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instagon.bandcamp.com
Instagon has 2 new full length albums that have been released this week.. First is the newest collection in the on-going "A Dozen Paths To Escape
Complete Boredom" series.. this one is volume 5. It features almost
all LIVE recordings done during the May 2013 sessions. 12 new cuts. Featuring Lob working with JOHN KEELING,
JOEY CARUSI, BOT, CHAD E. WILLIAMS, STEPHEN A. ELLIOTT, TONY PASSARELL, VINNY GOLIA, & JACK CHANDLER.
This series is part of the 12x12in12 on-line community project that Instagon became part of for 2013. There are 4 previous volumes to this series.. and still 7 more coming. This month's collection can be found at bandcamp.
The 2nd release this week is a collection of recordings from 2007/2008 released on Placenta Recordings called "Thee Start ov Thee End". The cover art is by Lob. This is a CD ONLY release, available in a limited edition of only 75 copies, housed in a DVD size package. Players on this release include Chad E. Williams, Susan Hunt, Eric Putnam, Dr. Oblivious, Tim White,
Ryan Tomesello, Mike Daddona, Dex Lopaz, Andrew Wayne, Jim Smith, Leo
The Butcher, Matthew Lewis, Mara Arrowood, IDX1274, Don Haugen, Morgan
Jaeckel, Scott McGahan, Robert Fisher, Rent Romus, Phillip Everett, Nick
Avdienko, and Pat Riley. This collection contains both experimental "noise" / sound art cuts, as well as musical garage jazz recordings..a little bit of everything. This collection also includes the entire "Funeral For a Droid" suite in it's entirety for the first time...previously only portions of this have been made available on compilations. This CD is available exclusively from Placenta Recordings. http://placentarecordings.blogspot.com/2013/05/instagon-thee-start-ov-thee-end.html
VITAL WEEKLY is a weekly journal of reviews of audio releases by experimental sound artists. In issue #793, released this week.. they had mixed comments to say regarding "Scary City"... read for yourself... do you agree? have you heard Scary City yet? what are your thoughts??
INSTAGON 538 May 16, 2010 Beatnik Studios
Sacramento, CA IN THE FLOW FESTIVAL III
Riddled with obstacles.. but once again Instagon appeared at this 3rd annual happening presented by Ross Hammond and the Greater Broadway Partnership called IN THE FLOW FESTIVAL. .. We were a late addition to this event, not on the original press release, but generously offered a morning spot on the 3rd day of the event, which we gladly accepted. (thank you Ross!)..a Sunday morning..11am opening spot.. ( BROTHERS AND SISTERS.. please come in and sit your selves down and be ready for the morning revival of the daemonic chaos Sunday morning ritual and possession of the garage jazz virus..) So .. as i was saying...riddled with obstacles.. we arrived on time....a little after 10am for an 11am set... there was no one at the venue yet to let us in.. .we waited.. finally around 10:25 we were let in and started to setup.. about 10:40 we realized we had no snare or cymbals for the drum kit.. this was fortunately taken care of quickly by there luckily being another drum kit on site being used for the Festival. ..about 10:50..my bass was plugged in, and it did not work. ..we went frantic looking for a Phillips screwdriver to open the beast up.. and when we finally got inside, i had broken a connection wire.. an easy fix with a soldering iron .. something we did not have available.. a bass was borrowed from someone we are told was actually in Texas and did not know i was using his bass for chaosmagickjazzrituals.. so better not to tell him i suppose.. and after a quick visit by THE CAPTAIN we were off to feeling better about this whole thing and ready to pull some whoop-ass on the Sunday Morning easy vibe..
Joining us for this session were local favorites CHAD E. WILLIAMS, DEX LOPAZ, & D.RAY GRISHAM, who just tears up the wind with a trumpet in our mix.. Its great to be able to add that element to the shows lately...also playing horn, but Saxophone was our special guest of the morning RENT ROMUS (Lords of Outland) from San Franscisco! Rend came to play.. and play he did.. just taking the stage by storm and playing a firey set for such an early morning time window!
It was a short set by normal show standards..but it was a LOT of fun and some really awesome grooves happened.. the "Deamon's Tube" from this set is nearly 11 minutes and just MOVES!!.
this show is available for download for only $3
.. share it with a friend ...spread the virus..
