Janina Angel Bath has been a member or collaborator with such varied projects as avant-electro outfit SOFT SERVE, hip hop/ soul/ girl group VA LOTUS, psych rock band ETERNAL TAPESTRY, an experimental noise project with Rock and Roll Jackie & Ju Suk Reet Meate (from SMEGMA), a side project with Ashley Peace Falcon of Purple Rhinestone Eagle, as well as a myriad of solo performances. She has recently been focusing on her own mystical psychedelic group, which features a rotating platform of guest musicians and visual collaborators.

In all of his creative activities, Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. The challenge of elegance provokes his compositions for solo instruments, small ensemble and orchestra. As a visual artist, he works primarily with machines to create pen-on-paper drawings that explore the limits of traditional drawing through randomness and order.

In 2004 he began work on 1-Bit Music, combining his music with primitive, hand-programmed electronics that investigate the foundations of digital sound. The Village Voice, BOMB Magazine, BPM Magazine, Res Magazine, Wired News, Cool Hunting and Spin Magazine covered the release, which has also been featured on television. Surface Magazine called the boxes "profound throwbacks to the traditional album, a response to the intangibility of iTunes and mp3s in the form hand-held artwork."

Perich's compositions have been performed by ensembles including Bang on a Can (2008 People's Commissioning Fund), counter)induction, Calder Quartet, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Due East, Y Trio and Ensemble Pamplemousse at venues including the Whitney Museum, P.S.1 and Mass MoCA. His recent activities include electroacoustic pieces for 1-Bit Music with instrumental accompaniment. His experimental electronic music group, the Loud Objects, has performed in Germany, Japan, Italy (Screen Music 2), Norway (Piksel), England (Evolution) and the USA (including at the NIME festival). He has spoken twice at Dorkbot. Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University after attending Philips Academy, Andover. More recently, he studied art, music and electronics at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

irr. app. (ext.) is Matthew Waldron. A Californian artist, musician and current member of the live performance arm of Nurse With Wound

Also check out irr. apt. (ext.) w/ Blue Sabbath Black Cheer @ Josephine on 10/31/09 @ 8pm

Performing on the 21-string Mandinka Harp and the Turkish Oud, Kane Mathis renders compelling interpretations of these traditional musics.

Years of study with generous masters have given Kane a rare opportunity to share these traditions with other cultures.

Kane began taking trips to The Gambia, West Africa in 1997 and has continued rigorous study of the Mandinka Kora. Over the past ten years his performances have earned him recognition by the Gambian president, The Gambian minister of culture, and both national television and radio of The Gambia.

Kane’s primary kora teachers are Malamini Jobarteh of Brikama, The Gambia and Moriba Kouyate of The Gambia. The Jobarteh family remain one of The Gambia’s most important musical legacies. Tata Din din Jobarteh, Pa Bobo Jobarteh, and Siffai Jobarteh are the families current most visible exponents touring the world.

The sale will be all day long on Saturday, October 24th (11am - 7PM). We will be selling over a 1000 Japanese CD's. They're from the collection of Japanese music enthusiast and are in great shape. Most have obis. There are anime and game CD's, both soundtracks and vocal collections. Also on sale will be movie soundtracks, idol and seiyuu music, shibuya-kei, showa girl, spoken word, traditional, and more. Lots of nice CD sets too. Everything will be priced to move, nothing over $5.00 apiece. Oh yeah, some cute 3" will be available too. The aforementioned collector will be on site to address your questions and concerns.

David Knott, MT-BC, NMT is a board-certified music therapist, fellow in the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, instrument maker, improvisor and composer living and working in Seattle. He specializes in using improvisation to engage and facilitate therapeutic change with critically ill adults and children.

Since 1982, David has been playing and recording his own music solo and in collaboration with others. His interest in music and soundmaking comes from a personal, intuitive response to vibration gleaned from early years spent exploring his grandfather’s junkyard, the process of building his guitar at the Roberto-Venn School in 1994 and every improvised musical experience. With instrument building, performances, workshops and recorded works, he seeks to stimulate the listener to a point of resonance and discovery of their own musical being.

A debut solo CD “Natura Naturans,” featuring his stringboard instruments, was released on Anomalous Records (1999). He is a founding member of animist orchestra – an ensemble that uses natural materials to create very quiet, subtly evolving soundscapes. Along with the Climax Golden Twins and Sir Richard Bishop, he is a member of the Messenger Girls Trio, whose first record on Anomalous Records is currently sold out. [Another 12" "Excelsior Salon Trio" will be released by UZU Audio (Canada) in October 2009.]

Sunday, September 27th will mark the official release of a new cd by Seattle-based Born Under the Sun of Death. This is the collaborative project between noise/experimental musicians KRGA and Thunder Grey Pilgrim, both of whom have performed at Wall of Sound events in the past. These two have been making music together on and off for the past 8 or so years, and this incarnation is by far the darkest sound exploration they've completed so far. Their new self-titled cd ranges from quiet, eerie field recorded barn noises to dark orchestral drones to blow-your-speakers-up shrieking and drum solos (??? yes, actually a double drum solo to be more precise). This event will be part of a weekend full of Debacle Records-related activities, starting Friday night at the Black Lodge, Saturday night at the Josephine, Sunday at Wall of Sound and later that evening at the Mr. Spot's Chai House.

