The new film by legendary avant-garde film maker Ken Jacobs is premiering at the New York Film Festival. The film uses the music of Manorexia as it’s soundtrack, drawn from the album Dinoflagellate Blooms. Entitled Seeking The Monkey King, it will premiere at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center NYC on October 7 2011, with an additional screening on Oct 10. Jacobs is perhaps best known for his film Star Spangled to Death, and has been experimenting in film since the 1950s. Presented as part of NYFF’s Views From The Avant Garde, Jacobs and Thirlwell will be on-hand for a Q and A after the screening of the premiere.
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JGT's Split 7" single with Teho Teardo
Santarcangelo is a split single between JG Thirlwell and Italian musician/composer Teho Teardo, It documents separate sound installations they did at the Santarcangelo festival in Italy a couple of years back. Released on Teardo’s Specula label, it is currently exclusively available from his website. The pressing is limited to 500 copies, one hundred of which are on blue vinyl.
Thirlwell’s piece on the single, entitled Ecclesiophobia, is a recording distilled down to six minutes from a three hour installation piece. This involved a bottle of water dripping onto a bass drum head through an intravenous attachment, which reflected ripples throughout a vaulted subterranean chamber and triggered a low frequency which resonated in another room. This was accompanied by a live manipulation of field recordings of church bells from the medieval town, along with other compositional elements, into a four channel installation.
JG Thirlwell guest lectures at NYU
JG Thirlwell will talk about his work at a Composers Forum at Julia Wolfe’s class at New York University at 6.45pm on September 19. 2011.
International Moods with guest vocals from JG Thirlwell
International Moods is the new project from FM Einheit (ex-Einstuerzende Neubauten) and electro producer Zero Cash (Television Rocks) from Cologne, described as “an atmospheric roadbook through the transfer lounges of this planet full of monumental soundscapes, broken rhythms, cineastic adventures and minimalistic melodies”. The album, Frequent Traveller, features guest vocals from JG Thirlwell on two tracks, as well as guests Saskia von Klitzing (Karpatenhund) and Khan.
You can pick up the album digitally from iTunes, beatport, Amazon and other digital retailers. You can get the physical product from Amazon.de and other fine sellers, and you can hear clips on soundcloud.com.
JG Tumbles
As if you needed to waste more time, you can now follow JG Thirlwell on Tumblr.
JG Thirlwell DJs for People Like Us on WFMU
JG Thirlwell has made a 30 minute DJ set for the Do or DIY with People Like Us radio show on WFMU. It will broadcast at 8pm eastern standard time on Aug 31 2011. DO or DIY is a freeform sound art radio show broadcast weekly by Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) which has been running on WFMU since 2003. JG cryptically described his DJ set as “darkly psychedelic”.
Listen to the replay at www.wfmu.org.
JG Thirlwell guests on new Elysian Fields album
JG Thirlwell has guested on the track “Chance” from the new Elysian Fields album Last Night on Earth. JG will perform that track live as his long-time cohorts Elysian Fields play the new album in its entirety at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on June 14, complete with brass section and string section. Don’t miss this memorable evening. JG and Jennifer Charles from Elysian Fields last collaborated on the track “Thrush” from the Foetus album LOVE.
JG Thirlwell remixes Sohrab
Manorexia "Dinoflagellate Blooms" surround sound album out now!
Ectopic Ents is proud to announce the release of the long awaited new Manorexia album, Dinoflagellate Blooms. The album features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell. The package includes a CD of the album in stereo, and a DVD with the album in glorious, immersive 5.1 surround sound.
The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities. You can hear previews of the album here.
Begun in Berlin in 2005, the album was recorded at Thirlwell’s Self Immolation studios in Brooklyn, and the 5.1 mixes were made at Harvestworks Studio with Paul Geluso. Manorexia will be performing in October 2011 with Portishead at All Tomorrow’s Parties event in Asbury Park, NJ.
Initial quantities come with a free 4×5 Manorexia sticker signed by JG Thirlwell. Available exclusively at foetus.org shop.
Foetus "Here Comes The Rain" video released
The video for the track “Here Comes The Rain” from the latest Foetus album HIDE is finally completed and online for your viewing pleasure. The video was directed by Dan Ouellette and produced by Robert Nuell. Shot on location outside of New Paltz, NY and on a set built by Ouellette in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, the video’s director of photography was Sam Chase and it was edited by Logan Seaman. The girl in the video was played by Louise Sturcken and the goat was played by Hershey. You can also view it Vimeo, YouTube, and soon on Vevo.