PAS/Vultures Sound Check @  The Avant Garde Festival -  Schiphorst, Germany, July 2010

The Avant Garde Festival, hosted by Faust, was fantastic. PAS / Vultures had a great set and I met a lot of new friends, including the Vultures, Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise, ookoi-A Table!, Reportaz, Toys'R'Noise, Philippe Petit, Blaakraft, Thorsten Soltau, Underdog, and many more. I plan on going back next year. Thanks to Mr. Pepper for persuading me and enabling me to go.

Cloud Cloud has a few shows coming up. We'll be at National Underground on Sunday July 18th, and I'll be at the Tank a couple times this summer -July 27th as Cloud Cloud with Ideosynchronic, and August 2nd at Amber Brien's session.

Cloud Cloud (SIB) will also be playing a  set at the experi-MENTAL festival, at Goodbye Blue Monday on August 7th and 8th. Curated by Robert Pepper of PAS and Zilmrah, it's sure to be killer. More details soon.

Also, I applied for a Sound and Music grant to do The Caged Bird Sings at Cafe Oto in London. Fingers are crossed !!! We shall see...

There are also other things in the works. Maybe something outside, under the stars, surrounded by water. Something out of the way but visible, hearing the waves, feeling the breeze and feeling alive. Tasting the succulent nectar of inspiration and irritation, and having been seduced out of our crazy minds, basking in the pleasure of our company, to refer to a hilarious book by Steve Martin. Yes there are many other things in the works. :)

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Hi all! It's been a while but here's an update...

Tomorrow, Pas is off to play the Olympia Experimental Music Festival.  They've been putting this thing on since like 1997, back when I was still busy learning Green Day and Sublime songs.   We'll be playing as a three-piece which is always a blast (though Jon will sorely be missed).  

This Sunday, 6/13/10  Copesetic is playing the Boro6 indie music festival.  We'll be joining our friends Tip Canary, Bern and the Brights, The McMickle Brothers, The Porchistas, Rainbow Fresh, The One & Nines,  and more!

Robert and I sat down and started mixing The Caged Bird Sings CD, so be on the look out for that in coming months.  

Also, have you seen Tumei Tejas's work ?  He's a fresh new and barrier-smashing video artist that I've had the pleasure of collaborating with for the past year or so.   Cloud Cloud has been performing with his videos in a live setting, but we've also been very busy in our studios, getting things recorded, synced up, and legalized for public viewings.

The PAS  mini-tour in Germany and Poland was awesome, but it's great to be back.  The Centre of Contemptory art in Torun, Poland still accomodated us and arranged a recording session en lieu of the festival, thanks to Polish group Hati, and Mr. Pepper's drive and intuition.  It worked out better than we could have ever imagined, though it was also sad to be there at such a dark time.    Many thanks to everybody for their immense generosity, warmth, and hospitality, including Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise · Ferdinand Försch · Gallon Drunk · Blood Stereo · Kommissar Hjuler & Clive Graham · Bobby Conn · UnicaZürn · ookoi-A Table! · Chaos Physique · Pussinen - Siter - Terzic - Wilson · The Grand Erector · Reportaz · Faust & friends · Toys'R'Noise · Philippe Petit · Sascha Aurora Akhtar · Richard Lainhart · P.A.S.& Vultures · Blaakraft · Patricia Molins · Quattrophage · Somnambule · Mareike Kroschel · Qarad Quintette · Maya Danon · Penates · Thorsten Soltau · Lisa Dillan · Underdog · stadtFischFilm · Gugu Flux · Datashock · Anton Tornister · Aerosol Light Textures · Matthieu Safatly · OHcy-êspé · Jetzmann · Thomas Zunk · Andreas Riska .... Rafal Iwanski & Rafal Kolacki of Hati, Thomthom Geigenschrey, Marion "Monami", Andre Gutsmuths, Wojciech Morawski and Wo-To, Michael Rohde, Anna Livia Löwendahl, Klaus, Sébastien Szczyrk, Rat Bag, Konrad Sobczak of Cafe Miesa for the dinner,  Fransesca Tedeschi for covering, Billy Perez for the mixer, the folks at the exploratorium and everybody else who helped.
 
Thanks to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for funding most of my trip.  Of course thanks to Robert L. Pepper for setting the whole thing up, Amber Brien and Will Seesar for their budynek do, and Anne, dad and Kathy for their love and support.  

Lastly, thanks to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano from Iceland for forcing us to take a 6 day vacation. The tour was fun but exhausting and we were glad to take a forced vacation, ending with an awesome jam/networking session at the exploratorium.  We'll definitely be back there.  Time to get to work and prepare for Copesetic shows, recordings, radio, ISSUE project room and Avant Garde fest (in PAS),  the performancy forum, Olympia, and watching the grass grow.  Check back in a few days for updated show info.

Due to the sad anduntimely demise of President Lech Kaczynski, the PAS show at the CocArt festival in Torun Poland has been cancelled.   However, the Museum will still pay our way to Torun and fund a recording session with Hati - the festival organizers.  Come tuesday we will still fly to Berlin, and perform at least four shows in Germany and Poland.   Check the shows link for an updated schedule.