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Pillars and Tongues

About Me

"Protection" full-length CD available from Contraphonic (www.contraphonic.com)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| "My Joys are Greater than Ever They Have Been" full-length cassette available from Featherspines (www.myspace.com/featherspines)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| | "Sacred Architecture" full-length CD-r available from The Lotus Sound (www.thelotussound.com)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| "Untitled (Autumn 2008 Recordings)" CD-r sold on tour, out-of-print; songs available for download on this page only (see the mp3 "store" below)
Booking Spain / Portugal: Born Music -- joseluisnuk(at)hotmail.com; www.bornmusic.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||U.K.: Clique Clack -- ichbinsimmo(at)googlemail.com ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||U.S.: New Wilderness Booking -- myspace.com/newwildernessbooking

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/10/2006
Band Members: Mark Trecka, Elizabeth Remis, and Evan Hydzik
Influences: Mahadeviyakka, Tsegue Maryam-Guebrou, Our Lady of the Underpass, Carlos Reygadas, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, no protection, W. G. Sebald, I-25 North / South, Marian Anderson, "You Don't Miss Your Water", "Consummation" vs. "For All We Know" (and all of her glory!), Bernard Hermann, 20 April 2008, Alice Coltrane, "I Found a Love", Pharoah Sanders
Sounds Like: (Recently alleged to sound like:) Art Ensemble of Chicago, Moondog, Dirty Three, Dead Can Dance, Milford Graves, Ennio Morricone, Rachel's, Mark Growden's 'Electric Piñata,' Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Boxhead Ensemble, Scott Walker, John Cage, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus' 'Blues and Roots,' Swans
Record Label: Lotus Sound, Contraphonic, Featherspines, The DRP
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

To listen to Pillars and Tongues / Contraphonic on NPR . . .

Please follow this link to listen to Tony Sarabia's profile of Contraphonic's "Little Hell" series, with a focus on Pillars and Tongues' contribution, "An Emergent Grotto": http://chicagopublicradio.o...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:58:00 GMT

Pillars and Tongues joins Contraphonic

We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Contraphonic, Inc.  Here is what they have to say about it: The second volume of Little Hell, part of the Contraphonic Chicago Sound Series, co...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:02:00 GMT

Limited availability downloads for sale

There is now an mp3 virtual store on the Pillars and Tongues MySpace page. The pieces available for download are exclusive tracks or exclusive versions of tracks and will be made available for limite...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Press piece from flavorpill.com

This piece was published on flavorpill.com in anticipation of a Pillars and Tongues performance at Ronny's Bar on May 16th, 2008: They say good things come to those who wait. With avant-classical expe...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:29:00 GMT

Review of PROTECTION from Foxy Digitalis

[To clarify, "Protection" may be difficult to find, but only because it is not yet released.]Pillars and Tongues "Protection"Mark Trecka, Evan Hydzik, and Elizabeth Remis are Pillars and Tongues, a tr...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:22:00 GMT

Forthcoming relase on the Lotus Sound

The Lotus Sound, based out of Albuquerque, NM, will be releasing a new and as of right now exclusive version of the previously self-released record "Sacred Architecture".  It should be noted that...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:35:00 GMT

Tim Kinsella’s ’Orchard Vale’ and afterwards

The opening night of the CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL is this Wednesday, August 15th. The featured film on this night will be "ORCHARD VALE," the first feature-length film by TIM KINSELLA, which ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:50:00 GMT

Os Mutantes tribute compilation details

Jardim Elétrico: A Tribute to Os Mutantes FORMAT: CD RUNNING TIME: 64' 34''CATALOGUE: MDCP054TRACKS: 15 DATE OF RELEASE: JULY 21st, 2007EXTRAS: Insert poster drawn by Arnaldo Baptista from Os Mutantes...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:26:00 GMT

To listen to Pillars and Tongues on NPR . . .

To listen to Tony Sarabia's profile of Pillars and Tongues which aired in December, click on this link: https://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_848_Segment.aspx? segmentID=818
Posted by on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:25:00 GMT

Pillars and Tongues on NPR

On Tuesday, December 19th, Chicago Public Radio will be airing a piece on Pillars and Tongues / Static Films. The piece will be broadcast twice: once during the morning show, Eight Forty-Eight, which ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:26:00 GMT