[SEA]BASSKAMP w/ INHABITANTS, OBELUS unplugged & TEMPERED STEEL > 04/07/05
 

FEATURED THURSDAY:
APRIL 7th, 2005: INHABITANTS ( live electro-jazz, Vancouver Ca), OBELUS UNPLUGGED (live electronic duo, SEA), TEMPERED STEEL (experimental thumb piano, SEA)

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BASSKAMP Electronic & Experimental music to expand your mind
When: Thursday Nights 9pm – 2am
Where: CHAC Lower Level 1621 12th Avenue, Seattle
Door: $5 / $4 Members 21+ w/ID
Specials: $1 Rainier


BASSKAMP is an evening of 21st Century music highlighting Seattle's underground community of electronic and experimental musicians. Hosted by Obelus, a Seattle-based live electronic duo, BASSKAMP explores atmospheric and ambient soundscapes with DJs, live acoustic, laptop composition and free-improvisation. With an impressive lineup of local musicians, BASSKAMP extends from adventurous, sample-based freeform, live beats and sound sculpting to acoustic abstract and free jazz. BASSKAMP features members of Fourthcity, Now Device, Decibel Festival, Bass Kamp Records, and Bloc Records.

INHABITANTS live electro-jazz, Vancouver Ca
Early 70s electro jazz - Miles Davis meets Godspeed You Black Emperor!

OBELUS UNPLUGGED live electronic duo, SEA
Obelus is the Seattle based live electronica duo of Adam Pessl and
Jason Goessl. Played through the traditional instrumentation
of guitar and drums, Obelus takes these familiar sounds through a
matrix of samplers, effects, and sequencers to recombine
them into an eclectic mix of tempos, textures, and moods. These live electronic collages are best described as lush ambient
synthesizer and bass driven loops propelled by complex rythmic
progressions that take the listener on a sonic escape to the untempered regions of musical imagination.
www.obelus.net

TEMPERED STEEL experimental thumb piano, SEA
Tempered Steel is an experimental thumb piano ensemble
featuring Ffej, Frank Junk and Dennis Rea. These three
veteran sound artists improvise on traditional African
instruments, using them as raw sound sources composed
of metal and wood. Combining them with a variety of
electronic effects, the resulting music ranges from
dense polyrythms to lush soundscapes. It's a beautiful
noise, evoking our primal instincts of the past while
turning an ear to our evolved future.



About the musicians: www.basskamp.com, www.obelus.net



Other promotional partners for this night are:
Substudios (www.substudios.net) And Static Factory Media (www.staticfactory.org)


For more information on what happens at the CHAC Lower Level, please visit this link: www.staticfactory.org/calendar

All I can say is experimental thumb piano! where else are you gonna find that?

Thumb Piano
 

....this is why Basskamp always kicks mounds of ass!

bump for the best weekly going!

Those Obelus boys have some tricks up their sleeves for this night. They've been working very hard on their next release - it's sick I tell ya, sick!

Yo! Tis tomorrow night!

From Last Week's Stranger Issue:
THURSDAY MARCH 31
BASSKAMP: BOOKMOBILE, OBELUS
Obelus (Jason Goessl and Adam Pessl) rank among of the city's most versatile musicians, using guitar and drums to trigger an encyclopedic range of electronic sounds for your dancing and pondering pleasure. No two Obelus shows are alike, because they favor spontaneity over rigid planning--and, to paraphrase Miles Davis regarding their formidable chops, "They're motherfuckers." As I've blathered here many times before, Bookmobile (Victor Couto and Ben Torrence) put a quirky spring in IDM's step, giving the decrepit genre more bounce to the ounce than most of their better-known peers. Come hear what I've been frothing about these past few months, would ya? CHAC (Lower Level), 1621 12th St, 388-0521, 9 pm-2 am, 21+, $4/$3 members.

Thanks Dave Segal!

And in this week's Stranger...
THURSDAY APRIL 7
BASSKAMP: INHABITANTS, OBELUS
(CHAC Lower Level) Vancouver quartet Inhabitants eke out woozy jazztronica for people still mourning Miles Davis' 1991 death (I know I'm still reeling). Play the group's self-titled disc in your portable music device, go for a long walk, and instantly be transported to a late-night, romantic underworld where the jukebox is loaded with early-'70s ECM titles, everybody's wearing stylish hats, and hearts are melting like globally warmed icebergs. The blissful yet dissonant ambience and lightly shuffling grooves these young cats create may also induce chills in folks with lots of titles from the Constellation and Thrill Jockey labels in their collections. DAVE SEGAL