"Part prophet of doom, part musketeer, The Subliminator painted an almost Messianic figure as he sauntered to the stage dressed all in black, his face obscured by long black hair and sunglasses. Taking the third, sixth, ninth, and 12th songs, he used an array of five optical theramins to erect densely layered loops in a matter of seconds. After establishing a framework of electronic beats and glitchy digital effects, he would record a background of guttural groans, a pratice which called to mind the film scores of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Only after these entrancing sonic structures had effectively seeped into the listener’s head, however, did The Subliminator begin his real work, spouting enraged, socially conscious spoken word poetry with the Vietnam-era fervor of The Monks. Touching on capitalist greed, social injustice, religious hypocrisy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at one point playing both parts in an imagined conversation between George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, The Subliminator is aptly named to say the least. Like an Alan Ginsburg acid dream brought to vivid life, his self-serious commitment to this provocative material brought a welcome sincerity to a poetic form that too often slides into the cheesy.
Ignoring the crowd and distancing himself from the other bands for most of the night, this man did not suggest water, and while it was never explicity stated, I’m not sure he intended to. His focused outrage against the Bush administration and the Iraq war, not to mention his jet black attire and noticeable nonparticipation in the liquid cominglings of Tunabunny and Box Devils, characterized The Subliminator as an ominous spot of oil drifting atop the surface of the ATHICAn Sea. In so doing, his performance could not help but invoke the horrifying images that have been coming in from the Gulf of Mexico these past few weeks as the Deepwater Horizon spill continues on its indiscriminate path of drifting death. In winding down a show so brilliantly curated around the often devastating effects of water, The Subliminator reminded the crowd that these tragedies extend beyond the decoarted walls of the ATHICA art gallery into people’s homes and lives, and that without vigilance against corporate greed, environmental devastation, and national oil-lust, we could all wake up one day underwater.” – David Fitzgerald / Flagpole
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