TIMC+DKZK playing on the sidewalk in front of Solidarity in Lawrence, KS on NCAA Championship night, 4/7/08.
TIMC + OLD HACK - 12/21/07 - Justin's B-day in West Bottoms KC
Craig Comstock - drums, guitar, vocals
Influences
Dismemberment Plan, Guided By Voices, Smog, Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7 for Piano, Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, Olivier Messian's Quartet for the End of Time, Francis Poulenc's Gloria, Igor Stravinsky, George Crumb, John Cage's Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano. Gyorgy Ligeti, Krysztof Penderecki, LaMonte Young, J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel, Christopher Rouse, Bela Bartok, Bernard Hermann, Sonic Youth, Sun Ra, Melvins, Polvo
"Playing guitar drums and microphone at the same time (presumably with the help of a loop pedal or two), Craig Comstock has created a dense and hectic soundscape .. Loose’, released under the name This Is My Condition. Featuring 13 short sharp noisy offerings, the whole album is a twisted delight, dissonant, challenging, funny and intense. You may not play it very often, but you will leap around the living room when you do. (www.thisismycondition.com). Also available is ‘This Mission’ a collaboration between This Is My Condition and dkzk (aka Dan Kozak). Here the spiky songs are augmented by howling sax, flutes and more to create a free jazz squall that will either make you shudder or rejoice, depending on your taste. Personally, I find it invigorating and joyous, the sound of a winter storm approaching."
"five years and counting" - schraum label festival !
On
september 11th and 12th Berlin based label schraum will celebrate its
fifth birthday at Weisepuff - a new venue in Berlin-Neukölln. We invite
you to listen to some of the great acts who released music on our small
label during the last years...
*********** fr sept 11th
UTE VÖLKER SOLO accordeon solo
AXEL HALLER SOLO electric bass & objets trouvés
Torsten Papenheim's TRU CARGO SERVICE Christian Biegai - altosax Matthias Müller - trombone Dave Bennett - guitar, clarinet Torsten Papenheim - guitar, banjo Berit Jung - double bass Christian Marien - drums
*********** sa sept 12th
HUGHES / SCHERZBERG / WIESE John Hughes - double bass Lars Scherzberg - alto- and sopraninosax Nicolas Wiese - electronics
HOTELGÄSTE Michael Thieke - clarinet, altosax, zither Dave Bennett - guitar, radio Derek Shirley - double bass
Last weekend, I'm playin out on the streets in Dallas and a kid approaches me, "You remind me of this guy I saw at the St. Louis Museum of Art a while back...he changed the way I view music..." (Proceeds to show me a picture of you.)
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