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SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 8:00 PM -$5
WINDER BINDER GALLERY OF FOLK ART
40 FRAZIER AVE, CHATTANOOGA, TN, 37405

featuring: JEFF MCLEOD / NEON VIKING FUNERAL VS. SECRET GUILT / AMANDA CAGLE & ERNEST PAIK

Jeff McLeod of Montgomery, Alabama is a musical mayhemist and multi-multi-instrumentalist making sounds with whatever he can get his hands on. Over the past 15 years, he has recorded albums with Steve Albini, founded The Subversive Workshop magazine and the Alabama Improv Co-op, and toured, composed, and worked with countless like-minded musicians. Among the many bands with which he is involved are Zepubicle, Reverse Engineer, Gezoleen, Liquid Brick, Autosymptomatic, bert, Doctor Midnight, and Skryxl, not to mention his solo guitar improvisational work, which he will unleash at his Chattanooga performance. (http://jeffmcleod.net)

Jerry Reed (of Hoth, Sand Mountain, and Gravebound) and Chris Griffin (Blue Rose Case, Gravebound) comprise the commercially unacceptable outfit Neon Viking Funeral, described as “…somewhere between the electronic duo Autechre and the Japanese noise master Merzbow…Griffin supplies beats from a laptop while Reed creates a deafening sonic tidal wave using two microphones, a synth, and an arsenal of effect pedals. On his approach, Reed says, "I use the stuff I use basically because I love screaming and hitting things. If people dig it, fine. If they leave the room, that?s OK as well.?” -Chattanooga Pulse, Sept. 2008. Secret Guilt member Tony Levi (also of Sand Mountain and Gravebound) is a proponent of Chattanooga's noise scene, fresh from participating with Reed onstage at the inaugural Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN earlier this year. (http://www.myspace.com/neonvikingfuneral)

Amanda Cagle and Ernest Paik are multi-instrumentalists who share a fascination with the possibilities of free improvisation, using a variety of unconventional extended techniques. Vowing to never repeat themselves, the duo has used completely different instrumentation for each performance so far. Cagle is currently a member of the Rough Shapes and has performed with the Shaking Ray Levis, Davey Williams, Land Camera, and Christabeland the Jons. Paik has composed and recorded music as a solo artist for film, television, and radio.