E6 Holiday Surprise Tour @ the Knitting Factory - 03/22/11

Members of Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, Elf Power, The Late BP Helium, the Gerbils and other E6 affiliates played a ramshackle 3.5 hour set in Brooklyn Tuesday. There were sing alongs, chants, horns, a giant snowman, stories and a magic piano playing castle amongst other things (Jeff Mangum....who did not play). The video above would be of Julian Koster backing up the magic piano playing castle with a saw...the jam is, like, Romanian or something. This all reminded me what a weird place Athens, Ga is - music meant to be played on 100 year old creaky wood floorboards.

Major Organ and the Adding Machine

I found this strange record around 2005 at Amoeba records while I was living in San Francisco and picked it up knowing nothing other than the fact that it was recorded by members of the Elephant 6 collective. Turns out, Orange Twin released the record in 2001 and it is now featured in a movie written by and featuring the E6 guys. From the look of things, the film was created in Athens, Ga...my home for 4 years and a very weird place indeed.