DIAMOND TERRIFIER AND MIVOS QUARTET
Jan. 18: Sam Hillmer, who is the saxophonist for the downtown avant-chamber group Zs, also leads Diamond Terrifier, a sax-and-electronics project named for Vajrabhairava, an irate Buddhist deity with nine faces, thirty-four hands, and sixteen legs. The group’s first album, comprising its long-form, drone-oriented songs, will be produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and released through Northern Spy Records this September. Hillmer and company open for the MIVOS Quartet, which premières a string quartet by Patrick Higgins. The piece, based on Proust’s reflections on memory and recollection, marks Higgins’s début as a classical composer; he is more well known as a gifted guitarist at home on the more brutal, punky fringes of the prog-rock community.
Diamond Terrifier in the New Yorker
Diamond Terrifier playing & curating shows w/ many special guests, working on an album (dates & MP3)
Diamond Terrifier is introducing his new bi-weekly series, ‘PRACTICE!’ taking place at Zebulon every other Tuesday. This month it takes place on January 17 and 31, and he’s performing at and curating each one. The 1/17 show includes Lichens, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (of Liturgy who are opening for Zola Jesus at Webster Hall), LZA/Dutch E. Germ (of Gang Gang Dance), and DJ sets by Laurel Halo and The Oracle. The 1/31 show includes Dan Friel, GDFX, Rat Attack, and DJ sets by Chief Boima (of Dutty Artz) and The Oracle. All shows in this series are free.
