[NewMusicEvents] Ettrick spring 2007 US tour

[jacob felix heule]

Ettrick spring 2007 US tour

* 4/21 Denver @ Rhinoceropolis w/ Clan of the Cave Bear, Appliancide,
Thomas Kinkaid & Page 27 vs Novasak
* 4/22 Kansas City @ TBA
* 4/23 Nashville @ Ruby Green w/ Tap Tap Taparoo Part III
* 4/24 Pittsburgh @ Garfield Artworks w/ Golden Arm Trio
* 4/25 HELP!
* 4/26 Brooklyn @ Studio B w/ Lightning Bolt, XBXRX & Aa
* 4/27 Philadelphia @ Avant Gentlemen's Lodge w/ Plotkin/Wyskida & Normal Love
* 4/28 Columbus @ Skylab w/ Face Place, Times New Viking & Clan of the Cave Bear
* 4/29 Chicago @ Schuba's w/ XBXRX & KK Rampage
* 4/30 Chicago @ Club Azucar w/ Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded), Death
Factory, Deathstab & Winters In Osaka
* 5/1 Milwaukee @ Points East Pub w/ MNFIW, Sonic Typewriter & A Volition Trio
* 5/2 Madison @ Nottingham Co-op w/ Bastard Trio, Tzaraath & Killer
Dolphin with Rabies
* 5/3 Minneapolis @ The Church w/ Squid Fist, Old Colony & Peace Creeps
* 5/4 Lincoln NE @ Chatterbox w/ Volcano Insurance & the New Music Agency
* 5/5 Salt Lake City @ TBA

We're still looking for a 4/25 show. We're open to anything less than
a 9 hour drive from both Pittsburgh and New York, where we need to be
the day before and after. Please get in touch if you can help (jacob @
ettrick.org).

http://ettrick.org
http://myspace.com/ettrick

San Francisco's Ettrick is a self-destructive free jazz/black metal
assault featuring two multi-instrumentalists rotating through every
permutation of their drum and sax duo. In their brutal free
improvisations, Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber explore the extreme
sounds that can be wrenched from their instruments through brute force
– screaming through saxophones, throwing drums and other such impolite
extended techniques. The doubled instrumentation provides a situation
to explore playing contrasting and complimentary styles on like
instruments.

Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX), Moe! Staiano (Sleepytime
Gorilla Museum, Moe!kestra!) and others have joined Ettrick on stage
for trios and quartets of drum/sax multi-instrumentalists. Ettrick's
harsh noise influence is brought to the forefront in Elf Ass, a
collaboration with Tralphaz on electronics.

"With all the squawks, rasps, and synapse-smacking harmonics of John
Zorn and Albert Ayler, the San Francisco duo Ettrick wields saxophones
like some kind of pan-dimensional alarm clocks—or, at the very least,
malfunctioning dentist's drills. But like the best free jazz, there's
a deep intuition and discipline at work within the band's music... To
top it all off, the twosome splices bits of Orthrelm-level metal into
the frenetic jazz..." -- The Onion AV Club (Boulder/Denver)

"...a bludgeoning amalgam of black metal and skronk sure to summon the
apocalypse... an excruciating free jazz that feels like being trapped
in a metal shed during a thunderstorm." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian