[NewMusicEvents] ETTRICK -- U.S. TOUR -- APRIL 2008

[jacob felix heule]

BRUTAL IMPROV / ACOUSTIC GRIND / FREE DEATH

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

all shows 4/5-4/21 w/ Tony Dryer
all shows 4/21-4/26 w/ ELF ASS & Tralphaz

4/5 LOS ANGELES @ WOMEN w/ Pukers, Kevin Shields, & Rale
4/6 PHOENIX @ TRUNK SPACE w/ Wingnut, & Love Songs Monster Songs
4/7 ALBUQUERQUE @ HOUSE SHOW w/ AGL, & Luperci
4/8 DENTON @ HOUSE OF TINNITUS w/ Mistress
4/9 MURFREESBOROUGH @ HOUSE HOUSE
4/10 ATHENS @ SECRET SQUIRREL
4/11 DURHAM @ BULL CITY HQ w/ Chest Pains, & In the Year of the Pig
4/12 PHILADELPHIA @ BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN w/ Tweeter, Dave Smolen, &
French Erections
4/13 open
4/14 open
4/15 BOSTON @ PA'S LOUNGE w/ Deep Jew, God Willing, & Jules Vasylenko
4/16 BROOKLYN @ DEATH BY AUDIO w/ Little Women, Talibam!, & Necking
4/17 PITTSBURGH @ GARFIELD ARTWORKS
4/18 CLEVELAND @ PAT'S IN THE FLATS w/ Clan of the Cave Bear, Self
Destruct Button, & MaryClare Brzytwa
4/19 COLUMBUS @ SKYLAB
4/20 CINCINNATI @ ART DAMAGE LODGE w/ Wasteland Jazz Unit, DBH, & Bad People
4/21 CHICAGO @ AV-AERIE w/ Binges
4/22 MILWAUKEE @ BORG WARD w/ Peter J Woods, Dear Astronaut, & Slow Owls
4/23 MADISON @ NOTTINGHAM CO-OP w/ Bastard Trio, & JoAnne Pow!ers Trio
4/24 MINNEAPOLIS @ MEDUSA w/ Squid Fist, Jose Bove, Sloven, The Hair,
Thieves, & Batter Recharger
4/25 IOWA CITY @ HALL MALL w/ Binges, & Nimby
4/26 DENVER @ RHINOCEROPOLIS

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. 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.

"...bone-shattering, ego-melting music... shifts just as quickly into
eerie bouts of beauty and sadness before dive-bombing back into the
lake of burning blood." -- Foxy Digitalis

"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)

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