And a rotating cast, including but not limited to: Mike Forbes Justin Lemons David Lee Price Josh McWhirter Seth Sherman Mike Maxwell Ramsey 1919 Sarah Alexander Nick Foreman Aaron Gonzalez Sinevil Jon Teague Jared Stone Ed Preisner Tara Wood Bradley Santulli Adam Kondo Spintendo Mark Church Justin Talley Josiah Miller
Influences
Surface of the Earth | Earth | AMM | Taj Mahal Travelers | NIHILIST SPASM BAND | Loren Chasse | Coelacanth | Dead C | E.A.R. | This Heat | iDi*amin | Flies Inside the Sun | Cluster | La Monte Young | Tony Conrad | Dream Syndicate | M.E.V. | Tod Dockstader/Edgard Varese/other musique concrete & early electronics | :zoviet*france: | Nurse With Wound | the wind sea & air | early Kranky | electromagnetic manifestations of lost memories | C Spencer Yeh/Burning Star Core | Rick Reed | Ohm (TX) | Vas Deferens Organization | the antichrist dream transmission sequence from John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness | Jewelled Antler | WHITEHOUSE | Meredith Monk | Wolf Eyes | Numbers on the Mast | Terry Riley | uninhibited free musics of all sorts | Stockhausen | Phill Niblock | raw voltage abuse | suburban malaise | New Weird Denton | The Watchers
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, both along for the ride and pointing the way ....^^=_=_=^^^=_=_=_=_=_=_=_+_=_+_=-_=_=_++_=__+..=.._+=_= The Snails have shared stages w/ the Silver Apples, Harvey Milk, Six Organs of Admittance, Suishou no Fune, Wooden Shjips, Indian Jewelry, Jason Kahn, Rahdunes, Magic Lantern, Mike Tamburo, Robedoor, Monsters of Pot, Dennis Gonzalez's Yells at Eels, A_PINK_CLOUD, Aidan Baker, Medio Mutante, My Education, Mugu Guymen, ST 37, Shawn David McMillen, Stumptone, Social Junk, Winters in Osaka, 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..{..&} ... voted Best Noise/Avant garde in 2008 by the readers of Dallas/Denton music blog We Shot JR .... and a critic's pick for best Experimental in 2007 ... blah blah ....
Anonymous Dallas music fans say:
- "zanzibar snails are the most boring fucking band that ever droned on a stage. fuckin skip it."
Journey Into Amazing Caves! CD + DVDr
Mayyrh, MYH06
Two discs, one audio, one video montage by David Lee Price with a separate Zanzibar soundtrack. LIMITED EDITION of 100, screen printed by Nevada Hill. Audio 4 tracks, 53 minutes. DVD 26 minutes-plus.
AUDIO:
An ebbing series of hypnotic fjords that whisper, banter & barter, commingle,
converge & break apart, pile up and explode.
Michael Chamy & Nevada Hill w/ guest spots from Mike Forbes, and David Lee Price, who re-imagines the epic opener in flashback form.
“At first it kinda reminded me of Xenakis’ electronic stuff or Conrad’s darker synth stuff, but then it went into this avant guitar drone jam like if Earth and AMM had a baby ….” – our friend Tiago
VIDEO
A hallucinatory montage by David Lee Price titled “Carbage Goma,” with Zanzibar Snails producing the soundtrack. The audio is taken from a live performance by a five-piece lineup feat. Price, Seth Sherman & Josh McWhirter ... a chanting, clattering cry for help giving narrative to Price’s shifty, swirling ode to the primeval takeover of a technocratic society by a battalion of mutated Hervay Villachaize clones & his pet cadre of mutant wombat larva sporting oversized women’s sunglasses.
$10 postpaid U.S.
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Vanadium Dream CDr
Organic hash-dream cornucopia
"Unexpected sounds from unexpected new friends, the drone of Zanzibar Snails is both familiar and wholly indescribable. Music made by inhuman means, an alchemy of sounds blasted and scorched, "Vanadium Dream" is a
thick radioactive depth charge to our oceanic roster of drone and trance sounds. It is an attack on the senses, staged
in three sections, a triptych of doom and resurrection. - Phantom Limb
Packaged in a beautiful 5 screen / 9 color silkscreened fold out cover by Nevada Hill, this is a looker to behold and a sounder to listen
at..." -- Phantom Limb
3 tracks/38 mins
Numbered Limited Ed. 100
OUT NOW onPhantom Limb Recordings
From the back:
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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.
