WHITEHAUS FAMILY RECORD PRESENTS:
WEIRDSTOCK!!!
(LETZ B WEIRD 2GETHER.)
AUGUST 14, 15, & 16.
@ THE CAMBRIDGE YMCA THEATRE (so chill)
820 MASS AVE CENTRAL SQ.
ALL AGES.
PRE TIX AVAILABLE ONLINE VIA PAYPAL
THE MOST UP TO DATE WEIRDSTOCK PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE IS POSTED HERE!!!!
FRIDAY AUGUST 14
6:00 Jacob Mashak S — (Boston, MA)
The most far out composer you don’t know yet. This Avant-Guardian is a
master of toying with the toy piano. Past performances have included
hair-cutting, disassembled recorders, as well as an eleven hour
Beatles inspired composition for two pianos.
6:30 Forbes Graham (Boston, MA)
Brass Blast. Master of trumpet technique extension extreme. Forbes is a blessed solo
instrumenterpretator and lucky r those who bear witness.
7:00 George Myers S (Northampton, MA)
of Breaking World Records/Greyskull – slow heavy beats mangled and
untangled in a mush of electronics-
7:30 Skeletons Out F (Boston, MA)
Drone duo featuring Howard Stelzer and Jay Sullivan. Sparse, aural landscapes awash in tape fuzz.
8:00 Truman Peyote (Boston, MA)
Total raging samplerdelica and clubbed out beats amidst swirling synth excursions. So hot right now! Buy TP’s newest release “Light-Lightning” on Whitehaus Family Record.
8:30 Behavior S (Brooklyn, NY)
Expect some heady jams from this newly arrived brooklyn psych outfit
9:00 White Limousine and Impatient Truck w/ Special Guest F (Northampton, MA)
One of the many side projects of Chris Cooper, member of Fat Worm of
Error. His “techno” band will surely have the booties shaking.
9:30 Harry Merry S (Netherlands)
This guy was on Ariel Pink’s top friends, and got pretty well known.
Now he’s come all the way from the Netherlands to deliver to you his own flavor of one-man
bizzarro-pop.
10:00 Julian Lynch S (Ridgewood, NJ)
Born on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, Julian plays warm lo-fi
dreamcore for the beach worn and sundazed, the peaced in and the
peaced out.
10:30 Mudboy F (Providence, RI)
The self-proclaimed “doctor of organomics”. Fog machines, home built
keyboards, circuits brain mush. Dark Dub- Doom Dub.
11:00 Keith Fullerton Whitman + Geoff Mullen S (Boston + Providence)
Analog architects of the highest order.
SATURDAY AUG 15
1:00 Grass Tower S (Burlington, VT)
Diabolic motorcycle engine riffs reverberating through a dank, musty haze
1:30 Dick Heaven S (Brooklyn, NY)
More solo-dude bizarropop karaoke, drippy saxophone solos and brian
wilson harmonies abound!
2:00 Psych Fam F (Boston, MA)
A newly arrived psychedelic-improv super group from Newton w/ members
of Truman Peyote, Dropa and others.
2:30Casey Rocheteau S (Boston, MA)
Schpokin’ Werd from Jamaica Plain’s premier poet/sound artist. Sample
based theatre, button pushed metaphor, unexpected sphere of form.
3:00 The Great Valley S (The Great Valley)
Peter Pan’s favorite late night alarm clock radio band. Hide The Great
Valley cassette under your pillow with your tittie pics, sophia’s
skull, and small hands. Kennedy’s Garage Artifacts.
3:30 Invisible Circle F (Brooklyn, NY)
Oboe and casiotone drone, deeply blown out balkan snake charmer jams.
Inner shamanic beard is what you grow when you’re locked into the
invisible circle. Bring a bow and arrows for safety.
4:00 The Hard Nips S (Brooklyn, NY)
All-girl japanese garage rock freak-out fun-fest!
4:30 Tooth Ache F (Burlington, VT)
Ill beats and synthy layers back beautiful/spooky vox.
5:00 Son of Salami/Psychic Vagina S (Burlington, VT)
Burlington’s legendary weird dude around town. Joey Pizza is king of
damaged cassette pop karaoke. ex nose bleed island.
5:30 Many Mansions F (Jamaica Plain, MA)
“vibe filled wonderland” spaced out tropical revelations. concious
prayer through meditation and dance. post new age.
6:00 INTERMISSION
6:30 Eat Cloud S (Providence, RI)
Chilled out electronic ambience, soaring lapsteel solos, sonic
meanderings in the ether
7:00Guatemala City F (Boston, MA)
Live, spastic hip hop drums over glitchy sampler beats. Serious party jammer.
7:30Lord Jeff S (Northampton, MA)
Ecstatic Peace label newbies, these western mass dudes have made a nice niche for themselves
in the forest of garagey-psychfolk-weirdobeardo-ness that is so easy to get lost in.
8:00 Quilt F (Boston, MA)
Newly arrived, but born in caves of ancient reverb, Quilt will surely
bust out some gnarly grooves for yr dome-piece.
8:30 Tempera S (Portland, ME)
improvised sonic excursions, swirling mantras, celestial vibrations. From the Portland label “
9:00 White Light S (Portland, ME)
“a drifting cloud of psychedlic friendliness” –terrascope
9:30 Sore Eros F (A field, CT)
Bedroom-crafted Dreamtime pop songs for those busy being born.
