On Tour

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listed alphabetically. if no dates are listed you may want to double check
by clicking the web link beneath the artists name. this will bring you to the
spot on their own websites where they post tour dates.

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS myspace

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE:web

OREN AMBARCHI web

ANOICEweb

AXOLOTL web

BARBEZweb

April 7  Vienna, Austria @ Rhiz    
April 8  Koper, Slovenia @ MKSC    
April 9  Berlin, Germany @ Schokoladen    
April 10   Prague, Czech Republic @ Chateau Rouge    
April 11   Zagreb, Croatia @ Teater & TD    
April 12  Rovereto, Italy @ Teatro Cartiera    
April 13  Pavia, Italy @ Ortosonico    
April 14  Catania, Sicily @ Scenario Pubblico    
April 16  Bari, Italy @ Planet of Sound Festival    
April 17  Lugo, Italy @ Ex-Pescherie (Rocca)    
April 18  Bern, Switzerland @ Dachstock w/Firewater    
April 19  Braga, Portugal @ Teatro Circo    
April 20  Vigo, Spain @ Museo do Mar de Galicia    
April 21  Lugo, Spain @ Museo Provincial de Lugo w/Vale Tudo    
April 23  Porto, Portugal @ Serralves    
April 24  London, England @ Vortex  

BARDO POND/ALASEHIR/ALUMBRADOS/BAIKAL ETC. web

THE BARK HAZE


BEEQUEEN web

JAMES BLACKSHAW web

BORIS web

BURNING STAR CORE/C. SPENCER YEHweb

CITAYweb

DIANE CLUCK

CLUSTER web

JAD FAIR web

FE-MAIL/MAJA RATKJEweb

CARLOS GIFFONIweb

GRAILS web

KEIJI HAINO web

WILLIAM HOOKER web

IN DUO WITH SABIR MATEEN,SAX
July, 13 2008 10:00 PM - THE STONE
, NEW YORK, New York - 10.00

TRIO WITH ADAM LANE,BASS AND DARIUS JONES,ALTO SAX
July, 19 2008 07:00 PM - MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL/THE HEMLOCK
POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, California -

Thursday, July 24th 21 Grand presents:
NY Percussionist William Hooker performs live to African-American filmmaker,
Oscar Micheaux's rarely screened silent film "Symbol of the Unconquered"
(1920)  w/Damon Smith (bass) and opening set by the Weasel Walter Quintet
(Liz Allbee - trumpet, Aurora Josephson - voice, Jacob Lindsay - clarinets,
Weasel Walter - drums, William Winant - percussion).
8:30pm, $7-10 sliding scale
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21 Grand
416 25th St.
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 444-7263
http://www.21grand.org

Press Contact: Sarah Lockhart
William Hooker - <dwhook@att.net>, available for interviews

About William Hooker:
Black drummer William Hooker, who moved to New York in 1974, remained
fundamentally faithful to the aesthetic of free-jazz (despite a passion for
exoteric/spiritual themes), starting with the double-LP Is Eternal Life (may
1975), a set of collaborations with other improvisers (including tenor
saxophonists David Murray and David Ware. Rediscovered by Sonic Youth's
guitarist Thurston Moore for the rock audience, Hooker returned to a more
abstract and free-form kind of creative improvisation in the main works of
his prolific middle age: Darkness (november 1992) and The Spirits Return
(april 1994) on the live Radiation, by Hooker's band featuring Donald Miller
(Borbetomagus), electronic musician Brian Doherty, Compo, Kono; a duet with
Moore (Sirius) and an electroacoustic duet with guitarist Elliott Sharp (The
Hat) on Shamballa (1993), and recordings with Zeena Parkins, Billy Bang, and
Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth), DJ Olive, and Christian Marclay.

The albums with Ranaldo were heavily influenced by his screeching sounds,
just like the albums with Donald Miller were heavily influenced by his
turbulent wall of noise. Armageddon (february 1995) marked a change in
direction, both because the improvisations turned towards a more
sophisticated kind of soundpainting and because the stylistic palette
expanded dramatically, ranging from a dadaistic duet with turntablist Gregor
"DJ Olive" Asch to the 16-minute free jam State Secrets for drums and two
guitars. 

http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/hooker.html


About the film:
Oscar Micheaux was an independent filmmaker and entrepeneur, whose earliest
and most significant films were responses to D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a
Nation," portraying the African-American struggle against white racism and
the KKK. These films were "Within Our Gates" (1919) and "Symbol of the
Unconquered" (1920), both lost for decades and restored in the 1990s. In
Symbol of the Unconquered, the black hero holds his ground and chivalrously
protects a lovely light-skinned mulatta neighbor (who is passing as white)
as a local gang of thieves and hooded, torch-carrying Klansmen plots to
frighten him, steal his land and finally, to kill him. Though how they do it
remains unknown due to a key missing reel, the amorous "black" couple
emerges from the ordeal unscathed and thrilled to discover their shared
racial identity. Laced within these (and many other) Micheaux melodramas are
themes of inter- and intra-racial tensions and hatred, many of which are
expressed sexually.

About the Weasel Walter Quintet:
This quintet featuring five idiosyncratic, skilled improvisers from the
bay area scene creates a music that tempers microscopic detail and nuance
with bloodyminded humor and chaos. Bizarre studies in insanity and
asymmetry featuring vocals, the entire range of the clarinet family,
trumpet and duelling percussionists. 

            

ROBERT HORTON web

HOTOTOGISUweb

LARSENweb
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo/ ( r )

LSD MARCH

MAJOR STARS web

DANIEL MENCHE web

MERZBOWweb

MOUTHUS

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN web

KK NULL web

OCEANweb

PIANO MAGIC web

DUANE PITRE web

RIVULETSweb

SIC ALPS web
US TOUR 2008

SKULL DEFEKTS
Skull Defekts (with Talk Normal)

Friday October 3-Brooklyn, Ny-Death By Audio
Saturday October 4-Baltimore, Md-Talking Head Club
Sunday October 5-Washington DC-Velvet Lounge
Monday October 6-Eclectic at Wesleyan Uni, Middleford CT
Tuesday October 7-Providence, Ri-AS220
Wednesday Oct 8-Boston Ma- PA's Lounge
Thursday October 9-Buffalo Ny- TBA
Friday October 10-Cleveland, Oh-Now That's Class
Saturday October 11-Detroit,MI - TBA
Sunday October 12-Chicago, Ill-Co Prosperity Space
Tuesday October 14-Columbus, Oh- Skylab
Wednesday October 15-Pittsburgh, Pa-TBA
Thursday October 16-Philadelphia, PA-Danger Danger Gallery R5 presents
Friday October 17-New York, Ny-The Cake Shop

SLOMO web

STEPHEN R SMITH web

UNBUNNY web

VANISHING VOICE web

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRAweb

WOLF EYES web

YELLOW SWANS web