April 18th in Seattle there will be a multi-media acoustic/Classical arrangement of the album by Von Spain for three voices with cellist Goldston and violinist Jackie An. Following this unique experience at the beautiful Chapel Performance Space, the electric trio version of TO END IT ALL will tour their full album in limited dates on the West Coast US.
A five day bonfire campout, and music festival with live bands, ritual performance, art, and artisans, taking place in the beautiful Pacific Northwest forest at Dundee Lodge. Located just west of Portland in Gaston Oregon next to Hagg Lake.
We cordially invite you to join our eclectic family in the woods.
TO END IT ALL will be performing live with a new film by Vanessa Skantze & Hali Autumn.
Geist and the Sacred Ensemble will be performing a new set of unreleased songs and unveiling new merch for this one!
Experimental sound alchemist NOISEPOETNOBODY, led by one Casey Jones, will release his latest full-length, This City, via Scry Recordings on August 3rd.
NOISEPOETNOBODY has spent much time performing in underground venues, bars, art galleries, abandoned buildings, and illegal DIY spaces forever seeking to promote mental deprogramming through anti-commercial sonic immersion. Each NOISEPOETNOBODY set is a one-of-a-kind exchange of energy employing analog electronics and improvised inspirations via speaker cones.
Issues Jones of This City, “This new collection is inspired by the pressures of modern urban survival and absurdist philosophy. In This City, arguably the worst hit song of the ‘80s melts like a popsicle on the summer sidewalk into a pool of psychedelic bubbling liquid…remnants of previous live performances are mashed into a churning machine that holds no regret. Stark hardware beats give context for interruptions of past experience. The search for order brings the individual into conflict with the universe.”
This City will be released digitally. For preorders and to stream first single, “Parking Garage,” visit the Scry Recordings Bandcamp page HERE.
This City Track Listing:
Most commonly associated with the genres experimental, minimalism, noise, industrial, and drone, Casey Jones’ solo works and collaborations have been released by Scry Recordings, Lens Records, and Public Eyesore, among others. NOISEPOETNOBODY has participated in numerous festivals and series including NorCal Noise Fest, Eugene Noise Fest, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, Litha Cascadia, and is a regular artist at Modular On The Spot & Modular Nights Seattle. Jones also originated the Driftwood Orchestra, Seattle Dismal Fest, Pillow Full Of Drone, and currently joins Peter Keller in the duo Dosenöffner. Additionally, Jones also produced and performed in the three-album Epos Nemo Latrocinium series with Tatsuya Nakatani, Tom Swafford, Dean Moore, and Joy Von Spain.
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TICKETS on sale now for this unique experience, the only Washington State TO END IT ALL show this summer.
At the Belltown Yacht Club with Butoh performance by Vanessa Skantze in support of RAGANA / Izthmi / drowse AUG 5th, 2023.
May the warmongers choke on the fires of their own making.
It’s been quite a year filled with highs and lows, successes and interruptions, darkness, light, and every grey area. As we had to (for several reasons) put on hold any new releases since April, we are looking at the future and seeking a path for re-emergence. Thank you for your support in the meantime and we hope to have some progress soon for the coming year to share.
For now, we offer up a new video filmed live with three cameras: TO END IT ALL with Vanessa Skantze – live at Azoth, Portland, OR (full concert)
Filmed by the tireless documentarian Shelby @ Blue Heron Video
Look forward to some live announcements this winter!
Avant-garde/death industrial outfit TO END IT ALL will return to the stage this Spring. The rituals begin with a special show supporting Author & Punisher March 8th in Seattle before the band embarks on several shows spread throughout the month of April. The journey, which features a special cassette release show celebrating TO END IT ALL’s Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing (ft. Zvi), a partial soundtrack for Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, includes performances in Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, Eugene, Oakland, Sacramento, and Portland, with more to be announced in the months to come. The band will be joined by Butoh dancer Vanessa Skantze. See all confirmed dates below.
TO END IT ALL w/ Vanessa Skantze:
4/01/2022 Cryptatropa – Olympia, WA
4/02/2022 Substation – Seattle, WA * Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing release show
4/16/2022 Kvlt Mead – Tacoma, WA
4/20/2022 Old Nick’s – Eugene, OR
4/21/2022 Elbo Room Jack London – Oakland, CA
4/22/2022 Cafe Colonial – Sacramento, CA
4/23/2022 Azoth – Portland, OR
Since the fall of 2016, long-time collaborators sound artist Masaaki Masao and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Joy Von Spain have created new work as TO END IT ALL. Building unusual songs with massive dynamic range forged from voices, keyboard, obliterated samples, and guitar, the music encompasses dark ambient drones, operatic moments, harsh wall noise, rhythms, doom metal riffs, and even lush orchestrations.
