Thursday Nov. 19th- Author and Punisher, Muscle and Marrow, ot~un~et~ir

[High Mayhem Newsletter]

  Author and Punisher, Muscle and Marrow, ot~un~et~ir – at Ghost.

*Event:* Author and Punisher, Muscle and Marrow, ot~un~et~ir – at Ghost.

*Date:* 19 Nov 2015 - 8:00 pm

*Description:*

*High Mayhem and Ghost. present:*

*Thursday November 19th, 8pm – Author and Punisher, Muscle and Marrow, 
ot~un~et~ir – at Ghost.
*

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We are very excited to have Author and Punisher and his Doom Machines 
return.  Along with Muscle and Marrow, and on-ut-et-ir.

A night of glorious sludge and doom!

*Author and Punisher*

Author & Punisher <http://tristanshone.com> is a sonic and visual artist 
venturing into a new league of unwieldy, music and live performances 
utilizing his custom designed instruments on his albums and dynamic live 
displays.

After leaving a career as mechanical engineer in Boston to focus on art 
and sculpture, Tristan Shone, the creator and sole artist behind Author 
& Punisher, moved west to pursue his MFA in Southern California. In the 
metal and machine shops of University of California, San Diego, Shone 
forged a relationship with design, sound and fabrication that ultimately 
yielded A&P’s first music and mapped the journey away from traditional 
instrumentation towards custom made, precision machinery that he calls 
Drone Machines, Dub Machines and now his series of Masks.

Shone used his technical knowledge, along with his artistic background 
to create what Wired Magazine has hailed as his own “special brand of 
doom metal.”  As experimental as he is at times, with the high fidelity 
drone so thick and pulsating it lays a sonic lead blanket waving over 
your core, it lingers only as long as it needs, regrouping or 
intensifying with pounding live rhythms and vocals.  The sound builds up 
anxiously but always rewards with a hint of hope in the form of epic 
sonic phrases leaving you feeling exhausted but satisfied.

All aspects of the A&P sound begin with physical movement, limbs 
struggling in unison to coordinate a wall of electronic rhythm and 
oscillation, ultimately conditioned by an organic and loose quality 
absent of sequencing and plastic perfection. Author & Punisher 
performances are a real amalgamation between man and mechanisms. They 
are direct, physical, heavy experiences that have amassed praise and 
intrigue from a wide array of audiences. Pitchfork styled him “immediate 
but mysterious,” Stereogum described his “chilling, unrecognizable 
form,” and NPR hails him as “a thrill [who] fires on all cylinders.”

The custom devices that drive A&P begin mostly as big chunks of aluminum 
and steel that are worked into all manners of wheels, throttles, pedals, 
and masks to manipulate sound live. Shone’s electromechanical arsenal 
and physical approach to live production become to heavy music what 
Survival Research Laboratories was to live, unscripted performance art.

Author & Punisher’s new album, Melk En Honning, was produced by Phil 
Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual, and label head for A&P’s new 
label, Housecore Records) who said, “Tristan Shone is the epitome of 
what Housecore Records stands for and look for in musical expression: 
absolute originality and innovation.  There is no pigeonholing this 
man’s art.”

With Melk En Honning, Shone has incorporated various drone machinery 
together, multiple physical rhythm machines, some synth and the new 
electromechanical masks that began to appear in A&P performances across 
the U.S. and Europe in 2014. After a year of heavy touring and festival 
appearances, the goal with this album is to capture the live dissonant 
power of the A&P experience. The combination of Anselmo’s persistence, 
expertise and Shone’s new experimentation with various vocal devices, 
led to a vocal-prominent, bass heavy album that combines A&P’s signature 
elusive drone sequences and hard hitting rhythms with unexpected 
terrains of melody and musicality that sustain Shone’s reputation as an 
unorthodox innovator in a class all of his own.

*mm <http://highmayhem.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mm.jpg>
Muscle and Marrow
*Muscle and Marrow is Kira Clark and Keith McGraw.
They live in Portland, OR.
They are without genre.
They look for what they cannot see.

https://muscleandmarrow.bandcamp.com/

*ot~un~et~ir*
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