DREKKA (ex-Turn Pale) Tue Nov 29 @ Garfield Artworks

[Manny Theiner]

Tue Nov 29   8 pm  all ages  $6
Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Avenue

from Bloomington, IN
dark drone-folk from the founder of Blue Sanct Records
ex-member of goth/postpunkers Turn Pale
erstwhile live member of neo-folksters In Gowan Ring

DREKKA
http://www.bluesanct.com/bands/drekka/

with special guests
Brother Ong (aka Mike Tamburo)
Disease Model (formerly known as Torus/Hoffman)
Onewayness (new kosmische 'Berlin School' electronics project by 
longtime prog-rock fan Adam Holquist)

DREKKA is the work of MICHAEL ANDERSON, along with an occasional 
rotating cast of characters primarily drawn from the Day2 Alliance (a 
community and collective of artists, labels, musicians and filmmakers 
which has been creating experimental folk and skewed pop masterpieces 
for almost a decade). ANDERSON also runs BLUESANCT, a Day2 label 
responsible for releases by BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA, BODUF SONGS, 
CINDYTALK, THE IDITAROD, IN GOWAN RING, LOW, PANTELEIMON, THE PILOT 
SHIPS (featuring members of STARS OF THE LID), STATIC FILMS, VOLLMAR 
and many more.

When DREKKA's debut full length ('Take care to fall') was released on 
Bluesanct in 2002, reviews incorrectly decided DREKKA was the vanity 
project a label owner. This is not the case. ANDERSON has recorded 
music and experimental projects, under various monikers, since 1986. 
Bluesanct was begun in 1996 to celebrate and share the music of DREKKA 
and its Day2 friends. DREKKA has toured extensively in Europe as well 
as the US (with like-minded artists such as JESSICA BAILIFF, THE 
IDITAROD, IN GOWAN RING, ANNELIES MONSERE, RIVULETS, STONE BREATH, 
VOLMAR, etc.) And despite only having released two proper full-length 
albums since 1998, it has contributed tracks to literally dozens of 
compilations as well as self-releasing many singles, EPs and short-run 
cassette releases. In short, DREKKA has been a long-standing record 
collectors nightmare; a case that will soon be rectified with a series 
of releases collecting these varied and widespread orphans. The first 
in this series will be a DOUBLE-CD issued on MORC RECORDS this winter.

Affinity can be heard to such diverse contemporaries such as THE 
MICROPHONES/MT. EERIE, SVARTE GREINER, MACHINEFABRIEK and XIU XIU. 
While deep felt inspiration is drawn from such luminaries as FLYING 
SAUCER ATTACK, COIL, THE HAFLER TRIO, CURRENT 93, and NURSE WITH WOUND.


SELECT REVIEW CLIPS:

'From the silent, sordid heartland of the midwestern US comes DREKKA, 
the many-armed musings of one Michael Anderson. Whether channeling the 
restless electricity of Coil or the cloudy backroom headspaces of Smog 
and Sebadoh, or deconstructing the work of its friends in the sprawling 
sonic underground, DREKKA tells a story very much its own, of chance 
meetings and blurred childhoods. It is the one story told repeatedly, 
blissfully reborn each time in its own love and self-forgetfulness.'
- Scott Ferguson

'a series of short films, bleeding ambient rainy days and nights into 
the somnambulent proceedings.'
- George Parsons, DREAM MAGAZINE

'Drekka is a dangerous artist to let lie in the shadows much longer. 
His sonic palette rivals any supposed master of musical shade. The 
scary part is he was doing it first; only no one noticed. Content to 
create on his own terms, he sits; waiting for you to come closer.'
- Rob Funkhouser, Foxy Digitalis