mrw44 presents
STINKING LIZAVETA + IX + LORDS OF BASTARD + SPACIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Tuesday 10th January 2006 at Henry's Cellar Bar, 8 Morrison Street, EH3 8BJ
Doors 7.30pm, tickets £5 (stbf) in adv, £6 on the door, £4 for
mailing-list members.
After three album releases and 10 years of touring around the country
blitzing audiences with their famously dynamic live shows, Philadelphia
instrumental power trio Stinking Lizaveta (named after a Dostoevsky
character) has become an institution of sorts in the US underground music
scene. Their eclectic style of music incorporates post-rock, metal, sludge,
prog', stoner and doom with jazz stylings and eastern influences.
RockDetector's book, 'History of Stoner, Goth, and Doom', categorises their
music as 'doom-jazz', a label that the band have taken to citing when asked
to describe their music.
Stinking Lizaveta's numerous fans include Steve Albini, who recorded and
mixed their debut album, '.hopelessness and Shame', in his basement back in
1996. Their first three albums were released on the now-defunct Tolotta
label (Spirit Caravan, The Obsessed, Dead Meadow, Othrelm) run by Fugazi
bass player Joe Lally. An invitation from Steve Albini brought the band
their European debut performance at the UK All Tomorrow's Parties festival
in March 2004, where they played a storming set that created a sizeable
stampede to their merch table.
The trio comprises brothers Yanni and Alexi Papadopoulos on guitar and
electric upright bass and Cheshire Agusta on drums. Yanni elicits an
impressive range of sounds from his electric guitar, from heavy Sabbath-y
riffs to graceful winding melodies, with periodic departures into stoner
groove territory. He also provides the only 'vocals' on the album by
singing/screaming into the pickups of his guitar to create an eerie howling
noise. Alexi also gives his electric bass a versatile workout, using
fingers, bow and effects pedals to create an array of different sounds and
moods - from the heavy doom of 'Side Naked' to the light jazziness of
'Someone's Downstairs'. All of this is underpinned by the inventive drumming
of Cheshire Agusta, who combines 'pile-driven polyrhythms', dextrous cymbal
work and complex fills to keep things varied and exciting.
Press / photos:
http://www.monotremerecords.com/stin...inkingliz.html
mp3s:
http://www.monotremerecords.com/stinkingliz/caught.html
Band website:
http://www.stinkinglizaveta.com
