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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tonight Alaskas, Amir Coyle, Sissters, Big Dogs Live Tonight

Posted by Jason Baxter on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:07 PM

Tonight at the Cairo Gallery there’s a solid all-ages bill that includes hometown fave Alaskas (he of rambunctious, loop-based primitivism) along with two visiting acts from Cali (Amir Coyle, Sissters) and a new local group called “Big Dogs.”

Alternative tastemaker and occasional VICE contributor Logan Owlbeemoth describes Amir Coyle’s theatrical productions as “where experimental noise music and shamanistic butoh-like performance meet.” Amir Coyle appears alongside Alaskas on the recently-upped-for-download Astronomy Club Ghost Story 2009 comp (get it here). The Amir Coyle track included therein is an elegantly soggy ambient number, and Alaskas’ take on The Safaris’ “Image of a Girl” is reason enough to download the whole collection—imagine the saccharine swells of Animal Collective’s “Graze” skewed by grubby basement acoustics.

Sissters is a harsh-noise pedal porn project, highly recc’d for the Blue Sabbath Black Cheer/Mincemeat or Tenspeed/Kevin Shields crowd, and Big Dogs is a new group emerging to fill the void left by Herr Jazz’s untimely dissolution, with members culled from various other DIY scene regulars (Seahouse, Problems, Masters & Johnson). If I had a little more time on hand, I could draw you a ven diagram to illustrate all the overlap.

The show’s at 8:00 PM. Cairo’s on the hill, if you’ve never been, at 507 E Mercer St. I understand that vinyl copies of Alaskas’ 2009 LP Set Yourself Free will be available at the gig, which is a new (and long overdue) development.