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If you’re a fan of all the great things coming out of Austin, Texas, you’ll know Will Johnson of Centro-matic, South San Gabriel and super-group Monsters of Folk. He’s going on a “living room” tour in support of his new solo album Scorpion, and our house venue Noa Noa got picked for the Nashville gig!
It’s all happening Monday, February 18th at 8pm in the Noa Noa basement. (Our living room wouldn’t quite fit you all.) Tickets are sold ADVANCE ONLY and only though this Undertow tickets link. Due to the intimate nature of the concert, we can’t sell any tickets at the door. As of this writing, only 19 tickets remain, so if you’re thinking of attending, buy your ticket now!
Here’s a fantastic lineup coming to Nashville on Halloween night: Paul Metzger, Tim Kaiser, and Robbie Lynn Hunsinger. This is going down at 7pm sharp at Noa Noa (house), 620 Hamilton Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. This is an early show, so you’ll still have time for Halloween parties, haunted houses, etc.
Minneapolis’ Paul Metzger hears sounds conventional string instruments can’t fully realize, so he modifies instruments to suit his needs. You’ll often see Paul performing on a modified banjo or guitar with sympathetic strings added, or more recently on electro-organic conflaborations like an optical Theremin gourd. Paul is considered one of the finest American instrumentalists alive today, and rare is the opportunity to see him perform in the South. Do not miss this for anything!
Duluth’s Tim Kaiser makes custom acoustic and electronic instruments out of material he finds at salvage yards, thrift stores, and yard sales. He comes up with incredibly elegant ideas like using metal leaf rake tines and an electrical ground bar to make custom kalimbas and snowmobile drive-track gears as circular bridges for electric khotos and other bowed string instruments. But he doesn’t rest on the laurels of cool sounding (and looking) instruments. The best part is the ambient experimental music itself: intricate, melodic, and breathtaking. He is the modern day Harry Partch.
Nashville by way of Chicago’s Robbie Lynn Hunsinger is a classically trained oboist and new media artist who combines acoustic music and technology to make innovative art. She most recently played to a packed house at this year’s Soundcrawl. Her experiments include dueting with an Arduino controlled vibrating motor attached to a snare drum, using a hacked Xbox Kinect to control visuals and sound effect parameters, and conducting a Wii-mote armed audience in an interactive visual symphony. I’ve been talking with Robbie about the Halloween show, and I can tell you that she has some VERY cool things planned.
Update: Yazoo Brewing Company has very generously donated their beer for the event. Bottles of Pale Ale will be available for those over 21 for a small donation to the bands. Very special thanks to Chris Davis for facilitating this and for helping organize / promote this show.
Wednesday, October 31st, 7pm, $10
Paul Metzger, Tim Kaiser, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger Noa Noa (house)
620 Hamilton Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203
This is an early show that will start promptly at 7pm. Music ends around 9:30pm. Park on street or in surrounding business lots. Come casual or costumed. We’ll accept you either way.
Ypsmael live at A Day and a Night Festival, Cambridge. Photo by John Boursnell
If you still have some steam left after a killer weekend of shows, don’t miss this Sunday show at Noa Noa, featuring New York experimental cello player T.J. Borden. If you like the extended technique of double-bassist and T.I. participant Thomas Helton, then you’ll really dig T.J. At the end of the post, check out the just-published video (and when I say JUST, I mean in the last 5 minutes. I was the first viewer!) of T.J. performing with Steve Ricks and Christian Asplund at Locust Salon. One of the players appears to be bowing a cardboard box!
The dual headliner is Ypsmael, the mixed media project of Cambridge, UK-based German artist N. Ismael M. As his bio reads: “Ypsmael granularly unfurls delicate and atmospheric soundscapes, formed by clouded loop narratives and subtle build-ups of hazy drone swells. Slow-glowing pulses of audio detritus meld into chasms of warm, powdery noise washes and subdued vocals. Ypsmael studies ways to create and devise a personal vocabulary to this eclectic formula, focusing on the textural and cinematic properties of effects-treated vocal layering, field recordings and live instruments (e.g. baritone guitar, bass, piano, melodica, glockenspiel) as a main ingredient for in situ accidentalist composition. Recordings are usually made in one take; live performances are usually free improvisation.”
This weekend is chock full of concert goodness, including a Saturday house party at Noa Noa featuring Memphis rock & rollers Big Waves of Pretty and new Denney & the Jets/Scala Brothers side project Promised Land. I don’t know about you, but I’m incredibly excited to see what the Scalas have up their sleeve.
Also performing are two T.I. participants, Stephen Molyneux and Samuel Steelman, both members of the Murfreesboro experimental improv collective Horsehair Everywhere. They’ll each be performing a solo set.
Stephen is co-founder of the tape label No Kings, and he’ll have plenty of No Kings tapes on hand for sale, including his new Belize field recording.
A little rock, a little experimental. Lots of fun. More info on the Facebook event page. Full disclosure: I helped organize this show.
Big Waves of Pretty, Stephen Molyneux, Samuel Steelman, Promise Land
Saturday, August 4th, 2012
Doors at 8pm, music at 9 sharp, all ages, byob, $5 cover
Noa Noa (house)
620 Hamilton Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
