JGT’s Manorexia performed two shows on 06 May 2009 at The Stone in New York City; 8pm and 10pm. Tickets are $10, students age 13-17 admitted half price, and children age 12 and under are admitted free. No pre-sales, all tickets are sold at the door on the day of the performance, so get there early.
Venture Brothers Soundtrack Released!
The long awaited Venture Brothers soundtrack album by JG Thirlwell has been released by Williams Street records. It is available on CD, vinyl and download. The Adult Swim website has additional information. Order here.
Track listing is as follows:
| 01. Brock Graveside 02. Tuff 03. Tensssacts 04. 13 BigMon / Boys as Transformers 05. Node Wrestling 06. Thunder-Bro 07. Damion 08. Assclamp! 09. Mississippi Noir 10. VB1 Spag |
11. Bolly 12. Gawker 13. Descension 14. Warped Carousel 15. Sexy Sultry 16. In a spaceage Mood 17. X1 Krashi / woozzy 18. Warped Span 19. Fumblestealth 20. VB Theme |
The vinyl omits four tracks to provide great sound fidelity; it does however come with a URL/link to the download the 4 other tracks in mp3 format. Read reviews from Creative Loafing, North Bay Bohemian, Brainwashed, LA Weekly, Fazer, Popshifter.
Kronos Quartet Commissions: New for 2010 & Continued Performances for 2009
J.G. Thirlwell continues work on new commissioned compositions for the Kronos Quartet, which will potentially premiere in 2010.
Thirlwell’s first commissioned composition for Kronos, entitled Nomatophobis, premiered 7th April 2006 at Zankel Hall in New York (alongside pieces by Terry Riley and Glenn Branca). Kronos will again perform the piece:
- 11th Mar 2009 as part of the MusicNow festival at Memorial Hall, Cincinnati OH
- 27th Mar 2009 at the University of Notre Dame
- 14th Apr 2009 at Cal State Sacramento
- 8th May 2009 at Palatia Jazz in Speyer Germany
- 5th Jun 2009 at The Sydney Opera House in Australia
- 6th Jun 2009 at the Melbourne Recital Centre in Australia
It was part of the programme on 24th Oct 2008 at the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress in Uppsala, Sweden; and on 15th Nov 2008 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, NM. Previous performances have included Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco on 8th Jan 2007; Royce Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles on 20th Jan 2007; at Theatre d’Arras in Arras France on 1st June 2007; on 22nd Jul at the CSU Summer Arts Festival in Fresno, CA; and on 27th Jul at Rancho Nicasio in California.
Nomatophobis is unrecorded as yet, and will be featured in future Kronos programmes as deemed appropriate.
New Foetus Studio Album in Development
A brand new Foetus studio album is slated to be released in the fall of 2010. Entitled “Hide”, it will be released on Ectopic Ents. More details soon…..
Manorexia album of “live” chamber arrangements TBR 2010
An album of chamber versions of J.G. Thirlwell’s Manorexia compositions will be released in 2010. It will be released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label.
Thirlwell's Hemo the Cuckold featured on Australian TV
The Sydney Dance Company will be dancing to the Foetus track “Hemo The Cuckold” on the Australian version of the TV show So You Think You Can Dance on Monday Feb 16. It’s been posted to YouTube…
