Tonight In Athens
- posted by Mail Clerk @ 9:56 AM | Permanent Link

The Ginger Envelope finally releases their new full-length, Edible Orchids, tonight at the 40 Watt. Venice Is Sinking's in tow to help celebrate - and they're now playing out a lot less (this means recording, I take it?).

Also, Dark Meat's playing a "jazz set" or two in the lobby of Cine in celebration of their showing of the documentary My Name Is Albert Ayler - about a dude who is pretty much the Hank to their Cash. It shows tonight and tomorrow night. According to Jim McHugh (of Dark Meat):

"The music of Albert Ayler, at its harrowing best, is some of the most profoundly representational of the human emotional experience that I've ever in my life heard. Never mind his fulsome, haunted-juke-joint tone itself -- fierce and plaintive all at once -- and his musique-concrete assault of noisome honks and skree; his saxophone recalls much of this world, and much from outside of it, too. Ayler's sound is earthly and astral alike: we can relate to it physically and spiritually and, usually, both simulatneously."

Anyway, the filmmaker will be in attendance as well to field all your Ayler-related questions. And I think Strayhorn Magazine's involved in this too - probably in getting this film set up, so thanks to them.

And don't forget Sweet-Tooth Simpleton & The Simpletones at Little Kings as well as Betsy Franck & The Bareknuckle Band at Roadhouse.

Labels: Tonight In Athens