Curated by CounterstreamRadio.org and New Amsterdam Records.

(NPR recently spotlighted the latter on All Things Considered.)

2 PM | East River Amphitheater

itsnotyouitsme

Mark Dancigers

Timberbrit

Alex Sopp

Matt Marks and the Li’l Death Band

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itsnotyouitsme

“The four works on “walled gardens” are instrumental meditations that draw heavily on early Minimalist techniques, most notably repetition and gradual expansion. Repeating figures often continue without transformation and gradually melt into the ambient haze as new layers of violin, guitar and electronic sound are added.” (Allen Koznin, New York Times review of walled gardens)

Website/audio: http://www.myspace.com/inyimband

NY Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/arts/music/13reco.html

Mark Dancigers

“The New York Youth Symphony premiered his Snow in Carnegie Hall in 2006. The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra performed his Liquid Song in August 2006, and the Minnesota Orchestra read the same piece in May 2006. The Yale Philharmonia Orchestra premiered Liquid Song in March 2005. NOW Ensemble performed Cloudbank at the 2006 Carlsbad Festival and and Hanging There at the 2005 Look and Listen Festival in New York. Other performances of his work have been at the Music at the Anthology Festival, Merkin Hall, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, and venues throughout New York, Boston, New Haven, and Philadelphia.”

Website: http://www.markdancigers.com

Timberbrit

Alarm Will Sound’s page: http://www.alarmwillsound.com/about/members/marks.html

DJ Thanaton

DJ Brian Turner (of WFMU)

DJ Maria T (of WPRB)

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Brecht Forum
451 West Street
between Bank and Bethune
in New York f’ing City
The East River Music Project: Summer 2008 Season (our sixth season!) is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
The July 18 2008 benefit for the East River Music Project is underwritten by Heraty Law.

Diana Wong’s photography

Punkcast: clips of Blood City, Emperor X, Obits, and Titus Andronicus

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted review

CMJ on Titus Andronicus and Emperor X

New York Press on Emperor X

(Photo above of Titus Andronicus, copyright Diana Wong)

Titus Andronicus

Obits

Emperor X

Blood City

East River Amphitheater (Cherry St. @ FDR Drive, NYC)

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Flyer design by Scott Gursky.

The Village Voice was there. (Twice.) So was CMJ. I expect some footage will turn up on Punkcast before too long as well.

LVHRD had some kind words to say in anticipation of the show, as did Flavorpill and The Fader.

Diana Wong was also on hand to document the proceedings. All photos below are hers…

Animental:

Soiled Mattress and the Springs:

Lucky Dragons:

And more Lucky Dragons:

UPDATE: The order for Saturday’s show, from first to last, will be as follows:

David Horvitz

John Wiese

Lexie Mountain Boys

Lucky Dragons

Animental

Soiled Mattress and the Springs

East River Amphitheater (Cherry St. @ FDR Drive, NYC).

>> LUCKY DRAGONS Lucky Dragons came together in the spring of 2000 in an
attempt to create a band that would never break up. The name is
borrowed from a Japanese fishing vessel caught in the fallout of a US
hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean that became a focal point for
worldwide anti-nuclear sentiment in the 20th century. With a constantly
shifting group of participants, each recording is a record of a
specific time and place, and of those present and active as a community
in the creation of the recording. For this recording, the time is
2007-2008, the place is California. The name of the record refers to
the landfill-island in Tokyo harbor where the original Lucky Dragon now
lives–”dream island”, and to the creation of imaginary
languages–”laughing language”–that can be used to express things our
own languages can’t. As with Lucky Dragons’ legendary live
performances, these recordings strive to create a space where community
and memory and ritual and perspective all come together as a crystal
and then vibrate and shatter.
website:http://hawksandsparrows.org/
audio: http://www.myspace.com/luckydragons

>> JOHN WIESE John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles,
California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with
plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))),
Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Dave Phillips, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle
Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). He has toured
extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and
Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise
tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans,
etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in
the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari.
website: www.john-wiese.com

>> ANIMENTAL Animental is an outlet for expression in its purest form,
drawing inspiration from animals. Animental explores the ideas of
innate reactions and behavior of animals vs. the programmed or
acceptable actions of the human animal. It hopes to empower the
individual who is performing as well as transport the audience to
another realm of reality. Inspiration, freedom, hope, creativity,
individuality, power, and feminism are things Animental hopes to
transpire. We use sound, costumes, movement, storytelling, props,
lights and what ever else the participants and performers bring. no
performance is like the other.
website: http://touchbutts.com/animental/
audio: http://www.myspace.com/animentaltheband

>> SOILED MATTRESS AND THE SPRINGS Soiled Mattress & The Springs are a
three piece instrumental band from New York City. The band consists of
cartoonist Matthew Thurber, who plays his sax with punchy and uplifting
vigour, Aviram Cohen, who lends insistent garage rock beats and
keyboardist, Peter Schuette whose sprightly hooks interlock with the
other instruments making for an intuitive leap into a world of upbeat
imagination.

Curating and headlining the event will be Lucky Dragons, participants in this year’s Whitney Biennial and Tokion’s Creativity Now Conference.

This week sees the release of their new album Dream Island Laughing Language; the “Morning Ritual” can be heard here. For more Lucky Dragons audio, visit them at myspace.

More information will be forthcoming on the other artists performing.

*Emperor X

*Excellent

*Blood City Shack Up

Sound Fix: 110 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

First band on at 8 PM sharp.

Suggested donation: $8

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