FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE HUB Posted by Lazza on 2009-10-06 5:24:54am

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this friday Oct.9th...

KDVS Presents~

The Diminished Men (seattle)
Art Lessing & the F.V.
Volume Four
Mucky the Ducky

@ the Hub
1819 23rd street

all ages, 8pm, $5

The Diminished Men:
http://www.myspace.com/diminishedmen

2009/Shadow Instrumentals LP:

**If current instrumental music was always as majestic and as compelling as this, I'd hang up my Retro-Italian Soundtrack collector's boots for good. What we have here is the first definitive document from Seattle's Diminished Men. From the explosive drum rolls of the opening track, the only cover on the record, "L'appel du Vere", from Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" (composed by Phillipe Sarde) to the darkly exotic finale "A Housewife's Dram", this record is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speakeasy hallucinations, and haunted geography. Besides the Italian western overtones, carnivalesque freak show backdrops, Khorshid Egyptian guitar passages, and flipped-out electronic space psych, are perhaps the best surf-inspired tracks I've heard in years. A thick damp fog must have been rolling in from the creek behind Randall Dunn's West Seattle studio when these recordings were made. Its spine-chilling how Dunn managed to make this record sound like the ultimate mid-60's Surf-Vampire-Western revival soundtrack. Elements of Joe Meek's best Moontrekkers productions cross with a dash of Badalamentian murder blues drama setting the stage for Steve Schmitt's cobra-twilight guitar work and Dave Abramson's drum kit outlaw splatter to leave their indelible stains across this 41-minute epic journey.

-ALAN BISHOP (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies)


Art Lessing & the F.V.:
http://www.myspace.com/artlessing

Comprised of a hillbilly, an indian beaner, a foothill hesher and a devout vagitarian, Art Lessing & the Flower Vato are like the Scooby Doo gang high on cheap lysergics and pussy fumes. Breath deeply. Haaaahh...


VOL. 4
http://www.myspace.com/vol4band

If you've yet to see sacto's own Vol 4, you're in for a treat. Two piece band with blistering fuzz bass & monster drums sometimes possesed by Bo Diddley slingin' riffs from beyond the grave yet reminiscent of the brutish Ausie band Feedtime, if someone slipped acid in their hooch.


Mucky the Ducky
http://www.myspace.com/muckytheeducky

Dug the shit out of the few Mucky the Ducky shows I've seen, color me impressed. The dudes are great at conjuring sublime and powerful music out of nowhere. Marshall Allen of Sun Ra once gave my youngest brother this musical advice, "Go onstage without any preconception of what you're going do, and play the vibrations of the universe."
These cats do just that.

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message:	: :this friday Oct.9th... : :KDVS Presents~ : :The Diminished Men (seattle) :Art Lessing & the F.V. :Volume Four :Mucky the Ducky : :@ the Hub :1819 23rd street : :all ages, 8pm, $5 : :The Diminished Men: :http://www.myspace.com/diminishedmen : :2009/Shadow Instrumentals LP: : :**If current instrumental music was always as majestic and as compelling as this, I'd hang up my Retro-Italian Soundtrack collector's boots for good. What we have here is the first definitive document from Seattle's Diminished Men. From the explosive drum rolls of the opening track, the only cover on the record, "L'appel du Vere", from Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" (composed by Phillipe Sarde) to the darkly exotic finale "A Housewife's Dram", this record is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speakeasy hallucinations, and haunted geography. Besides the Italian western overtones, carnivalesque freak show backdrops, Khorshid Egyptian guitar passages, and flipped-out electronic space psych, are perhaps the best surf-inspired tracks I've heard in years. A thick damp fog must have been rolling in from the creek behind Randall Dunn's West Seattle studio when these recordings were made. Its spine-chilling how Dunn managed to make this record sound like the ultimate mid-60's Surf-Vampire-Western revival soundtrack. Elements of Joe Meek's best Moontrekkers productions cross with a dash of Badalamentian murder blues drama setting the stage for Steve Schmitt's cobra-twilight guitar work and Dave Abramson's drum kit outlaw splatter to leave their indelible stains across this 41-minute epic journey. : :-ALAN BISHOP (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies) : : :Art Lessing & the F.V.: :http://www.myspace.com/artlessing : :Comprised of a hillbilly, an indian beaner, a foothill hesher and a devout vagitarian, Art Lessing & the Flower Vato are like the Scooby Doo gang high on cheap lysergics and pussy fumes. Breath deeply. Haaaahh... : : :VOL. 4 :http://www.myspace.com/vol4band : :If you've yet to see sacto's own Vol 4, you're in for a treat. Two piece band with blistering fuzz bass & monster drums sometimes possesed by Bo Diddley slingin' riffs from beyond the grave yet reminiscent of the brutish Ausie band Feedtime, if someone slipped acid in their hooch. : : :Mucky the Ducky :http://www.myspace.com/muckytheeducky : : Dug the shit out of the few Mucky the Ducky shows I've seen, color me impressed. The dudes are great at conjuring sublime and powerful music out of nowhere. Marshall Allen of Sun Ra once gave my youngest brother this musical advice, "Go onstage without any preconception of what you're going do, and play the vibrations of the universe." :These cats do just that. :

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