From Greg Clow Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 21:59
From Greg Clow Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 21:59
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, John Bush wrote: > In Detroit, the ads for Friday's show (doors at 9PM) list Trans Am at the > top and Pan sonic underneath (along with "Laddio Balacko Plus DJ On"). > Anyone know what or who Laddio Balacko is? I get the feeling that I should > be very, very afraid... Quick websearch uncovered the following. Apologies if the formatting sucks. Sounds a bit interesting to me... LADDIO BOLOCKO Laddio Bolocko consists of former members of post-rock legends Dazzling Killmen (Chicago), experimental noise band Panicsville (Austin / St. Louis), sax-injected Craw (NY) and Chalk 22 (NY). Note: Blake Fleming, the Dazzling Killmen drummer extraordinaire, can also boast active duty as Zeni Geva's (Tokyo) 'attack' drummer on their U.S. Freedom Bondage tour. In May/June 1998, Laddio Bolocko toured America, coast to coast (and back!), for 7 weeks. Laddio Bolocko is 4-piece instrumental band which formed in 1996. No sappy, macho front-men needed here to keep your limited attention spans from getting bored. Cross-pollinated rhythms, manic-prepared guitar work, jazz squall and tape loop madness are actively whipped into a relentless frenzy of sound. Comparisons to This Heat, Albert Ayler and CAN only scratches the surface of Laddio Bolocko's deep musical pockets. The band's structured music forms, written entirely by the group, give each musician an opportunity to freely 'express' themselves within each song. Greg