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from pitchfork...

There seems to be loads of excitement brewing over this weekend's 77-drum circle put on by the Boredoms at Brooklyn Bridge Park (going down 07/07/07, naturally). Is it the numeric synergy? A show of support for Japan's premier noise-rockers? Either way, expect the opposite of boredom at what's being billed as 77BOADRUM.

Sure, Boredoms could've chosen any djembe-dragging Joe off the street to fill in their 74 vacant spots (we presume the other three-- and the mysterious "0" spot-- are going to Boredoms members). But no; they had to get members and friends of Modest Mouse, Lightning Bolt, Man Man, Gang Gang Dance, Soft Circle, Oneida, Excepter, Aa, Blood on the Wall, Pit Er Pat, Unwound, Enon, Arbouretum, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sightings, White Magic, No Neck Blues Band, Panthers, Celebration, Negative Approach, Tall Firs, and others, turning this into a veritable Traveling Wilburys of avant-garde percussion.

Something tells me, despite the 76 other maniacs pounding around him, Andrew W.K. will come through loud and clear. From note one. Something also tells me an enterprising production company could turn this into one of the cooler live albums/DVDs we'll see in a while.

In other Boredoms news, they've got quite a few regular tour dates after the drum thing. Scope those and the complete enumerated list of drummers below.

Drum leaders:

01 Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle / Pixeltan)
02 Tim Dewit (Gang Gang Dance)
03 Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)
04 Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band / Under Satans Sun)
05 Jaiko Suzuki (Electro Putas)
06 Jesse Lee (White Magic)
07 Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs / Stars Like Fleas)
08 Kid Millions (Oneida)
09 Andy McLeod (Howling Hex / Modest Mouse)
10 Aaron Moore
11 Robin Easton

Other drummers:

12 Sara Lund (Unwound)
13 Jim Black
14 Andrew W.K.
15 Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat)
16 Miggie (Blood on the Wall)
17 Brian Tamborello (Psychic Ills)
18 Andee Connors (A Minor Forest / Lumen)
19 John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
20 Taylor Richardson (Sunburned Hand of the Man)
21 Chris Millstein
22 Abby Portner (First Nation)
23 Aviram Cohen (Soiled Mattress and the Springs)
24 Allison Busch (Awesome Color)
25 Warren Huegel (Tussle)
26 Nathan Corbin (Excepter)
27 Clare Amory
28 Jonathan Lockie (Sightings)
29 Josh Bonati (Aa)
30 Nadav Havusha (Aa)
31 Aron Wahl (Aa)
32 Jeffrey Salane (Panthers)
33 Jim Sykes
34 David Aron (Koi Pond)
35 Michael Catano
36 Spencer Herbst (Matta Lama)
37 Jim Siegel (Cul De Sac and Damo Suzuki)
38 Mike Pride (MDC, FUSHITSUSHA, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide)
39 Nick DeCarmine
40 Marianne Kozlowski (The Punks)
41 Than Luu (M. Ward)
42 Dave Bergander (Celebration)
43 Michael Evans (God Is My Co-Pilot)
44 Andrya Ambro
45 Justin DeRosa
46 Hart Mingus (Negative Approach)
47 Matthias Schulz (Enon / Holy Fuck)
48 Josh Madell (Antietam, Other Music)
49 Matt (No Neck Blues Band)
50 Jim Abramson (Dymaxion)
51 Oran Canfield (Child Abuse)
52 Adriana Magaña (Crash Worship)
53 Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band)
54 Travis Harrison
55 Jared Barron
56 Jason Kourkounis (Delta 72 / Hot Snakes)
57 Eric Cohen (Caroliner)
58 Daniel Franz (Arbouretum)
59 Christopher Brokaw (Codeine)
60 Jared Burak (Wet Cement)
61 Christopher Powell (Icy Demons / Man Man)
62 Sadie Laska (I.U.D.)
63 Pete Vogl (Koi Pond)
64 Barbara Schauwecker
65 AJ Edminson (Favourite Sons)
66 David Grubbs
67 John McSwain (VICE)
68 Dave Abramson (Climax Golden Twins)
69 Alan Licht
70 Rick Prior
71 Kayrock
72 Dave LeBleu (Prefuse 73 / Mercury Program)
73 Lizzy Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance)
74 Alianna Kalaba (We Ragazzi)

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77BOADRUM footage incoming...

