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i made bill let me make him a website. it turned out o.k. you can look at it for all things bill nace and also to buy new open mouth releases.
openmouthrecords.blogspot.com TONIGHT celebrating the release of Nick Meyer's fantastic new book of photographs "Pattern Language" Performances by Kieran Lally plus Kim Gordon / Elaine Kahn Duet Image from a recent show at the Helderberg House in Albany. The shot is characteristic of my new summer look, which is all about crop tops. I plan on wearing a crop top every day and have begun to remove the midriff from all my shirts accordingly. Central Air!!! Show was great, Jooklo Duo + Bill Nace & Burnt Hills played. I ate at least ten cookies and was gifted a large bottle of very fine vodka. thanks Jackson & Lana A long time ago HTML giant wrote this nice bit about a poem of mine, as part of a section they call "Explain Yourself."
I was too shy to answer, and have always regretted it. Also I do not have an answer. Behind the Beat: Horse Stories
Thursday, May 05, 2011 By Matthew Dube There's a video on Horsebladder's Myspace page that could be a vignette spliced straight from a David Lynch film. In the clip, Northamptonite Elaine Kahn—the one-woman tour de force that is Horsebladder—enters stage left, barefoot and dressed in an orange dress, slowly brushing her hair while being trailed by a yellow dog. She sets down the brush, bows to the dog, and turns to face the camera. A quick cut finds her outside at night, in a different dress, manipulating a keyboard. The wind blows her hair as the music swells. Kahn likes to push the limits with her experimental, ethereal compositions. For her it's about playing around with elements and textures. "I have ideas for projects and I want to see if I can go through with it," she says. "Like, if I have the nerve. It becomes a personal dare." She says that growing up in the suburbs she was not exposed to underground culture. She credits—or blames—her three "truly weird" siblings and an "interesting" mother for shaping an esoteric aesthetic during her formative years. These days she draws motivation from the likes of Catherine Ribeiro, Kim Gordon, Ally Harris, Virginia Woolf and "teenagers." Kahn has been known to throw anything and everything into her work—even kitchen appliances—to complement Horsebladder's core instrumentation of keyboards, voice and percussion. "Sometimes [it's] incidental noises, too, like the hum of this one fridge in my old apartment," she says. "Usually I mess around for a while, see what happens, and occasionally an interesting rhythm or melody will emerge. I'll isolate what I like and use it as a basis for further messing around. Other times I get some tune, or phrase, stuck in my head and roll it around—for years sometimes—until I get it right. "In general, I try to record a lot because I think a lot of progress is a fluke and I need to be able to recreate it." While Horsebladder is one of Kahn's main focuses, it's certainly not her only project. Kahn writes poetry; her chapbook Customer was published by Glasseye/Ecstatic Peace Library. She has also co-curated, along with local experimental maven Bill Nace, Loot, a performance series at Hadley's Flying Object featuring one reader and one musician on the first Sunday of every month. And she runs an Etsy shop called Sable Second Hand. In addition to solo material, she has released a CD-R, Mares, with her band 50 Foot Women, a partnership with Jessi Leigh Swenson. Kahn recently completed a short tour, and has a forthcoming Horsebladder LP, Not I'll Not, due out soon on the venerable Ecstatic Peace label. For videos, songs and more, visit www.myspace.com/stillholdingit. who helped me with booking, came to a show, gave me a beer
***HORSEBLADDER SPRING 2011 TOUR*** Northampton MA SMITH COLLEGE Ladyfest Western Mass !! Talk Normal / U.S. Girls / Schurt Kwitters / Ledges, Blast !!Friday, April 15th Cleveland OH The Boo Box with Mole People, Mummified Bat, Saturday, April 16th Chicago IL Dr Who's Warehouse with PANDAVA/SOLAR FOX/MEESTER MAGPIE/NAMES DIVINE Sunday, April 17 Oberlin OH 201 N. Professor St. With Katie Buono / Elizabeth Aubert Tuesday, April 19 Philadelphia PA Empty Space 2005 Frankford Avenue !! U.S. Girls, Photographers!! Wednesday, April 20 New York NY The Stone !!8pm Schurt Kwitters 10pm!! Friday, April 22 Allison Rose Harris reviews Customer in Diagram 10.6. Read her thoughtful review here! Scope out the many other awesome writings available on site, while you're at it.
Melissa Broder, editor of La Petite Zine, was kind enough to include two of my poems in her edition of Noo Weekly, up now.
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