Hrvatski + Stars Like Fleas + Bird Show + Greg Davis April 15, 2005

258 Johnson Ave,
Williamsburg, Bklyn.
Directions here: http://www.asteriskartproject.com/#directions

Bird Show (Ben Vida from Town & Country) + Greg Davis +
Keith Fullerton Whitman (aka Hrvatski) + Stars Like Fleas
www.asteriskartproject.com

Stars Like Fleas will open the evening with a brief set...
...following this
all artists will perform in a series of solos, duets, trios, and ending with a large ensemble collaboration.

BIRD SHOW
http://www.kranky.net/artists/birdshow.html
"Though best known for his work in Town & Country, Ben Vida has been a prominent player in the Chicago music scene, placing himself at the nexus between improvised and acoustic minimalist musics. Ben Vida plays guitar, cornet and harmonium in Town & Country, who have been experimenting in acoustic resonance , minimalist composition, and world folk musics for the past seven years. Town & Country continue to record and tour, most recently with Tony Conrad in spring 2004. Ben Vida has brought the deliberation and repetitive structures of Town & Country to Bird Show and augmented it with somnambulant vocals, a trellis of percussion and psychedelic drone"

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN aka HRVATSKI
http://www.keithfullertonwhitman.com/
"Electronic music needs amateur ornithologists like Master Whitman. Artists who emulate the standard, escape-from-civilization allure of birdsong and then abruptly make an about-face to mimic a scrambling flock's ack-ack-acks are mavericks in any man's English. Whitman's Hrvatski guise sets that example with near-bipolar mood swings between Pollackian "Amen" breakbeats and guitar balladry that falls asleep at the wheel. Whitman's work under his given name also has an avian nature: Our man's processed-guitar masterwork, "Feedback Zwei", seems like a conversation between two sparrows bickering over a suburban stucco hut village that paved over their habitat and spared a few oaks for decoration." - Pitchfork

GREG DAVIS
Bio here: http://www.carparkrecords.com/greg_davis.html

STARS LIKE FLEAS
www.starslikefleas.com

In late 2003 San Francisco label Praemedia released the second record by the Brooklyn-based band (self-described 'electroacoustic, comprovised free-folk torch-song collective'), Stars Like Fleas: "Sun lights down on the fence". This record has been crawling its way out of the wilderness and into cultish acclaim ever since. Nearly two years in the making, the record includes members/ex-members of OutHud, Other Dimensions in Music, TEST, No Neck Blues Band, Papa M, Gold Sparkle Band, Little Huey Orchestra, At The Drive-In, Fiery Furnaces, The Silent League, Super Furry Animals and Mercury Rev, and features original cover art by Marcel Dzama. Stars Like Fleas was formed by Brooklyn musician/composer Shannon Fields and the Austin, TX singer and video artist, Montgomery Knott in the winter of 1998. The group has recently performed with Sagan, Blevin Blectum, Black Lights (Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio), Grizzly Bear and Akron/Family. Currently Stars Like Fleas are in the studio at Rare Book Room with Nicolas Vernhes (Animal Collective, Fiery Furnaces, Cat Power, Black Dice) working on a follow-up to "Sun lights down on the fence", and plans to re-release their first record ? which was mixed and mastered with Adam Wiltzie (Dead Texan, Stars Of The Lid) and Kramer (Galaxie 500, Low) in 2000 ? sometime in the late spring, 2005.