VICE’s Noisey reps Diamond Terrifier HARD, Preview New <>T Tape SHRINE FLU
You may know Sam Hillmer as the bearded saxophonist for the famed downtown avant-weird chamber punks Zs. He’s also the director of Representing NYC, a not-for-profit music series that pairs young Brooklyn hip-hop artists with indie luminaries like Excepter’s Zebrablood, Mr. Lif, and Prefuse 73.
Hillmer’s been kicking around a new solo project called Diamond Terrifier, named for the nine-faced, thirty-four-handed, sixteen-legged Buddhist deity Vajrabhairava. He’s working on a late-year LP for Northern Spy Records, but this March he’s dropping a cassette on Words+Dreams. It’s a 22-minute droned-out sax-and-outmoded-electronics masterpiece. According to Hillmer, “SHRINE FLU is the part of the Venn diagram representing our collective psyche where spiritual paranoia & materialism overlap with political and economic paranoia and materialism.” Good shit.
We’ve got an exclusive stream of the title track below, and if you’re in NYC you can catch Hillmer’s PRACTICE! series at Zeubulon on January 31, a free show featuring Parts & Labor’s Dan Friel, Rat Attack, and GDFX, the electronic psych project from the virtuosic ex-Liturgy drummer Greg Fox. I went last week and it was off the chain.
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.
PRACTICE!
DIAMOND TERRIFIER // OUTPUT:NOISE, A SOUNDTRACK TO THE DSM-IV // CONTROLLED BLEEDING // DAN FRIEL
Output:NOISE will perform improvised interpretations of mental illnesses in support of the recently released Soundtrack to the DSM-IV. Collaborating on this second edition of the DSM-IV are O:N artists, Torus and Crushing Something, with Output:NOISE contributor, CJ Boyd (www.cjboyd.com) and special guests, Valerie Kuehne and David Grollman of the Brooklyn based Prehistoric Horse (www.myspace.com/prehistorichorse).
Live at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn on Saturday, January 14th, the Output:NOISE performers will be joined by experimental / industrial pioneers, Controlled Bleeding; local noise artist, and member of Parts and Labor, Dan Friel; and Diamond Terrifier, the sax / electronics solo-project from Sam Hillmer of ZS.
DIAMOND TERRIFIER // OUTPUT:NOISE, A SOUNDTRACK TO THE DSM-IV // CONTROLLED BLEEDING // DAN FRIEL
http://www.facebook.com/events/256058291123360
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DIAMOND TERRIFIER
http://soundcloud.com/diamondterrifier
OUTPUT:NOISE, A SOUNDTRACK TO THE DSM-IV
http://www.outputnoise.com/DSM
CONTROLLED BLEEDING
http://www.controlledbleeding.com/
DAN FRIEL
http://www.danfriel.com/
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SHEA STADIUM BK
8 PM Doors
9 PM Bands
8 $
20 Meadow St. Brooklyn, NY
http://www.liveatsheastadium.com/
In case you missed it: Hubble and Diamond Terrifier reviewed in the NY Times
Guitar and Sax, Each in Exploration
- Ben Ratliff
Monday December 19th 2011
Skeleton$
Black Crown Ceremony
Loud Objects
w/The Oracle DJs, Marty McSorely, DJ Dutch E Germ
PACS Gallery
70 N6th Street, Brooklyn NY
9pm, $7 - http://www.facebook.com/events/237833186286817
http://skeletons.tv/
http://www.zzzsss.com/
http://wfmu.org/playlists/BY
http://pacsgallery.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/loudobjects
http://soundcloud.com/dutch-e-germ-the-dutchess
via Impose
Hubble had an excellent year. Associated projects aside, this year Hubble released a stellar cassette, Hubble Linger, on NNA Tapes and a remarkable LP, Hubble Drums, on Northern Spy Records. Additionally, he debuted “Superposition”, a piece written for quadrophonic electric guitar (photos), and he scored NASA footage from the telescope of his namesake. His style of solo guitar has confounded many to believe he uses loop stations; however, those who have seen him live know it’s all muscle, and like a responsible shredder he stretches before he plays. Ben Greenberg, Hubble’s sole proprietor (also mem. Zs and Pygmy Shrews), plans on keeping the momentum and closing 2011 strong with two year-end shows in his hometown of New York City. The first is December 20th at Zebulon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — it’s free, and Hubble shares the bill with Diamond Terrifier, the solo saxophone project of Zs bandmate Sam Hillmer. The second is at John Zorn’s Alphabet City spot, the Stone, on December 28th. Per Stone policy, the bill has been set by a weekly guest curator, and in this case David Byrne’s world music label Luaka Bop.
Listen to an excerpt from Linger and a song from Hubble Drums, and watch the “Hubble’s Hubble” video here.
NPR: First Watch: Hubble Soundtracks Hubble Telescope Images
NPR premieres new video from Hubble, talks with Ben Greenberg.
Images: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Video: Sheena Callage, Tiffany Borders (STScI)
Music: Hubble - Hubble’s Hubble (from Hubble Drums LP/CD Northern Spy Records 2011)
Tuesday December 13, 2011
VAZ
Dan Friel
White Suns
Diamond Terrifier
Death By Audio
49 S2nd Street, Brooklyn
$9 | 8p
Every Ages
http://danfriel.com
http://vazmusic.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/whitesuns
http://diamondterrifier.tumblr.com
art by Nick Colen http://grabthecrown.com
Sunday November 13th, 2011
So Percussion & Calder Quartet
Skeleton$
Diamond Terrifier
w/DJ Andrew WK
285 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn NY
$10 | All Ages | 9pm
http://skeletons.tv/
http://shinkoyo.com/
http://calderquartet.com/
http://sopercussion.com/
http://www.tristanperich.com/
http://www.danielwohlmusic.com/
http://diamondterrifier.tumblr.com/
Saturday November 19th, 2011
Come celebrate the release of Hubble’s new record, Hubble Drums
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188925131190751
Hubble
Psychic Ills
Man Forever
Driphouse
also:
DJ Tim Dewit, Oracle DJs, DJ Marty McSorely
Planned since Hubble’s first live performance in September of 2010, Hubble Drums is an inspired record of new guitar music. Equal parts shred-fi, cyber-dread and fried psychedelia, Hubble Drums marks Ben Greenberg (of Zs and Pygmy Shrews)’s first full-length recording and debut for Northern Spy. Recorded at Python Patrol and lovingly mastered at Bonati Mastering, the CD and 150g LP features original artwork by Michael Yaniro and Ben Greenberg.
http://missionhubble.blogspot.com
http://northern-spy.com
http://psychicills.com/
http://soundcloud.com/hubble
https://www.facebook.com/285kentave
http://soundcloud.com/cocosounds/man-forever
http://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/driphouse-heavy-white
