Nadja
James Plotkin and Jon Mueller, Hot Guts
Thu, June 21, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm
Kungfu Necktie
Philadelphia, PA
$10.00
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This event is 21 and over
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Nadja
Nadja is a Canadian duo made up of Aidan Baker (guitar, vocals, drum machines) and Leah Buckareff (bass, accordion, vocals) alternately based in Toronto and Berlin. Originally began as a solo project by Baker in 2003, Buckareff joined Nadja in 2005 to bring the project out of the studio and into live settings. Together, the duo creates music which has variously been described as 'ambient doom,' 'dreamsludge,' and 'metal-gaze,' combining the atmospheric textures and elements of shoegaze and experimental/ambient music with the heaviness and volume of metal and noise music.
Nadja has released numerous recordings on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Hydrahead Records, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Robotic Empire, and their own fledgling label, Broken Spine Productions. Nadja has toured and performed extensively around the world, appearing at such festivals as SXSW, FIMAV, Roadburn, and Unsound. They have shared the stage with such as artists as Tim Hecker, James Plotkin, Khanate, Grouper, Earth, Francisco Lopez, Isis, Om, The Grails, KTL, Z'ev, and many others.
In addition to Nadja, Baker is also active as a solo musician and a writer. He has released many solo albums and is the author of four collections of poetry. Buckareff is also the owner-operator of Coldsnap Bindery, a production house of handmade books, and curator of The Wunderkabinet, a wandering exhibition of art, craft, and curious.
Nadja has released numerous recordings on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Hydrahead Records, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Robotic Empire, and their own fledgling label, Broken Spine Productions. Nadja has toured and performed extensively around the world, appearing at such festivals as SXSW, FIMAV, Roadburn, and Unsound. They have shared the stage with such as artists as Tim Hecker, James Plotkin, Khanate, Grouper, Earth, Francisco Lopez, Isis, Om, The Grails, KTL, Z'ev, and many others.
In addition to Nadja, Baker is also active as a solo musician and a writer. He has released many solo albums and is the author of four collections of poetry. Buckareff is also the owner-operator of Coldsnap Bindery, a production house of handmade books, and curator of The Wunderkabinet, a wandering exhibition of art, craft, and curious.
James Plotkin and Jon Mueller
"Jon Mueller and James Plotkin first combined forces on Physical Changes, scorching the leading LP side of Mueller’s 2009 multi-format collaborative investigation. Forging Mueller’s blistering percussion and rolling hills of drums with Plotkin’s searing guitar and melting electronics, a sturdy alloy was formed. When both musicians were asked to perform at the Utech Records Music Festival in June 2011, at which they appeared as a duo, the pair spent the proceeding days spontaneously unfurling their forthcoming Taiga Records 2LP release Terminal Velocity. On the brink of implosion, the duo reduces dense washes of percussion and guitar to thick crusts, at times deceivingly with a whispered intensity. Sizzling drums meet electronic warbles as two great forces restrain each other to a constant speed."
Hot Guts
Hot Guts, a mystery as its mix of gothic synth-sputter, garroting death-rock riffs and just plain oddness makes it a keeper in our books (one reason could be that it was released in tandem with the Drunkdriver/Mattin 12" that people are going apeshit over). The three songs here walk a tension wire over a gaggle of familiar influences (Joy Division/Sisters of Mercy/a wee bit of Throbbing Gristle) but manage the deft trick of incorporating, yet never emulating, any of them. In particular, the gallows humorous B-Side "Did You Not Go to the Dance Alone?" buzzes with a feral energy that uses minor-key guitars and haunting buried synth melodies as a conduit for their maudlin aggression and subtle theatricality