Thursday,
July 3 at 9pm
The
Late Severa Wires, the Mae Shi, and YellowFever
Warehouse
21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe NM
Entry is by donation, suggested $7.
This is an all ages show.
This
High Mayhem performance is produced in partnership with Warehouse
21.
The
Late Severa Wires (Santa Fe)
Founded in 2001, The Late Severa Wires has been an institution
in High Mayhem’s philosophical and artistic development.
The group consists of Ultraviolet (turntables), Yozo Suzuki (guitar),
Mike Rowland (drums), and Carlos Santistevan (bass). With an approach
of radical improvisation, the Wires build collages of tones around
themes that, like virtual particles, vanish and reappear, each
time as strange as they are familiar. Using techniques that cause
their instruments’ tones to fuse or cancel each other out,
the Wires reach past the individual machines into a new realm
of unpredictability and imagination.
www.myspace.com/thelateseverawires
The
Mae Shi
Currently, there are six members of the Mae Shi: Brad Breeck,
Jeff Byron, Tim Byron, Bill Gray, Jon Gray, and Marcus Savino.
You are likely only to see four of them on stage at any given
time, but the rest of them will be lurking in the shadows. They’ve
been told that “mae shi” means “business card”
in Japanese. This is fitting, because the band is their business
card. The band is their self-help vehicle, and as their personal
goals change, their roles within the band change.
Amidst
all of this change, some things are constants. What’s been
done has been done, and it’s of little interest to the members
of the Mae Shi, unless they can repackage it in a new and exciting
way. The only option is to forge ahead, to try new things, to
test out bad ideas, to all try to sing and work together and hope
the road they are on leads somewhere. It’s about the journey
and the destination. This all sounds immensely airy but they believe
it – at its core the rock and roll band has a surrogate
family for their culturally extended childhood, it’s their
self-help group, it’s their soap box, it’s a way to
see what they’re really capable of. “Growing up is
tough. This is our attempt to grow up.”
www.myspace.com/themaeshi
Yellow
Fever
Yellow Fever plays minimal art pop ala Young Marble Giants, Stereolab,
and 80s Rough Trade. They formed in the summer of 2006 and have
two self-released EPs as well as a 7" that was released by
Hugpatch records last Summer. Last year they toured the West coast
with Voxtrot, and they have also made forays into the East and
Midwest, which included stops at two international popfests –
one in NYC and one in Athens, GA. They have an up upcoming release
from Mt. St. Mountain (former Omnibus Records) and toured the
East Coast last Spring.