INSTAGON 538
5-16-2010
Beatnik Studios, Sacramento, CA
IN THE FLOW FESTIVAL 3
Invokation >
In The Flow,
Deamon's Tube,
Undoing,
Orgone Collector
(40:00)
LOB - lead bass
RENT ROMUS - saxophone
CHAD E. WILLIAMS - guitar
DEX LOPAZ - drums
D.RAY GRISHAM - trumpet
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photos by Yvette Lucas
IN THE FLOW poster design by Lob
So.. its February 2010.. and Instagon has now reached its 17th year as a continual project.. can you believe it? 17 YEARS!...its almost old enough to vote!. Its amazing ! .. next month we will once again do a live web radio international broadcast collaboration with BIG CITY ORCHESTRA.. that will happen in the early part of the month.. and then the last weekend of the month we will host a show in Sacramento with our good friend GREG GINN and his Texas Corrugators.. should be good times for sure.
This month we released the 2nd installment in the FRESH CUTS series.. featuring new songs that have not previously been released on any other collections. The track is called "We Own This Corner", performed by Instagon Session 489, featuring Jim Willig and Susan Hunt from (waning), and Mark Rocha from the band SWIMS. It was recorded in January 2009 at Java Lounge,Sacramento,CA. Java Lounge (now called 16th Street Cafe) is located near the corner of 16th Street and Broadway in Sacramento. This is a very popular and busy corner, also on this corner, or near it are R5 Records, Records on Broadway, Tower Theater, Tower Cafe, and other places...we now play this song whenever we appear at any of these venues.. so far the song has been played 3 or 4 times since this appearance. This track is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for a limited time thru the month end of this month, February 2010 from our page at bandcamp.com, (http://instagon.bandcamp.com) or via the link at the bottom of this blog.
also this month at the bandcamp.com page we have also released a full length live recording of INSTAGON from the Fall fo 2009 recorded outdoors in Sacramento,CA. GARAGE JAZZ AT HOUSE OV MU is a collection of songs taken from 3 sets of music played live by a trio (session 519) featuring Lob with Chad E. Williams & Mark Halverson. This trio was SO HOT during this performance that it has gone on to become the current and solid line up of the GARAGE JAZZ ARCHITECTS (another project that Lob & Chad E. WIlliams have dreamed up) This session rocks.. tracks that are stand out and worth every moment are "Cosmic" and "Deamon's Tube".. also a smokin' garage jazz cover of the main riff of the theme from The Simpsons, and the final epic track "Mu" is outstanding improvisation. This entire release, 12 tracks, over 60 minutes of music is currently available for FREE via our bandcamp.com site or this direct link:
This release is also available now at all live Instagon AND Garage Jazz Architects performances for only $5.00.
As a special limited release in conjunction with Instagon's 17th Birthday this month, a VERY VERY LIMITED edition of 17 COPIES of "Garage Jazz at House ov Mu" have been created.
These limited versions are hand numbered with silver ink on the inside of the cover art. They also include a very limited edition signed and numbed art print of a piece by Lob called "Buddah in Snow". (show at right). This piece of art was released as a limited print in various sizes. Only 23 of them were made, each numbered and signed on the back by Lob. 17 of these were for this limited edition of "House of Mu" by Instagon, and the other 6 have been dealt with in other ways. Many of these have been given away as gifts to friends (after all it was for the Deamon's birthday!).. but a few are available for purchase or trade. If you are interested in this limited edition of the CD, with the art print, please visit the TIForg DistroBlog.
The bandcamp.com project will continue with a new FRESH CUTS track posted sometime in March, and also a new full length from the archives coming in April.
Placenta Recordings in Michigan has supposedly released a compilation called "Placenta Family Recordingd Volume 2" that features a live outsider sound art recording from Instagon done at Luna's Cafe in 2009, but we have yet to see this one.
1019 Records out of Santa Cruz,CA has also supposedly released a 60 minute cassette featuring 2 shows recording at Java Lounge in Sacramento during 2007. the release is called "Double '07" and is limited to 50 copies in a hand made paper package. We have yet to see this one too.. when we do, we will post a new blog with images.
Paper Cuts Records out of Ventura County, CA will be releasing the first recordings to see the light from the 520 SESSION done at KDVS in Davis,CA last Fall. It will be a 4 track, 30min CDep titled "Echophobic". It will be limited to 50 copies and it has some of the strongest recordings ever done by Instagon as a "band".
okay.. so that 's the news
oh.. sorry.. that link we promised.. it expired on Feb 28.
