I Heart Lung
I Heart Lung is refined chaos. It is at once tribal drone, free jazz, whisper and rage, improvisation and predestination.
It is the gestalt of guitarist Schlarb and drummer Steck. Steck was an anonymous fan of Schlarb's many and varied projects as the mastermind behind Sounds Are Active , and coherced his way into
playing with him through Machiavellian machinations.
Inhale.
Exhale.
From the first moment of collaboration, there was an uncanny telepathy, creative pathos, intensity, serenity, chaos, and arbitrary exactness that could only be I Heart Lung.
They feed it back and beat it freely. An organized/open duet of choke-like intensity and sometimes raging quiet. Undaunted by their cancelled first gig, they recorded their first album in two hours in what is now an abandoned building. The sonic sorcery that followed is available for free.
Blood and Light
This image is also a terrifying t-shirt! Have others threaten to buy it right off of your body!
Their first performance was a headlining affair (that LA Weekly pronounced as, "one of those legendary gigs you only hear about 10 years later") at which the Pink Mountaintops’ Stephen McBean bespoke of drummer Steck as a “force of nature.â€
Others agreed.
They went on a US tour with Castanets along with Wooden Wand & Vanishing Voice and set the country ablaze in the summer of 2004.
A split 12†featuring two songs from the Castanets on one side and three tracks from I Heart Lung is disappearing fast. More free sound files, and purchasing info here:
Castanets/I Heart Lung Split 12"
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A fortuitious collaboration with Chicago based sound artist/label curator John Kannenberg followed, further enhanced by the low end sorcery of bassist Anthony Shadduck .
Enjoy a free sound file and view purchasing info here:
The Kannenberg Sessions
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Christmas '06 brought yet another free gift of jovial frivolity and unsettling Yuletide merriment. Anthony Shadduck returns!
I Heart Christmas
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The Historic, Epoch-Making Live Album. The Definitive Historical Record. Spanning three years of stellar performances, these are the very best selections (from the recordings that survived various technological apocolypses.) Beautifully produced, and sumptiously packaged. Noteworthy collaborations with Peter Chan, a saxophonic terrorist.
Between Them a Forest Grew, Trackless and Quiet
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This site is managed by Tom Steck, the artist and drummer. For Chris' attention,
he is known to frequent Chris Schlarb.com .
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