Jim Haynes: Drawing from shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural scrapings, I manifest a broken minimalism whose magnetic drones give the impression of timelessness, when in fact the environment is quite active. This engineering of disparate materials and media seeks to evince the unpredictability of decay, to manifest its potential for a rough hewn beauty, and to bare witness to its inevitability.

Colin Andrew Sheffield: After initially working with exclusively digital sources, in recent years, Sheffield has refined his approach and now focuses on the strict re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings. His aim is to distill the essential qualities of these works and to then utilize that essence for new recordings. Usually only very brief sections of the original works are selected. These raw components are then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new is forged. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding, offering subtle nuance and quiet restraint. His recordings often seem to have much in common with ambient electronic music, though are equally akin to "plunderphonic" audio collage.

Rob Millis: Since the mid-’90s, Robert Millis has maintained a quiet and versatile presence in American underground music. As a performer, he has delved into areas ranging from the blistering noise rock of AFCGT to the acoustic guitar improvisations of the Messenger Girls Trio. Also, as demonstrated by his compilations of ultra-rare 78 rpm records under the banner Victrola Favorites and by his global field-recording expeditions with Sublime Frequencies, Millis seems to be in constant search of the most obscure sounds he can lay his hands on. Of all his musical endeavors, however, Millis is perhaps most well known as a member of the Seattle outfit Climax Golden Twins, a group that explores the kind of oddball, genre-bending style established by the Sun City Girls. (Incidentally, the two groups have formed various musical connections over the years.)

FREE ALL AGES IN STORE!

Midday Veil present stories older than time unraveling over a tapestry of meditative rhythms, cosmic synth drones and transcendental harmonies to form kaleidoscopic soundtracks for beatific visions.  The CDR "End of Time" documents the band's early stages as the duo of Emily Pothast & David Golightly; the current lineup also includes Chris Pollina and Timm Mason (a.k.a. Aphonia/Debacle solo artist Mood Organ).

"If you ate some mushrooms and wanted to take a spiritual journey, this is the kind of thing you might put on the stereo. ...it would induce one hell of a trip." -Sarah Brickner, Seattle Weekly's "Reverb"

SORRY BOYS AND GIRLS THIS JOINT HAS BEEN CANCELLED>

BUMMER.

Band says Talbot Tagora is a 3-person project from Seattle who create and produce art and non-fiction:Mark Greshowak - Guitar/ Bass/Sing, Ani Ricci - Drums, Chris Ando - Guitar/Sing. This one is going to be killer. Come if you dig the inventive noisy post-punk-ishness. Bad Ass.

New Zealand's Pumice grind out a shambling brand of lo-fi rock oblongitude: Think Guided by Voices if they loved Captain Beefheart much more than they do the Who. It's as if Pumice's songs are straining to achieve beauty, but their innate homeliness and awkwardness tilt them into a curious, obscure corner of the rock spectrum. In its very peculiar way, this Pumice music beguiles. - Dave Segal

small silver guitar/holden spring reverb/ intercoms/endless cassettes/spy-ear/buzz box/heavy metal pedal/brown teisco guitar/chord organ/kawasaki keyboard/vocal/steel string ukelele/walkmans/neck amp/8 track tape machine/child prodigy accordian/kraus biscuit tin distortion/double barrelled harmonica/kraus bathroom scales super fuzz/bambino organ/roll up piano....

So this in-store is an extra something because it also a new album release celebration. Recordings for the Life on Earth began at home and were then interpreted by Andrew Hernandez in a classic analog studio in Austin, TX. Powerful voice, dreamy guitar. And that shit is HEAVY. In a dark kind of way. “She’s not telling stories; she’s after incantation and trance”—New York Times

Pure purr power, you light shining kitten. We made this in our living room, the circle is open for sitting, all hail inestimable true.

Sunday Services return. Cookies? Maybe! Potentially informative quote: "Structured around razor-sharp fingerplucks rather than chords, Dumovich's lyrics often draw a chilly parallel between geography, weather, and human emotions... " says Brian Barr. Music's pretty Epic.

Wyndel Hunt integrates melody and noise using electronics, acoustic instruments, field recordings, and the occasional piece of amplified trash. His recent work focuses on conceiving narrative, painting, and sculpture as analogues for structuring composition and shaping sound. Since 2005 he has presented his work in galleries, public spaces, and live venues alone and in collaboration with visual artists.

FREE ALL AGES IN STORE

performing music from their new split CD: Under The Sour Trees

Chet began his study of kora, the 21 stringed harp of W. Africa, and Mandinka music locally with acknowledged American kora master, Kane Mathis. He later made two month long trips to Brikama, Gambia to live and study with two kora masters and griots, Malamini Jobarteh and Moriba Kuyateh. The kora is originally from the Gambia region, although, at present, it's most popular performers are from Mali, namely, Toumani Diabate and Mamadou Diabate. Chet has been playing kora for six years.

A kora is built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator, and has a notched bridge like a lute or guitar. The sound of a kora resembles that of a harp, though when played in the traditional style, it bears a closer resemblance to flamenco and delta blues guitar techniques. The player uses only the thumb and index finger of both hands to pluck the strings in polyrhythmic patterns (using the remaining fingers to secure the instrument by holding the hand posts on either side of the strings). Ostinato riffs ("Kumbengo") and improvised solo runs ("Birimintingo") are played at the same time by skilled players. The instrument is played in Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal, and The Gambia. A traditional kora player is called a Jali, similar to a 'bard' or oral historian.

