NYMPH is a Brooklyn-based psychedelic-shred/avant-garde outfit whose tempestuously transcendent music has penetrated the New York music scene with bared teeth! This, their self-titled debut album, was recorded by Jason Meagher (of No Neck Blues Band) at Black Dirt in upstate New York and mixed by David Tolomei at DNA in New York City from late autumn 2007 – summer 2009, and mastered by Sarah Register (of Talk Normal) at The Lodge studios in New York City. Originally self-released as a very special limited edition of 333 gatefold double LPs on their label Dog of Junipers, we at The Social Registry are very proud to be bringing the album to wider attention.

NYMPH’S compositional palette encompasses a shimmering kaleidoscope of sound: imagine 13th Floor Elevators essaying a Rahsaan Roland Kirk jam and you begin to get the picture. Or maybe Steve Reich bonging out on Pandit Pran Nath and jamming with This Heat.

NYMPH’s blissful spiritual vibrations and luxuriant execution of showering riffage are woven with an intuitive vocal expression largely free from the semantic bounds of lyric, ultimately finding form in a cavalcade of radiant melody & orgasmic modulation. Newly expanded to a 7-piece ensemble, NYMPH illuminates an extremely magnetic and ethereal live presence sculpted by the metronome of polyrhythmic tides, ebullient brass & subterranean harmonious drone:

“Free jazz, Improv and Psychedelia should be in constant and fruitful alignment. Yet they rarely are. Improvisors are too serious or austere for psychedelia’s transcendental whimsy, rock musicians too turned-on or musically limited to keep up with the jazz. Yet, like a ghost memory of that possibility, NYMPH emerge resplendent: wild, free and gloriously psychedelic…in a hinterland between the acid-fried rock of the Texas plains and the inner journeys of Can or Coltrane.” – The Wire

“NYMPH, from New York, sounds as if it’s from everywhere and nowhere. This group’s first, self-titled album, on the Social Registry label, begins with the sound of Matty McDermott’s hollow-bodied electric guitar, playing curled and emphatic Malian riffs with amplifier settings that sound like Neil Young’s, loud and tough and warm and hugely echoing. Then the record stops and starts through drum rolls and cymbal crashes and rattled bells, with theatrical yelping, wordless vocals by Eri Shoji. And that — give or take a clarinet, a shakuhachi and an electric bass — is pretty much the template for the whole intuitive and sensible, contemplative and bone-rattling album. It knows what it’s doing, and doesn’t need to make it too clear.”
– Ben Ratliff, NEW YORK TIMES

SEXINJURY –
This will be an infinity-off performance from a handful of Boone’s finest psych-lurkers. What it will be cannot be described until the zenith of its existence. Some foreshadowing may be explored at appalachianstudiesrecordings.com.

$5
::: Ages 18+
::::::1 Dollar pbrs

“Give Oulipo’s latest EP a few measures and its title, Primitive Ways, makes sense — skittering beats and cavernous, reverberating vocals overwhelm as a few witchy howls drive the point home… These are not the acid-washed jams that they initially seem; they’re great pop songs, built by offspring of high artistic theory residing in the digital age.” -Shuffle Magazine

http://oulipo.bandcamp.com

Though rising and thriving in the sun-soaked swamps of Central Florida, before huddling in the bed-bug infested tombs of Brooklyn, Alligator Indian weren’t truly forged until Spooky Bubble and Christian Church relocated to the subterranean crystal nexus that is Asheville, North Carolina. It’s here they’ve spent the past two years honing their arts & craft while unfurling a slew of EPs and singles, either through their own machinations or with the help of friends and believers like KillerPOP, Beko-DSL, and most importantly, Bleeding Gold. Spring I’m In is the most chronologically recent release by the band and San Diego’s Bleeding Gold Records.

www.alligatorindian.com

Brain Paint (Boone) – first show!
The latest lurching brain baby from Slopes’ David Cate. Fiercely contorted guitar with bellowing, reverb-drenched vocals – backed by Tyler Hoskinson on drums and Drippy Inputs on bass. Don’t miss this.

$5
9:30
All-Ages

At last! Live jazz returns to Espresso News.

From the capital, led by sax-wielding helmsman Carter Harris, we bring you the impossible cool of Blue Lunar Quartet:
www.bluelunarquartet.com

:: 9:30 pm
:: All-ages
:: Drink Specials for those of legal drinking age.
:: $5 SUGGESTED DONATION (to help the touring band pay for gas on their trip to and from Raleigh)

LA LUZ – All-female, surf-soul from the pacific NW, on Burger and Suicide Squeeze records. Need some motivation, read below…

