Saturday March 28

Front Room Gallery
3615 Superior Ave, building 42 3rd floor

Show starts at 9:00

Stefano Pilia, Andrea Belfi, Jeffrey Alexander

Jeffery Alexander of Black Forest/Black Sea is teaming up with
Stefano Pilia and Andrea Belfi from Italy to hit a couple of cities in the midwest and beyond.



STEFANO PILIA (Bologna, Italy)
b.1978, Genoa, Italy
guitar, electronics
-solo and member of 3/4 Had Been Eliminated, Medves, SPQ
-collaborated with Black Forest/Black Sea, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi
-multiple releases on labels such as Die Schachtel, Sedimental, Last Visible Dog, Soleilmoon, Hapna, Time-Lag, more
-has performed at Imaginaria Festival/Bari, Emotion/Milano, Torino Film Festival/Torino, installations: Raum/Bologna,
AS220/Providence, Viafarini/Milano

-"Pilia has become Italy's finest music export this year. After his stunning release on Last Visible Dog,
it was clear he had little competition. His subsonic drones are a thing of beauty; pulling in and pushing the listener
away simultaneously, keeping him or her in a constant state of limboith all things Stefano Pilia does, there is an
understated and simple beauty beneath them." (Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis)
[www.myspace.com]

JEFFREY ALEXANDER (Pittsburgh, PA)
b.1968, Baltimore, USA
guitar, electronics, tambura
-solo and member of Black Forest/Black Sea, the Iditarod, SPQ
-collaborated with Fursaxa, Kemialliset Ystavat, Christina Carter, Gravenhurst, ES, Avarus
-multiple releases on labels such as Last Visible Dog, Music Fellowship, Time-Lag, Secret Eye, Fonal, more
-has performed at Terrastocks I, V, VI, VII, All Tomorrow's Parties/Minehead, Moonshake/Umea, Zu Fest/Roma,
8mm Festival/Castelfranco, VPRO National Dutch Radio, National Norwegian Radio, BBC Radio, more
-owner Secret Eye Records and Morning Glory Coffeehouse in Pittsburgh

-"Guitar, electronics and various small rackety sounds collect themselves into a haze of infinite possibilities.
At certain points there's a sparseness to their approach recalling Charalambides' quiet explosions; at others there's
a weird and wooly organic depth closer to some of the contemporary giants of the Finnish underground." (Byron Coley, Harp)

ANDREA BELFI
b.1979, Milano, Italy
drums, percussion, electronics
-solo and member of Medves
-has performed at Netmage Festival/Bologna, Klarafestival/Brussels, Ugglan Festival/Stockholm, Buziol/Venice,
VPRO National Dutch Radio, more
-multiple releases on labels such as Die Schachtel, Hapna, Wallace, Last Visible Dog, more

-"The real victory of Belfi is the ease of cohabitation of melody and experiment. Few do it so well" (Jon Dale, The Wire)

[www.myspace.com]

oh rad i didnt even know about this

A sage of my acquaintance once wrote: "

"everybody jammin' with everybody else is cool, but I mean, are we working towards a place where there's no real bands anymore? Every show just seems to be like, "look who's playing together now!"

well, you know, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

and, apparently rock 'n' roll is dead.

I'm going to be filing an injunction against Danny & The Juniors (who did "Rock and Roll Will Never Die")...