“Grimm sounds at various times wild-eyed and placid, witchy and innocent… she is best when she submits to her many eccentricities, manifested through bodily fixated lyrics and hair-raising singing that could spook a hardened cult leader… “ – Time Out NY. We've been enchanted with her new release, Parplar, from Young God Records and have been looking forward to her show with Michael Gira at the Tractor Tavern. Now through the grace of Larkin we eagerly await this intimate show. Highly recommended! (Photo by Ports Bishop)

Rob Lowe-no, neither the actor nor the Chicago musician of 90 Day Men/Singer fame-and his partner Michael Muller named their instrumental rock project Balmorhea after a small town that functions as a rare oasis in the otherwise dry and barren desert of West Texas. The moniker works: The Austin duo, often aided by cello and violin-weilding friends, makes calm, fertile, and watery music that stands alone in the middle of the loud and fractured landscape of indie rock. This is birds-and-grass music, backed by cracked earth and power lines, and Balmorhea's sound practically breathes on the new Rivers Arms. - The Onion, August 2008

6 DJ's and Lou Lou plays a set in the basement BYOB $5 donation

Monstersorri (home of Lucy, Emily, Karl, Danielle, Davey, and Darcy) 2317 14th Ave. S Seattle, WA (on the # 36 and #60 bus lines)

A special solo acoustic performance just for you!

See you there!

With these dudes and these dudes.

Oh man!

As Heavy Teeth, the duo of Garek Druss and David Farrell combine forces to create frequencies from ultra heavy to cloud like and everywhere in between.

With his work as a solo sound artist and performer, Garek Druss, uses (a) Story of Rats as a vehicle to explore his interests in repetition, ephemeral tones, audio experimentation, and personal expression. (a) Story of Rats was created as an outlet so that he could investigate the similar patterns that were occurring in both his visual and audio work. With this project, the artist approaches the creation of musical compositions in the same manner that he approaches the act of drawing, open with subtle textures.

Combining sleep deprivation, drug addiction, 20th century theory and 21st century application, David Farrell(aka Dormant) brings dark and heavy to a new level. First released heavy ambient drone music under the name Southerning with Jessamine keyboardist Andy Brown on the infamous Drunken Fish Records back in 1996. Farrell takes his 15+ years of experience to draw together sources from guitar, synth, piano, cymbals, sax, field recordings and more to weave a thick tapestry of heavy drones, cross modulated textures, transcendent feedback and mind melting openness. Over the past three years he has recorded 12 albums which will slowly come to surface on the newly founded CRIPPLED SYMMETRY RECORDINGS. Look for Dormant, (a) Story of Rats, Dull Knife, Inh Halentropy, Heavy Teeth and other artists on the label beginning in late fall 2008.

Free All Ages In Store Performance Celebrating The Release Of The New Dead Science Album "Villainaire" On Constellation Records!

"A duo of turntable and baritone guitar, The Fun Years have disguised their instruments with atmospheric textures comprised of obscure samples and blissful repetition. The result is a stream of audio magma, filled with dreamy sound washes and subtle phrases that effortlessly tumble over one another. As artists such as Stars of the Lid and William Basinski achieve, The Fun Years use time as a musical tool without pretense. They concoct thick layers of rich drone and underlying harmony that artfully conjure notions of memory, space and the subconscious. While Isaac Sparks' sampling creates a thick haze of pops and crackles from abstracted vinyl recordings, Ben Recht's guitar work of arpeggios and open tunings draws the listener into the world of The Fun Years."

It's these guys

"The further down she climbed, the warmer she became, and her cheeks grew pink, her mile-long hair still dragging behind. Soon, the ice trapped within those infinite locks began to melt and fill the land with a trail of water that followed at her feet. Streams of silver in the morning sun veined the land from mountain to valley."

Thunder Grey Pilgrim (aka Mitchell Bell) has not played out very much at all really and that makes us even more pleased to present him. The excerpt above is from a short fiction he contributed to an excellent zine of creation stories. We include it because it echos the expanse and mood of his music. Although the music mood is a bit more inky depths ok? OK. He recently played a bill with KRGA if that helps.

For fans of Oren Ambarachi, Yellow Swans, all things Southern Lord, black, LOTR, etc.

In Residence (variations) – Yann Novak will present a special set of live alterations to the original field recordings used on his latest release 'In Residence.' And since Yann's music falls into the delicate brushstroke ambient electronic territory, we are going to cover the floor with soft things and lie down for a few minutes ok? Deep breaths for everybody.

Oh, and here's what David Stubbs of The Wire has to say about 'In Residence': "Novak creates a sense of distance by abstracting his source materials beyond recognition - whatever is going in is obscure, and far away. Hence the vague, rotorblading, respiratory effects of the first of these three tracks - the sound of systems ticking over, yet whose undulating motions are curiously involving."