“Frontwoman/guitarist Shana Cleveland shreds through surf lines as effortlessly as if she were brushing her teeth. Marian Li Pino’s minimalist rolling drums shimmer—initially appearing to be a calm river, the undercurrent is constantly moving forward and pulling you along, threatening to submerge you in its catchy, hypnotic pulse. Plus, there’s Abbey Blackwell on bass and Alice Sandahl on keys, easily pulling off the full-on ’60s sound, the kind of sweet surf rock with a touch of melancholy that should be the soundtrack to the slow-dancing-at-prom scene in every teen movie. During the two live shows that I’ve seen La Luz play so far, I’ve heard ‘This band is totally gonna be famous’ or ‘Dude, they’re gonna be so big'” -The Stranger

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14906-sure-as-spring/

>>> http://laluz.bandcamp.com/

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DRAG SOUNDS – Like Television, but weirder. From the piedmont of North Carolina.
>>> https://soundcloud.com/drag_sounds

VIEWFINDER – Dreamy Boone hunks dreamily shoegazing.
>>> http://viewfinder.bandcamp.com/

:: $5
:::: 18+
:::::: 10:00

“Other Colors began as the bedroom pop project of Will Ryerson. From these beginnings it bloomed, broadening in scope from homespun 4-track hiss into soaring, mystically enhanced spectral pop. These songs manage to exude undeniable uplift vibes. It’s a carefree, adventurous spirit. Will has a particular gift for birthing earworms, too. They burrow your head for days, almost to the point of being annoying. Testimony of this comes in the song ‘Dark Things’, an effortless bit of refined guitar-pop.” -Faster Louder (Australia)

“I’m constantly amazed by how much weird, awesome music is generated in the dilapidated neighborhoods of Baltimore, my neighboring gritty city. This simple pop will draw you into the ”future folk-rock” hand-crafted by this trio…” -Yvynyl

“As the guitar plays, something else creeps up…an entity…a being…a force…a horn…an organ…an idea…taking the life of this lonely sparsely beautiful rock and haunting it hard. Baltimore’s Other Colors’ solitary magic and expansive lo fi rock is something to take ahold of now. Their S/T album was recorded during last year’s blizzard, and that walled in mystique flows through this gem.” -Pasta Primavera

“Completely fallen for this lonesome, melancholy-dripping ‘spectralist pop’ gem… a slow-burning tune with devastating harmonies drenched in a low-profile, restrained fog of noise and reverb.” -No Fear of Pop

http://genpoprecords.bandcamp.com/album/other-colors

Lollipops
http://thelollipops1.bandcamp.com/

$5
::::::18+
::::::::::Real cheap beer

Music show

SLOPES ///
Shoe gazing haze ripping alt-pop

KATTERWAUL* ///
Primitive garage-soul

MERIDIAN ///
Voluminous cave-wave

*Katterwaul’s full-length cassette debut, “Gimmie Fever” CS-32 ($5 includes limited ed. patch and download).

Surplus flyers from past shows will be available for free, and Light Jockey Wright will be slinging light beams for your viewing pleasure.

:: $5 entry
:::: 9:30 pm
:::::: All-Ages

Chemical Peel –
http://chemicalpeel.bandcamp.com/

Southern Femisphere –
http://southernfemisphere.bandcamp.com/

Brain Paint –
(come and find out)

5 Bucks
10:00 pm
::::18+

Sediment Club- Funky noisy post-punk/ no wave for fans of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Pop Group, and the Minutemen.

New 45 split with Guerilla Toss
http://sedimentclub.bandcamp.com/

Full-length produced by Ivan Jullian of Richard Hell and the Voidoids! Ask your record store clerk about it.
http://softspotmusic.bandcamp.com/album/time-decay-now

Brain Paint – New Boone band featuring members of Slopes and Hats.

5 Dollar Cover
Ages 18+
Dollar pbrs

EX-CULT – Memphis, TN
“…a punk rock sweet spot that incorporates angular post-punk, flying saucer fuzz guitar, snotty vocals and bash-your-head-in energy. A real stone groove! Killer linear punk à la Wire, Urinals, Australia’s X or something, man! A show at SXSW caught the attention of indie wonderkind Ty Segall, and the two began making plans to record in San Francisco,” resulting in their s/t Goner release.

OBN IIIs – Austin, TX
http://www.avclub.com/articles/obn-iiis-make-garagepunk-thats-best-heard-in-a-vac,92735/

KATTERWAUL – Boone, NC
Primitive, 2-piece, garage-soul helmed by Tucson transplant Brittany Katter and Slopes’ Tyler Hoskinson on drums.

THE NERVE ENDINGS – Bristol, TN

$5 advanced tickets available from 641 RPM, Black Cat Burrito, and Devon Tuttle (919-200-5629)
$7 at the door.
10:00 pm sharp!
Cheap beer
18+

Cloud Becomes Your Hand- seriously wild band from Brooklyn. They played at Loven House a couple of years ago.
“Avant-prog bumping insect rock & roll”
“A renaissance faire acid trip underwater in grandma’s winnebago.”

Here’s a video of the last Loven show:

Drippy inputs- Boone Americana

Potluck at 7
Music at 9
5 dollars for the touring band