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Blind Idiot God Releasing Before Ever After on Vinyl April 8

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 3rd, 2016 by JJ Koczan

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New York experimentalists Blind Idiot God first offered up their return after 23 years, Before Ever After (review here), just over a hear ago. A spacious, could-go-anywhere-and-actually-might exploration too busy being creative to be pretentious, the album will see release on double-vinyl through Indivisible Music on April 8. Its arrival coincides smoothly with the trio heading to Europe to play Roadburn 2016 and more — a trip on which they’ll also be bringing some exclusive-type merch. Presumably in tiny, adorable European sizes.

The PR wire has details on all of the above and more:

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BLIND IDIOT GOD WORLDWIDE ALBUM RELEASE APRIL 8, 2016

RAISE THE TITANIC TOUR KICKS OFF APRIL 13TH – SPECIAL TOUR-ONLY MERCH

BLIND IDIOT GOD WORLDWIDE ALBUM RELEASE APRIL 8, 2016

Blind Idiot God have a new worldwide release date of April 8th for their gatefold double-vinyl LP with album artwork by Seldon Hunt (Neurosis, Earth, Melvins, Sunn). Also available on CD and as digital download. Album title is Before Ever After and was previously only available directly from Indivisible Music (and select importers). Album is now on sale worldwide on iTunes (pre-sales). The band’s new webstore is live now at indivisiblemusic.aisamerch.com.

Raise The Titanic Tour launches on April 13th with stops in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Norway. New merchandise featuring the Seldon Hunt “Raise the Titanic Tour” design will include t-shirts, long-sleeve shirts, hoodies and stickers. Select designs available for purchase on tour only for now. The band explains “We decided to sell this particular t-shirt design, which dovetails with the European tour poster, exclusively on these tour dates so you won’t find it in the webstore.”

Other tour news includes the addition of Buried at Sea on the bill at Gleis 22 in Muenster, Germany and the super-saver ticket price (only five Euros) for the show April 23rd at Beatpol in Dresden, Germany. Tim Wyskida shares more tour news explaining that the “Roadburn performance will include a video created by Heath Bradley. He took Seldon’s European vinyl cover design and made sections of it move which will be a delight for Dutch stoners.”

Blind Idiot God Raise The Titanic Tour 2016
Wednesday, April 13th at Vera in Groningen, The Netherlands
Thursday, April 14th at Magasin 4 in Brussels, Belgium
Saturday, April 16th at Gleiss 22 in Muenster, Germany
Sunday, April 17th Roadburn Festival at 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands
Monday, April 18th at Sonic Ballroom in Cologne, Germany
Tuesday, April 19th at Bad Bonn in Duedingen, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 20th at Serraglio in Milan, Italy
Thursday, April 21st at Freakout Club in Bologna, Italy
Saturday, April 23rd at Beatpol in Dresden, Germany
Sunday, April 24th at Cassiopeia in Berlin, Germany
Wednesday, April 27th at Blæst in Trondheim, Norway
Thursday, April 28th at Pokalen in Oslo, Norway
Friday, April 29th at Hulen in Bergen, Norway
Saturday, April 30th at Folken in Stavanger, Norway

Blind Idiot God is Andy Hawkins on guitar; Tim Wyskida on drums; Will Dahl on bass (though founding member Gabe Katz plays bass on the album). The band has shared the stage with artists like John Zorn (a collaborator who released their third album on Avant Records), Black Flag, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Die Kreuzen, Don Caballero, Jesus Lizard, Napalm Death, HR, Eekamouse among many others.

LP TRACKLIST
Side 1 — 1)Twenty Four Hour Dawn 2) Night Driver 3) Antiquity
Side 2 — 3) Earthmover 4) FUB 5) Barrage
Side 3 — 6) High and Mighty 7) Voice Of The Structure 8) Under The Weight 10) Ramshackle
Side 4 — 11) Wheels Of Progress 12) Strung 13) Shutdown

CD Tracklist
1) Twenty Four Hour Dawn 2) High And Mighty 3) Antiquity 4) Earthmover 5) Night Driver 6) Wheels Of Progress 7) Ramshackle 8) Voice Of The Structure 9) Under The Weight 10) FUB 11) Barrage 12) Strung 13) Shutdown