The “7-inch Prints” is a series of limited edition digital archival prints that are cropped to the scale and format of a 45 rpm 7-inch single record cover. The prints are enclosed in a plastic 7-inch protective sleeve like that of your most treasured record collection. The imagery throughout the series doesn’t necessarily follow a particular theme, but are more like individual record covers absent of text that are uncanny, surreal narratives. The “Other Works” in the show are paintings, prints, and drawings that were a part of various series produced throughout the last 5+ years.

Rich has been exhibiting his work nationally for over 12 years in various galleries and museums. He lives and works in Seattle and is currently represented by the Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.

Join us for opening night festivities June 6th from 7-9pm!

Past Lives are >PRE-NOW / POST-THEN

Sweat Lodge are the party while your parents are away

$5.00 admission

21+ (sorry kids)

FIRST ONE! Sunday, May 11 @ 5:00 pm
Steve Arntson plays the concertina. A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pushed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it. Also, each button produces one note, while accordions typically can produce chords with a single button. Concertinas are often shaped like hexagons or octagons. Concertinas are fully chromatic.

Mr. Arntson plays original works on this instrument with incredible dexterity and brilliance. Onward into the future sublime bellows!

and Sugar Crash will bring the cookies.

INSECT AGENTS: Live performances, experiments, and debris from the archives of CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS.

Plus some never before seen bonus stuff!

$5.00 admission

LOREN CHASSE At the heart of LOREN CHASSE's work is his interest in and ability to listen, often explained through the metaphor of the microphone being an extension of the ear. Using his sound locations as both the instrument and the studio, Chasse looks for particularly resonant and acoustical situations that are reflected in a peculiar way. Like many artists who push the boundaries of traditional art forms, Chasse is continuously drawn to seek new acoustic possibilities, and he is continually searching for new venues and modes of self-expression. Collaborations have been key to Chasse's work as he founded idBattery with Brandon Labelle in the mid '90s before pursuing the polyphonous psychedelia of Jewelled Antler, an umbrella to such ensembles as Thuja, The Blithe Sons, The Child Readers, and Of.

KRGA= Kristian Garrard : Max/MSP, computer, guitar, microphone, no-input equalizer, digital delay, drum-machine, synthesizer, Puredata, harp, ukelele, found objects, reverb, waveform editing, percussion.

This month marks the start of the 5th year of our monthly concert series @ the lovely Jewelbox Theater. The String Specialists Concert consists of 7 different artists performing a short solo set on the stringed instrument of their choice. Prepare to be amazed at the diversity of sounds and styles these artists will coax from their stringed things!

Artists (Not In Order of Appearance):

Steve Schmitt (Diminished Men)
Nick Gonzales (Curious Mystery)
Eric Ostrowski (Noggin)
Heather Cullen (Sokai Stilhed)
Dan Beall
Craig Chambers (The Lights, Pyramids)
Kristian J. Garrard (KRGA)

$5.00 admission

Warm your heart and soul on a cold and dark February night at our release party for: Victrola Favorites

Featuring 78rpm DJs spinning rare shellac: blues, hillbilly, jazz, ethnic and more. Copies of the book will be available for purchase (naturally), along with 78rpm records, and of course the fine selection of CDs, LPs and more that Wall of Sound has always carried.

Victrola Favorites is a deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book of illustrations with two CDs featuring music and design from the early part of the 20th century and published by the essential Dust to Digital record label from Atlanta, Georgia. Record sleeves, 78rpm labels, needle tins, photos, Burmese guitars, Chinese Opera, Persian folk songs, Fado, Hillbilly, Jazz, Blues and much, much more. Compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera.

"...amazing, like a midway point between Yazoo's Secret Museum of Mankind and Sublime Frequencies..." — Brian Turner, WFMU

Published on January 22nd by Dust to Digital.

Soul Food Pinata are the Wall of Sound & Rendezvous holiday house band....of sorts.

Psychedelic power trio action from a couple of old farts and one whippersnapper!

Trust us you'll love it!

Sindios Is Your Thanksgiving!

Tiger Vision will slay you with laser beamed audio freakouts and pummel you into submission with lighting fast drumbassatarisoundmoduledeathmachine! Features: MilesSteelballsFreeborn/JasonGloverVision/AndrewTigerEyeMcginnis

Join us on opening night November 2nd from 7-9pm and check out fine works by the following artists:

Rebecca Shapiro

Carlos Melgoza

Shannon Mcconnell

Sharon Alexander

Linda Peschong

Mark Sullo

Chris Johnson

Adria Garcia

A special evening with prog country metal specialists Wah Wah Exit Wound!

Heavy drone guitar exorcisms by the Australian string manipulator par excellence Oren Ambarchi!

Demonic string possessions by Seattle's favorite troubadour Sir Richard Bishop!

Hair! Sweat! Sweet! Yowza! And Howza!

One band / Two sets!

The most ass kickin' moustache waxing freak flag flyin' hair machine motor boat ridin' dixie picklin' spleen rupturin' ROCK band in all of your third eyes combined!

