There is a good quality audio boot of the recent Secret Chiefs 3 Masada show in Barcelona featuring Fred Frith on the first of July 2009. There is also a gallery of piccies from the show.
Thanks to Diego for the tip
As part of the North Sea Jazz Festival this weekend, of which John Zorn is Artist in Residence, Secret Chiefs 3 will be playing Masada (Xaphan?) on the Yukon stage.
“With a show that is freaky, sometimes rock hard, but especially enchanting, Secret Chiefs 3 is able to transport its audience into the dark cellars of the musical underworld. During the Jazz Rocks! theme on Saturday on the Yukon stage, SC3 will unleash its demons and shock its audience but also charm them with their magical, improvised show.”
Good news! A new Secret Chiefs 3 album has just been announced, and it’s due out next month!
Bucking the usual Mimicry trend of announcing an album and then releasing it a few years later, the new album is due for release in May.
It will be released on both CD and limited edition 12″ vinyl, and is now able to be pre-ordered at the Web of Mimicry store.
The album is by one of the seven Secret Chiefs 3 satellite or sub bands, The Traditionalists, and will be shipped around the 3rd week in May.
Tracklist:
01. Faith’s Broken Mirror
02. Sophia’s Theme
03. What’s Wrong with Cytherea?
04. Mourning In Ekstasis
05. He Hates Us
06. Psychism 1: Cytherea’s Possession
07. Love Spell
08. Agenda 21
09. Subcutaneous Solution
10. Abyss of Psychic Enchantments
11. Subdermal Sequence (Nano-Correction)
12. RFID Slaverider
13. Dionysian Dithyramb (Eros-seed of the Egregore)
14. Zombievision
15. Perfectly Reasonable
16. Psychism 2: Fear is the Great Teacher
17. Abolish Believers by Abolishing Belief
18. Funeral for What Might Have Been (Sophia’s Theme)
19. Codex Alimentarius
20. Putting Forth the Hand to Take
21. Psychism 3: Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind
22. Hypnotopia (Obey your Passion)
23. Nano-correction / Human Migrations / Faith Realizes
24. Chapel by the Sea (a Heart That is Broken and Humbled…)
25. The Strength to Sever
26. Baby Hedone (Harvest of the Egregore)
27. Zombievision 2012
28. The Great Die Off (He Mocks Us All)
29. Cytherea’s Awakening / Martyrdom at Romiou Point / Return to the Foam
30. To Love God is Sweeter than Life (Sophia’s Theme)
Read the album info and listen to some samples here
Other coverage: Mainly Music Meanderings / mxdwn.com
The album info from mimicry:
“From out of nowhere Secret Chiefs 3 (operating here as Traditionalists, one of the seven ‘satellite bands’ introduced on Secret Chiefs 3’s album Book of Horizons) presents an elaborate “colonna sonora paranoica” — a paranioac film soundtrack. The film is imagined, but the horror is real. This entire project, as you might expect from this band, is a spiralling allegory that extends itself well-beyond its starting-point cliché as a “soundtrack for a non-existent film.” But that’s always been one of those potentially good clichés, in theory anyway. Pursuant to that potential, this particular work remains singularly, decidedly faithful to its sworn genre, the Giallo Horror Film Soundtrack.
At this point, it’s fair to assume we can take the dizzying conceptual maelstrom that comes with anything SC3-related as a “given,” right?
