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

Ishtar

Babylonian fertility rites coming to your neighborhood:

Wednesday, April 7, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 9:30 pm: Savage Knights, Great Architect, Moenda, and DJ Nasty Boots.
Yeah but so this is going to be a righteous fine time.
A couple of killer bands from Charlotte.
Moenda are some kinda carefully sculpted rhythm & noise outfit. Check ‘em out: http://www.myspace.com/moenda
Great Architect is a bad-ass free jazz group: http://www.myspace.com/hellogreatarchitect
And you know who DJ Nasty Boots is.
You ought to come. You know who you are.

Friday, April 9, Nightlight: In the Year of the Pig, Monsonia, Secret Boyfriend, Hiss Golden Messenger.
Looks like I’ll be part of the Golden Fire Pig Orchestra (In the Year of the Pig) that night. This is their long-awaited CD release party.
I also play on the upcoming release from Hiss Golden Messenger, which I believe will just be Michael Taylor solo for this night.

Thursday, April 15, Marvell Event Center, Durham, 7:30: Savage Knights, Sacrificial Poets, J. Bully.
A benefit for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. I believe we’re going first, so get there early and then hang out for a set each of consciousness and gangsta rap.

By the by, I finally got around to putting a discography of my recording visitations on my website. It’s at the bottom of the Psych Warfare Transmissions page of Retroactive Dynamics.

More soon,

Robert Pence
Hypnotist General
retroactivedynamics.com

farflown

Fear dallyers:
It beehives us to demark now and whirr on de nature of certain in-particulate specifics which you may or may not have flung to the nither reaches of your proto-subjectivizin’ selfcell, having been disbeleafed and doomstruct at the mire thinkin-upon of whit may fallow. But rust easy in your disyllogisment, the cure is fast to hand. Pry your shuttered hear-tunnels from their willful exile and allow them to feast on sounds yet unsounded in dis- ancient -continuum.
Thusly:

Friday, March 12, Broad St Cafe, Durham, 9:30, $5: D-Town Brass with The Travesties, The Loners, The Pneurotics and Love Language.
A benefit for Reese McHenry (of Dirty Little Heaters) and her pharmacist. I believe D-Town will go on at 9:30. Ought to be a bang up time.

Saturday, March 13, Pour House, Raleigh: Dex Romweber Duo with Killer Filler and Hank Sinatra
I’ll be joining Dex & Sara for a number or two.

And be shear and speak up to your midwest friends out in the heart of the heart of the country if you think they mought take in a pre-formance by Savage Knights next week:
March 18: Lynchburg, VA - The Good Cherry
March 19: Louisville, KY - Derby City Espresso
March 20: Muncie, IN - MoTini’s
March 21: Chicago, IL - The Hungry Brain

And if’n ye cain’t partake of neither of these here approaching thro’downs with Tatsuya Nakatani then there’s no fixin’ what ails you:

Tuesday, March 23, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 9:30: Nervous Creep with Tatsuya Nakatani and more.
A night of insanely brilliant solo percussion work from Tatsuya and off-hinged collaborations between he and Nervous Creep in a rickety doom-folk vein. Also some trio improvisations with Tatsuya, Crowmeat Bob and Christopher Thurston.

Wednesday, March 24, Marsh Woodwinds, Raleigh, 8:00: Microcephalic Superintendent with Tatsuya Nakatani.
Another solo set from Tatsuya (if you see the one at Nightlight on Tuesday and you’re a sentient being, you’ll likely want to see it again at Marsh on Wednesday) and a collaboration with Microcephalic Superintendent (a chamber improv group featuring Chris Eubank on cello, Craig Hilton on guzheng, Carrie Shull on oboe/english horn, Todd Hershberger on bassoon, possibly a couple more sure-as-shit string players.)

Dat’s ill she wrat.

-Robert
Surgeon In General
retroactivedynamics.com
“Bringing you yesterday…tomorrow.”

Happy Mealworm

No time like the present to show whose side you’re on. So bribe whatever officials you need to so’s you can get out to where you ought to be:

Wednesday, February 17, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 9:30: Crowmeat Bob and Chris Eubank with Jason Ajemian and Seven 15.
Jason Ajemian will be performing solo and then be joined by locals for a performance of his Who Cares How Long You Sink. Me and Chris Eubank will be improvising a duet of some variety. And I’m not sure what Seven 15 is about. I believe they’re improvisers.
More on Jason (from Electric Possible and Outmusiks):
Jason Ajemian–(b. 1976) has become one of the most in-demand bassists on the Downtown scene since his relocation from Chicago in 2006. His discography includes recordings as a leader for 482-Music (as Daydream Full Lifestyles with Rob Mazurek, Tony Malaby, Chad Taylor) and Delmark (with Nori Tanaka, Jason Adasiewicz, Tim Haldeman, Jamie Branch). Jason has also recorded and performed as a member of the Chicago Underground Trio (Delmark), the Expoding Star Orchestra with Bill Dixon (Thrill Jockey), Charles Rumback Quartet (CleanFeed), Hush Arbors (Ecstatic Peace), Triage (with Dave Rempis, Tim Daisy), Dragons 1976 (with Aram Shelton, Tim Daisy), and in duo with Matt Bauder (Locust). Current projects include Marc Ribot’s Sun Ship Quartet, Matt Bauder’s Day in Pictures, Daydream Full Lifestyles, various Chicago Underground configurations, and Jason Ajemian’s High Life.

