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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Videos from the first annual RVA Noise Fest 2012 by Silver Persinger

Filmed by Silver Persinger

View all of Silver's videos from the fest here: https://vimeo.com/album/1994482/page:1/sort:preset/format:thumbnail

1.23 Positiveland - 2012 June 30 - Live at RVA Noise Fest @ Strange Matter - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.

1.17 Ritual Stance - 2012 June 30 - Live at RVA Noise Fest @ Strange Matter - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.

1.20 Heavy Breathing - 2012 June 30 - Live at RVA Noise Fest @ Strange Matter - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.

2.36 Glassslipper - 2012 July 1 - Live at RVA Noise Fest @ Strange Matter - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.

1.16 Scant - 2012 June 30 - Live at RVA Noise Fest @ Strange Matter - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

RVA NOISE FEST 2012 Audio archive by Scott Chapman

Complete playlist details here: https://archive.org/details/RvaNoiseFest2012

Sunday, June 24, 2012

RVA NOISE NIGHT #1

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10PM

Nile Ethiopian Restaurant 309 N Laurel St, Richmond, Virginia 23220-4128

First in an ongoing series of monthly noise music nights at Nile, every last Tuesday of each month. 10PM - 2AM. Free! ( $3-$5 suggested donation for out of town acts!) $2.00 rail drinks! after show DJ sets.

DEATH REGISTER (Harsh noise wall by Matt of Scant/Sex Complex and Gary of Head Molt/Mutwawa)

OK PUTRID (3/4 female electronic star-traveling duo with no map. self-indulgent cosmic malformation for the mentally fragmented. Kaitlyn and Justin (Pregnant Spore) are from Baltimore-ish, MD)

YOKO BONER (Weird shit from Joe Legzz of Contortionist Jazz Exotica)

FLOOD BEAST (Post music cassette tape fuckery by Josh of Caves Caverns)

A.S.D. (harsh noise wall, first show since 1998!)

WHITE BOY ™ (Dylan of Nu Depth, Rhythm Bandit, Teen Dreams)

10:00 - WHITE BOY ™
10:25 - A.S.D.
10:50 - FLOOD BEAST
11:15 - YOKO BONER
11:40 - OK PUTRID
12:05 - DEATH REGISTER

https://www.facebook.com/events/451380428207210/?ref=22&source=1

Saturday, June 16, 2012

RVA NOISE FEST 2012

Rat-Ward Presents: The First Annual

RVA NOISE FEST!

A two day festival of sound celebrating Richmond Virginia's musical fringes....experimental, noise, drone, psyche, prog, improvisation, electronic, sound art, weird and otherwise unclassifiable music....

Free! Saturday June 30th & Sunday July 1st at Strange Matter.

Featuring:

POSITIVLAND, GOOGLE EARTH, MUTWAWA, BERMUDA TRIANGLES, CONTORTIONIST JAZZ EXOTICA, ANTLERS, HEAVY BREATHING, WEIRD ALCHEMIST, SEX COMPLEX, CAVES CAVERNS, HEAD MOLT, CHAMPAGNE OF RATS, MIDZHUR, RITUAL STANCE, COLECTIVO CALIBAN, FLESH CONTROL, PILOTTONE, AZ TIRAKS EN NOD, SLOBEAR, LIGHTLESS, FLORA AND FAUNA, CLOSE YOUR EYES I'M CHANGING, BROADCASTATIC, LLORONA, PATAPHONIC, MONOLITH ZERO, MITERED CHEVRONS, COUNTRY, GLASSSLIPPER, NIC DESANTIS, GEORDI LA KORG, FLIGHTBIKE, CUSTER FLUX, NU DEPTH, PEMDASI, INTERSTELLAR FIFE AND DRUM, BIRDS IN THE MEADOW, JM\\WAVE, SCANT, AWAWTUM, ANCHOR, SHORT SKIRTS, NUDE PHOTOS OF CELEBRITIES, VIMANUM

DAY ONE

SATURDAY JUNE 30TH

doors at 5:00 PM
music at 6:00 PM SHARP!

