Headling the show tonight is Tentacle Lizardo show goin on Tuesday the 26th at the Lagerhouse with Black Elf and ObliskThey played recently to help promote the X! Records Compilation "Shiftless Decay" that they had a song on but besides that they havent gotten to play in Detroit in over a year seeing as christmas moved to chicago. When they get shows in Detroit again we usually generate a lot of interest and try to make a big deal out of it because they dont get to play much anymore.
At 8 pm on Tuesday, May 26th our seven piece group called "Black Elf Speaks" will be performing a program called Grey Elf and the New Age Biosphere. This is the creative brainchild of Tom "Grey Elf" Hohmann, guitarist, songwriter and singer and one half of the "USA is a Monster" from Brooklyn featured in a recent Village Voice article:Black Elf Speaks is gorgeous native spirit elvish prog rock, straight up...
We have quite a stage show in terms of our dress and materials including a real 8 foot translucent smoking "New Age Biosphere".
Described in the lyrics of the title track to the new album:"in the emerald sound terrarium the reels of master tape still hungfrom new age projects long ago, how carefully we handled them"Other members of the tribe this time around include Sebastion "Wood Splitter" Paulson of Kocho Bisexual chopping wood on traps, Sara "Sky Tree" Shapouri of Raw Dog, Animental, Red Wizard etc. on basso, Eli "Moss Man" Winograd of Ground Monkeys on lead git, Daren "Sylvan Silver Moon" Ho of Drip House and Racc-oo-oon on old age spirit synth, Barbara Schauwacker of Animental on vocals, and percussion and myself Thom "Pink Cloud" Klepach on flutes, drums and vocals. Black Elf Speaks is not kitch - it is a lighthearted but sincere look at the useful lessons gleaned from myth and ancient culture and how the spirit of those realms can enrich us today - this is summed up in the earnest mantra chanted at the end of the song "Horses in the Night":"don't forget the good ideas they are too important use then wind and solar energies to fulfill the ancient prophecies"Black Elf Speaks can be previewed at Myspace and Last FM and a brief history can be found at Massive Distribution.
The spheres have aligned, the white buffalo will fly on silver clouds. We appreciate any support that you can give in promoting this once an epoch experience
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