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ZumΒ celebrates its 25thΒ anniversaryΒ as a record label with a series of shows on the West Coast. On Saturday, Dec 2, Oakland Californiaβs renovated Thee Stork Club will host the Bay Area return ofΒ GROWINGΒ after thirteen years away!Β
They will be joined by synth-doom actΒ My Heart, an Inverted Flame, New YorkβsΒ SomnambulistsΒ (solo project of Warren Ng), andΒ Marshall Trammell & Paul Costuros Duo). DJΒ Melanie MarieΒ will also be spinning and providing live visuals.
The New York/Olympia duoΒ GROWINGΒ has a storied history of releases on Kranky and Silver Current and recent live and recorded collaborations with acclaimed harpist Mary Lattimore. GROWING released a CD EP with Zum in 2005 (a split with Mark Evan Burden) and contributed a track to the recentΒ Zum Audio Volume 5Β double-CD compilation.Β
My Heart, an Inverted FlameΒ played their second-ever show (their first was a 2022 Zum showcase at Noise Pop) after a few years of recording for Zum and Deathbomb Arc. The San Francisco/Ashland, Oregon duo delivers heavy doom drones using only synthesizers and percussion. Members Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, Common Eider, King Eider, aQuarius Records) and Marc Kate (I Am Spoonbender, Driftloss) also released a collaborationΒ single with viral TikTok star Banshee. The Wire magazine called them βStars of the Lid with a bad fucking attitude.β
Marshall TrammellΒ (Music Research Strategies)Β &Β Paul CosturosΒ are longtime Bay Area improvisers who convened for Trammellβs six-month residency at The San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum βFor Friendsβ ending in early 2022. Their first recorded material as this Duo is documented in the track βBlue Cubeβ onΒ Zum Audio Vol. 5.Β Trammell has toured extensively co-founder and former percussion of the Oakland-basedΒ Black Spirituals and currentlyΒ as solo performer Music Research Strategies or the percussion in In Defense of Memory and White People Killed Them. Costuros has been in the projects Total Shutdown, Death Sentence: Panda!, The Fisticuffs Bluff, Murder Murder, and Burmese.
SomnambulistsΒ is Brooklyn-basedΒ Warren Ng. He has released solo material under the moniker Somnambulists and in the group This Invitation. Ng has been involved in collaborative film + live score performance works presented at experimental film festivals and exhibitions in New York and San Francisco including an expanded cinema series co-presented byΒ the Microscope Gallery & The Whitney Museum (2016); Mono No Aware IX and X (2015 & 2016); and the SF Cinemathequeβs Crossroads 2016 & 2018 (presented at the SFMOMA). He has performed at Che Chenβs (75 Dollar Bill) Fire Over Heaven concert series in New York and this is his first appearance back in Oakland since 2019. This show will also be the album release for the new Somnambulists cassetteΒ Ascending PlanesΒ on Zum.
DJ Bio:
Melanie MarieΒ is a visual artist and creative coder based in Oakland. Initially working with installations centered around Macintosh SE & SE/30 computers, she is now primarily focused on live coding visual synthesis in collaboration with live musicians. Melanie is a host of Transformations Radio and Beloved Radio. Her work and music sets focus on the relationships between music and imagery.
ZUM BIO:
SiblingsΒ YvonneΒ (Xiu Xiu) and GeorgeΒ ChenΒ (Common Eider, King Eider, KIT) launched the ZumΒ AudioΒ compilation seriesΒ (including acts like Duster, Modest Mouse, Deerhoof, Yellow Swans, Zach Hill) in 1998. Over the ensuing decades, the label has released indie emo pioneers Nuzzle, Canadian noiseniks AIDS Wolf, and even Chenβs own stand-upΒ comedy EP.
To mark this anniversary, the latestΒ Zum Audio Vol 5Β was released in a double CD format as well as on digital. George Chen set out to survey present-day experimental electronics, drones, hardcore, and mutant pop.
LINKS
GROWING -https://growing-music.bandcamp.com
Marshall Trammell -https://www.musicresearchstrategies.info
Paul Costuros -https://www.discogs.com/artist/310473-Paul-Costuros
Somnambulists -somnambulistsmusic.bandcamp.com
My Heart, an Inverted Flame -https://myheartaninvertedflame.com
Melanie Marie -https://projectvisualsensation.com
- Β Swine FluΒ byΒ BoxleitnerΒ onΒ split 7"Β (Thin the Herd/Zum)
- Β Β #1Β byΒ KITΒ onΒ Wives/KIT 7"Β (Post Present Medium/Zum)
- Β Β Top GunΒ byΒ Total ShutdownΒ onΒ split 7"Β (Thin the Herd/Zum)
- Β Β A Pig is a Pig/You Could FeelΒ byΒ BattleshipΒ onΒ Presents PrincessΒ (on/on switch)
- No Mind/Scary ThingsΒ byΒ High CastleΒ onΒ Youβre on your own WayΒ (Zum)
- Input Select/MeetingΒ byΒ Channels 3&4Β onΒ ChristianityΒ (Gilgongo)
- Keep AwayΒ byΒ Silver DaggersΒ onΒ Zum Audio vol.3Β (Zum)
- Public SecretΒ byΒ The IntimaΒ onΒ Zum Audio Vol.5Β (Zum)
- Β Β Historic C RanchΒ byΒ Core of the Coalman(7 Year Rabbit CycleΒ onΒ Ache HornsΒ (Free Porcupine Society)
- Β Β Big Black CloakΒ byΒ BausΒ onΒ Zum Audio Vol.5Β (Zum)
- Β DomesticationΒ byΒ Curse all KingsΒ onΒ Zum Audio Vol.5Β (Zum)
- C(live)Β byΒ DeerhoofΒ onΒ Zum Audio Vol.3Β (Zum)
- Β This Makes me a Barn BurnerΒ byΒ 7 Year Rabbit CycleΒ onΒ Ache HornsΒ (Free Porcupine Society)
- Β ForestΒ byΒ KITΒ onΒ Zum Audio Vol.3Β (Zum)
- GatheringΒ byΒ SomnabulistsΒ onΒ Zum Audio Vol. 5Β (Zum)
- Β Zebulon 1/15/23Β byΒ GrowingΒ onΒ Zum Audio Vol.5Β (Zum)
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Megan Gailey
Jenny Yang
Casey Ley
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and your regs
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Land Smith
Nick Stargu
George Chen
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