
X AVANT LEAH SINGER & LEE RANALDO: CONTRE JOUR | Friday October 21, 2011 EARLY SHOW 6PM INFO HERE: http://musicgallery.org/events8.html X AVANT LEAH SINGER & LEE RANALDO: CONTRE JOUR Friday October 21 Location: SPK, 206 Beverley Street EARLY SHOW! Doors 5pm | Concert 6pm Tickets $25 advance at Rotate This, Soundscapes Ticketweb.ca — BUY NOW! [...]

Leah & Lee staged the musical+visual performance ‘contre-jour’ (against the light) in the church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Mechelen, Belgium, as part of Contour 2011, 5th Biennial of the Moving Image. The theme of the Biennial is Sound and Vision: Beyond Reason. The duo entered into a dialogue with Brion Gysin & [...]

photos by Nicole Hoye, Richie Preiss, J.K. Richardson, Leah Singer, Connie Tsang, Jon Waller (click for larger):

I’m just back from 2+ weeks in Italy, Leah and I did big outdoor performance down in Lecce in the far south—had 2 gong players, 4 vocalists, cellist from Kronos Qtet, 3 lge screens and a “chorus” of 15 gtr players, and me w hanging gtr—was pretty amazing… texts by Brion Gysin… We went to [...]

062311 Calgary I was asking Carlos if he followed my twitter feed? wow amazing amazing show tonight–in old wooden church, people packing in the pews. i came in from the back of the hall (the front door of the church) and spent the first 10 min walking the aisles, scrapping and rubbing the gtr on [...]

Here is a video (by sergisonic) and two pretty cool lo-fi “film-stills sequences” from the Sensational Fix opening in Madrid at CA2M. Steve and I had a chance to perform alongside fabled flamenco artist Enrique Morente and his crew. Quite humbling for us. A great night in Mostoles in February, 2010…

The Glacial Trio–Lee Ranaldo/David Watson/Tony Buck–will perform a rare gig in NYC at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, Sept 26th, 8pm. More info here. Also on the bill will be Man Forever (Kid Millions/Brian Chase/Emily Manzo/Richard Hoffman/Shahin Motia) and a trio of Knitting Factory Brooklyn presents Magda Mayas, C Spencer Yeh and Okkyung Lee. Come [...]

LEE RANALDO AND MARC RIBOT MEET CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND BUSTER KEATON AT ELLNORA | THE GUITAR FESTIVAL Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo will perform a solo suspended guitar score for Buster Keaton’s 1922 silent film Cops at ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, on September 9, 2011. Ranaldo’s score for Krannert [...]