October 4, 2020 at 2pm CT
Galactic Zoo Dossier, The Singleman Affair, and ESS Present:
Million Tongues Festival Part 3: “Tune In – Fuzz Out”
Vapour Theories
Rolin/Powers Duo
Ryley Walker
The Cherry Blossoms
Michael Yonkers /The Singleman Affair /Plastic Crimewave
Joshua Abrams
Jeff Parker
RQRQ with Doronco, Yuka Ijichi, and Tabata Mitsuru
With mastermind Plastic Crimewave at the helm, we are continuing The Million Tongues in an online fest fashion--in the past MT has hosted folks like Terry Reid, Tony Conrad, Bert Jansch, Mark Fry, Acid Mothers Michael Yonkers Fry, The Cherry Blossoms, Ryley Walker, Josh Abrams, and Jeff Parker of legendary Chicago outfit Tortoise! This will be a fully happening live event, so tune in for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see some of these mythical and truly legendary artists...
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!
Stay tuned for Part 4!
Schedule
Vapour Theories (Mike and John Gibbons of Bardo Pond) 2:00pm (USA CST)
Vapour Theories is the new project of the brothers Gibbons, who formed the wall-of-guitar for bad trip cosmonauts Bardo Pond. As a duo they are free to fuzz into the stratosphere, with an LP due out soon.
Matthew J. Rolin/Jen Powers Duo (Columbus, OH) 2:30pm
Powers/Rolin Duo--young upstarts from Columbus, Ohio, these 2 conjure their own brand of acoustic Appalachian space odes. Jen Powers armed with cascading dulcimer, and Mathew J Rollin with major 6 string chops, they conjure both ancient traditions and forward-looking soundscapes.
Ryley Walker (NY) 3:00pm
Ryley Walker--Fingerpicker and songwriter par excellence, Walker grew up in Rockford, IL but now calls NY home for his intricate tunes which conjure all from UK isles folk to prickly prog rock. Walker's releases on Tompkins Square, Dead Oceans, Drag City and beyond have won him international acclaim.
The Cherry Blossoms (Nashville) 3:30pm
The Cherry Blossoms--Nashville's beloved underground folk collective The Cherry Blossoms serve up rough-edged yet gentle-natured songs and campfire sing-alongs, all with a charmingly ramshackle momentum---The ragtag group features scene savior/drummer Chris Davis and outsider songwriter legends John Allingham and Peggy Snow.
Michael Yonkers (MN))/The Singleman Affair/Plastic Crimewave video collaboration 4:00pm
Michael Yonkers--the legendary MN guitarist has been following his harsh/distorted and rocking musical vision for over 50 years, also veering into folk, garage, and experimental sounds. His "Microminiature Love" album from 1968 surely would've changed the world, had it actually come out (Sub Pop released it eventually). This past year Michael recorded what he deemed his "last album,' and its as uncompromising and singular as his finest work. The Singleman Affair and Plastic Crimewave visually collaborate on a track from this monumental album.
Joshua Abrams (Chicago) 4:15pm
Joshua Abrams is a composer, bassist, and improviser. His early formative musical experiences include performing in a chamber group conducted by Earle Brown, and busking on the streets of Philadelphia as an original member of The Roots. Since the mid-1990s, Abrams has been a key figure in Chicago's creative music communities and an international touring musician with artists across genres. In 2010, Abrams formed the project Natural Information Society (NIS), a group that creates long-form psychedelic environments that join the hypnotic qualities of the guimbri, a Gnawan lute, to a wide range of contemporary musics and methodologies including jazz, minimalism, and experimental rock.
Jeff Parker (LA, CA) 4:45pm
Jeff Parker of deified Chicago outfit Tortoise needs no introduction, as the guitarist has conquered nearly every musical form from jazz fusion to folk to funk, and his set for Million Tongues will surely be unique and dizzying.
Yuka Ijichi, Doronco and Mitsuru Tabata form the new trio RQ RQ. Tabata did time with Acid Mothers Temple, Boredoms, Zeni Geva, Green Flames, and 20 Guilders; Doronco goes further back, as a one-time member of legendary underground warriors Les Rallizes Denudes. Ijichi is a relatively new presence, but she’s released two gorgeous cassettes of acid folk on Selection Records. To quote a Japanese site, "There’s an immediately sympathy to their playing, and a preternatural ability to grasp the core of the material; it’s beautifully performed."