It’s been a while, Kalamazoo! No Fun House has been laying low for the past few months due to some noise complaints. It’s been our plan to come back for a few select shows this summer. Tonight is the first of them all.
To add to the specialness of the occasion and to make things as cozy as possible, we’ll be having a potluck before the show and all music will be performed in our living room.
If you’ve got a dish to pass, bring it on over at 7pm. Music will start promptly at 9. We may even fire up the grill for this one…
We’ve got some pretty stellar touring musicians coming from Toronto, Montreal and Austin, TX. Local support will be provided by the amazing GARY NEASON!!
As always, we’re asking that you bring donation money so the touring artists can pay for gas. We’re also keeping with our no drug/alcohol policy to ensure a safe and problem free environment for everyone.
Take a minute to read up on our touring acts. This is gonna be mesmerizing!
KHORA: www.khora.ca/albums
Khôra is an experimental music project of Toronto musician Matthew Ramolo aimed at blurring the lines that separate the organic and synthetic, improvisation and composition, and the artist and the expressivity of nature. The emphasis in Khôra’s music is distributed equally between melodic acoustic and electronic figures and experimentation involving field recordings, analogue and digital processing, and extended techniques, with a high degree of attention paid to assembling unique sound palettes containing rich colour, texture, and dynamics. In 2006, Ramolo self-released a small handmade full-length record under a different moniker entitled ‘Now Beacon, Now Sea…’. After subsequent years of writing, refinement, and translating a recorded aesthetic into a live performance setting, Khôra emerged with the 2009 self-release ‘Silent Your Body Is Endless,’ an album that was warmly received, hailed as “a complete revelation” and reaching the top of CKUT’s music charts. In the autumn of 2010, a re-mixed, re-sequenced, and re-mastered version of ‘Silent Your Body Is Endless’ was released by Constellation Records as part of the first edition of Musique Fragile, alongside albums by Montreal’s Nick Kuepfer and Les Momies De Palerme. In addition to collaborative projects, Khôra will be traveling with a sublime live show through Canada and the US in the summer of 2011, and is presently at work experimenting and recording for a third full length album.
NICK KUEPFER: www.myspace.com/nickkuepfer
Nick Kuepfer is a guitar player who weaves nylon string and electric guitar pieces with live sampled tape loops and drones. His sources range from static repetition and subtlety to frantic and abrasive; always with a tendency for experimentation. He was born and raised in Stratford, Ontario and is now living in Montreal, Quebec since 2003. He has performed solo for a short time and occasionally plays with guests Eric Craven (hanged up), Kristina Koropecki (Mark Berube), John Corban (SMCQ) and Nick Scribner (Clues). His current activity was preceded by playing in the bands Lungbutter, Aidswolf, L’embuscade etc and presently plays with Hrsta and No Nature. In November of 2010 he released a full-length solo record as part of the first edition of Montreal record label Constellation Records’ Musique Fragile series. In addition he released a limited pressing mini-cdr with Toronto Print shop and record label Standard Form as the 7th installment of their RR series in March of 2011.
SILENT LAND TIME MACHINE: http://sltm.bandcamp.com/
Silent Land Time Machine is a one-man bedroom recording-project based in Austin, TX. SLTM is a naive composition of guitars, viola, violin, cello, accordion, voice, percussion, samples & found-sound, various electronics & noise-makers, and piano; musical-experiments which move from small exercises in sound-manipulation into full-on orchestrated blow-outs of coordinated noise that sound more like a small electro-acoustic orchestra than a single individual. On his debut album, &hope still ((TLR045/IQR001) collaboratively released between TIME-LAG Records and his own Indian Queen Records) SLTM was described as ‘naive bedroom folkrock filtered through some blissed out minimalist phase experiment…ecstatic, post-psychedelic chamber rock maybe?’; &HS was met exclusively with warm-regards and kind words and played on the likes of WFMU and the BBC, and was said to be “a bit like a backwater Panda Bear or Godspeed You Black Emperor, with all the hypnotic, emotive power that suggests.”
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