Hey, there’s new videos of Speak Onion playing at the John Balance Electronic Music Festival available in the Visuals section. The videos are the most clear out of any Speak Onion videos we’ve uploaded so far. You can pretty much see everything he’s doing in case you’re wondering what the hell is going on in that mysterios box of noise. Enjoy!
Ray Cummings’ eclectic Friday Night Noise blog raves about the recording of Speak Onion’s set at Brecht Forum this past January. Get the recording here. Read the blog here, or see below.
So, we have good news and bad news about Friday’s show. Which do you want first? The bad news? Ok, due to some deaths in the family and intense car trouble, Xrin Arms is cancelling his tour and won’t make the show on Friday. But the good news is that David B. Applegate has graciously jumped onto the bill to fill in. So you are still assured 5 acts of wild beats and noises. Yes.
Blind Moany Wat is a porch techno project from the David B. Applegate collective. Track 3, “Hanging,” features Jim Kaznosky of Miss Ohio on guitar & track 6, “Creaky, warped,” features Christopher Trull on the same.
Herein, you’ll find the finest dirt dog tech-step juju. Herein, you’ll get lost in the wooden maze & find the orb at the center.
Traveling through time is exhausting, but you’ll be rewarded through hearing these tracks born from lap-steel clang, oscillator smash & bass-drum batter.
Never has techno music danced so far from the club. This techno was created & exists for the porch. Embodying the spirit of experimentation, “Blind Moany Wat” includes elements of doom, noise, folk-tech splat, bass warble & tremolo.
Please listen at top volume while enjoying your afternoon bourbon outside.
We at Immigrant Breast Nest along with our friends at Dead Language Records jointly and proudly present Symposia, a new E.P. from Mercy Choir with Speak Onion. Click on the cover to get to the release page and stream or download the music. Enjoy!
Hey, our boy Speak Onion will be bringing the drum’n’noise and the I.B.N. flava all over NYC this summer. Or, at least Brooklyn and Manhattan. Check it out!
Speak Onion shows:
6/20 @ Wreck Room, 940 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, w/ peopling, Animental, GDFX, $5
7/3 @ The Tank, 354 W 45th St, Manhattan, w/ peopling, Orphans (not sure the price on this one, yet)
7/31 @ Coco66, 66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, w/ Xrin Arms, GDFX, Digit216, Insect Deli, $5
8/13 @ Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, for John Balance Electronic Music Festival, FREE!
These will all be some spectacular shows. The 7/31 show is presented by Immigrant Breast Nest, and is the release party for Speak Onion’s split relese with Xrin Arms which will be coming out on I.B.N. for download and on CD. Basically, this is the summer to see Speak Onion. Check out the video if you don’t already know what Speak Onion shows are like.
Speak Onion discusses his music, his gear, I.B.N., the upcoming Mercy Choir collaboration, his busy summer show schedule and more in this awesome interview in NYC-based art magazine: Chief. Brooklyn fame, here we come.
We are very excited to announce an upcoming collaborative release between our boy, Speak Onion, and good buddy, Mercy Choir. These two have decided to work together and that the best format for them to collaborate would be for Speak Onion to record and heavy-handedly produce a few of Mercy Choir’s songs. We are expecting Mercy Choir’s psychadelic folk to sit interestingly, if uncomfortably, with Speak Onion’s rough, soundscape-y production style. Or perhaps, Speak Onion will bring nasty textures to Mercy Choir’s quirky compositions. Ok, honestly, we don’t know what’s going to happen, but we know these two madmen spent a Saturday together making sounds, and we’re pretty pumped up about it.
The final product will be co-released by us here at I.B.N. and the good people at Dead Language Records. Downloads will ensue.
Stay tuned for more updates! There are more pics in the Visuals section.