Live Review of Sparkle Girl by Overdose The Katatonic

JIM"SPARKLE GIRL"EVANS @ DISSONANT PLANE 8/8/09
Category: Music
This was Jim Evans "ONLY" solo performance ever. A lot of what he brought broke down but like a true experimental artist you make do w/ what you have. Since he knew i was recording it (an i sent the wav file to him soon as i got home) he used his recorder as a player of sounds,the same w/ another tape player,a short wave radio and another piece of equipment i believe along w/ the wires hooked up to a patch an he was rubbing the carpet an his keys,it sounded clanky to rosshsshhhwosh kinda sound. I'm going to miss Jim, he always was cool to me, and i couldn't believe the small turnout. It was I, jennifer(empty remainz),lars(aural antithesis),gogher,cunt zero,ffejj,demian johnston, and the cashier.
They missed a sick set tho. I really liked the back up tapes playing w/ the shortwave,and all the extra knick knack scrapings..I was right in front this weird speaker he was using so downstairs wouldn't get disturbed even tho he came runing up stairs looking at jim like was that you doing that noise??Yes exactly,he was getting ready for his noise set.I'm glad i got to see him solo be4 he left.For those who missed it i'll let you imagine what it was like.See ya at the Rendevous for methfest kickoff.Crazy tho,Sparkle Girl have been here so long,kind of a Seattle staple.I'm sure will adjust an then enjoy the SG shows more since jim won't be around all the shows. Thats one thing jim, where yer going i don't know if theres much expermental or noise,but u do have a bunch of shows to catatlogue like me from over the years.
Jim Katatonic

More Releases, Videos and Podcasts On The Way

Later this week we'll have several new releases in various numbers as well as new videos on Soccer Mom Ebonics Television and new tracks on the podcast. Stay Tuned.

Older Merch Still Available from Soccer Mom Ebonics

Kurt was kind enough to post an update about merchandise we still have left in the Sparkle Girl/Soccer Mom Ebonics cupboard. In this case it is copies we still have of our split 7" with our fave SLF noiseniks Slicing Grandpa! First band we ever did a split cdr with so it was only natural that our first black wax offering was a split with the other SG we love so well. We enjoyed how it turned out and even more surprisingly some other people did as well (see below).

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Sparkle Girl/Slicing Grandpa "Hexis" 7" Still Available Sparkle Girl/Slicing Grandpa "Hexis/Daddy O Strangler" 7" Soccer Mom Ebonics Records SME040 "Hexis," backed with "Daddy O Strangler" is a total underground freakout in eight minutes or less. Guitars twist and melt in trembling piles, electronics hiss and churn, no apologies to taste talent or quality. Edition of 500 on Soccer Mom Ebonics Records. Inserts have words and images and stuff. Side A. Sparkle Girl "Hexis" (4:30) Side B. Slicing Grandpa "Daddy O Strangler" (4:31) $5.00 cash or trade. Paypal accepted. Contact sparklegirlnoise@yahoo.com or contact Kurt at myspace.com/sparklegirlnoise Reviews: "Split Seattle dual-duo 7-Inch with the heavy gritty industrial strength drone of Sparkle Girl (Kurt D, & Jim E.) on the A side. Their track Hexis fuzzes out to near silence like explosions in space breaking the needle with such heavily distorted bass shaking and vibrating in your chest. A ghastly snowstorm of metal chains and barbed wire to then just end abruptly. Side B is Slicing Grandpa playing a stoner doom-ish hypnotic rawk track. Lo-fi recording and experimental sounds keep it real and out of the any metal genre, but you won’t get a sense of their true sound from this track. I still like it." -No Eyed Bird (http://unfunrecords.com/wordpress/?p=70) "after about thirteen years of making noise, this is the first time that kurt and jim's music has graced the smooth surface of vinyl. they're no strangers to analog mediums, but tape (reel to reel and cassette) has been their preferable modus operandi. while this duo's name may lead you to believe that they don't take a serious approach to their music, that's far from the truth. i was really happy to hear that they play straight-forward experimental noise. not only that, but it's damn good as well. hexis begins by building itself around a layer of undulating mechanical drone. slowly, they'll implement shrill distortion over the lurching foundation, letting that ride before getting a little denser as hexis changes shape: all echoes and rumbles. not content to let one idea go on for too long, the track will shift once again for its noisy conclusion. i like how even though the piece moved along slowly, it never felt cold or dark, like is so often the case, and the more discordant aspects matched up well with the overall feel and never got to the point of being overbearing." Smooth Assailing (http://smoothassailing.blogspot.com/2007/09/sparkle-girl-slicing-grandpa.html) "Sparkle Girl = noise church, climbing up the spires. You thump your chest, and then what? Large chunks of unsorted text on Sparkle Girl’s Myspace page is either indicative of bigger problems, or just really enthusiastic and non-tech savvy. Slicing Grandpa is still slicing away at some dark, obscurant corner of goth, hometaper industrial, and outsider psych dirge. Pretty noisy, sludgy pacing, and doomy dreadful, but this guy knows what’s up as evidenced by past releases, so it’s not an act. Or it is an act, but it’s executed with a modicum of foresight. Either way, 50/50 on here." Dusted (http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/708) "a wildly dunting noise vortex that detonates their amp-destroying Dead C style with torrents of almost Whitehouse-styled electricity. On the flip Slicing Grandpa play cough syrup takes on the cyborg sound of prime Chrome." David Keenan (http://www.volcanictongue.com/artist.php?art=Slicing+Grandpa) "sparkle girl plays dark and crude drone noise that moves and shift in simple eletronic chunks....not a steady wall of drone but crude cut n paste approach. slicing grandpa is one of those trange bands that falls somwhere between TG and toll.... dirge oriented heavy bass playing soup and stew but with a washed out reverberated new wave camp. we like it. it has an underground scum and they keep putting out vinyl which is cool." Dominic Fernow Hospital Records "Slicin Grandpa ponied up w/their newest release, a split 7" between them & Sparkle Girl. Readers of this Blog knows that Slicin Grandpa can do no wrong, so let's focus for a moment on Sparkle Girl's admission. Hmmmm.......I'd say they sound very much like the grizzly mayhem spawned from that rotator blade off that helicopter just moments before/after it loped off Vic Morrow's head while makin that Twilight Zone movie. SG aren't quite so dramatic, eschewin decapitation for a good old fashioned aural vivisection & since it's unlikely they's ever gonna be invited to play halftime at the Super Bowl, the NFL's none the wiser to their gutteral hijinx. Released on the Soccer Mom Ebonics label in a rd ed. of 500" siltblog

