Sportsman’s Paradise
SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE is a large-ensemble project currently consisting of Kate Bell, Sommer Browning, Rob Fellman, Pete Fonda, Colin O’Con, Val Opielski, and Mathias Sias. Our stated purpose is to create music that merges minimalist practice (Rhys Chatham, Charlemagne Palestine) with the current freakout scene (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Yellow Swans, Vibracathedral Orchestra) to generate bliss-outs and psychedelic mayhem through controlled compositional techniques. At the ISSUE Project Room, SP will perform their Tibetan-bells-and-six-guitars half-hour piece XEAEX and debut a shorter composition for six guitars as well.
Cotton Museum
COTTON MUSEUM is a solo electronic sound project by visual artist Chris Pottinger (Tasty Soil Records, Slither, and Odd Clouds) hailing from Detroit, Michigan. His music generates sounds of decomposing swamps with rotting, cancerous beasts and swarms of buzzing insects. Chris Pottinger began this project in 2002 after years of exploring his interest in experimental electronic sounds. His music has been released on various labels including Qbico Records (Italy), American Tapes, Hanson Records, and SNSE Records. As well as recording many albums, he has shared a release with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and has appeared in various publications such as the New York Times and the Wire magazine (U.K.). Cotton Museum’s name stems from the deformed cloud-like beasts that adorn all of the album covers, and the sounds created, are inspired by the artwork that he’s developed for each release. For more information on Cotton Museum’s sounds & art, check out http://www.tastysoil.com.
Sick Llama
SICK LLAMA is the Michigan psychedelic noise punk solo project of Heath Moerland who is also the Fag Tapes label head. First recording released 12/03 on American Tapes with releases on Gods Of Tundra, Hanson Records, Chondritic Sound to follow. Heath opened for Wolf Eyes on their 2006 tour, played No Fun Festival in NYC and recently played Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival in Montreal with C. Spencer Yeh and Hive Mind. Established in 2004, Fag Tapes has put out over 250 releases and there’s no end in sight. Sick Llama uses tapes, clarinet, and whatever else is laying around to balance a fine line between composition and improvisation.