In 2011, acoustic guitar deconstructionist Bill Orcutt celebrated the release of his most intense and varied full-length suite of music to date, “How The Thing Sings” (Editions Mego). For the past 3 years, the former Harry Pussy guitarist has embarked on a solo interrogation of raw and tortured tone, ragged minimalism, seemingly inexhaustible improvisational stamina and - with each release and performance - an increasingly developed, wholly unique sonic vernacular that he continues to tease, carve, and hack out of his four-string Kay. Not to be missed.
Roofless Records is proud (and floored) to announce we are winners of the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge. We feel so incredibly honored to be in such cutting-edge, forward-thinking, and innovative company. Click the link for the details and full list of winners. THE GREATEST THANKS to The Knight Foundation for believing in our project. 2012 is going to be an incredible year (records, shows, overhauls, expansions, stay posted for details). Roofless Records would not exist without Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra, Todd Lynne/Cephia’s Treat Records, Nelson Hallonquist/West Palm Beotch Records, Skeleton Warrior, Pharaoh Faucett, The Fas’ners, Sean Pajot, Lolo/Jsin/Emile/Sean @ Sweat Records, the end/SPRING BREAK, Bleeding Palm, The Curious Hair, The President, Kenny Millions, Fezito Chancy: Boy Wonder, The Heat Lightning, The Snooze Theater, Uncle Sam’s, Brian Butler, Augurari, Ricardo Guerrero, Beached Miami, Carlos Rigau and General Practice, Yesterday & Today Records, Coral Morphologic, O Cinema, Borscht Film Festival, Newton/Breathmint Records, ZRadio, FUN, Radio-Active Records, William Penn, Fernando Perdomo, Baby Dave, Stead & Kayla, WFMU, Slashpine/KLVBHAUS 3D, Drugged Conscience Records, New College of Florida, Neil Young, and Mr. C.
Roofless Records hosted the first Cinema Sounds in the Spring of 2008 at Burns Court Cinema in Sarasota, Florida, where the series flourished for 4 consecutive installments. In January 2010, Flat File Projects brought the phenomenon to Five Points Theater in Jacksonville (CS#5). In April of that year Roofless re-re-located to Miami and hosted #6 at the Tower Theatre in Little Havana. In 2010 (CS#7), we took residency at O Cinema in Wynwood, who has been our gracious host ever since (CS#8, and now #9).
Since inception, Cinema Sounds has consistently featured acts representing a variety of genres - rock and roll, ambient, electro, noise, and so on - scoring a wide range of film including (but not limited to) animated classics, 80s cult movies, sci-fi, film adaptations of Broadway musicals, comedies, tragedies, and completely ridiculous bullshit. The results are always thrilling.
FUN ‘Fair Sessions’ Macro-Media Deluge Overload Preview And Essential Statistics
FUN ‘Fair Sessions’ (photo by Jacob Katel)
On October 21st, 2011 - October 23, 2011, FUN performed between NW 25 ST/5TH AVE and NW 40/2ND AVE (in Miami, Florida) 12 times (13 depending on your definition of performance but if you have a definition of performance what are we even fucking talking about in the first place) in 3 venues and in collaboration and/or “with” a total of 32 other performers. At least three attendees at the various events were moved to audibly heckle. FUN transformed Charest-Weinberg’s tent at the Wynwood Art Fair into an eschatological recording studio equipped with state of the art garbage and primitive technology. Fairgoers were invited to “jam.” An unconfirmed number of children received a crash course in post-non-music. A CD-R collection of sound from the weekend was recorded, mixed, copied and packaged on site and was distributed in an edition of 10. Miami Micro-Show #2 = 25 bands in 57 minutes (including 1 minute intermissions, a total of 7 minutes over our goal of 1 band per minute). THANK YOU.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
OCTOBER 21, 22, 23, 2011
Charest-Weinberg Gallery invited Miami-based visual artist Jay Hines to construct a project for their booth at the Wynwood Art Fair. Hines then gave total curatorial license to Roofless Records, who, in turn, prompted carbon-based post-non-music duo FUN (Philadelpha, PA) a to occupy the booth for the entirety of the fair.
FUN will turn their allotted space into a recording and art studio, allowing fairgoers to experience first-hand the production of audio recordings and sculptures. Using both analog and digital recording equipment, FUN will record and assemble music pieces using the sounds of materials provided by attendees, allow volunteers to sign up and assist with the record production process, and use actual sounds of the attendees by means of field recording. They will also be creating unique pieces of art for immediate display.
30 bands in 30 minutes. The biggest mess we’ve made to date. If any act exceeds sixty seconds IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AUDIENCE TO TERMINATE THE PROCEEDINGS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. There will be a minute intermission between each set to keep our endeavors clinical, empirical, and chimerical. All time measured by official Breathmint / ZRadio wind-up clock.