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Blind Idiot God Stream “Antiquity” from Before Ever After

Posted in audiObelisk on February 19th, 2015 by JJ Koczan

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New York instrumentalists Blind Idiot God will release their first album in 23 years, Before Ever After, next Tuesday, Feb. 24, on Indivisible Music. The label is a new project helmed by guitarist Andy Hawkins, who also co-produced Before Ever After with Bill Laswell, recording over several years with drummer Tim Wyskida (Khanate) and bassist Gabe Katz, since replaced by Will Dahl what is a kind of second debut — a generational debut, maybe — for the Brooklyn-based trio, who issued their first outing as a self-titled on SST Records in 1987. Like that album, Before Ever After is a dangerous kind of offering, a 74-minute CD/2LP able to turn on a dime between precision mathematics, reggae, crunching heavy riffage, surf rock and jazz in a wordless sprawl that makes a joke of most bands’ ideas of sonic diversity. My god, it’s almost like they’re actually trying different things!

There isn’t a track to sum up everything the album does — the frenetic drumming and dissonant guitar of the aptly-titled “Barrage,” the laid-back bounce of “Night Driver,” etc. — so one might as well just find something unbelievably heavy and roll with that. To that end, I’m pleased today to be able to host “Antiquity” for streaming. The third of Before Ever After‘s 13 tracks, it follows ritualistic opener blind-idiot-god-before-ever-after“Twenty-Four Hour Dawn” (also the longest cut at 8:50; immediate points) and the more spacious but still tense post-reggae rocker “High and Mighty,” and with only a couple guitar chugs as warning soon unleashes a battery of dense riffs and furious drums that alternate between plodding and blasting. Tonally it switches between grinding bite and grueling doom, but it’s the tempo changes that really distinguish “Antiquity” from its stylistically varied surroundings, and how HawkinsWyskida and Katz are able to make these jagged transitions sound mechanically precise, so that by the end of it, there’s an almost industrial feel, despite the lack of any discernible element of electronica.

It’s also, one should note, the shortest song on Before Ever After at 3:39, and that subsequent pieces like the distortojazz “Earthmover” and dreamy surf meditation “Ramshackle” reach even further outside of stylistic bounds. The takeaway is that “Antiquity,” while unrepentantly heavy as fuck, isn’t telling the whole story of Blind Idiot God‘s return, and if you want to hear more, there’s plenty of fodder worthy for investigation. Even as the closing duo of “Strung” and “Shutdown” alternate between impact-conscious progressive metal and sweet-toned psychedelic sentiment underscored by the album’s warmest basslines, the resonant message seems to be that Blind Idiot God have even more to say than they do in the hour-plus here, and that their return from the ether has brought with it new purpose for their avant stylizations. They’re here to remind us what it means to be adventurous in sound.

Submit to “Antiquity” via the player below, followed by info for the March 7 release show in Brooklyn and more album background, and enjoy:

Indivisible Music announces new Blind Idiot God (BIG) studio album co-produced by Bill Laswell. “Andy Hawkins is a nut, a perfectionist for his amplification and the guitar, and we recorded it right,” Laswell explains about the new record. “Every detail is there. It’s probably the best thing they’ve done.” The 74-minute opus titled, Before Ever After, is slated for an early 2015 street date. The gatefold double-vinyl LP artwork was created by noted artist Seldon Hunt (Neurosis, Earth, Melvins, Sunn). Formats will include vinyl, CD and digital. The release will be celebrated with live performances in and around New York and will be co-promoted by MerchTable, local vinyl retailers and others TBA.

Blind Idiot God is Andy Hawkins on guitar and Tim Wyskida (Khanate) on drums. Gabe Katz, the band’s original bass player is featured on the album but moving forward Will Dahl is the band’s new bass player live and in the studio. Touring in support of the new album is planned for 2015. “Moving from the studio to the stage is always great,” Hawkins explains, “the music opens up dynamically, both performance wise and sonically. The human ear has a much greater dynamic range than any recorded medium and we excel at taking full advantage of that fact.” The band has shared the stage with artists like John Zorn (a collaborator who released their third album on Avant Records), Helmet, Black Flag, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Die Kreuzen, Don Caballero, Jesus Lizard, Napalm Death, HR, Eekamouse among many others.

