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)

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.

Taking advantage of my “open invitation” to perform with the mercurial KBD over the next few weeks, if you are interested in seeing Mike, Gabe, and I play guitars, pedals, objects, “the rage,” springs, drums, radios, feedback, no-input mixers, contact microphones, and other stuff, please venture to one of the following locations:

Friday, September 26, 2008
Mickey Finn’s (Toledo, OH)
A “Table Top” performance
with Gabe, Mike, Colin, and Jason Zeh
also performing: Sword Heaven (Columbus), Ripped Krampus II, and The Seven Deadly Five 

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Velvet Lounge (Washington DC)
Sonic Circuits of Festival of Experimental Music
also performing: Paul Flaherty/Randall Colbourne, Elliott Levin/Dan Scofield/Aaron Martin/Britton Powell/Scott Verrastro, and Ride the Big Bull w/ Marty McCavitt

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)

Friday, October 3, 2008
Soundlab (Buffalo, NY)

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Bela Dubby (Lakewood, Ohio)

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (Detroit, MI)

Saturday, October 25, 2008
House Party (Toledo, OH)

Though the Board of Directors prematurely foresaw a solid street date of September 1st, 2008 for the “08.32″ releases, the releases are mere days away from mass availability.

Here is a list of all the new releases, included five new artists.

Danger Vacuum presents Read (pronounced “Red”)
Doc Mailman presents Is It Too Doc Mailman
Stark and Nemo presents …Not Dark and Emo 

1000000 a.d. presents Four Tracks From the Four Track II
Dewback presents Dewback II
Tyler Kinney presents EP

The Birch Run Russell presents Telescope
The Grossly MisJudged Collective Works of Barry’s Listening presents Prog

Unfortunately (or fortunately) The tribute album Weird Al Ruined My Life has been postponed until mid to late October, 2008. Contributions will still be considered.

Toledo Bellows presents:

Metal Rouge
(NZ/LA duo)

Ripped Krampus
(Puffy Areolas side project)

Johnny Nevada
(a surpirse?) 

Seeping Vacuum Wheezing
(KBD meets Cornslaw Industries)

Nicholas Ceparski
(Perrysburg Ambience)

Thursday, September 4th, 9pm-ish
Mickey Finn’s, 602 Lagrange, Toledo