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  • From: kevin maxwell farmer <fakirmevern-amch AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to do, week of September 14, 2006
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:16:37 -0400



grady wrote:

Monday, September 18
Neptune (http://www.velvettabla.com/neptune/)
Clang Quartet (http://www.myspace.com/clangquartet)
Mowing Lawns (http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html)
Duke Coffeehouse, Durham

Mowing Lawns are skittish, intense, mebbe slightly paranoid freak-folkers whose duelling acoustic guitars make me duck a little. So many notes.

Clang Quartet is Scotty Irving's one-man noise/percussion tribute to Jesus Christ.

I can't believe I know this, but:

http://neptuneband.com/

(Warning: metallic blue, lime green, and red on black background, one click in.)

One of my friends actually played with the drummer a while back, and had this to say about Neptune: "It's like nothing you've ever heard in your life."

Neptune has this to say about Neptune:

"Neptune's origins trace to 1994 as a student art project by sculptor/musician Jason Sanford, who, in order to create a new music medium while simultaneously destroying the posture of five young men, forged heavy, menacing-looking guitars and drums out of circular saw blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings and miscellaneous scrap metal found in the trash. Neptune was assembled to showcase these contraptions in the winter of the same year and has evolved into a full time band that has traversed the US and Europe several times. The early guitars were haphazard and untunable, resulting in the atonal garage clamor of the early recordings. With several different members and collaborators over the years, the music has evolved with the instruments blending the traditional sounds of Rock & Roll with what sounds like mistake day at the ball bearing factory. The current three-piece lineup relies as heavily on home-made electronics as it does its signature scrap metal instruments. With less guys and more gear, Neptune rocks like The Fall, clangs like Neubauten and drones like Faust with improvised and not-so-improvised songs that you can almost dance to."





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