double leopards
 

are double leopards still together?

they are in hiatus, all of them are concentrating on their other projects (religious knives and marcia's ten thousand bands) and there are no future releases planned that i know of.

have you heard any of those other projects? any good?

yes, very good!!!!

religious knives are awesome
hototogisu are awesome
ghq are awesome
zaïmph are awesome

actually, it's like every shade of the leopards sound made into a separate band.

regarding the hope for them to get back together, judging by their side in crippled rosebud bindings, i really hope that if they come back, they come back for real and like they mean it and not just go through the motion. if they don't come back, i think they would be leaving on a very high note.

White Rock (with members of Mouthus) are very good too

I asked that question to marcia bassett last week at a GHQ show and she said pretty much the same as everyneurotic wrote. they're too busy with their other projects right now and that keeps them from coming back together. maybe sometime in the future.

I also want to talk to Marcia Bassett.

Two years ago I bid on Halve Maen and was outbid at something like 50, 60 Dollars. A few months ago I tried my luck again and was outbid at only 35 or 40 dollars. I had totally forgotten about it, goddamnit!

there are two zaimph releases that are awesome, but the rest i don't really like so much, ghq i'm not so bothered about, i like what i've heard of black quater & the more recent religious knives stuff (their early stuff is terrible). i reckon double leopards are way better than any of the side projects.

Knives here released today with audio clip on site http://www.archivecd.com/shop.htm

ordered.

My best customer in Mexico!!

it's your fault for releasing and stocking such goodness!

i did miss the silvester anfang and musica transonic with haino you had.

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on topic...

i didn't check out pretty much any of their side projects because i was very much into double leopards and was not into seeing what they were up to (except hototogisu who i was not aware featured marcia), i didn't want to get disappointed.

that's why i stayed away from religious knives until recently, and yes i heard that criticism before (early stuff not good, later stuff a whole lot better), zaïmph i've heard like one release and ghq i thought it was going to be not so good but i enjoy them.

Marcia plays as a duo with Tom Carter called Zaika thats pretty good as well.. generally speaking i like most of the projects/ groups she works in GHQ stuff is really strong.. Three lobed did some nice releases with them.

I have the Remains CD and the luck/in the back 12" and they are definitely growers. Hard to say which of the two I dig more at this point, they've got quite different vibes.
Interested to check out the new live CD mentioned above, apparently of a more lean aesthetic sonic-wise, akin to old school garage rock I've heard. Everyneurotic, you got it yet?

not as into rk as i am dl. i really love dl.

GHQ are amazing, Marc Orleans played with them a couple weeks ago and it was really great. They seem closer to the DLs sound to my ears than the other postDL bands. its interesting to hear what each member brought out of the DLs. RK seem more informed by rock than the other postDL's group.

definitely garagey stuff, very different from what you expect from dl side projects or even after listening to remains, it's actualy live versions of songs mostly on their troubleman cd; very good and organic.

one of their songs is called "96 tears", for the nuge's sake!

who are double leapords?

one of the best bands ever, go seek halve maen.

NOW!

im listening to tracks off halve maen right now, and holy fuck, dont know how these guys slipped under my radar. sound like a more psychedelic dead c or perhaps charalambides. love it.

from http://www.religiousknives.com/


The Door


The Door will be released on October 14th!
And now we have a fancy page on the Ecstatic Peace! website.








Hitting the Road


We are super psyched to get the fuck out of the NYC and meet up with Gala Drop in Europe.


Details are as follows:


Sep 17 La Maroquinerie, Paris*
Sep 18 Helbaard, Den Haag*
Sep 19 ZXZW Festival, Tillburg*^
Sep 20 Netwerk, Aalst*
Sep 21 VRPO Radio Show, Amsterdam 3pm
Sep 21 OCIII, Amsterdam* 10pm
Sep 22 Spanien 19C, Aarhuis*#
Sep 23 Loppen, Copenhagen*+
Sep 24 Westgermany, Berlin*
Sep 25 Chateau l’infer Rouge, Prague*
Sep 26 Zoro, Leipzig*
Sep 27 Spazio Arcada, Schio*
Sep 28 Disco Lounge, Milano*
Sep 29 L’Usine, Geneve*
Sep 30 L’Embobineuse, Marseilles
Oct 1 TBA, Barcelona*
Oct 2 Perro Club, Madrid*
Oct 3 Central Pub, Bragança*
Oct 4 Maus Habitos, Porto*
Oct 5 Museu do Chiado, Lisboa*

* w/ Gala Drop
# w/ Temple of Bon Matin
+ w/ Family Underground
^ w/ Stellar Om Source

And they're not playing in Lille :(

Sep 24 Westgermany, Berlin*

hahahaha, did someone told them that west and east germany is one nation since almost 19 years??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggq6zjZx61k
by chabib

one of the best bands we have.

i'm sending psychic bad vibes to them and every band that tours europe and skips the uk

religious knives are great.. cant wait for new one....

ouble leopards and all their cousin bands are amazing..... talented bunch of people...

I like Religious Knives alright.

Double Leopards are great to put on at any time of any day no matter what you're doing however!

religious knives, can be good and can be mediocre.

i don't know, they are ok.

hey if yr in NYC this is happening just about right now - I just got an promo email about it a hour or so ago//
http://www.lisa-cooley.com

September 9 2008, 5:00 pm - September 10 2008, 12:00 am
34 Orchard St (gallery)

Please join us on Tuesday, September 9th, for the performance of "Untitled for 6 speakers and 7 hours", a sound work by Michael Bernstein. The performance will begin at 5 pm and end at midnight. Visitors are encouraged to attend or to leave at any point during the performance. Likewise, visitors are also encouraged to walk around the artist and his instruments, and to peruse the gallery at their leisure.
Time is as important a material to a sound performance as the actual tools being used to create the sound, and Bernstein will explore the extremes of duration, patience, and his own sanity during this 7 hour long piece for synthesizers, tapes, and the odd electro-acoustic device. Long form drones, ecstatic noisy loops, and the din of gallery goers are all essential aspects of sound creation for the piece, but it is the 7 hour length which defines it.
Michael Bernstein is a Brooklyn, New York based Musician, Sound Artist, Record Label Owner, and Curator. Bernstein spent his time in a small psuedo-suburban Long Island town as a teenager obsessing over hard to find jams and horrible sounds. Getting involved with Double Leopards, Bernstein performed over 100 shows with this improvising quartet, playing various Record Stores, Museums, Basements, Bedrooms, Real Venues, Fake Venues, and everything in between.
After spending this time honing his ability for Soundthinking, Bernstein has since gone on to perform more Rock Based music with Religious Knives, and focus on personal performances and conceptual compositions as both Workbench and under his own name. Forming a relationship with the inimitable Printed Matter in New York City, Bernstein has curated a show exploring the current Cassette Tape scene which took place in NYC and Oslo, and has participated with his record label Heavy Tapes in their Art Book Fair. Bernstein is currently deeply involved with recording various sounds produced by beer fermenting in his basement.
This event is the first in a series that will include film, music, poetry and performance. The series was designed to support and engage with tactical, shifting, or experimental approaches in these fields, and the communities in which they become possible.

it is the name of the venue.

seem like i m going to miss it. my concert in Berlin will be on 19th Sept.

ivwe heard 2 of their albums
after dark which is ok, and remains which is nearly perfect. it has almost everything i look for in music...

I've just heard Resin, which is some kind of compilation I guess.

It's alright.

listen to remains
its also a sort of comp, but its great

after dark...i actual like the live thing archive put out better, it's pretty much the same songs, except some are not included but played live.