Bookmobile is Ben Torrence and Victor Couto. The duo began playing music together in early 2001, along with Choncey Langford, in Recidivist, a trio that performed completely improvised post-rock primarily using guitars, bass, and drums, as well as an occasional sampler, keyboard or effects device. Their studio activities began to shift their attention more and more toward the potential of the computer as a musical tool and instrument, which led to Lamplighter, their electronic alter-ego. Lamplighter began performing shows with computers (even pre-laptops) in late 2001, and shared the stage with a number of noteworthy artists including The Chicago Underground Duo, David Grubbs, Hrvatski, Greg Davis , and Damo Suzuki. Lamplighter released one album and a pair of compilation appearances before disbanding in 2003. After Lamplighter Ben and Victor continued on as Bookmobile, releasing their debut album Key s in 2004, and touring the west coast in 2005, and have a couple of complilation tracks to their name. The duo are now operating bi-coastal, with Victor residing in Washington D.C., and Ben remaining in Seattle. They are presently working on their second full-length, and discussing tour plans for later in 2007. Ben also stays busy running the Woodson Lateral label, doing solo work as Splinters , and plays in an indie rock band, Lunch Buddy Program.

Eyes Like Saucers

Fursaxa

Family Underground

Bring Grandma and Grandpa too!!!

The WoS night is back and ready to kick ass!
Kuru Cult

Free Jail

Nada

"Will the powerbook trio be able to contain the low tech. onslaught of the primitives and avoid the out-flanking manoeuvres by the dysfunctional garbage collectors, or will the romantics hold the day with their instruments rooted in history?" - Keith Rowe (AMM, MIMEO)

Walrus Machine are a trio of jilted romantics making every attempt to uproot our instruments from history through low tech primitive dysfunction.  We focus on improvised free screech, howl, crispy sizzle and thud.  These improvisations are channeled through the lungs, arms and feet.  Mostly there is only alto saxophone, trombone & drums.

Os Coyotes are a band of full moon howlin' mutant hillbillies singing deranged songs around a campfire made of cardboard and rubber boots. Do not look them directly in the eyes.

PWRFL POWER is a Japanese International student in Seattle, USA. He moved here in the summer of 2003 and spent first 2 years in playing his noise group, NA. "I am 21. I am old enough to sing about women." In July 2006, he started writing songs. While going to ESL classes, he played with Deerhoof, Gang Gang Dance, Barr, No-Neck Blues Band, Sir Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls, Can Openers of Half Japanese, Wooden Wand, and Travis Morrison of Dismemberment Plan, etc. Instead of turning in essays, he did press releases and appeared in The Spin, The Wire, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Time Out New York, etc.

May 6th is gonna be an official CD release party/in store performance.

Siltbreeze Review of a Sex/Vid 7":
If there is one genre nowadays that I'd absolutely dismiss it would be Hardcore. But every now & again I come up against something that makes me eat my words. This time it'd be this awesome quartet outta Olympia,Wa what call themselves Sex/Vid. They got a great halcyon sound that recalls the action found on the ground floor of Fatal Erection, Touch & Go or Dischord back when 3$ ppd. meant somethin. If I hadn't heard it myself I'd have never thunk it possible. I'm impressed. Ding! Score one for the punkies.

Gentlemen of Leisure:
Absolutely ridiculous psychedelic punk rock. These guys are fancy lads. Lots of inscrutable weirdness and big hair sound effects make this band particularly marvelous. Catch them now before they implode from the weight of their own strangeness.

Gel-Sol is Seattle based producer/musician Andrew Reichel, whose dichotomous sound spans from ambient soundscapes to complex, rhythmic electronica, creating a dynamic psychedelic universe with heavy emphasis on improvisation. Influences range from 70s prog and kraut rock to electronic and psychedelic. In 2004, Gel-Sol released the critically-acclaimed Gel-Sol 1104 (aka Music Made For You... And By You, I Mean Me.) on the UK's cult ambient label Em:t Records. 'Unifactor', the follow-up album, [and first Gel-Sol album to be released on Upstairs Recordings] continues the tradition of his unique, amorphous sound collages. Often compared to the Orb and Future Sound of London we're sure you'll agree that the Gel-Sol sound is all its own.

NARD CORE!!!!!

CGT

UH

"Goatgirl" is Seattle performance artist and vocalist Jeppa Hall and her 21st century story ballads. Bizarre, beautiful music featuring Jeppa's unique voice and storytelling, her parlour guitar, and the accordian accompaniment and vocals of Eli Kaufman. Jeppa as "Goatgirl," is an amazing storyteller and along with Eli's taciturn, straightman muppet sounding back-up vocals, they have a deceivingly innocent appearance. Yet under the cartoonish exterior, Goatgirl reeks of almost bad meat, the dark side of love and manipulation on the subtlest of levels.

Goatgirl MySpace

Goatgirl Web

Goatgirl's song "president combed his hair" has been included in Josephine Foster's anti-war fundraiser compilation "too much fire to roast human flesh," released by Arthur magazine. Jeppa Hall also sings with the Seattle Harmonic Voices and the duo "It's a Miracle!" with Jason Glover. Her performance personas include Queen Shmooquan- the transcendental burlesque clown, Donna Death of Seattle Semi Pro Wrestling, and Stem Cell Nation's Pip-n-Top and Jerry & Sherry.

