Christopher Badger, Morgan Cuppet, Travis Rommeriem, Faith Coloccia.
Documentation: Kelly Akashi, Camerin Kelly, Meg Webster, Casey Barclay.
Play with us live: Brett Cutts, Sanaz, Daniel McCoy, Jennifer Pearl.
Influences
There will be singing about these dark Times.
-- Bertolt Brecht. Noise is a weapon and music, primordially, is the formation, domestication, and ritualization of that weapon as a simulacrum of ritual murder.
---Jacques Attali. objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
_Jean-Paul Sartre, synesthesia
Sounds Like
Discography:
I, You, She, The Blonde and The Clouds. The Fruit That Fell From The Tree, That Grew From The Seed, That fell From Our Hands. 2003
Edition of 5/5 Vinyl. Released on Weather Machine Records.
2 will be sold through Hydra head next year.
Same album 2003. Self Release for ISIS TAAS tour Edition of 15.
The same album 2004. Released on Weather Machine Records. Edition of 100. It came with a book also edition of 100 released through Weather Machine. The book detailed the contents of 100 jars we made to go into a show at Sound Walk 2004 in Long Beach CA.
For example: "flying squirrel feces, lighter fluid, 'extreme' jello, human adrenal gland, 750 mg vicodin, chalk, burnt chapter of Thessalonians." "the gulllet of a whale." "purified water, flanger pedal, moustache dye, tartar sauce, pigeon wing."
"I materialized a Glass Barn From Our Combined Plasma" is on this CD which features artists from SoundWalk 2004. "51 seconds" is on Sound Walk 2005, but we do not have the album in our archive.
CUSP came out on Hydra Head in 2005 as a limited edition of 100
And then again as an edition of 100.
CUSP came out in 2006 on Hydra Head in a larger bathier edition.
we have a piece called LOOM on this, which came out on Indie Workshop 2006, edition 250.
We did a soundtrack for a film called The Calm At The Edge of The Sea, with sister band Mamiffer. It will be screening soon.
Particles and Fields came out on Hydra Head in 2007. Edition of 120
"Iron Road, Cat Tipi Of Animal Skins, Lashing Rope with Svastika Opening & Snow Outside, Wind Blowing Down The Mountain, Wind Blowing The Mountain Down", A Split cd with Oakeater, for summer tour, to be released through Hydra Head later this month, edition 150.
Next: Sien Weal Tallion Rue, Full length on Hydra Head.
Coming soon on Hydra Head: Sien Weal Tallion Rue
also coming soon:
A split with US Girls on Olde English Spelling Bee
Dust, leaves, blood, photo chemicals, rust, various metal objects, a tunnel, a barn, a monastery, a booby trap, various moldy basements, water, explosives, tarot cards, an iron bison, the Los Angeles basin, the Mojave desert, a cat, a deer, potassium cyanide, mass confusion, a friendship, and a piano on fire in the middle of the street. This is the performance/installation/image and object making/ music and mayhem collaborative known as EVERLOVELY LIGHTNINGHEART.
EVERLOVELY LIGHTNINGHEART is concerned with noise sound music weapons, psychic phenomena, delicate papers, pins and needles, the thinnest of threads, the devils trumpet, and the narrowest of lines. EVERLOVELY LIGHTNINGHEART (sometimes known as FAITH IN VAPORS THIN AS PAPER, symbolized in some circles by the image of a three headed unicorn) is an entity capable of producing, perverting, destroying, distributing, stealing, and selling a vast and sprawling array of existing as well as currently unheard of forms of cultural products and concepts.
Everlovely lightningheart
They are a danger to themselves and to all those who attempt to bind
them. They have no control.
Music is a magical weapon wielded blind and wild.
Maybe to fall upon your brow.
To shake space, to foment synchronicity,
And to bend what was once thought brittle.
Dark is the path.
Cutting through a thicket.
Hanging trees stand steeped in dew.
Lichened bows reach for their roots
Travelers here inhale the absence of light:
an opaque dust, and expel it
from their lungs in tiny shimmers
made from fighting thoughts to see.
Gnosis glows pellucid and bright.
Agitated filaments show the way to aphotic lands
where strange beasts bathe in poisoned pools
where what we think we know means not much at all.
Beyond this, is a field of psychic danger.
A landscape made of information that is available but inadmissible,
information that destabilizes our imaginary position
in relation to a sensory terrene.
There is potential here for madness, psychosis, and death,
but there is also a potential for liberation.
A potential for action that transgresses as it transcends,
that produces through annihilation, that sheds symbolic meaning and
stands naked in the sun where everything is signal and
there is no noise.
“O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.”
These strong visual elements are enhanced by a beautiful score composed by Faith Coloccia of Los Angeles-based Everlovely Lightningheart (the band also contributes music for the soundtrack). Coloccia’s sparse piano work punctuates the film’s mournful progression from hope to sorrow.