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a link to an amateur recording of the performance of 77boadrum

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surprisingly good quality

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Originally Posted by qzdiablo

a link to an amateur recording of the performance of 77boadrum

Send big files the easy way with sendspace. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!

surprisingly good quality

sounds better on headphones

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A timely tribute in Brooklyn | Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music

A timely tribute in Brooklyn


Andrew Purcell
Friday July 13, 2007
The Guardian


It was seven o'clock, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year, and the announcer sounded rattled: "Drummers 47 and 48, where are you? Drummers, we need you to get out of the queue for the pissers. Now."
Live Earth was not the only show in New York last Saturday. The Japanese experimental rock band Boredoms threw a party in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, a party featuring a performance by a who's who of the US rock underground - but only their drummers. There were no sermons, no tickets and no need to worry about the carbon footprint of the 77 drum kits arranged in a spiral. "The 77 drum group is one giant instrument, one living creature," declared the band's leader, Yamataka Eye. "The 77 boa-drum will coil like a snake and transform to become a great dragon."

On a perfect summer evening, it seemed like all of lower Manhattan wanted in. Around 4,000 people filled Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park and hundreds more crowded the bridge or perched on the banks of the East River. Boredoms have had a profound influence on the American art-punk underground, and working with Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys and Nirvana has lent them an unlikely crossover appeal, but no one expected this: a frustrated queue of skinny jeans, tank tops and tattoos stretching half a mile down the waterfront.
Hisham Bharoocha was the event's musical director. "It always amazes me that Boredoms have such a big following, as an incredibly avant-garde band," he said, "but the new music that they're doing is a lot more friendly to the ear."

When he posted on a message board, asking for volunteers, more than 3,000 drummers replied. "Some people were so intensely excited that I just had to let them do it. It wasn't about who you know or which bands you've played in or how amazing you are at technical stuff. It was all about having the same relationship with ideas that the Boredoms have, and about being able to take part in a big project without having an ego."

John Moloney, of the freak-folk band Sunburned Hand of the Man, was one of 15 drum leaders charged with keeping his section in time and alert to rhythm changes. He said: "I'm a huge Boredoms fan, so I told them 'I will drink rat blood to do this thing,' and in a very gracious gesture on their part, they put me in." Moloney had been drinking free Sapporo all afternoon.

The performance began with a swarm of cymbals, like livid bees flying closer and closer, as drummers joined in one by one around the spiral. When the toms thumped, Eye began to howl, approaching the microphone from below with his head tilted back, like a dog. He summoned the whine of a cargo plane from his synthesiser and struck seven guitar necks tuned to different chords. Facing him on the riser, Yoshimi P-We, his long-term partner in noise (and the inspiration for the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots), was uncharacteristically silent, smiling as she pounded out the beat.

A few minutes into the collective trance, Eye raised a silver trident in the air and the drummers attacked their kits like heavy-metal soloists. The D train rolled silently past over Manhattan bridge, its familiar rumble drowned out by the hammering snares. A committed group of ravers by the water's edge bounced up and down, hands in the air, urged on by a woman on stilts wearing a gold jumpsuit. The five-year-old Japanese girl to my right grimaced and pulled on her Hello Kitty earmuffs.

The battery lasted almost two hours, and towards the end, many people drifted away to continue their Saturday night elsewhere. The sun dipped behind the downtown skyline, and a few wispy pink clouds reflected what little light was left. It felt like a fitting celebration of the Japanese festival of Tanabata, when two stars align across the Milky Way. "When this is over, please hug a drummer," came the announcement, and finally, the dragon slept.

The mp3 of 77boardrums is amazing, even though it was an ameteur recording, it's pretty much as good as a professional take. Makes me all the more jelous for anyone who actualy attended the event.

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MICHAEL GIRA

Also on this superb double bill is Michael Gira - owner of Young God Records which spawned Devendra Banhart amongst many other luminaries. Michael also founded the influential Swans. Now armed with a sombre voice and an acoustic guitar, he makes bare and direct folk-tinged, song-based but still crucial music.

Recently performed an “utterly thrilling acoustic set” (The Independent) at Indian Summer. Not to be missed. Seriously…

http://www.younggodrecords.com
http://www.swans.pair.com

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anyone got anything to say about this gig?

BBUUMMPP

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its going to be magnificent, majestic & magical