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Pillars And Tongues
Pillars and Tongues is a trio from Chicago, Illinois, but manifesting at many points on the map.
The group of Evan Hydzik, Elizabeth Remis, and Mark Trecka constitute a collective focused on the abstraction of form and language. Their resulting exploration of such just happens to take shape in musical form. Recalling the aesthetic employed by the 'spiritual jazz' workouts of icons such as Pharaoh Sanders, wherein the creation of music itself can be seen as a positing method to address larger concepts at hand, Pillars & Tongues utilize an organic, 'spontaneous composition' design in which the three communicate their ideas. The result is not so much a 'free music,' but rather an unfolding musical discussion that, like a logical conclusion to a question of study, moves towards organization and resolution.
Pillars & Tongues' roots are found in the amorphous soul-folk ensemble Static Films, where the three fine-tuned their collective sense of music as exploration. Throughout the decade of erratic participation in that group's efforts, Hydzik, Remis, and Trecka eventually became distilled as a formidable core, directing themselves and each other through the finer moments of those trails - all in the spirit of preparation, or so it now seems, for a new form to respond to a shift in this epoch.
On Protection, their debut for Contraphonic, Pillars & Tongues present a portrait of how the trio's musical history - one that has seen the three travel the breadth of the United States several times together, executing both prepared and improvised work, responding to a wildly varied panoply of environments, performing in basements, in temples, and in state parks - has grown as a language. It is a language peppered with considerable representations of visceral forms of distinctly American art and musics: there is gospel and there is blues, there is folk, and there are even hints of Tonalism. (see the paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder.)
And like the process that they themselves engage in, Pillars and Tongues collectively offer audiences abstracted forms for extended study. With the release of Protection, Pillars & Tongues will be travelling on extensive US and European tours planned to coincide with its release, throughout the fall of 2008, and beyond.
Upcoming Shows
09.03.10 Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
w/ Elephant Micah. free show.
09.04.10 Nashville, IN @ The Pine Room
09.05.10 Louisville, KY @ Skull Alley
w/ Elephant Micah.
09.06.10 Murfreesboro, TN @ Wallstreet
09.08.10 New Orleans, LA @ AllWays Lounge
w/ Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship.
09.09.10 Houston , TX @ The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
w/ Listen, Listen.
09.10.10 Austin, TX @ Annie St. Arts Collective
w/ Weird Weeds, Bosque Brown, Some Say Leland.
09.11.10 Marfa, TX @ Marfa Book Co.
09.12.10 Las Cruces, NM @ The Trainyard
09.13.10 Arroyo Seco, NM @ Seco Pearl
w/ North America.
09.14.10 Albuquerque , NM @ Winning Coffee
w/ Hedia.
09.15.10 Flagstaff, AZ @ Cottage Haus
09.16.10 Los Angeles, CA @ Echo Curio
w/ Metal Rouge, Up Died Sound.
09.17.10 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
w/ Leopold and His Fiction, And Hod.
09.19.10 Sacramento, CA @ The Hub
w/ Pregnant, Up Died Sound.
09.20.10 Chico, CA @ 1078 Gallery
w/ Up Died Sound.
09.21.10 Nevada City, CA @ Cafe Mekka
09.22.10 San Francisco, CA @ Viracocha
w/ Up Died Sound, Sword and Sandals.
09.24.10 Prescott, AZ @ The Raven Cafe
09.25.10 Albuquerque, NM @ Muykind Collective
w/ North America.
09.26.10 Santa Fe, NM @ The Process presents at Little Wing
09.28.10 Colorado Springs, CO @ Modbo Gallery
09.29.10 Denver, CO @ Meadowlark Bar
w/ Princess Music.
09.30.10 Lincoln, NE @ Clawfoot House
10.01.10 Grinnell, IA @ Grinnell College Herrick Chapel
10.02.10 Iowa City, IA @ White Lightning Warehouse
w/ Prince Rama, Skye Carrasco.
10.03.10 Rock Island, IL @ Daytrotter
Downloads / URLs
Press Photo (300dpi)
Press Photo (72dpi)
Press Photo 2 (300dpi)
Press Photo 2 (72dpi)
"Protection (I)" (mp3)
myspace.com/pillarsandtongues
Releases on Contraphonic
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Available now in the ContraStore in CD and MP3 format.PROTECTION. CON 074. Released: 10.14.08
Tracklisting: Hall of Bliss / Dead Sings / Protection (I) / Protection (II) -
Available now in the ContraStore in MP3 format.LITTLE HELL VOL 2. - OUR LADY OF THE UNDERPASS: AN EMERGENT GROTTO BY PILLARS & TONGUES. CON LH002. Released: 06.17.08
Tracklisting: An Emergent Grotto