some tour photos :http://www.flickr.com/photos/14295099@N02/
artwork:http://www.suzypoling.com
Influences
Shipwrecks, Abandoned Mental Hospitals, Swamps, Optical illusions, Outer Limits, Echo devices, Caves....
Favorite tunes:Throbbing Gristle, Chrome,Destroy All Monsters, Pierre Henry, Musique Concrete, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Sun Ra,Black Metal, Morton Subotnick, Joe Meek, Neu, LAFMS, 45 Grave, Wolf Eyes, Nautical Almanac, Meeurk Puffy, Tuxedo Moon, John Wiese, Panicsville, Organ records, Luigo NoNo, Xenakis, Smegma, Renaldo and the Loaf, Nervous Gender, Drone, Whale recordings, many inspiring pals, my shriner family.
Sounds Like
Demented Organ Music coming out of a broken radio gone bezerk. Futuristic ballads in a swamp and drone undercurrents from an exploded ship dragged through a tube that landed perfectly balanced on a tincan.
RELEASES:
Radar and Nest- Chocolate Monk 2008, Time Zones 2008, Obeying Scum-Teenage Whore Tapes 2008, Pod Blotz/Phantom Pains 2008, Art Book w/CD Vestiges 2007, The Swamp Command-LP- on Fish Pies-2006, Art Book Nature Mutation,
,Agents of Froth-CS- on HLAH?!-2006, Art Book-MartianCarnival w/CD- 2003, Dust from the Isotropic Chamber-CD-Crippled Intellect-2003,
Black Vapor-CD- 2002
Comps:, String of Artifacts on Fish Pies and Recipicent, Out Muzz Vol2, Halloween Comp on Thunder Recordings.
INFO: Solo act started in a theatre in Chicago during 2001= Rotating members have been:Soozee, Loachfillet, Fatty Jubbo, Drew Ziegler, Shannon, CaT. Pod Blotz now lives in Oakland originally from Detroit, Michigan.
did we meet each other at Color Outer Space last year? i m as well a friend of Dylan and Daniel-Tochnit Aleph... POD BLOTZ RULE!!! HALLELUIAAAH!!! COME TO PARIS!!! LOTTA LURV!!! julien/eva revox
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 POD BLOTZ "Agents of Froth" (Hung Like a Horse?!)
To set an obvious bias out of the way, I could listen to Pod Blotz for years. If they never release anything else, Soozee and Loachfillet's slimy trails of sci-fi shenanigans will long be remembered as musically and visually unique, and an essential component of California's modern bizarro contingent. So when the new batch from HLAH?! arrived on my dilapidated doorstep I freaked out. Fans of the Blotz will be happy to know that this pre-"Swamp Command" stunner includes nearly an hour of live material from their Chicago and Oakland tenures spanning 2003-2005. At some points spacious and drifting, others anxiously claustrophobic, washes of gurgling synths and mangled cries wrestle with dirty bass frequencies and creeping static throughout the three sprawling performances. The band's hallmark use of echo manipulation for high-pitched squalor is as hallucinatory as ever, and effects box fanatics will find no shortage of indescribable wierdness to baffle over. While a Blotz record makes a perfect accompaniment for an evening of Something Wierd videos, I cannot stress how astounding this band is live, as these sets attest to. Consider it imperative to catch them now while they're ON TOUR. Originally issued in 2006, this second edition of 50 is probably going to disappear quickly, so head on over to the HLAH HQ and snap it up.
