VIBE OUT!

Coming this Wednesday, 3.31, to My Castle of Quiet radio on WFMU

Fluorescent Vibes

Corey Bauer and Phillip Gerson coat early-Cluster/Eno-like washes and analog pulsations with a coalescing layer of powdered concrete crunch. These guys have a thoughtfully executed plan (or seem to), as opposed to the perhaps more common—though often effective—methodry of hooking up some gear, slamming on a few pedals and hoping for the best. Their cassettes for Obsolete Units and Baked Tapes reveal an album-based mindset, where each tape side comprises a fully enveloping composition. Also look soon for a new C-15 on Cryptic Carousel (Corey's own label) of 2009 live excerpts. You can also check out some great vimeo sets from Fluorescent Vibes, first "Monochrome Splash" --- then this live clip on the My Castle of Quiet vimeo channel.

Castle doors creak open @ 8.

FV @ 9 approx.

WFMU-FM 91.1 NY/NJ
WMFU-FM 90.1 Hudson Valley
Listen live.

Yay female supremacy.

Good black bug's blood ALUK-FUCKING-TODOLO! The rock music that drug chains to the party—controlled, but always on the edge of the abyss, and with a good view at that. Thanks again to the band (on tour right now in Europe), and to Brian and Scott for making the airing of the AT set possible. Fucking eh! The rest was gravy.

Scary-ass new Starving Weirdos double LP is slowly killing me, and Sword Heaven caused some fissures of opinion, as they will do (check 'em out Sunday night with Sightings at Death By Audio in Williamsburg.) The new Darvulia is a hotheaded/cold-hearted stab at Christ, and new tracks by Pink Punching and Nurture Abuse pummeled and popped ears. Also, everyone wants to know who the hell Jack Lucifer from Germany is (me, too! more, more!)

The above image is from The Nude Vampire by Jean Rollin, who I can now safely say is my all-time favorite filmmaker, for the rest of my life...unless of course Catherine Breillat decides to blow my mind by doing a straight-genre horror picture...there's always hope. Click on the masked twin (ah! where is the other one?) to access the playlist and audio archive of last night's horrorcast.

Tonight on the Castle - Aluk Todolo, live from WFMU Fest, 10.1.2009

These very busy, talented Frenchmen (whose combined credits also include the black metal band Diamatregon, the insane hard rock of Gunslingers, and the excellent amourtout productions label) opened WFMU's 3-day music festival this past October at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Aluk Todolo combine black metal's gooey cobweb vibes and hyperdrive 2/4 with thudding, Krautrock insistence, and no messy vocals. Just when you're chugging along—big, ugly, stone doors open and monsters come out. Thanks to Brian Turner for coaxing AT across land and sea, and for all his hard work on the mighty Fest, and to Scott Williams for the recording. These tracks, collectively a 28-minute excerpt of Aluk Todolo's set, were remixed and wax-stamped by the band themselves. Please note: Per the band's request, these tracks will not be shared via WFMU's blog or Free Music Archive, as they are versions of songs that will appear on the next Aluk Todolo full-length album.

Doors creak open @ 8.
AT 9-ish.
WFMU-FM 91.1 NY/NJ
WMFU-FM 90.1 Hudson Valley
Listen live.

Saint Death set excerpt, 3.20.2010

Thanks again to Andy, Sara, Nurture Abuse, Lussuria and John Mannion for playing great sets. Thanks to Nate for putting the bill together.

For the purposes of this upload, I'll call this excerpt from our set "The Hang." CLICK ON THE HIPPIE TO DOWNLOAD.

Saint Death Mock Too

Saint Death (Andy Borsz of Slasher Risk and yours truly) are making our second-ever live appearance tomorrow night @ 13 Thames/Psy-Op Studios in Brooklyn, as part of a great night, set up by Nathan Rulli of Abandon Ship Recs., Enerver, Laurel Craig, THD etc. (busy guy!)

See Nate's flyer above—hope you all can make it.

Nurture Abuse
(first NY appearance!)

John Mannion
(of Cathode Terror Secretion)

Lussuria
(Hospital Productions)

Dick Liberty
(Sara of Slasher Risk)

Saint Death
(Andy of Slasher Risk + Wm. Berger of My Castle of Quiet/ex-Uncle Wiggly)

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"Time enough at last." You know when that happens? When you're tasting dirt. There is never enough time for everything, so do nothing. Or never sleep. Your choice.

