Rhys Chatham--open strings to infinity

wow - A Crimson Grail is incredible. just gorgeous.

I got the "Guitar Trio Is My Life" three disc box set last week (just released on Table Of The Elements) and it's been absolutely rocking my socks off. I love the simple, straightforward massed guitar army repetition, repetition, repetition. Open strings to infinity indeed.

Last years 'Red Grail' is outstanding. A less annoying Glenn Branca ftw. For some reason I intellectually partner the Chatham releases with last years collections of Loren Connors. Connors is on the other end of the spectrum sonically, but equally spacey, more poetic.

A Crimson Grail (Outdoor Version) premiers tonight at Lincoln Center... should be very, very, very loud.

this was s'posed to premiere last summer but got rained out
a friend presented rhys' 100 guitars a few years back and i cant imagine what 200 guitars will sound like, ppl are already picking up earplugs for tonight and with liquid liquid also on the bill i so wish i was in nyc right now,

This was gorgeous.

Going to this:

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/224/0/1/

Hoping Kevin Shea will break out the wacky drum antics

So I really wasn't too pleased with that set, fwiw. Chatham was doing amazing stuff on trumpet but burying it in highly unimaginative and muddy use of a looping pedal. Shea is sick on drums but his style didn't exactly fit and it was more interesting to watch him than the film.

just wanted to mention that DRASTIC CLASSICISM

saw a bunch of cool albany, ny people do the guitar trio a couple weeks ago. six guitars and drums and bass. it was great. drummer was amazing. it was all about the drums and bass for me, actually. (eric from century plants on bass had it locked down. so cool.)

wow - A Crimson Grail is incredible. just gorgeous.

― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 20:21 (2 years ago)

Just listening to this for the first time and entirely agree

saw a bunch of cool albany, ny people do the guitar trio a couple weeks ago. six guitars and drums and bass. it was great. drummer was amazing. it was all about the drums and bass for me, actually. (eric from century plants on bass had it locked down. so cool.)

― scott seward, Friday, November 5, 2010 7:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Same group is doing it again 11/20 in Saratoga Springs, NY at the appropriately-named Saratoga Arts Center.

<3

a crimson grail is gorgeous. it's ambient and utterly physical at the same time, love it.

Who knew?

http://northern-spy.com/2011/02/rhys-chatham-guitar-music-featured-in-the-chrysler-eminem-super-bowl-ad-imported-from-detroit/

open strings to ka-ching!

Wow

can't believe someone would ruin a corporate luxury car ad featuring eminem's genius with rhys f'ing chatham, what the hell

need to buy one of those cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2euRNMZ67HU

Was listening to The Bern Project a week ago, something that came out just last year that I totally missed. Pretty good jazzy drone rock pieces done with a small band, lots of stuff that starts small and then builds and builds until you get ten minutes in and realise your chair is levitating.

rhys mentioned the eminem thing in a facebook post and i kinda couldn't believe it! hope he got good money for it.

new record is SO GOOD

Guitar players needed for UK show:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/29331/frontiers-festival-birmingham-call-for-100-electric-guitars

Is there ANYTHING better than Die Donnergötter? It's so epically thrilling, so sonorous and clanging, that whole first movement is one satisfying, rushing drone-out to infinity.