SF Weekly write-up

Nov 12, 2009 14:38

SF Weekly did a write-up of 15 Degrees Below Zero for our show tonight at the Luggage Store Gallery. (This was definitely unexpected!) I think it's only available online, though, not in the actual print version.

"Local experimental outfit 15 Degrees Below Zero traverses the boundary between chance and control, playing inside a loose compositional wireframe that's more defined than those preferred by pure-improv noiseniks, but with the sonic details nevertheless fleshed out via aleatory improvisational flourishes. 15DBZ songs are really more like extended ambient/post-industrial/drone journeys - one Edgetone Records album is indicatively titled New Travel - where the listener is twisted and pulled by an invisible gravity, sucked into a slowly rotating wormhole, then released at the end in a new place. With instrumentation that includes shimmering guitars, spinning sample loops, and spritzes of distortion and noise, 15DBZ is public transportation that takes you somewhere you didn't know you wanted to go until you got there. If only Muni were so cool. Los Angeles cello/electronics duo Mem1 opens."
-John Graham,
http://www.sfweekly.com/events/15-degrees-below-zero-mem1-1708893/
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