| UPCOMING EVENTS | ||||
| Date | Title | Description | Location | More Info |
| 05 May 2008 | Mirror Mirror | w/ Marina Rosenfeld | NY, NY | Below, and the Merce site. |
| 18 May 2008 | Benefit | for Myat Moondog Haggart | NY, NY | Below, and at the CMJ site. |
| See the Timeline for past events. |
MIRROR MIRROR
JG Thirlwell will appear with Marina Rosenfeld on 05 May 2008 at Merce Cunningham Dance Studios in New York, accompanying her for her piece titled Mirror Mirror. JGT will provide vocal sounds and treatments. More info at the Merce site.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MYAT
JG Thirlwell will appear at a benefit for two-year-old Myat Moondog Haggart, who suffers from health problems relating to an undiagnosed brain disease. The fundraising event is at St. Mark's Church on 18 May 2008, and is intended to help offset his medical bills being incurred by his musician parents, Scott Haggart and Kara Bohenstiel. Also appearing are David Grubbs, Backworld, Little Annie, Vito Acconci, Lary 7 w/Scott Haggart, Captains Sons and Daughters, and more. More info at the CMJ site.
NARCISSUM ESCENDA
JG Thirlwell exhibited a new sculpture at the Teleport Färgfabfriken exhibition at the new Färgfabriken museum in Ostersund, Sweden. The sculpture is entitled "Narcissum Escenda." It was constructed with plywood, Plexiglas, mirrors and two way mirrors, LED's with circuit board and other materials. The opening was 1-3 April 2008. www.fargfabriken.se
NEW FOETUS REMIX ALBUM
Just out is a new album consisting of remixes from the Foetus studio
album, LOVE.
Entitled
VEIN, it
features Mike Patton, Matmos, Fennesz, Donna Summer (a/k/a Jason
Forrest), Tweaker, Tujiko Noriko, Trztn (Services), Jay Wasco, Tom Recchion and J.G. Thirlwell. The album also includes a video of the track Time Marches On by Sam Sohlberg.
Available in the shoppe on this
website, as well as finer retailers worldwide.
JGT AT THE WHITNEY
The
robots are self-playing machines, including a four-necked guitar,
xylophone, and numerous percussion instruments. In addition to a
commissioned piece he premiered earlier this year at Three Legged Dog,
Thirlwell presented a brand new piece and two new pieces adaptations
for robot instruments and strings: the Steroid Maximus piece L'espion
Qui A Pleure and a special rearrangement of the theme song for The
Venture Brothers cartoon. For the LEMUR robots portion of the concert,
the string section was Leyna Marika Papach - violin, Elena Moon Park - violin, Karen Waltuch - viola
and Okkyung Lee - cello. JG Thirlwell served as conducter. You can see J.G. rehearsing his piece for LEMUR here.
The
concert was a Composer Spotlight and part of the Friday Night concert
series hosted by the Whitney Museum. Click
here for more photos (by Damien
Neva).
NEW FOETUS STUDIO ALBUM
Ectopic Ents is proud to announce the release of DAMP,
a new
Foetus album. It is available exclusively thru
the shoppe on this website. The huge 72+ minute album consists mainly of brand new and unreleased material, as well as
some rare material. The DAMP cover
is a ten panel foldout with lyrics, featuring photos and design by J.G. Thirlwell.
The complicated printing process involves spot hi-gloss lamination which is un-reproducible
here.
MANOREXIA LIVE IN LONDON
TOON TUNES
J.G. is
currently scoring the third season of The
Venture Brothers, which airs on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network.
Seasons one and two have already been released on DVD. If you have discovered Thirlwell for the first time from The Venture
Brothers and are looking to discover more of his music, may we direct you to
the Foetus Shoppe. If you dig
the soundtrack of The Venture Brothers, you'll love Steroid
Maximus and Manorexia.
KRONOS QUARTET COMMISSION
J.G. Thirlwell's commissioned composition for the Kronos Quartet, entitled Nomatophobis, premiered 7th April 2006 at Zankel Hall in New York (along with pieces by Terry Riley and Glenn Branca). Subsequent performances have included Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco on 8th Jan 2007; Royce Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles on 20th Jan 2007; and Theatre d'Arras in Arras France on 1st June 2007. Nomatophobis is unrecorded as yet, and will be featured in future Kronos programmes as deemed appropriate.
NEW WRITTEN WORD
?LSD?
Thirlwell recently appeared in the Love's Secret Domain, Contemporary Psychedelic Art show.
ART BRUT(e)
The 808 gallery is a myspace art gallery, and for August 2007 presented the artwork of one J.G. Thirlwell.
CLASSIC MUST-HAVE RE-MASTERED REISSUES
The classic Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel albums HOLE and NAIL
have been reissued by Some Bizzare. They were re-mastered by Scott Hull
with J.G. Thirlwell (Scott's credit was inadvertently left off the
artwork - sorry, Scott!) and come as sensuous new digipak editions with
lyric booklets. They should be orderable from Amazon
UK as well as other online and physical retail outlets.
ALSO JUST REISSUED
Two more classic Foetus recordings, SINK (Foetus Inc.) and THAW (Foetus Interruptus), have been re-issued by Some Bizzare, in digipack sleeves.
GUESTING
JG has just written the lyrics and performed the vocals on a track with Anubian Lights, entitled "The Puppet Prince". It will appear on a future Anubian Lights release.
TRIBUTARIES
Ambassador 21 from Belarus has remixed the Foetus track "Time Marches On", originally on the album LOVE. It appears on Cut & Go, an album of their remixes 2003-2007, along with remixes of Snog, Sonar, The Shizit, and many more.
CURRENT 93 vs JGT
J.G. Thirlwell has remixed the Current 93 track Black Ships ate the Sky. The video was directed by Cam Archer and can be seen at here. It will be released as a CD and 12" Xmas 2007.
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EXPAND YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
J.G. Thirlwell has written lyrics and performed the vocals on a track entitled "Asphodel" by the group Strings of Consciousness. You can hear at at the Strings of Consciousness myspace page.
FREQ_OUT
Bringing together artists, composers, architects, producers and musicians, the freq_out
project invades architecture with sonic imagination. Structured as a
collaborative sound environment in which authorship is determined by
group effort, each of the thirteen participants is assigned a specific
range of frequency with which to produce a sound piece. Over the last
three years freq_out has appeared in Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris and
Berlin. This January they ventured to Chiang Mai in Thailand and in
February to Budapest.
Some recordings have been released on Ash
International.
The participants are J.G. Thirlwell, Finnbogi
Pétursson, BJ Nilsen, Jana Winderen, Brandon
LaBelle, Petteri Nisunen, Tommi Grönlund, PerMagnus
Lindborg, Maia Urstad, Jacob Kirkegaard, Mike Harding, Kent
Tankred and Franz Pomassl. The curator and capitane of the project is Carl Michael von Hausswolff.
J.G.THIRLWELL ODDITIES ON YOUTUBE
Some odd things have surfaced on YouTube which could be of interest...
Foetus Verklemmt video directed by Alex Winter
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel on The Tube TV show in 1985
Soft Cell perform Suicide's Ghost Rider with special guest vocalist Clint Ruin
NEW MANOREXIA, FOETUS, and…
JGT
hopes to begin work on the long-overdue third Manorexia album. Currently no release date is scheduled. More news regarding this soon.
Thirlwell has been feverishly working on new Foetus material, for the follow up to LOVE. However, it definitely won't see the light of day in 2007...
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