Thursday 22nd March 2012
Door Times : 8pm
Tickets: £7 advance / £8 on the door
'Discover AtlantASS' is a hyper-reflective and humorous take on current events, ecological disaster, pubescent sexual experience, and corporate/political domination presented by musical savants Talibam! together with Sam Kulik. It's an avant-garde buddy movie for the ears: a 21st Century Weimar cabaret of reggae/disco/freejazz/avant-rock/poetry with impassioned soliloquies often transforming into deadpan self-reflective humor.
Following their performance of the 80 minute punk opera, Talbam! will regroup for a quartet set with Sam Kulik and British sax titan Alan Wilkinson.
TALIBAM! ENTERTAINS
Hailing from New York, Talibam! Is one of the most potent and fascinating bands in contemporary music. With 17 European tours since '06, and 20 album releases since '05, the eight + years of interplay between Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea has created one of the most unique and exciting live shows and some of the most powerfully recorded documents of any era.
Talibam! founded in 2003 by Kevin Shea and Matt Mottel have been consistently lauded for their creative output in features from Vice Magazine, The Wire, Pitchfork, The Village Voice, Blow Up, Drowned in Sound,Tinymixtapes and many more.
They have twenty records on a variety of internationally respected vanguard labels; ESP DISK, Bo Weavil, Azul Discografica, Blackest Rainbow, Pendu, Gaffer, Holidays, Wallace and more.
Since 2006, Talibam! have been one of the most active underground American bands on the European scene, completing 17 tours since 2006, playing at the Wire Festival (2007) Dot to Dot (2007),Kraak Festival (2008),ZXZW (2008), Night of the Unexpected (2009), Ultra Hang (2010), Dis-Patch (2010).
They have collaborated across genre, and medium performing for artist Peter Coffin, at Deitch Projects in 2008, and in 2009 started an ongoing collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Karole Armitage, performing with her at the Kitchen in 2009, Torino Italy, 2009, and Abrons Arts Center in 2010 and at Milano Dance Festival in Milan and at Dance Umbrella Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 2011.
In 2011, they spent the greater half of the year in residency at LMCC Swing Space, where they have developed many projects for presentation, including this one.
Talibam! and Sam Kulik perform 'Atlantass' from matt mottel on Vimeo.
Village Voice Talibam! Q&A
Talibam! video on MS Subnitz
Talibam! on the BJ Rubin Show
SAM KULIK
Sam Kulik (b. 1982) grew up in Massachusetts and moved to New York in 2004 after studying trombone with Robin Eubanks at the Oberlin Conservatory. He is known as much in the world of improvised music as he is in the world of indie rock and he has worked extensively with dance and theater companies that lie somewhere in between. He has toured to over a dozen countries with Nervous Cabaret, Talibam!, Starring, Skeletons, Amanda Palmer, Gloria Deluxe, Capillary Action, and the Mettawee River Theater Company, and has performed locally with Buckwheat Zydeco, John Zorn, Peter Evans, Walter Thompson, Ibrahim Maalouf, and a crazy old guy he met in Hoboken once. In the past year he has performed at Roulette, The Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Stone, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, Death By Audio, and Issue Project Room in New York City.
ALAN WILKINSON
There can be few more daunting sounds in free music than that of Alan Wilkinson in overdrive, whether the headlong flights of his alto playing, or the beefier heft he gets from the baritone. Often featured lately with bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble ( their CD ‘Live at Cafe Oto’ was among the CDs of the last decade in the Times) he’s also appeared with Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Chris Corsano, Talibam!, Eddie Prevost, and his trio with Simon Fell and Paul Hession, among others.
DISCOVER ATLANTASS
''Discover AtlantASS'' tells the story of a young teen named Franklin who gets abducted to the undersea world of Atlantis by a laid-back revolutionary jazz fish named Stinge. Together, they are ready to combat a disastrous oil spill which has nearly eradicated the vibrant community of poets, musicians, artists and fornicators who inhabit the undersea paradise.
The 80-minute opera is told in two parts and includes plenty of the wit epiphanies and genre-riddled commentary that Talibam! has become known for. Some tracks are typical of Brechtian cabaret music, while others would be more at home on a Barry White record. Ethiopian jazz and quawwali music share space with Balkan folk rhythms and forays into spoken-word no-school rap. The record is marked by a rich variety of style.
The poly-stylist Kulik sings and narrates throughout, while Mottel and Shea act out their characters in a series of Abbott & Costello-esque comedy routines. The atomic transition of Shea's drumming forms the foundation for layers of synthesizers, trombones, voices, guitars, banjos and homespun sound effects that make "AtlantASS" sound like a radio play for post-television era.
Drawn by London artist James Clapham, the full-color comic book gives "Atlantis" a psychedelic charm. His fishy denizens look like the refugees from a failed casting audition for SpongeBob SquarePants, inhabiting the oil-soaked world of Atlantis with an attitude of defiant hedonism in the face of environmental collapse. Detailing all the major events of the opera, the book brings to life the sounds and smells of Atlantan life.
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