Alright, so we won’t go into that here.But a word on the strictly musical side of things is warranted. The first thing to note is that Giallo cinema music has the distinction of having been graced by nearly all the great masters of Italian film music in general: Bruna Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani, Ennio Morricone, Goblin, Pierro Piccioni etc. And though this area of “B cinema” certainly has its appreciators, one still-underplayed element is that when considering the music, Giallo’s harmonic language was developed by brilliant people who, by current musical and aesthetic standards, set the bar very high. For any of us wannabes to share in the magic of this lost artform, we have to bring a bit more more to the table than some vintage amps & keyboards and vague undeveloped musical ideas based only in hipster aesthetics. Because if you ignore the deeper intricacies of the music theory at work, the orchestration, the arrangement, etc., you’re really only asking to make an ass of yourself (which is likely anyway no matter what you do). But the usual thing is to sample stuff or simply borrow themes from the masters and to then repackage them in a new “updated” context. Well, in a climate like that we should emphasize that Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini is quite simply an album of original compositions. The process should be likened to when someone is learning another language and begins to have dreams in that language. It’s the same process in any style of music, really. So to state it plainly, these are original compositions that were dreamt into being in the harmonic language of the Giallo Horror Film Soundtrack. It’s that simple. The point is not to be strictly period-specific, or culturally-specific, but to be psychically specific — caring first and foremost about how to convey things that will affect the psychic state of the listener in the intended way. After all, the point of dreaming in this particular language, with all its sophistication, elegance and beauty, is to go that much more deeply into the territory of nightmare… and um, let’s just say SC3 feel it’s necessary to pursue this particular range of the human experience at this moment.
The album itself is a full orchestral score that fully capitalizes on SC3 stock of musical manpower (Trey Spruance, Ches Smith, Timb Harris, Shahzad Ismaily, William Winant, et al.) and adds to that a broad cast of A-list hired musicians (among them Laurie Goldstein and Hans Teuber). The material runs the gamut; dissonant violent strings receding to beautiful textures with flute and female vocals through echoplex; analog synthesizers, harpsichords and celestas over a tight ’70s-style rock band rhythm section; crazed psychedelic freakouts with major payoffs; church organs granting repose, until tape treatments and a chorus of possessed shrieking voices force the listener to reconsider his position on the existence of Evil… If you can imagine all that produced to the standard found on any other Secret Chiefs 3 release, you’ve pretty much got the idea here.
The album was mixed analog to 1/2 inch tape. LP comes in 180 gram vinyl. CD is a mock gatefold LP, with a printed sleeve. Pure win.”
Based on the samples I just finished listening to, this is going to be a must have. It sounds awesome!
May 22, 2009 - Milwaukee WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
May 23, 2009 - Chillicothe IL @ Summer Camp 2009 festival
May 24, 2009 - Thornville OH @ Hookahville XXXI festival
May 26, 2009 - Northampton MA @ Pearl Street
May 27, 2009 - Portland ME @ Space 538
May 28, 2009 - Boston MA @ The Middle East
May 30, 2009 - Brooklyn NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
May 31, 2009 - Philadelphia PA @ First Unitarian Church
2 June, 2009 - Quebec City QC @ Le Cercle
3 June, 2009 - Montreal QC @ La Sala Rossa
4 June, 2009 - Toronto ON @ The Mod Club
June 6, 2009 - Ozark AR @ Wakarusa Music Festival (LATE NIGHT)
June 9, 2009 - Los Angeles CA @ El Rey Theatre
June 10, 2009 - San Francisco CA @ Great American Music Hall
Eurockéennes (Les)
France , Belfort (90)
03/07/2009 to 05/07/2009
http://www.fm-r.info/festival,Eurockeennes-(Les)-1.html
Thanks to Adrian @ FNM2.0 for the tip
http://www.nypress.com/article-19570-24_7-music.html
An excert on Mr Bungle’s motives:
“There was no ideological objective,” he points out. “We hated punks. Revolutionbased political music? We just laughed at that stuff.We were seriously promoting deconstructionist insanity.We grew out of it a little bit, but for our first four demos and our first album, we were coming out of the pit of a severe form of ill-will anarchism.”
Due out 3rd of March. $17US, NTSC no region. Includes Tawd Dorenfeld’s stop-motion animation film.
