4426 Locust St.
Philadelphia

www.museumfire.com/events

Fire Museum & Sherman Arts come together to bring the return of the freewheeling Finnish juggernaut Avarus to Philadelphia!

"The wide-eyed forest dwellers of Avarus come from the pool of Finnish musicians that spawned the magnificent Kemialliset Ystävät. They play a brand of music on the outer extremes of the free-folk movement. A spirit of drugged-out frenzy drives this relentlessly changing music, resulting in songs that evolve like a species: not on an obvious linear path, but in fits and starts-obeying a strange logic inaccessible to the players themselves. Avarus conjures a gorgeous and frightening musical object, and they capture the feeling of mystery of music on acid.”
-Bryan Berge, Stylus.

Also performing this evening are:

Barker, Lattimore & Sietinsons
Making their debut performance this evening, this trio combines electro-acoustic sound collage and magic latern projections, weaving sound and vision mandalas as they go. Comprising of Mike Barker (Embarker, ex-Sharks with Wings), Mary Lattimore (Valerie Project) and Brooke Sietinsons (Espers), they merge their collective experience into intoxicating new forms.

Burrs
"Mining disaster kosmische hangover. It sounds sort of like Gunter Schickert, Limbus 4, Maschine Nr. 9, Cosmic Jokers, not like the motorik Kraut stuff but more like the sprawling, strung out wraith synthesizer aboard a haunted U boat sound."
-DHW Records

Ducktails
"(S)ome viscous loops and globs of translucent, FX-foamed guitar — the guy slings together some pretty Martian Malawi jams. A refried magic-mushroom curry smoothie, it's slightly sweet and gooey…"
-L.A. Weekly