“second Chants” LP available on SHDWPLY records
10:00 Kurt Weisman S (Brattleboro, VT)
Member of Feathers, Kurt makes fanciful, minstrel music from another dimension. Check out his album
“Spiritual Sci-fi” on Important Records
10:30 Harmonizer (Burlington, VT) S
This Burlington duo featuring drone wizards Greg Davis and Tobey Aronson. all minds will be melted.
11:00 Dreamhouse (Boston, MA) ?
These guys are going to freak the zone in the best way possible. Once you go under
THE TARP, there is no turning back. Prepare yourself.
SUNDAY AUG 16
1:00 Concord Ballet F (Boston, MA)
Kraut rock inspired supergroup that is complete like salty honey. Jeff Breeze, Kris Thompson,
and like 15 other members, often appearing with sweet video projection. They’re going for Boston
legacy like Larry Bird in ‘86.
Ppallmm (Boston, MA)
1:30 Ppalmm S Repetition oriented repetition oriented. Chillaxin by the pool with
The Beasties on the Check your Head sessions. Space Landing. Moog on the moon, nude in the dunes.
Also known for chinatown lazy loftin’ and a million other things. Learn Morse Code.
2:00 Fractillian (Boston, MA)
Shamanic chanting, deep droning, spell-casting, vision questing, third-eye exploding. F
2:30 TBA S
3:00 Ming Ming Dance Co. (Boston, MA)
beat up drum machines and thrashed synths (ie muppet babies keyboard) converge to make some
seriously bumpin’ jamzzz F
3:30 Sacred Harp S (Richmond, VA)
Fahey inspired folk jamz and sitar excursions from swampy VA.
4:00 Metal and Glass F (Boston, MA)
Ddddrrrroooonnnneeee. Bowed symbols and deep sea microtone exploration w/ jaque cousteau’s
underwater glass-sound archive. Land and sky will also be represented. Flutes, and sax,
interpreting dance, dubbed out clarinet. It’s an old-school Boston kind of weird.
4:30 Omnivore S (Providence, RI)
Live layered vocal loops sung through old telephones, eerie goosebump harmonies
5:00 Duck That F (Boston, MA)
Grab your Duck Trolling Nova Scotia Retriever, a shotgun and some wading boots. Tour the kettle
pond w/ Steve Norton, Angela Weirdo, & Skinny Josh. Jazz broken into the language of poultry
processing. Audio aviation taking flight.
5:30 Robert Stillman S (Portland, ME)
the spirit of ‘Horses’ music is somewhere between the fairground, the rural parlor, and the stars;
Performances range from one-man-band, tape-based sound collage, live accompaniment of
silent archive footage, to full ensemble events. (L’animaux Tryst)
6:00 INTERMISSION
6:30 Goat of Arms S (Boston, MA)
“Goat Of Arms are a girl/girl accordion/drum duo. They play wonderfully charming minimal,
slightly foreign sounding tunes.” –Anti-Gravity Bunny
7:00 Cursillistas S (Portland, ME)
Ehanting Now-weird americana from Portland’s L’animaux Tryst label founder, Matt Lajoie.
7:30 The Human Hairs F (Boston, MA)
this free jazz duo is so out, they dont even need instruments. mouth sounds only, dude.
8:00 Ricardo Donoso S (Boston, MA)
Ricardo is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Brazil, but currently
residing in Boston. He is involved in groups Perispirit, Ehnahre and The Epicureans as well as
improvising with a variety of musicians and performing solo, in both the electro-acoustic and noise
fields. Ricardo is also sole proprietor of the Semata Productions imprint and event organizing
collective which he curates and oversees.
8:30 Cave Bears (Turners Falls, MA)
You are trapped in Turners Falls. Inside a cave. An alarm clock is going off. Five strangers are
pacing maniacally. a trumpet. far off bird calls. ambient skipping vinyl. ambient skipping
heartbeats. You are eaten by the bear.
9:00 Peace, Loving F S (Boston, MA)
Peace, Loving is a whitehaus supergroup based around what is now. Currantcy. Curency. Corently.
Always expected to be inspected; peace, love plays the shows. Innovators of pairing smells w/ sounds,
cheese w/ poetry, dances for tape-recorders in space, and more. Expect a reinterpreted Woodstock
VHS experience as a follow up to their Remixed Star Trek Stimulation.
9:30 Brian Ellis F (Boston, MA)
One of Boston’s hardest working poets, and an entertainer down to the bone. Brian has been turning
people on to poetry since the dawn of time; MC of the whitehaus/treehaus hoots and cantab’s 3yr
slam champ/slamteamdude. Check out his book published by Write Bloody Publishing and his upcoming
epic fall tour across the US.
10:00 QFWFQ Duo S (Portland, ME)
Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow, Poland,
in 1997 to form Qfwfq duo. The duo’s main concern has been live sound-image interaction and the use
of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual material. Their work is highly
performatic and often involves the use of sensors and/or motion tracking devices. They moved
to the US after having lived 5 years in Buenos Aires, Argentina
10:30 Animal Hospital F (Boston, MA)
Boston’s own one-man band, Kevin Micah is master of the loop. Songs start with a simple looping beat
and blossom into dense layers of tasteful riffage, all of which he executes with immaculate precision.
11:00 Devil Music S (Boston, MA)
When questioned what material Devil Music would be performing for Weirdstock composer Brendan Wood
prefered to release no details, but guarantee weirdness.