Feb 16, 2015
Douglas McCombs of Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day, and Brokeback performs tonight at Glad Cloud, The Whistler's monthly ambient music series. Theo Katsaounis (Joan of Arc) and Donny Mahlmeister open. Showtime at 9:30pm. No cover.
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Douglas McCombs of Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day, and Brokeback performs tonight at Glad Cloud, The Whistler's monthly ambient music series. Theo Katsaounis (Joan of Arc) and Donny Mahlmeister open. Showtime at 9:30pm. No cover.
Mon 10/20 at The Whistler: Glad Cloud Ambient Music Series presents DrmBt vs Kat Venus, Fee Lion
Glad Cloud is a monthly series that celebrates the rich landscape of Chicago musicians working with ambient music. Visitors can enjoy their cocktails and companions while the music envelops the room around them.
Fee Lion is an ever evolving solo project of Justina Kairyte. These experiments and drafts are a collection of melodic pieces devised, written, voiced, and exuded organically by Fee Lion, recorded at home with minimal technology.
Monday, July 21st: Glad Cloud Ambient Music Series
Glad Cloud is a monthly series that celebrates the rich landscape of Chicago musicians working with ambient music. Visitors can enjoy their cocktails and companions while the music envelops the room around them. This month's installment of Glad Cloud is curated by Mark Trecka of Pillars and Tongues, and will serve as an after-party for the band's performance at Pritzker Pavillion in Millenium Park earlier in the evening.
RXM Reality is the moniker of local electronic artist Mike Meegan, whose work at times fits neatly in the categories of techno and house music. Just as often, however, the listener is lofted to a place entirely outside of the club. Rhythmic, layered samples of voices and synths sustain a momentum and resplendence the likes of which are found on records like the sublime Missa Luba by Les Trouvadours De Roi Baudoin or Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. Meegan prepared a special ambient set for tonight's Glad Cloud performance.
Vincent Dupas and Evan Hydzik have both performed in a variety of contexts both in Chicago and beyond. Dupas hails from Nantes, France, and is known for his work as a solo artist and bandleader with My Name is Nobody, as well as the French punk band Fordamage and as having made regular contributions to Pillars and Tongues' live sets. Hydzik is a founding and former member of Pillars and Tongues and an electronic ambient artist and film composer in his own right. Tonight marks the debut of the two as a duo, performing work for electric guitar, upright bass, and Casio that takes cues from classic ambient and slowcore bands such as Labradford.
Super intense (and NSFW) video from local musician [[[SE AM RIP PER]]]. Catch him live at The Whistler's Glad Cloud Ambient Music Series on Monday, October 21st w/ Jerome Baez.
via Time Out Chicago:
Implodes guitarist Ken Camden guides us through the local drone scene
Chicago’s drone music landscape has evolved over the past decade. During the late ’90s and early ’00s, genre standbys such as TV Pow and Kevin Drumm were preoccupied with laptop music technology. Simultaneously, there was an active electro-acoustic improvisation scene where Jim O’Rourke and other artists combined those new technologies with a classical avant-garde approach (e.g. prepared guitar). More recently there’s been a resurgence of analog synth artists searching for new perspectives using older equipment, but no matter what the technology, there always seems to be a devoted audience, as well as venues willing to support these endeavors, all of which make Chicago a creative hub for such artists.
Glad Cloud — Programmed by Benjamin Mjolsness, the Whistler’s monthly Glad Cloud series is another showcase that continues to promote ambient and experimental tendencies in a listener-friendly environment. Hometown musicians Fred Lonberg-Holm, Nick Broste, Tyson Torstensen, Dan Mohr and Implodes’ own Matt Jencik are among those who have helped carve out yet another small droney corner for you to crawl into once a month.
The next installment of the Glad Cloud Ambient Music Series is on April 15th and will feature Handsome Tyrants, Peter Maunu and Benjamin Mjolsness.
—Billy
Tonight at the Glad Cloud Ambient Music Festival: HORDE
Ben Babbitt: Pump Organ, effects Alex Inglizian: Juno 60, effects Dan Mohr: Vocoder, effects Tyson Torstensen: Ensoniq ESQ1
They go on at 10pm.
—Billy
Tonight at the Whistler: the Glad Cloud Ambient Music Series presents Dan Mohr (left) and Jordan Martins (right). Glad Cloud is a monthly series that celebrates the rich landscape of Chicago musicians working with ambient music. The series provides an opportunity for ambient artists to color the air, walls, and liquids of the Whistler in a deliberately non-intrusive manner. Visitors can enjoy their cocktails and companions while the music envelops the room around them. Very chill. Music starts at 9:30pm.
—Billy
Chill out tonight at Glad Cloud, the Whistler's monthly ambient music series. Deep Sleep (preview video above) and Marigolds are performing at 9:30 and 10:30pm, respectively.
—Billy