Feed Me Weird Things

Feed Me Weird Things FMWT is a listening series in Iowa City focusing on esoteric and rare musics meant to arouse deep listening & empathy from engaging with the odd & unknown.

In a rare non- collaboration, and ox cart new music (via ) are co presenting guitarist and composer David Lord.Describe...
02/24/2024

In a rare non- collaboration, and ox cart new music (via ) are co presenting guitarist and composer David Lord.

Described by Bill Milkowski as “a six-string anomaly, a genuine diamond in the rough. Over time in his search and discovery missions with his chosen instrument, he has cultivated a wholly unique vocabulary [...]” Lord has created his own extended lydian polychordal system which can be heard throughout his music. Grounded in the natural world, Lord’s musical logic involves themes of the forest, fungi and ecosystems.

David is currently on tour promoting his latest album Forest Standards, vol. 3 co-released on BIG EGO Records and Astral Spirits.

Saxophone and bassoon duo d r o p b e a r ( and aforementioned ) and sound sculptor/percussionist will provide local support.

Oh my my / oh hell yes / darling put on that party dress.Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartetwith Wendy Eisenberg,Ava Mendoza, Sha...
02/16/2024

Oh my my / oh hell yes / darling put on that party dress.

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet
with Wendy Eisenberg,
Ava Mendoza, Shane Parish
Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City
Sunday, May 5th 7pm
$25 GA / $20 Student / FMWT24 Pass
All Ages Always

Feed Me Weird Things is utterly over the moon, with the generous help of Tuesday Agency and Record Collector, to present BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET with Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish.

San Francisco-based guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt presents his latest project, an all-electric Guitar Quartet performing the music from his 2022 LP “Music for Four Guitars,” an album which Pitchfork describes as “a rigidly structured quartet that weaves tiny rhythmic phrases into expansive tapestries, drawing on the tenets of early minimalism and New York guitar groups like Glenn Branca Ensemble.” Featuring an all-star team of guitarists Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish, the ensemble will present the music in an expanded live format that will combine intricate composition with no holds barred improvisation.

Limited, seated event, tickets on sale now!

Tickets for this and all other upcoming performances may be purchased at feedmeweird.com

Finally, a reminder that FMWT24 season passes are still on sale until the end of the month.

Xoxoxo

Went looking for the photos my far out friend, Kevin Olish (Hail!), who only shot film took of the gonzo Damo Suzuki sho...
02/12/2024

Went looking for the photos my far out friend, Kevin Olish (Hail!), who only shot film took of the gonzo Damo Suzuki show in Iowa City in 06? 07? (I wasn’t much of a record keeper pre internet singularity).
Still looking, I’m afraid.
But I DID find this mangled hand bill when I used to book under Outsound Presents. Those were a couple of heaters in the Hall Mall (Hail!) back in the early “naughty aughties” while everyone else was full indie sleazing. With prices like those it’s no wonder I’ve spent my adult life drowning in debt.
I’ll keep looking for those photos though.

Hello from the prairie shores of Iowa City, and I’m here with March’s shipping news:Steve Fors (Switzerland)Haunter Trum...
02/07/2024

Hello from the prairie shores of Iowa City, and I’m here with March’s shipping news:

Steve Fors (Switzerland)
Haunter
Trumpet Blossom Cafe
Friday March 1st 9pm
$15 / $10 student / FMWT24 pass

Fors continues to explore the physicality of sound through layered cello, guitar, voice, processed tape loops, field recordings, and electronics, his approach to sonic maximalism brings with it both a wistful melancholy and raw power.

Dorothy Carlos // Daniel Wyche
Trumpet Blossom Cafe
Saturday March 9th 9pm
$15 / $10 student / FMWT24 pass

Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and electronic musician working in improvised performance and multi-channel sound in New York City and Chicago. Her work utilizes randomized electronics and extended techniques to explore fragility and imaginaries.
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Daniel Wyche is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer and improviser. Working with a wide range of physical preparations, extended techniques, and pedal instruments.

Josephine Foster // Telka Peterson
Trumpet Blossom Cafe
Wednesday March 27th 8pm
$15 / $10 student / FMWT24 pass

A “Vibrating Voice to Shake the Soul”-NPR
Josephine Foster is a Colorado singer-songwriter and composer whose “music plays games with our ideas of time and space” says The Guardian. The Nashville Scene describes her work a”fusion of art song and American folk music” and the former opera student is “known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America, and has lent her characteristic warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to over two decades of recordings” writes Blank Forms.
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Tekla Peterson is the new pop-oriented solo project helmed by Wisconsin’s Taralie Peterson. Peterson has been a member of Spires That In the Sunset Rise since their founding in 2001.

Emily Beisel & Bill Harris
TBD
Trumpet Blossom Cafe
Tuesday April 2nd 8pm
$15 / $10 student / FMWT24 pass

Chicago-based Beisel and Harris utilize electronics, amplification, and feedback to augment their acoustic sounds, creating a sonic space that can at times be aggressive, dense, and massive, as well as subtle, spacious, and sensitive.

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