I will be taking to the road once again to play with Toledo noise troubadours KBD. This time, we will be traveling with Bowling Green cassette artist Jason Zeh to play four dates in the wintery Midwest. As far as I know all dates have been confirmed:

• January 16 – ENEMY – Chicago, IL
  1550 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor
  enemysound.com
• January 17 – BORG WARD – Milwaukee, WI
  823 West National Avenue
  theborgward.org
• January 18 – LEMP – St. Louis, MO
  3301 Lemp Avenue
  lemp-arts.org
• January 19 – ART DAMAGE LODGE – Cincinatti, OH
  4120 Hamilton Avenue
  myspace.com/artdamagelodge

Toledo Bellows is hosting a house concert this Friday (December 12, 2008) at the Robinwood Concert House in the Old West End of Toledo with a crew of experimental poets, musicians, and sound artists from the Language Foundry (Cleveland) and local hosts KBD.

The evening will feature:

• J Guy Laughlin – controlled snare drum feedback and bowed metal
• Fluxmonkey – electronic and electroacoustic improv using mostly homebuilt instruments
• Jose Luna - strings and electronics
• Tom Orange - language, sound, and poetics
• J.S. Makkos - sound, language, and poetics
• KBD - improvisational sonic manipulation

The evening begins at around 9:30. The event is free and BYOB, but please bring a few bucks to donate to the out of town musicians and poets. The Language Foundry makes their own books, so they’ll probably have some stuff to buy as well.

The Robinwood Concert House is located at: 2564 Robinwood Ave, Toledo OH 43620 (Phone: 419-654-5544)

Come one, come all to the Secor Gallery/Studio in downtown Toledo for the 2008 “‘Tis the Secor” event. KBD will be playing at around 9 pm, but there is music and open studios and galleries all night. The event is free.

From colinhelb.com pictures

http://www.archive.org/details/TwoFace

Recorded by Anton Jessberger and compiled for the Fall 2008 Mini Tour, here is TWO FACE by KBD.

01. Battleground State
02. Unbecoming
03. Black Anemones
04. Throwback
05. Trichrotic

All music improvised by M. Kimaid, G. Beam, and C. Helb. 
Recorded at the Robinwood Concert House, Toledo, Ohio, September 2008.

(from Mike, more at KBD’s MySpace)

(from C. Randolph C.)