And a rotating cast, including but not limited to: Mike Forbes Justin Lemons David Lee Price Josh McWhirter Seth Sherman SUBkommander Mike Maxwell Ramsey 1919 Sarah Alexander Nick Foreman Aaron Gonzalez Sinevil
Influences
Surface of the Earth | Earth | AMM | Morton Subotnick | E.A.R. | This Heat | iDi*amin | Flies Inside the Sun | Cluster | La Monte Young | M.E.V. | Tod Dockstader/Edgard Varese/other primitive musique concrete & early electronics | :zoviet*france: | Nurse With Wound | the wind sea & air | Windy & Carl | Labradford | Kranky | electromagnetic manifestations of lost memories | Rick Reed | Ohm (TX) | Vas Deferens Organization | the antichrist dream transmission sequence from John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness | Jewelled Antler | WHITEHOUSE | Meredith Monk | Sunburned Hand | Wolf Eyes | Numbers on the Mast | Terry Riley | uninhibited free musics of all sorts | Stockhausen | Phill Niblock | raw voltage abuse | Strategies of Beauty | suburban malaise | New Weird Denton
The Snails are the abstract, communal improv/drone collective/project of Nevada Hill & Michael Chamy, previously co-founders of aleatory Denton, TX combo iDi*amin, along with a rotating cast of intrepid explorers along for the ride. ^^=_=_=^^^Currency: hyperthreaded pillows v. askew mindwarts =_=_=_=_=_=_=_+_=_+_=-_=_=_++_=__+..=.._+=_= The Snails have shared stages w/ Six Organs of Admittance, the Silver Apples, Suishou no Fune, Wooden Shjips, Monsters of Pot, Rahdunes, Mike Tamburo, A_PINK_CLOUD, Aidan Baker, Medio Mutante, My Education, Mugu Guymen, ST 37, Social Junk, The Great Tyrant, Shiny Around the Edges, Nouns Group, Treewave, Daniel Francis Doyle, Venison Whirled, Finally Punk, Cue, Balmorhea, Dust Congress, AtticTed and many more .... |z..{..&} ...
Live at the Cavern in Dallas, 1/16/08 show with Six Organs of Admittance
NEWEST
BROWN DWARF CDr
MAYYRH Records, MYH05
A power drone odyssey featuring the strings of Josh McWhirter gone Conrad, wrapped around staticky innerspace implosions. Progresses through ebbs & flows of decay and release, meditative balms and disorienting headfuck. Peppered with disembodied voices, haywire electronics, and introspective cadences. Five tracks, 35 minutes.
Deluxe digipack by Nevada Hill & David L. Price.
$7 postpaid U.S.
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The KRAKKATOWIAKK EP
MAYYRH Records. MYH04. 3-inch CD. 17-minute studio recording featuring David Price on percussion, handmade design by Nevada Hill and David Price. Available here or through MAYYRH.com.
"“Ah, Zanzibar Snails,” I thought, “some nice folky drone and melody”. How wrong can you be as free form noise, sax wailing, and a tendency to be atonal, leapt from the speakers. Released on 3” CD, ‘Krakkatowiak’ is an improvised dissonant delight, seventeen minutes of sonic fury in a handy package, play it loud and get lost in its difficult beauty." – Terrascope Online
"From Denton, the past home of Texas’s space rock programme, The Zanzibar Snails have emerged as one of the region’s more interesting units over the past couple of years. They appear as a quartet here, using feedback, sax, electronics and percussion to creat an extremely neat kind of racket. The feel is akin to The Dead C jamming with Paul Flaherty, and you’d have to agree, that’s a good goddamn feel. - Byron Coley, THE WIRE"
Debut limited-edition CDr on MAYYRH Records
44 minutes, Recorded live at Counter Culture Vintage in Dallas
Handmade foldout screen-printed album design by Nevada Hill
1. On An Oblong Plane (29:05)
2. Indignity (8:44)
3. Egress (4:30)
4. The Pendulum, the Dirigible (2:01)
A remix of the Snails' "On An Oblong Plane" (or the first minute-plus thereof) by itinerate Snail David Lee Price
In Zanzibar, land snails include one species of the giant land snail (Achatina reticulata) that can reach a length of more than 15 cm and the smaller ( Achatina iredalei). There are also aquatic snails belonging to the Bulinus africanus group (e.g. B. globosus and B. nasutus) that are known to act as intermediate hosts for the parasite that cause Urinary Schistosomiasis. Slugs, which are closely related to snails but have no external shells, are found in Zanzibar in wet or moist areas.
I'm touched that my shaky-ass brokedick video is featured on your page. Had mucho funno))) the other night crashing and burning with you guys. And looky here I just read a nice lil mini feature on Nevada in the Observer. Pretty rad. I can't believe the guy who I bought a beer and then promptly spilt it on the back of my kickass Bardo Pond shirt less than two days ago left the comment right below me! World Wide Web!
Really dig the KRAKKATOWIAKK CD. Strikes me as way more composed than I expected. The first time everything really freaks out, I almost jumped outta my seat.