Soccer Mom Ebonics Television Has Launched!

Thanks to a variety of friends and colleagues, Scott Colburn, Octal, Katatonik, Dave G.R.A.V.E.S., Smitty, CursedChimera and Tim Boone to name a few we have begun to accrue a little bit of a video archive of Sparkle Girl performances and clips of other artists. Right now that includes some of the groups that helped kick everyone's ass at our 14th Anniversary Sparkle Girl/Soccer Mom Ebonics celebration. This includes ( and more are coming) vids from Goly Grim, Slicing Grandpa, the touring Sparkle Girl and The Sparkle Girl Finale to the 2.28.09 evening.

www.youtube.com/user/SparkleGirlJim

We hope you enjoy

New Releases From Soccer Mom Ebonics 1st up Ponzi Cult!

New Release! Ponzi Cult Live CDR
Current mood:Paid

Ponzi Cult "Live 6.14.09" CDR Soccer Mom Ebonics SME073
Abrasive document of this guitar duo's first live performance. McKane and Delaney brutalize two guitars until spontaneous rhythms erupt. Limited to twenty copies.Live from Chickenhead Church!
"A Ponzi scheme targeting members of the deaf community is particularly reprehensible."
-Rosalind Tyson
$5.00 cash or trade. Paypal accepted. Contact sparklegirlnoise@yahoo.com or contact Kurt at myspace.com/sparklegirlnoise

Post from Kurt re: Sparkle Girl Home Despot Cassette

Sparkle Girl "Home Despot" CS Still Available-last copy
Current mood:new rage

SPARKLE GIRL "Home Despot" c20 Soccer Mom Ebonics Records SME057

Edition of 9 copies. Stamped clear c20 tapes with hand cut home printed j-cards, stickered cases and numbered inserts.
Side A: Black Friday
Side B: The Welcoming Smile At The End Of The Road
2 tracks of abrasive duo improv with Goodwill synths, de-tuned guitars, bells, tapes, electronics, etc. Druggy churning scree, electronic drones, space echo freakouts, Louis Farrakhan on Reagan. Good times.
$4.00 cash or trade. Paypal accepted. Contact sparklegirlnoise@yahoo.com or contact Kurt at myspace.com/sparklegirlnoise

Mommy, what's a Ponzi Cult? Chikenhed Church 6.14.09

Specific: Ponzi Cult is Jody McKane (Yokai No Uta, Black Ops, Dj and Sparkle Girl collaborator) and Kurt Delaney (Sparkle Girl) on two guitars. Two musicians, two guitars: Ponzi Cult!

General: Ponzi Cult may or may not be a symbolic noise assault against the esoteric economics of Ponzi schemes and the cult of the rich. Maybe it just popped out. Either way I am looking forward to this debut performance of my cohorts first side project. Should be an interesting treat and the night will have some more surprises but I have to talk a walk....

Please check out www.blog.dissonantplane.com

The reason I ask is that Eric wrote up a nice preview of the in store performance going on Saturday 6.13.09.

The other reason is that a lot of times there is confusion due to Kurt and myself both having Sparkle Girl myspace sites. Eric has cleared up this matter in a fashion we can appreciate. There are links to all the performers BUT by clicking Sparkle you get Kurt's /sparklegirlnoise site and by clicking Girl you'll get my /sparklegirlpresents. Cool.