SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
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Ed Kuepper & Mark Dawson
10.30pm (inside)
Ed Kuepper (born Edmund Kuepper in Bremen, West Germany, 20 December 1955) is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later thegrunge-like The Aints. He has also recorded over a dozen albums in his own name with a variety of backing bands, notably Ed Kuepper and the Yard Goes On Forever, Ed Kuepper and his Oxley Creek Playboys, Ed Kuepper and The Institute Of Nude Wrestling, The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, Ed Kuepper and the New Imperialists and presently Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective.
In 1976 Kuepper and the Saints were one of the first Australian acts to form their own record label[citation needed], Fatal Records, to release that band's first single "(I'm) Stranded". In 1980 Kuepper started up Prince Melon Records to release his work with Laughing Clowns. Kuepper was awarded ARIAs for Best Independent Australian Release in 1993, for Black Ticket Day, and 1994 for Serene Machine and was nominated for similar awards in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998. He was one of Australia's most prolific recording artists in the early nineties.
In recent years Kuepper has been involved in soundtracking radio drama and experimental films. He toured Australia and Europe performing semi-improvised music to some of these films under the banner of MFLL. Venues included The Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Sydney Opera House, The Austrian Film Museum (Vienna) and The Cartier Foundation (Paris), where Kuepper has the distinction of being the only rock musician to be invited to play apart from the Velvet Underground.
2007 saw the release of Kuepper's Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog album, which was inspired by the story of Jean Lee who was the last woman hanged in Australia, and features amongst others, performances by Jeffrey Wegener (Laughing Clowns), Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys), Warren Ellis (Dirty Three), and Chris Bailey (The Saints).
After extensive touring in 2008 opening for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Kuepper joined this band as a touring guitarist upon the departure of founding member Mick Harvey in early 2009. This year Kuepper also relaunched Prince Melon Records.
Source Wikipedia
White Fang
9.30pm (inside)
White Fang are the boisterously beating heart of Portland's DIY punk scene. They've played almost every basement within a 10-mile radius of the Willamette River. In addition to recently touring with hometown heroes the Thermals, they book their own tours. They forego studio time in favor of bedroom and basement recording. They even own their own small-run cassette label, Gnar Tapes and Shit. As a band, all hallmarks of sophistication are pushed straight through a closed window; White Fang are mostly about gleeful destruction and infectious cacophony.
Pitchfork
Ollo
8.30pm (inside)
The godfathers of the Sydney electronic scene are back again
with their third album "Ape Delay"
and their second appearance in Portland.
For new album Ape Delay:
"There?s a looseness with style that is often missing in the world of micro-genred
electronic music? It?s almost as if ollo have discovered the way to have
the best of both the modernist and post-modernist cakes, and are eating everything
in sight.
On Ape Delay the duo use all their experience to create something truly great.
Searching, electronic-based music, which evokes old and new possibilities,
combines accessibility with stark exploration. This album will be right up
there on my end of year lists."
[Adrian Elmer :: Cyclic Defrost Magazine]
"Full Stop Blue is a gorgeous and slow growing jam. Absolutely blissful"
[dublab.com]
"Ape Delay is bloody compelling. 4.5 stars."
[SX Magazine]
4 stars
[Bernard Zuel :: Sydney Morning Herald]
"easy deadpan cool the likes of Bowie would kill for, not to mention a laidback
and unforced wit that makes a lot of other bands doing the rounds come across
as oh-so serious."
[Andrew Khedoori :: 2SER Music Director, owner of Preservation Records]
"Sounds as if you?ve stepped back to the cool end of 1981."
[SCOUT.COM.AU]
For previous album The If If:
"If it?s not the trippy guitar solos on ?summer salt? that weave you into
the boys interplanetary web it?ll be the always shifting synth pads that
reel you in and take you under"
[XLR8R :: USA]
"The second album from Sydney?s Ollo, The If If, doesn?t disappoint; it?s
a strange and imaginative collection of anti-pop songs that uses simple,
melodic electronica to create trance-like soundscapes. ...an eerie and well
crafted musical excursion where you never quite know where you?re heading,
or where you?ve just been."
[Rolling Stone :: 3.5 stars]
"...an electro downbeat tour de force... has to be one of the best albums
I have heard this year."
