SHOW MAY 2 THANIEL ION LEE

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may 2nd=20
9pm
@artswatch [2337 frankfort ave louisville ky]

Thaniel ion lee [ <A HREF=3D"http://www.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/tionlee/";>http:/=
/www.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/tionlee/</A> ] w/ keenan lawler=20
[ <A HREF=3D"www.konstant.com">www.konstant.com</A> ] and aurthor kalow

 thaniel ion lee

i have been involved in the experimental art scene for almost 4 years, i hav=
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worked with a variety of people [keenan lawler, steve good, joee conroy, and=
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members of ayin], these works have consisted of everything from performance=20
art that involved improvising a painting while keenan lawler improvised the=20
music, a off again on again free noise band that involved members of ayin, a=
nd=20
strict concrete music pieces that involved improvisers.=20
i have self released one out of print cdr =E2=80=98in the context of shadows=
=E2=80=99 has a=20
cdr out on resident art media records, and a three way split cdr out on=20
resident art media. The works on the cdrs consist of me experimenting with t=
exture,=20
rhythms, and minimalism.=20
i am also a well know mouth painter, photographer and digital artist that ha=
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shown in galleries and festivals in new Albany, indiapolis Indiana, and=20
Louisville. i have received press in local and state publications.=20
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keenan lawler

Review: Keenan Lawler is an improvising guitarist who=E2=80=99s performed wi=
th Rhys=20
Chatham, David Watson, Lukas Ligeti, Alan Licht, Kevin Drumm and Jack Wright=
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He concentrates on the use of the National Steel Resonator guitar, a type of=
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guitar more often associated with bluegrass and (especially) blues. Like fel=
low=20
travelers Elliott Sharp, Loren M. Connors and Eugene Chadbourne, Lawler uses=
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his ax to craft some wonderfully weird, delightfully disorienting noises=20=
=E2=80=93 but=20
also like them, he=E2=80=99s touched/charged by American roots music (blues,=
 folk,=20
bluegrass, etc.) But don=E2=80=99t tune in expecting Skip James or Norman Bl=
ake =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CBirds=20
of Prey Types 1 & 2=E2=80=9D sounds like a Georgia mountain fiddler and an I=
ndian=20
sarod player engaging in a free-improv cultural exchange on some Tibetan=20
mountaintop, where the air is fresh and thin. =E2=80=9CA Plane of Air=E2=80=
=9D is a ringing, droning=20
mass of sustained tones sprinkling with eerie metallic scrapings =E2=80=93 i=
f a=20
closed-down factory could jam the blues with the cold night wind, this it wh=
at it=20
would sound like. The Ghost=E2=80=A6 isn=E2=80=99t =E2=80=9Cjazz=E2=80=9D-or=
iented improvising =E2=80=93 it=E2=80=99s more=20
akin to the spirit of texture/interplay/intuitive improv-wizards like AMM, K=
.K.=20
Null, Loren Connors, Henry Kiser and Jim O=E2=80=99Rourke. (The latter two i=
n their=20
respective improvisational modes, of course, as they do lots of other-type=20
stuff.) Though truth to tell, this oft-times reminds me a bit of the Art Ens=
emble=20
of Chicago and the raggedy minimalism of Tony Conrad. Not for everyone, but=20=
for=20
those who seek unique approaches to improvisation and/or like to hear people=
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play with =E2=80=9Csounds=E2=80=9D instead of =E2=80=9Cnotes,=E2=80=9D this=20=
particular poltergeist is well=20
worth the seek-out.=20
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