YES DARLING, BUT IS IT MAGICK?: Bow And Sparrow Show 03/27/09

Monday, March 30, 2009

Bow And Sparrow Show 03/27/09

This was a truly fun show with Megawand, VOICEsVOICEs and Luna Is Honey who set up the show. We had so much fun with everyone that came to the show at Bow and Sparrow. Bow and Sparrow is a really cool/gallery that specializes in bike-related stuff. They do customs designs and art for bikes too. They used to operate around Chinatown but have just relocated at the heart of downtown. You can now check em out at their new spot at 838 S. Spring St.

Still Images taken by Nareen Manoukian.

MAGICK SHOWS and PERFORMANCES

“Dub offered the perfect score to the world’s deepening post-colonial dusk. Started, so legend goes, by Kingston's King Tubby in his studio on 18 Drumille Avenue, dub is basically this: a song sunk into the cavernous depths of a mixing board, stripped of its secure pop substances, and returned to the world as an electrified monster or vampire. (It's no accident that vampires appear on the covers of numerous dub LPs.) With dub, what was once flesh and bone is transformed into vague melodies that suddenly appear and vanish, moans that rise and recede, and bass lines that move through the echo-haze like phantoms in a haunted house. Dub is the "ghost dimension" of the real pop song; there is no body in dub, just a flickering afterimage of what was once a body.” (Charles Mudede)