tick tock in me head

Saw now, we’en begettin’ mar trubblin’ fer the dubblin’ if’n ye druft my gut, hear on dis, de fearst and wearst dee sinz the originizization of da specious — ore “da genus widoot orgins,” ya mite be inclinamed to spray. Thar bean gnaw fodder fur da fiddle nar spiddle far ta spadder. Herein nuttin’ bit da wrinkin’ from all dem tellyfoons whir voiceluss vices ply thur wires unto de nekkid eres of our whereforehids, like a bawdleinfrontoya as appozed to a phrenolabatumi. Bit done tack it fro me, task yer locol enformotion ticknoologist.

Friday, June 19, Badgerhaus, Raleigh, 8 pm: Jason Bivins & Crowmeat Bob, plus Subscape Annex.
Gitfiddle & blowhorns splinkin and splonkin togidder, aport and astarboard. Skittered, smattered and covert.
Lemme gno if’n ya need recktions to the jaunt.

–Robert
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“Things ain’t what they used to be.”

lily-white catachresis

Understand that the Company will take no action regarding the malappropriation of certain heretofore unassessed levies, fees, fines, taxes, interest, charges, donations, collections, sinofferings, burnt-offerings, peace-offerings and other tithes, including but not limited to those prescribed in the underemployee statutes, regulations, and codes of behavior, as long as all guilty or potentially guilty parties sign the standard waiver and volunteer for repopulation duties on the Colony.

First Friday, June 5, Marsh Woodwinds, 707 N Person St, Raleigh, 8 - 11 pm, donation optional: Savage Knights.
The “Vag” Knights will be preverting two sets of music for you. Bring your own beer or wine or what-have-you. Rodney will provide the catering.
myspace.com/savageknights

Saturday, June 13, Pinhook, Durham, 10 pm: D-Town Brass with Fontana.
D-Town Brass is Andy McGowan’s new unit of what I like to call crime jazz. It’s our first gig.
http://www.reverbnation.com/dtownbrass

Friday, June 19, Badgerhaus, 8 pm: Jason Bivins & Crowmeat Bob.
Jason took ill when we tried to do this last month, so here’s our second chance. Some improvised guitar/reeds action for you.
I imagine Subscape Annex will play too.

And be sure and tune in to my Mystery Show on WXDU(.org; 88.7) on June 14 from 10 pm to midnight: “Being Out Of, Losing, or Otherwise Misplacing Your Mind”

-Bob
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Under Investigation

Understand that besides the fact of our being averse to a general sounding-out of inherent possibilities which may or may not have pre-existed the relatively momentous matter at hand, there is the abhorrent task of implementing an inclusive format with which to approach the subject of full or partial integration, in which to apply the previously discussed tenets of total dissemination, and from which to siphon any remaining redundancies which could affect the over-arching schema in an adverse or otherwise unpredictable fashion, potentially resulting in unforeseen catastrophic events and/or absolute dissolution and subsequent putrefaction — be it in the immediate aftermath or in the long-term cycle of gyratic time dilation.
But rest assured our top scientists are investigating the matter fully.

Tuesday, May 12, 9 pm, 521 Hillsborough St (Co-op House), Carrboro, donation: Crowmeat Bob w/Glass Witch, Dark Inside the Sun, Maddie, and Irene Moon.
I’ll be doing a few numbers and some improvising for you. Glad to be opening for Dark Inside the Sun. I’ve seen him a bunch of times and he’s always great.
From Ryan Martin’s email:
GLASS WITCH = me [Ryan] + Andrea Stroud’s pop band, first show in forever, the lighter side of goth/ see: myspace.com/glasswitch
DARK INSIDE THE SUN = on tour, one man band who wrecks drum kit, toys, his voice - it’s an intense performance that veers from primitive improvisation to shambolic pop
MADDIE = out of high school, first show ever! tapes of pianos and other things played back at varying speeds, singing, star moves
plus! entymologist IRENE MOON, recently relocated to Raleigh and just back on tour from Europe, will be there showing a 20 min long animated film, Court of Common Pleas, soundtrack by HOTOGISU. check : begoniasociety.org

Friday, May 15, 8 pm, Badgerhaus, Raleigh, donation: Jason Bivins and Crowmeat Bob w/Subscape Annex.
Another in my series of sax/guitar duets at Steve Burnett’s house. Email me for directions.
Jason Bivins: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/zjgillan/bivins/music.html

Sunday, May 17, 5-7 pm, Bain Waterworks, Raleigh: Thurston/Isenberg/Lamb/Crowmeat.
I don’t think other groups have been confirmed, so I don’t want to get ahead of myself and make proclamations. But there will be others.
The reverb in that room is brilliant. We’ll be trying to keep it in a 60’s Blue Note vibe, at least to start with. (But hell, “Conquistador!” was on Blue Note, so fair warning)
Check out the Bain website:
http://www.bainproject.com/

And be sure to tune in to one of my DJ forays over at WXDU(.org), 88.7. Now I’m on most every other Saturday (jazz) and Sunday (classical) from noon to 2:00, in alternation with other DJ’s of equivalent arsenals of goodness.
And I’ll be doing a couple of Mystery Shows over the summer. The first being June 14 (10:00-midnight) on the theme of being out of, losing, or otherwise misplacing one’s mind. I think I’ve got it covered, but it’s two hours now, so if you have some idears of songs I may not be hip to you’d like to request in advance, that might be helpful.

