The finest in hermetic sound and vision from around the world…forever buzzing the tower.
…for the second installment of Into The Aether: A Festival of Sound on October 5 & 6. Highlights over the course of the 2 day event include Skullflower, Gnaw, Opening Bell, FRKSE, Sterile Garden, Krallice, and many more. Curated and executed by Last Mercy Emissions, this is clearly not to be missed.
Sleeping Giant Glossolalia presents:
**Tombed Visions
Manchester, UK label founders playing exclusive U.S. date
**Tamio Shiraishi & Gyna Bootleg
duo performance by Fushitsusha founding member Tamio Shiraishi and Providence, RI performance artist/Tinsel Teeth, Sire vocalist Gyna Bootleg
**Marc Edwards/Sandy Ewen Duo
the esteemed Marc Edwards, of Cecil Taylor Unit, Slipstream Time Travel, Cellular Chaos, countless others, teamed with incomparable sound artist/guitarist Sandy Ewen for their debut live action as a duo
**Eric Pitra(Landscape.fm) & Mike Mare(Dälek, Destructo Swarmbots) with visuals by Haoyan of America
DJs McLean (Final Boss, Action Beat, Fortissimo Records) & Nassau Mausoleum(SGG, Opening Bell, Final Boss)
Wednesday October 3
8 pm
Ceremony
224 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
…kicking off his tour with Bruce Lamont, and joined in Brooklyn by Emilie Wiebel on Saturday, September 29 at 6pm!
Opening Bell support River Cult(featuring Marcel of WFMU’s “What Was Music?”) alongside Snake Union(Chuck Bettis, Dave Grant), and Bloater at Saint Vitus….
Tonight. Mr. Marc Edwards and Ms. Reg Bloor together for the first time. The place will probably fall over after this one so come out while we’re still standing. PAK is ex Rat At Rat R & current Imperial Triumphant, uh-oh. Sandy Ewen hails from Houston. Pelvi$S seem like they’d wear sun goggles at night. All are quite formidable. 8pm on the nose.
Our man Mick Barr plays tonight w/ Insect Ark & Pandiscordian Necrogenesis at Saint Vitus Bar & tomorrow w/ Cleric. & Zevious at Ceremony224- here he is with obvious big fan Martha Stewart. FYI we have some copies of the Oldest(his duo with Brooks Headley) LP + the Marc Edwards/Mick Barr Duo cassette in our shop for those in need.
Bananas, typically, uninterested in the impeccable design work that goes into SGG releases. Woodpile, slightly more on board. Thanks to Ian Anderson/The Designers Republic for bringing this to life visually. It looks as otherworldly and excellent as it sounds.
Release party at at Saint Vitus tonight for “Missive: Sister Ships” by Stern with guests Unnatural Ways, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Chain Gang Grave. If you are not in the NYC area, feel free to procure your copy here in our shop.
FINAL BOSS come out of the bunker at 5:45 today to play this strange gathering in an unbecoming environ.
Come out early, then over to Ceremony at 8 for Wharton Tiers, Moist Paula, Gospel of Mars, Oof – there, Saturday sorted.
…with Pandiscordian Necrogenesis…
The Big Takeover has debuted the new music video for ex-SWANS/ex-COP SHOOT COP project This Wilderness – it’s an exclusive bonus track from the cassette version of BC35, the acclaimed album celebrating the 35th anniversary of Martin Bisi‘s Brooklyn studio where legendary recordings have been made by Sonic Youth, Herbie Hancock, Helmet, John Zorn and The Boredoms, as well as Swans, Cop Shoot Cop and dozens more…Score the BC35 cassette now from Sleeping Giant Glossolalia…
Multicult are back from Europe and touring the states with German friends Heads. A very special NYC appearance with labelmates Couch Slut and Opening Bell occurs on August 26 at Brooklyn Bazaar in Greenpoint.
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Out today! Stern “Missive: Sister Ships” on vinyl and digital in fine shops everywhere and directly from SGG. We are so pleased to finally unleash this goddamn masterpiece on a world that may just not be ready for it.
Record release party September 5 at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn with Unnatural Ways, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, & Chain Gang Grave.
Stern’s new album Missive: Sister Ships is out today on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia. The work of frontman Chuck Stern and three members of Kayo Dot, the Stern sound is haunting and slippery. With a palette of slow tempos and minimal instrumentation, the band constructs a highly unpredictable reality where serenity can flip into nausea in the space of one note. Restraint and dissonance are used as weapons in these austere, strangely meditative songs, but the half-charred remains of familiar pop structures and melodies are ever-present in the periphery.
Chuck Stern’s vocals evoke twisted crooners of past decades – Craig Wedren, Mike Patton, Scott Walker. Other influences include the film scores of Ennio Morricone, the bleak beauty of Justin Broadrick’s work in and out of Godflesh, and even the tangled webs of extreme metal outliers Gorguts. The album was recorded by Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather Studios (Liturgy), and mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering (Gang Gang Dance, Ornament). The flawless design was executed by Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic(Pulp, Aphex Twin).
“Stern’s brand of ‘pop’ is eerie and dissonant, each note seeming to melt into the ether as it’s played. Dreamy, dark… haunting undertones. The fragments of pop that remain are unique and should appeal to fans of industrial, ambient and metal that is a little ‘out there.'”
– Decibel
“Stern successfully navigate the strange combination of hypnagogic pop and much more challenging avant-garde tendencies. And much like Kayo Dot, there exists a sense of yearning toward some sort of hauntological future. Their sound is not unlike an opiate stare at a cyberpunk skyline, or perhaps even more remote science fiction vistas. Their music is adjacent to many scenes, like metal or the cutting edge of jazz, but can’t really be classified as either.”
–Burning Ambulance
“With his project Time of Orchids, Chuck Stern wrote compositions that dabbled in everything from math rock and post-hardcore to jazz and avant-prog. That same spirit lives on with Stern and its current star-studded lineup [members of Kayo Dot]… It’s an album rife with perplexing ideas that only inspires more bewilderment and morbid bliss with each subsequent listen… Something along the lines of Jesu covering Depeche Mode‘s ‘Songs of Faith and Devotion’ after binge-listening to Have a Nice Life and Kayo Dot… On top of it all, Chuck’s ghoulish, morose vocals haunt every twist and turn like a specter trapped in a sealed mausoleum.”
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy
