Some of you may have visted the Plumindustries link I have on my blog--their most recent post is from a woman after my musical heart, and her name is Butress O'Kneel.

From the original Plumindustries post:

Buttress O’Kneel is a sound artist from Melbourne, who has to date released 12 plunderphonic audio-documentaries (on topics such as globalisation, Harry Potter, war, oil, racism, humyn rights, 9/11, exorcisms, “Australian values”, and the Bilderberg Group), 13 albums of culture-jammed post-pop noncore metabreaks, and several other Special Projects, including live manipulations of mainstream CDs through a series of destructive guitar pedals, collaborations with various other folks (including a fully sick deconstruction of Led Zeppelin IV with Blue Mountains misanthrope, Lucas Darklord), and commissioned art-pieces for the ABC.

She has dedicated her life to fighting the reptilian mind-control agenda, whether or not it actually exists.

This Eleven Eleven Special is a surreal journey through time and space, where the listener can meet some of her friends, influences, idols, total strangers whose work she thinks totally rocks, and of course her good self. CONTAINS NO BREAKCORE.

Buttress O’Kneel will be performing in Sydney for the first time for Liquid Architecture 10 more details…

Some of Buttress O’Kneel’s work can be found at:
http://www.aliasfrequencies.org
http://www.interwebmegalink.net
http://www.nightterrorrecordings.com

PLAYLIST
1. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 1) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
2. Zappa And The Mothers – What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body [We’re Only In It For the Money (1984 mix) / Barking Pumpkin Records]
3. Naked City – Speedfreaks [Grand Guignol / Avant]
4. Dead Ants Rainbow – The Long Skins [Dead Ants Rainbow (live) / Rough Coffee Records]
5. Otomo Yoshihide / Christian Marclay – Deep Down Under [Moving Parts / Asphodel]
6. Aux Assembly – Sideways [Even Cowgirls Get Dementia / Sabbatical]
7. Buttress O’Kneel – Our Good Fortune Is Largely The Climate [Soldier EP / IWML]
8. Peril – Kiken [Peril / Dr Jim’s Records]
9. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 2) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
10. Merzbow – Short Piece For Bondage CD ROM 2 [Music For Bondage Performance 2 / Extreme]
11. Otomo Yoshihide / Christian Marclay – Blood Eddy [Moving Parts / Asphodel]
12. Extracted from Negativland’s “Time Zones” (Escape From Noise, SST)
13. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 3) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
14. Buttress O’Kneel – In Some Cases [Soldier EP / IWML]
15. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 4) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
16. Buttress O’Kneel – Watchtower [LIVE 18 11 06 / unreleased]
17. Bogdan Raczynski – untitled track 3 [Boku Mo Wakaran / Rephlex]
18. Merge Into Stripes – L1 [To Mesmerise its Prey before Striking / IWML]
19. Negativland - The Bottom Line [Free / Seeland]
20. Zappa And The Mothers – What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body (reprise) [We’re Only In It For the Money (1984 mix) / Barking Pumpkin Records]
21. Peril – Left Of Centre [Peril / Dr Jim’s Records]
22. Christopher Penrose – American Jingo (excerpt 5) [American Jingo / Illegal Art]
23. Naked City – Gob of Spit [Grand Guignol / Avant]


ELEVENELEVEN :: 19 BUTTRESS O’KNEEL

I don't expect you to watch a 9 minute video, but check out the first minute, and the amazing Ruth Underwood at 4:20-5:30

A bit late notice, buttomorrow one of my favorite bands in the world, Beat Circus, are going to play a live set on Emerson College radio, WERS. Sad to say, I found myself never tuning in once the station went to their new programming a few years ago, but I am happy to say I'll be tuning in at 1pm tomorrow (4/1/09) for a live set from Beat Circus!

So, please, have a listen at 1pm on Wednesday, 4/1/09! On the FM dial, it's frequency 88.9. To stream go here and look in the top left for your favorite method. And if you like, go see them at TT the Bear's on the 29th of April.

From www.beatcircus.net
Beat Circus was formed in 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter, who has been its only constant member since its inception. In 2005 Carpenter began a radical shift in direction resulting in the recording of Dreamland, the first part of Carpenter's Weird American Gothic trilogy, with legendary NY producer Martin Bisi. Filled with dark narrative songs and loosely based on historical events associated with turn-of-the-century New York, Dreamland was the culmination of a two-year effort by Beat Circus. In Summer 2007 Brian Carpenter debuted the third incarnation of Beat Circus with a new concept and sound to develop the second part of the trilogy, Boy From Black Mountain, personal songs about family and fatherhood in the tradition of Southern Gospel songwriters and Southern Gothic literature.

Last Saturday’s Nettle show at Brandeis was a night that will be difficult to forget. After a listening to an interesting pre-concert talk, we had an opportunity take a look at the art in the Rose Museum. Impressive! There was a Hans Hofmann installation, as well as an installation of paintings named "Masters of Reality"---so good.

For the show, we were fortunate enough to be sitting right in the middle, in the front row-- which put us on the same level as the musicians, basically 10 or 15 feet away. The concert was held in a recital hall with approximately a 250 seat capacity, and great acoustics. The musicians played together beautifully, merging a vast combination of sounds, textures, and feelings. Besides supplying beats and other electronic effects, DJ/ Rupture also provided some real-time manipulation of some of his colleagues’ sounds, which was an exciting element. There were also some amazing moments of video complimenting audio, adjustments and directions given in real time to compliment the music. You can read a longer review here.

The Performers:
DJ/ Rupture – electronics
Abdelhak Rahal – Violin and Banjo
Khalid Bennaji – guembri, vocals
Brent Arnold – Cello
Grey Filastine - Percussion
Daniel Perlin - Video

The concert was captured on video by a guy to the right of us, and hopefully that will become available for the public to watch at some point. Thanks to the folks that went through the many efforts to make this amazing concert happen. It was definitely one of a kind!