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TRALPHAZ can best be described as an experience in over-the-counter broken Chinese just talking to 55555 meat cleavers hitting military skyplane side by side electronical sleeping smell. Based in San Francisco, TRALPHAZ has made several live appearances across the U.S. and has released material on labels such as Troniks, Harshnoise, Deathbomb Arc, and Resipiscent. This event will mark the return of TRALPHAZ since first performing at the ATA in 2001.

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CORE OF THE COALMAN (Messrs.Ann Joy Ann, Dan Wrath, and others) inhabit the attic where the Comte Isidore Ducasse’s bones have been stored since his death, though they where much picked over when found in the company of a rough legged hawk. The men immediately formed a barbershop quartet dedicated to performing baroque slink slop in concordance with thermoelectric properties. Thus when they where hot, they where hot. That is, until one Bob Doubles found a cure for the baritone in the groups chronic coryza. It was a theoretical cure, and while the predicament was allieviated the geocephalo-cotex was direly affected, and an initiative of obsessive fusion of geological and musical time frames became supercooled and thus glacially motivated. Slow in form but motivated and etched by sunshine continually, in the spirit of biting the hand that feeds one, Core of the Coalman is dyspeptic subtended prescient lacuna.

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PLOC MUNSTER, an offshoot of Micose & the Mau Maus, offers a texturally rich and disorienting aural experience; interweaving start/stop blasts with thick slabs of drones, processed field recordings, and crackling electronics with gurgling sounds only a slobbering humanoid orifice can create. With analog hiss featured side by side with digital crispness, Ploc Munster attempts to create rich sound collages that constantly shift, with no beginning or end in sight.

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Map from Bedtime for Bremer a book by Fred Rinne and Marshall Weber

Tonight’s event features the premier reading of Bedtime for Bremer (a fable about the USA in Iraq) by Fred Rinne and Marshall Weber, a banjofied musical rendition of Christine Shield’s (Blue Hole Comix creator) new parallel universe fable The Lonely Bear and Esmeralda Treecat, and a premier recital of Dana Smith and Scott William’s Collect Call from the Spirit World story. A dense melancholy atmosphere will be provided by other unfathomable ditties, bitter humor, and the hot seething charisma that is ATA and Booklyn joined together for the first time to present this fabulous, yet already marginalized, event which barely even nods to the insipid fake holiday it shares the date with.

With your performing hosts, Fred Rinne and company, Karen Switzer has a posse, and ringleader Marshall Weber (Co-founder of ATA and Booklyn) bringing it all, or most of it, on home, or as close to home as possible considering whatever the circumstances might be…

Presented by Artists Television Access and the Booklyn Artists Alliance

More info on Booklyn: http://booklyn.org/

“Song is what keeps us alive.” — Lindiwe Zulu (Freedom Fighter)

The power of song to communicate, motivate, console, unite and, ultimately, beget change: That ideal, gloriously realized, lies at the heart of director Lee Hirsch’s inspiring feature film documentary. “Amandla!” tells the story of Black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid. The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanized Black South Africans for more than 40 years, It is unlike any other film yet made on the subject of apartheid, and an electrically expressive portrait of South African life then and now.

To tell the story of this music, Amandla! turns to the people of South Africa itself. Among those featured in intimate interviews are the renowned musicians who helped expose the suffering of Black South Africa to the world, In addition to the songs themselves, Amandla! retrieves a stunning bounty of archive footage, some of it never before seen. Culled from a variety of sources, the footage describes the brutal arc of apartheid: the forced removals of Black South Africans to wretched, government-built townships; the institution of onerous pass laws; and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. As the white government grew increasingly repressive and violent in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, freedom songs responded, urging the fight on. A new combination of dance and song, the toyi-toyi, became a potent weapon in taking on the police. 2002, 108 min, South Africa/USA

PLUS a special presentation by Leonard Xasib, who participated in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. He is currently a co-host of KPOO 89.5FM Prison Focus Radio. Leonard Xasib became politically active after the death of Steven Biko in 1977 and moved on to write and teach freedom songs to the masses. Since his student years, Leonard operated on all levels of the resistance struggle. The stages of the movement’s militancy can be measured through the song — as the struggle intensified, the songs called for more commitment. Song became a tool of direction and education that had the power to sweep the most backward layers of society along. The toyi-toyi reflected the willingness of ordinary youth to make the ultimate sacrifice. Leonard will give a short presentation before the film — discussion will follow the screening. Search for grocery stores. Find gratitude. Turn a simple search into something more.