White Goddess, C. GualdiWay Of The Cross is an collection of international jammers that will be performing six european shows during the month of may. Hairentertainment.com invites them to play the Ballhaus Naunyn in Berlin 36/Kreuzberg on May 15th, 2007. The group includes members of No Neck Blues Band, the Finnish and Dutch Underground, Embryo and Skaters. Support for Berlin will be the Pyongyang-crazed visual improvisers Wooden Veil (DustEra).
All members of Way Of The Cross were invited to All omorrows Parties (ATP) 2006 for Thurston Moore`s A Nightmare Before Christmas and played in their respective groups that are mentioned above (see links below). The instrumentation of the performance will inlcude selfmade percussion instruments, voice, and wind instruments, will be mainly acoustic and improvised.
The tour is called "Way Of The Cross: On The Path Of The Ninefold Muse", taken from the book “The White Goddess”, by Robert Graves: "The White Goddess if far more than a long-discredited pagan deity. She is still alive, and her worship takes many strange forms both inside an outside the conventions of Western morality. In particular, she continues as the Ninefold Muse, patroness of the white magic of poetry."
The group is:
Dave Nuss (of No Neck Blues Band, NYC), Christelle Gualdi (of Stellar, Stiff River, Netherlands), Spencer Clark and James Ferraro (of The Skaters, a California drone-duo from Pacific City), Jan Anderzen (of Kemialliset Ystavat, Tomutonttu, Finland), Kuupuu (Finland), Aartu Partinen (of Avarus, Hetero Skeleton, Amon Dude, Finland) and Mik Quantius (of Embryo, Germany).
Ystavat
Wooden Veil (DustEra)
DustEraThis fourpiece improvisation-group was formed in 2003 while detained in Pyongyang, North Korea during a military quarantine, the quartet began creating dirt rituals and processional pageants honoring the native-Korean Sapali dog and its traditional role in dispelling evil spirits. After being granted leave from North Korea in 2005 the group has alternately been based in Tokyo, Fes, Madrid and the Scottish Isles, their projects spanning the spectrum from religious ceremony to armed conflict. For Ballhaus Naunyn the quartet has prepared a performance based loosely on the Attomit legend of Crow-butter and smoke.
