Slow Pump dronefest - 3/15 SXSWtime Austin

AMBIENT SHOWCASE

ALL DAY EVENT

FREE!!!

united states art authority

2906 fruth street

Austin, TX

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BIG STAGE
EXPO '70 - Kansas City - 12:00
ZANZIBAR SNAILS -Denton,Tx -11:00
QUIET EVENINGS - LaGrange, Ga -10:00
WHITE CREEPS - Little Rock - 9:00
SUNGOD - Austin - 8:00
THOUSAND FOOT WHALE CLAW - Austin - 7:00
WOODSMAN - Denver - 6:00
NUDE SUNRISE - Chicago - 5:00
AMASA•GANA - Austin - 4:00

FRONT STAGE
KEVIN SHIELDS - Portland - 12:30
CORNELIUS F. VAN STAFRIN III - Chicago -11:30
TOBY ARONSON -Burlington, Vt - 10:30
HUBBLE -New York - 9:30
UNMOOR - Austin - 8:30
SPECULATOR - Los Angeles - 7:30
SILENT LAND TIME MACHINE - Austin - 6:30
MATTHEW DAVID - Los Angeles - 5:30
SMOKEY EMERY - AUSTIN - 4:30

PROJECTIONS BY:
LORI 16MM
AMANDA JOY
KYLE DIXON
TOMMY BOY
SCOTT GELBER

Zanzibar's March Madness

Friday, March 13 @ The Fra House in Denton
Zanzibar Snails featuring the return of Mike Forbes, the free saxophonist & longstanding Zanzibar collaborator. Mike & fellow Denton expat Andrew Young are on tour from Chicago, fresh off recording with Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers) and will be playing with the night’s other improvised act, a free ensemble featuring Aaron & Stefan Gonzalez alongside he Forbes/Young/Billington trio known independently as Tiger Hatchery. Zanzibar feat. Forbes and special guest drummer Adam (Orange Coax) as well as Nevada on electric violin. Also playing is the ever-rumbling Drink to Victory. 2127 Oak St., Denton. We will/should have copies of our new cd/dvd double Journey into Amazing Caves! (Mayyrh) and will have them on us all week. Sample on the myspace.


Saturday, March 14 @ The Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin
Yeast By Sweet Beast with The Watchers (Snails’ Michael Chamy & Mike Maxwell + Mark Church) as well as Yells at Eels, St 37, Future Blondes, Balaclavas, The Great Tyrant, Tiger Hatchery, Book of Shadows, Concrete Violin and many more …. projections on both stages. Watchers on 2nd stage at 12:45am.


Monday, March 16 @ J & J’s Pizza in Denton
Zanzibar Snails with Not Not Fun bands Pocahaunted , Robedoor , and Magic Lantern , traveling on their way to SXSW, as well as NYC’s warped Totally Dad . Actually the lineup is projected to be NNF party supergroup Vibes featuring members of all three, plus Magic Lantern and Robedoor. Early show, 8pm.


Friday, March 20 @ The Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin
Zanzibar Snails at a 2-day daypartyfest featuring Maserati, My Education, Venison Whirled, Tambersauro, Fires Were Shot and many more, projections by Paul Baker. Zanzibar Snails at 2:45pm. Projected Zanzibar lineup lineup includes Austinites Seth Sherman and David Lee Price.


Sunday, March 22@1314 Austin St., Denton
unnamed Zanzibar collaboration with enchanting SF psyche droners Barn Owl and Batfuckcrazy. Early show, 6pm.


Saturday, March 28 @ The Cavern in Dallas
The Watchers with Sarah Ruth, Many Birthdays (Austin) and Jack With One Eye. The Watchers at 11pm.

Zanzibar's SXSW

Thanks to everybody who came out to the Chain Drive in Austin for Strategies of Beauty v. 2.0, the annual showcase of North Texas creative musics, this year held in Austin during SXSW for the second straight year. Special traveling guests this time around included magnificent drone sculptor/guitarist from Toronto Aidan Baker (of Nadja - pic above), and the Future Blondes, a sprawling 24th-century aggro stream-of-consciousness dance party led by Domokos of A_PINK_CLOUD and joined by Jana Hunter, members of Indian Jewelry, and Austin’s Aurora Plastics company. We were disappointed that Bay Area avant-metal left curves Wildildlife had to cancel, but were more than happy to experience nomadic Austinites Headdress and their sun-baked hallucinogenic desert psyche folk, one-man confessional postpunk clinic Daniel Francis Doyle, as well as always-solid performances from NorTex standouts Shiny Around the Edges, Mom, Florene, Emil Abraham Rapstine, and Dust Congress, stripped down to a two-piece with vibes, which may very well have been the day’s highlight.

As for the Snails, I’ll leave it up to esteemed blogger/journalist Lee Jackson, from his meaty Womblife blog:

“Next personal Dallas faves The Zanzibar Snails tear through a 30 min set of blistering deep space sonic murk that just keeps growing more intense and insane with each passing minute. The molten lava flow makes me feel as if I've been directly teleported into the heart of a red giant, time slowing to a crawl as my flesh starts to melt, and POOF, no more. Nothing. This is the end...only not really. Like an electromagnetic pulse, the Snails' shreiking electro clatter saps my camera of its remaining juice. I'm unable to document this highly visceral sonic experience. Apparently they blew a fuse so the whole groaning mass just cut out instantly. No resolution, no fade out. Nothing. The events are almost preternatural from my close vantage point.”