Friday December 9 | Bad Advice Inc. presents…
CRYSTALLIZE No.12
featuring…
THE SIEGE (live)
[Blank Artists, Detroit/Chicago]
JEEKOOS
[Dubfront, WNUR]
+
Duke Shin
[resident/host]
Live Visuals by KAWA
Darkroom
2210 West Chicago
21+
9pm-2am
NO COVER before 10pm, $6 after
$3 Goose Island 312, $6 Specialty cocktails
** FREE admit to Smart Bar afterward with Darkroom stamp**
♢ THE SIEGE (LIVE)
Brothers Drew Pompa and Pipé Scuttleworth are the Siege. Together they have begun to weave sonic tapestries born from their intrinsic passion for music rhythm and a manifestation of experience, idea and soul. Though it may deceptively appear that they have rather slowly begun their process, they are little concerned as they believe this musical journey to have, in some strange way, been predestined. They are cautious to allow the process to reach maturation slowly and deliberately; no need to rush the natural flow of things.
The Siege channel collective emotion, frustration and deperation, and distill a myriad amount of sounds from their active participation in society; a society they regard as precariously balanced on the precipice of apparent imminent collapse of our modern industrialized civilization as it currently exists. One part apocalyptic; two parts drippy dreaminess; and seven parts full-on wine-soaked gusto, the Siege bury their eclectic blends in subterranean casks until steeped, blended and aged until just right. They display the hybridization of beautiful noise, bird-song, boiler hiss, and the infinite sounds of life as it is currently transpiring. They cannot define it for you; they can only express it to you when it has been accomplished.
Drew, the younger of the dup, is highly active in the Midwest United States music scene, or as we so fondly refer to it, the third coast’s Fertile Crescent. Well sought-out as a local Detroit disc jockey, Drew is at ease in waters seldom explored by others in Detroit, or in other metropolis’ waters for that matter; commanding audiences in scenes electronic, indie and realms beyond. His monthly “Aphotic Segment” event has allowed him to expand his influences and cast loose the shackles of the dance floor’s often formulaic tendencies. Drew’s click-track pulse is incendiary, igniting dance vibes as quickly as MacGyver defuses IEDs. As Blank Artists’ event producer and co-director, Drew has coordinated and played at some of Detroit’s most prolific events of late, including 2009’s Tim Sweeney [Beats In Space] and Chain Reaction events, his solo performace at the 2009 Movement Festival and with the Siege at the 2011 Movement Festival. Ever modest, Drew remains a student of music history that can still bring the goods as well.
While Drew has undoubtedly made a noticeable impact along, where would he be without the influences of his elder, adroit brother? Welcome Pipé Scuttleworth, known only by his closest friends as Pipé Scuttleworth (and a host of other unsavory names by the hordes of so-called humanity). If Drew is a potential laureate in the musical arts, Pipé is manifest. Over the past fifteen years, Pipé has deliberately, at times clandestinely, and nearly always with clinical compulsively amassed a record collection so enviable it would cause a “shy, bald Buddhist [to] reflecct and plan a mass murder.” Ol’ Pipé absorbs inordinate amounts of music much the way Sponge Bob sucks down Krusty burgers. He then subconsciously parses, bends, reforms and bastardizes those influences by internalizing snippets into loops until they become awash in his synapses. This serves to create real-time mental mix-tapes during showers and work daydreams and bicycle rides, which then gradually trickly into all facets of his music production later in the evenings. From the ancient-sounding rhythm guitar drone effects to the worldly percussive accents on dizzying drum patterns, Pipé is a man on pursuit to understand the cultural variations in all types of music, remaining unsettled and anxious until something completely undiscovered starts to reverberate through spaces physical and psychic.
The Siege are continuously in the works of brewing new digital and physical recordings for your aural pleasure check their website for updates regarding news, music and tour information. Their new digital release “The Transient E.P.” was released earlier this Fall on Blank Artists.
http://thesiegesound.com/
http://www.blankartists.com/
♧ DUKE SHIN
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what is the value of a beat? A rhythm? A melody? Duke Shin doesn’t have any of those answers for you, but what he does have is a musical arsenal of the loud and strange, gentle and nuanced, mid tempo slow burns and torrid electronic freak outs–all wrapped up in deep house love, driven with a cybernetic techno heart…
http://dukeshin.podomatic.com/
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/dukeshin
