[cf-announce] Friday Feb. 2nd//Carl Craig//Lindstrom//DEMON DAYS

[Monty Luke]

PRESS RELEASE * DATED MATERIAL

CARL CRAIG’S DEMON DAYS CLUB NIGHT MAKES WEST COAST DEBUT

Mezzanine and Red Dot Present
DEMON DAYS: An official Planet E Selection
with
& DIRECT FROM DETROIT / FIRST BAY AREA APPEARANCE IN OVER TWO YEARS
CARL CRAIG (Planet E/ Demon Days)
DIRECT FROM NORWAY / SPECIAL GUEST
LINDSTROM (live PA)
& FROM NEW YORK
GAMALL (Demon Days)
with
MONTY LUKE & TRAVIS TK
& in the blue lounge: The Culprits, Hakobo, Eug, Tokyo Component

Presale tix available now @ ticketweb.com!

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 9th
@ MEZZANINE
444 Jessie St, San Francisco, CA
10pm – 4am / 21+ / $12 Limited Advance Tickets at Ticketweb  
www.ticketweb.com
DEMON DAYS artwork by Parra
With Support from XLR8R Magazine

http://www.mezzaninesf.com/calendar.asp
http://www.demon-days.com


DEMON DAYS
Demon Days: An Official Planet E Selection is a series of electronic  
music events launched in September 2005 by respected Detroit-based  
musical innovator Carl Craig and NYC-based partner Gamall who form  
the musical core of the events. Connected artwork for Demon Days is  
supplied by the much respected Amsterdam based graphic / visual  
artist Parra. The series is also linked to Carl Craig's independent  
electronic music record label Planet E which has been running  
successfully since 1991. So far Demon Days events have taken place in  
New York, Detroit and Chicago.

This February 2007 show marks Demon Days West Coast debut in an apt  
way since Craig and Gamall first met in San Francisco way back in  
1991. Gamall also started out as DJ in San Francisco while working at  
respected SF electronica label Reflective. This event is the first of  
Demon Days brand new residency at Mezzanine with two more events to  
follow in 2007.

The Demon Days sound is 21st century electronic music for the dance  
floor.

CARL CRAIG
Renowned electronic music producer / DJ / record label owner Carl  
Craig has been making music since his teenage years. His first  
composition “Elements” was released first on the 'Techno2'  
compilation in the UK after which his debut single was released on  
Derrick May's Fragile label in 1990. He was also briefly a member of  
Rhythim is Rhythim with May and they even played live together in the  
UK. Shortly after that Craig started his first label Retroactive.  
This was followed shortly after by his, now over 10 years old,  
acclaimed independent label Planet E (responsible for bringing us  
acts like Recloose).

Since then he has gone on to release seven highly acclaimed artist  
albums including the stand out "More Songs About Food and  
Revolutionary Art" and three DJ mix discs. His single releases remain  
countless and include such massive club hits as ‘Throw.’ His many  
aliases include 69, Psyche, BFC, Paperclip People, Tres Demented and  
many others. He's completed over seventy remixes for artists as  
diverse as Tori Amos, DeeLite, Depeche Mode and UNKLE. In the past 3  
years his remixes for Throbbing Gristle, Zap Mama, Directions,  
Cesaria Evora, Hugh Masekela and Beanfield (amongst others) have all  
been causing a serious stir. Following many live dates under his  
Paperclip People alias, in 1998 Craig toured his ground- breaking  
Innerzone Orchestra around the world, fusing jazz and techno and  
playing with a seven-piece band. As well as founding his Planet E  
label, he also runs the Antidote imprint (for hip-hop) and Community  
Projects imprint (for jazz), all committed to discovering new talent.  
Craig also produced the jazz influenced Detroit Experiment album that  
featured players like Amp Fiddler and Marcus Belgrave. Craig is also  
one of the founders of the highly successful Detroit Electronic Music  
Festival – he was responsible for starting the festival and booking  
the first 2 years. His DJ sets remain both eclectic, cutting edge and  
a serious delight. Craig still lives in Detroit where he owns a Mies  
van der Rohe designed home.

Craig released a new mix CD on Fabric in December 2005 and completed  
work on a new studio in Detroit. He also lit up dancefloors with his  
remix for Theo Parrish. 2006 has been jam packed with constant  
touring throughout Europe, as well as Japan and the Middle East and  
Demon Days events in the US. He also completed acclaimed remixes for  
Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom (DFA), Goldfrapp and X Press 2. In  
October he released a Kings of Techno mix for BBE / Rapster that  
looks back at the European electronic music that influenced and  
inspired him.

Carl is currently hard at work on two new albums and remains heavily  
in demand as a remixer. 2007 will include also include more from his  
label Planet E and of course extensive touring.

LINDSTROM
Raised on country and western music in the outskirts of the Norwegian  
oil town Stavanger, Lindstrom now lives in Oslo where he is making  
contemporary disco and running his Feedelity label. Claiming that  
"Hans-Peter Lindstrom is closing in on Henrik Ibsen and Ole Gunnar  
Solskjaer as being Norway's poster boy of choice" (quoting an article  
on Piccadilly Records website) is obviously quite an overstatement,  
but nonetheless his original approach to dance music is currently  
causing quite a stir.

