foreign influence

Now single up all lines of flight for these happenings or elsewise you’ll be riding the high tide of dissolution and forget you ever even had a body much less a ego. ‘Course, if that’s your thing, then spread yourself thinner than white on rice, let loose your transubstantial tendencies and prepare to get real gone. At these convenient times and locations near you.

Monday, April 25, Kings Barcade, 9:30, $6: Kolyma with White Hills and Arbor Myst.
Kolyma is heavier and more ferocious than ever, so bring the kids. Likely we’ll be sandwiched between the other acts, headliner White Hills (heavy psychedelia on Thrill Jockey) and opener Arbor Myst (soundscapery).

Tuesday, April 26, Local 506, 9:30, $8/$10: Savage Knights with Captured By Robots.
Quite the elaborate stage show from Captured By Robots with metallic riffage performed with mechanical precision by actual robots (and one human being who is their perpetual prisoner).
Expect human-esque imprecision from Savage Knights.

Saturday, April 30, Nightlight, 9:30, $7: Conspicuous Convulsion with Thank You, US Christmas, and DJ Nasty Boots.
This time Conspicuous Convulsion will be Kenny Ells on bass, Mike Isenberg on drums, and myselves on reeds and guitar.
Here’s the lowdown from Nightlight’s Facefuck page:
Get ready! Spring / Summer is creepin’ and we’re busting out the jamzz with tons of fun local and national bands!
The patio is open, fun will be free and we’ve got some killer bands lined up..
Saturday :: April 30th :: $7 :: doors at 8 PM, music at 9:30 PM
THANK YOU (Thrill Jockey)
US Christmas (acoustic set)
Conspicuous Convulsion (Crowmeat Bob + friends)
DJ NASTY BOOTS all night!! (Frequenc)
Plus, there will be a Chili-Cook Off starting at 8 PM. Folks are invite to enter the contest or pay $5 to eat and vote for your favorite dish.
and, there will be a Silent Art Auction of music, records, art and more to bid on!

Thanks for your attention,
Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

after all

Satan, get thee behind me.
And start pushin’. I need all the help I can get.

And you folks out there, please show your support, especially for these out of town acts:

Thursday, March 24, 8:00, All Day Records, Carrboro: Conspicuous Convulsion with Dan Peck Trio.
Conspicuous Convulsion will open with some heavy duty improvisin’ — that’s Jason Aylward (Valient Thorr) on drums, Kenny Ells (Thunderlip) on bass, and Crowmeat Bob on guitar and saxophones.
Then some excellent musicians from Brooklyn: Dan Peck on tuba, Tom Blancarte on double bass, and Brian Osborne on drums. http://www.myspace.com/danpecktrio

Tuesday, March 29, 7:00, All Day Records, Carrboro: Atorvastatin with The Late Virginia Summers.
Atorvastatin is Drew Robertson on electromagnetics and myself on reeds.
Late Virginia Summers are a heavy experimental outfit from Lynchburg, VA. http://www.myspace.com/tlvs

Friday, April 1st, 8:00, Marsh Woodwinds, Raleigh: Savage Knights with Zeke Graves.
Zeke’s gonna open with some sweet fingerpickin’ and then the Savage Knights will tear your brains out and flip them around so your medulla oblongata is in your eyeballs.
http://crowmeatbob.bandcamp.com/album/bilocation
http://www.myspace.com/ezekielgraves/music

Thanks you for your time.
–Robert

beehoove

For God, Guts and Glory
We send you to the front
Where evil speaks and blood seeps
And creatures sink beneath rusty bones
In sultry pedigree mudbogs…
Where chlorine-drenched shamblers creep to dine,
Each in its own sure fate.
As follows.

Sunday, February 20, Cats Cradle, 8:30 (sharp): D-Town Brass with Budos Band and DJ Ras J.
Be there or be dead.

Thursday, February 24, Meadows of Dan, 9:00: Microcephalic Superintendent with Phantascist and Hurricanes of Love.
Be there or be ware.

Saturday, February 26, Local 506: Dexter Romweber an the New Romans with Titanium Rex and Blood Red River.
Be there or be a tick on the hindquarters of John Wayne as he gets whupped by Monty Clift on into eternity.