[FurtherNoise :: UK]
"Like an Aussie Beta Band with a touch of the kind of playful sound of acts
like Department of Eagles, Errors and Tunng. Very promising."
[Pure Groove :: UK]
"ESSENTIAL STUFF"
[Rough Trade :: UK]
Onuinu
7.30pm (inside)
ONUINU, besides being a nightmare to type, is the new electro-pop project from Portland, Oregon’s Dorian Duvall. Duvall has announced the first full-length Onuinu album, Mirror Gazer will arrive August 21st on Bladen County Records. Duvall wrote and produced the album while Jeremy Sherrer co-produced, recorded/mixed the album and played drums. Download Onuinu’s first Mirror Gazer single, “Happy Home”, below.
Says Duvall about his influences: I was drawn more to guitar when I was a teenager listening to Hendrix and Jazz and then transitioned into more pop music Like the Beatles, Kinks, Zombies.
On becoming a musician: I didn’t really play in very many bands, I jammed with friends, attempted to start a few bands with friends and then decided to make music on my own – I did some early recordings with an acoustic guitar and a Casio. Then I bought my first sampler and synthesizer and with those I started making loops. The early influences with that stuff were all over the place from Eno, Bowie, Madlib, J Dilla, Prince, and Jan Hammer.
Says Duvall about his influences: I was drawn more to guitar when I was a teenager listening to Hendrix and Jazz and then transitioned into more pop music Like the Beatles, Kinks, Zombies.
On becoming a musician: I didn’t really play in very many bands, I jammed with friends, attempted to start a few bands with friends and then decided to make music on my own – I did some early recordings with an acoustic guitar and a Casio. Then I bought my first sampler and synthesizer and with those I started making loops. The early influences with that stuff were all over the place from Eno, Bowie, Madlib, J Dilla, Prince, and Jan Hammer.
Swoop Swoop
6.30pm (inside)
Finding any information on this release is proving to be almost impossible for me. And I also get the feeling that this is exactly as it should be. The artist formerly known as Streaky Jake only released his last album, Somewhere In The Shadows, four months ago. That release was a laidback, folkish affair, embellished with production frills by Alex from o||o. This is possibly a collection of outtakes from those sessions as it has the same overall mood but, is, if anything, even more stripped back. The only vague reference to this release I can find anywhere is this allusion from a Myspace blog entry – “also coming soon my label metal postcard is going to do a ltd ed release lo fi cdr – with some new songs” and a possible title on the Metal Postcard blog. Whatever, it’s the music we’re mostly interested in here, just expect to do a bit of work to track down a copy.
And track down a copy would ultimately be my advice, as this is a great collection of tracks. Mostly, it’s Sean Gorman on his own with a nylon string guitar, a steel string acoustic guitar, or piano and his own plaintive voice. The first couple of tracks, ‘Easy’ and ‘Your Blood Is In My Blood’ hints at a musician willfully exploiting a basic skill level, strumming well but unextraordinarily on his guitar. Folk with punk ideals – anyone can do it. But then ‘Like Nothing At All’ breaks the mistique. It certainly isn’t shredding, but the fingerpicking is spot on, the movement around individual strings to create melodies out of the chord structures could only have been played by an artist in control of their instrument. And it’s really beautiful. Between the first handful of tracks are loud clicks, like the sound of the tape recorder being turned on and off, adding to the mood of immediacy. A cover of Dylan’s ‘Love Minus Zero/No Limit uses just rustic piano and voice to turn the song into pure funereal melancholy. The latter 5 or 6 tracks of the album feature fuller instrumentation, though generally with the same collection of instruments plus the addition of drums, leading me to believe these are the offcasts from from Somewhere In The Shadows while the album’s sparser, earlier tracks are the demos that never got past that stage. But then that suggestion sells the tracks short. Not a single track across the 50 minutes feels throwaway or unworthy of release.
This is a seriously mysterious release, but this fact simply adds to its allure. It’s been seeping under my skin for a number of days now, and I keep finding myself wanting to come back for more and more. Yep – go to the bother of tracking it down.
