Itasca, Matt Baldwin & Amps for Christ In Concert

ITASCA:Kayla Cohen is a musician and visual artist based in southern California. She has been performing and writing music under the name Itasca for over ten years, and has performed at the Getty Museum, LA Louver, Paesaggi Sonori Festival on the Adriatic coast in Italy, at the Absalon Kirken commune in Copenhagen, among other homes, farms and galleries around the world. She has released three LPs, most recently Imitation of War in early 2024, on the Grammy-nominated recording label Paradise of Bachelors, also known for their work with musician and visual artist Terry Allen. Over the past three years her practice has also included working with ceramics, as informed by natural building, the Jungian work of James Hillman and intersectional deep ecology. Her work explores the way we can both access and tether ourselves to the personal and collective unconscious, pursuing a teleological conversation through physical materials and touch. Her ceramics practice is under the umbrella of the “hestia school,” her ongoing project researching depth psychology and ecologically regenerative living practices. Hestia school at the moment consists of a library, a dream analysis service, and the two arms of the ceramics practice, creative and functional.

MATT BALDWIN

Matt Baldwin is an experimental guitarist. Originally associated with John Fahey's Takoma school, he has gone on to release 16 albums of original music that reflect his process of using the guitar to explore the unknown. He is the author of the critically-celebrated philosophical zine series, How To Play Guitar. Matt also works as a psychotherapist and is the co-founder of the Los Angeles Community Ketamine Clinic.

AMPS FOR CHRIST

Electronic primitivist project Amps for Christ was primarily the work of Claremont, California-based Henry Barnes, formerly of sludge metal/hardcore legends Man is the Bastard and harsh noise offshoot Bastard Noise. An outlet for Barnes' interest in polyethnic folk traditions and faux-Celtic mysticism, Amps for Christ proved equally distinctive for its use of custom-built guitars and electronics, recording with a number of occasional collaborators, including vocalist Tara Tikkitavi, percussionist Joel Connell, and Enid Snarb (possibly an alias for Barnes himself). Beginning with a few cassette releases on lo-fi tape label Shrimper in the mid-'90s, Amps for Christ quietly released new volumes of sound as well as performed sporadically as the years rolled on. Releases of note from the first decade or so of output included 1995's debut Plains of Alluvial, 1997's Thorny Path, 1999's Circuits, 2000's Electrosphere, 2001's Oak in the Ashes, 2004's People at Large, and 2006's Every Eleven Seconds. By the middle of the 2000s, key figures of the burgeoning freak folk meta-movement acknowledged Amps for Christ as an obscure but important early predecessor to the damaged folk sounds of that era. In 2006 Animal Collective invited Barnes and company to open a short West Coast tour with them. This appreciation from a younger generation would continue with Amps for Christ's inclusion on an RRR Records box set of California noise artists in 2008 as well as a collaborative split LP with Brooklyn communal folk-rockers Woods in 2012. Canyons Cars and Crows, Barnes' first release of completely new, singularly Amps for Christ material in over seven years, appeared on Shrimper in 2014. In 2017, Plains of Alluvial was reissued in a limited vinyl release. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

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