8/29/09: HOUSE SHOW

Ronoso: kicked off the night with a super tight and heavy set. The room did two things for them; it made them sound awesome, (no room for little things to be missed)and it made it super smelly. all of the senses were in action. Whispers of H1N1 spread as the bassist collapsed during the set.


Black Guys:

Blistering drone,


six amp melt down.



Playing Noise catch,



in the dark.


Pinkeye: A four piece band that has just started playing around ABQ. They had sort of an "Indie" sound with a groove, loud, soft, loud kinda thing. They had vocals but no PA, which means I have to see them again.

"Night Riffing"

Yellow Crystal Star / Black Guys - split c40 cassette "Rainbow Murder Michael Jackson " b/w "Minstrel Cycle" (Sssk#46, co-released with Hype Machine)

SIDE//YELLOW
Jumpy start, until smoke fills the room. Bundles of sound ribbons decorated with hazy guitar echoing, superimposed mumblings drape the beginning of side Yellow . I turn the volume knob up. Vocal chants push my head further back into a pillow of vibrations. A search for light has begun, you question…did something surface? Or was it the glow of guitar pedals, and incense burning that was fucking with your head.
Sounds of a nomad at rest… only for a moment. Yellow Crystal Star gently filters his reality on to tape; a mash up sounds that make up a dream//road montage, different locations that feel the same, an endless search for something special. Maybe even spiritual. Includes all the places you wanted to visit, and even the ones you didn't. Let your ears see Yellow Crystal Star’s journey

SIDE//BLACK
DAMN, on and on they don’t stop. I think this is the only group in ABQ that is putting out a split tape, right after a retrospective album, right before a split vinly. All a page torn from a book, but a fucked up one that has pages from another fucked up book glued in it.
“Minstrel Cycle” is one of their finest releases, displaying their creative and compositional minds. There is definite interaction going on in this recording, which was recorded live at the Agency. Live,the show was brutally loud and abrasive; muthafucka’s with vibrator basses , shirtless drumstick guitaring, mouth-tube glitching chaos, which made for an excellent show. On tape however, I hear more textures of sound and more dynamics from the two. I finally HEARD it. You should defiantly too.

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