| ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE + ODD CLOUDS this Friday!! |
[30 Apr 2007|12:34am] |
This Friday!!!!
May 4th 2007
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
MAMMATUS
ODD CLOUDS
@ the Magic Stick
Detroit, MI
8pm Sharp!!!!!!
and SLITHER is going on tour out east. SLITHER is Chris Pottinger & Heath Moehrland//saxaphone & clarinet + electronics...starting MAY 5th...we need some help with some shows!! If you can help please write to: chris@tastysoil.com, here are the dates we have booked + the ones we need.
5-05 = Cleveland, OH (CONFIRMED) -- Slither, Evenings, Emeralds +??
5-06 = Rochester, NY (not confirmed) -- NEED HELP --anywhere near Roch. NY!
5-07 = NYC, NY (CONFIRMED) -- Slither, Evenings, Nonhorse + ??
@ The Silent Barn (915 wyckoff ave in ridgewood queens)
5-08 = Amherst, MA (CONFIRMED) -- Northampton Wools, Flaherty+Noise Nomads Duo, Slither, Evenings @ Hampshire Univ. in the dining commons (893 west st amherst, ma 01002) 8pm. FREE
5-09 = Providence, RI (CONFIRMED) -- Tussle, Kites, Slither + Evenings collab, Shawn Greenlee @ The AS220
5-10 = Boston, MA (or anywhere nearby) (not confirmed) -- ??
5-11 = CT ? NEED HELP (or anywhere nearby)
5-12 = Philly, PA (not confirmed) -- w/ Newton --just waiting for confirmation
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[10 Feb 2007|11:30am] |
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This Saturday February 10th 2007
The FRUSTRATIONS
THTX
COTTON MUSEUM
@ The MAGIC STICK
10:30pm (Late show) $5.00 18+
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[07 Nov 2006|07:09pm] |
didn't leave my house for 2 weeks working on this!! it's 16" by 16"--watercolor & ink.
It's for a show in Hamburg, Germany
( CLICK HERE FOR LOTS OF DETAIL IMAGES )
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| TASTY SOIL UPDATE!! 3 new releases |
[17 Oct 2006|11:32pm] |
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TASTY SOIL UPDATE!!!
OCTOBER 18 2006
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( HTTP://WWW.TASTYSOIL.COM )
Three new releases in the Tasty Soil Store!
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SLITHER - SELF TITLED CD
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Totally sickening freeform horn disease mixed with occasional tape loops. Imagine being locked away in a cave, eating roots to stay alive, drinking water through the earth, worms, slugs and moles watching you waste away till you loose your mind
Slither is a Saxaphone and Clairanet duo featuring Heath Moerland & Chris Pottinger. This album was recorded live on an east coast tour and consists of six different performances recorded in basements, clubs and living rooms. The audio on this cd was mastered by Warn Defever, Artwork and packaging design by Chris Pottinger.
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COTTON MUSEUM - CREATURE CD & ART SET
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This is the first in a series of "CREATURE" releases on Tasty Soil featuring super deluxe creature packaging all drawn, hand cut and assembled by Chris Pottinger! Volume 1 is from Cotton Museum, with one long track recorded last year with the sounds of this rancid, bulging eyed beast.
Bursting pustules, infected sores, and veins snaking around his tumorous skull are some of the things you'll hear while listining to this cd.
This beast is reproduced in full color with 10mil thick lamination, custom designed color cardstock foldover with the cd housed on the back of the creature--impossible to file away, you might as well hang it on your wall! Strictly 100 hand numbered copies of each creature release in existance, due to the very labor intensive process the packaging takes to create.
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TASTY SOIL "BEAST" T-SHIRT
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A brand new Tasty Soil t-shirt design limited to 57 shirts. This traveler can be found walking through the swamps and forests searching for succulent grubs to gorge himself on.
All shirts are pro-silkscreened with chocolate color ink on a light brown t-shirt. The detail on these shirts came out great!
( HTTP://WWW.TASTYSOIL.COM ) for lots of pictures of all the releases
Also, if you live near Ann Arbor, MI tomorrow night, come out to this show........
HIS NAME IS ALIVE
COTTON MUSEUM
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 9pm
Gallery Project
215 South Fourth Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 997-7012
Admission $5
www.thegalleryproject.com
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| THIS THURSDAY-- His Name Is Alive + Cotton Museum |
[16 Oct 2006|06:26pm] |
His Name is Alive
Cotton Museum
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 9pm
Gallery Project
215 South Fourth Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 997-7012
Admission $5
www.thegalleryproject.com
The fifth in a series of concerts that feature touring musicians and the best of Michigan's experimental music scene at Gallery Project, Ann Arbor's most innovative independent art space. This month: two artists based in Michigan, but known the world around. Livonia's His Name is Alive stretches songs into sounds. Detroit's Cotton Museum makes psychedelic clouds of noise.