Pitchfork on Tiny Vipers: 'Seattle seems to take pride in its sloppy cut-the-bullshit ethos, and fittingly homegrown, newly fitted Sub Pop artist Tiny Vipers, aka Jesy Fortino, strips Joanna Newsom's en vogue freak-folk down to little more than a guitar and four-track. Unlike Newsom's beloved Lisa Simpson cooing though, Fortino is dreary, taking no flights of fancy. Her grief's bigger than yours, is the effect-- too real to hide behind a harp or woodwind section. What starts dewy-eyed with "We'll find a way" ends more somberly, polished off by Fortino's icy European chanteuse vox in the tradition of Nico and, more recently, Gustav: "I'm dying/I grow smaller each and every day, weaker still/ At least I'm trying." Talk about discontent-- Vipers is nihilistic enough to be the Emerald City's best attempt at blowing up the outside world in ten years, yet content to sit sulking in a dingy, one-person flat.'

Du Hexen Hase sounds like a superconducting lens of translinguistic matter generated out of the body of each of them at a critical juncture during a psychedelic bar mitzvah.

New Yann Novak Release and In Store

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is proud to announce the release of the first edition of the new DER series de6000 dedicated to live recordings. To kick off the series will be the release of the live performance by Yann Novak's at the 2006 Decibel Festival, recorded by Brian Willoughby and Paul Turpin, and master by Yann Novak. To thank Decibel for such a great festival year after year Dragon’s Eye Recordings will donate 50% of the proceeds from this release to benefit next year’s festival. To celebrate the release Wall of Sound Records will host an in store performance by Novak.

Wall of Sound is pleased to announce the beginning of the 4th year of our monthly concert series at the Jewelbox Theater.

January kicks off with the 4th annual String Specialists show; a series of short solo performances by artists playing the stringed instrument of their choice. This years line up is a fine gathering of artists whom we are certain will surprise and delight your ears with all manner of sonic goodness. We hope to see you there.

Artists:

Jherek Bischoff (Dead Science)

Alex 'Sprout' Guy (Degenerate Art Ensemble)

Brad Dunn (Sleepy Workers)

Devin Welch (Shoplifting)

Resistor (Waves)

Mike Shannon (Aono Jikken Ensemble)

Michael Ohlenroth (Wall of Sound)

Wall of Sound holiday hoe down!

It's Free!

Doug Webb of Sawdust Charlie flys in from Kansas to finger pick some fine down home tunes...this is a rare live appearance...don't miss it!

Soul Food Pinata return to the stage with their fired up psychedelic jams. Perhaps they will perform in pajamas. Most certainly they will blast off from their easy chairs and take you with them into orbit. Whatever that means. More likely they will be loud and rockin'. Special guest appearance by the living spirit of Leonard Cohen and some dead pirates.

Tyler's musicianship grew out of a love of art, performance, and design. While getting his BFA in Electronic Media Art and Design in Denver he rummaged through shelves of the bountiful local thrift stores to assemble a performance ensemble of toy keyboards, tape players, xylophones and beater guitars. The thrifting pastime lead to performing in local galleries where extemporaneous stage performances would come out more comical than theoretical like they started. Architecture School has brought him to Seattle where he has finished his 52 Songs project—comprised of creating a song a week for a year—and was discovered by a group of modern dancers. He subsequently found himself performing live improvisation with LAUNCH dance theater at Velocity Dance Center and On The Boards. Recently released on Yann Novak's Dragons Eye Recordings is the culmination of these endeavors entitled Music for Dance + 52 Songs—an 2 CD set (one audio, one mp3 CD) of over four hours of music.

Potts' latest release is comprised of all new material that will be available at Wall of Sound at the begining of December. The sound of which is a progression of the music from the last few years as well as a new step in creating a cohesive album of diverse songs.

listen at http://www.tylerpotts.com

"Tyler Potts made a song every week for an entire year. That kind of diligence and discipline is humbling. Of course, sheer quantity doesn't necessarily mean much. Diminishing returns, etc. But Potts's newly issued 52 Songs, a disc of MP3s that's bundled together in a DVD case with a CD-R titled Music for Dance on Seattle's excellent Dragon's Eye Recordings, maintains a ridiculously high level of sound design over its 210 minutes.Potts's winsome, introspective compositions skillfully blend both digital and analog sound palettes. Music for Dance recalls Boards of Canada's decaying tones and emotionally charged, miniaturist melodies. A penumbra of hazy chords haunts Potts's tracks, stirring up complex, poignant feelings while avoiding clichés. The sound here, and on 52 Songs, is distinctive, handcrafted without being precious." -Dave Segal, Data Breaker, The Stranger, 2006

Diminished Men are a Seattle based trio blurring the lines between raw rock and the mood altering scores of cinema. Mixing horror and psych-fi western with a bat of surfrompbeatchinesefucklore, this outfit maintains a punk ethos while resting its head on the breast of past and present film masters. Diminished Men have been featured with the internationally known and much wondered about Maureen Whiting Dance Company, as well as with the Seattle International Film Festival.

Diminished Men plow a distinctive, reverb-laden groove in Seattle's bustling music scene. Southpaw guitarist Steve Schmitt pulls off mercurial, twanging leads that corkscrew with Django Reinhardt meets Ry Cooder dexterity while the rest of the group help create eerie and exhilirating spaghetti-western themes; with a peyote chaser. Is that cactus talking to me? -THE STRANGER (2006 Big Shot nomination)

http://profile.myspace.com/diminishedmen

Curious Mystery employ modified guitars,autoharp and 100yr old banjo alongside glorified trash to build a psychedelic garage for the folks. Ghost ballads for the modern world.

http://www.myspace.com/thecuriousmystery

Forest of Grey started out in around 2003/2004 with Nick Planert on guitars and Tanith Lanzillotta on bass. The first recording was on a tape recorder during the winter of 2004. In 2006 drummer Dan Morikawa joined the band. In the Past FoG has gone through various band names such as GM3, Chaotic Order and Weblocké. FoG will be recording a demo soon.

