Loto Ball Show

Sunday, September 6 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00
Minimalist / Zouk / Freestyle
Experimental Dental School
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The guitar bends to the breaking point. Drums pump. Drums crack. Synthesizer samples crisp & crackle. One voice howls, the other coos. A sea of bass over a lake of pedals. Here is some really nerdy dirty Jazz p...unk. hmm..or is it vintage garage pop? psychedelic world music?,, synth fractured dance beats. Pretty? yes. Ugly? yes.


Mattress (Portland)
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Heavy Duty By Josiah Hughes/Exclaim Magazine (Canada) Portland's Mattress centres on the claustrophobic bedroom soul of weirdo Rex Marshall and his synthesiser. But on Heavy Duty, his debut full-length for Edmonton's Reluctant Recordings, his minimal, dark electro beats take a backseat to his sinister songwriting.
Loto Ball Show
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Loto Ball is best known for his work singing and performing for San Francisco Bay Area death-punk band The Phantom Limbs. During his time with The Phantom Limbs (in which he was sometimes known as “Hopeless”), Loto Ball’s visceral expression of existential distress laced with black comedy, along with the hyper-charged and unusual compositions of keyboardist Stevenson Sedgwick helped earn his band the honor of No. 1 Indie Rock Band in San Francisco (S.F. Bay Guardian – Best of the Bay awards 2003) and the chance to record two albums with Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles record label. After 5 years and 220 performances with The Phantom Limbs, including 3 U.S. tours and 2 European tours, Loto Ball left the band in 2005 to move to Chicago and pursue other ventures. Loto Ball has spent his time in Chicago working with local artists on various projects, including founding an art gallery/music venue (Reversible Eye), collaborating on a 800 foot public mural (Bloomingdale Trail), personal masseuse for Mayor Richard Daley, performing with puppets (Scary Toesies), working as an activist for disability rights and quality of life issues, as well playing trumpet for a 30-person marching band (Mucca Pazza). Read More

LOTO BALL SHOW
"Dark, muscular and intense hick garage blues racket with the relentless gusto of The Bad Seeds fucking Deanna, sharpened by the non-cliched post punk apocalyptic edge one finds in Public Image Ltd"
(20 Jazz Funk Greats)

"Loto Ball Show reminded me of Fugazi if you fed them a boat loat of crack cocaine."
(B...rooklyn Vegan)

"Loto is one of the most talented and demented front-creatures in all of underground rock. Phantom Limbs were a punk Gilbert & Sullivan gone drastically wrong- perfect for a San Francisco bordello when the '06 Earthquake hits. Now with Loto Ball Show, the music borders on 'Exotica'- but thankfully without the "Lounge" damage. As a painter and a musician, everything he touches seems to turn into a Lio strip. I will always be fascinated."
(Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys)

"Loto Ball Show takes the pants off The Phantom Limbs dead person and puts The King and Eye in one leg and Hex Enduction Hour in the other."
(Chris D., The Flesh Eaters)

"Slightly reminiscent of Minimal Man's classic The Shroud Of... Like Arto Linsday singing for the Contortions or Gilbert Godfrey fronting the Birthday Party with Lora Logic."
(PunkNews.Org)

"I believe this is what St. Lester Bangs referred to when he was talking about "skronk." No-Wave funk getting Skin Graft (the procedure and record label) onto the zombie of Albert Ayler. This will fuck with your head so good. In fact, this record sent me into 3 different emotional states upon the first listen, as ex-Phantom Limbs guy, Loto Ball and his big band re-taught me how to dance. For this, I thank thee."
(Hex-Education)

Loto Ball will be accompanied by ex-members of the CENTIMETERS.




NERVOUS GENDER
Confrontational and experimental, Los Angeles' Nervous Gender was founded in 1978 and from their use of heavily distorted keyboards and synthesizers, they soon were dubbed (along with such bands as The Screamers) "synthpunk"... although some could equally consider Nervous Gender "industrial."

Founding member, Phranc's androgynous appearance was the embodiment of the group's name, and garnered the band much press in zines such as Slash and, later, proving inspirational to founders of the Queercore movement. Despite their somewhat high profile, the groups' habit of provoking the audience, obscene material and harsh erotics guaranteed they would never gain commercial acceptance.

In the early 1980s, Nervous Gender performed with the likes of SPK, Factrix, Non, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Psychic TV and has included members Don Bolles (The Germs), Paul Roessler (The Screamers). Collaborators include: Alice Bag (The Bags) and Dinah Cancer (45 Grave).





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