Helga Fassonaki - pedal steel guitar, plutonian vocals, santur, lap steel guitar //////Andrew Scott - guitar, bells, and stuff
Influences
aquatic insects, less 'superior' life forms, Alan Kaprow, our friends, Linda and Sonny Sharrock, Tony Conrad, Anthony Braxton, Angus Maclise, Albert Ayler, John & Alice Coltrane, CAN, Faust, Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, La Monte Young, Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo, Kang Tae Hwan, Prandit Pran Nath, Group Inerane, The Hototogisu, Double Leopards, Heather Leigh Murray, Charalambides, Fela Kuti, Yoko Ono, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sunny Murray, Patti Smith, Kan Mikami, Dead C, GATE, Velvet Underground, mhfs, Pumice, Yellow Swans, Andy Goldsworthy, Louis and Bebe Baron, Ira Cohen, MV & EE etc. etc. etc.
Metal Rouge started in Auckland, New Zealand with no aim but to open ourselves to the spontaneous psych tonalism running through the underbelly of popular music like a pure vein of lightning. We opened ourselves to the river, and now our only aim is to let that river (free)flow.
Unfortunately it seems almost impossible to book shows out of state these days without putting some extra coin in Rupert Murdochs (bottomless) pockets. Like so many other artists we resisted this site for as long as we could, not wanting to feed the mouth of the machine (newscorp et al) in such an obvious fashion. Yet here we are. This is mainly for us to post info about upcoming shows, if you want to get a hold of us its better to email us direct at joy(at)emeraldcocoon(dot)com.
……………new issues, hot off the assembly line……….
These items and more can be purchased from us directly at emeraldcocoon.com
or you can contact us at: joy(at)emeraldcocoon(dot)com for more details.
Ephemeroptera V
The final volume in the Ephemeroptera series, the final release on Seymour Records and the first release to feature a trio formation of Metal Rouge with Caitlin C. Mitchell on drums. Three tracks: two slow burning caverns of reverbed strings and one brutal trio blow-out dedicated to our favourite physicist. When cities fall silent, when our species fails itself, when the facade of sentience finally breaks - there still at the bottom of streams and rivers: caddisflies and mayflies spinning their webs.... CDR Edition of 50
$10 within the US or $14 International, post paid
...and on the esteemed Root Strata label:
‘Three For Malachi Ritscher’ CD
On November 3, 2006 52 year old Chicago based free-jazz fan, musician, archivist and photographer Malachi Ritscher sat down beside a rush hour freeway, doused himself in gasoline, and set himself on fire to protest the war in Iraq. His story is here, his mission statement is here, and his self-penned obituary is here. Current civilian body count in Iraq (between 88,263 – 96,350 at time of writing) is here. Current ‘coalition’ body count (4180 at time of writing) is
here. Easy to forget there’s a war going on isn’t it? Three tracks in anger, love and sorrow.
“Without fear I go now to God - your future is what you will choose today.” – Malachi Ritscher
CD $10 within the US or $14 International, post paid
Out-obscure your friends with one of our shirts. Appropriated from a child’s drawing of a dragonfly and re-worked by Helga. S, M and L in Black, White, Baby Blue, Navy Blue, and tie dye. Not all colours come in all sizes so write us to see what we’ve got.
A. Scott, Purple tee
T-SHIRTS $10 (US, includes post) or $15 (International, includes post)
:::::KINDER27:::: DRUNJUS-"travel by night and rest in black shade through the day" sea-tone ship bag
HEY! Sounds from the dusty cupboard. It's been so long we don't remember what this sounds like, but I am sure it's as dreamy as the packaging! Get yours HERE>>> http://www.myspace.com/kindertapes !!!
LittleFuryThings presents Gamehenge 09!!!! A mammoth compilation of 100 sound artists covering Phish's mythic Gamehenge album!! 82 minutes of full color sound!!!
featuring (in order)... william fowler collins, a minority of one, robe., eat cloud, powdered wigs, core of the coalman, milch of source, GDFX, flying squirrel, avi bear, gangi, jinbaobabtuner, faith/lightspeed, cameron wisch, the questionmarks, karl blau, padna, capitol k, whitman, keepbullfighting, struktur, kixly, color rabbit, liek, christian science minotaur, onna curry, say no to architecture, magic pencil, alstair crosbie, saber khan, universal studios florida, goodwillies, leo, teeth mountain, powerpillfist, willson, larkin grimm and movie, hirth, monkeyking, anna, strawberry bones, holzkopf, blue sabbath black fiji, verdun, catfish rivers, cowford self destruction, truckasauras, pjtr kaufmann, ryan garbes, happiness is here to stay, video hippos, shitmat, manburger surgical, 1234567890, radioshock, tunnels, teenage souls, tetrix, good journey, gangpol and mit, c. diehl, arklight, king crab, yellow crystal star, woman year, ice cream creatures, loplop, bad orb, alex ookpik, pdl, yellow weekends, shelf da muzik, jason kocol, some weird sin, towering heroic dudes, yonderverse, rad wolf, fyoelk, bertuf, RINGS, the puddle parade, rivers, spermwhales, antique brothers, quincy quartz, the lava children, sparagmos, spinach, mit nye band, scissor shock, nullkommajosefh, sailor winters, sean reardon, mother33, satanicporncultshop, semiconductors, ali usurper, ra'shkatan, fake krishnas, mezcup
I was going to post a live clip here, but low and behold you beat me to it. Let me know if you'd like a DVD of the performance, would be happy to send one over. Keep shimmering in the cosmic winds, metal rouge!
I had great fun playing the show with you two the other night,it was one of my favorite of the year!!Send mailing add. and i will send you lots of CD,s.*PEACE* Mike
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