And a list of influences from their page @

http://www.myspace.com/forestofgrey

1349, Abruptum, Absu, Ad Noctum, Annihilatus, Arcturus, Bathory, Beherit, Blut Aus Nord, Boris, Burzum, Cacophony, Carcass, Carpathan Forest, Children of Bodom, Cryptopsy, Dark Funeral, Darkthrone, Deathspell Omega, Demonic Christ, Devil May Cry, Emperor, Enslaved, Entombed, Exhumed, Fortitude, Frostfall, G.I.S.M. Graeme Norgate, Grand Magus, Haemoth, Hammerfall, Hate Eternal, Hellhammer, Horn of Valere, Horna, Ihsahn, Ildjarn, Immortal, Incantation, Iron Lung, Judas Iscariot, Korozy, Krisiun, Leviathan, MAB, Marduk, Mayhem, Napalm Death, Nattefrost, Nocturnus, Norther, Nortt, Paul Gilbert, Sapthuran, Satanic Warmaster, Satus, Satyricon, Sex Machineguns, Sorgnatt, Swarrrm, Twilight, Ulver, Urgehal, Urskumug, Vreid, Wyrd, Xasthur, Yngwie Malmsteen

Founded in 2005, Guardian Ear is an experimental quartet consisting of classical guitar, electric cello, oboe, and percussion. From beautiful melodies to fragmented shards of noise, they combine a myriad of influences to create haunting aural landscapes. Avant-garde acoustic chamber rock, perhaps? They call it Thrashical. Come hear for yourself as they explore the musical moment to create the soundtrack for your inner cinema.

http://www.myspace.com/guardianear

It's hard to pin down any large influence over the music, with each member coming from accomplished, yet entirely seperate backrounds, which seem to overlap in the strangest places. Was that a hint of death metal? Was that a cock-rock solo played on a woodwind? Did they all just grunt in unison? What did he just break? This band may not be for the faint of heart or easily frustrated, but they seem to be doing what I had previosly thought was a passé experiment, exploring new realms of music, new concoctions of sounds and genres, and coming out with something legitimately original. -Ilene Zunwald (Music critic from Usedom, Germany)

Seattle's Jon McMillion has been producing electronic music for seven years now. A Pacific Northwest native, Jon is a software engineer by day and studio freak by night. Coming from a musical family, Jon grew up with a soundtrack including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Wes Montgomery. After learning his way around the piano, then focusing on guitar, he was involved with groups in Seattle's fertile and eclectic underground scene, combining influences from John McLaughlin to Black Flag to The Fall. Hearing early Warp artists such as Squarepusher led him into the realm of electronic production, supported in part by the online community around Atom Heart's mailing list. His debut EP 'Inner Floor' on Orac was released in April 2006. With another E.P. scheduled for release on Orac, Jon continues to focus on experimenting with Electronic Dance Music.

He'll be performing @ WoS as Jon McMillion and Wow85. A set sifting in and out of dance and non dance related work.

This is a free all ages event

Bio: Allen grew up with old time music and started learning banjo at the age of seven from his father. His father, Lewis Hart from Oklahoma, played banjo and guitar and taught Allen to play banjo in a two-finger picking style. In over 35 years of playing he has learned many great tunes in different playing styles from many well regarded traditional players. He draws his inspiration from the old commercial recordings of the 1920s and 1930s, field recordings from the twenties to the present, and from personal visits with the musicians themselves who grew up in the cultures and traditions that molded the music.

Where played... In the nearly 35 years playing the banjo he has played countless small clubs and coffeehouses and dance venues in Los Angeles, the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Among the venues and festivals that he has played at are:

The Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA The Northwest Folklife Festival - Seattle, WA The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes - Port Townsend, WA The Cuyahoga Valley Heritage Festival - Bath, OH The Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention - Galax, VA Sweet's Mill - Sweet's Mill, CA The Portland Old Time Gathering - Portland, Oregon The San Diego Folk Festival - San Diego, CA The Centrum Ethnic Dance Festival - Port Townsend, WA WannaDance Uptown - Seattle, WA The Black Banjo Then and Now Gathering - Boone, North Carolina Winter Grass - Tacoma, WA McCabe's Guitar Shop - Santa Monica, CA

Discography Tribute to the Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop, WV) - Chubby Dragon 1001 The Young Fogies, Volume 2 - Rounder CD 0369 A Devil of a Row (Swing Cat 1610) [1999] Build Me a Boat (Voyager VRCD-354) [2001] Allen Hart Old Time Banjo (Voyager Records VRCD-368) [2006]

STEEL TIGERS OF DEATH Brad, formerly of Albuquerque's "Luxo Champ", plays bass. Morgan, formerly of NYC's "Xs For Eyes", plays guitar. Mike, formerly of Seattle's "Thug Life," plays other guitar. Jason, formerly of Seattle's "Medicine Hat", and "Thug Life" plays drums. All but Jason sing, and all singing may contain less than 10% actual singing. Someone told Brad that Steel Tigers of Death sound like something that SST would have released in the latter half of 1984, or something. Someone told Morgan that Steel Tigers of Death sounded Rocket from the Crypt-ish. Someone told Mike that Steel Tigers of Death sounded like a jar of nails bouncing down a hill. No one tells Jason anything. Hear what they sound like to you on their My Space site.

