INSTAGON, live at the LAVA AUDIO FESTIVAL
September 19, 1998, Sandcrawler Space, Oakland,CA
reviewed by Heidi/Corey/Alexi
HeidiCoreyAlexi wrote:
Hey folks, last Saturday night Lob of Instagon gave a smashingly
great "a capella" noise show at this really neat space in the backlots of
the Oakland produce/wharf district called the Sandcrawler. Actually, all
the bands we saw were incredible. Giving off amazing spontaneous
combustion-like noise. The last guy we saw (after Lob) just erupted right
next to us ... the sounds had been slowly building for about ten minutes,
but we didn't even know that the performance had started, we just thought
it was the in-between house music or maybe sound checking. Then all of a
sudden this guy exploded into motion, leaping up right next to us in a
frenzy of intense NOISE and dance. We soon saw that he was holding some
kind of instrument (microphone?) which he was holding/cradling away from
the speakers, then bringing it to the edge of total noise by creeping
closer and closer to them, bursting into noise and jerking dance
sporadically and screaming into the device along with the bursts. We were
left going "Whoaaa ..." in its wake.
Lob was great, as always. He came up to us before the set and asked
Corey if he wanted to be one of the voices in it, to which we said, "YESS!"
Lob had actually gone around to a number of people in the audience to
gather performers. Lob and his friend started by creating a vocal noise
base, then soon the stage filled, until there were six or seven of us up
there, all creating different "noise" sounds ... it went on for about ten
minutes and sounded really neat, and it felt like everyone there was
participating.
We loved it, Lob! The whole evening was great, we met some neat
people from a Davis underground radio station KDVS, and ended the night
eating fried chicken and waffles at Roscoe's in Jack London Square! What a
night!
Love, Corey, Heidi, & Alexi
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