Tag Archives: Prehistoric Horse

New York this weekend and San Francisco April 14-30

Gigs, gigs and more gigs!
I’ve relocated to New York City (Brooklyn), loving it and hit the ground running with cools gigs this weekend. Shortly thereafter, I will leave for San Francisco for gigs and recording sessions with The Bodice Rippers, Joe Rut, Dylan Champagne and my own Sonic Demons mayhem. AND I finally get to [...]

Verdant, like Vermont

Prehistoric Horse paid a visit to Verdant Studio up in Athens, VT this past week. Verdant is run by Pete Weiss, for years the co-owner of Zippah Studio in Boston (along with my old EU Wurlitzer buddy, Brian Charles), a cozy rural VT studio chock full of nice gear that subscribes to the ‘all in [...]

Structure & Melody

After much free improvised work the past few years, I am careening back into the realm of more structured music. It is a necessary yin and yang balance, but pendulum always swings…and to that end, I am working several angles.
One is becoming a better musician and player – more practice, learning, listening, theory, etc. [...]

Influx

Performed a solo set at the Flux 53 venue in Oakland this past Saturday evening as a result of Rent Romus graciously sneaking me onto the Edgetone Records Mudwagon CD release show – even though I do not appear on that fine slab of plastic. I followed a very good set by Jay Korber (of [...]

Prehistoric Horse Tour Wrap

Prehistoric Horse plays a very intense and dynamic form of improvisational music that sometimes borders on sheer noise but also incorporates the dramatic and absurd. Our sets morphed with the miles logged and the tenor and pacing changed dramatically from the first chaotic show in Albany CA to the final mellow moments in NYC. There [...]

Nottingham, heavily

July 22
Nottingham Coop, Madison, WI
Picture this: A gorgeous Italianate castle/villa perched on a large lake in the midst of sprawling modern university buildings. Expansive rooms filled with random couches and chairs in various states of decay, desks, nooks and crannies, filled with books, filth or notes, messages, threats and/or suggestions to other members of the [...]

Prehistoric Horse

is the modern improvised music/noise trio of David Grollman, Valerie Kuehne and Lucio Menegon. Prehistoric Horse plays a very intense and dynamic form of improvisational music that sometimes borders on sheer noise but also incorporates the dramatic and absurd. The sound is a mashup of Paal Nilssen-Love/Han Bennink drumming with Fred Frith/Sonic Youth guitars [...]