Pilia-Alexander-Belfi Trio/SOT

3/28/2009 - Saturday Night

9:00 PM (prompt)


Front Room Gallery
3615 Superior Ave
Building 42 3rd floor
Cleveland, Ohio


Corner of 36th and Superior

*will try to start gig on time in order to catch some of Terminal Lovers / Gunslingers at Beachland



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Pilia-Alexander-Belfi Trio (Italy/USA)
Scarcity Of Tanks (on first and on time)

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[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]



[SCARCITY OF TANKS]
b. 2004, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Genre-less music band that records for TOTAL LIFE SOCIETY (Cleveland, USA), TEXTILE RECORDS (Paris, Fr), PHASE! RECORDS (Greece). Scarcity Of Tanks is Ted Wiggs Null Flynn, Scott Pufftube Pickering, Matthew Ming Shank Wascovich.

Link: [scarcityoftanks.blogspot.com]

They'll be on time, but will they be in tune?

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How come all you anarchists don't pack up and move to Somalia? They have no government there. What's keeping you here?

Nobody in Somalia understands their ironic shirts.

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