Animal Train Happening #4: The Zodiac September 28, 2007

w/Ghost Exits, Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance), Micki Pellerano, The Marmaladies (Golden Triangle), Bruno, Mighty Robot AV Crew, Live With Animals Artists, Ivan Sunshine (Vietnam), Eric Z (Secret Project Robot), and DJ Jonathan Toubin (New York Night Train) - Glasslands, 10pm, 21+, $6

"Are you that zodiac freak i've been lookin' for?”
- Tyrese, “Signs of Love Makin'”



Aries... Taurus... Gemini... Cancer... Leo... Virgo... Libra... Scorpio... Saggitarius... Capricorn... Pisces…

The theme of this month’s Animal Train Happening, the Zodiac, or, entomologically, “circle of animals,” indicates that we expect all the symbolic creatures, stars, and planets to proudly and harmonically represent at the Glasslands Friday September 28. While the Social Registry's recently-reformed and legendary Ghost Exits detonate their trademark cosmic post-postmodern no-wave booty blast, guest DJ Brian DeGraw, of Gang Gang Dance, Sway, cinema, and general international art stardom, pulls a spiral of the celestial to our raw(war) terrestrial sphere, beheading genre constraints with his eclectically ecliptic mix. Cult occult filmmaker/performance artist Micki Pellerano screens a short film, go go dancers the Marmaladies (Golden Triangle front-women Vashti and Carli) gyrate cycles of other-worldy get-down, the mysterious Bruno sees what’s in your cards (Tarot, that is), Mighty Robot AV Crew coats the walls with their breathtaking layers of planetary projections, the fine artistes of Live With Animals generate the physical environment, and Ivan Sunshine of Vietnam’s glowing swarms of disco light orbit the room. House DJs Eric Z of Secret Project Robot and Jonathan Toubin of New York Night Train conjure a holy mountain of horoscopic hits by everyone from Blowfly to Harvey Sid Fisher to Danny Pearson, who, in morphing an eternal question into an iconic 1978 soul ballad “What’s Your Sign Girl?” asks:

Is it compatible with mine?

The only way to find out is if you show up (early, that is, doors are at 10pm and Ghost Exits play at 11pm sharp!)

A partnership between New York Night Train zine/label and Live With Animals art gallery at Glasslands, Animal Train is DJs, performance, projections, and dance in an entirely informally formalist environment designed, constructed, and lit entirely by local artists. Our event is a deliberate bras d’ honneur in the face of the mediocre, unimaginative, and economically exclusionary day-to-day mechanics of 21st Century New York art, music, and nightlife in general....

Animal Train - http://myspace.com/226828953
Ghost Exits - http://www.myspace.com/GhostExits
Brian DeGrawhttp://www.jamesfuentes.com/artists_pages/artists_degraw_frameset.html
Gang Gang Dance - http://www.ganggangdance.com/
The Social Registry - http://www.thesocialregistry.com
Micki Pellerano - http://www.myspace.com/3302677
Marmaladies (Golden Triangle) - http://www.myspace.com/goldentriangle
Mighty Robot AV Crew - http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/
Live With Animals - http://livewithanimals.com
New York Night Train - http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/
Glasslands Gallery - http://www.brookebaxter.com/glasslandsgallery/

hear Ghost Exits cover Pop Group's "She's Beyond Good and Evil"

Official Website: http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/2007/09/24/animal-train-happening-4-the-zodiac/