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| Oink |
[15 Aug 2006|06:36pm] |
hey can anyone hook me up with an invite to http://oink.me.uk ?
e-mail me at: cpottinger@comcast.net if you can!
p.s. i have internet access in my new house finally!
THANKSSSSS
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| Updates and Stuff |
[24 Jul 2006|12:22am] |
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It's been ages since i've updated anything here or on tasty soil, and thats because i've moved to a new house out in Hamtramck, MI with my friend Jamie. We don't have the internet so it makes it hard to do any web stuff, which has led me to be a WAAYYY more productive person. I also decided not to bring a TV out, so my entertainment around the house is drawing, recording music or working on getting new releases ready for Tasty Soil.
Here is a photo of my art studio:
not pictured in this photo, but on the opposite side of the room i have another table set up for button making, and paper cutting/folding for the record label.
I got my room set up pretty nice too:
Some projects i've been working on are putting together a live SLITHER cd (recorded on the Cotton Museum/Sick Lllama tour ) which is Heath and I on Clarinet & Saxophone with tape loops. I'm in the process of putting together the new COTTON MUSEUM cd that has been in the works for a while, and it's turning out looking better then I had hoped. There is going to be a new TASTY SOIL t-shirt design with a front and back print (1 color) and if I can get it all wrapped up soon there will also be a NORTHAMPTON WOOLS cdr which is Bill Nace (vampire belt) and Thurston Moore collabo on dual guitars. Bill and I are going to do an art collaboration through the mail for that one.
Oh also, my friend Alice started a monthly 1" button club that I have some designs in, last months theme was owls, so I used that owl I drew a long time ago, but this next month the theme is octopus's--jamie and I have designs in it--here is mine:
There is going to be a group art show at the BUDDHA BAR on 8mile AUGUST 11th, and the theme is MONSTER ATTACKS or something, which i'm going to have some new stuff in--(if I can make it in time---gotta start soon)
OH--one more thing, someone told me they red a review of the THURSTON/COTTON split 12" in wire, or it was mentioned or something, but he couldn't remember what issue. If anyone happened to read it, or has it, could you let me know which issue? I wanna post it on Tasty Soil. THANKS!!
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| WED. |
[16 Jul 2006|09:32pm] |
PRAIRIE PUSHER [max from the legendary noise band nautical almanac's new thing]
DOOR [king of castle puppy. usa gold exchange a+]
SLITHER [horns and stuff, odd clouds dudes]
IDOLATRIES
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19TH.
location:
1212 wyandotte ave
royal oak mi
veggie potluck at 5pm, 1st band at 7pm!!!
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| 2 shows need help booking!!!! |
[07 Jul 2006|01:42pm] |
July 19th - PRAIRY PUSHER (max from Nautical Almanac) w/ DOOR (awesome NJ weirdo) they need a show booked ANYWHERE
July 31st - RED WIZARD - stoner doom rock, really really good
If you dudes can help it'll rule--i dont have regular internet access right now, so it's making it really hard to book the gigs for them.
PLEASE HELP!! thanks!
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| ODD CLOUDS this FRIDAY |
[28 Jun 2006|01:54pm] |
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"June 30th Fri.
Fontana (singer/guitarist from Frustrations plays drums)
Static Static (solo electronics and rock from New Orleans)
Hazmat (aka Max Cloud)
Odd Clouds (noise and horns)
Tyvek (wiery punk noise)
Totally Bad Ass (heavy rock a la Motorhead)
at C.A.I.D. (formerly Detroit Contemporary)
5141 Rosa Parks
Detroit, MI
just N. of Warren
in Detroit's Woodbridge neighborhood"
we go on around 11ish, and we'll have copies of the Odd Clouds LP on Ypsilanti records. YEAH! looking forward to hang out with everyone.
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| HAMTRAMCK |
[21 Jun 2006|01:43pm] |
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YEAH! today i am moving into a 2nd story house with my friend in hamtramck. We're going to have 2 studio spaces, an attic to play/record music and a balcony. TOTALLY EXCITED to have room to work on projects again. I forgot how much packing & moving sucks though...
