Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:26:47 -0800WeeblyTue, 10 Aug 2010 15:50:51 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/08/bsi-at-sonic-circuits-2010.htmlBLUE SAUSAGE INFANT is confirmed to play the 2010 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music... The show will be Friday 24sept., at La Maison Française on the grounds of the Embassy of France, here in Washington DC. Also on the bill is the very fine synthetic terror of DC's own TL0741, and headlining the show will be Merzbow+Richard Pinhas. This will be the first North American performance of these two as a collaborative unit (and I think perhaps their only show here this  year?) ... The Merzbow/Pinhas  album released recently on Cuneiform (title: Keio Line) is a thing of rare beauty, for fans of deep layered drones... BSI will be bringing the custom films & projections out for this one, and the music will be mega. That much is certain. Tickets are available now and selling fast, so git thee yours with swiftness. Link [here]. For more details, the general festival site is [here].
]]>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:48:17 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/08/compilation-track-on-i-heart-noise.htmlOnline now: the GONE IN 60 SECONDS compilation of one-minute tunes, brought to you by the great I HEART NOISE site. Many genres represented. Blue Sausage Infant's mutant blues number "Krackrock" turned out appropriately weird, thanks to the (unconscious) assistance of Jason Mullinax (aka Pilesar). Other heavies like PBK and Big City Orchestra contributed tracks as well. Good stuff. Get it at I HEART NOISE [here] or on bandcamp [here].]]>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:27:37 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/04/flight-of-the-solstice-queens-released-on-zeromoon.htmlBLUE SAUSAGE INFANT: Flight of the Solstice Queens is available now for the very reasonable sum of $10 USD. Put this thing in your speakers and get all musky with space-ferret enzymes. Black ambience, dada strangeness, and spacerock grooves.

Available at http:​/​/​www.​zeromoon.​com/​?​p=​276

"It opens up with a piece of plunderphonica and it ends with a lengthy, multi-layered drone piece. In between we had several krautrock pieces, a noise outing, quiet pieces. It would easy to say that the diversity of this release is a bit too much, but curiously enough it isn't. Its as coherent as listening to a nice alternative radio broadcast (does that exist? certainly not in the Vital-world). Its an entertaining set of music here. Nothing lasts very long as there is even variety inside tracks, such as 'Space'. Here opening with noise, but then a voice comes in and the music tones down to a mild violent ambience. Music that is made with some imagination, and care, and dare. This guy might be all over the place, but he knows what he is doing. An excellent release." 
-- Vital Weekly

"Flight of the Solstice Queens primarily focuses on creating a transcendental experience through the layering of ambient sounds and electronic fuzz. Many people may see such a description and the "experimental music" tag attached to it and run for the hills, but Flight of the Solstice Queens succeeds in inducing a trance-like sensation, even for those who may be less open to non-​traditional sounds." 
-- DCist
]]>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:31:27 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/03/its-alive.htmlBlue Sausage Infant will be playing this  year's  Avant Fairfax festival. So far the confirmed lineup includes:
Fern Knight / Lac La Belle / Little Howlin' Wolf / Eric Carbonara with Jesse Sparhawk / Blue Sausage Infant / Kuschty Rye Ergot / Twilight Memories of the Three  Suns
... Saturday 24th April, beginning at  5pm. Old Town Hall: 3999 University Ave., Fairfax VA. Donations for the artists accepted at the door..... Promises to be a wicked head-twister of  an evening.

Other shows are on the schedule as well, hit the home page for details. ]]>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:34:33 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/02/free-downloadnetlabel-release-on-zeromoon.htmlTo further whet the appetite for the forthcoming CD release, here's a free download/netlabel item that went live today at Zeromoon: A direct-from-mixer live recording from 2008 that showcases the best of that year's performances. 

It's a crucial mix of crunchy beats, irrational noise, and sominex drone, presented as an audio ritual to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the death of comrade/collaborator Jhan Dean Egg (haunted toilet)...

Download hi bitrate mp3 and cover art here.

And watch for the CD release of all new studio material in late April. Infinite thanks to all.]]>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:13:17 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/02/new-bsi-album-enters-fifth-trimester.htmlBlue Sausage Infant has been in operation since about 1986. It's hard to tell. Depends on when you start the clock. The noise has been happening since about 1977 if you want to get technical. But we are ORGANISMS goddammit, dancing meat and spirit-infused sinew. There is no technical. What? Oh yes.

