If you don’t live in New York or Los Angeles, chances of seeing your favorite underground artists playing a show are pretty slim outside of a hometown setting, e.g. Kevin Drumm playing in Chicago. Chances of seeing Prurient, Demdike Stare, or Lussuria playing in Denver? Pretty much none; I don’t even know why I bother to think about it.
Chances of seeing them play in Vittorio Veneto, Italy, however? One hundred percent guaranteed. Add that city to the list of exclusive areas where the demigods of subterranean music set foot on Earth to rattle bones and burst eardrums. They will alight at Coda Lunga for Three Days of Struggle 6, curated by noise artist Nico Vascellari and Dominick Fernow of Prurient/Hospital Productions/Vatican Shadow fame. The lineup is demented. On May 10, Mike Connelly (of Hair Police and Wolf Eyes) performs under his solo alias Failing Lights alongside the mysterious and fascinating ambient-weirdness unit Lussuria. May 11 ups the ante with William Bennett’s “afro-noise” handle Cut Hands orbiting the premiere of Tara and Mike Connelly’s new group Clay Rendering.
If one struggles through those two days (really, it going to be delightful), the reward on May 12 is great indeed: rumbling industrial gods Demdike Stare and drone bodhisattva Kevin Drumm. If your hearing was intact up to that point, perhaps a simple ceremony before Mr. Drumm’s set is in order. Oh yes and the man himself, Dominick Fernow, will be providing a no-doubt pummeling DJ set every night (though mysteriously not under his DJ Jonbenet alias).
So there you have it; one of the more ridiculous noise/ambient/drone/what-have-you festivals so far this year. You can grip a three-day pass on Nico Vascellari’s Coda Lunga site, but there are only 100 passes in total so get over there fast. Which brings me to the crux of this piece: who wants to fly me to Italy?
Friday, May 10:
Failing Lights
Lussuria
Saturday, May 11:
Cut Hands
Clay Rendering
Sunday, May 12:
Demdike Stare
Kevin Drumm
• Hospital Productions: http://hospitalproductions.net
• Coda Lunga: http://www.codalunga.org
More about: Clay Rendering, Cut Hands, Demdike Stare, Failing Lights, Kevin Drumm, Lussuria, Prurient
