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TO END IT ALL 2022 photo: A. K. O'Neill

TO END IT ALL: Avant-Garde/Death Industrial trio Announces Spring Shows

March 26, 2022 by Joy Von Spain

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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http://toenditall.bandcamp.com
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VANESSA SKANTZE: Luminary Butoh Artist To Release Writhing Treasure Feast April 10th Via Scry Recordings; New Track Streaming, Preorders Available + Performances And Workshops Announced

February 28, 2020 by Joy Von Spain

Writhing Treasure Feast is a soundtrack for the solo dance exploration by activist and luminary Butoh dancer VANESSA SKANTZE. Here Skantze explores the sounds of the fierce beauty, pain, resourcefulness, and resurrection of the land, the people, the creatures, and elements of the original Americas, dancing with the gods of Mexico, North America, and Haiti primarily. Writhing Treasure Feast draws from the artist’s travels to Mexico and Haiti, her experience and initiation into a Vodou Sosyete (community) in New Orleans, and her residency in Seattle, the traditional land of the Duwamish People.

Skantze produced, directed, choreographed, and performed the live dance elements of the piece as well as conceptualized, co-produced, and commissioned the music, photography, original text, and painting aspects of this magnum opus which incorporates the skills of a host of vanguard sound artists including Masaaki Masao, Erymanthe (Joy Von Spain and Susan Dumett), Pink Void, Greg Campbell and Sioux City Pete, Morher, Noisepoetnobody and Uneasy Chairs, and Noisepoetnobody and Cailleach.

Divided into seven sections: Stone, Sea, Wind, Fire, Serpent, Muck, and River featuring lush and unexpected soundscapes, the offering was recorded and mixed by Marc Tweed, mastered by Casey Chittenden Jones, and includes artwork by Ambrosia Bardos and photography by Anima Nocturna.

The Writhing Treasure Feast project will be released digitally (audio only) and as a 2xCD with a 72-page art book of photography prints and original text by SKANTZE. Find preorders via SKANTZE’s Bandcamp page at THIS LOCATION.

VANESSA SKANTZE will perform Writhing Treasure Feast in Seattle this weekend followed by additional appearances and workshops in Europe. See confirmed performances below.

Sample SKANTZE’s hypnotic work via YouTube at THIS LOCATION.  

 

Writhing Treasure Feast Track Listing:
Disc 1
1. Stone – Masaaki Masao
2. Sea – Erymanthe (Susan DuMett and Joy Von Spain)
3. Wind – Pink Void
Disc 2
4. Fire – Greg Campbell and Sioux City Pete
5. Serpent – Morher
6. Muck – Noisepoetnobody and Uneasy Chairs
7. River – Noisepoetnobody and Cailleach

VANESSA SKANTZE’s Writhing Treasure Feast:
2/28/2020 Base Art Space – Seattle, WA [Tickets]
2/29/2020 Base Art Space – Seattle, WA [Tickets]
3/01/2020 Base Art Space – Seattle, WA [Tickets]
3/7/2020 Spazio Nu – Pontedera, IT
3/26/2020 Taller Air, Poble Sec- Barcelona, SP * Lecture: Butoh In The USA
3/27/2020 Oracles Theatre, Poble Sec – Barcelona, SP
3/28/2020 La Sala De Las Bestias Barcelona, SP * The Rhythm Of A Star, Butoh Workshop
3/29/2020 La Sala De Las Bestias Barcelona, SP * The Rhythm Of A Star, Butoh Workshop
4/02/2020 TBA – Porto, PT
4/04/2020 Porto D’Artes – Porto, PT * The Rhythm Of A Star, Butoh Workshop
4/05/2020 Porto D’Artes – Porto, PT * The Rhythm Of A Star, Butoh Workshop

Artist Bios:

Vanessa Skantze is a Butoh artist and teacher of yoga and dance in the Seattle area. A student of Atsushi Takenouchi (founder of Jinen Butoh), she has performed in the U.S. and Europe for over twenty years, has led hundreds of classes as part of the Yoga Behind Bars program, and participates in the Freehold Engaged Theater residency. Her multi-disciplinary collaborations with artists such as Tatsuya Nakatani and Jarboe reveal an attention to detail, intensity of emotion, narrative skill and wide dynamic range.

Masaaki Masao is a sound collage and electronic music artist, creating intricate textures from dark ambient to harsh wall noise. He also is a member of the avant-garde metal band Eye Of Nix, multi-disciplinary group Caligula Cartel, and the post-industrial duo To End It All. He has often collaborated with butoh performers in the Seattle area.

Susan DuMett (Erymanthe) explores themes of myth and mysticism, of non-ordinary states of consciousness, of catharsis, of opening and awakening, and of transition and transformation with a voice that ranges from the celestial to the subterranean. Her work ranges from the sacred to the avant-garde, often driven by intuitive soundings rather than words. As a solo artist she layers vocalizations over organic sounds and synths to create multidimensional, harmonic soundscapes.