-Robert
retroactivedynamics.com
“The only thing we have to fear is the things themselves.”

Last Year at Maryland

All about the garden dead and dumb statues give blind-red screams at having been aught but traces of ones who may never have been aught at all. And the vines creep their steady way along the exteriors of the shells that keep our phantoms vaulted in their private hauntings and crawl their stealthy way up the limbs of the sentries of impermanence to abet a soulless marble entropy.

Thursday, March 19, 8 pm, Badgerhaus, Raleigh: Tom Whitelock and Crowmeat Bob with The Magick Report.
Another house show at the home of Mr. Burnett. The Magick Report are sort of a buzz-bowl-hyper-spin-out-thrift-tube act from NYC, if you’re familiar with the genre.
After we play, whatever is left in Tom’s and my psyches will twitch as it leaves.
Email me if you need directions to Badgerhaus.

Sunday, March 22, 112 Hanna St, Carrboro: Night and Fog with Eastern Seaboard and Inspector 22.
Night and Fog will be a chamber-improv group with Carrie Shull on oboe & english horn, Craig Hilton on guzheng, Todd Hershberger on bassoon, Chris Eubank on cello, and meself on reeds.
Inspector 22 is Todd Emmert’s evolving project.
Eastern Seaboard is some good old-fashioned free jazz with Brent Bagwell, Jordon Schranz, and Seth Nanaa.

That will be all.
Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

omnii

Dear stockholders, honorary trustees, and close acquaintances:You’ll be ecstatic to be informed that the boys over at R & D have finally isolated the elusive substance of Osmium, so experiments can begin with altering the very nature of reality to suit us whenever it suits us.

Friday, March 13, Nightlight, 10 pm, $5: Kolyma with In the Year of the Pig and Altamira.
nightlightclub.com (there are links to the other bands there)
Kolyma will rock you until you are quite dead.
In the Year of the Pig will stomp on your corpse.
Altamira will resurrect you and beat you down again.

Sunday, March 15, 4 pm, WXDU, 88.7 FM (wxdu.org): Savage Knights
We will play live on the air. It will be a perplexing and incontrovertible pancake of a spectacle.
And that evening I’ll be spinning songs about shakin’, twitchin’ and nervousness on “Who’s Got the Cuckoo?” from 9 to 10 pm, also on WXDU.

Thursday, March 19, 8 pm, Badgerhaus, Raleigh, donation: Tom Whitelock and Crowmeat Bob with The Magick Report.
For you what ain’t hip to it that’s Steve Burnett’s domicile, the Badgerhaus. The Magick Report are a synth-freak-beat band from NYC. Tom and I will play squirrelly and tentacled improvisations as part of my Badgerhaus series of guitar/reed duets.
Email me if you need directions to Badgerhaus.

If that don’t take you to the fair, I don’t know what will.

-Robert Pence

don’t mind

All employees are hereby notified that the official period of Indentured Volunteer Status will commence at noon today. We all have to make sacrifices in these times of budget crisis, and the latest word from the Board of Directors Martian Colony is that they share your pain.
As an added measure of security in these troubled times, we have reopened Project Bluebird, but this time as a private enterprise so there’ll be no pesky government oversight.

Friday, March 6 (First Friday), Marsh Woodwinds, 8 pm, donation, BYO: Tatsuya Nakatani with Project Bluebird.
Tatsuya is a master percussionist who’ll mesmerise you with his wide variety of techniques, including bowed gongs, Japanese bowls, and cymbals — an intense multiphonic cacophony.
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html
He’s going to do a solo set and then collaborate with Project Bluebird…

Project Bluebird is a collaboration of folks from Charlotte, Durham and Raleigh. A chamber-style free jazz group with compositions by the various members:
Ben Kennedy - cello, violin; Ron Brendle - double bass; Brent Bagwell - reeds; Carrie Shull - oboe, english horn; Crowmeat Bob - reeds.

Marsh Woodwinds has a great little performance space upstairs. Stop on by during your first Friday outings and check it out.
Also, if you happen to be in Charlotte on Thursday, we’ll be doing the same line-up at Century Vintage, 8 pm.

Saturday, March 7, 313 W Martin St, Raleigh, Noon, $10: The Bain Project Fundraiser
Our little ensemble, Razor Wire Safety Net, will be kicking things off at noon, there in the warehouse next to Design Box. (http://www.reverbnation.com/razorwiresafetynet)
That’s Christopher Thurston, Brian Donohoe, and me.
The Bain Project is an enterprise to convert an old water treatment plant in Raleigh into an art installation.
The overall schedule for the day is:
12:00 - Razor Wire Safety Net
1:00 - Tomas Phillips
2:00 - Subscape Annex
3:00 - Craig Hilton
4:00 - Benito Crawford
5:00 - [one hour break]
6:00 - MG3+One
7:00 - The Tender Fruit
8:00 - Old Bricks
9:00 - Ivan Rosebud
10:00 - Mount Weather

also coming up:
Sunday, March 15, WXDU 88.7 (wxdu.org), 4-6 pm: Savage Knights
We will play live over the air for you on Ross Grady’s local music show.

