[kj] Fwd: [foetus] Upcoming appearances by J.G.Thirlwell

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--- foetus <mail at foetus.org> wrote:


> To: foetus at yahoogroups.com

> From: "foetus" <mail at foetus.org>

> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 02:31:29 -0000

> Subject: [foetus] Upcoming appearances  by

> J.G.Thirlwell

> 

> Upcoming appearances  by J.G.Thirlwell 

> 

> * May 16 2007

> 

> J.G.Thirlwell DJ set 

> at Nuits Sonores in Lyon, France

> Also on this bill : Pierre Bastien, Stereo Total,

> Large Number, Agaskodo Telivereka, Mirko / 

> Lazy Fat People, Interstellar Fugitives, Agoria,

> Pfadfinderei, Tiefschwartz, Matthew Dear, 

> James Holden, Von Spar, Herve AK, Schaeben & Voss

> feat Schad-Privat, Geiger, Tobias 

> Thomas

> 

> www.nuits-sonores.com 

> 

> * May 19 2007

> 

> A trio consisting of JG Thirlwell, FM Einheit and

> Frederic Le Junter will perform Christian 

> Marclay's "Screen Play" from a video score 

> at Nuits Sonores in Lyon, France  

> Also on this bill :: Pierre Bastien, Mark

> Cunningham, DJ Olive, Jerome Noetinger, Erik M, 

> Dieb 13,

> 

> www.nuits-sonores.com 

>  

> * May 25 2007

> 

> Marina Rosenfeld 

> JG Thirlwell will guest on a piece by Ms Rosenfeld

> this evening.

> Issue Project Room, 400 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY

> 11231.

> 

> www.issueprojectroom.org

> marinarosenfeld.com

> 

> * May 31 , June 1 and June 2  2007

> 

> JG Thirlwell's commission for string quartet and

> robot instruments

> at  Three-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center

> 

> The string quartet for JG's piece will consist of

> Leyna Papach, Elena Park, Karen Waltuch 

> and Okkyung Lee

> [Edit] [Cancel]

> 80 Greenwich Street @ Rector 

> New York

> 

> "Robosonic Eclectic: Live Music by Robots and

> Humans". A concert series consisting 

> entirely of works commissioned for LEMUR's musical

> robots. Pieces are by J.G. Thirlwell, 

> Morton Subotnick, George Lewis, John Flansburgh and

> John Linnell (They Might Be Giants) 

> and others.Robosonic Eclectic is presented as part

> of the New York Electronic Art Festival 

> (NYEAF), a month-long celebration of cutting-edge

> electronic music performed at various 

> venues from May 12 - June 10, 2007.

> 

> http://lemurplex.org/

> 

> * June 3  2007

> 

> J.G Thirlwell's Manorexia 

> at the Bang On A Can Marathon at the Winter Garden

> at the World Financial Center, New 

> York City. 

> 

> This year's Bang On A Can Marathon is an incredible

> 26 hour concert. It is free and will 

> feature performances by many artists including the

> Bang on a Can Allstars, Ethel, Real 

> Quiet, The Books, Iva Bittova, Mashriq, ICE, Dalek,

> Yo La Tengo and many more. There will 

> also be performances of works by Steve Reich, Brian

> Eno, Louis Andriessen, Edgar Varese, 

> Thurston Moore, Meredith Monk, Alvin  Lucier,

> Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang 

> and many more.

> 

> Manorexia will perform on Sunday afternoon at around

> 2pm.

> 

> This version of Manorexia will comprise of David

> Cossin-percussion, Felix Fan - Cello, 

> Andy Russo-piano , Leyna Papach - violin , Elena

> Park - violin , Karen Waltuch - viola and 

> JG Thirlwell - laptop. (Cossin, Fan and Russo also

> comprise the ensemble Real Quiet)

> 

> for full lineup visit

> www.bangonacan.org

> 

> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

> 

> Season two of "The Venture Brothers" is out now in

> the USA on DVD. It contains thirteen 

> episodes of the Adult Swim/ Cartoon Network show,

> all scored by J.G.Thirlwell.

> You can order it from Amazon and other fine

> retailers.

> 

> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

> 

> A reminder that DAMP, the long awaited album by

> FOETUS is now available exclusively 

> from the Foetus Shoppe! 

