Big Brave + Jessica Moss @ The Workman's Cellar Weds 06/09

[Enthusiastic Eunuch]

Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
BIG|BRAVE (Thrill Jockey)
Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion/Constellation)
The Workman's Cellar
Wednesday 6th September
Doors 8pm
Tickets €22 + BF
https://billetto.ie/e/big-brave-jessica-moss-tickets-843733

Enthusiastic Eunuch is thrilled to welcome back ecstatic doom metallers, BIG|BRAVE of Montreal, who return to Dublin after an absolutely devastatingly beautiful and brutal set in Bello Bar in May of 2022. In further very exciting news, BIG|BRAVE, will be joined on this tour by Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt Zion/Evangelista)

"Big | Brave explode with the impact of a thousand drone and doom metal bands playing a folk song in unison." – The Quietus

"To adopt a term from their labelmates and drone metal masters Sunn O))), it's life metal. Listen mindfully, and you may feel revitalized" – Pop Matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swmkMaxvi8I

BIG|BRAVE, the elemental ensemble of guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie, guitarist Mathieu Ball, and drummer Tasy Hudson, harness an earthen heaviness composed of distorted and textural drones, austere bombast, and Wattie's heart-rending voice. Like recent collaborators The Body, BIG|BRAVE is at the forefront of reconfiguring the landscape of heavy music. The trio brandish sparseness and density like weapons, cast tense atmospheres with languid tempos and mutate feedback into eruptions of enveloping tempests. nature morte sharpens BIG|BRAVE's ferocity and expansive sound into emotional elegies for the disenfranchised, wringing abstracted textures and pure fervency into songs of unfathomable mass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1S-xH_3-qQ&pp=ygUJYmlnIGJyYXZl

With a spate of seminal releases on renowned underground metal label Southern Lord, BIG|BRAVE,  signed to the legendary Thrill Jockey label in 2022 and released their fifth album, the extraordinary Nature Morte that same year. Now they return to Dublin in tandem with Jessica Moss of Constellation Records for a line-up for the ages.

Jessica Moss

"Few musical voices represent so well the estrangement and intensity of our times—Moss is among the best of them." - TOP 10 MODERN COMPOSITION • A Closer Listen

Jessica Moss is a Montréal-based violinist, composer and artist whose expanding body of unique solo works for amplified and processed violin, voice, and electronics transmit an emotive, expressive sensibility shaped by post-classical, avant-folk, noise, improv, electroacoustic, artpunk and ambient metal. Her albums are distinguished by a distinctively searching, semi-improvised, through-composed melodic acumen that often channels Klezmer, Balkan and Middle Eastern tropes alongside Minimalism and drone, with an ear for textural grit and timbral noise. Also known for her fifteen-year tenure of cult agit-prop band 'Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra', Moss recorded and toured with the Vic Chesnutt band for the two albums released on Constellation and worked extensively with Carla Bozulich's Evangelista.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDcHtdIry8&pp=ygUMamVzc2ljYSBtb3Nz

She has performed and recorded as a guest with many of Montreal's best known artists, including Big|Brave on their acclaimed 2015 and 2017 releases on Southern Lord. She was featured in Jem Cohen's Empires of Tin project, and joined members of Godspeed, Fugazi, White Magic and Dirty Three to perform the live score to Cohen's film We Have An Anchor in various locations at Europe and the USA. Moss is also a founding member of avant-klezmer group Black Ox Orkestar, who reunited to release the much acclaimed album Everything Returns on Constellation in December 2022.

[Enthusiastic Eunuch]

This Wednesday night. Reports from Supersonic last night have been pretty, pretty, pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft79GvQUuOg

[Squigs]

Buzzing to be making it to this. Had to skip Mourning Beloveth and Full of Hell on the weekend cause of covid and with Blink 182 cancelling y'day, this managed to take priority for the week.

[Squigs]

Arrived about halfway through JM's set, I didn't realize Workman's Cellar was a totally separate venue is effectively. Thought the place was wedged, but didn't realize it was cause folk were sitting on the floor. Fair enough, but the sound of people's shoes sticking to the floor walking to and from the jacks definitely makes that seems unappealing. She sounded immense though, wish I got there for the start and was actually able to see, I was behind a supporting wall. BB were superb, the kind of set you just experience as much as enjoy. They seemed delighted to be back in Ireland too, good for them.

[StoutAndAle]

Playing Cork tonight. An Spailpín Fánach.

[ochoill]

Playing Cork tonight. An Spailpín Fánach.

I was meant to spin down but the week got out from underneath me, no way will I swing it now.  Scalded.  Excellent band and I've missed every time they played Ireland so far.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Unbelievably fantastic in the Spailpín. Sickened for ya 

[StoutAndAle]

I was meant to spin down but the week got out from underneath me, no way will I swing it now.  Scalded.  Excellent band and I've missed every time they played Ireland so far.

My buddy bailed on me with some weak-ass excuse (usual form for him - loves the idea of going to gigs but rarely sees it through) about an hour and a half before the gig last night. Put me in absolutely foul humour after looking forward to it for the past two weeks.

Didn't feel like going on my own - split timber for firewood instead.

Unbelievably fantastic in the Spailpín. Sickened for ya 

Glad that it was a good show - how were crowd numbers?

Still raging.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Not sure if it sold out (it actually might have), but the place was packed. As it should be!

The heat was something else alright though.

[Squigs]

Dublin was the same, there was a blow of AC once every 7 minutes that was like an oasis.

[Pentagrimes]

Arrived about halfway through JM's set, I didn't realize Workman's Cellar was a totally separate venue is effectively. Thought the place was wedged, but didn't realize it was cause folk were sitting on the floor. Fair enough, but the sound of people's shoes sticking to the floor walking to and from the jacks definitely makes that seems unappealing. She sounded immense though, wish I got there for the start and was actually able to see, I was behind a supporting wall.

The daughter and I were stuck behind a crowd at the entrance from the bar, twas only during the last two songs when I had to go to the jacks I realised there was space at the front and we moved up. Stupid layout.

Great gig though. Third time I've seen them (well,not that I vould actually see them this time but..), probably the best