And The Address

Wave Gotik Treffen 2011 is happening this Friday the 10th thru Monday the 13th (it's a holiday in Germany!) and is expected to attract about 20,000 visitors from all across the world.

Wave Gotik Treffen (WGT) is the world’s largest festival for “dark culture” held every year in Leipzig, Germany (at about 40 venues across the city).

Regarded as the biggest international gathering of the “dark family”, this years Wave Gotik Treffen features over 250 performers covering the whole wide range of Gothic music: from Electro-Pop to Goth-Metal, from EBM to Neofolk, from medieval music to Industrial.

And I can't make it. Again. So this weeks "...And the Address" will take us to Leipzig via the music of many of the acts scheduled to play.

It will be dark and HEAVY ya'll! But as always FUN!

More info here - http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de

Well, I mean for me right now anyway. So, this week, It's a no speak show! Granted the i.r.s. records no speak series and logo was and is a favorite but what's up is yours truly has a cold/sinus thingy preventing him from lengthy speaking. OK, enough of the cheering. So this weeks show features lots of MUSIC! Of course, with and without vocals.
...And the Address Theatre follows at the bottom of hour 3 with more speculative fiction productions from the golden age of radio.
Thanks for listening to Asheville FM!

Drone. It's everywhere. Space. Nature. Music. If you're into Drone, you probably already know about The Drone Summit Of The Carolina Mountains 001. If not, check this out. First it is, but not the last.

The Drone Summit of the Carolina Mountains (DSCM) 001 will take place on January 28th, 2011, at Stella’s, 55 College Street in downtown Asheville.

Three bands will play, and one projection artist will display his art. This event is open to the general public, doors open at 9pm, admission price will be $5.00.

Drone Music is an avant garde musical form, in which sustained or repeated sounds, notes, and/or tone-clusters are created, combined, mixed, manipulated, & layered using any number of methods, including voice, guitars, pedals & effects, keyboards, synthesizers, computers, and amplifiers.

Asheville, as the home of MOOG, is a natural choice as a gathering place of Drone Music enthusiasts, and The Drone Summit of the Carolina Mountains 001 will be the first of many Drone Summits to come.

The line-up is
NOOSE (10pm – 10:30)
Jamie Hepler (10:45 – 11:25)
Zach and Abe (11:45 – 1:00 or 1:30)

NOOSE is an old-school guitars-n-pedals Ambient Doom Drone band in the vein of SUNN(0))), Earth, or UFOMammut. Band mates Eric Foster and Nate Andrews have been working on a special 30 minute piece especially for the Summit, samples of which are currently posted on Facebook. | http://www.noosedoom.com

Jamie Hepler (of the band Soft Opening) will be playing a solo set of drones and tonal washes that have, until now, been heard by very few human ears. Jaime is well known throughout the Asheville music scene as an innovator and a musician with seemingly unlimited energy and potential to produce high quality sounds. | http://www.myspace.com/robotsoupsound

Zach Smith & Abraham Leonard are two UNC students who employ “misused objects” and instruments in their project, dubbed The Wet Heel, to create forms and dissolves like “the dry yellow foam of salt water which collects on the banks of the world, doomed to meet the vast waters again and again.” | http://www.zachsmith.info | http://www.myspace.com/abrahamleonard

The evening will also feature the visual art of JSF, Projectionist. | http://mrphoton.tumblr.com

Sponsors of this event are:

Blackout Effectors – local manufacturers of guitar pedals and effects boxes. | http://www.blackouteffectors.com

Stu Helm’s Cheesy Graphics – Asheville’s number one underground art house | http://www.cheesygraphics.com

Monkeyfist Design – Hand-pulled screen printing and more. | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monkeyfist-Design/

This will be awesome!