Portable Shrines

This weekend of the autumnal equinox is packed with esoteric wonders. Whatever you do, don’t stay at home! Go check out:

Tonight and tomorrow night (9/17-9/18) at the Josephine, Debacle Fest returns with a smorgasboard of experimental, drone, dark, out sounds including Dull Knife, Renee Hell, John Wiese, Yellow Swans’ Pete Swanson, Brain Fruit, Megabats, Thunder Grey Pilgrim, Du Hexen Hase, and Matt Carlson.

Three Quarters by WHITE HILLS from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Saturday 9/18, at the Sunset Tavern: Brooklyn psych-rock gods White Hills touch down in Seattle for the first time to perform with two of Seattle’s most exciting up-and-coming bands, Night Beats and This Blinding Light.

Also Saturday 9/18-Sunday 9/19: the Esoteric Book Conference, hosted by esteemed Ouroboros Press, returns to Seattle Center featuring a huge selection of, well, esoteric, occult, hermetic, magickal, alchemical, and otherwise mysterious books, art, and people.  Performing Saturday night will be Seattle’s psychick tour-de-force Master Musicians of Bukkake with instrumental and chamber arrangements of material from their recent album Totem II.

Bridging the deep dark gap between the days of the Esoteric Book Conference, Emily Pothast and David Golightly of Midday Veil will be performing the all-night deep cosmic drone piece A Double Rainbow in Curved Air as part of the Face Time artist series hosted by the Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University on Capitol Hill. The show starts at 8 pm and lasts until 8 am, but you’re free to show up or leave any time.  Bring a pillow and a blanket.