LYDIA LUNCH "RETROVIRUS" CD/LP+MP3 and European tour
Interbang Records
presenta:
LYDIA LUNCH
RETROVIRUS
CD / ltd red LP+MP3
out on the 22nd of november 2013
A harrowing cross section of aural schizophrenia ranging from No Wave skronk to bludgeoning Hard Rock and sleazy Jazz Noir to propulsive Psychedelia
RETROVIRUS
LYDIA LUNCH - ALGIS KIZYS - BOB BERT - WEASEL WALTER
Distributor: Broken Silence
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European Tour:
20/11 Catania - Zo
21/11 Turin - Spazio 211
22/11 Brescia - Latteria Molloy
23/11 Bologna - Senza Filtro
24/11 Rome - Init
25/11 La Spezia - Btomic
28/11 Paris - La Java
29/11 Lyon - Kraspek Myzyk
30/11 Montpellier - Le Secret Place
01/12 Marseille - L'emnobineuse
03/12 Munich - Milla
04/12 Wien - Szene
05/12 Prag - Malostranska Beseda
06/12 Linz - Stadtwekstatt
08/12 Budapest - A38
09/12 Zagreb - Culture Factory
10/12 Ljublijana - Gala Hala
LYDIA LUNCH RETURNS WITH A BLISTERING LIVE DOCUMENT FROM HER RECENT TOUR WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST OF SONIC BRUTARIANS IN A NO-HOLDS-BARRED SURVEY OF HER MUSICAL OUTPUT FROM 1977 TO THE PRESENT.
In November 2012, Lydia Lunch toured select cities across North America with a monstrous unit dubbed RETROVIRUS, featuring guitarist Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers, etc.), bassist Algis Kizys (Swans, Foetus) and drummer Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Chrome Cranks). The set consisted of a quasi-chronological display of musical raw power, ranging from material by Lydia’s classic units Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, 13.13, 8-Eyed Spy and Shotgun Wedding as well as touching on her solo debut “Queen of Siam” (ZE Records, 1980) and various other projects up to the present. The reception to these hour-long sets of bloodyminded sonic bullying was uniformly rapturous. To quote V. Vale, of RE-Search infamy: “That was the most intense show I’ve seen you do, Lydia.” Intense it was, and the smoldering intensity of that tour is trapped on this ripping new release. As one will hear on this album, RETROVIRUS is a well-oiled monolith of a unit: Scathing guitar shrapnel strafing ominously massive bass slabs, hurled forward by pulverizing drum thunder and topped by Lydia’s signature perma-scowl vocals. This is no county fair cover-band - RETROVIRUS is a totally modern take on the atrocities of the past and present, devoid of simpering nostalgia, bristling with a scoriatingly modern sheen of violence and momentum. Now is the time for people to get INFECTED.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Red Alert
2. I Woke Up Dreaming
3. Mechanical Flattery
4. Love Split With Blood
5. Ran Away Dark
6. 3X3
7. Afraid of Your Company
8. Burning Skulls
9. No Excuse
10. Meltdown Oratorio
11. The Gospel Singer
12. What Is It
13. Black Juju
Lydia Lunch has spent decades trolling through the sub/terranean sick-home black & blues creating a schizophrenic musical legacy which loops from shrill No Wave to bludgeoning Hard Rock, from smoky Jazz Noir and illustrated word to macabre Psychedelia.
With RETROVIRUS, Ms. Lunch has assembled a gallery of veteran musical rogues to help plummet her extensive back catalog and showcase a harrowing cross-section of her multiple sonic approaches. The result promises to be an aurally diverse display of merciless live performances including material from Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, 8 Eyed Spy, 1313, Shotgun Wedding etc.
Algis Kizys is renowned as one of New York's most ferocious bass players having provided a thunderous savagery for Swans, Foetus, Glenn Branca, Alex Hacke, Pigface, Bag People, The Termites, Prowers, Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline, Daniele di Picciotto, The Hallicrafters and Of Cabbages and Kings. Mr. Kizys has also crafted songs and soundtracks for film and installation for Gus Van Sant, Eve Sussman, Simon Lee, Matthew Barney with Jonathan Bepler and numerous other luminairies.
Bob Bert has pounded the skins for Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Chrome Cranks, Knoxville Girls, fronted his own group Bewitched and has provided a unique rocking voodoo backbeat on over 30 albums. A stint in print making at Warhol's Factory helped inspire him to create the highly lauded music, art and literary magazine BB GUN.
Weasel Walter is best known as the founder of the cult punk jazz/no wave/brutal prog band, The Flying Luttenbachers. Mr. Walter has also worked with other experimental rock groups like XBXRX, Behold The Arctopus, Burmese and Lake Of Dracula. As an improviser, Mr. Walter has performed with Evan Parker, Marshall Allen, Elliott Sharp, Peter Evans, Henry Kaiser, Mary Halvorson, Nels Cline, Jim O'Rourke and Vinny Golia.
ATTENTION: Child Abuse's Tim Dahl will replace Bob Bert on this tour
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