Thursday night’s kissa session at CAM Raleigh will be a unique treat. Marshall Wyatt of Raleigh’s Old Hat Records will select and play around twenty favorite 78’s from his extraordinary collection of rareties. Marshall is bringing in his own vintage sound system for the occasion. He says the 78’s will roughly span the years 1925 […]
Kremmling, Colorado – October 2015
Something about this journey to Kremmling is more poignant to me than most of my many previous journeys in the footsteps of WES. So I’m not going to offer much in terms of thoughts in writing. I’m going to save them. But here are some pictures. Stay tuned. The previous photo is from the […]
Bill Mooney in the Kissa: Mostly Music About Music Itself
Tomorrow night in our underground kissa at CAM Raleigh, Bill Mooney will be spinning records with a theme he’s calling “mostly music about music itself.” He also provided the included photograph as indication of his kissa set. Mooney has spent the last couple of decades creating merchandise (through his company, Tannis Root) for bands like Wilco, Sonic […]
Groove/Anti-Groove at CAM’s Kissa
Improvising musician Jeb Bishop took the controls at the music kissa at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh Thursday, October 8. He dug into his vast vinyl and CD collection with the theme “Groove vs. Antigroove” in mind. Bishop defines that (loosely) as “a kind of alternation between music with a beat you can dance to […]
Jeb Bishop Helming the CAM Kissa this Thursday Night
Jeb Bishop is a trombone player originally from Raleigh and now back living locally after two decades in Chicago, where he worked with some of the most adventurous musicians in all of improvised music – Ken Vandermark, Peter Brotzmann, and Joe McPhee to name three. In the late 1980s, before he left for Chicago, Bishop […]
Mac McCaughan & Jackie Mittoo in the CAM Kissa this Thursday
Jackie Mittoo‘s presence will be on vinyl. That’s what Mac McCaughan will be spinning on the kissa’s two turntables during his second appearance in the kissa (you can read about his first HERE). 8-10pm. Also, come to CAM Thursday before the kissa – 6 to 8pm – to see our expansion of the Big, Bent Ears installation. […]
Laura Ballance Launches Fall Kissa Schedule Thursday
Thursday night, September 17, Laura Ballance, the musician (Superchunk) and record label co-founder (Merge), will kick off our fall kissa season at CAM Raleigh in earnest, after a week off for Labor Day. The last time Ballance helmed the kissa’s turntables, she called her setlist, “Songs about Love and related emotions: A Gross Overview (Approx. […]
David Burris Spinning Vinyl in the Kissa Thursday Night
This Thursday night, September 3, the musician and filmmaker, David Burris, kicks off the Fall season in the underground kissa at CAM Raleigh, a feature of our Big, Bent Ears installation. He’ll be spinning vinyl records 8-10pm. We asked Burris what records he planned to bring to the kissa on Thursday and he responded: “I […]
Tonk at CAM Kissa this Monday the 24th
Three members of the terrific, Raleigh-based country band, Tonk, will be spinning vinyl records in the underground kissa at CAM Raleigh on Monday night August 24. Tonk’s acoustic guitarist Jay Brown, pedal steel player Shepherd Lane, and drummer Bo Taylor will be helming the two turntables in the kissa 8-10pm. We aren’t sure what records […]
Scenes from Hiss Golden Messenger’s Kissa Session Last Night
Last night M.C. “Mike” Taylor, whose ensemble performs as Hiss Golden Messenger, spun vinyl records in our underground kissa session at CAM Raleigh, part of our ongoing Big, Bent Ears project. Much fun was had. Below are photographs from the evening by RFS’s Ivan Weiss along with Taylor’s set list, which ranged from Barry Hannah to Toots […]