Dan Blacksberg
Jon Barrios
Jason Nazary
Michael Winograd
West Philadelphia Orchestra
Invert String Quartet
Frosty Spiker
Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores
Bolivar Zoar
Leana Song
Patrick Farrell
F!
Bulgina
Evan Lipson
Carlos Santiago
Eli Litwin
Ruston Grosse
Saadet Turkoz
Katt Hernandez
Helena Espvall
Tuvan Throat Singers, Alash
Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen
Elliott Levin
Ed Watkins
Dave Davis
Dave Hotep
Howard Cooper
La Tumba
EL3
Beat Circus
Ara Anderson's Iron and the Albatross
The ethnic dispersion of the musical seed has forced tradition to redefine itself again and again. This sowing of cultures has brought to the world a sound filled with tradition. World music, however vague of a genre, is constantly fusing its classical conventions with an ever-growing palette of cultural impressions. While Diaspora Series showcases the most innovative music of this anthropological voyage, it is the social and community gathering that the series denotes. Bringing the community together to share the spirit of dispersed folklore through song and dance.
If you would like to perform in the Diaspora series, please send press bios with links to your music for consideration.
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens & Fire Museum Present:
Summer Solstice Festival 2
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
1020-22 South Street, Philadelphia
Sunday, June 21st 2-10PM
$7
Musical Performances by:
Galata Ensemble
Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble
Oubliette Ensemble
Niagara Falls
The Rit Mo Collective
Lenny Seidman (with tabla & sitar choirs)
Eric Carbonara
Jesse Sparhawk
Reid Books
Join us for a day of inspired musical offerings and other feats of wonder to bring on the Summer Solstice.
In addition to the musical offerings, the day is accentuated by acrobatic performances by Fly Girls and Fearless Hyenas Stunts, along with poetry readings by Helen Tinsley, shadow puppet projections by Erik Ruin and and a live wood burning art demonstration by Jeramie Bellmay. Dances by Sheila Zagar, and the Kun-Yang Lin Dancers.
JFJO returns to PHILLY at JOHNNY BRENDA'S on Tues. APRIL 14th with the new quartet lineup, in support of 'Winterwood' - the new studio album available as FREE download at www.JFJO.com! Nick Bockrath quartet opens! See you there!!
JFJO returns to PHILLY at JOHNNY BRENDA'S on TUE. APRIL 14th with the new quartet lineup, in support of 'Winterwood' - the new studio album available as FREE download at www.JFJO.com! See you there!
(The New) Green Line 4426 Locust St, Philadelphia Thursday, September 4th 7PM $8
Fire Museum & Sherman Arts come together to bring the return of the freewheeling Finnish juggernaut Avarus to Philadelphia!
"The wide-eyed forest dwellers of Avarus come from the pool of Finnish musicians that spawned the magnificent Kemialliset Ystävät. They play a brand of music on the outer extremes of the free-folk movement. A spirit of drugged-out frenzy drives this relentlessly changing music, resulting in songs that evolve like a species: not on an obvious linear path, but in fits and starts-obeying a strange logic inaccessible to the players themselves. Avarus conjures a gorgeous and frightening musical object, and they capture the feeling of mystery of music on acid.” -Bryan Berge, Stylus.
Also performing this evening are:
Ashoke Sen Making their debut performance this evening, this trio combines electro-acoustic sound collage and magic latern projections, weaving sound and vision mandalas as they go. Comprising of Mike Barker (Embarker, ex-Sharks with Wings), Mary Lattimore (Valerie Project) and Brooke Sietinsons (Espers), they merge their collective experience into intoxicating new forms.
Burrs
"Mining disaster kosmische hangover. It sounds sort of like Gunter Schickert, Limbus 4, Maschine Nr. 9, Cosmic Jokers, not like the motorik Kraut stuff but more like the sprawling, strung out wraith synthesizer aboard a haunted U boat sound." -DHW Records
Ducktails
"(S)ome viscous loops and globs of translucent, FX-foamed guitar — the guy slings together some pretty Martian Malawi jams. A refried magic-mushroom curry smoothie, it's slightly sweet and gooey…" -L.A. Weekly
Mascher Space Co-op 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue 2B, Philadelphia Friday, June 27th 8PM $5
"If you were to take only one thing away from Baltimore's Lexie Mountain Boys—performers, musicians, exhibitionists—it would be the power of believing in themselves. Through this, they are able to break down barriers, defy stereotypes, challenge social norms and, as their Myspace profile points out, “embrace[ing] embarrassment.”
The Boys’ music is a mix of tripped-out harmonies and psychedelic vocals, a great bit of it improvised, with a basic outline or blueprint decided a short time before each show. Describing the impetus of the group, Lexie Mountain explains: “Our initial motivation was to have fun and develop performances in a very free and forceful manner, to generate music solely of ourselves, and to capitalize on the liberation that comes from not being behind a guitar or drum kit.” -Kruger Magazine
Also performing on this evening of sonic merriment are:
Fursaxa "Slow-motion ghost dances and fogged forest floor tones, at times alternating with Tara's own possessed brand of spoken word incantations, bringing to mind late night coven gatherings." -Raven Sings the Blues
George Korein "I'm beginning to sense the emergence of a new generation's answer to Jason Willett, Baltimore's infamous inscrutable genius of Megaphone/Leprechuan Catering/Half-Japanese/Ruins/post-RIO-dada notoriety. Both worrisome and thrilling, this prospect." --Michael Anton Parker/Bagatellen. com
and Cecilia Corrigan (just returned from Argentina and certain to astound!).
