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Neurosis @ The Brooklyn Masonic Temple Neurosis @ The Brooklyn Masonic Temple

with James Plotkin & Tim Wyskida & Carlos Giffoni

Sat January 19th, 2013

8:00PM

Minimum Age: 18+

Doors Open: 7:00PM

Show Time: 8:00PM

Event Ticket: $30

Day of Show: $35

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**This event will take place at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple: 317 Clermont Avenue Brooklyn NY 11238**

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Neurosis @ The Brooklyn Masonic Temple

Descriptors fail in the same way that describing the shock of the sudden or new or subtle grace of magnitude fails. Each and every time. Because words are idea shorthand for experience and experience can only be transmitted, if you’re lucky or unlucky enough to miss it the first time, through comparative measures and means: a nightmare is an unhappy dream, death is like when life stops and the earth calls, and violent change is when everything is no longer the same but hurts because of it.
 
But here’s a shorthand: NEUROSIS is music. Music in the same way that Wagner is music. Or that it all comes down. Or the graying granite planet we call home is both the cradle and coffin of all desire and hopes and expression forces its way through us and into wires and out of speakers framing a journey from here to there and not back again. Ever. This is a one-way trip.
 
So keep the descriptors – the “crushes”, the “destroys”, “dark” and even “deep”. These are both all at once and again not enough, and not even too much. They’re products of lazy inquiry.
 
Keep them and let the real shoulder its way to the front. Like it did when the San Francisco Bay Area, forget that…when Oakland gave birth to this ride and the ticket for it in 1985 as NEUROSIS. Under the stewardship of Scott Kelly, Dave Edwardson, Jason Roeder and in 1989 spiritual heir Steve Von Till [and now Noah Landis and Josh Graham on visuals], NEUROSIS does only what the best art can: it crafts a sense world for those with sense and senses from the realm of eternal ideas and weaves it, whole cloth, into the audio, the visual, the powerful. A seamless melding and welding of elements that are not too wildly disparate: loss, gain, and eventually gaining through loss. And with a host of fellow travelers from STEVE ALBINI, JARBOE and a passel of solo and side projects that involve kindred spirits from THE MELVINS, SLEEP, ST. VITUS, a recorded output of 27-odd releases, and tours all over the lands known and unknown to try to capture them with a single descriptor, and many have tried – metal, doom, ambient hardcore – is misguided at worst and a waste of time at best.
 
So here it is again: NEUROSIS is music. And art. And a chilling testament to the glories of the briefest of times of our lives. And you not knowing this? Makes it no less true.
 
Until death do we part, indeed.

– Eugene S. Robinson

James Plotkin & Tim Wyskida

Carlos Giffoni

Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan experimental musician and writer currently residing in Los Angeles. His transnational avant-garde music summit No Fun Fest and his celebrated New York record label No Fun Productions vitally propelled the trajectory and strengthened the cultural camaraderie of noise and improvised music worldwide.

The Venezuelan artist’s solo and collaborative work with Merzbow, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline, Zeena Parkins, and Prurient, among many others, earned him a reputation as one of experimental music’s most-known contemporary performers. Carlos works with modular synthesizers, computer software, and found physical objects to create expressive abstract sonic landscapes.

Carlos has released music with No Fun Productions, Important Records, Ecstatic Peace, Load Records, and Ideal Recordings among others. His music has also been featured in fashion shows and campaigns by Jil Sander, Ermenegildo Zegna, and Prada.

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