Two Hot Shows, One Sizzling Album!
Go KRAZY! All Night At The Vancouver Art Gallery
Friday June 27th, 9:00 pm to 5:00 am
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/events_and_programs/fuse.html
July
Fourth Toilet, an eclectic band of accomplished multidisciplinary
artists known for their infamous live shows blending wildly
experimental interpretations of popular music forms with high-concept
theatricality, will be presenting a 3-room, 8-hour show of music, multimedia, dance and performance art, hosted by the VAG Fuse series as part of the KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art exhibit.
Courtroom One will feature two performances of Dionysian sludge machismo-drippage skronk from the newly-released limited edition vinyl album July Fourth Toilet presents Balls Boogie featuring Me and Bobby McGee plus!: Kentucky Whore and Many Others. Rock turns in on itself and eats its own emasculated tail at 10:00pm and midnight.
Courtroom Two
will feature ongoing improvisational sound art to illustrate themes of
transformation, movement, inner voyages of discovery, outer journeys
through the universe, birth and rebirth, and rites of passage best
avoided starting at 9 PM and ending at 5 AM!!!!!!. The performance will
be accompanied by multiple projections and live scratch animation on 16mm film.
The Rotunda
will feature a performance of the piece "Enter the Princess" created
specifically for the natural acoustics and shape of the Rotunda using
placed choral voices and Chinese gongs in a spectacle of ceremony and
visceral sound vibrations accompanied by minimalist dance based on
ancient Indian yogic poses. The singers will encircle dancers who face
inward to the center of the circle as they move to the pulse of the
live score: movement as sound, sound as movement.
Fuse
will also present music, art and multimedia by Arowbe, Vancouver
Community Gamelan, Felix Culpa Theatre and the NEOGRAF collective, plus
a 12-hour live drawing jam by Vancouver comic artists.
CASE Productions presents
"July Fourth Toilet Presents: Balls Boogie Featuring Me And Bobby McGee Plus!: Kentucky Whore And many Others!" Record Launch Party
with guests Basketball, The Lovin' Hands (from Calgary) and Stamina Mantis
Friday July 4th at Pub 340, 340 Cambie Street
Doors 9:00 pm
July Fourth Toilet gets back to its roots on the July fourth!: down 'n' dirty on skid row!: in celebration of the release of July Fourth Toilet presents Balls Boogie featuring Me and Bobby McGee plus!: Kentucky Whore and Many Others, their
new gritty biker boogie-tinged slab o' overcooked vinyl. Cum get
blasted by a rocket ship of sonic slime, exploratory psych-O-droolic
instros and zonked ballads in an intimate environment of revelatory
boozy revelry!
http://www.julyfourthtoilet.com
http://www.myspace.com/julyfourthtoilet
July Fourth Toilet
presents
Balls Boogie featuring Me and Bobby McGee
plus!: Kentucky Whore and Many Others
Artist: JULY FOURTH TOILET
Title: JULY FOURTH TOILET PRESENTS BALLS BOOGIE FEATURING: ME AND BOBBY McGEE PLUS!: KENTUCKY WHORE AND MANY OTHERS!
Format: LP
Release Date: July 4th, 2008
Catalogue : PA871
Limited edition of 500 vinyl LPs
with special art booklet and MP3 download code
.What is the album? One
third hard driving biker boogie, one third faux Eastern but 10,000
miles up experimental instros, one third wonky ballads, one percent je
ne sais quoi, and zero bullshit.
July Fourth Toilet may just be the most lucid yet visceral musical act in existence!
Legendary long-time West Coast Canadian musical act July Fourth Toilet has been doing it their way since 1994.
July
Fourth Toilet have made it their mandate to never perform the same show
twice. Show themes for this multi-piece, multi-instrumental co-ed
bargain basement technicolor variety revue have included thirty second songs and medleys, as well as tributes to tea, candy, Davy Jones and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Their Satanic Majesties Request, September 11th, and legendary songwriter Paul Williams (with Paul Williams himself enjoying the show from ten feet away).
July
Fourth Toilet ritualistically combines and transcends pop song craft,
versatile musicianship, performance, non-musicians, and pure
improvisation to create their unique and inimitable sound and persona.
Named by Gregg Turkington and John Singer of the anarchic and confrontationally comedic experimental two piece Zip Code Rapists.
Their
first album, self-released, was intended to make people feel warm
inside with its sense of soft experimental psych-pop. Entitled Something For Everyone it received critical raves and was treasured by those who got a chance to hear it.
Tell us more about this new album! For
their follow-up album July Fourth Toilet set up a series of
obstructions to overcome in order to create greatest listenable
unlistenable album of all time using an old semi-generic budget label
record as a loose template. Some of the best art and entertainment is
created from barriers.
What about the music?
July Fourth Toilet begins their obstacle course of an album with an
eerie rendition of the most common song they could think of: Kris
Kristofferson's "Me And Bobby McGee." What follows are original numbers
beginning with five hard driving boogie rock tracks with G Funk
keyboards. To maximize listening pleasure and
recording efficiency, the band used the same backing track of one of
those songs and added new lyrics and vocals et al to create an entirely
new song ("Thanks Drugs"). This is followed by four or five
experimental non-rock based tracks created by different teamings of J4T
members. It all ends in a lush ballad of hope and renewal, a gentle,
shaky exhale from such relentless themes of unbridled machismo.
The album is wrapped up in the unwieldy title July Fourth Toilet presents Balls Boogie Featuring Me And Bobby McGee, Plus!: Kentucky Whore And Many Others.
So many factors were important, July Fourth Toilet wanted every song to
be well crafted and to have the album flow in a new (utilizing
restructured fragments of old) and unexpected manner on rather
different pinpoints of the musical map, to have it all be cohesive to
the unsuspecting, a story of overcoming difficulties for the listeners'
enjoyment.
