Wednesday 18 June 2025, 7.30pm
Drainolith is Alexander Moskos, best known as first-chair guitar in the formalist rock group AIDS Wolf but also a member of Montreal’s forward thinking electronic music scene. For this show he'll be joined by Gretchen and Sydney from ace Welsh-language, goth-psych-rock group, Tristwch Y Fenywod to make a trio.
With Drainolith, Moskos is finally in the realm of song-form, albeit with a polyrhythmic undertow and woozy vocal style. All of Drainolith’s material is performed live, with no backing tapes, samplers sequencers or arpeggiators. Moskos plays foot triggered drum synths, keyboard or guitar and modified cross-patched disco mixers. Moskos has released material on American Tapes, NNA, Deception Island and Wagon. The new Drainolith 7″ You Paid For It b/w Deepwater No Cars is out now on Montreal’s own Psychic Handshake and an LP on Spectrum Spools will be ready for release in early 2012. (Last FM)
Bromp Treb is the onomatopoeic flailings of Neil Young Cloaca (b. 1976, USA). Composing and improvising with intentionally-unstable systems of his own devising, he joyfully uses/misues busted circuits, collaged beats, cheap effects pedals, poor drumming technique, and tape manipulation to make idiosyncratic music/nonmusic.
Je hais ... d'une haine primitive, féroce
- Brigitte Fontaine
Return of the living dirt!
It's not good for you just because it hurts
Refining symptoms since 2017
Concussion & vices trading as percussion & voices
Our cheap hearts are sheeny shells
Our fouled hearts are sorry cells
Our sold hearts don't show or tell -
Whose cheap heart hurts?
Our facial tissue is all tissue paper
Our jawlines are splinters where glass used to be
