MAGICK MUSIC MARATHON

We will be doing a musical collaboration with our friends from The Transmissions and Death To Anders for the Pehrspace showcase at the Eagle Rock Music Festival. We will do a musical piece that is dictated by the colors of screen projections that Christian from The Transmissions prepared. We did a test run of it on Sunday just to see how it all flows. All the musicians playing were divided into three groups and assigned different colors -everyone only plays when they see their color appear onscreen. And they can play in response to whatever visuals was going on the screen. This turned out really great. The word "playing" music has never made so much sense. AND...magick orchids will be playing with the aid of some friends in some upcoming shows and trying out different fun stuff (think of the musical equivalent to anal sex). Here's a flyer for the Eagle Rock showcase: Anyways, we will also be playing at UC Irvine at this same night. Its our 2nd night in supporting Railcars North American Tour Dates here in Southern CA. The night before that, we will be in Santa Barbara then on Sunday, we will be playing at the Smell. Then on the 9th of October, we hit the Echo Curio for Manhattan Murder Mystery' residency. Then another art show on the 10th with Halloween Swim Team and Michael Nhat. Feels like deva vu? Doesn't it?Well, for more updated info and updates on our tour dates with Railcars go and check out our myspace. We are so loaded with shows this month and to think, we were thinking of not playing any shows at all to focus on recordings but i guess Nancy Reagan was wrong... its just hard to say NO sometimes. But its all great and we will all have F-U-N!!! We are also excited to announce that we will be releasing two new recordings soon. One of it is the one we recorded with Frank Moore at the Shaman's Den which is called "A Cloud Below And The Sea Above". Mikee Labash, who does most of Frank Moore's art for his zines/recordings/website is making the album cover and that is making us super excited. The other recording we are releasing is of the house show we played at our home, The Malo Funhouse a month ago when we came back from our tour. It was a really great set and Josh Crampton's sax magick was superb. We are so happya bout it that we decided to release the recording and share it to y'all. Now the best part is that our friend, Adam Roth is doing the cover. Adam does really great illustrations and we are such admirers of his style. We are just happy to know and be friends with such creative and talented people. Anyways, besides the impending sense of doom that is to unravel in 2012, thats something to look forward to. And last but not the least, Champ has been doing videos lately with magick orchids music and many others. You can check it out on his youtube page if you have the time.

LA RECORD LIVE REVIEW

LA Record reviews the show we played with Grandpire, Halloween Swim Team and Michael Nhat.

"Closing out the night were Magick Orchids, who gave a great performance that walked a fine line between experimental noise and sound collage. The band played with chaos and control, building immersive soundscapes that could be simultaneously beautiful and disorienting. Their use of saxophone and processed sounds to create an unusual fantasy environment made them the perfect closer for the surprisingly great Werewolf party. Here’s hoping they return to the 4300 Loft for another round of art and music again soon." (click here for the full review)

Big up goes to Meagan Boyd, Dylan Doren and Josh Crampton for being the bad asses that they are!

WEEKEND.

Last Friday's show for the Lots O' Crap Zine Fundraiser at The Bunny Ranch House was a blast. We had so much fun playing a "chilled-out" set. The cops came just after The Seizure and Manhattan Murder Mystery played but luckily they didn't stop the show. They just told us that if they got another complaint, they were gonna shut it down. We were happy they never came back. Josh did some awesome sax playing as always. Kid Infinity played a great fun set too, making sure things got bumping and moving. Afterward, there were lots of hanging out. Lots of drinking. Lots of smoking. Lots of talking. Lots of fun. Lots o' crap?

Saturday found us playing at The Werewolf Gallery art show at Jefferson Park. It was a pretty special night for us because of our line-up that night. Playing with the Orchids were our friends Meagan Boyd and Dylan Doren, who were both pretty bad ass playing drums and percussion in addition to the sounds and noises we make with Josh Crampton who was evoking some Peter Brotzmann-like sax work. It was great to play a different set that night and we are happy with how it turned out because we felt it reflected the urgency of the moment and it challenged the underlying expectations of people that go to the art shows and expect to be entertained. Michael Nhat and Halloween Swim Team also played some new songs that really rocked. HST's last song was total EPIC. You can tell those guys work so hard to develop their own sound. Michael Nhat wasn't feeling to good that night but still managed to make bodies move. There was a lot of interesting art that night. One in particular that i personally dug was the one with naked people with boxes on their heads -something about it just gave me a hard time to look away.