1. The 15
2. Dolorous Stroke
3. Bereshith
4. The 7
5. Zulfikar
6. The End Times
7. Personnae: Halloween
8. The 3 (Afghan Song)
9. The 4 (Great Ishraqi Sun)
10. Fast
11. Ship of Fools (Stone of Exile)
12. Brazen Serpent
13. Hurqalya
14. Renunciation
The Les Claypool The Oddity Faire – A Mutated Mini Fest Tour Dates:
3/13/09 Salt Lake City, UT Depot Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/14/09 Denver, CO Fillmore Yard Dogs, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/16/09 Kansas City, MO Beaumont Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/17/09 St. Louis, MO Pageant Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/19/09 Minneapolis, MN Myth Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/20/09 Milwaukee, WI Rave Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/21/09 Chicago, IL Riviera Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/22/09 Cleveland, OH Agora Devotchka, Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/24/09 Toronto, ON The Guvernment Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3
3/26/09 Boston, MA House Of Blues Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3, O’Death
3/27/09 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory Saul Williams, Secret Chief 3, O’Death
3/28/09 New York, NY Terminal 5 Saul Williams, O’Death, Secret Chief 3
photo credit: feiticeira_org
Great interview, have a read.
“I think the discipline it demands to pull things off is very healthy for the soul, and I am very proud of the members of SC3 for being LIFERS who are purified of all illusion having to do with what it means to be a “musician”. This is a great source of strength…”
http://reyporundia.phplibre.com.es/modules/news/article.php?storyid=361
http://reyporundia.phplibre.com.es/modules/news/article.php?storyid=363
http://reyporundia.phplibre.com.es/modules/news/article.php?storyid=364
Sat Sep 13 – Gothenburg, SWEDEN – Spotcity / Brunnsparken (Koloni)
Sun Sep 14 – Christiania , Copenhagen, DENMARK – @ Club Loppen
Tue Sep 16 – London, UK – Rocka-Rolla/Last.FM Festival @ Cargo – with Skullflower and Zu (7 pm show)
Wed Sep 17 – Bristol, UK – @ The Croft
Thu Sep 18 – Birmingham, UK – @ Barfly
Sat Sep 20 – Paris, FRANCE – Fiasco System Festival @ La Maroquinerie
Mon Sep 22 – Nice, FRANCE – Théatre Lino Ventura
Wed Sep 24 – Nancy, FRANCE – l’Azimut 854
Thu Sep 25 – Paris, FRANCE – Glaz’art
Fri Sep 26 – Rennes, FRANCE – L’Antipode
Sat Sep 27 – Arrasate o Mondragón, SPAIN – Amaia Antzokia
Sun Sep 28 – Barcelona, SPAIN – Mercat de les Flors – Sala Om
Mon Sep 29 – Oporto, PORTUGAL – Plano B
Thu Oct 2 – Bern, SWITZERLAND – Dachstock Reitschule – with Stephen O’Malley of SUNN0)))
Fri Oct 3 – Opwijk, BELGIUM – Nijdrop
Sat Oct 4 – Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS – Worm
Sun Oct 5 – Amstelveen, NETHERLANDS – P60
photo credit: ttam elbanak
photo credit: ttam elbanak
Fri Jul 25 – 10,000 Lakes Music Festival – Detroit Lakes, MN (w/ The Flaming Lips, George Clinton + P-Funk, Michael Franti/Spearhead, Extra Golden, Medeski Martin Scofield Wood, Phil Lesh & Friends, and more)
Sat Jul 26 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Ballroom (w/ Wooden Robot, The Demix)
Sun July 27 - Chicago, IL – Double Door (w/ Brilliant Pebbles, The Scarring Party)
Wed Jul 30 – Fort Collins, CO – Aggie Theatre
Thu Jul 31 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre (w/ The Melvins, Big Business)
Fri Aug 01 – Salt Lake City, UT – Paladium (sic)
Sun Aug 03 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge (w/ Diminshed Men, Secret CHEFS 3)
Mon Aug 04 – Seattle, WA – Neumos (w/ Master Musicians of Bukkake)