Watch for New Romans at Broad St on Feb 27 and Tatsuya Nakatani with Nervous Creep and Microcephalic Superintendent in the Triangle on March 23 and 24.

Oh, by the way, I’ve put up some more stuff under the Psych Warfare Transmissions tab.

-Bob

We Will Dismember It For You Wholesale

Tesla looked at the sky and saw a wheel within a wheel, and the technocracy dusted him aside and proceeded with its designs.
Our inconstant memories inure us to these injustices, just as they shield us from our own past humiliations and protect us from knowledge of future atrocities.
So here’s a reminder of atrocities to come:

February 11, Museum of Life & Science, Durham, 7 pm, $18 members, $20 non-members: D Town Brass
http://www.ncmls.org/visit/events
Fundraiser for the museum. Wine tasting event. Big bad brass.

February 11, 112 Hanna St, Carrboro, 9:30: Microcephalic Superintendent with ID M THEFT ABLE and Kevin Eugene Clark.
Microcephalic Superintendent is Todd Hershberger - bassoon; Carrie Shull - oboe, english horn; Dan Ruccia - viola; Crowmeat Bob - reeds. We’ll be throwing down an improvised set.
ID M THEFT ABLE blew some minds with his extraordinary vocal technique a spell back at High Zero. Mine included. I’m sure he will do the same here.
Kevin Clark has some stuff on vimeo.

February 12, Volume 11, Raleigh, 9:00: Kolyma with Torpor and Zamine.
Whatever Will to Live that you have left, we will feed it, fatten it, and slaughter it.
Zamine is a brand new band. Torpor is pretty new.

Wednesday, February 17, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 9:30: Crowmeat Bob & Chris Eubank with Jason Ajemian and Seven 15.
Chicagoan Jason Ajemian (jasonajemian.com) will play solo bass and he and a bunch of locals will perform his long-form composition “Who Cares How Long You Sink.” http://www.sundmagi.com/bands/SINKS/index.html
Seven 15 is a new improv collective in Chapel Hill.
Me & Chris Eubank will improvise together.

Saturday, February 27, Broad St Cafe, Durham: Dexter Romweber & the New Romans with Trees Leave, Simeon and Bustello
There are links to the bands’ websites here:
http://www.thebroadstreetcafe.com/events.html

Watch for Tatsuya Nakatani’s return to the Triangle in March.

-Bob
retroactivedynamics.com
“Your Window to Your Window”

Persona

In recognition of Corporate Personhood Month (one hundred and twenty-four years since Santa Clara Co. vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Company), we’ll be assembling for various Company functions over the next few weeks. Too long have our personified pleas fallen on deaf legislators. The wedding of the Corporation and the State is now more legal than apple pie. The most legal union in the lower 48. And most of the rest of the world.

February 3, Pour House, Raleigh, 9 pm, $5: TechNoiz Wednesdays.
Bloodworth (feat. Mike Isenberg, Zeke Graves, Christopher Thurston & Crowmeat Bob) will be performing alongside of Cheezface, Yohimbe & MC Bingo Blower.
Shards of distilled and purified racket, mitigated by fearful souls.

February 11, Museum of Life & Science, Durham, 7 pm: D Town Brass
I can’t find anything on the InterTubes about this, so I couldn’t tell you what the price tag is for spectators, but I believe it’s a wine soiree fundraiser for the Museum sorta thing.

February 11, 112 Hanna St, Carrboro, 9:30: Microcephalic Superintendent with ID M THEFT ABLE and Kevin Eugene Clark.
Microcephalic Superintendent is Todd Hershberger - bassoon; Carrie Shull - oboe, english horn; Dan Ruccia - viola; Crowmeat Bob - reeds. We’ll be throwing down an improvised set.
ID M THEFT ABLE blew some minds with his extraordinary vocal technique a spell back at High Zero. Mine included. I’m sure he will do the same here.
Kevin Clark has some stuff on vimeo.

February 12, Volume 11, Raleigh, 9:00: Kolyma with Torpor and Zamine.
Kolyma has been busy and we’ve got a bunch of new stuff that’s never been played live. Whatever Will to Live that you have left, we will feed it, fatten it, and slaughter it.
Zamine is a brand new band. Torpor is pretty new.

–Crowmeat Bob
Beekeeper General
RetroactiveDynamics.com
Bringing you a better yesterday…today.

The Humanity

Get your fill of the milk of human blindness at these locations:

Wednesday, October 7, Mosaic Wine Lounge, Raleigh, 10 pm to midnight: Savage Knights
The big picture is the Mosaic music festival. Check it: http://www.mosaicfallmusicfest.com/home.html

Saturday, October 17, Cat’s Cradle, 9:30, $10: Savage Knights with Polvo and my Dad is Dead
I reckon we’ll be playing right at 9:30. Ought to be a heckuva show.
My Dad is Dead: http://www.mydadisdead.com/
And you know who Polvo is. They’ve got a bang up new record. http://www.myspace.com/polvotheband
Savage Knights: http://www.myspace.com/savageknights

Friday, Oct 23, Pinhook, Durham: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with the D-Town Brass
I’ll be doing double duty that night on nothin’ but horns, and you’ll get to hear the groovy number I wrote for the D-Town Brass.

Thanks for your attention.
-Bob
retroactivedynamics.com