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NEW RELEASES ERIK AMLEE - Afternoon Dream [joint CD release with Fire Museum Records] oTo ERIK AMLEE - Sitar Vol.2 ERIK AMLEE - Sitar UPCOMING SIDES PARADISE CAMP 23 - Hairys, Bitches, and Wolverines [cassette release on Sloow Tapes] PARADISE CAMP 23 - Frogs PARADISE CAMP 23 DVD |
10/23/06 Paradise Camp 23 live at Flywheel 10/27 7:30pm $6 A TEXAS TRIP: VENISON WHIRLED - solo destrutcto trance from Lisa Cameron (ST37/Three Day Stubble), taming the feedback demon and unleashing the infinite life/death drone, thick as red dirt mud - Austin, TX ETHEREAL PLANES INDIAN - ethno-ambient drift from B.C.Smith (Iron Kite/Primordial Undermind), Loops, field recordings, huge zones of fuzz, junk and rust - Austin, TX PARADISE CAMP 23 - cubist psychedelic improv from Erik Amlee (Crackhouse/Devil Donkey), liquid sitar tantra like Shiva and Kali in a love embrace, firing all of your guns at once and exploding into space. - ex-Houston, TX + EXTRA SPECIAL GUEST?!? 08/28/06 New Erik Amlee CD - Afternoon Dream Camp Director Amlee releases his solo CD debut, continuing in his recent series of sitar-heavy recordings. Recorded in and around his home in Western Massachussetts, he enhances intimate neo-raga improvisations with psychedelic and experimental production and effects. The album unfolds in a hypnogogic reverie as delicate spontaneous melodies intertwine. Ethno-drone hymns to the Forest Folk and Plant People. He will make a rare live appearance at the WICKERMANIA festival in Easthampton and Amherst, MA on Saturday Sept 2nd. Show goes from Noon to 5:30pm at Flywheel in Easthampton, then re-convenes from 7:00pm - ?? at the Unitarian Meetinghouse in Amherst central. A galaxy of free/psych/folk/pop/whatevs stars from the Scene-That-Has-No-Name (Christina Carter, MV/EE and the Bummer Road, Larkin Grimm, Zeke Fiddler, Tarp, Dredd Foole, many more) Admission is $3 for all-day fun - BYOB. Don't know what order or when the gold will dawn and the sitar will sing. 05/10/06 Amlee joins The Lothars at PACE in Easthampton, MA on Saturday May, 27. Sitar + cello + dueling Theremins = mind melt. w/ Sephiroth's Knot, Josephine Foster, and others. 8:00pm, $10 01/30/06 New feature article/interview with Camp Director and Mandragora Head Erik Amlee is up on the vital Foxy Digitalis underground web magazine. They also gave a stunning review for Messr. Amlee's solo Sitar Vol.2 CDR. 12/14/05 Paradise Camp 23 video mixologist Jason Daniels has encoded his frightening video 'Help Is On The Way', with music taken from PC23's Solitaire. Deeply unsettling - it's like reaching into the forbidden part of your subconscious and pulling out all those fears about our government that you refuse to think to about, then watching them unfold onscreen in technicolor. 11/14/05 Three new releases out on Mandragora: Paradise Camp 23 oTo, and Erik Amlee's solo Sitar and Sitar Vol.2. 10/16/05 Visual documentation of Erik's recent sitar sojourn added to the SIGHT page. 10/03/05 Erik Amlee - Sitar Show at Flywheel 10/09/05 Solo sitar aktion w/ Six Organs of Admittance and other folk TBA. Sunday 10/9/05 8:00PM, $6 (or thereabouts). Flywheel Arts Collective, 2 Holyoke St, Easthampton, MA 01027. 7/18/05 Newly added sneak preview of the upcoming sitar show - Crouching_Lioness_of_Night.mp3 [12 mins / 11MB] - which will be hands solo. 6/22/05 Erik Amlee - Sitar Show at the Bookmill 7/22/05 We finally emerge from our nursery room sabbatical w/ Camp Counselor Erik Amlee returning to the stage for a sitar-heavy performance at the Montague Bookmill. Mr. Amlee has spent the past year getting busy w/ his Muse and preparing for this next series of invocations. Non-trad solo sitar, or maybe w/ fellow practitioners, guaranteed to raise the conciousness of all present. 8:00PM, $7, w/ Bunwinkies and Raccoo-oo-oon. at the Montague Bookmill, 440 Greenfield Rd, Montague MA 413.367.9206. presented by the mighty Autonomous Battleship Collective 04/23/05 Video Uplink + Tube webcast Our intrepid video mixologist Jason Daniels has uploaded the first of hopefully many files to the immense Archive.org library. We will be linking to them on our new SIGHT page as they go up. New live stream added - "Tube" at Evos Arts on 2/05/04. Ultra-cosmic spacerock as Kris Thompson (Abunai!, Lothars) joins w/ his mad theremin skillz battling Aleda's AirSynth virtuosity to unlock new dimensions. Casioist Nate Longcope hops behind the drumkit to beatdown those driving krautgrooves. Amazing heavy shit 02/08/05 MP3s galore The Sound page is filled with wriggle, melody, and noise in choice cuts from all releases to date. Bite size previews of the long forms whet the appetite for full epic enchiladas. 11/23/04 Website Launch After 3 years of cyber-squatting, ParadiseCamp23.com wriggles to life to spread news and joy of the project. Please find many updates with sounds and info of the actions of Paradise Camp 23, from live shows to prerecorded discs and media. As many videos are taken of PC23, we plan to soon host visual documents of Camp Rituals. Check often for upcoming in-person events and output. Special thanks to fans with much love in return. - PC23 Crew Goto www.mandragora.com for the whole picture. |