The documentary Blank City is currently enjoying a successful theatrical run at the IFC center in New York. Directed by French newcomer Céline Danhier, Blank City weaves together an oral history of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements. JG Thirlwell is interviewed in the film regarding his involvement with R.Kern’s Deathtrip Films and the Cinema of Transgression. It also features interviews with Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Steve Buscemi, Debbie Harry, Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Amos Poe, James Nares, Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Eric Mitchell, Susan Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn and many more. Clips featuring Thirlwell’s scores for Kern’s Deathtrip films appear in the documentary, along with many other illuminating extracts from the films of that era. Click here for the New York Times review of the film.
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Manorexia confirmed for Portishead ATP event in Asbury Park
JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia will be playing at the All Tomorrows Parties event curated and headlined by Portishead on Oct 2nd.
The event will span a three day weekend: Sep 30th, Oct 1st and Oct 2nd. Jeff Mangum (Ex Neutral Milk Hotel) will curate and play on the 30th. October 1st and 2nd will be curated by Portishead, and they will play both nights.
This event marks All Tomorrow’s Parties return to the USA in the new location of Asbury Park, N.J., bringing an “I’ll Be Your Mirror” event to the iconic Asbury Park waterfront. This will also mark Portishead’s first East Coast appearence since 1998.
Other acts confirmed over the weekend are Battles, the Pop Group, Swans, Deerhoof, Mogwai, Shellac, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ultramagnetic MCs, Beak>, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Cults, Earth and many more.
For full details and tickets vist the All Tomorrows Parties website.
The new Manorexia album, Dinoflagellate Blooms, will be released in May 2011 on Ectopic Ents. The special package will contain both stereo and 5.1 mixes of the album.
New Steroid Maximus live videos posted
Four videos from the Steroid Maximus at Prospect Park bandshell in Brooklyn show last summer have just been posted in the video section of foetus.org. For the show (which was part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival), JG Thirlwell assembled and conducted a twenty piece mini-orchestra.
Among the clips is an edited version of a Venture Bros medley which includes versions of “Fumblestealth”, “Bolly” and “No Vacancy (Venture Bros Theme)”, as well as an explosive version of “Gawker” from the Venture Bros soundtrack and two tracks from the Steroid Maximus album Ectopia: “L’espion Qui A Pleure” and “Aclectasis”.
The videos were shot by Drew Ravani and Margarita Jimeno, and edited by Rimma Dreyband.
JG Thirlwell speaks at Brooklyn College
JG Thirlwell will be giving a lecture about his history and processes at Brooklyn College on March 2 2011. This free lecture is presented by the graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and is open to the public. This presentation is cosponsored by Artists and Audience exchange, a public program administered by New York Foundation of The Arts (NYFA) with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts. JG Thirlwell is a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship recipient of NYFA.
Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11210
6pm, Wednesday, March 2
Venture Bros season 4.1 out now on DVD
Venture Bros Season Four Part One is now available on DVD. The discs contain eight episodes, brimming with new scores by JG Thirlwell. It is available at Amazon, the Adult Swim store and many fine retailers.
New Foetus HIDE available digitally in the online shop
The highly acclaimed new Foetus album is now available digitally at the foetus.org shoppe. It is also available on CD in a luxurious digipack exclusively from the site, and comes packed with a 5″ x 5″ sticker of the striking album artwork, signed in gold by JG Thirlwell himself. You can listen to previews and order here. It will be available on iTunes and through other digital vendors in November.
Foetus HOLE and NAIL finally on iTunes
The seminal Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel albums HOLE (1984) and NAIL (1985) are now finally available worldwide on iTunes. Released by Some Bizzare, the albums are in their remastered form.
Foetus album "HIDE" released
Ectopic Ents is proud to announce the release of the long awaited new studio album by Foetus, entitled HIDE.
HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a “neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear”. Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell’s twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.
Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music. Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell’s Manorexia ensemble on violin. In addition Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).
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Go to the HIDE page to preview and order.
Hydroze Plus now available digitally
The Hydroze Plus EP is now available as a digital download.
Hydroze Plus is a collaboration between JG Thirlwell and Fred Bigot of Electronicat. The EP consists of the songs “Overcoat” and “Calm Calm”, as well as JG’s remix of “Overcoat”, which is entitled “Epi-Dose”, and Bigot’s remix of “Calm Calm”, which is entitled “Belladonna”.
The EP is still available in physical form from Optical Sound. It is a limited clear vinyl 10″ record with extremely elaborate and unusual packaging.
Please note for other downloads and physical product visit the Foetus shoppe.
JG Thirlwell plays Christian Marclay at The Whitney Museum, NYC
JG Thirlwell will be performing Christian Marclay’s Screen Play piece at his Festival exhibition at The Whitney Museum in New York City. Marclay’s Festival exhibition consists of many of his graphic scores, sculptural objects and film archives of his actions and performances, and features concerts daily. Screen Play is a graphic / film score to be performed as a trio. JG, who will play samples/electronics, will be performing in a trio with Kenny Wollesen (percussion) and Okkyung Lee (cello) on Sep 1 and 17, and with Kenny Wollesen (percussion) and Elliot Sharp (guitar) on Sep 16.
Performance times are as follow:
September 1 show at 2.30pm
September 16 show at 12 noon
September 17 show at 2.00 PM
Watch live streaming video from whitneymuseum at livestream.com