8/24 Saturday:Apohadian Theater, Portland, ME w/ Colby Nathan, Human Adult Band, Jim Schmidt
Thursday, August 22, 2019
2 Shows 8/23-24 Friday and Saturday and an LP!
8/23 Friday: Root Cellar, Greenfield, MA w/ Colby Nathan, Human Adult Band & Jim Schmidt
8/24 Saturday:Apohadian Theater, Portland, ME w/ Colby Nathan, Human Adult Band, Jim Schmidt
8/24 Saturday:Apohadian Theater, Portland, ME w/ Colby Nathan, Human Adult Band, Jim Schmidt
Friday, November 9, 2018
Holy Holy!! Ukraine Choir covers Big Blood's "The Grove"... and nails it....
The collective "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Choir"
"Хор одиноких сердец сержанта Пеппера" or ХОССП (in abbreviated form) was founded in 2011 in Kharkiv, a city in thе west part of Ukraine.
Their repertoire — basically covers, combines the traditions of academic sound with love for classic rock and beyond. Anna Minakova, creates all the incredible arrangements (chorus and accompaniment), piano player and choirmaster. Anna, a writer, blogger, and ceramicist is the only professional musician among 25 choir members consisting of doctors, managers, scientists, IT-specialists, bakers, housewives, travelers, etc. The conductor is Victoria Melikentsov.
Elizabeth "Liza" Bannikova, the lead singer and visual artist for the performance contacted me in 2011. She wanted the lyrics to "The Grove", promising that she'd let me know if she ever made anything out of it. 7 years later I got an email with this video below.
Tears followed.
Thanks to Liza, Anna, Victoria and the incredible voices of the choir.
We are honored and blown away!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyZvMC2DR0GRspk87kkfpw
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-983655170
Monday, August 6, 2018
Updated info on Live performances w/ new shows added!
BIG BLOOD + COLBY NATHAN - two weekends of mid-August mirth
Friday, August 10th - BURLINGTON, VT @ AMY E. TARRANT GALLERY
at the FLYNN THEATER
153 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401
w/ Wren Kitz
Saturday August 11th - BOSTON, MA @ DORCHESTER ART PROJECT
1486 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA 02122
w/ Ian Kovac JR JR
AND
Friday August 17th - PROVIDENCE, RI @ COLUMBUS THEATER
270 Broadway, Providence, RI 02903
w/ The Huntress and Holder of Hands
doors 8pm, show 9pm, I'm guessing I'm on first.
Saturday August 18th - BEACON, NY @ QUINN'S
330 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508
w/ Sowndhauz
I open the show at 8:30pm sharp > no joke!
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Big Blood ... L I V E! Summer 2018!
7/27 Big Blood @ the Dreamaway Lodge in Beckett, MAThe dreamiest inn in Western Mass
7/28 Kennebunk Barn w/ Colby Nathan, Tom K, and Clay Camaro.
Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington, VT
FREE & open to the public. Cash bar.
8/11 TBA
8/17 Big Blood, Colby Nathan, The Huntress and Holder of Hands
@ The Columbus Theater, Providence, RI
Upstairs at the Columbus Theatre . Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm . $10 advance, $12 day of show. ALL AGES . Tickets on sale now at https://huntressbigblood.eventbrite.com
8/18 Big Blood @ Quinn's in Beacon, NY w/ Soundhauz
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
OUT NOW!!! OPERATE Spaceship Earth Properly
Our newest Big Blood record out on Feeding Tube Records... Operate Spaceship Earth Properly
PRE-Orders up now, officially out on June 20thSpaceship Earth is a massively psychedelic investigation of science fiction, science fact and the mythic spot where they reconcile. Specifically referring to the work of writers such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and Buckminster Fuller, the music mixes the thunder of riff-thuggery with vocals beamed in from planet Comus and beat-slaps equally indebted to the Purple Revolutionary and the Neue Deutsche Welle. The combination is headspinning and gloriously original, but will be immediately identifiable as Big Blood by anyone who knows the band’s music.
I mean, it’s so freaking Strange and so freaking Maine, who else could it be?
+Byron Coley
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
New Stuff + Shows.....
Playing live with the family band!!!
