Outpost is the new group formed this past summer in NYC with Mark C, Stuart Argabright, Alice Cohen with percussionist Rami El Aaser. Mark, Stuart and Alice have been innovating, improvising and releasing music for decades, and over the course of a few NYC music scenes - now come together to launch their own unique sound.
Mark C is a New York City based musician and photographer. He is a founding member of the post punk bands Live Skull and Spoiler. Live Skull toured the U.S. and Europe and released four albums and several eps. Spoiler released crashpad on PCP records. He sings and plays guitar and synths in outpost and int’l shades. Intl shades first release hash wednesday is available on Cass records. Their second album luv & terror will be released in December on Gifted Children Records. Intl shades have performed at such venues as CBGB’s, Tonic, Bowery Ballroom and the Mercury lounge. http://www.myspace.com/internationalshades. His solo project, redfield features electronic based music often accompanied by his multi-projector slide show, Return to the Underground City of the Mind Screwers. Redfield has performed at the Kitchen, Roulette’s Mixology at the Perfoming Garage, at Chasma’s “Theatre 135,” and at the Collective Unconscious. Redfield has also collaborated with Zeena Parkins in New York and Europe. Redfield has been a regular participant in David Linton’s Unity Gain.
Mark C’s summer snow will be included on the Harvestworks surround sound DVD Nowthenafter, curated by Stuart Argabright.
Stuart Argabrigh is a producer and music maker. Since arriving in NYC early ‘78 , he has founded the groups The Futants, Ike Yard, Dominatrix and Death Comet Crew as well as The Voodooists project, black rain and currently, Dystopians. During the early 1980’s Argabright lived in West Berlin and worked with members of MALARIA! ( Suzanne Kuhnke synth / kyboards ), Manuel Gottsching of Ash Ra Tempel, Christlo Haas of Liasions Dangeruses & early DAF, Michael Koenig of Tangerine Dream and Agitation Free, Mufti - FM Einheit of Einsturzende Neubauten.
In NYC SA has worked with pioneering synth guitarist Chuck Hammer on TV scores for NY Times TV and they were nominated for EMMY Award for their work on TLC’s Trauma: Life In The ER , among other series such as Science Times for NY Times. Other collaborators include artists Gretchen Bender, Robert Longo, Amber Denker, authors William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Jack Womack and choreographer Bill T Jones, productions for Judy Nylon, The Rammellzee and others as well as custom soundtracks for IBM’s Advanced CG Division and various N American & Japanese corporations and companies.
Stuart’s selected Discography includes:
The Rudements on “30 Seconds Over DC” Comp. on Limp Records (’78), Ike Yard’s album on Factory Records America (’82), “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight” 12″ on Streetwise Records / Uproar (’84), Death Comet Crew 12″ “At The Marble Bar” on Beggars Banquet Records (’84), The Voodooists B side of 7″ - “Queen Of Voudou” w/ Debbie Harryfor J Demme’s “Married To The Mob” sdtk (’89), black rain’s “Neuromancer” Audio Book on TimeWarner (’94) as well as many rereleases such as Perfect Beats Vol.2 on Tommy Boy ( Dominatrix ), Andrew Weatherall’s Nine O’Clock Drop on Nuphonic ( Dominatrix ), Anti NY collection on Gomma ( ‘00), This Is Riphop on Troubleman ( DCC album ) (’04), This Is Riphop and Riphop remixes Japanese release on Delic Records, and 2006’s Ike Yard Collected: 1980 -’82 on Acute Records / Car Park Records.
DCC and Ike Yard have been playing throughout Europe (Venice Bienalle, Berlin, Paris, Amiens Nuits Blanche, Lyon’ Fest., Toulouse Cartier Fest. and Japan since reforming in 2003, 2005, respectively
Productions include: Soundtracks for Award winning CG shorts by IBM’s Advanced CG Lab, CD Rom’s Innerware Ambient Lingerie catalog and Digital Shiatsu for Nippon TV, The Brotherhood Of Anti-Good ( NYC Hardcore Comp. for Japanese Fashion brand ), production of The Bi -Conicals Of The Rammellzee on Gomma Records Munich, TUSSLE’s Don’t Stop remix on Troubleman Unlimited NJ.
In addition, Stuart put together the 2006 New York Noise 3 collection for Soul Jazz Records London
and the near decade spanning survey of ‘downtown electronicacoustic music’ , the Nowthenafter SurroundSound DVD collection for Harvestworks Tellus NYC …
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Alice Cohen (Bassist in outpost) has recently performed at The Kitchen with Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom, and at Deitch Projects, with artist Terence Koh.
She has recorded and toured in various bands, going back to The Vels in the 80’s, Die Monster Die in the 90’s, and more recently The Long Lost and Castles, to name a few. Currently performing as a solo artist, her new work blends futuristic keyboard tones with transcendental guitar riffs and train of thought lyrics. Cohen’s songs take you to locations found in dreams and the subconscious, with tales involving seaweed and outerspace. Sometimes catchy, with a darkened pop core, the sound still ventures into unexpected landscapes.
www.myspace.com/alicecohen
Percussion specialist Rami El Aaser also currently plays with Sounds Of Taarab
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Stephanie Wuertz is an artist, filmmaker, and curator living in New York. A retrospective of early video artist Paul Ryan, curated by her, is currently on view at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute in New York. She is working on a multi-channel installation about hysteria, nineteenth century theories of affect, and proto-cinema.
Alasehir is the trio of Michael Gibbons, John Gibbons, and Jason Kourkounis, otherwise known as three-fifths of Bardo Pond. At times they are joined by Isobel Sollenberger, thus four-fifths of Bardo Pond. Alasehir’s music is a sonic exploration of dense, languorous, free expansion. Billowing and exploding like a cluster of hashish stars, they produce a cosmic energy akin to a quasar in the heavens far left of Coltrane’s OM and just right of the galaxy known as Dead C’s Harsh ’70s Reality. This is the rocket ride into the outer stratum, so climb aboard and let Alasehir be your 2008: A Space Odyssey.