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Q: Ecstatic ATPeace!!! Is that true? Are there any details available? Can it top Thurston’s Nightmare before Christmas?
A: Yeah, there has been talk of this ATPeace thing but I’m not even sure what it means. Thurston and Barry did an amazing job with this past ATP so I could only hope that the next one would be as good and well received. So I don’t have any real info for you there other than that I think Thurston/Ecstatic Peace will probably do another ATP with Barry at some point.
Q: Now that Sonic Youth may not re-sign to Universal, would it endanger your deal with Universal?
A: The two things are not related.
Q: When I look on the EP website and zines I see that you post allot of info and links about your local geographical community. How does it merge with your desire to appeal to wider markets (national and international)?
A: I feel like the ecstatic peace community is international. And it’s true that I do focus on the local scene to some extent but I also am not afraid to post info/reports etc from Brussels, London, or wherever. There are pockets of our community all over the world and it’s fun to treat them all as if they’re right around the corner. It’s also been great to meet a lot of those people like say, Tyfus in Antwerp, and realize that he might as well live right around the corner.
Q: The Ecstatic Peace discography has a few Thurston related titles that have been out of print for a long time or that have never been released. Do you have any plans for these titles?
A: No current plans to re release out of print stuff. We're too busy with new stuff. Gotta move forward!
Q: So, are you going to introduce new bands in 2007?
We have lots of new stuff actually:
Pagoda: Michael Pitt's turbo rock vehicle, forceful melodies, strong guitar sounds, great rock. Full Length release with a US release date of 2/23.
James Jackson Toth: aka Wooden Wand, James will prove to be one of the best songwriters of this decade. more on this soon...
Vinyl coming in the next 2 months:
LAMBSBREAD – Stereo Mars LP (Ecstatic Peace E#105c) 500 copies. 2006
The stunningly stoned Lambsbread have succeeded, in relatively short time, to be the most mesmerizing wastoid action/improv trio of the new century. Direct from the nethervoid of Ohio these blasting concept dub-zone visionaries (Zac Davis and Kathy O’Dell – guitars, Shane Mackenzie – drums) have toured relentlessly across the USA with likeminded conspirators Magik Markers, Graveyards and Leslie Keffer and dropped jaws with a dripping smokeout at the 2006 ATP/Nightmare Before Christmas. Herewith is their debut 12” wax recorded and mixed one lost day in their notorious basement in full audio-reefer fidelity.
THE NEW BLOCKADERS w/ JIM O’ROURKE + THURSTON MOORE – LP (Ecstatic Peace E#85b) 500 copies. 2006
Originally released as a limited CD by Hospital Productions in 2005. This is the equally limited LP version with variant artwork. TNB is arguably the most notorious and interesting proponent of ground zero UK noise/industrial history. A mysterious and oddly evocative practitioner of abstract noise purpose TNB has released some of the most consistently challenging recordings of the genre. What we have here is O’Rourke on one side and Moore on the other taking TNB “music” and collaborating with it in distinctly different ways: O’Rourke utilizing the free-life percussion power of Chris Corsano and Moore employing the spirit-index of shortwave.
X.0.4 – Cataracts LP (Ecstatic Peace E#105d) 500 copies 2006
Debut vinyl release by the Western Massachusetts drone/scrape trio of Bill Nace, John Truscinski and Jake Meginsky. These guys have developed into one of the most soul-glowing sound/improv units out there today. And we mean out there – sparkling shards of guitar/amp/file machinations dance and intercede with rolling thundercloud dreamdrum dramatics. Nace you know from his killer duo throwdowns with Chris Corsano as Vampire Belt as well as the more recent weirdness with Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Lollypop as Ceylon Mange and in duo with Thurston Moore as Northampton Wools. Truscinski and Meginsky are the fine gentleman who’ve recorded as Slaughterhouse Percussion, Meginsky a student of, and fellow professor with Milford Graves at Bennington College.
LITTLE CLAW – 7” (Ecstatic Peace E#104b) 200 copies 2006
2 unreleased songs from this amazing Michigan group who had an LP in the ’06 on Ypsilanti Records which ruled hard: “Like a stun-doughnut set to explode in your mouth, …this Michigan trio is a primitive cave-full of no-noise-raunch that rocks with about forty ties more thuggishness than anything else in the neighborhood. Upful!” – Byron Coley, Bull Tongue (Arthur Magazine)
and much more...
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