2:00 PM - Mitsuru Tabata (Japan)
2:30 PM - Angel Bat Dawid (Chicago)
3:00 PM - Josephine Foster (Colorado)
3:30 PM - Travis of Ono (Chicago)
4:00 PM - Bobbie and Jonny Seagroatt of Comus (UK)
4:30 PM - Tara Fursaxa, Brooke Sietinsons (Espers) and Nathalie Shapiro Trio (Philadelphia)
5:00 PM - Samara Lubelski (NYC)
5:30 PM - Kawabata Makoto and Andromelos2 (Japan)
Galactic Zoo Dossier, The Singleman Affair, and ESS Present:
Million Tongues Festival Part 1: Cosmic Visionaries
With mastermind Plastic Crimewave at the helm, we are reviving Million Tongues in an online fest fashion--in the past MT has hosted folks like Terry Reid, Tony Conrad, Bert Jansch, Michael Yonkers, Acid Mothers Temple, Simon Finn---and now we can again feature incredible artists like Kawabata Makoto, Samara Lubelski, Bobbie and Jonny Seagroatt of Comus, Travis of Ono, Josephine Foster, Angel Bat Dawid, Mitsuru Tabata, and a trio with Tara Fursaxa, Brooke Sietinsons (Espers) and Nathalie Shapiro! This will be a fully happening live, so tune in for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see some of these mythical and truly legendary acoustic troubadours...
Special thanks to Steve "Plastic Crimewave" Krakow for using his unbridled and uncanny ability to make the impossible possible as well as to Experimental Sound Studio for their stalwart presence in these trying times and their awesome The Quarantine Concerts series.
Part 2 will be happening August 2nd, and wait til you see who we have...
July 5th Lineup
Mitsuru Tabata (Japan) 2:00pm (USA Central time)
http://www.tabatamitsuru.com/tabatamitsuru_bio.html
Longtime genius guitarist from legendary avant bands like Noizunzurli, The Boredoms (who he helped found in 1986), Zeni Geva, Acid Mothers Temple, and currently with 20 Guilders, Gaseneta, Green Flames (with Munehiro Narita from High Rise], and RQRQ [featuring Doronco from Les Rallies Denudes]. Tabata's solo sets often range from folk to prog, to punk rock, so get ready for anything, direct from Tokyo.
Angel Bat Dawid (Chicago) 2:30pm
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle
Composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended on Chicago's jazz & improvised music scene just a few years ago. In very short time, the potency, prowess, spirit & charisma of her cosmic musical proselytizing has taken her from relatively unknown improviser to borderline ubiquitous performer in Chicago's avant-garde. On any given night you can find Angel adding aura to ensembles featuring Ben LaMar Gay, Damon Locks, Jaimie Branch, Matthew Lux, or the great Roscoe Mitchell.
Josephine Foster (Colorado) 3:00pm
http://www.josephinefoster.info/
Folkstress Josephine Foster has been following her unique and elegiac muse for over 2 decades. Her varied past projects include Born Heller, with bassist Jason Ajemian; The Children's Hour, with Andrew Bar; and as JF and The Supposed (Brian Goodman on guitar and Rusty Peterson on drums), she released a classic acid rock song cycle, All the Leaves Are Gone. Now Foster is signed to British independent record label Fire Records, who largely put out her work recorded in rural Spain, with Victor Herrero. This will be a rare appearance by travellin' woman Josephine Foster, backed by Nashville multi-instrumentalist Chris Davis (Cherry Blossoms) and slide god Matt Schneider (Moon Bros) for a set of anything-goes improv.
Travis of Ono (Chicago) 3:30pm
As the lead singer for over 40 years of Chicago noise/gospel/art rock experimentalists Ono, Travis needs little introduction. Originally known as Travis Dobbs, his life journey through Mississippi, the military, SF, Ohio and the windy city has given Travis the tools to call out racism and reference his heritage via the artistic soundscapes of Ono. Travis is also a visual/video artist, and this unreleased 2015 video he created for the ONO song "MaLaVeau" makes its debut here.
Bobbie and Jonny Seagroatt of Comus (UK) 4:00pm
Comus were a Uk pagan/progressive folk band formed in 1969. Their first 1971 album, First Utterance, blends elements of Eastern percussion, acoustic folk, and feral vocals ruminating upon murder, mental disorder and the mystical. They reunited in 2009, playing several festivals and releasing a new album, Out of The Coma. Vocalist Bobbie (Watson) Seagroatt and her multi-instrumentalist husband Jon Seagroatt (who was also in free-rock/Music in Opposition/cult band Red Square) will attempt to recreate some Comus tunes of yore, along with their own experimental sounds.
Tara Fursaxa, Brooke Sietinsons (Espers) and Nathalie Shapiro Trio (Philadelphia) 4:30pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fursaxa
Formed on the eve of the Autumnal Equinox 2017, the trio has been playing together for close to 3 years. Longtime friends spanning 2.5 decades, the three brought their respective musical practice together to form a nameless trio that combines voice, guitar, and harmonium drones deep into the heart of the mystery zone.
Samara Lubelski (NYC) 5pm
http://www.samaralubelski.com/
New York singer, violinist, guitarist and bassist Lubelski has been a member of numerous bands, including Metabolismus, Hall of Fame, the Tower Recordings, MV & EE and the Bummer Road, and Chelsea Light Moving with Thurston Moore. Since 2003, she has released some nine solo studio albums, which veer between gentle femme folk sand droney experimentation. She's played on dozens of recordings by artists such as the Fiery Furnaces, White Magic, Thurston Moore, Jackie-O Motherfucker and Sightings. As a recording engineer, she has also worked with Double Leopards, Ted Leo, Magik Markers, Fiery Furnaces, Black Dice, Oneida, Mouthus, and Religious Knives.
Kawabata Makoto and Andromelos2 (Japan) 5:30pm
http://acidmothers.com/kawabata-makoto
Andromelos were formed back in 2004 by Maso Yamazaki (electronics: Masonna, Space Machine, Controlled Death), Makoto Kawabata (guitar, organ: Acid Mothers Temple), and Futoshi Okano (drums: Hijokaidan, The Silence, ex-Subvert Blaze, ex-Ghost, ex-Acid Mothers Temple). They released their first self-titled album on the Finnish label Ektro Records in 2006, and returned in 2013 as Andromelos2--this time as the trio of Okano, Kawabata and Koichi Nakaya (one-time Maso's Space Machine member with Kawabata, but best known as his own group Nasca Car). The trio rocks an electronic-psychedelic-progressive sound to rival early Tangerine Dream, Wallenstein and early Heldon. Their first LP is due on the French Bambalam label in 2021.