WET TUNA + FAMILY UNDERGROUND
Wed, Aug 14
|Epsilon Spires
Denmark's greatest drone rock duo, Family Underground creates psychedelic drone music and films about nothing, delving into ominous lows and intense highs with equal skill and precision, wrangling space-time into something livable. Genre-less free-folk wizards Wet Tuna never do it the same way twice
Time & Location
Aug 14, 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Family Underground is a Copenhagen-based duo of improvisors and noisemakers. Known for their innovative and unconventional approach to music, exploring the realms of sound-collage, immersive sound/light environments and composition/improvisation. Family Underground's work delve deep into the crossroads of the cultural world and the immediate surroundings. The groups somewhat 24 years of existence has garnered a bagfull of releases through the International underground . With releases on the US labels as Bada Bing Records, Italian labels Laboratorio Palestro and Holidays records amongst many. For fans of The Dead C, Yellow Swans, Prurient and Burning Star Core.
Their recent album FIXED DOUBLES, was created through random voltage layering through pure coincidence. The result is dense and like a photographic double exposure, the more you dedicate yourself the deeper the image.
Wet Tuna specializes in homegrown, dubwise longform song. exploration is paramount. they never do it the same way twice. “Party in the house” is wet tuna's latest “major” UK record. if you really DIG you will find handmade things. domestic records, 7-inches, cassettes, cds, sonic archipelagos... on various labels and the mv & ee cottage run private press child of microtones which they’ve been operating since 1999.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM:
"You like big DISCO(2000) graphies & dead space? Wet channels and sweet environments, genreless free folk. You are here. A rare confluence of fierce DIY ethos and trademark of quality. Pencil-thin mustaches, forest dwelling wizards on on a psilocybic voyage, festival ready solos, don cherry’s whispered funksterpiece “brown rice” and funkadelic’s dictum to free your mind"- NPR
"Swooping synths and frippertronic guitar movements merge into the groove... Valentine has gotten undeniably skilled at being slick; even at its weirdest, this is quite easy on the ears."- The Wire
"An absolute banger. kinetic, psychedelic, and downright fun...serves as further proof that the most visionary, truly original American art continues to be made on the margins. don't sleep—get wet!- James Toth