Roulette Presents: G. Lucas Crane: Nonhorse Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp December 5, 2011

Roulette Presents:

G. Lucas Crane: Nonhorse

Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp

December 5, 8pm

What: G. Lucas Crane: Nonhorse, Chris Forsyth, Koen Holtkamp
When: Monday, December 5, 8pm
Where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR
Cost: $15/10 members/students/seniors
Info: www.roulette.org / 917.267.0368

Brooklyn, NY: Roulette presents an evening of experimental, environmental, psychedelic sound and video from artists at the forefront of the U.S underground scene. G. Lucas Crane: Nonhorse will present new releases of the NOVA CRIMES tale and Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp will perform together for the first time in New York, showcasing elements of their soon to be released LP “Early Astral”. Both performances promise to be arresting, sensory events demanding the audiences attention and providing harsh but fascinating social commentary through analog, digital and visual components.

G. Lucas Crane, one of the members of controversial performance space Silent Barn, is a Brooklyn based sound artist and performer. working within the mediums of the manipulated analogue cassette, live collage, noise, environment/life recording and pure frenzy. Many years recording and playing his sonic diary, put to tape and hacked to pieces live, have yielded collaborations such as the psychedelic rock band Woods, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice and Time Life, theater work at Ps122, Here Theater and Ontological-Hysteric, and sweaty basement conflagrations around the world with his solo project, Nonhorse.

Chris Forsyth and Koen Holtkamp will perform the expansive material from "Early Astral. premier release their first LP "Early Astral," in this premier New York performance. Guitarist Chris Forsyth's hypnotic compositions assimilate minimalism and psychedelia with art rock, folk, and blues influences. He has toured throughout Europe and the US with such like-minded artists as Träd Gräs och Stenar, Steve Gunn, Tetuzi Akiyama, and Ignatz, and as a member of gothic junk folk expressionists Peeesseye, the group he founded in 2002 with Jaime Fennelly andFritz Welch. He also plays in the elusive experimental project Phantom Limb & Bison and has collaborated with Meg Baird, Nate Wooley, Shawn Edward Hansen, and choreographers Miguel Gutierrez and RoseAnne Spradlin, among others. Koen Holtkamp has released two solo albums as Aero and two albums as Mountains, a duo project with Brendon Anderegg. He has toured throughout the US and Europe performing everywhere from festivals, art galleries, and museums to basements, hippie communes, churches, and rock clubs. Holtkamp has performed with Fennesz, Tony Conrad, Greg Davis, Minamo, Tape, Nicholas Collins, Carsten Nicolai, Lichens, Supersilent, Alog,

About Roulette
Roulette – one of New York City’s premiere venues for experimental music for over 33 years - has reopened bigger and better than ever. Located in a newly renovated 1920s Art Deco concert hall in Downtown Brooklyn, the new Roulette features two levels of seating for up to 400 people (600 standing), an expanded multi-channel sound system, projection screen for film and multi-media events, state-of-the-art lighting system, modular stage, and a specially designed floor to accommodate dance. Teamed with bold new programming, the new Roulette promises to be one of the most exciting places in New York City - if not the country - to experience adventurous music and art.

Official Website: http://www.roulette.org