And tune in to XDU at 9 pm that same night when I’ll be featuring songs about shakin’, twitchin’ and nervousness as I take the helm of “Who’s Got the Cuckoo?”
(I’ll also be doing my fortnightly “Polyphonic Perversity” show at noon that day.)

Sleep well,
Robert Pence
Regional Accretionist
Retroactive Dynamics, Inc.
“Your window to the world you’ll never have.”
retroactivedynamics.com

under the wire

Performance Saturday at Steve Burnett’s house STOP Hope you will attend STOP Also another coming up soon at Pour House STOP And still another at Cat’s Cradle STOP Possibly others next year, too STOP

Saturday, December 13th, Badgerhaus, music at 9 pm, donation: Crowmeat Bob & Joey Prinz and Subscape Annex.
Steve B has a very comfortable setting for soaking in some sound. And he’s got a dream machine.
He lives sorta near Crabtree Valley mall in Raleigh. You better e-mail him if you need directions: burnett@pobox.com
Subscape Annex is his electrodrone project: http://www.subscapeannex.com/
Joey and I will be improvising together on guitar and reeds.

Thursday, December 18, Pour House, 9 pm, $5: Savage Knights with Dirty Little Heaters and Left Outlet.
I imagine we’ll be playing first.

Saturday, December 20, Cat’s Cradle, 7:30, free: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Big Fat Gap and The Rafters.
I reckon we’re supposed to play around 9:30, in between sets by Big Fat Gap. The Rafters open at 7:30.
We might even have some CD’s available at long last.

–Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

hell awaits

Okay all you hobnobbers, get ready to spend some of the few weary god-given hours you have left checking out a right fine pile of music put forth for your ill consideration by that quintet of dubious moral character, Savage Knights. Comin’ off a modestly successful little midwest-ish tour we did weekend before last, so we ought to be settling into our sound with ease and power.
Some other stuff, too.

Wednesday, December 3, Marvell Event Center, 9:00 doors, $5 showtime/$4 doorstime: Savage Knights with Minnie Skirt and the Bootlegs, Aquila, and Burning Rays.
We’re supposed to take the stage around 11, third of four acts (probably a little bit shorter set than we’d like to throw down with).
myspace.com/savageknights
Minnie Skirt, who play after us, will bring some retro soul sounds: myspace.com/minnieskirtandthebootlegs
Aquila will bring some heavy duty psychedelia from New York: myspace.com/beyondvega
Burning Rays, well, Grayson probably said it better than I could (scroll down a bit): http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A271548

Saturday, December 6, Nightlight: Savage Knights with Data Hata & DJ Family Vacation, and DJ Nasty Boots.
Our first FreQNC night at the old Nightlight. Don’t worry, you can dance to us. If you’re not afraid.

Saturday, December 13, Steve Burnett’s House
Not sure the whole score yet, but I believe it’ll be an improvised thing, at least for my part. More later.

Saturday, December 20, Cat’s Cradle: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Big Fat Gap and the Rafters.
Free Christmas gathering at the Cradle. I’ll be playing with the New Romans.

-Bob

Solid Footing

Hi-flyin’ dustbowl wiseacres everywhere, spill your guts now before the clicks whirr down and the springs get sprung and this town spins faster than a Jersey nine-iron.

Friday, Nov. 7, Marsh Woodwinds, Raleigh, 8 pm, donation, BYO: Savage Knights with Trio Slicnaton.
We’ll be laying it on the line like no fez-spitter’s ever done this side of the Continental Divide.
Slicnaton at, then the Savage Knights will play two sets of darn good music.
That’s 707 Person St, down from the Krispy Kreme.

Saturday, Nov. 8, The Good Cherry, Lynchburg, VA, 8:00 pm: Razor Wire Safety Net with MHM Trio.
Hot-footing it up Falwell way again. That’s me & Christopher Thurston & Brian Donohoe. You should take a road trip and go see it. Or just tell all your Lynchburg friends.

–Bob
retroactivedynamics.com

way down west where the plover flies free

As you wander along that lonesome road don’t forget to take the time to spill a few drops of blood over all those lost ceramic cereal mascots, so painstakingly collected and displayed once upon a time, and yawn in certitude that the way west is bound to be littered with bionic bigfoots. We who’ve never known the pleasure of conspiracy will have to settle for the intricacies of banality.

Tonight, Monday, Aug 25, Fuse, 11:00: Tone Pham & friends.
I’ll be bringing some horns along to improvise with Tone and who knows who else. He usually accrues a bang-up tight rhythm section, though, so you can tap your toe.

Friday, September 5, Local 506: Pine State with Butch Dogwood and the Public Good.
Another Cy benefit. This time it’s personal.
Punktry counts Pine State reuniting after ten and some-odd years. They needed a replacement slide guitar player, but they couldn’t get one so I’ll do it.

–Robert Pence
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