JG Thirlwell has completed a remix for NYC’s angular post-avant band Extra Life . JG’s mutated version of the song “The Body is True” will be featured on an EP entitled Splayed Flesh, to be released by Sockets Records in July 2010. The EP also features Extra Life remixes by Tyondai Braxton (Battles), Caley Monahan Ward and Justin K. Broadrick, along with album versions of the songs that are remixed.
Manorexia Record Release show in NYC April 4
JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia will be performing live at Le Poisson Rouge, celebrating the release of The Mesopelagic Waters on Tzadik. The show will be on April 4 2010 at 7pm and tickets are $15.00. This is the only Manorexia show scheduled for the US in 2010.
Buy advance tickets at Le Poisson Rouge’s site.
The group at the concert will consist of
JG Thirlwell – Keys / Samples / Electronics
Peter Wise – Vibraphone / Glockenspiel / percussion
David Broome – Piano / Toy Piano
Leyna Marika Papach – Violin
Elena Moon Park – Violin
Karen Waltch – Viola
Alex Waterman – Cello
JG Thirlwell's releases new shirt design for The Wire
JG Thirlwell has designed a shirt for The Wire magazine. Entitled FORK, the shirt is printed in black, grey and white on a red shirt with The Wire url printed in white on the right sleeve. It is available exclusively from The Wire in a limited edition of 100, and is available in small, medium, large, XL and womens large. Price (including postage and packing) is £20 for UK, £22 elsewhere. Wire subscribers get £2 off per shirt. Update 4/10: Sold Out!
Kronos perform JG Thirlwell at Carnegie Hall
Kronos Quartet will be performing a newly commissioned piece by JG Thirlwell at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 12. Entitled Eremikophobia, which means fear of deserts and sand, the multi-movement eighteen minute piece will open the evening. The evening’s program also features toy piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan and Portuguese instrument builder Victor Gama. To conclude, Kronos will be joined by Matmos in a tribute to Terry Riley.
Read further, buy tickets and see a clip of David Harrington of Kronos Quartet talking about the evening here. Additionally, you can read Thirlwell’s notes about his composition . There are currently no plans to record Eremikophobia, so don’t miss it!
Update 03/14/2010: JGT thanks everyone who came out to the Kronos Quartet concert at Carnegie Hall last Friday for the premiere of “Eremikophobia”, and discusses his composition.
Ripped T-Shirts: JG Thirlwell appears in a new book by Cesar Padilla entitled Ripped : T-shirts from the Underground.
JG Thirlwell appears in a new book by Cesar Padilla entitled Ripped : T-shirts from the Underground. Described as a “A visual history of counterculture music T-shirts, spanning the defining era of indie music.”, the book features several Foetus and Wiseblood shirt designs, as well as writings by JG Thirlwell about Swans and Lydia Lunch. Lydia also penned the introduction to the book, which also contains contributions from Thurston Moore, Betsey Johnson and more. You can purchase your very own copy here!
Read 'em and weep: JG Thirlwell is interviewed and profiled on film by Jason Grisell.
JG Thirlwell is interviewed and profiled on film by Jason Grisell in the new Book Friendzy blog.
Venture Bros soundtrack back in stock!
Please note that Williams Street has repressed JG Thirlwell’s album The Venture Bros: The Music of JG Thirlwell. It is available once more in the shop and other fine retailers. Don’t miss it this time!
Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters released on Tzadik label
The new album from Manorexia is out now on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. Entitled The Mesopelagic Waters, the album is 50 minutes long and contains eight tracks, radically rearranged from the first two Manorexia albums. You can order the album here.
It is performed by the chamber ensemble version of Manorexia in the arrangements that JG has been performing and perfecting over the last couple of years. The album features the playing of David Cossin on percussion, Leyna Marika Papach on violin, Elena Moon Park on violin, Karen Waltuch on viola, Felix Fan on cello, David Broome on piano and JG Thirlwell on samples/keys, compositions.It was recorded and mixed at Eastside Studios in NYC and engineered by Marc Urselli.
Yet another Manorexia album will be released toward the end of 2010. As yet untitled, this studio album of all-new material will be released in stereo and 5:1 surround sound.
With compliments… JG Thirlwell’s albums have received both year-end and decade-end accolades
Some of JG Thirlwell’s albums have been receiving both year-end and decade-end accolades.
Two Foetus albums are tied for the honor of number one album of the decade by the venerable website Popshifter: Foetus Love and Foetus Damp.
Spectre Collie names the Venture Bros album as one of the two best albums of the year .
And in the Brainwashed reader polls, JG Thirlwell’s The Venture Bros soundtrack was voted #27 album of the year, while Foetus Limb was voted #21 in “from the vaults” album of the year:
“An incredible record from one of the most talented composers still standing. I hope this achievement will serve as an appropriate intro to any cinematic producer as I will gladly see any Hollywood blockbuster film that this genius scores.” – Jon Whitney on The Venture Bros:The Music of JG Thirlwell
“I strongly feel that this deserves a much higher place on the list. J.G. Thirlwell released two very solid records in 2009, and this one came with both great music and a great video documentary. Anyone that cares about Foetus, or even Nurse with Wound, Coil, Swans, or Einstürzende Neubauten would do well to re-visit this. Thirlwell isn’t just a genius, he has to be one of the hardest working guys in the business. That fact shines through on this compilation. Limb also shows just how forward thinking Thirlwell has always been.” – Lucas Schleicher on Foetus Limb
Thanks to all the writers and voters for their support!
JG Thirlwell DJs New Years Eve with Golden Triangle
JG Thirlwell will be ringing in the new decade DJ-ing on New Years Eve with the exciting and raucous avant-garage band Golden Triangle at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. Also on the bill will be Electric Tickle Machine, DJ Arthur Arbit and special guests. Doors are at 9, admission is $10.
