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Duck Club Presents: TALKDEMONIC with MWAHAHA and LE FLEUR
Duck Club Presents: TALKDEMONIC with MWAHAHA and LE FLEUR
8pm doors, 9pm show
$8 adv / $10 dos
TALKDEMONIC
http://talkdemonic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Talkdemonic
Biography
In Portland, Oregon, Kevin O'Connor began his pursuit in 2004 for new frontiers in percussion and analog sounds. What was he looking for? Something entirely new in something old. And so he began collecting. Dusty Italian Crumar synths and pristine Moogs, rickety Baldwins and warbly Wurlitzers, pure-sounding Rhodes and cranky old Korgs. Sounds upon floating, gritty and gorgeous sounds, with a muscular backbone of beats alongside a brainy live drumkit. Talkdemonic was born.
Fast forward seven years. Talkdemonic's 2004 Mutiny Sunshine is now considering a downtempo classic amongst fans, while their sophomore Beat Romantic thrust them into indie spotlight. In 2008, Kevin and Lisa released Eyes At Half Mast, a union of haunting strings passages, toungue and groove beats and drums, and lush nostalgic synth layers that call to mind your personal soundtrack to some inner, secret and special moment of your life.
Ruins is the fourth Talkdemonic studio album, and it effectively takes everything about the first three Talkdemonic records and blasts it into the stratosphere. It's as though you've watched this band mature throughout the arc of their discography, with Ruins being the sophisticated culmination of a near-decade spent honing their craft. This newfound sense of maturity however, never translates to apathy. It's more like a refined, renewed sense of space and crescendo.
Lisa's viola has always been achingly pretty, but never before has it sounded so much like a childhood lullaby and a violent assault, sometimes simultaneously. Armed with a new arsenal of processing pedals at her feet, she's pushing herself and the melodic shape of these songs in wildly exciting new directions. The strings sound alternately improvised and painstakingly constructed. Lisa's strings provide Kevin with quite a canvas on which to splatter his synthesizers and drums.
The song "Revival" showcases everything beautifully effective about Ruins. Kevin's acoustic guitar strums itself around his rolling drum beat and bass. Then suddenly Lisa's growling, panning, bending viola adds to the tension until the whole thing just explodes into light. It's the kind of euphoric aural moment you wouldn't mind dying to. These kinds of moments fill this record. From the eerie almost-human voices peeking through the cracks in "Cascading" to the tender soundscapes of col legno viola and deep toms in "Chimera", to the screeching death-stomp of "Midnight Pass", the tension/texture/release/euphoria ritual remains intact without ever sounding formulaic.
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MWAHAHA
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mwahaha/137391862999039
http://mwahaha.bandcamp.com/
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Le Fleur
https://www.facebook.com/LeFleur.music
http://lefleur.bandcamp.com/
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LocationVisual Arts Collective (View)
3638 Osage Street
Garden City, ID 83714
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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