KRASH UN LURNE Krash un Lurne arose from humble beginnings no more than a year ago. Having taken off our rose colored glasses they became hell bent on creating guitar driven dark rock stripped down to it's simplest form. A writhing guitar, searing vocals and hypnotic beats from a mechanical box on the floor. Throw in some special guest session players on occasion and you have a goth, punk, metal, emo thing with just enough bitterness to make you feel uncomfortable. Experience it. Join the Kullective!

Live and direct from Ulverston, Cumbria U.K.

Please join us in celebrating the return of the fabulous Herb Diamante ! This time around Mr.Diamante will be celebrating the release of his new record 'May I Light Your Cigarette' on Seattle's own Abduction Records. A psychedelic cabaret singer of unparalleled smoothness and guile, this show is NOT TO BE MISSED !

Please Note: Herb's set will begin PROMPTLY at 9:00pm. So come early and relax with the special guest DJs opening the evening at 7:30 pm.

Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) will be celebrating this special date with a free in-store performance here at Wall of Sound. He will be playing songs from his newest CD, Fingering the Devil (released by Southern Records, Europe) and other selections that he sees fit. Sir Richard’s solo guitar explorations often reflect the shadow worlds of India, the Middle East and other points along the Gypsy trail. Don’t miss this special performance. A limited edition CDR entitled 'All Strung Out' will be available for purchase at this event. The 'Fingering' will begin at 7:00 p.m

SON OF ROSE Seattle based computer synthesis project Son of Rose is the brainchild of Kamran Sadeghi, a former student of jazz drumming, music theory, and audio engineering. Sadeghi's desire to apply his education with the need to experiment gave birth to Son of Rose in 2000. Fueled by real-time modular synthesis, improvisation, emotion and sound, Son of Rose purses the evident and unlimited nature of sound by applying numerically specific frequencies to meticulously sculpted sound archives. The result is an aural structure of organic and textural leanings.

EAR VENOM Two individuals working together to express themselves as a singular sound event -vocal manipulation, repetition, homemade or altered instruments, feedback, and other effects are all used as a means to process their combined ephemeral emotions.

Wall of Sound presents a Sublime Frequencies debut screening.

Described as ‘The Mardi Gras from Hell’ and ‘Thai Halloween" PHI TA KHON is a ghost festival that takes place every year in the Isan province of Northern Thailand. Meaning 'ghosts with human eyes' or ‘ghost into human', Phi Ta Khon features magnificent costumes, ornate masks, decorative phallic icons of all sizes, ceremony, drinking, dancing, and endless addictive Molam music in higher doses than most souls can process. A mind-blowing and obscure tradition hidden in the interior of the Indochine peninsula. Filmed on location by Robert Millis and Richard Bishop in June 2004.

Of "Bafflemania," Disheveled’s Michael Wilder comments, “This will be one of my stereo’s regularly rotated discs for the remainder of time.” Featuring Al Milman on vocals and Matt Brignall on sitar, banjo, echoplexed steel, guitar, and anything in the room. Produced by Jack Endino. Copies of the CD will be available at a special sale price!

A Free in store performance by Dick Flick (of The Broken Penis Orchestra) and Otis Fodder (of The Bran Flakes). This duo of sonic madmen will assault your brain with an audio eggbeater as they mine the aural dustbins of society. Multiple turntables create a sonic soup blending noise, moog, psych, freakbeat, outsider and incredibly strange sounds for your listening pleasure. Come browse, create your own interpretive dances for kicks, and sing-along with the cacophonous Wall of Sound...melt your brain!

The Noisettes favor instant composition both analog & digital (the pixel fever of the technologically insane). With a mountain of gear, effects, and processes, the trio creates sculptures, pulsations, and slow maelstroms in time... Please enjoy the short-circuit of your reptilian brain and simultaneous massage of the frontal lobe as you join cosmonauts of inner space for a journey into distant regions of human hearing.... The Noisettes are: Thaddeus Koolhoeven, Noah Nine & Joy Von Spain. Listen/Look: http://www.myspace.com/noisettes

Reita Piecuch is from Seattle. Her musical project, Dialing In, is described by Birchville Cat Motel's Campbell Kneale as "radios, pianos, and keyboards recorded, re-recorded, and re-recorded again, and again, in ever more resonant locations in a never-ending quest to reveal the true nugget of glowing golden song buried beneath the superflous musical husk. Bask in the terrifyingly beautiful glow of this radiophonic Kali, The Destroyer. Unbe-fucking-lievable!" Dialing In does not use any conventional effects or pedals, and enjoys very much finding creative and unexpected ways to create unfamiliar musical sounds.The best thing about this show will be watching Reita's first attempt at conveying her "sounds of decay" in a live setting.It could be gorgeous; it could be a disaster-- but she guarantees it will not be boring.