Join us for a farewell to the Old American Can Factory! ISSUE Project Room is moving permanently to 22 Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn, and closing out the Can Factory with a celebration of the first ISSUE Project Room Editions release, Jonathan Kane’s February Live at ISSUE Project Room. Jonathan Kane’s February, Talibam! and MV Carbon & Tony Conrad perform, with live visual projections by Bradley Eros and Lary 7.
We're giving out free CDs to the first 10 people on Friday night, so get there early!
Jonathan Kane is a Downtown NYC legend— as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth Swans, the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham and rock excursions of La Monte Young, and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet.
Jonathan Kane’s February takes minimalism and blues to the crossroads with “the unadulterated thunder of a parched desert” (Time Out NY, 2009). The band recorded their first live album in a two-day event at ISSUE last year, to be released through ISSUE Project Room Editions.
“Wedding the brutal severity of Delta country boogie and Seventies German pulse rock – all dead-ahead motion and mounting detail…Epic.”
—Rolling Stone
“Somewhere between Sonic Youth and Steve Reich is the drummer Jonathan Kane. Interested in the crossroads of new-music iconoclasm and experimental rock, he has a drummers sense of steady dynamic development and an unapologetic love of noise. Virtuosic”
—New York Times
“Intensely propulsive motorik blues, its muscularity and greased relentlessness is never less than exhilarating”
—Uncut
Hailing from New York, Talibam! perform 'no school' rap. They say 'if you went to rap school old or new, you wasted your money.' Look out for their debut 'no school' rap album ' PUFF UP THE VOLUME' out in 2012. 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 in an abandoned underground bank vault on WALL ST, where they have developed many projects for presentation, including this one
MV Carbon is a Brooklyn based musician and artist. Her work frequently involves tape machines, voice, cello, analog synthesizers, field recordings, along with hand built electronics. She has recently been developing and performing new works which utilize physical computing and sensor controlled synthesis. Carbon is interested in spatial integration and site-specific consideration. She has performed nationally and internationally with her solo work as well as in collaborations at spaces including Arnolfi (UK), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Lehman Maupin Gallery (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit), Nefertiti Jazz Club (Sweden), PS1 Contemporary Art (NYC), Roulette(NYC), The Sage, (UK), The Stone (NYC), the Tate Modern (UK), and Tesla (Berlin) . Her work with the dark-wave electronic duo, Metalux,has releases out on a number of experimental and independent labels including LOAD, 5RC and Hanson. Her solo release, The Dislodged Perihelion,(LP) is coming out sometime in the future on Ecstatic Peace. Her paintings and installations have been exhibited at galleries including the Butcher Shop (Chicago), D’Amelio Terras (NYC), Louis V.E.S.P.(NYC), MCCaigwelles Gallery (NYC), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PGH), Salon Invisible (Chicago), Three Rives Arts Festival (PGH), and West Nile (NYC).