an evening of experimental music and performace art
with Industrial Music Pioneer Z’Ev

Z�Ev/Sikhara
�Ex-Patriot Tour�
w/ Refrigerator Mothers/Metal Rouge & +DOG+
DUNG MUMMY @ il corral
Saturday, May 5, 2007 @ 9:30PM SHARP - $5 suggested donation
664 no. heliotrope dr (just south of melrose), los angeles, ca 90004 562-209-0896

Z’EV + SIKHARA “EX-Patriot Tour”

Z’EV is the artist’s name of the Californian Stefan Joel Weisser, currently living in London, and one of the most exciting drummers in the world. His education in ethnomusicology already in the late Sixties and early Seventies lays the fundament of his combination of African, Indian an Indonesian drum art with abstract meters and the art of building rooms with drum strokes. A room becomes a stage, a wall a painting, and this by the mere power of drums. Z’EV is one of the founders of Industrial Music and Industrial Arts as a whole. His artistic works cover a multitude of recordings on LP and CD, performances and room installations, choreographies and academic teaching at many international schools and museums.

Since the 1970’s, the currently Uk -based text/sound artist Z’EV has been at the forefront of the movement that became known as “industrial”. A precursor even to Neubauten, his brand of scrap-metal/found object percussion originates in intense musical training and background. Beginning with his days at the California Institute of the Arts, Z’EV has studied techniques such as Balinese Gamelan, EWE ( Ghana ), Tala (south India ), and Vou Dun (Hati). Incorporating these traditional methods into his distinctly personal musical vision of sound, Z’EV has consistently produced vital examples of his craft for a host of noted labels including Soleilmoon, C.I.P,Touch and Die Stadt and a commissioned piece for JohnZorn’s “Radical Jewish Music” series on Zaddik. Hisrecord “Bust This” was chosen in 1988 by The Wire as one of the greatest 50 percussion albums of all time. Z’EV has graced the stage and created installations for an immense variety of venues in Europe, the US and Japan . The list of his collaborators over the years includes such luminaries as Keiji Haino, David Jackman, Francisco Lopez, KK Null, Stephen O’Malley, Charlemagne Palestine, Genesis P ‘Orridge and Chris Watson. In 2007, Radon presents ‘The Ex-Patriot Tour’, the premiere full-on American tour by Z’EV. These appearances will be his first state-side performances (excluding NYC and LA )in well over 20 years. The concerts will occur in a mixture of conventional venues as well as delving into underground contexts which few artists of Z’EV’s history and stature have explored. The return of Z’EV to the United States is highly anticipated in the wake of his recent activity. A new generation of listeners have come to the realization that much of what they consider to be the original wave of avant garde music, owes a huge debt to the creative pathways forged by Z’EV.

“The instrument used on this side is incredibly beautiful and at times sounds like an incredibly low steel drum that emits the most powerful of sounds. At times it seems as if the rhythm is weaving like a snake through Z’EV and his hands. This is undeniably a kind of work that I have never heard from anyone else. Z’EV’s music is unique beyond compare and his complete mastery of texture and sound only adds to the unique character of his drumming.” - Brainswashed by Lucas Schleicher

“Who else calls up Gods? Z’EV uses his array of hanging metal objects to invoke moods which are more than just moods: to charge the airspace he’s working in with the spirit he’s saluting. This is an old idea, maybe the oldest in drum-lore, but almost everyone else has lost sight or sound of it, behind a tradition of art-directed technique. A torrent, a clatter, a tulmult, a vast, endless ringing” from Music Sound Output by Norman Weinstein: “Z’EV is a one-man percussion orchestra. Using a battery of industrial discards, Z’EV makes perhaps the only thoroughly literal heavy metal music on earth. By creating ‘drums’ out of materials like stainless steel, he creates stunningly fresh and emotionally uncategorizable mini-symphonies.”- The Wire:

“This isn’t trance music. It’s like a vise screwed onto your skull. You don’t let your mind wander. You have no mind. You’re sucked into a very ancient,lightless place where only hunger and power exist.”- LA Weekly by Greg Burke

SIKHARA www.radoncollective.org / www.urckrecords.com

The tribal percussion project of Scott Nydegger has performed over 300 concerts in 26 countries. The project has always existed in a constant state of motion, touring and living in a nomadic way that has come to define it. In 2003, Sikhara began a self-imposed exile in Europe and fortified the line-up with French drummer Yann Geoffriaud most know for his work with the famed French power-violence unit George Bitch Jr. During this period Sikhara became a mainstay in the European underground with constant touring, often known to chose extraordinary locales for their performances, such as Istanbul�s Taxim district, a 1400 year old Buddhist temple in Japan and deep within the tunnels of a Polish coal mine.