We have launched a new online site with streaming and downloads of recordings of Instagon thru the wonderful site called bandcamp.com
Our first release was a download version of the INSTAGON - LIVE AT TRUE LOVE title that came out on CDr last summer (limited to 50 copies).
In November, we released the entire live performance of the Instagon Noise Quintet from Norcal Noisefest 2009. This session features Blake Edwards from VERTONEN, Rent Romus from LORDS OF OUTLAND, Steve Davis frm +DOG+, and Mark Soden of PHOG MASHEEEN playing noise with Lob at NF13. Right away we had a few copies move from the bandcamp page.. it was a really great feeling to have music posted and purchased within a short time. thanks!
In December we released a digital remastered edition of an old title by Instagon, our first collection of live songs from 1999.
The "SPACE 1999: 10 year Anniversary Edition"features digital remastering of the entire original release that was before only available on cassette., plus a 20 bonus track, and extensive liner notes regarding each track. This is an amazing document of the early band recordings by Instagon ,and features standards like "Forward", "Orgone Collector", & "Joyride".. plus the debut performance of "Rock Lobster", and an amazing version of Bauhaus' " Bela". This release also marked the first in a series of FULL LENGTH releases planned for the bandcamp page to happen BI-MONTHLY. The next full length will be posted in February 2010 and will feature a live recording from Fall 2009 from Sacramento,CA.
for 2010 we also have unleashed the FRESH TRAX series which will feature a new song, EVERY MONTH available for FREE download. Each track will ONLY be available for a limited time until the end of each month it is posted. The track for January is a new track called "Dripfall" recorded at the UFO Club in Folsom,CA during the COSMIC HOOTENANNY (session 524). This track is currently only available for a limited time...now through Jan. 31, 2010. A new track will be posted a few days later.
At the end of the year all 12 tracks will be available as a collection with exclusive art work and probably a bonus track or 2.
new for 2009 FINALLY a full length NOISE release from INSTAGON.
This release was recorded at various locations during the year 2008. Most of these tracks come from "mixer sets" from the Deamon and include over 20 players throughout the 5 tracks. It has been released by our good friends at LOVE EARTH MUSIC. This is our 2nd Release on LEM Recordings (the first was "Survivors ov thee Psychick Conflickt" from 2006) The new release also features a cover art collage by Lob called "Monks and Angels" that is very beautiful. This release came out a few months ago and we just didnt have time to blog about it..so now we are! This is the best noise release from Instagon to come in years. It has that old school feeling and raw energy of the early releases from Instagon (think "Methoozella" or "Thee Most Creative Thing in a Slight English Accent") The guys at Vital Weekly compared this release to Throbbing Gristle jamming out. you should get this release if you like noise from the low end.
Instagon has 2 new full length albums that have been released this week.. First is the newest collection in the on-going "A Dozen Paths To Escape
Complete Boredom" series.. this one is volume 5. It features almost
all LIVE recordings done during the May 2013 sessions. 12 new cuts. Featuring Lob working with JOHN KEELING,
JOEY CARUSI, BOT, CHAD E. WILLIAMS, STEPHEN A. ELLIOTT, TONY PASSARELL, VINNY GOLIA, & JACK CHANDLER.
This series is part of the 12x12in12 on-line community project that Instagon became part of for 2013. There are 4 previous volumes to this series.. and still 7 more coming. This month's collection can be found at bandcamp. 
The 2nd release this week is a collection of recordings from 2007/2008 released on Placenta Recordings called "Thee Start ov Thee End". The cover art is by Lob. This is a CD ONLY release, available in a limited edition of only 75 copies, housed in a DVD size package. Players on this release include Chad E. Williams, Susan Hunt, Eric Putnam, Dr. Oblivious, Tim White,
Ryan Tomesello, Mike Daddona, Dex Lopaz, Andrew Wayne, Jim Smith, Leo
The Butcher, Matthew Lewis, Mara Arrowood, IDX1274, Don Haugen, Morgan
Jaeckel, Scott McGahan, Robert Fisher, Rent Romus, Phillip Everett, Nick
Avdienko, and Pat Riley. This collection contains both experimental "noise" / sound art cuts, as well as musical garage jazz recordings..a little bit of everything. This collection also includes the entire "Funeral For a Droid" suite in it's entirety for the first time...previously only portions of this have been made available on compilations. This CD is available exclusively from Placenta Recordings. 
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