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<h1 class="entry-title">Author and Punisher, Muscle and
Marrow, ot~un~et~ir – at Ghost.</h1>
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<p><strong>Event:</strong> Author and Punisher, Muscle and
Marrow, ot~un~et~ir – at Ghost.</p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> 19 Nov 2015 - 8:00 pm</p>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> </p>
<p><strong>High Mayhem and Ghost. present:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Thursday November 19th, 8pm – Author and
Punisher, Muscle and Marrow, ot~un~et~ir – at Ghost.<br>
</strong></p>
<p><a
href="http://highmayhem.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ap.jpg"
rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1679];player=img;"><img
class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1675"
src="cid:part1.03070103.03020003@highmayhem.org"
alt="ap" width="300" height="198"></a><br>
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<p>We are very excited to have Author and Punisher and his
Doom Machines return. Along with Muscle and Marrow, and
on-ut-et-ir.</p>
<p>A night of glorious sludge and doom!</p>
<p><strong>Author and Punisher</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://tristanshone.com" target="_blank">Author
& Punisher</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><a
href="http://highmayhem.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mm.jpg"
rel="shadowbox[sbpost-1679];player=img;"><img
class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1676"
src="cid:part4.05030000.03050109@highmayhem.org"
alt="mm" width="300" height="200"></a><br>
Muscle and Marrow<br>
</strong>Muscle and Marrow is Kira Clark and Keith
McGraw.<br>
They live in Portland, OR.<br>
They are without genre.<br>
They look for what they cannot see.</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://muscleandmarrow.bandcamp.com/">https://muscleandmarrow.bandcamp.com/</a></p>
<p><strong>ot~un~et~ir</strong></p>
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