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On Thurs 6/14, “TRIANGLE RHYSING: MUSIC FOR MASSED GUITARS” returns to NIGHTLIGHT for an evening of shimmering ambient music for multiple amplified guitar mobs, cello, percussion, and chance. D.C.’s JANEL & ANTHONY open.

A *massive* event — over two dozen Triangle musicians — including members of THE WHITE CASCADE * BOAT BURNING * LUD * GOODBYE TITAN * ONCE & FUTURE KINGS * ERIE CHOIR * HORSEBACK * FAN MODINE * THE NEW ROMANS * SAVAGE NIGHTS * LE WEEKEND * AIRSTRIP * ALPHA COP * VIOLET VECTOR & THE LOVELY LOVELIES * JAFFAR * WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMED * PROMUTE * BICAMERAL MIND * MONSONIA * GENTLE ROBOT STRANGE LITTLE FOLK * VERONIQUE DIABOLIQUE * THE SPACEMEN * REMORA and more…

Proceeds will be donated to NIGHTLIGHT, Chapel Hill’s premier experimental music venue, to support its continuing mission to provide a place for innovative music to flourish in the Triangle.

Music starts 8:30 pm, with D.C. avant-cellist/guitar duo and Cuneiform recording artists JANEL & ANTHONY.

NIGHTLIGHT 405 1/2 W Rosemary St, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-2307
MAP, DIRECTIONS: http://tinyurl.com/2537m7n

This event “on the facebook”: http://www.facebook.com/events/332506946817819/

More about JANEL AND ANTHONY:
“Janel & Anthony – guitars and ‘cello respectively – play a haunting and humbly virtuosic form of music wherein the elements of electronics, looping, and lo-fi timbres live both in intimacy and in majesty in the same house as acoustic instruments and folk/blues-inspired melodies. As such, it is both timely and timeless, drenched as it is in intoxicating atmosphere; wan, quiet voices submitting to waves of sonic drama. Who could possibly resist it?” –Nels Cline

JANEL AND ANTHONY – Cuneiform recording artists from DC

http://www.facebook.com/janelandanthony

http://www.janelandanthony.com/

More about TRIANGLE RHYSING: MUSIC FOR MASSED GUITARS:
A joint production of BOAT BURNING and THE WHITE CASCADE, TRIANGLE RHYSING:MUSIC FOR MASSED GUITARS is a suite of 4 pieces for multiple electric guitar ensembles, composed and conducted by Andras Fekete and Matt Guess. It was first performed in June 2011 at Nightlight in Chapel Hill NC USA.

Participating musicians in 2012:
Alex Maiolo (Fan Modine, Violet Vector & The Lovely Lovelies, Tara Busch, Tim Sommer, Soft Company)
Andras Fekete (Boat Burning)
Brad Newell (Jaffar, Butter)
Bob Wall (Le Weekend, Hotel Motel, Erie Choir)
Brian John Mitchell (Remora, Vlor, Small Life Form, Silber Records)
Bruce Stevens (The Billion)
Corbie Hill (Alpha Cop, Where The Buffalo Roamed)
Crowmeat Bob Pence (Savage Nights, The New Romans)
Deborah Aronin (Boat Burning)
Desmond Mullen (Gentle Robot)
E. Matthew Cash (Goodbye Titan, The White Cascade)
Fikri Yucel (Veronique Diabolique)
Harrison Lee (The Warehouse Voices)
Jim Dennis (The Music Loft)
Josh Zaslow (Bir Strobino & Zaslow)
Kirk Ross (LUD)
Kyle Long (The Spacemen)
Matt Guess (The White Cascade)
Matt Kalb (Le Weekend)
Matt Robbins (The White Cascade)
Mike Nicholson (Polyester Cowboys, Kung Fusion)
Nick Petersen (Airstrip, Monsonia, Horseback)
Peter Aldrich (Solo artist, Silber Records)
Rush Enterline (Once & Future Kings)
Shaun Sandor (Promute, Bicameral Mind)
Vito Dibona (Strange Little Folk)

BOAT BURNING – Andras Fekete

http://www.facebook.com/boatburning

THE WHITE CASCADE – Matt Guess

http://www.facebook.com/thewhitecascade

TRIANGLE RHYSING – Music for massed guitars

http://www.trianglerhysing.com/

If on the odd chance I actually like something, it usually dies a quick death soon after I’ve become acquainted with it.

Usually this happens with restaurants or TV shows – two things I usually have no use for.

A little Italian place that opened late last year – that I liked – immediately closed as soon as I started telling people how great it was. In 1983 I was 10 and became obsessed with the Police, and of course they broke up in 1984.

My latest fave rave is Larry Miller's Podcast. Miller has played the bad guy in about 1,000 movies (see Eddie Murphy’s “Nutty Professor”), and he played the doorman on “Seinfeld”.

The podcast is great because it deals with important issues like sticking bits of soap together to make a bigger bit of soap. Think of it as Tom Snyder on LSD.

I’ve been enjoying the podcast for a few months now, and low and behold the guy slips and sustains a head injury. This was really inconvenient for me, as I look forward to each new episode. Television for the most part has nothing for me, and this podcast – along with “Mike and Tom Eat Snacks” are my main modes of entertainment.

Get better Larry; don’t make me watch TV.