Xander Harris, Silent Land Time Machine and more at the 29th St. Ballroom [Show Preview]

Poster by SLTM

Xander Harris, Silent Land Time Machine, Michael Collins and Tooth Ache
Tuesday, November 15
29th St. Ballroom ()
$5, 10:30pm
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Last minute news about a cool show tonight at the 29th Street Ballroom, featuring some of Austin's premier ambient sound collagists. Heading the bill is Xander Harris, who layers warm synth drones and sequenced samples over mechanized drumbeats to create soothing, dreamy pop that you can dance to. His latest release is a cassette that's being put out on Dallas-based Pour Le Corps Records. Entitled Chrysalid, the tape is a "concept album based on a female android that goes by the name Chrysalid, who leads an uprising against humanity on Earth after decades of enslavement." Sounds interesting.

Silent Land Time Machine will provide support. SLTM is one man layering strings, guitars, muffled percussion, wordless vocals and acousmatic found sounds to create organic bedroom folk filtered through an experimental lens. His music can be captivating and vaguely unsettling at the same time; mysterious and orchestrated, and yet it can sound soothing like the soundtrack to a daydream. We reviewed his EP over the summer here; it remains one of our favorite records of the year.

Michael Collins, formerly of the experimental psych-rock group Prince Rama, and Brooklyn synthwave group Tooth Ache will also perform. Scott Gelber will take care of the visual stimuli with his trippy projections.