BLIND IDIOT GOD Record Release Party
Saturday, March 7th
The Paper Box in Brooklyn, NY
doors 8:00 pm // tickets $10 advance, $13 at the door // 21+
also playing: Oneirogen, Rhyton, Gnaw

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Blind Idiot God to Release Before Ever After in Early 2015

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 1st, 2014 by JJ Koczan

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Veterans of SST Records and the band that spawned drummer Tim Wyskida, who would go on to be the coal burning to propel the mega-lurch that was minimalist doomers Khanate, Brooklyn instrumentalists Blind Idiot God are set to release a new album early in 2015. Titled Before Ever After and recorded by Bill Laswell, it’s the first Blind Idiot God album since 1992 and it will be out on guitarist Andy Hawkins‘ recently formed label, Indivisible Music. The cover art is by Seldon Hunt, and reportedly the band will be playing live, or at very least, they went ahead and added bassist Will Dahl to make that a possibility. Seems likely they’ll show up somewhere or other.

The PR wire tells the tale and far be it from me to delay:

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BLIND IDIOT GOD SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM CO-PRODUCED BY BILL LASWELL

All Instrumental Full Length With Original Artwork By Seldon Hunt
Three tracks featured in Alex Winters’ HBO documentary, Downloaded
Before Ever After slated for early 2015 street date

Indivisible Music announces new Blind Idiot God (BIG) studio album co-produced by Bill Laswell. “Andy Hawkins is a nut, a perfectionist for his amplification and the guitar, and we recorded it right,” Laswell explains about the new record. “Every detail is there. It’s probably the best thing they’ve done.” The 74-minute opus titled, Before Ever After, is slated for an early 2015 street date. The gatefold double-vinyl LP artwork was created by noted artist Seldon Hunt (Neurosis, Earth, Melvins, Sunn). Formats will include vinyl, CD and digital. The release will be celebrated with live performances in and around New York and will be co-promoted by MerchTable, local vinyl retailers and others TBA.

Blind Idiot God is Andy Hawkins on guitar and Tim Wyskida (Khanate) on drums. Gabe Katz, the band’s original bass player is featured on the album but moving forward Will Dahl is the band’s new bass player live and in the studio. Touring in support of the new album is planned for 2015. “Moving from the studio to the stage is always great,” Hawkins explains, “the music opens up dynamically, both performance wise and sonically. The human ear has a much greater dynamic range than any recorded medium and we excel at taking full advantage of that fact.” The band has shared the stage with artists like John Zorn (a collaborator who released their third album on Avant Records), Helmet, Black Flag, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Die Kreuzen, Don Caballero, Jesus Lizard, Napalm Death, HR, Eekamouse among many others.

The band has three previous studio full-lengths, two EPs and has been featured on several film soundtracks, including the opening credits for the Alex Winter cult film Freaked (with Henry Rollins on the track as guest vocalist). “I was able to record with them once,” says Rollins, “I know it is rare for them to have vocals in their music, so I felt lucky to have been an exception. I remain a fan.” Three tracks from album (“Barrage,” “High And Mighty,” and “Shutdown”) are featured in Alex Winters’ new HBO documentary about the rise and fall of Napster titled, Downloaded. “One of the most revered and influential bands to come out of the SST era,” Alex Winter enthuses, “they are as great and bold today, as ever. This is a spectacular album.”

The thirteen tracks on Before Ever After are 1. “Twenty Four Hour Dawn,” 2. “Night Driver,” 3. “Antiquity,” 4. “Earthmover,” 5. “FUB,” 6. “Barrage,” 7. “High and Mighty,” 8. “Voice of the Structure,” 9. “Under the Weight,” 10. “Ramshackle,” 11. “Wheels of Progress,” 12. “Strung,” and 13. “Shutdown.”

Indivisible Music is helmed by Andy Hawkins and is based in Brooklyn, NY. The label was established in 2014 “to promote that which cannot be divided, the elemental idea of music for its own sake. Guiding the elemental idea of music through all obstacles, physical or otherwise. The end of genre or classification, recondite musical knowledge declassified for direct effect.” Visit the label online at indivisiblemusic.com.

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Blind Idiot God, Blind Idiot God (1987)

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