In 2021, the duo became a three-piece with the addition of guitarist and vocalist Anne K. O’Neill (Serpentent) to the live group. The trio has appeared at the Peace Simulation pop-up and at Teatro De La Psychomachia in Seattle. TO END IT ALL frequently collaborates with Butoh dance artist Vanessa Skantze, as well as with ritual visual artist Anima Nocturna, and film maker Joseph Seuferling to create an immersive live experience with movement, lighting, or video projections.
During the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, TO END IT ALL released a single from “Strength Is Nothing” for a planned upcoming release. This longer work was composed with Zvi (Ron Varod) to accompany part of Tarkovsky’s masterpiece film, Stalker. German label Prophecy’s luxus edition of Eye Of Nix’s Ligeia (2020) features a cover by TO END IT ALL of the track “Stranded”.
In 2018, TO END IT ALL released their full-length Scourge Of Woman on LP as a duo through Scry Recordings. The album’s death industrial, dark ambient, melodic, and noise collage structures received accolades within the post-industrial and experimental music world and press. Scourge… features photography by Anima Nocturna in collaboration with Joy Von Spain. TO END IT ALL previously released a demo tape and a tour tape in 2017. In addition to touring the US West Coast and rustbelt, TO END IT ALL has appeared at Covenant Fest (BC), Litha Cascadia Solstice, and the Cascadian Yule gathering, as well as at many other interesting and unusual shows in Seattle.
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Butoh dancer VANESSA SKANTZE will join avant-garde/death industrial outfit/Scry Recordings labelmates To End It All on their upcoming Spring shows. The journey features several performances spread throughout the month of April in Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, Eugene, Oakland, Sacramento, and Portland, with more to be announced in the months to come. Additional support will be provided by psychedelic doom folk collective (also on Scry Recordings) Geist And The Sacred Ensemble on select dates. See all confirmed dates below.
VANESSA SKANTZE w/ To End It All, Geist & The Sacred Ensemble:
4/01/2022 Cryptatropa – Olympia, WA
4/02/2022 Substation – Seattle, WA * To End It All Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing tape release show [tickets]
4/16/2022 Kvlt Mead – Tacoma, WA [tickets]
w/ To End It All:
4/20/2022 Old Nick’s – Eugene, OR
4/21/2022 Elbo Room Jack London – Oakland, CA [tickets]
4/22/2022 Cafe Colonial – Sacramento, CA [tickets]
4/23/2022 Azoth – Portland, OR [tickets]
VANESSA SKANTZE is a Butoh artist, yoga practitioner, and writer who has performed and taught in the US and Europe for over twenty years. She became a student of Jinen Butoh founder Atsushi Takenouchi in 2003, having already co-created improvisation ensemble Death Posture in New Orleans. Currently based in Seattle, SKANTZE is a co-founder of Teatro de la Psychomachia, a DIY space which has hosted national and international performing artists and musicians for more than a decade. She also co-directed Butoh ensemble Danse Perdue. Her recent work, Writhing Treasure Feast, premiered in Seattle in February 2020 and features a recorded score by ten musicians, accompanied by a seventy-two-page book of photography/text with two CDs released by Scry Recording, featuring artwork by Anima Nocturna.
VANESSA SKANTZE has toured with Tatsuya Nakatani, Lydia Lunch, and shared the stage with Jarboe, and has choreographed to the music of Kris Force (Amber Asylum). Locally, she creates frequent collaborations with Noisepoetnobody and To End It All. Her works have appeared at dance and film festivals and has taught Butoh workshops in various regions. SKANTZE’s performance Red Flag On The Red Planet was featured at NY Butoh Fest 2020.
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Experimental noise architect NOISEPOETNOBODY will release his latest sonic immersion with the Potential vs Eventual EP, set for release on April 15th via Scry Recordings.
For two decades, Casey Chittenden Jones has been soundtracking the collapse of civilization under the moniker NOISEPOETNOBODY, utilizing homemade instruments, synthesizers, field recordings, tape manipulation and modular equipment to create haunting, discordant, and broken sounds to express the need for creativity in a dying ecosystem.
Comments Chittenden of his latest work, “Potential vs Eventual is an assemblage of sound designed to self-procreate advances forward toward hidden demise, where interactions with machines built for human pleasure turns disastrous leaving a degrading imprint of former aspirations abandoned to soaking in a vicarious pain bath of lost ambition.”
Today Chittenden reveals “Potential vs Eventual Part 1” calling it, “A sonic tribute to that moment when life becomes an unintended outcome of regrettable consequence.”
Today we release the new Sataray offering for you to hear: Blood Trine Moon. We’ve seen this artist refine and grow for over a decade, and are so thrilled to present her most recent venture into the depths of a shimmering shadow world. Hear for yourself and order on Bandcamp today HERE.