The institute Prague Music Performance (PMP) invites to Prague the founder, singer and guitarist of the legendary band Sonic Youth Thurston Moore. He is coming with his band, which is Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine) and James Sedwards. The concerts is on the 30th of October and starts at 8pm in the Lucerna Music Bar. Support will be the band Please The Trees. Tickets are available at the cash desk of the LMB, at Ticketportal and GoOut.cz.
Thurston Moore has been at the forefront of the alternative rock scene since that particular sobriquet was first used to signify any music that challenged and defied the mainstream standard. He is the founder and ringleader of Sonic Youth, the band that turned on an entire generation to the value of experimentation in rock n’ roll – from it’s inspiration to a nascent Nirvana to the their own Daydream Nation recording being chosen by the USA Library of Congress for historical preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2006. Thurston Moore records and performs in a cavalcade of disciplines from free improvisation to acoustic composition to black/white metal/noise disruption. Along with his musical world he is involved with publishing and poetry, teaching writing annually at Naropa University, Boulder CO, a school founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974.
The Best Day is a record defined by positivity and radical love. The songs range from the opener “Speak to the Wild”, an almost Crazy Horse influenced paean to anti-authority and activism, to the closing contemplation of new world discoveries as investigated on “Rosetta”, titled after the spaceship launched to scan the galaxies and which recently ‘pinged’ back affirmative light.
The Best Day is a new and exhilarating chapter for Thurston Moore, and promises to be a creative highpoint for anyone interested in his legacy of avant-garde music and writing, as strong a statement as anything he has delivered post-Sonic Youth – serious and precocious and strangely accessible.
Thurston Moore moved to NYC at 18 in 1976 to play punk. He started Sonic Youth in1980. He edited the music and literary fanzines KILLER, Sonic Death, and Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal and started the Ecstatic Peace records + tapes label. He is senior editor of Ecstatic Peace Library, the poetry imprint Flowers & Cream and has edited books at Rizzoli and Abrams. He has been on faculty at the Naropa University summer writing program since 2011. His own writings have been published through various imprints.
He has worked collaboratively with Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham, Cecil Taylor, Rhys Chatham, Lydia Lunch, John Zorn, Takehisa Kosugi and Glenn Branca. He has composed music for films by Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, and Allison Anders. He presently records and tours both solo, with various ensembles and with his own band. His most recent recording is to be released by Matador Records September 2014. Thurston currently resides in London.
The institute Prague Music Performance is formed out of different educative institutions and festivals, organizing concerts, workshops, master classes, competitions, seminars and film projects. The focus is on classical, jazz, alternative and rock music. In 2014 they invited the group Phantasm (Oxford University), the rock band King Crimson and the movie project of Alfred Brendel. This year in July they organized a concert of the legendary pianist and conductor Támas Vásáry with his Zoltán Kodály World Youth Orchestra. On the 15th of November is Einstürzende Neubauten presenting their new project LAMENT.