10 minute sets by:

06:00 - Flightbike - http://flightbike.bandcamp.com/
06:15 - Custer Flux - http://soundcloud.com/custerflux
06:30 - Geordi La Korg - http://soundcloud.com/shlunty69
06:45 - Nic DeSantis - http://mindsculpt.org/
07:00 - Nu Depth - http://soundcloud.com/lilbabypositiv
07:15 - Pemdasi - http://soundcloud.com/pemdasi
07:30 - Interstellar Fife and Drum - http://www.myspace.com/ghapherybivinsdavis
07:45 - Birds In The Meadow - http://www.myspace.com/birdsinthemeadow
08:00 - Country
08:15 - Mitered Chevrons
08:30 - Monolith Zero - http://soundcloud.com/monolithzero
08:45 - Pataphonic - http://pataphonic.tumblr.com/
09:00 - Broadcastatic - http://www.broadcastatic.org/
09:15 - JM\\Wave - http://soundcloud.com/jmwave
09:30 - Lightless
09:45 - Scant - http://vimeo.com/42943544
10:00 - Az Tiraks En Nod
10:15 - Ritual Stance - http://ritualstancehnw.bandcamp.com/
10:30 - Champagne Of Rats - http://soundcloud.com/jeebsound/3-cor-expired-portents
10:45 - Flesh Control - http://soundcloud.com/flesh-control
11:00 - Head Molt - http://www.myspace.com/headmolt
11:15 - Sex Complex
11:30 - Heavy Breathing - http://fever-.tumblr.com/
11:45 - Awawtum - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/MUTWAWA/
12:00 - Positivland - http://youtu.be/PecSv_Q-bUg

DAY TWO

SUNDAY JULY 1ST

doors at 5:00 PM
music at 6:00 PM SHARP!

10 - 20 minute sets by:

06:00 - Anchor
06:15 - Short Skirts - http://soundcloud.com/dance-spaz
06:30 - Nude Photos of Celebrities - http://nudephotosofcelebrities.bandcamp.com/
06:45 - Vimanum - http://madamepsychoses.tumblr.com/
07:00 - Llorona
07:15 - Close Your Eyes I'm Changing
07:40 - Pilottone - http://www.belindahaikes.com/Pilottone/pilottone.html
08:00 - Colectivo Caliban - http://colectivocaliban.org/
08:20 - Slobear
08:50 - Caves Caverns - http://breathingcave.blogspot.com/
09:15 - Flora and Fauna - http://vimeo.com/18983953
09:30 - Antlers - http://antlersrva.wordpress.com/
10:00 - Glassslipper
10:25 - Midzhur - http://midzhur.bandcamp.com/
10:40 - Contortionist Jazz Exotica - http://contortionistjazzexotica.blogspot.com/
10:55 - Mutwawa - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/MUTWAWA/
11:15 - Weird Alchemist - http://vimeo.com/40562072
11:45 - Bermuda Triangles - http://www.cnprecords.com/
12:15 - Google Earth - http://youtu.be/wvH9ayfTOHI


+ DJ sets by Revolt Of The Apes - http://revoltoftheapes.com/

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Nautical Almanac live at Strange Matter - June 4th 2012 - Filmed by Silver Persinger

Nautical Almanac - 2012 June 4 - Live at Strange Matter - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Flyer by Gary Stevens

