Wednesday Oct. 19th is going be the last of the Portable Shrines DJ nights at the Living Room. Come down for one final evening of phantasmagorical synesthesia and audio visual incantations. We’ll be having some super special surprise guest DJs. 9pm til close. Find the hidden door…
THANKS to all the fine folks over the past year that have made this such a fun and far out night. Fear not, there will be more trips to be had in the imminent future. The all-seeing DJ One Eye will still be available to spin records at happenings, freak-outs and boogaloo parties across the globe. Just contact info(AT)portableshrines.com
North Seattle is the place to be this Saturday, Oct. 15, with two can’t-miss events in Wallingford and Fremont respectively. Fortunately they are close (and cheap!) enough that this time you don’t have to choose between them…
The first is a special collaboration between Midday Veil and composer/throat singer Ken Ueno, who currently teaches music composition to the long-haireds down at UC Berkeley. With the help of local luminary Garek Druss on video, Ueno and Midday Veil will transform the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave N) into a multimedia resonance chamber of improvised audiovisual delights.
Much more info about this one-of-a-kind performance here. Show starts at 8 pm sharp, is all ages, and although there is a $5-15 suggested donation at the door, ain’t nobody getting turned away from this one for lack of funds.
The other is the first of what will hopefully be many all-star DJ nights at Leary Records, now officially at home in its new location inside of 112 Printworks—home of Broken Press, who made those awesome silkscreen posters for Escalator III, as well as a handful of other exclusive collaborations with Portable Shrines artists Aubrey Nehring and Steve Quenell—making that spot at 112 N 36th officially thee freakiest storefront in all of Fremont.
In an era when the economy is in the shitter, record stores are closing their doors, and the corporate sinkhole of mass media still dominates the day, the emergence of a new shop dedicated to celebrating the eclecticism of the physical medium of recorded music inside of a business that has already established itself as a hub of artistic and social activity within the community is a very heartening thing. Why not encourage it by joining them for a celebration?
Leary Records’ All Star DJ night is FREE, rages from 8 to 11 pm and features six local DJs/record weirdos (including our buddies Explorateur and Veins) spinning whatever they feel like. Expect anything from cosmic disco to psych, heavy soul to hip-hop, prog to punk to metal to jazz-funk. Facebook invite here.
Here’s some video of the mighty Macrocosm at Escalator Fest III this past weekend.
(more video and pictures to come, you can peep some here and here).
Thanks to all of the amazing bands that played this year- Fruiting Bodies, Lunar Grave, This Blinding Light, Swahili, Midday Veil, Ayahuasca Travelers, Macrocosm, Rose Windows, Diminished Men and Fungal Abyss (the perfect finale! Great job dudes). And to the DJs (Explorateur, Gel-Sol, Adam Svenson, Mama Casserole, Papa Yod and Miss Clarita -you guys are the jam) and video artists: David Golightly(Midday Veil), Darlene Nordyke(Lunar Grave), Ellie Dicola(Rose Windows), Rena Bussinger(Swahili) and Aubrey Nehring(everything else). Thanks to all of the many people who made it happen this year. Emily Pothast, David Golightly, Rena Bussinger and Darlene Nordyke (yall is freaks!) Scott and Li at the Lo-Fi, Dave Segal, Jonathan Meepers, Steve Quenell and a very big thanks to Andrew Crawshaw of 112 Printworks for the fantastic screenprint job on the Escalator III posters (We still have copies left for $10- contact aubrey@portableshrines.com to procure this fine hand made 3-color print).
And of course thanks to all you super freaks for coming down and hanging with us. It was a great weekend.
Fungal Abyss at the Comet Tavern. Photo by Invisible Hour.
Portable Shrines Escalator Fest III is this Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24!
Friday’s lineup features performances by Midday Veil, Swahili (PDX), This Blinding Light, Lunar Grave (PDX) and The Fruiting Bodies, while Saturday will feature Fungal Abyss, Diminished Men, Rose Windows, Macrocosm (PDX) and Ayahuasca Travellers.
Tickets will be $10 per night at the door. The sale of advance 2-day passes has ENDED. All advance sales will be at will-call. There are no physical tickets for Escalator III.
If you haven’t stopped by the 112 Printworks Shop you’d best do so. Aside from being a gallery of fine screenprinted art with new artists every month it also the new home to the most fabulous Leary Records formerly located at Resolution Audio in Ballard. They’ll be having a groovy DJ party next month to celebrate the merger.
Ayahuasca Travelers kick off the 2nd night of this year’s Escalator Fest. Darwin’s old group Treetarantula played the 1st Esacalator Fest and now he’s back and ready to take you on a cosmic voyage.
Check out their bithchin’ new album Ill Viloato Fuzz. with tracks recorded by James Davis (Master Musician’ of Bukakke) and mastered by Mell Dettmer (Earth, SUNNO))), Black Mountain, etc.) Muy heavy…
There are real solutions to the crisis our world is in-please check out this movie, debuting 11.11.11. The Future is ours if we claim it….and we must claim it.
Escalator III has been scheduled for Sept. 23 and 24 at the Lo-Fi Performance Gallery in Seattle. This year’s lineup is entirely comprised of Northwest bands, making it quite possibly the first ever multi-day festival devoted completely to Northwest garage, psych and experimental rock.
One the Event is a free 3 day event with the intent of healing humanity regarding the 9/11 tragedy. Tens of thousands of people will be joining musicians, speakers, and celebrities, both live and on the web to intentionally send love, compassion and unity to all of humanity.
Please consider attending the Gathering events happening at the University of Washington Friday 9/9/11 and Saturday 9/10/11 for the 2-day Experiential Solutions & Empowerment Gathering & Global Webcast, featuring a speakers, workshops, community dialogues, solutions sessions, inspired live music, high impact poetry, delicious nutritious food and a global interactive webcast.
On 9/11/11 There is the actual One the Event featuring local music, inspirational speakers, celebration and ceremony in Seattle Center’s Memorial Stadium. The afternoon will culminate with a global synchronized moment of love shared with millions of people worldwide at 3:46pm PDT and lead by founder of ONE: Becoming One Erik Lawyer.
The event is still accepting volunteers as well-there will be a meeting today 9/8/11 6 pm in Red Square at the University of Washington, or you can go to http://onetheevent.org/volunteer.html to sign up.
