UPCOMING SHOWS:
1/14/12 Gdansk, Poland, Festiwal Dni Muzyki Nowej
1/17/12 Bratislava, Slovakia, A4
1/18/12 Zilina, SLOVAKIA, Stanica
1/23/12 Nijmegen, Netherlands, Extrapool
1/27/12 Los Angeles, CA, Black Box
1/28/12 Los Angeles, CA, Mahasukha Meditation Center
2/15/12 Troy, NY, EMPAC
2/16/12 Brooklyn, NY, Release Party, 285 Kent
2/17/12 New York, NY, Release Party, Printed Matter
3/10/12 Los Angeles, CA, The Smell
About "Existers"
"EXISTERS" is a 21-minute long mini-album of
brand-new songs by lucky dragons, produced in cooperation with artist /
designer Jesse Hlebo of Swill Children. EXISTERS resist without intervening,
subsist without consuming. They are everything about living except life,
showing the effects of attention on a thing over time. "EXISTERS"
harkens to all things slow, delicate, and sharp--music for drifters, onlookers,
and aliens of the everyday. Following on 2011's "SHAPE TAPE", which
reduced music to pure harmonics--no concern for beginning, end, or time
passing--lucky dragons begin the process of re-inserting the organic textures,
playfully intricate handmade rhythms and repetitions that characterized their
earlier work, such as 2008's "Dream Island Laughing Language" or
2006's "Widows". By largely replacing the acoustic instrumentation
and field-recorded sources of those records with the crackling pulse of modular
synthesizer and alien sharpness of spectral processing, "EXISTERS" is
both the wall and the push against it, a direct impression, a tribute to the
boundary and how the boundary can be crossed.
Pre-order available at SwillChildren.org
About Lucky Dragons
Lucky Dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los
Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active as a band since
2000, they are known for their participatory approach to making music,
radically inclusive live shows, and their sprawling catalog of digital
sounds crafted in playful humanism. They have presented performances and installations
in a wide variety of contexts--including MOCA Los Angeles, The Smell,
Smithsonian's Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum of
American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), The 54th Venice
Biennale,The Kitchen and PS1 in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,
REDCAT and LACMA in Los Angeles, Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, ICA London, ICA
Philadelphia, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The name "lucky
dragons" is borrowed from a fishing vessel that was caught in the fallout
from h-bomb tests in the mid-1950's, an incident which sparked international
outcry and gave birth to the worldwide anti-nuclear movement.
Press for Lucky Dragons
"Lucky Dragons... create ecstatic music that
completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually
sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could
say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic
music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons' live show, though conducted via
computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope
for the techno-future our society is racing toward." - Artforum
"a line between the handmade and the distanced
digital... ...a successful forging of the personal detritus, the mic-ed moments
between moments" -all music guide "Lucky Dragons have managed to
create a completely new strand of West Coast American psychedelia." -
Frieze
"The overall impression is that, almost 10 years
into their career, Lucky Dragons still haven't chosen a certain kind of
cultural product to be. That redounds to their credit on Dream Island Laughing
Language, where each track seems to document the group's rebirth as (to borrow
from their manifesto) 'new and temporary creatures.'" - Pitchfork
"For all intents and purposes, let's say that Lucky
Dragons had a magical box that was attached to a projector. They handed out
blank CDs to concertgoers, who were encouraged to wave, move, and shake their
CDs in front of the beam. Any interference of the beam with a CD resulted in a
synthesized noise, which changed according to what the interference was like;
it changed depending on distance, speed, and quantity. The participation was
organic and fluid, and the performance seemed largely improvised. People watched
from afar and crept up slowly, like moths being drawn to a rainbow fire pit in
the middle of the venue. The whole approach and performance felt slightly
shamanistic, but not in a pretentious hipster way at all; Lucky Dragons are
easily all-around positive vibes..." - Redefine Magazine
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