Go anywhere else this evening and you'll wake up with a horrible case of regret, we guarantee it!!
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens 1020-1022 South Street, Philadelphia Saturday, June 21st 3-6PM $5
Fire Museum brings you Summer Solstice Reverie at the Magic Gardens, three hours of continuous music taking place on 4 staging areas with 23 different sets in total. This afternoon of sound, vision and movement features (in no particular order):
Ashley Deekus, Charles Duquesne (Public Record, etc), Toshi Makihara, Lisa Spero (Radio Eris, etc), Daniel Fishkin (Dandelion Fiction), Eric Carbonara, George Korein, Katt Hernandez, Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Serpents of Wisdom, Grass Hair, Jack Wright and Alban Bailey, Ryan Frazier, Emit Es, Brother Buckroar, John Barrios, Megan Cauley & Mike Mc Dermott (Gemini Wolf), Tom Madeja, Tony Cenicola, Adoration, Charles Cohen & Tyler (Color is Luxury), Weyes Bluhd, Latralmagog and Lenny Siedman's Tabla Choir.
There will also be dance performances by members of Amnesiac Dance Company & magic lantern projections by Brooke Sietinsons.
New sound combinations will emerge as you wander through the gardens during the performances. Inside, electronic music performances will accompany the magic latern projections - culminating in a performance of tabla tarang by a three person "tabla choir".
Open call for musicians! We are organizing a sound event at Zagar’s Magic Gardens on South Street and we are looking for some more musicians with an interest in improvising acoustically to participate. This will be happening on Saturday June 21st with a rain date of the 22nd.
The largest part of the event will be musicians (mostly acoustic) performing in “sound shifts” in the various nooks and crannies outside from 3 o'clock to 6pm. The idea is for there to be continual sound, and for the sound to overlap in many ways, giving the listener a new listening experience as they walk around the gardens. There will also be some electronic music going on in the basement at the same time, occasional performances from dancers in Nicole Bindler's troupe and a light show by Brooke Sietinsons.
Each set would last around 30 minutes, maybe a bit less, depending on how many musicians we can get to perform. This will not be a paying gig, but it should be a grand sonic time. Musicians that have agreed to play so far include Katt Hernandez, Ashley Deekus, George Korein, Eric Carbonara, Eichen Oakes, Charles Cohen, Weyes Bluhd, Toshi Makihara, Margie Wienk, Enumclaw, Jim Ayre, Michael Parker, Dandelion Fiction, Lenny Seidman, Steve Parker, Charles Duquesne & Geoff Bucknam. It is a hope of ours that people from many different musical styles will participate.
Please contact us if you are interested in performing, or for more information, at solstice at museumfire dot com.
the skaters (nyc) monopoly child star searchers (spencer of the skaters) pacific rat temple band (james of the skaters) dolphins into the future (belgium) weyes bluhd (philadelphia)
the skaters (from nyc by way of berlin, san francisco & beyond) bring their vocal based out psychedelic noise to big jar books in both group and solo settings in an evening of kaleidoscopic sonic wonderment. joining the proceedings are dolphins into the future from belgium and philadelphia’s own master of atmospheric discordance weyes bluhd.
it's the return of MaryClare Brzytwa (of Bolivar Zoar)!
Fire Museum Records presents:
MaryClare Brzytwa (Oakland, Ca)
Dominique Leone (San Francisco, Ca) &
Ashley Deekus (Philadelphia, Pa)
Friday. January 18th, 2008 8:00 PM
at the
Highwire Gallery 2040 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia
$5
short artist bios:
MaryClare Brzytwa:
MaryClare is a flutist, composer, aspiring rock star and ex catholic-school girl. She hails from the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Oakland, California. where she teaches Do-Re-Mi to dozens of future piano monsters right out of her home. MaryClare’s music takes listeners through noise, salsa, improvisation, microtonality, rock guitar licks, and laptop manipulations. She is the queen of B-bands: Bolivar Zoar, Byznich, and Bebe Donkey, which span out kitchfolk, electronic minimalism, and pseudo Christianic loungcore. She is 1/3 of the legendary all female free improvisation outfit: Slow, Children and has toured internationally in clubs, music festivals, flute gatherings, and academic institutions. In 2006, MaryClare earned her BA in Composition / Electronic Media from Mills College and has studied and/or collaborated with Robert Dick, Maggi Payne, Fred Frith, Angela Korogolos, Michiko Kawagoe, William Winant, ,Ava Mendoza, Corey Fogel, Joelle Leandre, and more. MaryClare likes expensive couscous, and her therapist, Susan.
Dominque Leone:
"One gloriously f*cked-up, three-part, twelve-minute prog disco behemoth that, if the mood is right, will annihilate a dancefloor all by itself. (The) non-dancey tracks on this EP resemble something close to Todd Rundgren doing Beach Boys covers produced by Eye of the Boredoms... It's brainy pop that rarely reveals its true charms on a first or casual listen. The messy, live drumming is kept on beat by a pounding bass drum; the unhurried synth progressions are replaced by wordless, all-too-human vocals establishing one of the tracks main melodic theme
