Carl Jung, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Herman Hesse, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Bruce Sterling, André Gide, Odilon Redon, Jean Delville, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J.K. Potter...
Sounds Like
Live Moscow Dom cultural centre 2007
Video: Wolfsblood
Backworld founder Joseph Budenholzer grew up in Nebraska, immersed in the rural lore and religious traditions of the region. He attended parochial school where he was taught by nuns to play the guitar for folk Mass. He worked for years at The Omaha Magic Theatre, an offshoot of The Open Theatre in New York, as composer in residence. Moving to New York City’s East Village in the mid-1980s he performed at St Mark’s Poetry Project and began collaborating with dance performer Brian Moran, aka Blood Boy, creating sampled soundscapes for confrontational Actionist assaults. This led to the Cinema of Transgression scene where he worked with filmmakers Richard Kern, Beth B, and Tessa Hughs-Freeland, and composer JG Thirlwell aka Foetus. Eventually a series of collaborations with Lydia Lunch resulted, culminating in the double CD, Matrikamantra, a work of psycho-acoustic theatre in the form of a homage to Romanian philosopher poet EM Cioran.
In 1990 Budenholzer enrolled in NYU’s Gallatin Division, focusing on Eastern European experimental theatre of the 1960s and 70s, traveling to study in Russia and Bulgaria, and later touring Poland and the Czech Republic with Lydia Lunch.
“I formed Backworld in 1993, owing to a passion for English folk music, certain aspects of 60s psychedelia, and Christian mysticism. I wanted to make music that could reflect these interests and hopefully be as spiritual and beautiful.”
After joining forces with World Serpent Distribution (London) in 1995 four studio albums resulted, Holy Fire (1996), Isles of the Blest (1997), Anthems from the Pleasure Park (1999), Of Silver Sleep (2001) and a live album, The Fourth Wall, recorded at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London 2001. And most recently, Good Infection (2007), released on discalcula records.
Backworld’s albums and early performances beginning at CBGB’s 313 Gallery and the NYU Experimental Theatre Wing and later throughout Europe at House Leipzig, Germany; Grandson Castle, Switzerland; Bloomsbury Theatre, and St. Olave’s Church, London; St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow; as well as touring Russia and Eastern Europe have featured a changing roster of players but the course is still steered by Budenholzer’s constant vision. Arrangements of guitar, strings, percussion, flutes, electronics, revolve around lyrics concerned with ecstatic religious yearnings and otherworldly visions. Guest performers on BW albums have included Jarboe of Swans and Michael Cashmore of Current 93. In 2006 Joseph returned to NYC after three years living in Scotland where he recorded the bulk of Good Infection, enlisting the talents of Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian, Gentle Waves), David Tibet (Current 93) and Drew McDowall (Coil) to help with lyric writing, contribute vocals and other textures to the sessions.
Other notable collaborations include playing in Current 93 and co-writing and producing the Little Annie album "Songs from the Coal Mine Canary" with Antony (of the Johnsons)
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Heart-felt thanks, folks, for adding "Leaves of Autumn". All of your music is exceptional, but that particular song holds special significance and truly touches my soul...
Best wishes for happiness and continued success. Luna ♥
Interesting music here as usual! Keep it up!
Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide.
Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia
/Ivan
Hello folks, We want to invite you good peoples to some upcomings events: PAS will performing/presenting three shows next weekend. First on Tuesday Nov 3rd at Death by Audio with Abstract Artimus! Then we will be doing an audio installation for the Experi-MENTAL Festval and a performance at Monkeytown. See below: 11/03/2009 08:00 PM - Death By Audio W/ Abstract Artimus 49 South 2nd Street Brooklyn, New York 11211 US Cost:N/A Description:.abstract artimus .the armchairs .PAS .mystic motorcycles .da comrade .manson family picnic ______________ 11/07/2009 06:00 PM - PAS presents: The Experi-MENTAL Festival @ Goodbye Blue Monday 1087 Broadway, Between Stanton and Dodworth (Bushwick) Brooklyn, New York US Cost:Donation Description:Saturday, November 7th--The Experi-MENTAL Festival.............................Visuals by Big Brother on Acid...Music by Plague Doktor, The Strangewalls, Dead Girl History, Ghoul Poon, Nattahnam and the Jazz Fakers, Brandstifter, Fluid , Calves, Zilmrah, PAS (Post Abortion Stress) ___________ 11/08/2009 08:00 PM - PAS Presents-Experimental Music Showcase: Monkeytown-Brooklyn, NY 58 N 3rd St, (btw. Kent & Wythe) Brooklyn, New York 11211 US Cost:$10 Description:Four acts presented by PAS. Visuals by Big Brother on Acid 1-Zilmrah, 2-Kaoru Watanabe and friends, 3-Fluid from Chicago, 4-PAS featuring Michael Durek and Trinitron
NEW BOOK OUT NOW: CHTHONIC - Prose & Theory by Vadge Moore "Vadge Moore is an American author and musician that has spent a lifetime testing the boundaries of good and evil. He toured and recorded with the infamous sleaze-punk institution The Dwarves, apocalyptic rock group Neither-Neither World, and his own nihilist-noise unit Chthonic Force. He has written for the early nineties occult journal Primal Chaos, the esoteric magazine Dagobert's Revenge, and the controversial web 'zine Synthesis. Recently Vadge has taken up an aphoristic-prose style of writing that best expresses his iniquitous and sinister insights into the mind of Man. Chthonic: Prose & Theory is just that; prose wedded to theory that scrutinizes the human, all too human, Monster that is Man." "Chthonic: Prose & Theory" is a collection of perverse and violent prose wedded to his own brand of occult esoterica. Peer into the mind of one of America's greatest living libertines.
