Zig At The Gig podcast

Hackedepicciotto

 Interview with Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto !

 

hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander’s partner in crime. Alexander Hacke is founding member and bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. The artist couple, romantically married in 2006, has creatively interacted with countless international projects for almost 2 decades now besides regularly releasing their own compositions. 

Their live shows are, to put it mildly, intense. Danielle specializes in unusual instruments such as the Hurdy Gurdy, the auto harp and the cemence besides playing the violin and piano; Alexander is master of the bass, guitar and drums. Together they create beautiful, existentialistic, acoustic soundscapes, which roar and vibrate simultaneously leaving their audiences shaken but overjoyed. 

Danielle, author of two books, writes most of their lyrics, be it the poetic spoken word moments or the momentous choirs they compose together. Alexander Hacke, an excellent throat singer and vocalist, growls his grnarly, rumbling cries that float eerily over their nomadic desert drones, with screeching birds, bees or wild wind accompanying slow, heavy riffs that start as a whisper and end in a volcanic, rolling wave of apocalyptic frenzy. The collage of this mixed with melancholic, translucent harmonies, very heavy & low bass chords, and electronics are a mesmerizing universe of sound and emotion which has generated an ever growing group of enthusiastic listeners.  

Hackedepicciotto's Info

https://www.hackedepicciotto.de/

https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/

 

 

Josh Caterer of Smoking Popes Returns

Zig At The Gig with Josh Caterer of Smoking Popes

Josh Caterer is an American, Chicago-area musician, best known as the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter of pop-punk band Smoking Popes, which he founded in 1991 with his older brother Matt and younger brother Eli. Josh has also written and recorded Christian and gospel music as a solo artist and with the pop-punk band Duvall.

In 2015, he founded the blues band Jackson Mud Band, which has released one full-length album called "Stranger Blues".

Josh's Info

https://joshcaterer.bandcamp.com/

https://twitter.com/joshcaterer

https://www.facebook.com/joshcaterer/

https://www.instagram.com/joshcaterer

 

John Leon of The Royal Arctic Institute

Interview with John Leon of The Royal Arctic Institute 2021

The Royal Arctic Institute’s first full exploratory mission in their current five-piece incarnation. The album was recorded and produced by James McNew (Yo LaTengo) in the historic Neumann Leather Factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. The EP is being released February 4th, 2022 by Already Dead Cassettes and will be available on cassette (duh!), as a paid download, and on streaming platforms.

At present, The Royal Arctic Institute comprises five musicians who have played extensively with other groups and/or as backing/session musicians:  drummer Lyle Hysen (Das Damen, Arthur Lee), guitarists John Leon (Roky Erickson, Summer Wardrobe, Abra Moore) and Lynn Wright (And The Wiremen, Bee And Flower, Shilpa Ray), bassist David Motamed (Das Damen, Two Dollar Guitar, Arthur Lee, Townes Van Zandt), and keyboardist Carl Baggaley (Headbrain, Gramercy Arms). 

All the pieces were created communally, deconstructing then reconstructing of material initially composed by guitarist John Leon. McNew recorded the band in a live setting with minimal overdubs or digital magic.  Leon and Hysen originally formed The Royal Arctic Institute in 2016 along with OG bassist Gerard Smith. This line-up recorded two albums before disbanding and subsequently reforming as a quintet in early 2020 at the outset of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic.   Catnap To Coma: “Do ghosts ever sleep? Yes, but not the sleep of men; theirs is an emptier type of slumber. Our sleep is always full: From catnap to coma, it brims over.

John's info

Instagram: @theroyalai

Facebox: https://www.facebook.com/TheRoyalArcticInstitute/

Twitter: @royal_arctic

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5moPinbv0LkLslDkGDQOAP?si=JUk8VoppQmOLQDvMbfqQ4g

Bandcamp: https://theroyalarcticinstitute.bandcamp.com/

 

Avery Mandeville of Little Hag Returns

Interview with Avery Mandeville of Little Hag.

Little Hag, the artist is formerly known as Avery Mandeville, was conceived in a New Jersey basement and born again in quarantine. Under the Mandeville mantle, she released a number of EPs and put many miles on other people’s vans touring the US. What started as a sarcastic Instagram handle (@littlehag) slowly became serious and somehow a small, vulgar crone took over all of Avery’s social media accounts.

New About the new Album!

Leash’ came together in between night classes, bartending shifts, first kisses, last kisses, shitty gigs, karaoke nights and all the emptiness of the quarantine that came after.On the record, Mandeville shares, “It’s a sarcastic but seriously cynical pop rock soundtrack for the dropouts and the disappointments; for that moment when your head hits the pillow and you relive your every shortcoming and mistake.” Leash calls out familiar themes of abusive men, stalking social media, and reckless driving. Something is holding a defeated and nostalgic

 

Little Hag is Avery on guitar and complaining, Matt Fernicola on guitar, Owen Flanagan on drums, Chris Dubrow on bass, and Noah Rauchwerk on keys and emotional support.

Avery's Info !

https://www.littlehag.com

/ http://www.bar-none.com/little-hag

https://www.instagram.com/littlehag/?..

. https://littlehag.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/littlehagmusic

 

Micki Free

Zig at the gig with Micki Free

Micki Free is a Grammy Award Winner & Five-Time Native American Music Award, Winner. Micki was discovered and managed by Gene Simmons of the legendary supergroup KISS. Micki was the guitarist in the R&B sensation Shalamar, boasting "mega-platinum hits" with songs like "Dancing In The Sheets" from the movie soundtrack "Footloose", our friend Eddie Murphy's smash hit movie "Beverly Hills Cop" (where Micki won his Grammy Award for "Best Album Of An Original Score Written For A Motion Picture"). Free’s buzz continued on the hilarious Dave Chappell Show, in Charlie Murphy's "True Hollywood Stories”, “Shirts vs Blouses MICKI FREE IS NOT A GIRL" skit with Prince playing basketball against Charlie and Eddie Murphy! Micki has been managed by, performed and or recorded with the following: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of the supergroup KISS, Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones, Diana Ross, Janet Jackson, Shalamar, Little Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman-Santana, Cheap Trick, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave Fame, Jean Beauvoir, Ramones/co-writer producer and member of the punk group The Plasmatic's with Wendy O Williams and the list goes on. Performing at Blues venues/festivals worldwide, Native American casinos, to Micki's four-year appearances at the massive "Hard Rock Calling" festival in Hyde Park, London The UK boasting 100,000 fans.

Hear Turquoise Blue, Here

Micki's Info

https://www.mickifree.com/

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMickiFree/

 

Rona Rougeheart of SINE

SINE is an electronic band created by singer and drummer, Rona Rougeheart.

Rona's Info

https://sineofficial.bandcamp.com

https://sine.band

http://www.facebook.com/sinebandofficial

 

Grant Curry Of Flood Twin

So it is with giddy relief that we swing open wide our creaky doors to welcome the percussive bass bottoms, deftly lathed drums, and sinisterly insinuated guitar dissonance of Flood Twin to swoop in and rescue us all from this sensory deprivation chamber. And to announce their arrival, frontman and bass player Grant W. Curry reminds us in the album’s opening track, “People,” that: “There’s no in-between, that means a fucking thing.” It doesn’t matter how these three guys found each other, but it was a hallowed day when they did. Each man here wields his instrument with a distinctive panache. The drummer, and mono-appellatived Sterling, works his stripped-down tubs-and-skins with the reckless precision of a top-flight tail-gunner. He picks up where Wire’s beat man, Robert Gotobed, left off, playing only kick, snare, and high-hat from whence he veers into the realm of the industrial with recollections of Tom Waits/Latin Playboys found-object punctuation and carefully curated samples. There is not a lot of dazzle and flash here, just a sturdy undergirding for the band to ride on. Guitar man J. Leslie Hedberg weaves his way through the arpeggios of diminished chords with the skill of Dexter Morgan dissembling a rival. Don’t come here looking for scaly, wanky soloing though; you won’t hear it. What you will hear is adroitly integrated metallic guitar textures with the occasional dub-laced upstroke. Bassist/vocalist Grant W. Curry, who you will correctly peg as he of New Orleans bands James Hall, and Pleasure Club, reminds us what a bass should sound like: prominent in the mix, at that register right where menace melds with music.

Flood Twin's Info

https://www.floodtwin.com

https://www.facebook.com/Flood-Twin-107508074466680/

https://www.floodtwin.com/about

 

The Chewy Center

David and Ben of The Chewy Center join Zig to talk about their new EP L.LC available now on all streaming platforms.

The Chewy Center is a jam-infused, space rock band from Cleveland, OH comprised of members, David "D. Flo" DeFlorentis (vocals/guitar), Nate "Vegas" Vagase (bass guitar), Stephen Fabec (keyboards), and Ben Fasciano (drums). Chewy plays with aggressive rhythms, funky bass, inventive improvisations, and catchy hooks.

Eager to expand their reach, the band is making a mark in the region. The original trio met in spring of 2011 at a high school talent show and played together in various groups before formalizing the band in summer 2016. With the addition of Fabec in summer 2020, the band has evolved into a four-man powerhouse of Northeast Ohio rock. Feeling like a welcomed outsider in the jam band world, the band enjoys a sense of creative freedom to break outside the walls of conventional jam/festival sound, incorporating elements of metal, prog, and various others that typical jam festival goers may not expect. Every song tells a story, through unique lyrical themes and ideas that provoke introspection and emotion. Regardless of subject matter, the band is primarily focused on one thing: making music that you will have fun listening to. TCC pride themselves on their live performances, flowing between genres and songs.

The Chewy sound is a space-exploring mix of rock, funk, prog, and disco, with a few sprinkles of electronic music and AOR rock. Something different from the jam scene, with a little something for everyone.

Chewy Center's info

https://thechewycenter.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/0JnhiynoWwQdgubiKpxhsF?si=Mc7nvS-MTLOFZ29hMl89Lg

https://thechewycenter.com/music

 

Cassie Watson Francillon Of Shakespeare & the Blues

Harpist Cassie Watson Francillon Talks about her new album e.g,rhapsodic !

Shakespeare & the Blues makes instrumental experimental music drawing on Jazz and Hip Hop influences featuring Cassie Watson Francillon on concert harp, Smith on drums and electronics and Webre (Lost Bayou Ramblers and Michot’s Melody Makers) on bass and electronics. The songs on e.g,rhapsodic are uninhibited explorations of genre blending, tied together by futurist grooves and virtuosic syncopating. They are composed around a startling selection of samples and soundbytes enmeshed in the trio’s visionary instrumental experimentation.

The debut release from Shake

https://shakespeareandtheblues.bandcamp.com/album/e-g-rhapsodic

 

Sarah McQuaid

Sarah McQuaid is a singer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has recorded six solo albums: When Two Lovers Meet (self-released, 1997), I Won't Go Home ’Til Morning (self-released, 2008), The Plum Tree And The Rose (Waterbug Records, 2012), Walking into White (Waterbug Records, 2015), If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (Shovel and a Spade Records, 2018) and The St Buryan Sessions (Shovel and a Spade Records, 2021)

In January 2021, McQuaid began releasing a series of singles and videos entitled The St Buryan Sessions, recorded and filmed live in July 2020 in the church of St Buryan, Cornwall. The full collection was released on 15 October 2021 as an album and as a concert film.

Sarah's info

https://sarahmcquaid.com

https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahMcQuaidMusic

https://www.facebook.com/sarahmcquaidmusic

https://twitter.com/sarahmcquaid