The black magician hates to lose a battle, perhaps because he so rarely does. When he feels himself losing, his rage knows no bounds. All hordes must rise to serve (their souls are damned, anyway—might as well put them to work!) I have my share of (very) bad days, but I never put a nail through my face and spit blood on a few dozen wax dolls. Does that make me restrained? Reserved? Controlled? Even human?

Click on Lo Lieh, badass extraordinaire, to access the playlist and audio archive of last night's horrorcast™. That's right, I said "™".

Starring Goblin, Physical Demon, Ken Timber, S.k.i. M.a.s.k., Music for Monsters, new Malveillance, Dodsferd, Vicious Beast, Lussuria, new Merzbow, and Rust Worship.

Telecult Powers and more on the My Castle of Quiet vimeo channel

So I've been taping gigs for several months now, ever since I picked up an iPhone. I used to rail at people holding up their phones to shoot stills and video at shows ... "Why aren't these people experiencing things in the now?! All they're thinking about is how great this will look later on their Flickr page!!" Now I'm the asshole with his camera out.

Still, I do feel that important things are really happening, especially in terms of the Brooklyn-based noise scene (though not at all exclusively, as you'll note from the selections I have up.) I first began uploading things to my YouTube channel, which up until that time was typically reserved for funny home vids my son and I make together. For reasons that will be obvious to most of you, I decided to pick up the whole thing and plop it down on vimeo. And yes, there are a few amazing clips back at YouTube, which will eventually be re-upped to the vimeo page.

Here's the latest upload --- my Kosmische brothers Telecult Powers, rumbling the firmament at the Nyack Village Theter a few weeks ago --- the full set >>>

Telecult Powers from My Castle of Quiet on Vimeo.

Make sure to also check out Telecult's feature article in the newest Signal to Noise magazine. Congrats, guys!

Hot Shit This Weekend, incl. a Brutal Show in NB

More Castle mail online, esp. since I keep forgetting to read it on the air.

First off, there's monster show tonight @ The Nicolas Cage in New Brunswick, NJ (great venue name, btw) featuring some very good friends of the Castle on the bill ---

Sissy Spacek (ft. John Wiese/CA)
Gerritt Wittmer/Paul Knowles (CA)
Explosive Improvised Device (Anthony Saunders/NJ)
Cochlear Emissions (2673 + Tonio Hubilla/NJ)
C. Lavender (formerly Paid in Puke/NJ)
Hollow Man (NJ)

The Nicolas Cage
13 Woodbridge st, New Brunswick, NJ
(going towards Somerset)

Then, on Sunday night, for those of you in the North Jersey area, my good friend Biddy is DJ'ing at the revived Connections in Clifton (now called KZ Lounge.) In her own words ---

Check out the revamped insides of what used to be a Biker/Punk club. Bringing back the good old days of what used to be "Connections" with some of the same beauties (bartenders) and frequent party animals attendees. ... the best ambiance, dance floor and sound system I've seen in a long time. ... WE NEED YOU TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, for lack of cool places to go on Sundays around here. If successful it may become permanent.

503 Van Houten, Clifton, NJ
8 p.m.

I NEVER kid about the Mystic Arts.

AND WHAT A WONDROUS AND PROSPEROUS WORKING IT WAS! WHAT ELEVATING, COMPELLING PULSATIONS AND RECITATIONS! AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT WORKED! MY ENDLESS GRATITUDE TO LALA, WITCHBEAM AND MISTER MATTHEWS—POWER CO-HOST DIANE KAMIKAZE—AND ESPECIALLY TO ALL THE VERY GENEROUS SOULS WHO PLEDGED, AND PLEDGED SOME MORE. YOUR WISHES WILL MOST SURELY COME TRUE!

THE MODERN RITES OF PEI AUDIO DOCUMENT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! CLICK ON THE LOVELY SHARON TATE TO ACCESS THE PLAYLIST AND AUDIO ARCHIVE OF LAST NIGHT'S MOST MOMENTOUS HORRORCAST.

IT IS DONE.

ALSO STARRING OVO, GRASSHOPPER, CONRAD SCHNITZLER, AND JOSHUA SLUSHER.

