What happens when Lar the guitar player from Adebisi Shank decides he’d really like to try out drumming? Well he gangs up with his two mates Matt Hedigan and Ruadhan O’Meara and out comes No Spill Blood. I saw a video from their second show ever and immediately called him and said, “so when are you going to let us release this band?” I’m overjoyed to say the time is now…. Sargent House is happy to announce that we will be releasing their debut EP on Vinyl and digital this year in late Summer. Below check out the video for No Retreat below and another one from their first show in Cork on May 5, 2012. Then Get Ready.

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This is a really great and interesting documentary made by the good folks at The Community of Independents Collective that work through Dublin Community Television. I got interviewed for it when I was back in Dublin last October. It explores the  Independent music scene and the ever changing concepts of DIY.  It has many good friends both bands, labels and journalists as well that I have met on my Irish travels. And of course it prominently features our own boys from Belfast, And So I Watch You From Afar and Dublin’s Adebisi Shank and our brother Mick Roe from the label, The Richter Collective . You don’t have to be Irish to get what they are talking about, because in the end if you love music and you believe in the true Independence we all know it all goes back to FUGAZI! XO /ENJOY/ CP

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Adebisi Shank will be playing one show in Guadalajara Mexico on March 15th.
and on March 31, 2012 they will play in  the Out Of The Crowd Festival at Kulturfabrik in Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxemborg. Check out the Teaser below.

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We can always count on Alarm Press for their great taste. So it’s not a surprise that they picked 5 of our albums on their Top Albums of 2011 List. Including: Adebisi Shank, And So I Watch You From Afar, Hella, Russian Circles & Zechs Marquise. Sadly the list is referred to as the Unheralded Top 50 because they are one of the few publications that look beyond the same cut and paste lists of those other Music blogazines. We are so happy that Alarm is going to be relaunching and expanding on their magazine and going back into print with the full size Magazine format again coming out every two months with more coverage on Rock and music and art culture. We will be their first subscribers. We back them hard. Click HERE to see Full Lists

Adebisi Shank: This is the Second Album from a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House, 3/15/11)

Released to European acclaim in 2010, the aptly titled second album from Irish electro/math rockers Adebisi Shank achieved North American release this year thanks to the peerless Sargent House.

The management company / record label describes the trio as a blend of Fang Island’s shredding riffs with Battles’ electronic quirkiness and rhythmic playfulness. That description isn’t off the mark, but readers won’t get a sense of the band’s real abilities until they hear its hyper-melodic, polyrhythmic, and — most importantly — jubilant songs in full.

Second Album delivers a maelstrom of zany electronics, unusual distortions, and triumphant, rapidly ascending scales mixed with vintage synths, marimba, horns, and other accoutrements. This is all packaged between and around gloriously catchy and powerful rock riffs, resulting in a manic and buoyant sophomore effort.

Hella: Tripper (Sargent House, 8/30/11)

In 2002, a wild math-rock duo named Hella released a much-ballyhooed debut that sounded impossible to perform with just two members. From there, guitarist Spencer Seim and drummer Zach Hill expanded their sound (and level of complexity) with synthesizers and additional members.

Now, following a few years off to pursue other projects, Seim and Hill are back as Hella’s core, releasing their first album based around guitar and drums since Hold Your Horse Is, that 2002 debut. It’s a welcome return to original form, one that is both “accessible” and melodic despite being highly technical.

Russian Circles: Empros (Sargent House, 10/25/11)

In 2009, instrumental rock trio Russian Circles released Geneva, an album that both introduced the worming bass lines of Brian Cook (of These Arms are Snakes) and showcased the band’s balance of metallic fury and melodic beauty. Complementary strings and horns also dotted the sonic landscape, creating a superlative post-metal opus.

Empros cuts away the complementary pieces of Geneva, instead focusing on the trio’s interplay. Cook has further ingrained himself in the Russian Circles sound, allowing the galloping rhythm section just as frequently to play the lead as Mike Sullivan’s effects-heavy, overdubbed guitars. And the usual ear for dynamics is present once more, building moments of tension and release to go with the killer riffs.

Zechs Marquise: Getting Paid (Sargent House /Rodriguez Lopez Productions, 9/27/11)

El Paso-based psych-prog five-piece Zechs Marquise is three-fifths Rodriguez Lopez, a surname that gained music-industry notoriety from Omar, the prolific Mars Volta guitarist.

Though its official debut album, the 2009 effort Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare, was a much more experimental and atmospheric work, Getting Paid fully focuses on the groove. Each of the album’s nine tracks moves at its own pace, venturing into an alternate sonic universe at a moment’s notice. Abrupt tempo shifts, an inexhaustible junk drawer of textures, and a healthy obsession with ’70s prog fusion culminate in a truly shape-shifting record, albeit one that consistently rocks. Zechs Marquise knows when to give into its sweaty, twisted vision-quest dalliances and when to let a groove ride.

And So I Watch You from Afar: Gangs (Sargent House / Richter Collective, 11/8/11)

Ten albums Brian Cook really liked in 2011, in no particular order with links to stream.