Joy Von Spain (Erymanthe) is a vocalist and instrumentalist with a background in avant-garde classical and early European music. Currently active in the avant-garde metal band Eye Of Nix, multi-disciplinary group Caligula Cartel, and the post-industrial duo To End It All, she has worked with several butoh artists in the region including many collaborations with Vanessa Skantze.

Pink Void is the moniker of Crystal Perez. Since 2011 she’s created sprawling landscapes of layered sound with guitar, keyboard, field recordings and samples that speak to the subconscious mind.

Greg Campbell plays drums, percussion, French horn, and other instruments in Seattle and beyond. He works with the traditional Ghanaian drumming ensemble Anokye Agofomma and works with the Gansango Music and Dance group. He teaches at the Cornish College of the Arts and Cascadia College.

Sioux City Pete is a guitar slinger, poet, and outlaw. He started his first band in 1979 at age ten and hasnt stopped since. His solo sets are both electric and acoustic and his performances with his band The Beggars are extraordinary immersions in the essence of deep blues and rock and roll. He currently fronts extreme punk band the Convictions and lives in Seattle.

Ambrosia Bardos (Morher) creates work that is cohesively interdisciplinary – synthesizing sound, movement, image, and object to achieve conceptual impact across the sensory spectrum. Their performances are improvisatory and multisensory, utilizing the body as a sound source and manipulating the air around them to overtake our perceived reality and hand-hold us through the void.

Patrick Neill Gundran (Uneasy Chairs) has been exploring free improvisation, pure sound, and deep listening after moving past many years of conventional writing and playing guitar. His approach is rooted in minimalism, using the least number of tools to allow for the maximum amount of expression and connection between his sense of self, others and the environment.

Noisepoetnobody (Casey Chittenden Jones) utilizes homemade instruments and modular synthesizers to create haunting, discordant, and broken sounds to express the need for creativity in a dying ecosystem. NPN is always seeking to promote mental deprogramming through anti-commercial sonic immersion through playing live, recording, remixing, and mastering audio.

Cailleach (Benj Cameron) is a solo hurdy gurdy project, sometimes incorporating Japanese sho and resonant metals. A founding member of Seattle’s Caligula Cartel, he is also a longtime collaborator of Noisepoetnobody in an analog synth/hurdy gurdy duo, and an ongoing exploration of Ladino folk songs with Vanessa Skantze.

Anima Nocturna is the sanctuary for the sacralized work of multi-media artist Carlos Melgoza. Art as a ritualized digestive process of experience – whether philosophical, intellectual, or esoteric. Photography, the medium most often used to describe “reality,” appropriated to reify magico-mystic experience. Evidence as praise to the absolute.

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Entrail: Fall Tour Dates Announced

August 24, 2019 by Joy Von Spain

Entrail TOUR DATES:

9/4 Portland, OR @ Azoth
9/5 Eugene, OR @ Wandering Goat
9/6 Arcata, CA @ Outer Space
9/7 Oakland, CA @ The Sanctuary
9/8 Nevada City, CA @ Un-Church
9/9 Chico, CA @ Blackbird Coffee & Bookstore
9/10 Cave Junction, OR @ Creative Self Collective
9/12 Seattle, WA @ Lo-Fi w/ Wickt, Joy Von Spain
9/13 Olympia, WA @ Cryptatropa w/ Vouna
9/14 Port Townsend, WA w/ Vouna

TO END IT ALL Announces Summer Appearances Including Litha Cascadia & Covenant Fest

June 12, 2019 by Joy Von Spain

 

Avant-garde/death industrial duo TO END IT ALL will bring their psalms to stages this summer including an appearance at Litha Cascadia in Pe Ell, Washington June 22nd with Vouna, Isenordal, Fauna and more. Their first ever appearance in Canada will be July 4th in Vancouver BC at Covenant Fest V featuring Dead Congregation, Bell Witch, Sortilegia, and many more. See confirmed dates below.

Formed in the autumn of 2016, long-time collaborators noise artist Masaaki Masao and vocalist Joy Von Spain began to create new work as TO END IT ALL, forging songs from rhythmic harsh noise, sampling, keyboards and voice. The duo’s Scourge of Woman full-length, released last fall via Scry Recordings, draws inspiration from death industrial and black noise acts like Pig Heart Transplant, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Sutekh Hexen, Throbbing Gristle, as well as artists like Onielar, Diamanda Galas, and Cosey Fanni Tutti. The album features the artwork of Seattle by-way-of Bay Area visual artist Anima Nocturna (Carlos Melgoza) in collaboration with Joy Von Spain.

Captured at Stop/Start Studio in Portland, Oregon and Khaos Studio in Seattle, Washington, Scourge of Woman is available in digital and vinyl formats at THIS LOCATION.

