Wire Magazine's "Adventures in Modern Music" festival - day 1

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灰野敬二, Tussle, These Are Powers and Paul Metzger

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Wednesday 10 September 2008 at 9:00pm

Empty Bottle

1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago IL IL
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The sixth annual Adventures in Modern Music festival, coordinated in conjunction with UK periodical The Wire, opens with a headlining performance by Japanese guitar legend 灰野敬二 (Keiji Haino). HAINO has been challenging and exploring the extremes of guitar ‘playing’ for over thirty years now, having worked through avant-garde, free, improvised, jazz, noise and rock music genres along the way. An enigmatic, fiery and visceral talent, HAINO is nearly without peer. Here, he’ll perform solo with only a Gibson SG and four (!) amps, his first Chicago appearance in over a decade.

Energetic four piece Tussle use a unique mix of bass, drum and electronics to create colorful, complex and freewheeling works that ease any tensions between dance and rock, referencing dub, electro, post punk and techno along the way. They’ll be playing material from a new Smalltown Supersound full length, Cream Cuts, one that Dusted has called their “most enjoyable and fully release yet.”

Experimental trio These Are Powers play second. They have a handful of releases to their credit and each features music they refer to as “ghost-punk”, a sound The Village Voice has characterized as “spooky.” They’ll be playing material from new Dead Oceans / Deleted Art release, Taro Tarot.

Progressive folk musician Paul Metzger composes for and improvises with modified banjo and guitar, and is widely considered an emerging virtuosic master with each. He’s issued works for Chairkickers and Locust Music, and has a new Archive release, Canticle Of Ignat / All Glass, available now. Here, he’ll play unaccompanied with only a modified, twenty-three string banjo, an instrument that was recently featured on NPR’s Weekend America. ( Time Out )

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trouserslacks wrote:
September 2008

All you young'ns are in luck. Keiji's part of the show was cancelled because he missed his flight.

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shadowplay7 wrote:
August 2008

jeezus, there's gotta be some loophole for the underage to get in, a "won't drink" pact or something like that, am i fooling myself, or do these rules exist? the live music teases for underage chicagoans are getting worse and worse, especially at the empty bottle. i was peeved at Boris, but Haino's someone i'd give my left nut to see, what's next? the 'one time only' reunion show of Les Rallizes Denudes?

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AxemRangers wrote:
August 2008

It's 21+ only? That's pretty bullshit. Sure wish I could make it to this, it'd be nice to see him a second time.

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stephenpip wrote:
August 2008

Oh Christ, Haino...if I could see any artist living or dead. But I'm only 18. What do I do, get a fake ID or cut my feet off with a box cutter?

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