FRIDAY, JULY 21st 2017
9PM
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SARIN SMOKE
QATZEN QULTUR QLUB
9PM
SARIN SMOKE
CHRISTINA CARTER
METAL ROUGE
QATZEN QULTUR QLUB
SARIN SMOKE
(Tom Carter + Pete Swanson)
CHRISTINA CARTER
METAL ROUGE
at
Qatzen Qultur Qlub
enter by thriftee storage gate
SARIN SMOKE
Sarin Smoke is the guitar duo of Tom Carter and Pete Swanson. Tom's path – both with Charlambides and across solo terrains – is a six string psych wholly his own, virtuosic precision never impeding deft head expressions. Pete's best known electricities with Yellow Swans are stringless, but here with an axe, he still smolders. Together they shimmer and slide, balance tensions, and send up an epic thrum. These are sounds that only flow through rarefied air; The pair has previously played only three gigs, and this will be their first in L.A.
CHRISTINA CARTER
With a voice that can fluidly shift from lyric to the purest sound form, Christina Carter is one of the underground's true intuitives. Her playing – be it on guitar, piano, or harmonica – so serves her intimate expressions, it goes beyond the voice-as-instrument argument to fully explode the duality of "accompaniment," and instead finds instruments as a parallel voicing – whatever is best service to the feel. Christina's fluency with traditional forms is ever apparent, even as she upends their structures – channeling the sonic pallette of Americana into a sound field that ranges from minimal meditations to all-out astral discursions. Take a breath.
METAL ROUGE
With an open plan, Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott have devised a post-free improv that is all theirs: Metal Rouge. Drenched guitar duels, distant yells and Ono howls, pocket brass flourishes, and live manipulations all come into play. They can hit groove sure enough, but also in seconds can nimbly pivot to a radically different dynamic space or punctuate with blast and screech. The duo's roots in and resonances with New Zealand's sonic psychotropography are evident, and though there can be no heirs to uncharted terrain, with their own idioms Metal Rouge are legit explorers of the aesthetic expanse opened by The Dead C. Sound for the now and the courage to consider the void.
Flyer and descriptions by Tim Leanse
show pulled prior to UPEND
(Tom Carter + Pete Swanson)
CHRISTINA CARTER
METAL ROUGE
at
Qatzen Qultur Qlub
enter by thriftee storage gate
SARIN SMOKE
Sarin Smoke is the guitar duo of Tom Carter and Pete Swanson. Tom's path – both with Charlambides and across solo terrains – is a six string psych wholly his own, virtuosic precision never impeding deft head expressions. Pete's best known electricities with Yellow Swans are stringless, but here with an axe, he still smolders. Together they shimmer and slide, balance tensions, and send up an epic thrum. These are sounds that only flow through rarefied air; The pair has previously played only three gigs, and this will be their first in L.A.
CHRISTINA CARTER
With a voice that can fluidly shift from lyric to the purest sound form, Christina Carter is one of the underground's true intuitives. Her playing – be it on guitar, piano, or harmonica – so serves her intimate expressions, it goes beyond the voice-as-instrument argument to fully explode the duality of "accompaniment," and instead finds instruments as a parallel voicing – whatever is best service to the feel. Christina's fluency with traditional forms is ever apparent, even as she upends their structures – channeling the sonic pallette of Americana into a sound field that ranges from minimal meditations to all-out astral discursions. Take a breath.
METAL ROUGE
With an open plan, Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott have devised a post-free improv that is all theirs: Metal Rouge. Drenched guitar duels, distant yells and Ono howls, pocket brass flourishes, and live manipulations all come into play. They can hit groove sure enough, but also in seconds can nimbly pivot to a radically different dynamic space or punctuate with blast and screech. The duo's roots in and resonances with New Zealand's sonic psychotropography are evident, and though there can be no heirs to uncharted terrain, with their own idioms Metal Rouge are legit explorers of the aesthetic expanse opened by The Dead C. Sound for the now and the courage to consider the void.
Flyer and descriptions by Tim Leanse
show pulled prior to UPEND