Daniel Higgs, J.D Emmanuel, Stellar Om Source @ St. David's Episcopal Church

Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 5:53 p.m.

last.fm Daniel Higgs, J.D. Emmanuel, Stellar Om Source
Saturday, February 6
St David’s Episcopal Church ()
1:30 PM
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Outside perhaps his closest compadres, few might have expected the work of former Lungfish frontman Daniel Higgs to take a turn from bleak post-hardcore minimalism into front-porch psychedelia, but that's just what his work currently entails. A renowned tattoo artist and poet, the bearded Baltimore native helmed the metallic and hyper-repetitive Lungfish from 1987 until 2005. At this point, extended banjo ragas, distorted mouth-harp explorations and cosmic imagery are the basis for his music. With records on Holy Mountain, Thrill Jockey and Endleseries, among others, he's found a renaissance among a fan-base of psych kids and cassette collectors.

It's sort of hard to imagine his followers rocking out to Necklace of Heads (Simple Machines, 1989) in the car stereo, but the attraction to Lungfish was probably due to their impenetrability, antithetical to peers like Fugazi and Hoover. Expect a transcendent performance on Saturday afternoon, where Higgs will be joined by electronic musicians J.D. Emmanuel and Stellar Om Source (Christelle Gualdi).

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