psychedelic maximal minimalism
8:30pm
$7
Religious Knives (NY) - ecastatic drone from members of Double Leopards and Mouthus
Zodiac Mountain (KY/WI) - volatile free blues and psychedelic folk weirdness
Religious Knives is Maya Miller, Michael Bernstein and Nate Nelson, from Brooklyn NY. They spend a lot of their time playing in bands like Double Leopards, White Rock and Mouthus, and running labels like Heavy Tapes and Our Mouth, all of which have found loving cult audiences in the land of record collectors and in-the-know noise cogniscetti. Previous RK recordings have consisted of free-floating noise and lysergic homemade-synthesizer drift. This recent incarnation of Religious Knives has been compared to progressive-rock heavies Goblin and Popul Vuh (mostly by the band themselves), but who knows what they have in store for tonight. Come see them (or close your eyes and nod off, that's fine too) in the wonderfully intimate setting of Axiom Gallery...
Zodiac Mountain is Wooden Wand & Clay Ruby (from Knoxville and Madison, respectively), known for fronting Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice and The Davenport Family, respectively. For this tour, the duo (plus occasional special guests like Tovah Olson of Dead Machines and Maya Miller of Double
Leopards and Religious Knives) come together to shake the demons out and let the blues muse cruise wild weekend style. In other words, anything goes. No requests for certain songs will be honored and may very well get you shoved around. The boys have been listening to tons of Hawkwind and Velvet
Underground bootlegs, to give you an idea of their current mindstate (hedonism / reverence / heaviosity), and they hope maybe you can pick up what they're putting down this time around.