Toadstool Bookshop, 7pm, $10 adv / $15 door, all ages
*Lonnie Holley exhibit and performance on Sat. + Broke Arts Fairwhere I'll be selling prints & rekkeds. Bonnie Prince Billy on Sunday, plus writer Ayobami Adebayo andso much more.
Colleen Kinsella(Big Blood) w/ special guests at the best venue in town for weirdness and joy!
6/7 The Thing in the Spring Festival in Peterborough, NH
Ovlov / Big Blood /Half Sour / Wren KitzToadstool Bookshop, 7pm, $10 adv / $15 door, all ages
*Lonnie Holley exhibit and performance on Sat. + Broke Arts Fairwhere I'll be selling prints & rekkeds. Bonnie Prince Billy on Sunday, plus writer Ayobami Adebayo andso much more.
6/16 Ladies Night@ the Apohadian Theater in Portland, ME
White Gourd(Million Brazillians), Janane Tripp(Visitations, AM Frank) andColleen Kinsella(Big Blood) w/ special guests at the best venue in town for weirdness and joy!
7/27 Big Blood @ the Dreamaway Lodge in Beckett, MA
The dreamiest inn in Western Mass.
8/18 Big Blood @ Quinn's in Beacon, NY w/Soundhauz
Our newest Big Blood record out on Feeding Tube Records... Operate Spaceship Earth Properly
PRE-Orders up now, officially out on June 20th
Spaceship Earth is a massively psychedelic investigation of science fiction, science fact and the mythic spot where they reconcile. Specifically referring to the work of writers such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and Buckminster Fuller, the music mixes the thunder of riff-thuggery with vocals beamed in from planet Comus and beat-slaps equally indebted to the Purple Revolutionary and the Neue Deutsche Welle. The combination is headspinning and gloriously original, but will be immediately identifiable as Big Blood by anyone who knows the band’s music.
I mean, it’s so freaking Strange and so freaking Maine, who else could it be?
+Byron Coley
Thursday, June 29, 2017
PLaying Shows...
Being woke means playing live!!!!!
We are fighting the powers that be, however we can, no matter how long it takes, thinking about the generations to come.
BIG BLOOD SHOWS 2017
7/15 Big Blood w/ Weeping Bong Band, Gary War, Mozzaleum, & Viewer/Grasspath
@ Abandon Dream
39 K.Street, Turners Falls, MA
8/5 Big Blood with Village of Spaces Corners
@ - Aphodian Theatre
Portland, ME
BLACK LIVES MATTER
STANDING ROCK SIOUX fight for all of our lives.
Water is life.
NO Pipelines. NO Bombs.
We are fighting the powers that be, however we can, no matter how long it takes, thinking about the generations to come.
BIG BLOOD SHOWS 2017
7/13 Big Blood w/ Colby Nathan, Ghost Note Ensemble & Months of Indecision
@ 159 Sutton St, (Carriage house next to Barnaby's mansion on Broadway, across the street from the Columbus.) Providence, RI
@ 159 Sutton St, (Carriage house next to Barnaby's mansion on Broadway, across the street from the Columbus.) Providence, RI
7/15 Big Blood w/ Weeping Bong Band, Gary War, Mozzaleum, & Viewer/Grasspath
@ Abandon Dream
39 K.Street, Turners Falls, MA
8/5 Big Blood with Village of Spaces Corners
@ - Aphodian Theatre
Portland, ME
BLACK LIVES MATTER
STANDING ROCK SIOUX fight for all of our lives.
Water is life.
NO Pipelines. NO Bombs.
Monday, June 26, 2017
+++++ BIG BLOOD & Todd W. Emmert New Release!!! +++++
New DTTR Releases OUT NOW!
This new
batch of releases were meant to go out last November for our 10 year anniversary.
Things got in the way and we were not able to get them out, so we are
celebrating now!
It’s been a couple of years since we have put anything out
on DTTR…
Do people still listen to cd’s /cassettes or read these
types of blogs??
Regardless we wanted to celebrate 10 years of Big Blood and
DTTR in the same fashion we
started it, right here, with some
of our handmade goods.
In the coming months we be releasing a few more things
here, so check back in.
OUT NOW+++++++++
Big Blood – Daughters Union – DTTR 050
Celebrating 10 ½ years of Big Blood and Dontrustheruin
9 songs, 49 minutes
Dedicated to Elliott Schwartz & Yoko Ono
Listen FMA Here:
Bandcamp:
Buy Here:
or if this is pain and you wanna buy something just write bigblood24@yahoo.com and we’ll figure it
out.