Adrian Elmer (Cyclic Defrost)
Grapefruit
5.30pm (inside)
Grapefruit is the moniker of a Portland, Oregon synth composer, C. Salas-Humara, where we find him creating lush percolating brain cinema, analog computer dreamscapes, and progressive sci-fi psychedelia. Sometimes the trip is relaxed and bucolic night drive, soaring across the desert sky as the golden suns melts into the horizon. Other times Grapefruit is a dense scramble through a frenzied maze, burning an urban landscape into circuit board and riding the circuits until they bleed.
"Gorgeous waves of oscillation initially come on like a time capsule of minimalism; a call and response to Spiegel and Riley – after sounding for all the world like a lost section of Vangelis’ Bladerunner score to begin with.The soft electronic kick moves things forward almost imperceptibly: a quantum monorail to Peepholes’ night drive. "Phase Accidents" becomes all about the glide: a million airbrushed geometric shapes reconfiguring themselves in slit-scan patterns, dominating the windows that constrain and constantly reconfigure your field of view. A sort of proto-Balearic-Disco: a Chariots of the Gods to Lindstrom’s Gulfstream dreams." -20 Jazz Funk Greats
Goodnight Billy Goat
4.30pm (inside)
Good Night Billygoat is the singular name for the duo of David Klein and Nick Woolley. The two artists have collaborated continuously since 2006 on projects which combine their shared passions: woodworking and animation.Klein and Woolley initially formed as the musical/visual duo of Good Night Billygoat, producing animated art films and performing their live, original scores. These films, which include the 17-minute "Dioscuri" and the 18 minute follow up "The Golden Age," have been described as "stop-motion shorts of staggering complexity," created one tiny movement at a time via tens of thousands of individual photographs of an ever-morphing art piece. These photos are then stitched together to become an elaborately detailed and captivating art film, bringing their other-worldly aesthetic to life.
During live sets, the films are projected onto a wall-sized screen as Klein and Woolley play an original musical arrangement on harp, keyboards, accordion, glockenspiel and electric guitar. This sonic accompaniment, coupled with the intricate visuals, have played to sold out theaters in performances described as "breathtaking" and "delicately haunting."
Originally based in L.A., the duo recently relocated to Portland, Oregon to continue their work in animation and m
++ OUTSIDE STAGE ++
Louis Inglis
9.00pm (outside)
His name is Louis Inglis. He writes and records music at home surrounded by animals and friendly robots. He spends all his days digging for treasure in the garden and making furniture from long dead pets. He taught himself to half-play musical instruments as a homespun treatment for his crippling autism and he records his music live into a broken cassette deck. He hates children and simply cannot choose a favourite colour.
Zac Pennington
8.00pm (outside)
We are thrilled to announce that Zac Pennington will be joining us to perform a unique set just for the festival.
Zac is the vocalist and artistic director for the Portland, Or group Parenthetical Girls.
His "early adolescence was largely spent consumed by a general misunderstanding of punk rock, and at the time embarrassing affection for some of the darker corners of adult contemporary. This was followed by and intermingled with a slightly more nuanced appreciation of British pop music, and an interest in the American underground." (- Zac Pennington, Evil Monito interview)
Zac has been known to be quite theatrical and animated on stage, including the crowd in the wonderful chaos and bewilderment he engenders. He's worked with various artists and art genres in order to achieve his work. (In 2004 Zac founded the Portland label called Slender Means Society.)
Zac is the vocalist and artistic director for the Portland, Or group Parenthetical Girls.
His "early adolescence was largely spent consumed by a general misunderstanding of punk rock, and at the time embarrassing affection for some of the darker corners of adult contemporary. This was followed by and intermingled with a slightly more nuanced appreciation of British pop music, and an interest in the American underground." (- Zac Pennington, Evil Monito interview)
Zac has been known to be quite theatrical and animated on stage, including the crowd in the wonderful chaos and bewilderment he engenders. He's worked with various artists and art genres in order to achieve his work. (In 2004 Zac founded the Portland label called Slender Means Society.)
The Great Mundane
7.00pm (outside)
Video game deprived and pop culturally challenged, The Great Mundane grew up in a southeastern Michigan home where TV was made of cardboard boxes, the tree in the backyard was his best friend and the words “I am bored” were household blasphemy. Aside from occasional piano lessons, he passed time deep in his own imagination and on spontaneous road trips, a.k.a his mother’s famous mystery van rides, that seem to have provoked his current state of restlessness.
