Dead/Bird, Tralphaz, Ettrick & Vadim Sprikut October 14, 2006

Ettrick
San Francisco's Ettrick is a self-destructive free jazz/black metal assault featuring two multi-instrumentalists rotating through every permutation of their drum and sax duo. Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber explore the extreme sounds that can be wrenched from their instruments through brute force – screaming through saxophones, throwing drums and other such impolite extended techniques. The doubled instrumentation provides a situation to explore playing contrasting and complimentary styles on like instruments.
“...a bludgeoning amalgam of black metal and skronk sure to summon the apocalypse... an excruciating free jazz that feels like being trapped in a metal shed during a thunderstorm.” -- San Francisco Bay Guardian
http://ettrick.org
http://myspace.com/ettrick

Tralphaz
Intense vocal/pedal noise from San Francisco.
http://tralphaz.com/

Dead/Bird
Brutal noise from Portland.
http://www.deadbird.seizurepalace.com/

Vadim Sprikut
Vadim Sprikut, based in Chicago, has been active in sound art since the late 1990's, composing and performing with electronic and free improvisors. He uses field recordings complemented by computers to explore generative improvisation.

Official Website: http://ettrick.org