*Big Blood cassettes coming soon.
Todd W. Emmert – “Pushing Up The Daisies” – DTTR 045
Each new
Release by Todd (formerly Inspector 22/Shortman)we tout as his best yet… this is
no different, The man has graced this earth with some of the best albums…
period. This is part 1 of
Todd’s “Trilogy of Death”. Part 2 and 3 will be coming out in the next batch of
dttr releases late summer early fall. Amazing, the music speaks for itself .
Listen Here:
Buy the digital version here:
All the Inspector 22 output (20 years, 22 releases $9.20)
Buy Here:
*Cassettes coming soon
ALSO Coming Soon:
Big Blood & Thunder Crutch
Big Blood – Operate Spaceship Earth
Big Blood – Deep Maine
Todd W. Emmert - Funeral
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
++++ NEW LP Elliott Schwartz & Big Blood - Ant Farm ++Big Blood Collab!!!
Elliott Schwartz & Big Blood - Ant Farm
Released by Feeding Tube Records
Get it HERE
or
HERE
LP Edition of 300. Numbered.by Byron Coley
An incredible album of music, conjoining two different sonic aspects of Maine’s Strangeness. Big Blood are well known to fanciers of contemporary sub-underground sounds. The duo of Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin have been conjuring up rural-experimental ghosts for over a decade. Feeding Tube has previously released their double LP set, Radio Valkyrie (FTR 103) to rapturous acclaim. Their music embodies the mysteries of the deep woods better than any othe artist we can name.
Elliott Schwartz, meanwhile, has been composing and playing brilliant (often keyboard based) music for decades. His 1973 duo album with saxophonist Marion Brown (released by Bowdoin College, where he has been based for many years), is often cited as one of the primest examples of a free jazz/avant classical hybrid. And all of his records are quite killer.
This LP came together as the soundtrack for an exhibit called Ant Farm, organized to showcase the work of Maine-based art quartet, The Ant Girls. This visual arts group included Ms. Kinsella and the late Dorothy “Deedee” Schwartz in its ranks, so it’s perhaps is this collab less surprising than it might initially appear.
But surprising or not, the work is an incredible syncretic fusion. Although there are certain instrumental parts we might ascribe to one artist or the other, as the music unwinds these divisions melt and become all-but-imaginary. The blend of Big Blood’s psych-tinged free-folk improvisations and Schwartz’s aleatory work on keys and percussion is a ver righteous blast.
300 numbered copies exist on our planet. Don’t delay.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
++++NEW Tape Release Out Now on DTTR and a mystery package...
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WHO ARE YOU? What kind of tea is this?
THANK YOU!
Dimples’ – Obsessional Dream – DTTR051 - CASSETTE
pro dubbed/printed and imprinted.
Left Coast and Right coast converge on this beautifully
fucked up jagged folk gem. Precision laziness from our friends Colby& Greg.
Think Mayo Thompson Corky-era-herk and you got yourself an “Obsessional Dream”.
We loved it so much we released it, what more can we say?
DIMPLES ON TOUR WITH TOM K & CAETHUA 
aaaaand...
Big Blood received a strange package from the Ukraine 2 weeks ago.
It came with (excellent)honey, an SD card of tunes(not pictured) and a mysterious tea.
The address was to difficult to make out and there was no name in the package.
A gorgeous letter about our music and instructions to drink only one cup of tea at a time.due to it's "invigorating" effects.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Cancelled Show in NYC w/ Chuck Bettis
Due to family circumstances we had to cancel our show in New York City this Saturday the 19th with the Amazing Chuck Bettis. We are 100% positive that Chuck will come up with something amazing to take our slot at his week long residency at Stone, so be sure to attend as many of these once in a lifetime shows as possible, info is as follows:
All of the shows below will occur at The Stone, which is located on the corner of Ave. C & 2nd Street.
