RTP-area local music and culture

[david AT treatkor.com (treatkor)]

hello,
david sullivan here, big smiles to anyone who might remember me. this
message is total self-promotion and i'm only posting to
alt.music.chapel-hill because i used to live in raleigh and greensboro
and played in bands there. here's what i've been up to lately:
my new rock band is called "Party Time", it's me and John Sherman from
the Mercury Birds, and Bryan Giles from Last of the Juanitas, and two
other peoples.
you can hear what it sounds like and see what it looks like here:
http://www.partytimerock.com
if you liked the Mercury Birds, or Shiny Beast, or Last of the
Juanitas, you might like it.

and my "noise" project called 'magwheels' is still alive and kicking.
it is ambient/noise created with processed guitars, field recordings,
noise, pedals, and computer. some of you might remember magwheels from
the wifflefist release or the cognitive mapping comp.

from reviews:
--- "post-apocalyptic ambient noise with a warm emotional glow...", "A
mix of
cinematic beauty and decay is the easiest way to describe the music of
Magwheels.
A world where post-rock guitars meet noise drones head on."
-wetworksezine.com
 
- "Slow drones diving in a mist of noises and bleak, scarce and
melancholic
guitars form the core...", "combination of noise and emotional
atmospheres.
Long, encompassing and hypnotic, saturated soundscapes fill the air in
a calm
but rich way. Rich in low frequencies and small grinding details...",
"Far from
any kitsch or gothic 'darkness', Magwheels sounds like a bastard child
of
Godspeed You Black Emperor and Swans, left alone to starve and reduced
to a
definitely lo-fi and destructured music." - recycleyourears.com

---"When not pursuing pink "Hello Kitty" hues, huge lumbering delay
lines
stumble into tar pits of distortion until the entire vibrating mass is
hauled
down into the dark and screaming murk. The amount of feedback used in
the reverb
algorithms is such that this should be a constant V/Vm digital clip
fest but
however this was ultimately achieved the result is warm and thick
enough
(production-wise) to be poured over ice cream. The lighter sections
are almost
childish with their blissful enthusiasm, upwards little plinking riffs
which
sound more toy piano than six string and which almost embarrass the
listener
they are so rosy cheeked. As hope fades however the incoming storm
front
threatens to atomize any boundaries between form and movement, a solid
wall of
ash, blinding light and violently gnashing torrents." - industrial.org


thanks and hello again,
david
http://www.treatkor.com