See y’all soon.
Life on Earth,
Happy to share two new exercises in sonic loitering, as Freak Flag. Its a free digital 7″. These tracks will appear later on the ES Dissolver LP.
Freak Flag is music for being without intent, for occupying time and space in an ambient way, irresponsibly, and outside of the marketplace. No currency will be exchanged. Freak Flag is teenage idling as deliberate, unexceptionally sophisticated leisure. Bass, Drums, Guitar, Space. I hope you enjoy.
Matt
Design and Image By Nicholas Gottlund
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| Date | City | Venue | Other bands |
| 15.07.2010 | Madrid (ES) | CA2M | w/ Air Waves |
| 17.07.2010 | Kutna Hora (CZ) | Creepy Teepee Festival | |
| 19.07.2010 | Leeds (UK) | Nation of Shopkeepers | |
| 20.07.2010 | Newcastle (UK) | Star & Shadow | |
| 21.07.2010 | York (UK) | The Basement | |
| 22.07.2010 | Nottingham (UK) | The Chameleon |
w/ The Golden Filter |
| 23.07.2010 | London (UK) | Cargo | w/ Wavves |
| 24.07.2010 | Antwerpen (BE) | WERKKAMP 010 | |
| 25.07.2010 | Frankfurt (DE) | Ivi | |
| 26.07.2010 | Zuerich (CH) | Boschbar | w/ Rae Spoon |
| 28.07.2010 | Tolmin (SI) | Sajeta Festival | |
| 29.07.2010 | Vienna (AT) | Fluc | |
| 30.07.2010 | Karlsruhe (DE) | czirp czirp | |
| 31.07.2010 | Hamburg | Astrastube | |
| 02.08.2010 | Berlin (DE) | Madame Claude | w/ Islaja |
| 03.08.2010 | Copenhagen (DK) | Mayhem | |
| 05.08.2010 | Katowice (PL) | Off Festival | w/ Matmos, Dinosaur Jr etc. |
Upcoming Demonstrations of this Music:
Couldn’t be more excited for this one – 6.26.2010: The PARADOX in Baltimore w/ Dope Body, Rap Dragons etc.
DISSOLVER EUROPE 2010 =
15.07.2010 Madrid (ES) CA2M w/ Air Waves
17.07.2010 Kutna Hora (CZ) Creepy Teepee Festival w/ These Are Powers
19.07.2010 Leeds (UK) Nation of Shopkeepers
20.07.2010 Newcastle (UK) Star & Shadow
21.07.2010 York (UK) The Basement
22.07.2010 Nottingham (UK) Spanky van Dykes w/ The Golden Filter
23.07.2010 London (UK) Upset The Rhythm @ Cargo w/ Wavves
24.07.2010 Antwerpen (BE) WERKKAMP 010
26.07.2010 Zuerich (CH) Boschbar w/ Rae Spoon
28.07.2010 Tolmin (SI) Sajeta Festival
29.07.2010 Vienna (AT) Fluc
30.07.2010 Karlsruhe (DE) Czirp Czirp
31.07.2010 Hamburg (DE) Astrastube
02.08.2010 Berlin (DE) Madame Claude w/ Islaja
03.08.2010 Copenhagen (DK) Mayhem
05.08.2010 Katowice (PL) Off Festival w/ Matmos, Zs
Also Upcoming:
4/9 – Terrace Club @ Princeton w/ Aloha
4/10 – Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia PA w/ Aloha
“Outside the record there are many sounds. Some of those sounds were moved, through memory, into the record.We would hear soft bass through the windows of a car, or listen to birds waking up before dawn, and learn to remember those sounds and later draw them out of synthesizers or guitars. In this way we could hear the record before it was made. It is like John Cage’s ideas about incidental sound, except instead of composing with those sounds, we composed for them. The record is an homage to the Everyday. It is music that happens, and is heard, and then said.
Inside the record the sounds build a kind of space. The space is related to where the record was made, physically. Inside the house we could use our sounds as a massive silly putty. Most days we were making a mold of the interior and then stretching it, or mashing it, or just massaging it. Because of this, the record defines different kinds of impossible architectures. The architectures are spatial and are made of vibrations; really they are variations on a studio.
The studio is soft. It is flexible, and alternative. In turn, the songs made in the soft studio have many uses, but also a kind of resilience. Each song is able to snap back to its recognizable shape in space. The songs can be used in many ways, they can entertain, soundtrack, encourage, even facilitate new dreams.”
Ecstatics Shows:
Sep 4 – SUNY PURCHASE
Sep 5 – Under The Tracks, New York, NY w/ These Are Powers, Grooms
Sep 7 – Hexagon, Baltimore, MD w/ Vacations
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