POWERS is the current incarnation of CAMPBELL KNEALE who has ping-ponged about the nether regions of interstellar sound for close to thirty earth-years aboard sonic spacecraft such as BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, BLACK BONED ANGEL, and OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD.
Known primarily as the captain of his own ship, CAMPBELL KNEALE has also collaborated and performed with some of outsider music’s most defiant and diverse experimentalists... Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Merzbow, Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O))), Keiji Haino, Borbetomagus, Phill Niblock, and Tony Conrad to name a few.
Whereas the vast majority of Kneales music revolves around the fastidious manipulation of the multitracking process, POWERS pounds on the thin cracking ice of an ‘everything-all-at once’ mindset, performing and recording his immersive blitzkrieg ragas entirely in the moment, walking the tightrope between triumph and humiliation, daring the ground beneath his feet to splinter and collapse in harmful fractals of fire and smoke. Inspired by ’60s New York loft minimalism, ’70s Kosmische synth, ‘80s No Wave, ’90s Scandinavian black metal demos, and ’00s Japanoise, POWERS pushes everything to transcendental, excoriating, and stroboscopic extremes. Impossibly dense, defiantly raw, and utterly hypnotic, POWERS sets the controls for the heart of a freezing black sun... unfurling the unfathomable with occultic, apocalyptic sound. Carnivorous psychedelia.
2PM : ARTIST TALK
'How To Destroy Space and Time'
Spend an hour or two in the afternoon with Campbell Kneale as he lets you behind his wall of slumberpunk into the inner mechanics of his composition processes, and current fascinations with sound.
6PM : LIVE PERFORMANCE
Wild electricity shakes loose its gigantic rubber masters... sing strings sing!
A considerable array of LPs / CDs / ltd edition CDRs / T-shirts will be on sale. Come prepared.
