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Kris Thompson's 60th B'day: Sunburned + Matt Lajoie (Herbcraft) + Dyr Faser

  • The Lilypad 1353 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA, 02139 (map)

$10 Cover @ the Door / Start 8pm / Doors 7:30pm / Standing Show

Featuring a projection art collaboration between Allison Tanenhaus and Vidumami (Eric Krauter)

Long-time area aural practitioner and scene supporter Kris Thompson marks his 60th spin completion on this mossy space-rock with a luxurious sonic meeting of heads & minds that he's personally curated for a full-evening engagement at Lilypad. Kris has been a member of The Prefab Messiahs, Bobb Trimble's Flying Spiders, Abunai!, Nisi Period, The Lothars, Concord Ballet Orchestra Players, Magic Shoppe, Twilight Tipi, Astral Chill, Astral East, Violet Nox, and Jasmine Love Bomb. He's recorded with and/or appeared onstage with: Damo Suzuki (Can), Bobb Trimble, Windy & Carl, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond), Brother JT, Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Gary War, Alastair Galbraith, Prince Rama, Sore Eros, Quilt, Barbara Manning, Dalthom, Dalthan, and The Spacious Mind (Sweden).

Sunburned Hand of the Man

"Sunburned Hand of the Man (aka "Sunburned") are a loose knit gang of musical artists from the wilds of Eastern Massachusetts. Founded as a way to let off steam from years of obsessive weirdo record collecting and perversely decoding the hand jive of wanton talents from the psychedelic "Sunburned Hand of the Man (aka 'Sunburned') are a loose knit gang of musical artists from the wilds of Eastern Massachusetts. Founded as a way to let off steam from years of obsessive weirdo record collecting and perversely decoding the hand jive of wanton talents from the psychedelic and punk rock hardcore scenes in the Boston zone Sunburned was born to be awesome. The nucleus of the group is a small ragtag contingent of fascinants completely focused on the idea of spontaneous composition within the framework of religious experience: the rock n roll EVENT" —Thurston Moore

sunburnedhandoftheman.com

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Matt Lajoie

Matt LaJoie is an American musician and visual artist born, living, and working in the state of Maine. With over two dozen solo guitar releases in the past four years, and hundreds of other recordings released since 2005 under various solo aliases and as a member of several improvisationally minded groups (including Herbcraft), Matt has remained a prolific DIY recording musician for the past two decades. Since 2017, most of his new music has been released through Flower Room, the self-run in-house private press label he co-founded with Ash Brooks.

flowerroomrecords.bandcamp.com/music

instagram.com/ml.wah

facebook.com/mattlajoie

Dyr Faser

The ‘Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra’ of psychedelic, 21st century ballades…They are natural born atmosphere explorers. They operate in a sonic cocoon of their own. Far-out is their normal.

—Turn Up The Volume!, Belgium

Beautiful, languid, mystical, hypnotic, exotic, dream-like, entrancing, sinuous, enchanting, seductive, relaxing, soothing, transportive, slinky, heavenly, hypnagogic, other worldly, soporific, mesmerizing, comforting, narcotic, haunting, moving, magical, reassuring. Foreign yet familiar, sounds like it was created in a far away and beautiful land. Pleasantly floating and drifting. Like the best of the best drugs. When it ends I always wish it lasted longer.

—Terence Burke

Dyr Faser follows the lineage of Krautrock Gods of yore. If you consider the alien synthetic genius of Cluster, this is their cyborg octopus descendent, ever-unravelling tentacles of reverb guitar cast forth from a stainless steel brain. Equal parts devotional and psychedelic, it’s a testament to how structuring compositions in and around each other can be a transcendental experience. Excellent stuff. —Daz Lawrence, Reprobate Mag (UK)

dyrfaser.bandcamp.com

youtube.com/c/EricBoomhower/videos

instagram.com/dyr_faser

facebook.com/dyrfaser

Earlier Event: November 11
Emily Reo + Alexia Avina + Blue toed