> 

> Here is a new review of DAMP from

> http://www.theautomatik.com/2007/04/06/foetus-damp/

> 

> 

> Foetus: Damp

> If we are to believe the dictum that there is no

> rest for the wicked, I suppose it's fitting 

> that J.G. Thirlwell, aka Foetus, is one of the most

> industrious forces in the universe.

> 

> In addition to scoring the music for The Venture

> Bros., his various commissioned 

> performances, audio installations, DJ gigs, and

> alter egos/side projects, he's managed to 

> release yet another album as Foetus.

> 

> Damp is the perfect musical antipasto for those not

> yet initiated into Thirlwell's cult of 

> personality. It's an eclectic exhibit of the

> excellence of Foetus for the new millennium.

> 

> "Antabuse" and "Cold Shoulder" are brand-new tracks

> and illustrate how the instrumental 

> atmospheres that Foetus constructs are often as

> seductive as his vocal compositions. The 

> spooky "Blessed Evening" is a remix of a tune from

> 2005's brilliant Love album. There are 

> also fresh editions of "Into the Light" and "Not In

> Your Hands," the latter of which 

> transports my imagination to an alternate universe

> in which Thirlwell composes the theme 

> to a new Bond movie.

> 

> "I Hate You All" is a hilarious near-parody of what

> many would consider the "classic" 

> Foetus sound, all screaming horns and snarling

> misanthropy, while the sexy stream-of-

> consciousness of "Hemo the Cuckold" provides at

> least two of the multiple David Bowie 

> references found throughout the album (I'll let you

> discover the others). Those of us who 

> fell in love with "Sieve" on the Flow tour are quite

> thankful that it's finally made its way 

> onto a proper release.

> 

> Although those less familiar with his oeuvre often

> mistakenly refer to Foetus as a "they" he 

> does play well with others, as proven by "Paging Dr.

> Strong" (with Rotoskop) and his 

> reinvention of "Shrunken Man" by The The.

> 

> My favourite of these collaborative efforts,

> however, is "Mine Is No Disgrace," which I heard 

> when it was originally released on the Melvins' fine

> album The Crybaby in 2000. Just 

> coming down from the high of the recently

> re-released Foetus back catalogue, I wasn't 

> quite ready for it though it has definitely improved

> with time.

> 

> Although older releases like Thaw and Wiseblood's

> Dirtdish are more brutally masculine, I 

> don't think Thirlwell has ever sounded more raw than

> he does on this song. His trademark 

> growl sinks to its most primal and naked, both

> vocally and lyrically.

> 

> Perhaps nothing is more mind-blowing than "Chimera,"

> which having listened to Foetus 

> for more than half of my life seems to be the most

> radical thing he's ever done, and not in 

> the ways that one would expect.

> 

> In the teaser trailers for the upcoming Foetus

> documentary, long-time Thirlwell friend and 

> collaborator Lydia Lunch cautions that those who

> would assume that Thirlwell the creator 

> and Thirlwell the person are the same would be

> wrong. But with lines about "needing 

> human contact" one has to wonder if he's finally let

> a bit of his "backwards mask" slip. Or 

> maybe that's just what he wants us to think.

> 

> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

> 

> Also a reminder that we have launched he digital

> shoppe at foetus.org

> This will make the works of J.G.Thirlwell available

> as digital downloads.

> 

> We are now exclusively offering downloadable

> versions of the new Foetus album DAMP, 

> and the two Manorexia albums Radiolarian Ooze and

> Volvox Turbo.

> You will find the tracks previewed at the digital

> shoppe so you can hear tasters before you 

> purchase.

> 

> These are not available as individual song files,

> only as full albums as we believe in the 

> integrity of the album format and they should be

> perceived in continuum as a full body of 

> work.

> 

> More titles will be going up very soon.

> 

> Please visit foetus.org/shop to click thru to the

> digital shoppe.

> 

> Of course DAMP, the two Manorexia albums Radiolarian

> Ooze and Volvox Turbo are also 

> still available here as physical CDs.

> 

> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

> 

> 

> 

> Coming in Sept 2007

> The long-awaited release of FOETUS VEIN remix album

> featuring Mike Patton, 

> Fennesz, Matmos, Tujiko Noriko, Jason Forrest,

> Tweaker, TRZTN, Jay Wasco, Tom Recchion 

> and JGT

> www.foetus.org

> 

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