THE RIDICULOUS NO
A running quest for word slap ingénue, songstress/poet Angela Jaeger joins forces with underground textsmith extraordinaire Byron Coley for an evening of sporadic talk – to no one, to each other, to you. A collection of psychedelic chants, words, sights and sounds will bounce between these 2 college buddies in what might otherwise be explained as unknown chemistry. See for yourselves.
After that, Brooklyn’s own Gary Panter and Devin Flynn (with Ross Goldstein “Sittin’ In”) will conjure up whiffs of the sweetly-scented musical gangaroo that is theirs alone. This evening’s performance will be in celebration of the newly released “Gary and Devin Go Outside” CD, and will draw from the rich tradition of world psychedelia, as well as blazing ragged pathways through jungles of freshly-scorched synapses. They may be collaborated upon as well. Hear for yourselves.
Angela Jaeger
Angela Jaeger is a New York-based singer and poet who has collaborated with a diverse group of musicians including PigBag, The Drowning Craze, Bush Tetras, Billy McKenzie, David Cunningham, Amy Rigby, Jim Sclavunos and Alan Licht. She has published with glass eye books, Green Panda press, the Brooklyn Rail and is currently working on an edition for Principal Hand. She gave a debut joint reading of her Punk Diary project with writer/journalist Byron Coley at Issue Project Room in 2007 and is currently shaping this material into a graphic text book form.
Byron Coley
Byron Coley lives in Massachusetts and has worked as a writer, archivist, editor & collector for over 30 years. His most recent book was a collaboration with Thurston Moore called “No Wave” (Abrams). In the works are “Pants Down, Earthlings!” (Gladtree), “The Moisture of Diapers” (L’Oie de Cravan) and others. He currently runs the Ecstatic Yod Collective and glass eye books, writes a few columns, authors liner notes aplenty, and contributes to various periodicals.
Gary Panter
Long one of his generation’s great visual artists, Gary Panter also has a long history as a musician. He began recording and issuing records on his own back in the ‘70s, but he is probably best known for the “Tornader to the Tater” single, engineered & backed by the Residents, which came out in ‘81, and the Japanese LP, “Pray for Smurph,” which has recently been reissued in deluxe digital format. His sound is always woozy, but he can play a guitar just like stealing a bell. And considering his history – from Jimbo to Pee Wee’s Playhouse to Dal Tokyo to Pink Donkey and onward – well, what would you expect? His most recent book is the massive “Gary Panter” two-volume monograph issued by Picture Box. Amazing.
Devin Flynn
Devin Flynn is another guy whose visual presence is better known – for now – than his “footprint musicale.” A master of animated insanity, his most revered project may well have been the “Y’all So Stupid” series, which destroyed the line beyween surrealism and Asperger’s Syndrome with all thumbs blazing. What is less known is his deft-ass handling of all-known musical instruments, no matter how obscure. How deft? Deft enough to make Gary sound more like Paul McCartney than a walrus. Which is defter than hell.
Ross Goldstein
Ross Goldstein is the new “secret weapon,” whose presence explodes the duo-infinity of the Panter/Flynn Union into triangulated perfection. Based in upstate New York, Goldstein has evolved into that region’s answer to many questions posed (imperfectly, it seems) by Van Dyke Parks. His first LP, “Trail Songs” (Specific Recordings) is a puff & chug of special merit. His photograph remains classified.