http://thestonenyc.com
Thursday, Dec. 17th
8pm Pretty Clicks
Berangere Maximin (digital chimeras) Chuck Bettis (electronics)
Berangere comes all the way from Paris, France for this night of music
https://berchu.bandcamp.com
http://www.berangeremaximin.com
https://youtu.be/wn6z2Zp3ukU
10pm Period & Chris Pitsiokos
Mike Pride (drums) Charlie Looker (guitar) Chuck Bettis (electronics, throat) Chris Pitsiokos (sax)
doom & gloom
http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=129
https://mikepride.bandcamp.com
http://www.charlielooker.com
http://chrispitsiokos.com
Friday, Dec. 18th
8pm Sylvie Courvoisier, Ikue Mori, Chuck Bettis
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Ikue Mori (electronics) Chuck Bettis (electronics)
Debut of this improvising trio.
http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com
http://www.ikuemori.com
10pm Gamma Reverse Dream Logic
Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, electronics) Jessica Pavone (viola) Chuck Bettis (electronics)
Graphic score by Chuck Bettis, world debut of this trio performing it
https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com
https://jeremiahcymerman.bandcamp.com
Saturday, Dec. 19th
8pm Matmos & Chuck Bettis
Drew Daniel (electronics) M.C. Schmidt (electronics) Chuck Bettis (electronics)
First time musical meeting of these electronic heavyweights
https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/matmos-ultimate-care-ii-excerpt-eight
http://vague-terrain.com
https://youtu.be/-qH-WQUmNQQ
10pm Big Blood CANCELLED & Chuck Bettis + special guests
Colleen Kinsella (voice, harmonium, drums) Caleb Mulkerin (electric guitar, voice, tape loops) Chuck Bettis (electronics) special guests (vocals)
Big Blood comes all the way down from Portland, ME for this debut psychedelic collaboration
https://dontrustheruin.bandcamp.com
http://dontrusttheruin.blogspot.com
Sunday, Dec. 20th
8pm Chuck Bettis, Franke Vogl, Evan Rapport
Chuck Bettis (electronics) Franke Vogl (prepared bass) Evan Rapport (saxophone)
Members of The Meta-matics & All Scars come together as a trio for the first time.
https://livingmyth.bandcamp.com/album/economy-of-gestures
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Evan_Rapport__Chuck_Bettis/live__the_Stone_32112/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Meta-matics/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/All_Scars/
10pm Mossenek & Larry Kwartowitz
Mick Barr (guitar) Chuck Bettis (throat, electronics) Colin Marston (bass, electronics) Larry Kwartowitz (drums)
Utter purveyors of primal vent.
https://mossenek.bandcamp.com
https://youtu.be/1uVzYL0naxw
https://iamcleric.bandcamp.com/album/regressions
Monday, September 14, 2015
++NEW RELEASES ++ Video Nasties & Fragile Clark
Video Nasties – Horror Holocaust s.l.p.
- DTTR049 – CASSETTE
pro dubbed/ and imprinted
Hands down our favorite band in Maine.
Their 4th and finest release to date guaranteed to move your feet, hips and
bowels. Disco/Punk/J. Wobble and J. Carpenter heroics. Word on the street is
they do kids parties as well....
not my kid, NO WAY.
get 'em while they last
49 copies for Maine
49 copies for everybody else.
4
songs 20 minutes
and
Fragile Clark – Frazzled Clark -
DTTR048 - CASSETTE
pro dubbed/printed and imprinted.
Bedroom/Bathroom music of the highest
order. Roky is still alive and kicking but I imagine that somewhere back in the
early 80's he may have hallucinated a little piece of himself onto Clark's
mind.... "leave your body behind" and hold onto your seats beats
'cause it doesn't get any better or cracked than this... outsider or insider
music? You decide. Up next 16 worlds.
Fragile Clark - Loves you even if he
doesn't know you, or knows you and has told you or implied that he hates you,
or you insist that you hate him; NAMO KUAN SHR PU SA..... OM NAMAH SHIVAYA,
KELLELUJAH, AMEN..... OM MANI PADME HUM.... NAMASTE.... DOO WHA DIETY, DIETY
DUM, DEITY DOO 11:11
Friday, July 24, 2015
Big Blood plays WFMU's Monty Hall JERSEY CITY Saturday July 25
...better late than never...
BIG BLOOD
HUMAN ADULT BAND
PICASTRO
Monty Hall
43 Montgomery St. Jersey City, N.J.
$10.00 7:30 doors 8:30 start
Presented by Scott Williams & WFMU
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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