 

TO END IT ALL:

6/22/2019 Litha Cascadia @ Red Hawk Avalon – Pe Ell, WA
7/04/2019 Covenant Fest V @ Wise Hall – Vancouver, BC
8/06/2019 Highline Bar – Seattle, WA w/ Enferens
8/31/2019 Reaktor Space – Seattle, WA – Mehreren Kammern Installation/Performance

http://toenditall.bandcamp.com

http://www.scryrecordings.com/posts/artist/to-end-it-all

http://www.facebook.com/TEIAnoise

https://animanocturna.bigcartel.com/

 

GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE: Pacific Northwest Experimental Doom Folk Collective To Release Dig In Sessions: III Via Scry Recordings; Live Dates Announced

March 16, 2019 by Joy Von Spain

One of the Pacific Northwest’s hidden societies, GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE forge a doom-inflected folk ritualism; dirges tinged with Eastern psychedelia and meandering meditative trances. For the last several years, the group has shown the Washington state underground a clear vision for their sound and lyrics – creating a shamanistic space for the listener, placing them into a trance, then building up the excitement. The overarching theme of their lyrical work is that of an idealist, a yearning for an end to the modern human condition, for destruction of the constructs & constraints of oppression. The group has appeared many times at Thirst For Light and on Hollow Earth Radio.

GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE bring their hypnotic and emotionally-charged live show to a wider audience this spring with a west coast tour. For this occasion, on March 31st, Scry Recordings is releasing Dig In Sessions: III, a cassette with two musical hypnosis sessions from the vault, recorded by the group and mastered by MS Waldron (Nurse With Wound, irr.app.ext).

Issues the band, “What is that, you ask? Over the years (2012-present) we have recorded most of our practices. Sometimes, practice turns into improvised playing and listening which we call ‘digs.’ We say ‘digs’ because whether you’re digging a hole or creating music in the moment, it is the terrain that dictates the approach. The dig could become a foundation for something bigger than itself or covered up and forgotten. We want to share a side of our sound that you may not always hear.”

Excerpts from the tape which was mastered by Mastered by MS Waldron can be heard at GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE’s official bandcamp page here: geistthesacredensemble.bandcamp.com.

Dig In Sessions: III Track Listing:

Side A: Crotalus Cerastes

Side B: 41617

GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE Live:

3/22/2019 Azoth – Portland, OR

3/23/2019 Ashland Community Ctr -Ashland, OR

3/27/2019 Miniplex –  Arcata, CA

3/28/2019 Jack London Elbo Room -Oakland, CA

3/29/2019 Temple of Intention – Mt. Shasta, CA

3/30/2019 DiMaggio’s – Corvallis, OR

4/26/2019 Highline Bar – Seattle, WA with Vouna, Eye of Nix, Sataray (tape release show)

GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE:

  1. Sauder – hollow body electric guitar, vocals, broken clarinet, effect pedals
  2. Yoder – percussion, chains, cymbals, gong, various implements
  3. Segawa – electric guitar, steel spike, slide, effect pedals
  4. Howe – electric bass, metal door pin, bow, effect pedals

“GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE are worthy of any psychedelic folk and doom lover’s full attention, and I personally would travel far to witness them live.” – Heathen Harvest

“GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE rewards the patient listener.” – Revolt Of The Apes


http://www.geistandthesacredensemble.com/

https://geistthesacredensemble.bandcamp.com/

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http://www.animanocturna.bigcartel.com

CALIGULA CARTEL 10 YR ANNIVERSARY / EYE OF NIX TOUR KICKOFF SHOW ANNOUNCED

September 23, 2018 by Joy Von Spain

Thursday, October 18th, 2018 Caligula Cartel will celebrate 10 years of live mayhem. This show is the kickoff for Eye of Nix’ first Northeast US tour and the bands will be joined by Witch Bottle at the LoFi Performance Gallery in Seatle, WA. More info available HERE.

EYE OF NIX CONFIRMS PROPHECY FEST US APPEARANCE IN BROOKLYN; NORTHEAST TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

September 10, 2018 by Joy Von Spain

In conjunction with the signing to Prophecy Productions and re-release of Black Somnia, EYE OF NIX will bring their enigmatic psalms to East Coast stages next month. The mini tour will begin with a warm up show in their hometown of Seattle October 18th before heading to Portland, Maine on Halloween. From there, the band will make their way through New York, Rhode Island, and Washington for five more shows including an appearance at Prophecy Fest at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York November 3rd alongside Alcest, Xasthur, Kayo Dot and more. See all confirmed dates below.

EYE OF NIX:
10/18/2018 LoFi – Seattle, WA
10/31/2018 Geno’s – Portland, ME
11/01/2018 Chanticleer – Ithaca, NY
11/02/2018 Sugar City – Buffalo, NY
11/03/2018 Prophecy Fest @ Knitting Factory – Brooklyn, NY
11/04/2018 Dusk – Providence, RI
11/09/2018 Highline Bar – Seattle, WA

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