Music to Scare Trick or Treaters

Don't want any trick or treaters this year? Try blasting this at your doorstep (:

Music to Scare Trick or Treaters from mikesimonelliMT on 8tracks Radio.

Autumnal Haunt (Gypsy Rock Monkeys)

A couple of weeks ago I took part in recording with a collective called the Gypsy Rock Monkeys in the The Battery Steele Tunnel on Peaks Island in Maine.  The collective is lead by the prolific Tom Fahey (AKA Sound Shaman) - who this year dropped the magnificent full length record "Black Feathers", which is one of my favorite records that has come out so far this year - and just dropped another record, "Voyage" yesterday) and includes many other musicians based out of the Boston area.

(photograph by Olive Tree)

The group has been playing and recording for 5 years and the Battery is the primary spot where they meet and do so.  This was my first time recording with this ensemble - as well as my first time in the Battery - and it was truly an experience unlike any I've ever had before.



The space itself is absolutely surreal.  The absence of light plays tricks on your eyes - and the way sound travels in the tunnel and in the different rooms in the battery and the reverb in these spaces gives the place a very unique sonic character.  But in addition to this - I had been warned by multiple people that there was a lot of dark spiritual energy in the Battery.  I am usually not one to believe in the supernatural - but I have to admit - when playing in this space it definitely seemed to stir something up.













(photograph by Olive Tree)

We recorded for two days in the tunnel - and recordings from both of these "haunts" have been uploaded on soundcloud.

CREDITS 
 -Totem Fahey (Sound Shaman) - Drums, Shakers, Vox
-Adam Blake (Kar'Nam) - Flute, Vox
-Adam Canvas Giangregorio  - Fire Axe, Vox
-Mike Simonelli - Guitar, Vox, Stones/Bricks
-Patrick Chaney (Solid State Entity) - Vox
-Woody (W00dy) - Vox
-Jaid Nellie Moonflower - Drums
-Vanessa Daring Kiwiface - Drums
-Patrick Campbell - Vox
-Donny Gervais - Vox, Drums

GRIM DIN @ Trendy Shit Town - 10/30/2015

On the 30th (the Friday before Halloween) I’ll be taking part in a marathon of experimental back to back sets along with some of my favorite local acts.  

To use Snaekub's words - it will be a "relentless sound pound - 20 minute, experimental back to back sets in homage to the events such as Raw Meet. Two stages, juxtaposed, and the ear cattle in the middle. 

Come get strange"

Here's a little sneak peak of what you can expect from my set:

full line up:
Sound Shaman
(https://soundshaman.bandcamp.com/)

237
(https://agewoodsolsticefestival.bandcamp.com/track/hammer-of-satan)

Kar'Nam
(http://karnam.bandcamp.com/releases)

Mike Simonelli
(http://mikesimonelli.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAyyktk3BCVGklE3SMbekwQ/videos)

SUN RAD
(http://sunrad.info/blog/)

Anda Volley
(http://www.andavolley.com/)

Princess Beautiful
(https://soundcloud.com/princesssbeautiful/)

Solid State Entity
(https://solidstateentity.bandcamp.com/album/fixation)

POOL NOODLE
(https://soundcloud.com/joemygan)

cRtxLzn
(https://soundcloud.com/cortexelus)

Obsidian Helix
(https://soundcloud.com/jacobo_lobo)

Muddy Wires
(https://soundcloud.com/jamesstaub)

(potentially more TBA)

-FB Event Page-

-message me for the address-

(FB: https://www.facebook.com/MikeSimonelliMusic

email: mikesimonellimusic@gmail.com)

<3

"Slide" (Goo Goo Dolls Reimagining) - Live @ Jamaica House 8/27/2015

Here's a reimagining of “Slide” (originally by the Goo Goo Dolls) for all you 90s kids out there

And here's the original video by the Goo Goo Dolls if you're unfamiliar (or in case you want some a dose of some serious 90s nostalgia)

Thanks to Rebekah Judson for help filming.

