Sweet Wreath Speaks! No.25

Newsletter No.25

Apr 02, 2024

Next Show Coming Up: Speaks Volume Two!
Continuing on the heels of the Sweet Wreath Speaks Radio Art Festival, we're raising the radio tower again at Sweet Wreath to broadcast a series of artist talks and experimental music!

Merrilee Challiss, Melissa Yes, Julianna Richey and Jasper Lee will share artwork & presentations on the role of art & media in shaping ecological awareness, and how the environment influences artists. Sound works created during the Sweet Wreath Speaks! Radio Art Festival will be re-aired and explored. Touring musician Some Pepper will perform generative music and there will be free milkweed seeds!
Join us at dusk for this free outdoor art event at:

1920 3rd Ave South, Irondale, AL 35210

Thursday April 11th
Gathering at 6pm
Artist talks at 7pm

Free!

Presented by Vinegar and Sweet Wreath with a project grant from the
Alabama Humanities Alliance

The new album by Lil White Bitch is out on bandcamp now. Order it on Bandcamp Friday to send your support directly to the artist! Vinyl copies are in and available for order, as pictured.

"Crack Up At The Funeral opens with a mantra: Let Me Live! Pulsing with prismatic rhythms, every song generates movement. Feels like jumping up and down until ethereal substances start to swirl around. In many tracks the signal completely drops out in the midst of phrases, creating moments of total silence. Like a heart stopping then jolting back to life. Miniature deaths like these litter the audio field. Meticulous in its layers of interlocking percussion, voices & noises, the album is a continuum ever unfolding. Electronic charges emanate from an environment thick with spirit. Species you'll never understand, small organic matter, alien and precious. Hushed voices and pounding heart: a drummer's album for drummers who don't have any drums. Hyper-active soundtrack for tilt-a-whirl, evaporating into a cloud of pure feeling."