NAUTICAL ALMANAC (Baltimore) http://www.heresee.com/nauticallink.htm
NON REALITY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING BUT JAMMING THE CODE OF WHAT YOU THINK YPOU SHOULD KNOW.
"...There are colors everywhere, smells, sounds; chaos. And it is the most fun you have ever had. This is what listening to Nautical Almanac is like...This two-piece from West Side Baltimore has been combining metal, melody, and general mind-blowing musicianship into one incredibly intricate and threatening package for five years now, marching to the beat of their own otherworldly drummer. With their 10th full-length, Death Metal for Pussies (Heresee Records)...Since moving to Baltimore on Sept. 11, 2001, Nautical Almanac has spanned the gamut of inconsistency...On one album they ould be lavished with frothy critical adoration, the next the band would be torn apart, barely understood, everything but spit upon. One album they would be lauded as one of the greatest American avant-garde / acoustic-electronic bands in years, the next they'd be misappropriated as "arty-emo." In a recent interview with popular rock critic Brian Coldly, Ms. Ptak was heard to remark "Our "sound"... If you ever use the terms "Jazz Punk", "Art-Damage" or "Post-Hardcore Stew"...That'll be some REAL Art-Damage. I don't know what to call it, but I fucking know what not to call it...a varying spectrum of junk-harvesting Midwesterners like our "godfather of garbagtronica", MAGAS, constituted a whole new "savant garde. Climb onto this Crisco-coated locomotive and get the real deal of steel." With their upcoming tour they are hoping to wave high the flag of the current crop of "freak funk" bands who are all the rage in the British music press these days, but with their own flavour which is as American as chocolate chip biscuits and mom's apple tart. Their "take no prisoners", "no hold's barred", "whiskey drenched", "straight up rock and roll no chaser" brand of carnage will leave their audience utterly spent...And hungry! So why not order a Papa John's pizza on your Cingular Verzon phone on your way home from the venue? And if the show lets out early, and you need more entertainment, be sure to stop by Blockbuster and pick up the smash hit movie Ghostrider, now on DVD..." ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Also appearing: local weirdness:
MUTWAWA http://freemusicarchive.org/music/MUTWAWA/ "Project of Richmond underground heads Gary Stevens (Head Molt) and Jason Hodges (Bermuda Triangles, Amoeba Men) with sounds ranging from gabber fit for inclusion on the next Thunderdome comp to futurist reggaeton emanating from the windows of undercarriage-lit ancient alien spacecraft hovering through the cyber jungle. Mutwawa anticipated the current post-noise techno zeitgeist by a few years, all the while maintaining a unique and inscrutable weirdness even in the midst of the throbbing 4-on-the-floor beats that propel their music"
CONTORTIONIST JAZZ EXOTICA http://contortionistjazzexotica.blogspot.com/ "Richmond's premier harsh noise love birds scrape, skree, bang, break and bleed their hearts out" "I walked into the room after they played Raw Meet and there was blood and glass everywhere. Their tape sounds fucked up. "
FLOOD BEAST http://floodbeast.tumblr.com/ "Totally fucked up cassette tape manipulation and feedback from J. Russ of caves Caverns.
CHAMPAGNE OF RATS https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Champagne-Of-Rats/249622658432292 "Throbbing LO-NRG post human noise punk damage for the Void Century. Leo of Flesh Control and JK of Lost Tribe."

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Video of Pedestrain Deposit performing live at Strange Matter - May 22nd 2012 - Filmed by Silver Persinger

Pedestrian Deposit - 2012 May 22 - Live at Strange Matter - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

NEW! MUTWAWA "Lamashtu Pazuzu" cassette C26 (C.N.P Records/Anti-Everything) 2012

MUTWAWA "Lamashtu Pazuzu" cassette C26 (C.N.P Records/Anti-Everything) 2012

8 tracks of live electronics/spaced out tribal dance rhythms by the people from Suppression and Head Molt.

Side A:
A1 - Lamashtu Pazuzu
A2 - Epsilon Eridani
A3 - Skrull Eternal
A4 - Initiation Of The Portal
A5 - Snakes Of Solomon

Side B:
B1 - Sitsoi You
B2 - Uluru
B3 - Highway Fallujah

First edition limited to 50 copies.
SOLD OUT