BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Paradise City Music//paradisecitymusic//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Horse Lords w/ No Thankyou &\; Silk Fence DTSTART:20261006T230000Z DTEND:20261007T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260818T212607Z UID:event-52@paradisecitymusic DESCRIPTION:Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore\, Maryland in 2010\; the y evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a t rio with drummer Sam Haberman\, guitarist Owen Gardner\, and bassist Max E ilbacher\, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensem ble. Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfi eld rock scene\, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nu rtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish\, Matmos)\, their appro ach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate. Across sixteen years of frequent touring\, Horse Lord s have released ten studio\, live\, and collaboration albums in addition t o a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens\, a handful of singles an d compilation tracks. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series\, the band collaborated w ith Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt\, a onetime student of La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros whose just intonation chamber music was a cruc ial part of the post-Fluxus Downtown New York City environment. With the r elocation of three of the four members to Germany beginning in 2021\, the potential for more further creative exploration\, and performance opportun ities including the Moers Festival (with an 11-piece lineup\, interpreting Julius Eastman’s music as well as their own)\, the interdisciplinary ph ases of the band’s music was poised for fascinating new directions. The band observes “We are always trying to balance working within the limita tions of the quartet and pushing beyond them.For their second studio album on RVNG Intl.\, Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!\, Horse Lords have fo llowed this notion and augmented the instrumentation\, expanding the forma t slightly to include bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone (TAK Ensemble)\, trombonist Weston Olencki (Nate Wooley\, RAGE Thormbones) and vocalists N ina Guo (Departure Duo) and Evelyn Saylor (Holly Herndon\, Caterina Barbie ri) across a program of twelve original compositions. Demand To Be Taken T o Heaven Alive! is a reference to a line in a poem by Russian Futurist wri ter Vladimir Myakovsky\, and the band have also name-checked the Bauhaus w eaver Anni Albers (wife of painter Josef Albers)\, Islamic geometrical pat terning\, Dutch avant-garde group the Maciunas Ensemble (themselves named after Fluxus artist and typographer George Maciunas)\, composer/writers To m Johnson\, Henry Flynt and Catherine Christer Hennix\, and musically draw from sources as diverse as Roscoe Holcolmb\, James Brown\, Kuwaiti/Bahrai ni sawt\, and electronic composers Maryanne Amacher and Jaap Vink. As the members are keen to point out\, Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! is “ a bid for the flattening of time and perception in favor of greater goods [and] the iterative nature of reaching/building a paradise in this life\, not the next\,” and the new album at hand is an illuminating starting po int for eternal nowness.Silk Fence is a New York–based instrumental elec tro-acoustic trio between three longtime friends and collaborators—Arian Shafiee (Guerilla Toss\, etc.) on electric guitar\, Booker Stardrum (SML\ , etc.) on drums and percussion\, and Justin Frye (PC Worship\, etc.) on d ouble bass and tapes. The group stretches the sonic possibilities of their instruments while exploring long-form\, texture-driven minimalism and tim e-based improvisation. Recorded throughout 2024 and 2025 between Brooklyn and Bethel\, New York\, Silk Fence presents the trio at its most focused. Over the course of 35 minutes\, the group creates unhurried snapshots that appear and dissolve––at times into immersive soundscapes\, and at oth er times into unflinching\, propulsive grooves. The album unfolds as a stu dy in subtle changes within repetition\, blending kraut-jazz intuition and slowly shifting acoustic and electronic textures. It batters and lilts\, resisting easy categorization: crossing stylistic boundaries to arrive\, u ltimately\, at a sound all its own\, deeply rooted in the musicians’ sha red devotion to improvised music in all forms. At just four tracks\, Silk Fence is a complete\, unfussy musical statement.With traditional forms alw ays in the rearview\, the music carries a sense of ease that feels equally inviting and quietly engrossing\, creating an expansive musical space tha t lands somewhere between ESP and ECM with a subtle nod to experimental Am erican folk. Silk Fence will be released by Ryan Davis&apos\; Sophomore Lo unge Records in October 2026.No Thankyou is a 2-piece experimental bossa p unk band from Western Massachusetts. Their music is intricate and punchy\ , centering in an exotic and noisy sound. The songs began as jazz inspire d guitar compositions written by Britt Brideau and took on a new life with the addition of Chris Bryne\, a hardcore/ punk drummer from Seattle. Be sure to stay tuned for their debut album Yes Please.\nTickets: https://iro nhorse.org/shows\nFull listing: https://www.paradisecitymusic.org/show/52 LOCATION:Iron Horse Music Hall\, 18 Center St.\, Northampton\, MA URL:https://www.paradisecitymusic.org/show/52 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR