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Next show is this upcoming Tuesday at Therapy Lounge with Perpetual Ritual, Aumgn, and Hanad. 7:30 p.m. Free?

New Year Same Problems

The first Holographic Beast show of 2016.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1681598815391578/

9

Show...last week.

I forgot to mention this show that happened last week. Oh well. I'm not even sure if anyone actually reads this site anyway.

Labor of LoveFest

I'm playing the Labor Of LoveFest this weekend at Gallery 1412. I play on the second day, on September 6th. The Stranger recommends that you should go. 

http://www.thestranger.com/events/22686679/labor-of-lovefest

"Give Gallery 1412 some credit for providing an authentically avant-garde alternative to the Bumbershoot juggernaut this weekend, putting on a two-day mini-fest with a curatorial bent toward brain-burgling and texture-warped experimental music. The bills look to toggle smartly between “big name” local acts like ambient improv impresario Gel-Sol and glitch guru Marcus Price and smaller, even odder occupants of the scene. To name a few, discovered as a result of researching this event: Expert System and her spectral sound plazas, God and Vanilla’s malevolent symphonies, Slow Drips’ malfunction-scapes, and the demonic drone logic of Sacred Signs. Too weird to live, too rare to die; we salute you, Gallery 1412. KYLE FLECK"

Next show

July 29th @ Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar.

Upcoming shows

There are two shows coming up soon. April 24th at the Runaway Cafe in Georgetown. With Power Skeleton and Ffej. Free. "Weird Rock Night" Hmm... Then May 3rd, the next installment of the Alone Together series, this time at the LoFi Performance Gallery.

"An evening of single human bands The Earwigs Portable Morla Holographic Beast Tarsier Eyes Ffej Ayah (of somesurprises) Temptshun Milt of Power Skeleton Cutting Head vs Bunker Kazui"

Live, before and later.

I need to update this more often. I played at Kremwerk recently.

I uploaded some live excerpts from that show to Soundcloud. The quality isn't the best, but it gives you an idea of what the new material is sounding like.

https://soundcloud.com/know-care

There's a show this Sunday at Full Tilt White Center.



Seattle is nice.

Videos and upcoming shows.

On 1/22/15 I opened for KA, Hive Mind, and Cult of Youth. Here's a short excerpt of my set. Here's a song from the recent cassette. The next show is on the 31st at Lucky Liquor. https://www.facebook.com/events/796256247106594/

And then on February 8th at the Josephine. https://www.facebook.com/events/339099956290164/

Keep it dire.

5 years

Hello there. I hope you have been getting the treatment you deserve. My small label Know/Care quietly turned 5 years old earlier this year, and I finally have some new tapes ready.

K/C004 - Abstract Rabbit - A Useless Reservoir

A brief history for those that don't know. Cris Mora was my best friend, and he made music under the name Abstract Rabbit from 2007 to 2012. He self-released countless CD-Rs, often with elaborate art and packaging, and he usually gave them all away for free. In 2011 I asked him to record some material that I would release on cassette on my label. Cris provided me with six intentionally untitled tracks not long after. I discussed with him the art ideas that I had for the material, and he liked the concept. The project was pushed back due to hectic schedules and low funds. On February 15th 2012, Cris unexpectedly passed away, devastating the lives of everyone close to him. This has been a hard project for me to complete, and over the years I would try to come back to it, and then fail. Nearly everything that could go wrong, did, and sometimes it felt like this would never be completed. I am proud to have finally have this finished and to be able to share Cris' music with those who want to hear it. The A side is Cris' familiar emotional instrumental synthpop, while the B side is a slower, darker, and more atmospheric side of Cris's music that was rarely heard. It's hard to not hear this music in a different way now that Cris is gone, and I wish I could have finished this while he was still here. Putting this out is a huge honor for me, and I hope people enjoy it. I miss him terribly. Released with the full approval of Cris' mother.

All of the profits from this release will go towards www.afsp.org/ and to www.RabbitHaven.org. For more information on both please follow the links.
 
Edition of 50. 23 on white cassettes hand-numbered with silver ink, 27 on clear cassettes hand-numbered with black ink. Packaged in a white Norelco case. Includes digital download. 

K/C005 - Holographic Beast - Restating The Obvious

A portrait of passive-aggressiveness, hypocrisy, and remembrance. No synth, no contact mics. All sounds sourced from guitar. A throwback to both sound and art from the earliest Holographic Beast material, most of which remains unreleased and unheard. This was recorded Summer 2014. Intentionally crude.

Edition of 20 on clear cassettes hand-numbered with gold ink, with printed/hand drawn labels. 

Tapes are $6.50 ppd, or $5 in person. Non-US people get in touch so I can give you a shipping estimate.

All tapes dubbed in real time, one at a time. Order at http://knowcare.bigcartel.com/ Samples at https://soundcloud.com/know-care

I also have another Holographic Beast tape coming out, "A Better Understanding On How To Do Things" on Seattle label Pent Up Releases. http://www.storenvy.com/stores/90541-pent-up-release Link NSFW. This is some of my favorite material that I've ever recorded. Expect that sometime next year.

The first Holographic Beast show since 2013 will be happen on January 22nd, at the Highline in Seattle. Also on the bill are Cult of Youth (NYC, Sacred Bones) Hive Mind (LA, Chondritic Sound) Haunted Horses (Seattle) and KA (Seattle, members of Kithkin and Lemolo) More shows are in the works. 

I will soon be traveling to Seattle to record a collaboration with electronic artist This Definite Sky, and then a few days after that I will travel to Couer D'lane Idaho to record a collaboration with metal band Mürken Kepriulous.

Glass Memory is a haze, and the future is real. I'll see you there. 

July 2014

The year is already half over. I have plans to finish and start some new material. Sound familiar?

Unreleased Tracks

Here are two unreleased tracks from November 2012. You can download them for free or pay what you want. "Stay Away From Animals" is a short and harsh track, while "Traveling Away" is a drone track that gave birth to the idea for "Of Failure" from the "Results" tape. I'm not sure why both tracks happen to have the word "away" in them. Hmm.

http://holographicbeast.bandcamp.com/album/miscellaneous-tracks

7 years bad luck

New Year's Eve marked the 7 year anniversary of Holographic Beast.

My third tape, "Results" is available after many delays. Various methods explored. 4 tracks, 20 minutes. Unintentional irony. Edition of 30.

$6 ppd in the US. Non-US customers get in touch so I can give you an accurate shipping quote. Paypal to stealththought AT hotmail DOT com
Trades welcome.

http://holographicbeast.bandcamp.com/
http://knowcare.bigcartel.com/

Destroy weakness.

Small talk

On the 31st will be the 7 year anniversary of Holographic Beast. Maybe the bad luck streak will finally be over...

"Results" should finally be out within the next few weeks.

2014 will actually see a few new releases come out, and including for the first time releases on other labels.

We'll see.

New Buttons

New buttons available. Sounds...someday.

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Or order here: http://knowcare.bigcartel.com/

New year, old noise

Oh yeah. 2013. Since the last update I played two shows in Seattle and one here in my home town, and of course none of the locals showed up, ha.

"Results" is still coming out, along with some other tapes of material recorded during the middle of last year. Smaller editions than usual. As always, things will probably be behind schedule.

Thanks to anyone that's been paying attention.

The October goal for new tapes wasn't reached due to various technical (and human) errors. I'm going to shelve that material for now and start over. Hopefully a new tape will be available before the year ends. The Halloween show has also been cancelled, much to my disappointment.

In less irritating news, I completed the track "Valley Of Smoke and Weakness" for an upcoming compilation on Lazer Lizard Records, the new label started by Tobias from Power Skeleton. That should be out in the near future. I will also be playing live with Power Skeleton on the 10th.

Also, here's another review of Glass Tightrope:
http://memorywavetransmission.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/holographic-beast-glass-tightrope-c21-knowcare/

Keep It Black.

 

 

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari + PF review

I forgot to post that I recently was a part of this event in Seattle. Myself and a number of other experimental musicians performed a live scoring of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari. It went quite well. Maybe pictures will surface someday if anyone took any.

And here's a nice review of Perpetual Filth over at Memory Wave Transmission:
 http://memorywavetransmission.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/holographic-beast-perpetual-filth-c40-knowcare-sounds/

Past Failures

After nearly two years, the remaining copies of "Perpetual Filth" have been located. $6 ppd anywhere. If you ordered a digital version and would like a tape, email me at stealththought@hotmail.com

Memorial Show Video/Pictures

There are a number of videos from the memorial show from the 3rd.

Here's the intro with me talking


Here is the majority of the show, split into two clips




Here are two different clips from the show




And finally, here is nearly the whole show, again, from a different angle.

Thanks to all my friends that filmed and took pictures. And thanks to everyone that was there.