Celebrate antique Gregory's 30th birthday and Adri Mapachita's 25th birthday
with two Safranin bands, the debut performance of Kuschty Rye Ergot, and
Omaha's own Foreign Elfest! BYOB/BYOH/BYOW!
Screen Vinyl Image
Foreign Elfest
The Antiques
Kuschty Rye Ergot
Saturday August 4 @ 8pm
$5 suggested donation
611 Florida Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001
www.claviusproductions.org
Screen Vinyl Image
http://www.screenvinylimage.com
http://www.myspace.com/screenvinylimage
Fresh off the heals of their first midwestern tour!
"Sometimes a sound, a groove, a beat, a rhythm, a crank and grind... just
comes running at you like a Japanese bullet train in a hurry and on fire. It
just plunges at you, layer after layer, and sits in your ears and demands to
be put on repeat for days and days. You begin to see life as a 1967 test
pattern on a B&W TV set (through a haze of cheap cigarette smoke). This is
the case with the track below, the lead song from a new EP by the band
Screen Vinyl Image (who are J. Sequential and Electra Blue). The sound is a
disturbed landscape, an alien-infested and acid-tinged one, that takes you
straight (backwards or forwards?) to a moment where kraut-rock makes love to
the world and everyone, by troika-endorsed law, can only communicate in
signs and symbols and must possess at least three LPs, each, by Can and
Suicide (playing them backwards, in week-to-week cycles, whilst wearing VU
dark sunglasses, a dangerous attitude and a wicked pout). This is my music
of choice. I'm simply blown away. In fact, it's the best sound I've heard
since playing this album for the first of many times. Live shows are
forthcoming, check the links below. Happy Revolution Day, comrades."
-And Before the First Kiss
Foreign Elfest
http://www.foreignelfest.com
http://www.myspace.com/foreignelfest
"On songs like Four Years to Forgery and Of Prematur', Foreign Elfest's
singer, Benj Hochfelder, displays vocal characteristics that carry the raw
riot-raising power of a certain 1960's folk revivalist. But unlike many
singer/songwriter's voices, his vocals are mostly smooth in delivery and
somewhat seductive, like that of many post-punk, synth-pop bands. Some of it
sounds somewhat lo-fi and home made, but it's clear enough to tell what is
going on in the mix. All in all, if the music of Foreign Elfest doesn't
catch you, the lyrics will. They're drop-dead brilliant."
-Stephanie Davidson, Peel Verbs
The Antiques (Washington DC black jangle post-funk)
http://www.theantiques.org
http://www.myspace.com/antiques
"For fans of semi-obscure '80s British acts such as Comsat Angels and the
Chameleons UK ... well, here is your new favorite band. The songs are
dramatic without being overwrought, as the band doesn't get bogged down with
unnecessary instrumentation. A thick organ sound envelops tracks such as "
Painted Post Road" and "Don't Stand in My Room," which plod along gingerly
while Greg Svitil gives a perfect deadpan delivery of lines like, "Don't
light up my life / Yours is the light I don't need / When did you become
such a creep? / When did you become so psychotic?" Things are more sprightly
on "One Day You'll Be Sorry Too" and "Auburn Aumbry," recalling some
different obscure '80s U.K. acts -- let's say Felt and Orange Juice this
time. People who are serious about their 7" record collection will seriously
love this album."
–Washington Post
Kuschty Rye Ergot
http://www.myspace.com/kuschtyryeergot
Kuschty Rye Ergot is the new project from long-time DC area
multi-instrumentalist/vocalist John Stanton. A collective as opposed to a
fixed lineup, performances range from drifty slowburn Popol Vuh-ish
watercolour solo guitar/synth constructs to full blown ensemble sonic
exhaust blasts, along with occasional stripped down acoustic folk musings.
Elements of many of Stanton's wide-ranging previous efforts (Redeemers,
Cash Slave Clique, Nik Turner/Harvey Bainbridge of Hawkwind, Spaceseed,
Promise Breakers, Cotton & Billawtm) are in evidence, refracted via a prism
of spatial folk, electronics, and whatever else the lineup du jour shakes
loose from their collective tree. A universe where Ronnie Lane and COB
channel Dome and Peter Hammill? You decide. This, Kuschty Rye Ergot's debut
performance, will feature Stanton accompanied by Kohoutek's Scott
Verrastro.
www.safraninsound.com
www.screenvinylimage.com
www.foreignelfest.com
www.theantiques.org
www.myspace.com/kuschtyryeergot
www.claviusproductions.org