Rising from the ashes of Burning Man, 1997, F-Space
is a ground
breaking collaboration by seminal underground artist's
Ethan Port and
Scot Jenerik. F-Space
combines stunning big-beat ultra-percussion with
a melodic noise bent, with references to Savage Republic,
Einsturzende
Neubauten, Glen Branca, Moroccan trance music,
early Sonic Youth, Test
Dept., and the more recent emerging international
noise scene. The
band's well developed sense of structure and experimentation
has always been evident in these
musicians previous endeavors (Ethan Port as a driving
catalyst behind
Savage Republic, Wonder, and Death Ride '69, and Scot
Jenerik's
prominent solo work), and is both adhered to
and expanded upon in F-Space's consistently adventurous
recordings and explosive live performances.
Recent show reviews are available at the F-Space
on-line press kit/ web
site:
http://mobilization.com
under "Press Clippings" and "Press Releases".
F-Space have just
completed a two month stint of performances in the SF
Bay area. These performances included the "23five benefit
at the Lab",
the "FFF BALL" at Cell, the "CYBERBUSS
COSTUME BALL", the "ABSTRAKT
ZONE", as well as several live radio broadcasts.
This series of
performances entitled "Atrocity at Chiapas" included
several new
instruments composed of several flaming oil drums, the
"Contraption" -
a neo-industrial gamelan/tourture chamber device, "Thor"
- A guttural
stringed percussive instrument that harnesses the power
of the entire
Union Pacific Rail Road in a four foot steel post, "Dante"
- A flaming
mattress of steel, the "flame thrower" - a portable flame
thrower strung
up and miked for sound, and Ethan Port's alternatively
tuned guitars,
which in any other project would be considered the "unusual"
instrument, but inside F-Space provides the most traditional
musical
reference point!
Needless to say, the recent set of F-Space
performances took the jaded
San Francisco "scene" by surprise. Samples of un-solicited
audience
reactions have been made available in the "Press Clippings
and Show
Reviews" section of the F-Space web site:
http://mobilization.com/clip.html
F-Space related tour plans include a short North-West
tour in June, and
a Scot Jenerik South-West tour during July, which will
include
solo performances with "Thor". F-Space will also be performing
nightly
in "center camp" at BURNING MAN 1998. The next
SF bay area
performances are tentatively scheduled for October when
the band plans
a short Western tour.
F-Space will be in the studio through October compiling
live and studio
recordings into a "simi-live" CD/Video release, with
the goal of
capturing the raw energy of past F-Space performances,
while still
utilizing the capabilities of the studio environment.
F-Space also
plans to release a full length studio work by the end
of the year.
F-Space may be contacted directly at:
other links:
Show Reviews
Press Releases