Following a consistent flow of highly acclaimed EPs and remixes for  
names like Franz Ferdinand and LCD Soundsystem and The Juan Maclean,  
expectations were rocketing to the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas album,  
which also marks Eskimo Recordings long player debut. Judging from  
the press and record buyers alike, the album - which might be  
described as downbeat space disco with a singer/songwriter feel -  
more than lived up to its expectations. Whether it was that  
specialist dance music website or the broadsheet critic, they all  
seemed to pick up on the fact that these boys are not your average  
electronic music makers. (To avoid confusion: Lindstrom works both as  
a solo artist and in collaboration with Prins Thomas).

Hans-Peter never listened to dance music growing up, and the first  
time he really listened to it, was a few years back figuring out how  
to make it. He prefers quiet nights in with his family, and Hans  
Peter never really goes clubbing unless he's Lindstrom. As for  
artistic background, he used to play the piano in a gospel choir and  
the Hammond organ in a Deep Purple tribute band in his early  
twenties, before getting into Bob Dylan and folk/country music.  
Around 99' he got all fed up with music, sold his instruments, and  
moved from Stavanger to study literature at the University of Oslo.  
As retirement often proves unbearable to music lovers, he soon found  
himself busking the main street of Oslo with his guitar. One thing  
led to the other: he bought a sampler, borrowed a few 12"s to study  
the structure of dance music, and had a go at it.

It's quite impossible to pinpoint the exact origins of his musical  
originality, although traces might be found in the aforementioned  
background. Coming from gospel choirs, country and rock bands without  
any knowledge of dance music whatsoever, he entered the scene rather  
freed from any preconceived notions of style and trend parameters. He  
hung on to the habit of making music by playing melodies on real  
instruments, and the fact that he plays all the instruments on his  
recordings - guitars, bass, keyboards, drums and percussion- enables  
him to make music inspired by whatever his influences are at the  
moment Last time we spoke to him he was mostly listening to 60s and  
70s rock and pop, and he reckons that music from that era is much  
more interesting, both in terms of song writing and production values.

His first success was the jazzy "Granada", being championed by the  
likes of Giles Peterson and Francois Kevorkian and signed to numerous  
compilations. Wanting to take charge of his own career, he set up  
Feedelity Recordings - referring to the contrast between feedback and  
high fidelity - in 2003, and released "the untitled EP" which at  
first sold the massive amount of 150 copies. The track being included  
on the Chicken Lips DJ-Kicks compilation did the job though, and the  
recent club monster "I feel Space" shifting more than 17.000 twelve  
inches tells of a tale that went quite well in the end.

Lindstrom today enjoys a cult-like status within dance music circles,  
and although the humble guy himself seems quite happy doing what he  
loves on an underground scale, it will be an interesting watch to see  
what the future holds for the Norwegian talent.

This special live show is his first live PA on the West Coast.

GAMALL
Demon Days co-founder Gamall is a New York-based Yemeni-European. He  
was born and raised on on a musical diet of Cabaret Voltaire and The  
Human League in Sheffield, England.

After moving to the Bay Area he studied jazz with trumpeter Don  
Cherry and wrote music criticism for magazines like XLR8R and The  
Wire. In the early '90s he started working at Reflective Records and  
at the same time started to DJ regularly at clubs like The Gardening  
Club (run by Tomas from Rub-n-Tug). He also made his first trip  
overseas to DJ in Japan (in Ashikaga as part of a Reflective Records  
special performance).

Still, Gamall didn’t get serious about DJing until he moved to New  
York in the late 90's, running the short lived online radio show On  
The Corner. Later he co-founded the freestyle Rude Movements night  
where he was resident DJ for two years. Gamall also found time to  
return to San Francisco and rejoin with his Reflective pal Jonah  
Sharp (Spacetime Continuum) to work on his debut recording - a  
collaboration with Sharp under the alias Capries. Together the duo  
released a track on Ubiquity as part of their New Latinaires series  
and did a remix for Compost.

Awad decided to start Demon Days because he was frustrated with not  
being able to hear Craig spin more often. He co-tailored the night as  
forward-thinking electronic music with a dark edge that reflects our  
times.

Craig and Awad had first met in 1991 at what Awad calls a “very ravey  
San Francisco party.” Eon was the headliner and Stacey Pullen was  
playing live with then-Transmat employee Alton Miller on the congas.  
Planet E’s first record, 4 Jazz Funk Classics, had just been  
released. As Awad was ecstatic about the record, Craig and him hit it  
off immediately. They've been friends since.

Taking his variegated years of music experience, Gamall continues to  
DJ across the USA and is a staunch supporter of digital DJing.  
Looking to Ableton Live as a way of gaining new perspective in his  
sets. He's focusing on stepping up to the challenge of DJing  
alongside Craig. “It’s both a privilege and a challenge to do the  
Demon Days night with Carl,” says Gamall. “I’m continually changing  
and trying to step up to the plate harder.”



Press contact:
Beth Grinberg @ Mezzanine
415-625-8880
<beth at mezzaninesf.com>
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