Noot Meat

This should be fun. After all, are there stranger bands in all of Georgia? And do we even need to mention the Brothers Funk again? Cozy Shawn and Brett Eclectic? Please join us Saturday at the Earl for a Hoodoo flavored set. Its the weekend before Mardi Gras and Dookie is headed back from the Crescent City. Feel Free to get you some advance tickets.





Other day, we got a microphone in front of Chris Cunningham. He's working on a letters on tape project with his friend Hosho. Chris then proceded to read some poems. Then we put some some june bugs on it. Then we pitched some 1/8th inch tape drones over it. He's got a little sample of it over here. You don't like poetry readings? I don't either, and for that matter neither does CC. That being said, this is something in and of itself. What's it sound like? A mind crumping sodomy, Revolution. Dig it.

Something For Everyone

Have you made it out to 529 yet? Gotta be the illest sound system this side of I-20. Tight Bros invites you out this saturday to experience the two sides of Noot. d' you need the experimental kraut-jazz of Goofer Dust? The first set is for you. Do you want the funk? The second set is for you. Its a cozy spot, so Randi wanted to offer the advance tickets. Please join us.

NOOT D' NOOT

Noot D' Noot will play 2 sets then DJ after the show!

$6 in advance / $8 at the door / 10pm / 21 and up
Advance tickets available online here
Or at the following outlets:
Ella Guru * Decatur CD* Fantasyland Records

Featuring members of Ile Tambor, Dookie Platters Science Fiction Brigade, Spirit of Nashville, 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Ensemble, Sonn Av Krusher, Virgo Supercluster, and Desktop Pharmacy, Noot D' Noot create a pastiche of sounds and beats that flim flam your alabam, and transmit up in your pueblo. Originally, Noot D'Noot was just an experiment attempting to blend the hip-hop, funk, drum and bass the boys heard at late night parties with the psychedelia they played in smoky bars. But soon, it became a full-blown musical venture, piquing the interest of emcees, vocalists, musicians, and especially listeners around town.

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SCI-FI SATURDAYS

Bring your ass to MJQ's Cafe for a Saturday night not soon to be forgotten, as we begin 2009 with a monthly series of soundclashes straight from our cerebrums down into your earhole. Dance music for people who dance selected by people who make dance music for people to dance to.

Ancient Archives

Creative Loafing recently caught up with James Joyce to find out how to make order out of chaos. Somewhere, somehow, he has proof that it happened, so don't try and deny it. Your first band's shite demo will see the light of day. The following is a transcription of exchanged thoughts:

A self-described librarian of rock, 33-year-old Joyce posts long-lost songs, photos, fliers and anecdotes from Atlanta’s underground music scene on his blog, Beyond Failure. He also has played with a bunch of Atlanta bands over the years — most recently with psych-funk collective Noot d’ Noot.

CL: How did you come up with the idea for Beyond Failure?

JJ: I’ve probably been in 20 bands or so. And I’m kind of by nature an archival person. I’m kind of a librarian.

That’s a rare combination for people in bands.

I think it’s because I’m a drummer. I’m just more systematic in the way I think and the way I organize myself. I’m more organized than a lot of my bandmates. Everyone has moved 100 times, and nobody has their old records, their old tapes, old flyers, old pictures. They started contacting me and asked if I had any of the old recordings, because theirs were all gone.

So I started digitizing all these old demo tapes, old records and seven-inches and stuff. And I started posting them up on this blog, rather than just emailing them to everybody.
Then I started posting stuff by bands I was friends with at that time, in the ’90s. I really like their music, and it’s really hard to find a lot of their stuff. Everything local is out of print. It’s good to just collect a lot of that stuff and make it available, for historical purposes. Because otherwise, you won’t be able to find it.

Find the rest at creative loafing.

Doggin

Alex Adan shot this here video of Jiggle City at 2008's Corndogorama. There are two seperate camera angles!



Noot d' Noot - "Jiggle City" from Alex Adan on Vimeo.

Malone Family Album

Julia Malone, Noot's executive chef and personal merchandiser, has been on hand at many occasions throughout the year. The following is a glimpse of the groop, friends, and fam thru the watchful I of her camera over the course of 2008.

Will auld acquaintance be forgot and ne'er be brought to mind? For the most part yes, but glancing thru Julia's photos reminded me to give a special shout to the haters at The Globe who owe us several hundred dollars...Noot lives on in '09, where YOU at now? Tak a right gude-willy waught!

Noot d' New Years. 9pm. Highland Ballroom.

Get Together

We here at the NootLab don't necessarily attach ourselves to any particular set of morals, but we really ain't with violence, abuse, and jack moves. So when we heard that our homies Chris Devoe and Rachael from Sopo Bikes were subjected to a recent home invasion, our mellow was more than a little harshed. Fortunately, everybody is still standing, the APD gumshoes are on the case, and once again the Atlanta music scene is ready to come together and stir up a benefit for this unfortunate set of events. The stick-up kids snatched up a good chunk of Chris' gear, and he won't be able to make beautiful albums like 2008's The Perception of Obstacles until he re-ups the studio.

