Hi everyone. This show is coming up next week and I hope that many of
you will be interested in coming. Present deserves a large crowd out
for this so if you think you can make it, you'll be in for a treat...
Tickets WILL be available at the door (Unless it sells out) but you can
reserve seats now to ensure space.
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A Mid Summer Night's Madness
Belgium's dark chamber rock band Present to headline intimate
Philly-area performance on July 7. Local avant rock group The Red
Masque to open.
In a rare area performance, legendary Belgian ensemble Present, led by
the influential guitarist/composer Roger Trigaux, will headline at the
Mid Summer Night's Madness concert on July 7th at historic Allens Lane
Art Center in Philadelphia. The Red Masque, an up-and-coming avant rock
group generating critical acclaim for their newest album, will start
the show at 8 PM (Doors open at 7:30 PM). Tickets will be $20 dollars
and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Seating is limited to
100 persons in the theater. All ages are welcome to attend. The Allens
Lane Art Center, located in a former carriage house, is situated in the
quaint Mt Airy section of Philadelphia (Allens Lane & McCallum St,
Philadelphia, PA 19119; 215.248.0546). Please email
theredmasque@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for show information.
While Present will be performing at the acclaimed North East Art Rock
Festival in Bethlehem on July 9th (see http://www.nearfest.com),
they
are stopping in Philadelphia for an intense and intimate evening of
dark and avant garde music. Commemorating their 25th anniversary as a
band, Present will be on tour in Europe and USA from early June until
mid July and later with an extended line-up. BACKGROUND Magazine called
Present's music "a blend between KING CRIMSON and UNIVERS ZERO.
Conclusion: splendid horror with incredible depth and power! Highly
recommended" !
PRESENT Line-up 2005
Roger TRIGAUX: compositions, guitar, keyboard, vocals, musical
direction (PRESENT, UNIVERS ZERO co-founder) (Belgium)
R=E9ginald TRIGAUX: guitars, vocal (Belgium)
Dave KERMAN: drums (U TOTEM, 5 UU's, BLAST, THINKING PLAGUE etc) (USA)
Pierre CHEVALIER: piano & keyboards (Belgium)
Keith MACKSOUD: bass (USA)
Pierre DESASSIS : saxophones (France)
Matthieu SAFATLY: cello (France)
Udi KOOMRAN: sound (Israel)
For more information on Present, please visit http://www.totalzoo.com.
The Red Masque, formed in 2001, have an EP, a single, and two
full-length albums to their credit. Their latest release, Feathers for
Flesh (2004 Big Balloon Music), is being lauded internationally as a
dark and theatrical masterpiece by critics (see full list of reviews at
http://www.theredmasque.com/fffreview.html),
and their performances as
"incendiary". Though the band is currently working on new material for
a forthcoming album, they will be performing at select concerts this
summer and fall, including Georgia's Rogue Independent Music Festival
(http://www.roguemusicfest.com)
on June 18-19th. According to the
Philadelphia City Paper's A.D. Amarosi, "In the Nu-progressive rock
underground, few bands are as respected and feared as Philadelphia's
The Red Masque. Without irony or kitsch, the whirlwind that is Masque -
on the new Feathers for Flesh (Big Balloon) -- stalks the darkness of
Hammer Horror ambience and cursedly complex musician****p (think Gong
meets Bauhaus) with only feedbacking noise, sound-collage clustering
and the howl of vocalist Lynnette Shelley to light its way." (See
www.bigballoonmusic.com for album info).
The Red Masque is:
Kiarash Emami: electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, keyboards;
Brandon Ross: bass guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards;
Lynnette Shelley: vocals, lyrics, sound effects & percussion;
Vonorn: drums & percussion, flutes, Celtic harp, keyboards, guitar,
bass, theremin
For more information on The Red Masque, please visit
http://www.theredmasque.com.
Allens Lane Art Center has plenty of free parking and is located next
to tennis and basketball courts and park space; as well as the unique
dining and quaint boutique shopping in nearby historic Mt Airy and
Chestnut Hill.
For more information on Allens Lane Art Center, please visit
http://www.allenslane.org
PS look for an upcoming interview with The Red Masque in the next issue
of Progression Magazine (end of summer? 2005). An interview will also
be in Philadelphia's Metro Newspaper on JULY 7. And there just might be
an interview in Expose Magazine sometime this year as well :)
The Red Masque // www.theredmasque.com // theredmasque@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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