Itching to hit the road, The Great Mundane left his hip-hop roots in Michigan to delve into Chicago’s house/techno scene before arriving in the Pacific Northwest. Now based in Portland, Oregon he takes listeners on a journey exploring the complexities and intricacies of his minimalist and innovative approach to beatmaking. He invents fractured, heady instrumentals laced with lush synthesizer work that navigate the terrain of forward thinking hip-hop and electro/house, all while exhibiting genuine emotion and talented production skills. Each arrangement is collaged with friends, found sounds, synthesizers, and samples meticulously programmed to convey what it might feel like to fall in love with a tree, travel through a wormhole, or to never be bored again.
His debut LP “When Falls Arrive” (Psymbolic) was released in 2007 exposing him as one of the top underground electronic musicians to keep an ear out for. Since, he has released “The Wires Remixes” EP (2008), a remix of Deru’s “Peanut Butter and Patience” (Mush, 2009), his second full length entitled “Humdrum” (RunRiot Records, 2010), and most recently an EP entitled “This Is So You” (1320 Records, 2011). The Great Mundane’s music is featured on a long list of compilation albums including Portland’s annual “PDX Pop Now” series and “Gem Drops,” a benefit album for the American Cancer Society.
Nick Jaina
6.00pm (outside)
Nick Jaina is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. He has released a handful of albums on Hush Records. He has also composed ballets for a New York City collective called the Satellite Ballet. He has worked on film soundtracks and scores for plays.
For this festival, Nick Jaina is curating a small group of musicians who will never have met before getting onstage together. They will improvise a soundtrack over which Nick will recite his own original stories and essays.
Quim
5.00pm (outside)
Formed in 1989 to perform at their high school's (Halloween) "Masquerade Ball". Over two-plus decades, the sound has evolved, the band members have come and gone, but the core components remain: Vintage/hardware electronics; treated guitar; this and that playing on a TV screen; samples that amuse us and may disgust you; the police scanner and a passing train buried somewhere in this mix.
Unkle Funkle
3.00pm - (outside)
Unkle Funkle is a controversial producer who writes and records music in a range of different genres. He records all of the instruments and synthesizes on a computer. In addition to being the vice-president of Gnar Tapes and the bassist in White Fang, Unkle Funkle has produced and recorded many acts, such as Free Weed, Skinny Jesus, Diamond Catalog, Indignant Senility, Boom!, and Scavenger Cunt. Unkle Funkle's "Picture Of My Dick" album is currently out of print, but will be available this September via Marriage Records. "Picture Of My Dick" was called a "Masterpiece" by home-recorded legend R. Stevie Moore and was called "Album of the year" bySlowJamzForMen.com
Free Weed
2pm (Outside)
Free Weed is producer and singer Erik Gage, founder of Gnar Tapes and member of both White Fang and The Memories. Not unlike his bands, Free Weed combines strong pop hooks with bizarre yet familiar lyrics. Unlike his bands, the music is as varied as a preteen's iTunes; elements of FM & AM radio pop, alien R&B, un-glam buttrock, male diva house, library music, and rap all swirl together. While having put out dozens of tapes under different names and with different collectives, Free Weed is also a member of production duo Flavorbus, alongside long time collaborator, business partner, and best friend Unkle Funkle. His notoriety is rising as out of print tapes on his own imprint Gnar, as well as Beer On The Rug, are quickly being followed by a 2nd tape for BOTR and tapes on Chicago's Lillerne Tapes, and Portugal's Exo Tapes.
Metal Postcard Soundsystem & Friends
1.30pm Onwards (outside)
++ CINEMA ROOM ++
& DJs
Bad Thoughts @ 11pm
Community Library DJ's: Brokenwindow & Strategy @ 10pm
DJ Emil @ 4pm
DJ Grapefruit @ 3pm
Music is Money Incorporated: Presentation
"Music is Money: How to Get Any Girl to Sleep with You in Five Easy Steps: A History of Dubstep" @ 2pm
AFTER PARTY TO 2AM
Kenton Club - DJ's
Just 2 blocks away at
2025 North Kilpatrick Street
Kenton Club - DJ's
Just 2 blocks away at
2025 North Kilpatrick Street