
In the winter of 2005 Steve Kenney and myself began Demons. Steve rescued his Pro One from New Orleans Katrina aftermath. The synthesizer was moldy, had a bad power cord and a horrible buzz (I broke it after our first gig). I played various homemade electronic devices, rewired radios, feedback, etc.. Later that week I bought a Pro One as well. Mine had no working keyboard and, of course, a horrible buzz (a grounding issue). What we found ourselves doing was not so much making music with the Pro One but rather just turning them on and listening to the synthesizer play itself. I recorded our sessions and we called it Demons. Our synthesizers are still some what broke.
- Nate Young 12/27/06
VISUAL MUSIC
Demons evolved from a synthesizer duo into a Visual Music trio with the incorporation of video artist Alivia Zivich. Working under the name "Video Madness" she often used the music of Demons as soundtracks to her analog video experiments. Live performances as a group led to the redefining of Demons as Visual Music.
"According to the theory of synaesthesia, sensory perception of one kind can induce sensory experience of another; for example, an individual may “see” certain colors when hearing musical notes. In such instances, sight does not negate hearing, but rather the two senses interact to elicit a heightened state of consciousness. While many art forms can evoke sensorial overlap, music has been considered by many proponents of the theory as an exceptional source for this phenomenon."
- From "Visual Music" exhibition
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SICK LLAMA
Noise

SICK LLAMA is the Michigan psychedelic noise punk solo project of Heath Moerland who is also the Fag Tapes label head. First recording released 12/03 on American Tapes with releases on Gods Of Tundra, Hanson Records, Chondritic Sound to follow. Heath opened for Wolf Eyes on their 2006 tour, played No Fun Festival in NYC and recently played Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival in Montreal with C. Spencer Yeh and Hive Mind. Established in 2004, Fag Tapes has put out over 250 releases and there’s no end in sight. Sick Llama uses tapes, clarinet, and whatever else is laying around to balance a fine line between composition and improvisation.<br>
SISTER IODINE
Noise

French pioneer experimental rock band (trio) founded in the early 90's, Sister Iodine made themselves known with 2 albums recorded on the R.I.P French label 'Semantic'; ADN 115 (1994) & Pause (1997), collision between the savage energy of No wave, the game of collage tapes and exploration of their instruments inspired by concrete music, their primitive love of Noise, and a primal free rock approach. From 1992 to 97 they did some wicked concerts in company of bands like Sonic Youth, Faust, US Mapple, Circle X, Keiji Haino, Flaming Demonics, Bästard, Krackhouse, Melt Banana, Tone Rec, amongst others..
Geographically separated since 1997 Sister Iodine began to play sporadically for some scattered events like some dates w/ Sonic Youth french tour 1999, Phonotaktik Festival, Vienna/1998, PS1 Contemporary Art Center NY/1998, each members focused then more on their own new electronic projets (Discom, duos w/ Tujiko Noriko, Evil Moisture) touring around the world. And still running...
Back to pure and harsh electricity since early 2000's , Sister Iodine continued their ufo like road, gaved brutal concerts here and there around their album came out on Textile records (Jackie O'Motherfucker, Magik Markers, Oren Ambarchi, Volcano The Bear, Chris Corsano & Mike Flower, Sun, and many more) on feb 2007, recorded @ Rare Book Room studio with Nicolas Vernhes.
2008/ Sister Iodine recorded his new album in his studio and did a few shows around like the one invited by Sonic Youth to play for the opening of the massive exhibition dedicated to the band "Sonic Youth, Sentational Fix" in Saint Nazaire.
2009/ Sister Iodine's new album "Flame Desastre" came out end of feb on the new acid french label "PREMIER SANG". LP / white transparent vinyl / limited edition. Sister Iodine played feb+march 2009 in France + Europe to celebrate this.
Sister Iodine is proud to announce the issue of "Flame Desastre" on CD format, remastered and resequenced + 2 extra-tracks, published by Editions Mego label (KTL, Jim O'Rourke, Russell Haswell, Prurient, Hecker, K. Drumm, Emeralds, Fenn O'Berg etc). Release date / 2 Nov 2009. Sister Iodine toured all over Europe in october to celebrate this.
Now is coming Japanese "Flame Saccage" Tour for January 2010. New releases are already planned all along 2010
