Feed Me Weird Things Listening Series Presents
Crazy Doberman (featuring John Olson from Wolf Eyes)
w/ special guest: Thuh Chocolate Hog Boys
Vol.1, 2nd edition:
CRAZY DOBERMAN
Members of WOLF EYES, TV GHOST
w/ special guests: CHOCOLATE HOG BOYS
Sun, June 4th 6pm - 10pm
BBQ & Block Party! Backyards of the 200 North block of Gilbert.
Potluck, grilling, 30 racks, knuckleheads get bounced- you know what is.
$5 adv and day of, free with Seasonal Pass or Patronage of the Weird.
John Olson joined the seminal noise, trip-metal band Wolf Eyes in 2000 and has toured and/or worked with musicians such as Sonic Youth and Anthony Braxton.
Noise has been an experimental enterprise of countless musicians dating back to the late 1960s, so Wolf Eyes have instead opted for a route of consistently altering their music by varying gradations of weirdness. (They call it “trip-metal.” [Editor’s. Note: They now call it “pyscho jazz”]) So you have the aggression of metal, the haunting starkness of industrial, the cerebral contemplations of ambient music, the chaos of free jazz and the propulsions of German-born “krautrock.” And yet Wolf Eyes eludes definitive ties to any of those genres.
“John Olson Says Noise Music Is Over: "Completely, 100 Percent"”
“Over the years, we’ve invented our own language to map out our own sonic worlds. And we just keep drawing from that language—there’s a lot of freedom there.”
Bad chop ‘n slop from various media sources - Editor
Doberman is “this Indiana quartet who also had a single on American Tapes. You should not infer from this, however, that there's much harsh noise to be had here. At certain points the sonics and aura get ramped up pretty high but most of this reminds me of the kinds of things that early Throbbing Gristle and their ilk were up to, before industrial music grew beats and goiters. There's nice variation between the tracks, and most of the sounds are murkily psychedelic in the truest sense of the term. There are squeedles in the air, voices emerging from unexpected places, and a deep sense of disorientation. Quite trippy, albeit in a dark ass way.”
Byron Coley via The Wire
“John R. Olson (Wolf Eyes guy, Trip Metal pioneer, psycho jazz Michigan motherfucker) + Doberman (Trip Metal continuum, Industrial night-walkers, Indiana sun-dodgers) = Crazy Doberman (All that shit mixed up and spread out like ungh).”
Inzane Johnny
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FMWT is a listening series in Iowa City focusing on esoteric and rare musics meant to arouse deep listening & empathy from engaging with the odd & unknown.
Enjoy strange sounds under distant stars
BBQ & Block Party! Backyards of the 200 North block of Gilbert.
Potluck, grilling, 30 racks, bring a blanket to sit on. Any knuckleheads get bounced- you know what it is.
$5 (free w/ subscription or patronage)
7pm eat ‘n hang, 8pm start - 10pm finished
