people places records presents:

Erich Barganier: "Geisslerlieder" Album Release Show

w/guests Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo, Patrick O'Reilly and Andrew Noseworthy

August 8th 2023
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm / Doors: 7:00 pm
La Sala Rossa
4848 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC, Canada

Erich Barganier (he/him) is a composer &
multi-instrumentalist who writes music that explores
experimental technology, the edge of noise,
improvisation, generative processes, and new forms
of notation. Recent collaborators include Mark
Stewart, Noise Catalogue, BlackBox Ensemble,
House on Fire & Instruments of Happiness.

Barganier's new album is a grotesque antithesis to the stereotypical “guitar god,” centered on the idea of masculine failure through the lens of the electric guitar solo. All of the guitars on the album are prepared, digitally manipulated, detuned, struck with hammers, combs, and pipes; and all performed by the composer.

The fragility of the "ideal" masculine image based on strength drives the downward-spiral narrative of the record– a flailing and helpless dance rooted in tight, restrictive form that slowly breaks apart over the course of five tracks.

"Geisslerlieder" is available everywhere August 3rd. For more info about the album and to preorder visit: https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/.../geisslerlieder