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| ODD CLOUDS "THE CAVERNOUS END" LP |
[10 Jun 2006|11:02pm] |
ODD CLOUDS "THE CAVERNOUS END" LP on YPSILANTI RECORDS
"Odd Clouds is a roving collective of Detroit's most touched savages led by the restless vision of bandleaders Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum/Tasty Soil Records) and Jamie Easter (formerly of the Pirhannas and Little Claw, now touring solo as a perfomance artist of the most disturbing caliber.) After about a year of existance, we're glad to unleash "The Cavernous End" as the first full-fledged album by this tribe, a face-melting record composed of three extended feral-psyche jams. The group is prone to impropmtu and somewhat confrontational public performance, lysergic deep-woods jamming and the like, and their bone-through-the-nose approach to music comes through strong on wax. Gutteral grunting, animalistic howls, blathering bursts of woodwinds and electronic noise bubble up to the surface of primal percussion and sounds of creatures dying and being born. Sounding like a feild recording of a late-60's cult farmhouse celebration or a private-press psyche record of the same era, "The Cavernous End" is moody, scary and beautiful, and hints at the depths of future weirdness the Clouds will send our way. Only 300 copies were made, and the packaging is a beautifully silk-screened line art collaboration between Easter and Pottinger of some fucked up creatures doing their thing in the woods. " --FRED THOMAS
I have copies for sale in the TASTY SOIL STORE under "Distributed Items", or just click the link here: ( http://www.tastysoil.com/store/store2.html#odd_clouds )
ODD CLOUDS will be playing the HOLY SHIT!! FEST on June 30th at the CAID Building in Detroit with other local greats like Mammal and Tentacle Lizardo. It might be our last show with Glen, because he's moving to Texas. We hope it's not...but it might be...
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| Anyone want to help book a show for some rad bands? |
[31 May 2006|12:59pm] |
Need help booking a couple shows for some out of town friends:
Diagram/A needs a show on June 18th or 19th (total killer solo electronics from Northampton[??])
Red Wizard needs a show in detroit or a2 on July 31st (2 girls/1 guy stoner jams--really good!)
Let me know if you can help! both bands rule
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[15 May 2006|01:54pm] |
Some of my favorite LP's i've been listening to lately... what have you been listening to??
Bent Wind "Sussex"
Morly Grey "the only truth"
Dark "Round the Edges"
Growing "Color Wheel"
Jean-Claude Vannier " L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches"
Tyrannosaurus Rex "Prophets, Seers, Sages.."
Lula Côrtes E ZÉ Ramalho "Paêbirú"
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[02 May 2006|11:27pm] |
R.I.P.
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| ODD CLOUDS TONIGHT |
[29 Apr 2006|03:03pm] |
Odd Clouds
Black Squirrell (ex-terror at the opera)
Lord of the Yum Yum (chicago)
+ more
@ The Corn Dog
607 n. river street
Ypsilanti, MI
FREE
we go on at 11:30
hope to see you there!!
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| Chicago!! |
[18 Apr 2006|08:29pm] |
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Last night was one of the most fun shows in a while, the empty bottle has a seriously insane sound system, I was really excited to jam through it. Bloodyminded obliterated everyone and played as a 5 piece and Sick Llama played a super decayed short set. Most of the night me and heath spent playing pinball--must have spent 10 bucks on it.
Here is part of a really nice review of my set Blake Edwards posted to the HN_AM list for the Empty Bottle gig...
"...Cotton Museum was, by my books, the winner. He was like a crippled
rhino trying to juggle cantaloupes and visually he was completely on
the mark; he played on a card table with one collapsing leg and the
table lurched precariously to the point of dumping all his gear on the
floor and then he went past that point, like a 45 degree angle, and
then you realized, aha, everything is velcroed to the table. At times
he played in lurched up against the monitors, and at one point had the
table completely on its side, facing the audience, and him leaning
over it, balanced on the edge, feet out. And his sound was compatible;
slow throbbing gases decorated by high tone bubbles and flat tires on
an abandoned freeway at 4 AM. He brought everything I'd hoped he would."
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| Chicago Reader's "Critics Choice" |
[14 Apr 2006|12:32pm] |
" COTTON MUSEUM
Lots of noise music lingers at the white end, where the dominant sounds are high-pitched and unfocused, like a swarm of evil insects in the near distance. But Michigan's Chris Pottinger, aka Cotton Museum, uses a much broader and more palatable range of frequencies, and instead of hovering insistently his tones bounce and ricochet--they go past off-kilter to a kind of discomfiting perviness that's as insidious as ebola. On Beautiful Golden Fur (released by Tasty Soil in a CD-R edition of 100), wobbly globs of squeal lurch and lunge as what might be a giant vacuum outfitted with helicopter blades sucks them in and chops them up. His output actually sounds like intake--he's a predator, not a puker, which makes him one of the most genuinely bizarre noise nerds I've heard in ages. Fag Tapes honcho Heath Moerland headlines as Sick Llama, a droner who interrupts his barge-harbor ambience with dog whine. Opening the show are Is (a suburban act that sounds like a lowrider dragging its muffler through a sandstorm), Bloodyminded, Crippled Insectual (a caterwauling thrash-noise collaboration between Julia Gilman of Insect Deli and Blake Edwards of Vertonen), and I Love Presets. 9:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 866-468-3401. --Liz Armstrong"
( http://www.chicagoreader.com/listings/static/treatment.html#COTTON )
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