Urgently, with lightning

Two people play Lightning Bolt - both of them are the name of Brian - but they produce noise as a medium -sized airfield. Usually it looks like this: right in the middle of the hall, in the thick of the crowd, there is an equanimous bassist, and next to him behind the drum installation, someone in a multi -colored balaclava plays on the drums as if he had eight hands. And these wild decibels in an incomprehensible way turn out to be almost the most clockwork and energetic dance music that you can only think of. Welcome to the world of Lightning Bolt .

The duet of the bassist Brian Gibson and drummer Brian Chippendale formed more than twenty years ago in American providence, when his participants met at the design school. At first there were three of them, but the vocalist and guitarist of Bharuch Hisham left the group before the first studio records - his own team later called Black Dice and left his own noticeable mark in the history of world noisy and experimental rock. Remaining together, Chippentale and Gibson found an unorthodox solution to the problem of the absence of a vocalist - the vocals are carried out (the word “sing” is unlikely to be suitable here) chippendale with a microphone from a telephone pipe fixed with tape in his mouth, right under the ski mask.

The main property of Lightning Bolt is a deafening volume; In every second text about the group, it is necessarily mentioned that Chippendale has begun to lose his ear over the years of performing such a loud music. This, in general, is quite happy professional deformation - Lightning Bolt belong to a fairly narrow layer of Noisy musicians who understand the volume as ecstasy. For two, Gibson with Chippendale is exclusively Hovial music, Lomova and irresistibly cheerful soundtrack for dancing joy on the wreckage of the worlds that are encountering around, because something new and even more beautiful than it was from ruins. Over six studio plates, Lightning Bolt , their skills of deafening drama-n-bass (haha) dance-if earlier they could spread by improvisational noise for half an hour, then on last year's record “ Fantasy Empire” (all their albums are names that could be the same successful fantastic novels for Youth with muscular warriors with swords on the cover, terrible monsters, alien princesses and hot battles) They shoot off short and extremely concentrated compositions, where there is not a single extra detail.

In Russia, Lightning Bolt will perform for the first time with the only concert that will be held on August 9 in Moscow aboard the Bryusov ship . On the Russian side, the performance of a loud duet will be supported by excellent groups of Ussy and Fanny Kaplan.