With the release of their new cd ” Bardos State ” and a collaboration disc with Bastard Noise, Sikhara has turned its sights back upon America . Last autumn, Sikhara returned to make a sprawling tour across the US and follows this spring With their most extensive tour to date. Rounding out the 3 man line-up on the Ex-Patriot tour is percussionist Sam Lohman, who has honed his skills touring on 4 continents with such acts as Sheer Terror, Nimrod, Acid Mothers Temple , Maji and Nik Turner. Sikhara also has many satellite projects, including backing and producing Iggy and the Stooges sax-man Steve Mackay and regularly appearing with ex-Can front man Damo Suzuki. They are a core band in The Radon Collective. An international community of touring experimental artists.

Refrigerator Mothers www.hop-frog.com, www.myspace.com/RefrigeratorMothers

The hop-frog kollectiv’s Refrigerator Mothers are ritualistic and tribal post-punk folk dreamweavers but, let not the term folk lead you to the narrow field of American folk music but to indigenous folk music from around the world. The Refrigerator Mothers post-punk kraut punk folk-noise punk sound of the future embellishes electronic beats, with looping as well as live tribal percussion, throbbing bass and swirling guitars rich with the usual cast of hop-frog kollectiv members and their toy/world instrument antics ranging from saz to electric kazoos to rebaba to kitchen sinks to cumbus to child sized accordions. This will be the last of Fridge Mums shows for sometime as they go on hiatus while the new album is recorded.

+DOG+ www.loveearthmusic.com

Dog was formed in 1990 in Osaka Japan by steve Davis (ex expando brain). Moved to Boston in 1993 until 1997. In Boston the band consisted of Steve, Jeff & Lolo. Released a 7� ep �egg of dog� on stomach ache and then another 7� ep �bombed & dangerous� on detector records. In 1996 Dog released it�s 1st �3 headed death dog� on detector and toured the west coast w/ 36 & machine gun TV. Dog moved to California in 1997 and has released many cd�s and cassettes on love earth music, harshnoise, smell the stench, audiobot, BT recordings, and has had tracks on numerous comps. By RRRecords, Release/Relapse , bastardised , etc… Dog is currently a collective of musicians from many many bands , toured europe in 2006, and plays regularly in LA, SF and Sacramento . Dogs last 2 cd�s �sea horses� on love earth music and �grisly tableau of carnage � on harshnoise were trips into the blast furnace..and currently is working on the next cd �spriritual awakening� which is going to be a bit different.
Dog loves you, maybe.

METAL ROUGE - http://www.helgafassonaki.net/metalrouge.htm

�from los angeles via new zealand via los angeles , comes the inimitable sounds of helga fassonaki and andrew scott. the duo performs/records as metal rouge, and after a stunning 3″ on tim coster’s CLaudia imprint, they’ve got their first full-length (that i know of, anyway), self-released available directly from helga (website link above). packaged in a small box that’s inserted in a plastic wrapper that new hard drives are often packaged in (great idea!), it’s minimalist and beautiful all at once. CLaudia describes the duo as ‘improvised clatter,’ which is pretty apt. scott plays guitar and fassonaki plays the persian santur (quite similar to a hammered dulcimer). it’s an original combination that works very well. highly recommended.�- Brad Rose � Foxy Digitalis

URCK Records, www.urckrecords.com - underevolution
hop-frog kollectiv www.hop-frog.com mp3s
http://www.myspace.com/themastermusiciansofhopfrog
http://www.myspace.com/refrigeratormothers
http://www.myspace.com/hopfrogsdrumjesterdevotional