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

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

Toledo Bellows presents their biggest show yet:

“Noise Master”  John Wiese from Los Angeles
Jason Zeh - cassette tape wizardry
KBD – unstable sounds
Puffy Areolas - Freak out /Freak in

John Wiese from Los Angles is a well-respected name and extremely prolific in the experimental/Noise community. Releasing many albums both as a solo artist and as a member of groups such as Sissy Spacek, and frequently collaborates with:  Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Cattle Decapitation, C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Merzbow. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia.

Jason Zeh from Bowling Green, Ohio is also well-respected and known in the experimental/Noise community, has toured the US and has a hand full of releases, One just released “HERACLITUS” on C.I.P records. Zeh‘s sound creating methods are truly unique, With a dozen cassette players and surplus of manipulated/reassembled cassettes, producing massive sound clusters and daringly wavering frequencies.

KBD and Puffy Areolas, two Toledo groups, carving there name into this healthy experimental/noise community, performing often around the midwest, releasing material, very capable of producing a powerful and often unpredictable show.

August 28th, 2008 9pm at Mickey Finn’s Pub