Foetus (aka J.G. Thirlwell) is back with a new CD/DVD set entitled LOVE.

“LOVE is a sweeping dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras with jarring left turns, bombast and seduction. It features duet with Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields and an appearance by the amazing Pamelia Kurstin, the world’s foremost thereminist!

“It also comes with a DVD containing 3 videos from LOVE including Blessed Evening directed by Karen O (YeahYeahYeahs) with director of photography Spike Jonze, and (not adam) directed by Jeremy Solterbeck, with trailers of the J.G. Thirlwell-scored Venture Brothers (currently airing on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network), as well as classic early live footage, the Rotoskop video Mary Magdalene featuring JGT, a video meditation on the song How to Vibrate by Kurt Ralske, never before seen footage from upcoming J.G. Thirlwell documentary and much much more! and lets not forget the deluxe 12 page booklet!”

The new release is available from the Foetus online shop at www.foetus.org. It’s priced at $14.00 plus/postage handling, and comes with a free sticker.

• Click to read a 2002 interview we did with Thirlwell
• Official Foetus website

Having recently toured with Les Claypool, Rasputina are currently in the midst of of a series of their own headlining performances. As Zoe Keating recently left the band to focus on her own projects, cellist Erica Mulkey will be rounding out the trio for these shows.

The group has a new album “approaching completion” but has not made any announcments regarding exactly when it may be out.

The upcoming tour dates…..

07/18/2006 08:00 PM - Toad’s Place New Haven, CT
07/19/2006 08:30 PM - Pearl Street Nightclub, Northampton, MA
07/20/2006 07:00 PM - Narrow Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
07/21/2006 08:00 PM - Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY
07/22/2006 09:00 PM - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD

• Official Rasputina website

Electronic musicians, artists and hobbyists around Manchester are strongly encouraged to get involved with SHARE when it makes it’s UK debut on Sunday, July 23rd. I’ve experienced their open electronic audio/visual jam sessions in NY and have found them to be very enjoyable. It’s fascinating to hear a constantly evolving soundscape created by people who have never collaborated together before (and sometimes have never collaborated EVER), and to experience it with live visuals.

Here are the details:

SHARE within Futuresonic Festival on Sunday, July 23rd, in Manchester, UK, with Share co-founder, Daniel Smith, in collaboration with Manchester’s own SoundNetwork.

The location is at The Museum of Science & Industry (in its ‘1830 Warehouse’ - a world’s first railway warehouse)

http://www.msim.org.uk/Galleries.asp?MenuID=874

Share hold free, open jams and workshops in cities including New York, Montreal, San Diego and Weisbaden. You are invited to bring your portable equipment, plug in, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video.

Share provide a forum for fluid, improvised creative processes. Teaming up with the locally based SoundNetwork outfit, this is Share’s first visit to the UK.

So this is a call out… bring your laptops, guitars, bent circuits, trumpets, theremins, 16mm’s, mini Puppet theaters, projectors, kalimbas and dancing shoes to Share at Futuresonic 2006.

Come to watch and listen; come to play.

Please contact Share at discussion@share.dj or via SoundNetwork to let us know how we can help you participate.

12-5pm, Sunday 23 July

http://10.futuresonic.com/urban_play/collaborative_projects