Friday, March 5, Marsh Woodwinds, 7 pm, $8: Promute with Astma, Violet, Blue Sausage Infant, and Pilesar.
Be there or bee sting.

Be seeing you.
Bob

sore ferring

Like a time bomb like a blood clot like a brainpan like a toenail like a seahorse like a blood jar like a raven like a waxwork like a dream waiting to be…

Wednesday, January 12, 9:30, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, $5: Jason Ajemian, Hush Arbors and Blood Jar Creepers.
Jason Ajemian kills it on that double bass, no foolin.

-Bob

unheard of

We’ll be slithering out of our hollowdaze for our first show in a right fair spell. Kolyma, that is. Opening for Ghost to Falco.
Wednesday night.
That’d be Mike Isenberg (Savage Knights) on drums, John Farrell (Olympus Mons) on bass, Jersey Russ (Rocket Cottage) and Crowmeat Bob (Flash Gordon’s Ape) on guitars.

Wednesday, Dec. 29, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 9:30: Kolyma and Ghost to Falco.
While Kolyma is still gleefully mired in head-flaying rock and roll, I believe the talented Ghost to Falco has moved on into the post-rock camp. Check it out: http://www.myspace.com/ghosttofalco

–Robert

encomia for any occasion

As we dissolve into barely sensate pools of plasmatic fluctuation, be reminded that there’s asphalt in the afterlife and an oil road to the promised land. I’ve borne witness in post-apocalyptic dreams, I shit ye not. Time bleeds from its pores as the cyclic dilation keeps up its perpetuatin’ with satan, at these convenient locations near you:

Thursday, Sept 30, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 9:00, $5: Blood Jar Creepers, Gmish Klezmer Band, Taraf de Unemployed, Vincent Joos
Blood Jar, the band formerly known as Nervous Creep.
Oughta be an interesting evening for y’alls. Check the description on Nightflight’s calendar: http://nightlightclub.com/
And here’s a couple of Bloodjarcreepers tracks: http://crowmeatbob.bandcamp.com/album/blood-jar-creepers

Sunday, Oct 3, Nightlight, 7:00, $5-$10: Savage Knights, In the Year of the Pig, Systems, Secret Boyfriend, Electric Cactus
A benefit for the struggling Nightflight. Oddly, three of the four members of Blood Jar Creepers are represented in two of these bands. Or maybe it ain’t so odd. Incest is making a comeback, I hear. But it’ll be a very different show, as you well know.
Again, see the Nightlight calendar link above for details.

And keep your ears out for Dexter Romweber and the New Romans as part of Blackbeard’s Lost Weekend at the Cavern Tavern on Oct 17.

Be seeing you,
Robert Pence
retroactivedynamics.com
“Building you a better yesterday.”

Mad Carlotta

When memory unfolds from sources unknown we banish it to the unreal and stay true to the linear lives of events, cause and effect in proper succession, and allow experience to evaporate into impalpable modalities of past and future for fear our life may take on a life of its own.

Friday, June 18, Golden Belt, Durham, 8:30, free: D-Town Brass
The Independent Weekly’s Best of the Triangle party. As far as I’m concerned, the best of the triangle is the Lemoine point. But they’ll have food and stuff like that. Part of the Third Friday art thing in Durham.

and Baltimore cellist/vocalist Audrey Chen, two nights in the Triangle:

Thursday, June 24, Nightlight, Chapel Hill: Microcephalic Superintendent with Kamama (Audrey Chen and Luca Marini)
You for sure want to check out Kamama. Audrey is a front-line cellist/vocalist improviser out of Baltimore, bringing along Drummer Luca Marini for this tour.
Microcephalic Superintendent will be Chris Eubank - cello; Craig Hilton - guzheng; Carrie Shull - oboe/english horn; George Lam - violin; Crowmeat Bob - reeds.
There’s some samples of previous Microcephalic shows up under the “Psych Warfare Transmissions” tab at retroactivedynamics.com.

