| Name: | Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg Duo Drainolith Setting |
| City: | Canada, Quebec, Montreal |
| Time: | Thu Jun 25, 2026 @ 8:00pm |
| Description: | A co‑founder of the cult noise‑rock group Harry Pussy, Orcutt has since built a
widely acclaimed solo career. His work has been recognized by WIRE, NPR, The
Guardian, and Rolling Stone. Maintaining an active international touring
schedule and frequent collaborations with leading improvisers and experimental
musicians, Bill Orcutt continues to push the expressive limits of the guitar
with uncompromising intensity.
Wendy Eisenberg is a key figure in contemporary independent music, renowned for
the multiplicity and fluidity of her practice. A singer, improviser, and
virtuoso guitarist, she navigates freely between art-rock, jazz, folk, and
radical improvisation, constantly blurring the lines between forms.
Significant albums such as Auto (2020) and Viewfinder (2024) attest to an
approach deeply committed to risk and experimentation. Rejecting any
specialization, Wendy Eisenberg champions a simultaneous practice of punk,
improvised, and composed music, making eclecticism not an aesthetic choice, but
an artistic necessity.
Setting is a North Carolina Piedmont–based trio featuring Jaime Fennelly, Nathan
Bowles and Joe Westerlund, musicians known for their work with projects
including Mind Over Mirrors, Califone, Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Sylvan Esso and
Jake Xerxes Fussell. Grounded in a deeply collaborative approach, the group
creates inventive, richly textured improvisations shaped by shared intuition and
flow.
Combining synthesizers, cassette loops, banjo, keyboards, zithers, electronics
and percussion, Setting builds tactile sound worlds where earthy rhythms meet
moments of celestial lift. Their self‑titled album on Thrill Jockey stands as a
defining statement of improvisational fluency paired with compositional focus,
harnessing the euphoria of communal creation.
Perhaps best known for his guitar playing in the Montreal noise-rock band AIDS
Wolf, Alex Moskos has been producing records under the name Drainolith since
1999. He has released countless cassettes, CDRs & 7" records on various labels
culminating in two full length albums: 'Fighting
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(2012) on Spectrum Spools and 'Hysteria
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(2015) on NNA Tapes.
More recently Moskos has performed and recorded alongside Max Eilbacher (Horse
Lords) and Duncan Moore as SEF III, and with Nate Young, John Olson and Pulitzer
Prize winning composer Raven Chacon as The Difficult Messages Band. He has also
played alongside Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux), Charles Balas and Nate Young in
Dan’l Boon (Drag City). Moskos is an amateur historian and works in community
radio at CKUT 90.3FM - Montreal’s oldest freeform radio station. He lives in
Hochelaga, an east end neighbourhood of Montreal with artist Jessica Mensch and
Boots The Cat. 2026 Drainolith also features the amazing talents of drummer
Destiny and guitar goddess Rián Adamian.
Negative Capabilities will be launching their first zine—a new print venture
dedicated to outsider guitar and left-field acoustic sounds. Copies will be
available at the venue. An interview with Wendy Eisenberg in conversation with
Alex Pelchat is in this premier issue.
SOURCE: [montreal.askapunk.net] |
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