prog-noise
7-9 pm
$8 donation
Ben Miller presents:
7pm: Third Border (featuring Ben Miller of M3 and Destroy All Monsters)
8pm: Cul de Sac’s Robin Amos (analogue synth) & Jonathan LaMaster (bass,
guitar, violin) with guest Yuri Zbitnoff (drums)
Third Border, performing since 2003, combines psychedelic songwriting and
texturous prepared stereo guitar over minimalist violin scores.
THIRD BORDER features Ben Miller (Sproton Layer, Destroy All Monsters, Dirty
Old Man River) on prepared stereo guitar, standard guitar and vocal with
Jena H. Kim (Butterknife Krush) on violin. One part noise, one part 22nd
Century violin, one part surrealist songwriting.Their self-titled debut,
recorded between 2003 and 2004 is available on the Living imprint.
www.benmiller.info
From1969 to 1971 (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Ben played guitar in Sproton Layer,
a psychedelic rock quartet with brothers’ Roger (Mission Of Burma, Binary
System, Alloy Orchestra) and Laurence (Destroy All Monsters, Larynx
Zillion’s Novelty Shop, Mr. Laurence). After exploring free improvisation
and 12-tone theory, he joined Destroy All Monsters in Spring of 1977 with
Ron Asheton (The Stooges) and Michael Davis (The MC5), opening up for Pere
Ubu, The Ramones, Devo, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, and others. From 1982 through
1993, Ben worked with language artist Robert Currie and actor/director Linda
Kendall and others as GKW, a minimalist art band. M3, a recording-only
project with brothers Laurence and Roger, began its long distance
collaboration in 1989. Their self-titled release was hailed as “the best
guitar release to emerge this year” by Guitar Player Magazine in ‘94. Their
second release, Unearthing, released in 2001 on the Sublingual label,
focuses on drop-dead psychedelic ambience. Ben played prepared stereo guitar
for Chicago’s Dirty Old Man River from 1997 through 2000, and can be heard
on both The Saddest Movie Screen and Ageless.
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Cul de Sac’s Robin Amos (analogue synth) & Jonathan LaMaster (bass, guitar,
violin) with guest Yuri Zbitnoff (drums)
Electronic musician Robin Amos, a founding member of Boston’s 14 year-old
original post-rock outfit Cul de Sac, has been living and performing in this
city since the mid 1970’s when his now legendary dada-punk outfit The Girls
performed with the likes of Devo and Pere Ubu. For some history on the
Girls, see http://www.rockinboston.com/girls.htm
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Jonathan LaMaster first toured with Cul de Sac in 1997 as a subsitute bass
player for the bands original member (and now local film guru) Chris
Fujiwara, and later joined the band as a full time member on bass AND violin
in 2000. He has toured Europe, Russia, Asia, Canada and the US extensively
over the last few years with Cul de Sac, x-Can vocalist Damo Suzuki, and as
a free-jazz/new music improvisor with the likes of Peter Kowald, Peter
Brotzmann, Daniel Carter, William Parker, and his own ensemble Saturnalia.
Jonathan runs the Sublingual Records label here in Boston
(www.sublingual.com)
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Yuri Zbitnoff, a veteran of the Boston music scene for the past decade has
been a part of a number of eclectic projects including the prog rock band
Xixxo, free jazz big bands led by Raqib Hassan, and the jazzy exotica studio
project Conundrum. More recently he has participated in a variety of other
rock bands and improv oriented groups, including the Lockgroove spin-off
Caduceus, Sky Saw (with Blue Man Group’s electric zither player Core
Redonnett), postmodern lounge groove music of Mission Creep, free improv
outfit, Leap of Faith, Ken Field’s Alto Sax Project and Board of Education,
ambient dub metal scientists Teledubgnosis in addition to his ongoing work
with the celebrated jazz/electronica duo Enuma Elish.
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Sublingual Records
& the band Cul de Sac
www.sublingual.com
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www.CulDeSac.org
Production: Ben Miller - benrush@yahoo.com