Madison, WI 53715
USA
ABOUT DEERHOOF:
Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. But what is Deerhoof really? Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as “the best band in the world.” From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they’ve become one of indie music’s most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop.
ABOUT PALM:
Palm plays rock music backwards. Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt’s guitars occupy themselves most often with the pace-keeping work typical of a rhythm section. Meanwhile, Gerasimos Livitsanos’ bass and Hugo Stanley’s drums perform commentary and reportage from their deeply embedded positions at the front. The band is firmly attached to the physicality of rock, but not as much its tone; their instruments tend to sound like any number of things at any given time.
ABOUT ROBERT LUNDBERG:
Lundberg’s new explorations for amplified double bass, recorded by Deerhoof’s John Dieterich, move in two directions. He ventures into a radiant microtonal drone that recalls a low-end take on the string experiments of John Cale and Tony Conrad, while he also explores his instrument’s rhythmic capacities to make extended pointillist pieces, the beat of his strings slowly modulating as a sort of fever dream. Thematically, these pieces focus on water infrastructure, seeking to highlight often invisible systems and consider multiple relationships between humans and those structures.
http://www.roberteplundberg.com
