Mercury Rev - new albums, MP3, 2 NYC shows, ATP & a tour
DOWNLOAD: Mercury Rev – Senses on Fire (MP3)
As previously announced, Mercury Rev have two shows (in one night) coming up at The Stone in NYC….
Mercury Rev, long known for their pioneering work in experimental music, have confirmed two performances for Sept. 10 at The Stone, John Zorn’s lower east side outpost for the avant-garde. The show, curated by Foetus front man Jim Thirlwell, will see Mercury Rev joined by Brooklyn’s Feedtank, a collective of digital artists using new technologies to create playful interactive spectacles and light-based musical interfaces. Artist Alex Chechile will also join using a home-built electroencephalograph brainwave machine and hacked electrocardiograph heart monitor producing tones and music directly from the minds of Mercury Rev.
The collaborative performance will feature playing and improvising around motifs from the forthcoming Mercury Rev release Snowflake Midnight and its companion album (available for free download on release date [Sept 30]) Strange Attractor as well as the band’s back catalog. The new albums, created using open-source audio technology as well as random note and word generators are a milestone for the band and mark a further embrace of experimental compositional techniques and cutting edge recording methods to make music that Stereogum says “brims with energy and a glossy, trippy feel.”
Soon after these performances at The Stone, Mercury Rev will play the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Monticello, NY on Sept 21 at the behest of curators My Bloody Valentine.
The above MP3 is off the new album. All dates below…
Mercury Rev – 2008 Tour Dates
Aug 24 – Big Bang! Festival Beirut, Lebanon
Aug 29 – Hydro Connect Festival Inverary Argyll, Scotland
Sep 10 – The Stone New York, New York
Sep 13 – End Of The Road Festival North Dorset, UK
Sep 21 – ATP New York 2008 Monticello, New York
Sep 26 – Lunario Mexico City, Mexico
Oct 30 – Electric Avenue Waterford, Ireland
Oct 31 – Cyprus Avenue Cork, Ireland
Nov 1 – Roisin Dubh Galway, Ireland
Nov 2 – Vicar St. Dublin, Ireland
Nov 4 – Mandela Hall Belfast, UK
Nov 5 – Academy Manchester, UK
Nov 6 – Academy Leeds, UK
Nov 7 – Academy Birmingham, UK
Nov 9 – Academy Newcastle, UK
Nov 11 – Corn Exchange Brighton, UK
Nov 12 – Academy Bristol, UK
Nov 13 – Shepherds Bush Empire London, UK
Nov 14 – Academy Oxford, UK
Nov 16 – Den Atelier Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nov 17 – Luxor Koln, Germany
Nov 18 – Train Aarhus, Denmark
Nov 19 – Vega Copenhagen, Denmark
Nov 21 – Lido Berlin, Germany
Nov 22 – Paradiso Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 24 – Ancienne Belgique Brussels, Belgium
Nov 25 – Elysee Montmartre Paris, France
Nov 26 – La Vapeur Dijon, France
Nov 27 – Espacio Movistar Barcelona, Spain
Nov 28 – Joy Madrid, Spain
Nov 29 – Aula Magna Lisbon, Portugal