Stills & Video from Out of the Blue Too 9/15 2015

(Photograph taken by Adam Canvas Giangregorio) 

(Photograph taken by Adam Canvas Giangregorio) 

 

(Photograph taken by Adam Canvas Giangregorio) 

Here’s a video of a reimagining of an old American folk tune called “Oh Death” 

Fall Shows

9/23 - EQUINOX SHOW::: MARY OCHER : W00DY : SOUND SHAMAN : KAR`NAM : GHOST MACHINE NOISE - - Out of the Blue Too 

9/25-9/27 - Kinetikos (Kibbles 'n Beats, DJ Silence, dontnormally, Kar'Nam, Sound Shaman and way more) - Harvard, MA 
-tickets-

9/27 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Paradise Rock Club

9/27 - soul sessions xxxii all neon like

9/27, 9/29, 9/30, & 10/1 - Built To Spill - Brighton Music Hall (Allston, MA)

9/28 - Marian McLaughlin with Sam Moss & Audrey Harrer
(128 Brookside Ave, 3rd Floor, Jamaica Plain MA)

9/30 - Battles - Paradise Rock Club 

10/2 - Destroyer - Royale 

10/3 - KRAFTWERK - Citi Wang Theater (Boston, MA)

10/3 -KAR'NAM, SOUND SHAMAN, SUN RAD @ MOBIUS

10/4 - A U T E C H R E - Paradise Rock Club

10/7 - Sun Kil Moon - The Somervile Theatre

10/10 - Patti Smith (reading) - Back Bay Events Center

10/10 - SCANNERS w/ Wilted Woman, Huff Daddy (tape release), Broken Celeb Drone, & DJ Won't. (@ Deep Thoughts)

10/19 - Guerilla Toss, Buck Gooter, Ursula, Phemale

10/25 - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman - Berklee Performance Center 

10/29 - Psongs for Psirens (2) - THE WRONG SHAPES, DENNISON BLACKETT, SKYJELLY, ANDY CALIFORNIA, CITRUSPHERE, JONATHAN DONALDSON

10/30 - GRIM DIN @ Trendy Shit Town -  Mike Simonelli, SOLID STATE ENTITY, Huff Daddy, Sun Rad, Kar'Nam, Sound Shaman, Obsidian Helix and many more

10-31 -SAMHAINIC RITUAL :: OF THE SUN:MOLT CORPS:ACHILLIES:MALUS (@ Trendy Shit Town)

11/3 - Deafheaven - Royale

11/5-11/7 - Hasslefest 7
Featuring - Tyondai Braxton, Container, Guerilla Toss, Pvre Matrix, Krill, Pile, Unicorn Hard On, Via App and a lot more

11/6 - The TARDISCO

11/13 - John Zorn's SIMULACRUM | ICA Boston

11/21 - Wume , Joss, World Cup, & Galek @ Deep Thoughts 

11/25 - Mike Simonelli @ WRIU (Kingston RI - more details to come)

12/10 - Deerhunter & Atlas Sound - Royale

9/15 - LSDV / Mike Simonelli / Molt Corps / Causings - @ Out of the Blue Too

LSDV - a psychedelic multi-media project that uses VHS players and video Kaoss Pads to create a kaleidoscopic mesh of mind-melting video awesomeness.  

Mike Simonelli
I use uses video and music - and land stylistically land somewhere between folk, hip-hop, & electronic music (folktronica or folk-hop if you will)
youtube
(spoiler ahead):
Because of what life has decided to bring my way the last couple weeks - I've decided to start diving into some of my Fall material a little early - the set I'll be playing will be about car crashes, sex, and death.  Figured I should give a heads up about that in case

Causings
a group from Brooklyn that creates beautiful/haunting music through improvisation using electronics/live sampling and a variety of things including (but not limited too) cell phones, beads, metals, wood, tapes, cactus, as well as other instruments you would expect people play
-they put out two great records this year that you can hear on their bandcamp-

Molt Corps
a collaboration between Sun Rad and Obsidian Helix that hypnotically melds electronic music, rock, and noise.  Their release "Objects, Buried" is one of my favorite EPs this year so far and I highly recommend if you dig stuff in this vein.  

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