Zach Rowden is interested in the thresholds of acoustic phenomena and performance. The instruments used range from the double bass, electric bass, fiddle, and cassette tapes which are dragged through genres otherwise known as spectralism, drone, American folk, and harsh noise. He is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Current projects/collaborators include Iancu Dumitrescu and the late Ana-Maria Avram’s Hyperion Ensemble as a member/soloist, Tongue Depressor with Henry Birdsey, Figured with Ian McColm, Arien Wilkerson (TMNT AZTRO), Leila Bordreuil, Tyshawn Sorey, Robert Black, Charmaine Lee, Paul Flaherty, Chris Cretella, Matt Sargent and Wendy Eisenberg.
Places he has played include Harpa, Issue Project Room, The Kitchen, Silo City, Firehouse 12, Romanian Radio Hall, Cafe OTO, Heimathafen Neukölln, Real Art Ways as well as living rooms, basements, and warehouses across the United States and Europe.
Yohimbe (Laurie Peterson) is both a solo and collaborative improvosational process since that began in 2007 exploring catharsis through live noise & performance art. Since 2014, Laurie has been based in Richmond, Virginia and touring extensively up and down the East Coast. For over a decade her project’s recorded output has been featured soley under the Carborro, North Carolina label, Hot Releases (Ryan Martin; Savage Weekend curator, Secret Boyfriend, BOYZONE).
With reinvigorated purpose Laurie continues to explore harsh noise as a healing, cathartic art, capable of pushing through walls of the psyche. Inspired by Soffregio Frequencies and the cleansing art of Hertz vibrations and tonal hypnosis, she strives to achieive new breakthroughs through sound as her journey continues. Laurie looks forward to a future with her newly-found soulmate, American harsh noise legend of the mid-west, Wyatt Howland (Skin Graft, Shadows et al.). This last year of residency in Richmond is personally dedicated to the continuance of growth in the Underground and ensuring the harnassing of all who wish to participate.
Laurie has been creating bedroom sounds and experimental recordings since she was a child. Born in Birmingham, Alabama to an unwed eighteen-year-old woman attending Bible college and an older stoned and drunken mountain man in Huntsville, Laurie was adopted by her current parents and remained an only child throughout her entire life. Having recently suffered partial blindness due to a stroke in September of 2019, she cancelled her last planned tour and announced retirement of live performances citing health reasons- dedicating her creative energy to home recordings. However, in early 2020 she was given the opportunity to perform at an infamous basement known as 'Yellow House' in Cleveland, Ohio ("Don't Get Hurt, We Don't Care") and Yohimbe was reborn with a new vision for the future).
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com