We wont be playing much shows in the next week. Gonna be working on some new recordings and video stuff. The next shows will be the shows we are playing in support for the Railcars tour here in Southwest CA. We have also been adding new stuff on the distro. Make sure to check it out, kidz!

And ahhh...Joseph Beuys

The Arboretum

Last week, we went to the Arboretum for Rhea's birthday with our friends, Gabie, Michael and Liz, who took this really beautiful pic of us, You can check out more of the photos in her Flickr.

ART To justify artist's professional, parasitic and elite status in society, he must demonstrate artist's indispensability and exclusiveness, he must demonstrate the dependability of audience upon him, he must demonstrate that no one but the artist can do art.

FLUXUS ART-AMUSEMENT To establish artist's nonprofessional status in society, he must demonstrate artist's dispensability and inclusiveness, he must demonstrate the selfsufficiency of the audience, he must demonstrate that anything can be art and anyone can do it.

Therefore, art must appear to be complex, pretentious, profound, serious, intellectual, inspired, skillful, significant, theatrical, It must appear to be caluable as commodity so as to provide the artist with an income. To raise its value (artist's income and patrons profit), art is made to appear rare, limited in quantity and therefore obtainable and accessible only to the social elite and institutions.

Therefore, art-amusement must be simple, amusing, upretentious,concerned with insignificances, require no skill or countless rehearsals, have no commodity or institutional value. The value of art-amusement must be lowered by making it unlimited, massproduced, obtainable by all and eventually produced by all. Fluxus art-amusement is the rear-guard without any pretention or urge to participate in the competition of "one-upmanship" with the avant-garde. It strives for the monostructural and nontheatrical qualities of simple natural event, a game or a gag. It is the fusion of Spikes Jones Vaudeville, gag, children's games and Duchamp.

(Manifesto on Art / Fluxus Art Amusement by George Maciunas, 1965.)

FUNDRAISERS, ARTSHOWS, MUSIC FIX, and NAM JUNE PAIK

We are gonna be playing a Lots O Crap Zine Fundraiser on Friday at The Bunny Ranch then on Saturday, an artshow with Halloween Swim Team, Michael Nhat, Grandpire and more.
Don't forget to check out the art! Yeah the kind that goes to the wall.. Ya know...

From Floats and Flyers

Been listening to a lot of cool shit lately made by people we know, bands we met, most of it are stuff that we recently got from friends, bands and whatnots for distro or just for listening purposes. We have been immersing ourselves in a lot of local stuff, fringe stuff, some stuff that the dominating mainstream culture could care less about...Anyways, if you have stuff that you need help distro and you think, we might dig it, please send it to us. PLEASE check the distro first and see what we are about...Yeah yeah yeah and don't give us all that nag about being open-minded just because we don't dig you sounding like your favorite band from the nineties.

also, Nam June Paik

NEWZ SHITZ

FINALLY, WE ARE WORKING ON NEW SHIT!!!

We are happy to announce that we have some new improv recordings/collaborations with Oliver Fritz Kurt Dammasch (deadART, DRD, Guppies, capital animal) and Mark Ryan Mata (artDamagaed, DRD, United States Of Imperfections, Sexy Cola).

We also have improv recordings/collaborations with our friend and artist, Meagan Boyd and other friends which we will have available soon.

Besides that, we are working on some audio-visual stuff and more recordings for another cassette and a 7" vinyl release.

There is also an interview/feature of us on the upcoming Lots O' Crap Zine No. 5.

Then, we have hella upcoming shows which you should check out on our myspace shmalface! which starts off with this weekend's Project Infest Music Fest at some warehouse in Downtown LA. Lots of experimental electronic noise bands. It starts early at 4PM. Be there and get a CD-R of the Malo Funhouse show we did last Saturday!

MALO FUNHOUSE SHOW LIVE STREAM???? WHATTAFUCK???

LIVE STREAMING OF THE MALO FUNHOUSE SHOW CAN BE HEARD BY CLICKING ON THE IMAGE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE WILL BE DOING THIS SO WE CAN'T ASSURE YOU A SMOOTH RIDE. HOWEVER, WE WILL TRY OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE, YOU GUYS GET THE JIZZ..OOPS! I MEANT GIST OF IT!