So BSI has been largely a kitchen-sink operation since the '80s, churning out DIY releases for the few [un]lucky enough to network with me in the old tape-trading scene: Lovingly handcrafted cassettes and later, CDRs. Never more than 100 copies of anything was made and *poof*, they vanished into that ephemeral creeping vacuum of forgotten noise. Played a few gigs in magical places like DC Space and the Takoma Park planetarium... Then came the DARK AGES, from early 2001 until June of 2008, when The Muse fell into a drooling coma on the floor of the studio, hogging all that precious space in that appallingly powerless fetal position. Was she dead? Would she ever revive? Muse? Hello?

In the summer of 2008 I gave that inert slacker Muse a kick in the ribs, handed her a cup of extremely strong coffee (or was it Absinthe Duplais? Memory fails me...) and she got to work on me. And she became a Lovely Muse again. BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT came roaring back like a horny sailor on his first shore-leave in decades. Eyeballs exploding with possibilities. Then came the shows, beginning with that Electric Possible gig at George Washington University. And it was clear right away that The Muse wasn't just back, she was ON FIRE, vomiting joy like a cosmic termite queen with a fountain of Goddess Eggs  coursing from her ample birth canal... Oh christ, I thought, there are still such lovely sounds to be made...

The live download release+CDR followed all that, and now, the first "proper" release in 20+ years is nearing completion. By "proper" I mean manufactured by real robots in marketable quantities and represented by the graceful NoisePolice at Zeromoon. Because the time has come.

Blue Sausage Infant: A Cooling Board Bacchanal will be born on 17april10. Guest performers include the very fine Mike Shanahan on drums (see his contribution to BSI in the District of Noise vol.2 compilation), Gary Rouzer on [un]prepared bass and amplified textures, Jason Mullinax (aka Pilesar) on acoustic misfittery, and Jeff Surak (Violet) on god-knows-what. Fans of recent live shows will recognize the vibe: We're into some heavy space here. Heavy, thick, oily space. Many layers and textures, with occasional roaring grooves. Uh, excuse me, sir? Your spacerock is showing...

Watch this site for more details on the CD launch party, tentatively set for 17April10 at Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Ave in DC.  Save the date. And buy the CD. It'll be a great show... like a long lost pagan Sabbat, but with psychedelic drone and experimental audio pranks. And ping pong. And beer. An event for the ages.
]]>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:53:52 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/02/a-new-collaboration-is-stewing.htmlSo after shooting my mouth off about 2010 being a year of collaborations, it seems to be coming true with great results. I had invited Jason & Gary to contribute sounds to a track on the upcoming BSI album (more on that later) and  the chemistry was all sparkly and full of radiant bubbles of all colors. Light and shade. Drone and space. Ipso and facto.

BSI+Jason Mullinax (Pilesar)+Gary Rouzer (of Vector Trio, Nine Strings, and a hundred other worthwhile entities) have joined forces to deliver a mighty gas cloud of improvised sounds, presently known as BASTARD SQUID IMPLANT.

It was joyous enough to book a show at the Pyramid Atlantic in nearby Silver Spring MD. We'll have a CD handy at the gig, filled to bursting with the labors of our fruits. Bastard Squid Implant takes electroacoustic dadaism to very strange levels indeed. Show is Friday March 19 at the Pyramid. Check the homepage of this site for details. 

Other collaborations are in the works as well. Some promise to be more sinister than others...]]>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:42:00 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/01/bsi-goes-marxist-in-february.htmlFYI: I'll be making Mt.Pleasant a little  less Pleasant on Friday, Feb 5th as guest DJ at WE FOUGHT THE BIG ONE. Marx Cafe, 3203 Mt.Pleasant Street, Washington DC. Event hosted by WFTBO veteran DJs Rick Taylor & Brandon Grover.

I'll be leaving the CDs at home this time & going all vinyl with some crusty vault items as well as new pressings of treasured sounds. It'll be a total underground music geek-wank, don't miss it. Come for the draft DeKoninck ale, stay for the krautrock/psych/space/punk/wave. 10pm until the wee-wee hours.
]]>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:52:58 -0800http://bluesausageinfant.com/1/post/2010/01/first-post.html...and the first tender steps are being taken to give BSI a proper home. For now, dealing with cheezball click-and-build templates to get the thing airborne, but will be working on something more robust for a proper launch later on. In the meantime, thanks for visiting. 2010 promises to be an active year in the DC noise/experimental music community, and Blue Sausage Infant will be there, making the unholy racket you've come to expect. Stay tuned.]]>