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thanks to everyone for coming out and making kirkwood number 2 (at eyedrum) a rousing success. in this post you’ll find the audio document of the event.

this time around, we tried something new. besides the standard signup sheet at the door, we also had a signup for collaboration efforts. these names were put in a cup and pulled out in groups of 4 and 3, randomly, for a little ol fashioned off the cuff improv sessions. these turned out surprisingly well. the energy was good and folks enjoyed themselves. we’d like to see more visual artists/artisans show up with wares to peddle, trade, display. we do have have tables available for this. if you can spread the word, please do so.

anyway, the night went a little something like this:

1. robby kee opened the show with a solid five minute drone that teetered between teeth-gnashingly brutal and soothingly pretty.

2. the bleegees kinda came out of nowhere…never seen these guys before…they pulled out some highly technical tight violin/bass stuff set to a drum machine…very nice

3. the first collaboration consisted of robby kee on samples, aaron rushetta (sp) on percussion, arianne sykes on percussion and a dude names lazlo on the bass. it ended up being a cohesive tribal assemblage in an unlikely partnership and the groove was palpable.

4. stan woodard came out next and who knows what kind of pedals and devices he was tweaking to make that sweet delicious noisy droney raket, but we liked it.

5. toothless tiger played next…the flute, bass, percussion and dual guitars was a nice change of pace and made for some wacky jammy ear candy

6. leeches and voyeurs were the harbingers of noise rock that night and their recorded set here shows both how gnarly they were and how difficult it is to accurately document gnarl.

7. the second collaboration consisted of matt cherry on synth, david norbery on samples/computer stuff, and lynlee on thunder tubes (you’ll know what i mean when you hear it. the result was an arpeggiated comfort zone with smatterings of textural samples and a thick droney buzz that tied it all together…so nice.

8. next was jared coliadis, who wowed us with his post rock-in-spirit one man guitar orchestration using loops and effects…so nice… unfortunately, this recording crackles…very unfortunate as his set was one of the more lovely moments of the evening.

9. fawn objects played next and brought with them that loose smokey evening atmospheric thing they do and that cannot quite be described…plodding guitar churns, intuitive beats, heartfelt vocals…great stuff.

10. the third collaboration was comprised of alexsaratt on vocals, sean sawyer on computer stuff, and kevin mchauhey on guitar. it was a churning affair and worked out really really well…lilting vocals, crazy sounds, and that constant guitar…

11. pony bones was a terrific delicious mess with banjtar, harmonica, drums, slide guitar, vocals, all types of unholy racket but loosely cohesive somehow…drunken country tinged swamp water vomit…nice

12. the final collaboration was made up of nicholas on guitar, cheshire on vocals, and frank on slide guitar (last names withheld at the request of the writers bad memory). it fared a touch disturbingly, a very minimal and loose concoction, but proved a fitting end to a full eclectic evening.

come out next month and join in. there will be 8 slots for signup and 16 available slots for the collaboration. as always, suggestions are welcome…we want to continue to grow and just make this thing better and better.