YES DARLING, BUT IS IT MAGICK?: magick orchids in NYC

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

magick orchids in NYC

So we played a show at NYC at the Yippie Cafe where we met the Pieman.
It was a fun show coz we played it with our good friends from LA, Manhattan Murder Mystery and champ played electronic drums for them too. Eric from Kill Kill Kill who was also in town played guitars for the magick orchids set too..its been great going around the city and exploring on our own. Hanged out with Katya of MMM/THC the other night and saw Excepter at the Silent Barn and the australian dude that plays with glass and that was lots of fun.

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)