Record Label Launch

Hi folks!  Good news… we will be helping launch Mudtown Records in March of this year.  Along with a number of other bands and acts this label will start off as download only, offering a variety of goodies in download packages, along with the regular high-quality musics you might expect to be associated with yours truly.  We’ll keep you updated, so if you want to keep on the up-and-up just follow us on Twitter or check in her sometime before March.  Cheerio comrades!

Live Video from Electric-Eclectics ‘09

Our friends at RJGcreative provided us with some footage from our Sunday night set at this year’s Electric-Eclectics festival. A reviewer mistakenly noted the apparent lack of connection between the music featured and RAF. Although I assert there needn’t be, there is, in fact, a direct connection. The song is titled “RAF IV” and speaks to the (imagined) coming of a fourth generation of the Red Army Faction (of which there were only three). It features samples of Klaus vom Bruch’s audio-visual installation “das Schleyer-Band“, which concerns itself with RAF II’s kidnapping and murder of industrialist, Hans Martin Schleyer. The grinding of the metal by a welding-masked worker is representative of industry, workers, and Communism’s goal of obtaining the means of production from the clutches of the bourgeoisie and placing them into the rightful hands of the workers. Enjoy…

RAF IV

RAF IV is coming…

Video by originalplastic.

Music by the Red Army Faction.

Live Photos

Here are some live photos from our performance at the Electric-Eclectics Festival in Meaford, Ontario.  Our fabricator / percussionist, Patrick Dorfman, outdid himself with his latest creation, the BG 2.0, which he sparked and fire-crackered away at with grinder and hammer.  Special thanks to originalplastic whose live video made the performance even more expansive.  Thanks also to Scott E. Farmer, who ripped the Korg MS2000, Jonathan O’Leary for his violin, Tara Mackenzie for her voice, and Jonny Rox for his percussive abilities, and also to the organisers and staff of Electric-Eclectics.  Photos are by Cameron Macdonald.

Electric-Eclectics

The Electric-Eclectics Festival (Fourth Edition) begins tonight.  I’m very excited as always, but particularly excited about Canada’s hip psycho-lo-fi improve wizards Holy Fuck, and living legend Damo Suzuki appearing in our god-forsaken lil’ corner of Canada.  Also exciting are Lukas Ligeti, son of late composer/genius Gyorgy Ligeti, and Katie Stelmanis.  We play the Sunday.  Should be a WHOLE lotta fun.  See you there!!!

Windsor Round-Up

Well, it’s been almost two weeks and I thought I’d better recap the happenings in Windsor with a bit of show and tell.  I’m mixing down an album of Tel Quel stuff at the moment , so I’ll illustrate the recap with the “show” a bit later.  Now for the “tell”: Dr. Disc was great.  What Seas What Shores played some great new music that I hadn’t heard from them before.  Liam from Dr. Disc was very friendly and gave me a completely insane disk from Atavistic label called Crescent.  I played my first complete set of dark-ambient noise as DBMG/RAF that afternoon, before heading back with What Seas What Shores to make a mean pot of vegetarian chili.  The night was super, with an opening set at the Coach and Horses by our friend (WH)Y.M.E.(??) followed by yours truly, then a blow-away performance by WSWS as Space Vampire.  They’re alter-egos blew my mind.  A great time, once again, in Windsor.  Thanks to everyone!

Fourth Annual Electric-Eclectics Festival (July 31- August 2)

The Red Army Faction plays the Sunday night (August 2nd) of the Fourth Annual Electric-Eclectics Festival in Meaford, Ontario.  We’re joining an impressive array of musicians and artists that include Holy Fuck, Damo Suzuki, and Lukas Ligeti.

Live in Windsor, Ontario @ the Coach and Horses

The second of two live shows in Windsor on June 6th in support of our debut CD.  I will be playing a full set with openers What Seas What Shores and (WH)Y.M.E.(??).  $5 cover charge.

Live in Windsor, Ontario @ Doctor Disc

The first of two live shows in Windsor on June 6th in support of our debut CD.  I will be playing a dark-ambient set at 2pm in Dr. Disc along with Space Vampire (aka What Seas What Shores).  FREE.

News and Reviews

News: we’ve received requests from as far away as Beirut, Lebanon for our upcoming tour.  If you’d like to see us play your city or town just join the DBMG/RAF Facebook group and post your request.  Otherwise, just email us at contact(at)dbmg-raf(dot)com.

Reviews: Heathen Harvest has just posted a review of our debut CD, calling it a “brutal masterpiece”.  Read the review in its entirety here.