Kingdom Shore News

Spring 2011

Upcoming shows with heroes Bill Orcutt (ex-Hairy Pussy), Eric Chenaux, and the Dead Rat Orchestra in Ottawa.

Recording two Kingdom Shore full length LPs and working, worrying, always working, struggling and we're still here. More on that as we can get the various arms and ambitions to fold into each other and fill out this maelstrom. They're coming slowly, and we are pushing ahead. No one learns to swim in the shallow end, and we're a long way from touching bottom with these pieces.

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Fall 2010

Running from October 10th-31st, at the Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Gallery in Turku, Finland, is the Sophie Belair Clement and Kingdom Shore piece for a String Quartet, where we tried to faithfully reproduce the sound of a video projector playing Bas Jan Ader’s “Nightfall“ (1971, black and white silent 16 mm film, 4min 16s, transfered to DVD and slowed down to stretch across 44min 21s).

The almighty juggernaut that is Buried Inside will recede into the dark after one last fight on 11.14.10 at Babylon. We'll be there to ease the transition and send them off beyond the breakers. Come one, come all, and lend a hand.

More KINGDOM SHORE shows coming, one with Capillary Action at Le Temporaire, an encore performance of the Phantom Of The Opera at the beautiful and always thoughtfully curated Mayfair Theatre, a performance opening the Electric Fields Festival in Ottawa, with accompanying stereoscopic projections by video artist Christopher Payne, a final farewell to the monster that is Ottawa's Buried Inside, and a few more shows to push our luck before the mass blanketing of snow that will grind our lovely city to a halt and send us all inside to our loved ones.

Currently recording a 12" of two pieces for electronics, field recordings, samples, processing, no-input mixer mayhem, gangs of pedal noise frying circuits and pounding breakers, a 175 piece string orchestra and a frenzied and vae solis channeling choir. All for a spring release to send us gleaming into more shows in the new year. More news to come as we tighten this thing up.

Still a long time incoming, the - Exodus 7" - If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right, and we're taking the time to make sure that it is. See below for more information.

Spring 2010

New dates for a short tour of Autonomous Social Centres, Alternative Spaces, and Anarchist Bookstores in support of Nelson Laguna Ross's spoken word/open dialogue as he promotes his new book Sun, Fun and Slavery: How the South Became the North's Playground (Exile Press) in March, and a reunion with Philladelphia/Brooklyn band Normal Love will welcome April for us. More shows to come. Recordings are gaining ground. Soon we'll be standing behind them, encouraging them to go forth and plough the untended field.

K ingdom Shore recently finished an anxiety ridden and white knuckled reclaiming of the 1925 version of Rupert Julian's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA for which we had feverishly written a full original score of music and sound design for. This was performed live to accompany the film at the glorious Mayfair Cinema in Ottawa on Friday, October 16th, at 7pm.

Kingdom Shore has recently performed at the Opening of Marysol Foucault's exhibition Barely There at the Wurm Gallery/Invisible Cinema in Ottawa. Please check out her work - here. If you are in the area, please support the Invisible Cinema with your patronage. We are lucky to have this establishment in our city.

The exhibit curated by Sophie Bélair Clément, entitled Le son du projecteur will be travelling to continental Europe soon. Therein is a video piece with accompanying music by Kingdom Shore. The film, Nightfall, by Bas Jan Ader (1971, 4 min 16s, noir et blanc, muet, film 16mm) has been transfered to digital and has been slowed down from its original duration to run for 44 min 21s. Kingom Shore took on the task of interpreting the sound of the projection, and has provided an accompanying piece that runs with this in the space. More info. as this touches down. In the meantime, the previous presentation of this at Optica can be found here.

Martin Dupuis's exhibit of whales, intestinal operations, table-top illustrations, and magnificent and careening morphine induced hallucinations, entitled Feed Me, for which we were lucky enough to provide some music, was held at the Warren G. Flowers gallery at Dawson College in Montreal. More info on the exhibit, including examples of the work, and photos of the pageantry, can be seen here. Our contribution, clocking in at 76 minutes, and running on an endless loop, is a piece for 3 double-basses and 4 cellos.

Still caramelizing on the burner is the Exodus 7" - featuring the full band, with a b-side Etching, and packaged in an artisan designed, bound, gatefold casing made from recycled material. ________ Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering.

In the meantime, here is hand-held audience recording of Kingdom Shore made by one of our heroes, JFBlanchette/Sinequanon (buy his music here), live at the AvantGarde Bar on December 8th of 2007,- _______________- Remove This Doubt -