“Mesmerizing in a strange and alien way.” – Dead Angel
” … the music has a crackle of electricity running through it, mixing acoustic and electric instruments into a highly listenable, yet challenging, whole. – Terrascope Online
“… a mightily twisted and incredibly dense lump of sonic dough … it’s impressive how some of the key instruments – the sharply-angsted viola of Josh McWhirter for example – manage to float to the surface of this rolling planet of rich electro-acoustic swampery. – The Sound Projector
“… the listener can hear how all the disparate elements cooperate and contrast one another…maintaining a firmly free-improv experimental feel, while communicating a sense of direction and control.” – Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations
”Alternately distressing and soothing, Brown Dwarf is an immersive and perversely enjoyable experience.” – Jesse Hughey, Dallas Observer
“A richly compelling piece of music, suffused with nods to rock, doom, and electro acoustic improvisation, yet ultimately resulting in its own conglomeration of influences. … The rare album that crosses boundaries and at least suggests new ways to look beyond the often narrow confines of psychedelic improvised drone music.” – Eric Hardiman, Foxy Digitalis, (9 / 10)
$7 postpaid U.S.
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The KRAKKATOWIAK 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
Live at the Cavern in Dallas, 1/16/08 show with Six Organs of Admittance
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.
Majestic Dwelling of
doom denton july 11 saturday tiago
varjao - play skitzed out for four days straight audio
hallucinating elctronic bass attacking highend detriot on acidhop
creeping through the sweaty sticky warmth. ive heard it and its pretty
crazy shit, theres nothing quite like it.
millinarl expunger vs dead animal vs
asex vs
tiago vs
turkishadmiral vs ruuu p. - the musical conversations of
imaginary creatures that have flesh folds in which a variety of
bacteria grow that the creatures consume the nutrients of through pores
in these flesh folds which make up about 33% of their body mass.
fantasy, funny, dark , melodic, noise, musical.
echo
toll - chris is undoubtebly a great performance artist. i
cant wait to see how hes going to close all of this up. his music is
hypnotic electronic crazy dance shit.
Unconscious Collective has one last show before Gregg packs up and heads back to Chicago....Come out and support one last time. Friday July 10th 825 Exposition ave. 9 p.m. $5 214 826 6273 for more info.
Gregg Prickett- electric guitar Aaron Gonzalez- bass Stefan Gonzalez- drums The Ochre House is just two doors down the way from the Amsterdam bar and one door down from Avenue Arts. See y'all there
Sometimes an album comes along that just sweeps us right to those endless summer nights where lying back on the still-warm grass, we realize the scope of inverted abyss in the sky above and breathe deep in awe. Rambutan’s ‘Broken Infinity’ is just such a listening experience. Crafted by the hands of the poly-talented Eric Hardiman of the Tape Drift label & Century Plants/Burnt Hills fame, this solo release is filled with aching intention and eye opening wanderlust. Past Rambutan releases tend toward carving out crushing scoops of night-tinged tones with his nimbly-processed six string. That wall-of-guitar power is also found here, but additionally Eric investigates stretches of glassy vibrato downpour & spooked twilight sustain. It’s relieving to find compositions willing to breathe like this, balancing dark and dominant outer forces with the levity of an inner infinite impulse, broken as it may temporarily be. Hand numbered edition of 100 painted cdrs with full color sleeve & insert card in vinyl jacket.
Veterans Park Picnic Area 3600 W. Arkansas Ln Arlington, TX 76016 10am until 7pm
Come out with the family to Arlington, TX, Veterans Park Picnic Area and support your community in an environmentally conscious event. Cookout/potluck for afternoon and evening, please bring food to share (utensils, plates, plastic ware etc. is appreciated). Donations will be accepted, but not required. Be prepared to Drum and Dance the Day Away!!!!
Sarasvati will be out there to support the drummers, sitar and drum in hand(s)! Come see us!!!
My pleasure. Thanks for having me. How did your recording turn out? Also, how late do Firehouse show's usually last? I have to close that night unfortunately, but I might be able to make it out afterward.
Show Time: Saturday May 9, 2009 - 7:00 PM Venue: Ancient Traditions City: Grand Prairie State: Texas Cost: $10 Description:
Sarasvati Bodhisattva will be performing with WILD SKY TRIBAL at a SCINTILATING BELLYDANCE HAFLA at ANCIENT TRADITIONS Cultural Center in Grand Prairie!!! You can’t miss this show! You will melt in your seat before the BEAUTIFUL Dancers of SULTAN’S DREAMS! They have a wonderful show lined up for you as well as a FANTASTIC RETAIL area filled with Costumes and the GOODS of the LOCAL Community! Also a snack bar is available if you get hungry! ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT Ancient Traditions so that they can bring the OLD WAYS to you and keep them alive! HAFLA is $10 for non-members and only $5 for members. All are welcome! For directions and more information about Ancient Traditions, please visit:
Wild SKy has cooked up a great show for you! We will be banging on Wood (yes, wood!) as well as flavoring the evening with a Native American style performance. Sarasvati will be dancing as well...this time, BOLLYWOOD STYLE! This is not a show to miss!!!
