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jason on 11/08/2010 at 08:00AM
Boodle Boy album + Psychic TV concert
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Boodle Boy is the new musical project of Bryin Dall and Edward "Edley" O’Dowd. Their eponymous debut is a deliciously frightening reflection of our world through a funhouse mirror, inverted through an underground sewer system, where found sounds take on a new form amidst post-industrial experimental electronics. Edley and Bryin were introduced through Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's group Thee Majesty. Edley recently visited WFMU with P-Orridge and Tony Conrad for an improvised performance on Strength Through Failure, which you can check out here on the FMA. Edley is also the drummer and co producer of Psychic TV / PTV3, which Genesis P-Orridge formed the first incarnation of after Throbbing Gristle. On December 9th, WFMU is co-presenting Psychic TV / PTV3's only stateside show for 2010 at Europa in Brooklyn. Bryin Dall's project 4th Sign Of The Apocalypse will take the main support slot (details here). Here's a classic Psychic TV live performance on WFMU from 2006: |
fabio on 04/23/2010 at 09:00AM
Tony Conrad, Edley ODowd, & Genesis Breyer P. Orridge live at WFMU
The combined accomplishments of Genesis Breyer P. Orridge and Tony Conrad are legendary and enormous, and are well-documented elsewhere. Over the years, both artists have appeared and performed at WFMU many times.
Genesis first came by for an interview in 1988, on one of my late nightshifts in the old basement studios at Froeberg Hall, when WFMU was still part of Upsala College. That was during the early Acid House days of Psychic TV. (And just last year he came to the station with all of Throbbing Gristle for a long and lively chat session in the studio).
About a year after that first interview with Gen, I met Tony Conrad, and I asked Tony to come to the station for an interview not long after. He couldn’t be there in person so we did that interview by phone, but since then he’s performed in the studio twice and we’ve done several in-studio interviews.
Though I’d been friends with both of them for many years I had never considered the possibility that Gen and Tony might work together: to me they seemed to be approaching their work from wildly different perspectives. But circumstances can sometimes conspire to completely blow away our cherished, previously-held notions. At the suggestion of filmmaker Marie Losier, who’s been working on two separate documentaries about both artists, a concert with Gen and Tony playing together was finally organized.
And this is more or less how these two very unique artists were brought together, along with Edley O’Dowd on percussion, for a concert at Issue Project Room in January 2009 and for the one you can access here on the Free Music Archive. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.