Death Grips - Exmilitary
Helms Alee - Weatherhead
Christina Vantzou - No. 1
Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry
Adebisi Shank - This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called…
Rotten Sound - Cursed
And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
Bloodiest - Descent
Moholy - Nagy – Like Mirage
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death - Some Of Us Are In This Together

Nice to see some of our albums on Brian’s list, to me there is no greater compliment than the praise of a fantastic musician. / SH

Ten of Brian Cook’s favorite shows/bands I saw in 2011

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Happy Holidays from Adebisi Shank

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They say they are not making a new one this year so I’ll have to use last years Holiday Song. Happy Holidays from Adebisi Shank and Paul McCartney.

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Mick Roe, drummer of Adebisi Shank joins Sully to talk about their music, Ireland, foot clan masks, zebras, and how a drummer runs a record label,  Richter Collective.

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Adebisi Shank - Gig Review - Electric Picnic 2011

10/10

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Adebisi Shank gets remixed by Cgak - Check out more of his remixes of a load of Sargent House bands on the Don’t Sleep Remix album here

Adebisi Shank’s music is a scorching-hot mess. This experimental Irish trio possesses an awesome energy that conjures images of hadron colliders, unearthly supernovas, and gargantuan explosions, and we’re not exaggerating about any of that.

With a swirling sound that compounds through tons of frenetic samples and loops, every Shank song builds to a seemingly unsustainable level of intensity. And although comparisons to Battles are inevitable given how these young Irishmen clearly embrace both technology and overtly prog-metal riffage, Adebisi Shank consistently break new sonic ground by incorporating distinct melodies, chugging rhythms, and no shortage of dramatism into their truly ballistic sound.

“Genki Shank,” from the band’s latest record, This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House), was recently used in a Young Guns Webisode. Check it out below!

Well it’s that time of year again. Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions presents our second Label Sampler Vol 2 which is available for FREE starting on October 25th, 2011 thanks to our pals over at Amazon. So enjoy! Discover new music, share with your friends and maybe even let it compel you to go and buy a new album from any of these well deserved musicians. Each one teach one. #OccupyHelpingBands.  (Sorry but only available in the USA) I hate those stupid border restrictions!

CLICK HERE TO GET IT ON 10/25/11

SARGENT HOUSE / RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ / Vol. 2 LABEL SAMPLER

Russian Circles - Mladek  (Empros)
Le Butcherettes - New York  (Sin, Sin, Sin)
Gypsyblood - Take Your Picture (Cold In The Guestway)
Adebisi Shank - Genki Shank (This Is the Second Album of A Band..)
Boris - Hope (New Album)
Tera Melos - Frozen Zoo (Patagonian Rats)
ME & LP - Bonnie Says (Chez Raymond)
Good Old War - Get Some (Self Titled)
Hella - Yubacore (Tripper)
Boris - Riot Sugar (Heavy Rocks 2011)
Zechs Marquise - Everlasting Beacon Of Light (Getting Paid)

Two of Ireland’s most respected live bands Adebisi Shank and The Cast of Cheers are set to headline “Tales from The Crypt” Monster Halloween Fancy Dress Ball in assocaition with “Live at The Clubhouse Presents” with All Affairs Fancy Dress and T-Rex clothing next Friday night 28th October at Castlebar Celtic.

Support on the night will come from 3 other bands including Lafaro, So Cow, and We Come in Pieces. Not only that there will be loads of prizes for the best dressed costume including loads od special drinks offers on the night and dont forget the famous Michael Jackson “Thriller” Dance-off!!

Its being almost 2 years since Adebisi Shank last played Castlebar. Since then the band have released their second album titled “This is the second album of a band called Adebisi Shank” and have just recently signed to the famous Sargent House record label in the USA home to such greats as “Fang Island” and “Tera Melos”

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Adebisi Shank make all picnics fun. Thanks Cock And Bull TV for the visuals of our lovely lads at Electric Picnic.  

Review: Adebisi Shank, Cosby Stage

Atmosphere:  A hugely appreciative crowd gather in the smallish Cosby tent in anticipation of entering the wind machine simulator that is Adebisi Shank live.

High:  Vinny giving his bass guitar away to someone in the front row at the end of the gig much to everyone’s astonishment.

Low:  The feeling that this gig would have been better placed late in the day.

Quote of the set:  “My nipple ring is so sore.” - Bassist Vinny. Well at least we think that’s what he said, it was pretty muffled as he spoke into a mic while wearing a hooded mask.

Verdict:  Adebisi are relentless, and like all of their gigs, you spend as much time trying to figure out how they’re managing to play the sounds they’re emitting as enjoying the actual show.

It’s not the greatest or most atmospheric Adebisi Shank performance of all time (according to fans, that goes to their Castlepalooza set this year) but if being confronted by this illuminating, complex and exhilarating music of an afternoon doesn’t blast away your tent fatigue then you must be cryogenically frozen. - by UNA MULLALLY