Sunday, September 24, 9pm, $6 | Load Records’ YELLOW SWANS w/ special guests Grouper & Post.
Yellow Swans play a constantly evolving mass of psychedelic noise that is both physically arresting and psychically liberating. Their music is powerful rendering of free rock, black electronics, and white light vibrations. Consisting of Pete Swanson (vocals, drum machine, and electronics) and Gabriel Mindel Saloman (guitars, feedback, electronics), Yellow Swans create a dense ocean of sound using various analog and digital machines, all locked in a spiraling web of feedback.
“Alongside Hair Police and the Skaters, Yellow Swans have seeped inside the small cabal of third (or is it fourth?) wave rhapsodic noise jammers, capable of reanimating consumer-electronic carcasses into glorious, moist slabs. Whether it be loose, proto-rock freakouts or maximum AMM vapor, all three groups have birthed particular aesthetics yet with distinct characteristics traceable, in varying strains, to the American Tapes/Hanson orbit […] There are many faces to D Yellow Swans, as their name-changing prefix “D” suggests ([each release brings a new one:] Duh, Demo and Declawed have been used) and that semi-chameleonic aspect brings the sonic changes as well. The Swanson-Mindel audio architecture shape-shifts from burned out Voice Crack-like hollers to more satisfying and distinct minimal collage gestures”–dusted
Soundlab (dedicated to the music, media & performance of Big Orbit Gallery) * 110 Pearl St, corner Pearl/Swan (entrance behind building) * 716.440-5907 * http://www.bigorbitgallery.org *