Supplies Needed to Follow Along and be Initiated into the Mysteries of the Modern Rites of Pei

These are the Rites, that go with the Initiation, that open the Working, that generate Creative Prosperity for WFMU, that include the Castle that Wm. built ---

1 Yellow candle, 1 Blue candle, 1 Green candle, 1 Red candle & 1 Black candle

or

5 White candles.

1 Glass of water.

1 Piece of paper, with a request written upon it.

Please place them with the yellow candle facing north, the blue candle facing west, green to the south, red to the east and black in the center. The paper should be between the black and blue, and the glass of water between the black and the red. If colored candles are unavailable please substitute with all white.

Questions? Feel free to email Witchbeam@gmail.com.

Me and PDD

I gotta say, being Professor Dum Dum's co-host/strait man was some funny fuckin' shit. Check out the audio archive of last night's show here.

We had no prizes, nothing to give away but the Professor's premium CD, fly-by-the-seat radio, some righteous metal, and this forward-propulsive maniac's quick mind and witty tongue, pulling my addled brain, the whole room (and hopefully a lot of listeners) ever forward. Talk about "without a net"! We actually made a few $ for FMU.

Tonight! --- Psychedelic Noise in Nyack --- and --- Tuesday night @ Otto's

More Castle mail online, especially since I neglected to read any on the air this past Wednesday, the 2010 WFMU fundraiser having rendered my normally chainsaw-sharp attentiveness blunted—shall we say.

For those of you living/dying in the NY-tri state area, there are two great shows coming up, starring some very good friends of the My Castle of Quiet radio program. Firstly, TONIGHT, Psychedelic Noise in Nyack ---

Telecult Powers
Bob Bellerue / Redglaer (coming to the Castle 4/14!)
Explosive Improvised Device (Anthony Saunders)
The Alienist
Matt Dizzine

Nyack Village Theatre
94 Main Street
Nyack, NY
$6

(For those of you who will not be in the area, the show will be video-streamed live on www.rocklandworldradio.com. Just click the "live stream" button.)

THEN, this coming Tuesday night in Manhattan ---

Makhir De Narbonne
James Christie Thow
Man City
Andy Borsz (of Slasher Risk, his new tape on Cryptic Carousel is some seriously haunting shit!)
Creeplings (I fucking LOVE Creeplings!---Joshua Slusher & Bianca Marie)
Arcanode
Nate Rulli (of Towering Heroic Dudes, Enerver)
Peaks

Otto's Shrunken Head
538 East 14th Street
NYC

i can't understand the lyrics

MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO DONATED TO WFMU DURING LAST NIGHT'S HORRORCAST. A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO MY ULTRA-SUPPORTIVE CO-HOST SUE P., AND LISTENER SiHV, WHO CAME ALL THE WAY DOWN FROM THE FROZEN NORTH TO WATCH TUMBLEWEEDS ROLL ACROSS THE PHONE ROOM.

THERE IS PEACE AND SERENITY IN THE LIGHT, AND MORE FUN AND GAMES AND CONJURATIONS AND SWAG COMING NEXT WEDNESDAY. MORE INFO SOON!

I'LL BE ON THE AIR AGAIN TONIGHT @ 11 p.m. ET, CO-HOSTING FOR DIANE'S KAMIKAZE FUN MACHINE, SO PLEASE TUNE IN!!!

All Hail! The WFMU 2010 Marathon Begins!

The gloves are off, and the WFMU 2010 fundraiser has begun! Tune in TONIGHT @ 8 p.m. ET, when my co-host will be Sue P., our sludge/noise/hard rock queen of Thursday>Friday overnights. We'll be scouring the lands around the Castle on horseback, looking for your "donations" to the "kingdom," and, to show our gratitude to the multitudes over which this Castle governs, offering SWAG aplenty. CDs, tapes, books and movies. TG Gristleism box, anyone? How about a Bill Zebub DVD 2-pack? Not to mention my absolutely bloodletting premium CDr, featuring all-new, exclusive tracks by Liturgy, Enslaved by Owls, Grasshopper, Kevin Shields, Slasher Risk, Nuit Noire, C. Lavender, Telecult Powers, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, Two Years on Welfare, Caldera Lakes, CM, Umberto, and Jabladav—with an arresting, creeped-out, original-art insert by Caroline Teagle.

A Castle banquet on the air! All will be rewarded!