This is where you, dear noot fan, step in. Show up this Thursday, Dec. 9th, to the Highland Inn (one of our favorite nightspots) for an evening packed full of fun for the greater good. Deejays, Noot d' noot, The Gaye Blades The Spooks, and maybe a couple more Atlanta troublemakers will all be performing, there will be door prizes and cheap drinks, and hopefully, we can move past all the pain without missing a beat.

Beleaguered and Belated

Check out our main man Smoofus, finally gettin' the props he deserves with a roll call (she boogie, check us out).

This ain't no hay ride

You think loading up a 9 or 10 piece band into a cargo van and cruising around Music City is easy? Hell, its bad enough trying to get everybody together at home. But, we did it, and for a couple tacos and a liberal view on bar tabs, we'd take Blue Steel to your hometown too. The unfortunate thing about our ride is the high seat to cheeks ratio. Here, Crab Louie's face perfectly exemplifies how it feels to lose at Noot d' noot musical chairs.

Vistas. We're seriously considering adding a "scenic backdrop" requirement to our rider. Our man in Nashville, Joe Baine Colvert, put us up proper with flatscreens and Fat Tire, as well as this lovely view of Brentwood, Tennessee.

When Noot comes to town, it may be a good idea to go ahead and reserve the top floor of your local Irish pub in case the band needs to sit for a spell and unwind. Suggested recreational activities include darts, chess, checkers, and Jameson.

"Oh, and hey, um, Grimey's Records? This is Electro Siren. I think we're gonna be a little bit late for that in-store. Circuit Diva and I are all heeped up on Irish Coffee."

Time honored Traditions

Back in 2004, Jiggle City was a different place. Gunslingers, gangsters, confidence men, and dope peddlers ran the street. The kind of place pious mothers threatened to send their naughty children, and the type of town unscrupulous mothers knew that their children would end up. One faint glimmer of hope still shone. One band of brothers believed in happier, more peaceful times, where those with badunkadunks could earnestly shake their junk, where music was made with more than machines. A place where the simple call of "polter" and the reply "geist" could echo across the land and into the hands of every empty heart.
Those men were the Good Friday Experiment. Four longhairs with a passion, and an opening slot at the Roxy Theatre in Atlanta for the My Morning Jacket show.

(due to label woes and missed deadlines, the audio for this performance is not available. please enjoy a chemically enhanced substitute.)

A New Rising Sun

Fly on brother Mitch.  You put a spell on thee.  Thanks for the scenery.  Just let us know...we're all brothers and sisters aren't we?

Auric Sight and Seen

If your eyes have been recently recepting a narrow range of frequencies of ElectroMagnetic vibration, we request your attendence at the "Fun Art Time" show by Squanto on the Saturday of November 22nd at Mint Gallery. Squanto has provided Noot with visual trancendence since our inception, and we intend to honor her this day with a bembe drum get together lead by Ilĕ Tambor. Your RGB sensors will be stretched well beyond the .3 to .7 micrometer standard, as spectrum itself may need redifining.  Come home to the gay tee pee and rest your astral body in a room of rainbow pillows.  You will then be covered by the starblanket, as translators of the Oracle will guide you upon your iced jose' tussin vision quest.  Don't miss it.

Pre-Millennium Tension: Good Friday Experiment 12/29/99

Dig it.  The last wednesday of the decade, century, millennium.  You remember?  Either the future was nearly here or the compruters were gonna shut down.  Was it stepping into tomorrow or Babylon?  Well, it didn't really happen overnight like it was sposed to, it was more of a slowly and surely thing.  Some real life national tragedies followed by travesty. Fiber optic bluffing, dollar bill turning to no-thing, innanet chaffing, and a quick trajectory to nathan. AND some real shit music to go along with it all.  I mean, we got worse music than the 80's in the 2000's.  But hey, didn't you feel a little light last week?   

I pulled this tune from the Beyond Failure blog and if you dig, the whole show is there, and a ton of other historical Atlanta musical adventures.  This here tune was a standard in the Mach 1 line up of Good Friday Experiment. It uses the key of D, which i think can be proven as the greatest key for drone on the guitar instrument.  As for rhythms, i would argue 3's and 6's are more shamanically trans-inducing than 2's and 4's, though not quite as easy to dance to.  What do you think?   

Recent Accolades

Got a new plaque to hang in the lab from Creative Loafing.  Thanks y'all, we'll try and make good on this.  Then performer said something about being dusted.  We appreciate it.  Then our boy Gnosis made mention of Living The Life.  Well hell yeah.

Metamorphoses Lycanthropae: Possunt Inquam

New to the uploading game, i did'na realize quality control was needed when choosing a host. So, we'll try it again. Here's all the recently posted files on the sphere from a new space in time:

Brett Eclectic's Sure Shot 2: Stage Lights

Cozy Shawn's Black Action Themes

Sugar Bicycle Instrumental

GFE 4/29/06

So we'll see you all friday right?  Noot is the cosmic light conductor and the peoples debt collector.  Watch out mr. business man......your empire's about to blow. Won't you come have a listen at the unicorn, in the case you do not know?