Important Records showcased @ Issue Project Room - pics (Master Musicians of Bukkake, Chord, Cave & more)
photos by Greg Cristman
Master Musicians of Bukkake @ Issue Project Room
Much like its inspiration, the Pan-devoted, beatnik-adored Master Musicians of Joujouka, the floating infinity conjured by the Master Musicians of Bukkake draws on a tradition that echoes across millennia. Around in various formations since 2003, the Seattle entity has coalesced into a seven-piece in time for its first East Coast performance, headlining a marathon tribute to avant-everything label Important Records in the Issue Project Room courtyard. MMoB’s collaborative web includes psych-trance-ritual ecstatics from Earth, Sun City Girls and the free-improv world, which makes each new project a mutable feast of electronic drones, Buddhist temple bells, gamelan breakdowns, fuzz-box meditations, and innovations like “Rag-Dun Tibetan trumpet” and “leprosy synth.” -[Time Out]
Despite the rain and subsequent relocation indoors, Important Records strutted like a peacock at Issue Project Room, showing off their roster with performances by headliner The Master Musicians of Bukkake, as well as Cave, Chord, Helena Espvall & Fursaxa, Kouhei Matsunaga, New Monuments, Duane Pitre, and Diane Cluck (no Ocean, unfortunately)).
More pics from the show are below…
Helena Espvall & Fursaxa
Diane Cluck
Duane Pitre
New Monuments
Chord
Kouhei Matsunaga
Cave
Master Musicians of Bukkake