SYR

The sixth edition of the SYR series is a live recording of the April  12,  2003  benefit  concert  held  at  and  for  The Anthology Film Archives,  the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of  avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research  library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured  Sonic Youth providing an improvised

instrumental collaboration with silent BrakhageÕs films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist  Tim Barnes (Essex Green,  Jukeboxer,  Silver Jews). Part of the proceeds of this CD will again benefit the Anthology. This is a 61 minute recording

Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui consists of a live recording from a benefit show held at New York's Anthology Film Archives on April 12 2003 where the quintet line-up was bolstered by the addition of percussionist Tim Barnes (Tower Recordings et al).

The performance is one of their most fully-dilated navigations of zoned free improvisation, with extended breaths of silence cut up with explosive string action and clusters of magnetic silhouette. Last track is one of the most ferociously locomotive slow-burners of their entire career, with an almost Charalambides level of heavy gravity cut up with tortuous peaks of Evol-style grime while Shelley and Barnes harvest huge snowballs of rhythm.