Friday, June 25, Marsh Woodwinds, Raleigh, donation: Savage Knights with Kamama (Audrey Chen and Luca Marini)
For their second stop in the neighborhood, Kamama will share the bill with Savage Knights (myspace.com/savageknights).

Happy Bloomsday.
-Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

Write on My Bones

Nothing seems to age in this lurid swamp. Could be everything is so ancient there’s nothing left to become. Every strain of boiling life has run its course and left its imprint. But if you need me, you know where I’ll be: in this foetid bloody sump fearing the fate of my bones when I die.

Friday, May 28, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 10 pm: Savage Knights with Ahleuchatistas.
More than ever, Ahleuchatistas are a grinding cauldron of bad-assery. Pummeling grooves striated with unpredictable rhythmic fluctuations.
And they’re on Tzadik, for fuck’s sake.
Savage Knights will warm up the crowd, so put on your dancin’ shoes.

Thursday, June 3, 904 W. Main St, Carrboro: Nervous Creep with Dust Busters.
An evening of porch-settin’ music on Ethan C’s porch. Not sure of the timing yet.
Dust Busters are from Brooklyn.
Nervous Creep are Zeke Graves, Aaron Smithers, Charlie Hearon, and Crowmeat Bob.

Saturday, June 5, Local 506, Chapel Hill, 10 pm, $7: D-Town Brass with Bustello and Erie Choir.
That’s right.

Tuesday, June 8, All Day Records, Carrboro, 8 pm: Crowmeat Bob with Screwed Anthologies.
At Ethan’s and Charlie’s brand new storefront.
I ain’t been able to find a home site for Screwed Anthologies, but Google them and you’ll find plenty of info. They’re all about some time travel.
So I reckon what I might do, in the spirit of time travel, is play along with some home recordings I made in the mid-90’s. As well as some other things.
I’ll be opening.

Saturday, June 12, Local 506, Chapel Hill, 10 pm, $7/$8: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Countdown Quartet.
Ain’t seen the Countdown Quartet in a fair spell. Bet you haven’t neither.

–Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

earhearts and lungeyes litter your yard?

Spanning time.

Wednesday, May 12, Local 506, 9:30, $8: Savage Knights with Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa.
Yup. Check it out, the guru of Old Time Relijun: http://www.myspace.com/arringtondedionyso
We’ll be opening for these K Records cats from the northwest.
myspace.com/savageknights

And if you’re more of a weekend worrier:
Friday, May 28, Nightlight: Savage Knights with Ahleuchatistas.
Tzadik recording artists Ahleuchatistas from Asheville. I think they sound better than ever: http://www.myspace.com/ahleuchatistas
We’ll be opening. Another two band show (!)

Nervous Creep, D-Town Brass and Crowmeat solo coming in early June.

Fear and desire always,
Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

Forensic Telescope

Prep yourselves for an auto-autopsy once the knowledge grabs you that you’ve been bein’ among the living dead for some time now and the nagging question of just what transpired leaks in from somewhere beyond your atrophied pineal gland. So get yourself a knife and a fork and get yourself some time to go to work and don’t wait no longer for necrosis to gnaw away at your epidermal tissue. It’s you and no one else so don’t make it anything other than what the pain you used to feel tells you it might’ve been, climbing through the roughshod twilight plastic coating on the flickering apemind spire of law and language, the sting of the order-word biting your bitter end all the while.

Tuesday, April 27, 9:30, Local 506, Chapel Hill: Ezekiel Graves, Cellar Seas.
Myselves’ll be sitting in on a number with Zeke. Plus he’s having plenty of other guests join him during his set, including I’m led to believe the rest of the roster of Nervous Creep, Aaron Smithers and Charlie Hearon.

Wednesday, April 28, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 7:30: International Noise Conference
You can see the full listing here: nightlightclub.com
I believe I’ll be doing a quick solo set.

Saturday, May 1, Haw River Festival, Saxapahaw, 7:00: D-Town Brass.
Hope it don’t rain.
I believe Saxapahaw is a small enough place that you can find the Festival when you get there.
Take 54 west from Carrboro/Chapel Hill, left on Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Rd, and that’ll take you to Saxapahaw.

-Robert
retroactivedynamics.com