Chris Schlarb (Asthmatic Kitty) and Moonsicles (Austin)

Event: Chris Schlarb (Asthmatic Kitty) and Moonsicles (Austin)

Date: 6 Jul 2014 - 8:00 pm

Description:

Chris Schlarb is back!

July 6th, 2014 – 8pm
$10 suggested, no one turned away
2811 Siler Ln.

Bio

MakingTheSaint02Chris Schlarb is a musician, composer and producer based in Long Beach, California. His newest album, Making The Saint, was recorded alone inside a 140-year old Gold Rush cabin in the San Bernardino mountains. With no collaborations or distractions, Making The Saint contains the most intimate music of his career. SPIN Magazine calls the album, “Gorgeously meditative… Chris Schlarb is a wizard with the guitar. Making the Saint has an inclusive, panoramic feel…” The New York Times calls his playing, “Immersive… meticulous and controlled.”

Psychic Temple II, released in 2013, is a celebration of the auteur as cult leader and includes surprising reinventions of work by Frank Zappa, Brian Wilson, Joe Jackson. The album expands his trademark atmospherics into the realm of pop songcraft. The Los Angeles Times describes the album as, “bursting with ideas”,” and National Public Radio calls Psychic Temple, “boundary-less.”

His debut solo album, Twilight & Ghost Stories, was critically hailed as both, “40 minutes of avant-garde bliss” by the New York Observer and as “a monumental achievement” by FFWD Weekly. His following release, Interoceans, with experimental jazz duo I Heart Lung, was chosen by NPR as one of the Top 5 Jazz albums of the year in 2008.

In 2011, he scored an ambitious 50-minute soundtrack to the Nicklas “Nifflas” Nygren video game NightSky. The game was nominated for the Independent Game Festival‘s Seumas McNally Grand Prize and was an honorable mention for the Excellence in Music category. BoingBoing went on to describe the soundtrack to NightSky as “What Game Music Can Be” and IGN rated the music 9.0 out of 10, saying, “This is the sort of thing people mean when talking about ambient gaming.”

As a musician and producer Chris has collaborated with Mike Watt, Sufjan Stevens, Nels Cline (of Wilco), Paul Masvidal (of Cynic and Death) Mick Rossi (of The Philip Glass Ensemble), Dave Longstreth (of Dirty Projectors), Dave Easley (of The Brian Blade Fellowship), Chad VanGaalen, Ikey Owens (of The Mars Volta), electronic musician Daedelus, drummer Chad Taylor (of Chicago Underground Duo), hip-hop MCs Busdriver, Radioinactive, and Serengeti, singer/songwriter Diane Cluck, avant-country project Castanets, instrument maker Walter Kitundu, and musician/designer DM Stith.

He has also studied with “Wrecking Crew” session musician and Pet Sounds bassist Carol Kaye, multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore, and guitarist Martin Austin of Ixt Adux.

The recipient of grants from the Canada Council For The Arts and Meet The Composer, Chris Schlarb is a member of both ASCAP and the American Composer’s Forum. He releases music on the Asthmatic Kitty record label and has appeared as a guest speaker and lecturer at California State University Long Beach, NX35 Festival in Denton, Texas, West L.A. College, and the NMASS Festival in Austin, Texas. In 2001 Chris started the Sounds Are Active label specializing in jazz, experimental, electronic and other progressive musics. In 2006 he produced and released the Sean Carnage film 40 BANDS/80 MINUTES!

Moonsicles

moonsicles-houseMoonsicles is a band from Austin, Texas, who play instrumental music in a style that is yet to be determined. It might be Swamp New Age. Other times it’s closer to Celestial Metal, but very often it’s a soundtrack to an incoherent film whose characters are lost, deprived, and hallucinating miracles and monsters. Moonsicles songs are spare, inventive, lonely, minimal, pensive, gorgeous soundlands for the human ear to roam. Moonsicles is also a power group with members from some of the capital’s most provocative bands. Guitarist Aaron Russell (The Weird Weeds) distills melodies down to their essence until they seem like a smoldering frame of some burned-down behemoth; bassist Lindsey Verrill (The Weird Weeds, Dana Falconberry, Some Say Leland, McMercy Family Band) is either thwacking out Brontosaurus-sized throbs of bottom end or smiting you with shimmering frequencies; percussionist Carolyn Cunningham (Pillow Queens, Woven Bones) deconstructs rhythms with the nimbleness of a hummingbird; and keyboardist Sheila Scoville (Ichi Ni San Shi, Suspirians, No Mas Bodas) makes noises that are transcendent, insect-like, and joyful. Together the four of them play meditative instrumentals for every mood and color of the mind. 

Location: High Mayhem Emerging Arts Studio, 2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM,

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