Kim Gordon & Bill Nace aka Body/Head Came Apart @ Union Pool with Yoshimi of the Boredoms (pics)

September 11, 2013

“Was already excited to see Kim Gordon’s new project at a super small venue, but insane bonus that Yoshimi P-We is opening.” – brett renfer

Kim Gordon & Yoshimi @ Union Pool – 9/10/2013

With Body/Head, they’re referring back to a rawer, riskier era, creating something wholly unpredictable, based on “scripted improvisation”. Gordon has stated that there was very little editing involved in the final product, and while this occasionally manifests in a bit of meandering, they repeatedly succeed in taking their noise somewhere interesting, rather than allowing it to become the chore that some of the Syd Barrett-era psychedelia they were influenced by can be. [The Quietus]

Though Sonic Youth is no longer active, all four members have been keeping busy, and Kim Gordon‘s been doing so with Body/Head, her noise duo with Bill Nace. Body/Head’s new album, Coming Apart, came out this past Tuesday (9/10), and to celebrate the band played a sold-out show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool that same day. Noise Nomads, who Thurston Moore told us he loved in 2008, and who we caught opening for him in 2009, opened the show. Yoshimo aka a duo featuring Yoshimi of the Boredoms and Free Kitten which also contains Kim Gordon, was also on the bill thanks to coming to town to play the Station to Station show a few days earlier. Pictures of the Union Pool show are in this post.

Body/Head’s tour continues, and it brings them back to NYC for a show on October 5 at SIR Stage 37 as part of the New Yorker Festival (where Kim will also be in conversation with Alex Halberstadt). Then on November 13 and 14, Issue Project Room hosts the Kim Gordon benefit which sees Kim performing along with Bill Nace, Ikue Mori, Jutta Koether, and more TBA (tickets).

More pictures from Union Pool below…

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