BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b37567aa-0727-4c78-96e7-81e667e391a3@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260911T000145 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261129T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261129T070000 SUMMARY:GHOSTWOMAN at Meteor LOCATION:Meteor DESCRIPTION:GHOSTWOMAN at Meteor Nov 28th / $20 advanced / $25 door / 8pm doors \nSupport from Croaker \nFor fans of: The Black Angels\, The Brian Jonestown Massacre\, Allah-Las\nGHOSTWOMAN – WELCOME TO THE CIVILIZED W ORLD\nThere is no reason for GHOSTWOMAN’s fourth album to exist. Welcome to the Civilized World is born to a broken world\; a corrupt inheritance – Evan Uschenko and Ille van Dessel are under no illusions about its fut ility – and yet\, this thing is alive. It’s an allergic reaction to th e times we are living in: a welt that screams to be itched\, the purging o f a modern sickness they could no longer stomach. Beyond rationality\, thi s record came from a place of gut feeling and a lack of any other option. Hell may have cracked wide open – but GHOSTWOMAN will not go quietly.\nG HOSTWOMAN itself only exists because Uschenko and van Dessel were the ones “stupid enough to commit to it”. Conceived by Uschenko after cutting his teeth as a touring multi-instrumentalist\, the project was brought to life in an abandoned farmhouse in Diamond City\, Alberta. There\, for two months\, he would make the self-released\, self-titled debut album which w as produced and dubbed directly to custom-made cassette tapes. The music h as always been beautifully inhospitable\, earned only by those curious eno ugh to seek it out.\nExpanded by friends on the Edmonton circuit\, Uschenk o took the project over the pond where he would meet drummer Ille van Dess el. Drawn to her talent and sheer excitement to make music which had been untouched by ego or cynicism\, the two became inseparable. A new life had begun.\nAnd then there were two. GHOSTWOMAN became a head-on collision bet ween the switchblade rust of his guitars and her caustic drum beats which march them on toward a shared oblivion.\nWelcome to the Civilized World is an album to be a pure distillation of their shared vision. From its earli est sketch to its final form\, the only people to touch it were GHOSTWOMAN themselves.The meaning of the album is inseparable from its meaninglessne ss. As Uschenko puts it: “The album is inspired by the absurdity of huma n behaviour and the circus that is life: sometimes feels like being in a r oom with no floor – that’s where a lot of these songs come from.” Af ter losing friends to suicide over the past year\, the suspension of disbe lief required to wade through the everyday had dissipated. If there is any meaning at all to Welcome to the Civilized World\, it is simply to keep g oing: there is no other choice.Musically\, GHOSTWOMAN are a sharper beast than ever: hypnotic spells of psych-grunge\, decaying Americana and instru mental locked-horns. Uschenko\, who presides over the vocals\, insists the y are not important. Much of the lyrics are nonsense\, not written as much as abstractly sketched to feel out the shape of the music itself – but even in Uschenko’s dream grammar\, the force and feeling are no less pot ent.\nThe band’s process is intuitive rather than calculated\; sounds ar e made in a chain reaction to one another. “5 Gold Pieces”\, with its filthy guitars and snarling\, livewire vocals was recorded as a test after they bought a tape machine. The first shot is often the best\, and that t est is what you hear today. Everything they used to record is gone. “We buy old equipment or instruments which have a bunch of life and soul in it until we’ve used it all up\, and then sell it again so we can buy somet hing else\,” explains Van Dessel.\nTrue to the band’s origins\, Welcom e to the Civilized World is the story of Canada and Belgium across the spa n of two years. The tape machine seemed to pick up different shades wherev er they recorded\, whether that was in the home of a close friend of Usche nko’s\, for example\, surrounded by creature comforts including the dog he loves\, [Levon - named after the late great Levon Helm] after whom the album track was christened. Or in a cottage in Ardennes\, Belgium during a n interminable winter surrounded by blankets of snow\; an hour’s walk aw ay from anything civilized.\n“Alive”\, the record’s lead single\, wa s written on a particularly perfect day in rural Belgium. In an earlier it eration\, the track was called “Pondi”– named after a hedgehog they had discovered at the pond in the garden\, which they felt to be a good om en. The writing of it was frictionless and instinctive\; another “line-c heck-turned-complete-song”. In van Dessel’s mind\, “Alive” is like a moment captured as a photograph – something ephemeral that existed on ce\, and will never be replicated again. And that\, in its essence\, is a GHOSTWOMAN record.\nWelcome to the Civilized World is not concerned with m aking music for an audience\, not for the music industry and not for any p articular point other than the thrill of it. Nothing matters\, we are all doomed\, the sun will swallow the earth and our efforts turn to dust anywa y. The band will continue to play as the ship goes down.\n\nBoletos: https ://www.showpass.com/ghostwoman-at-meteor/ URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/b37567aa-0727-4c78-96e7-81e667e391 a3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR