PRICE:
$9.50
IN STOCK
ARTIST
TITLE
Radio Guitar
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
E%2386D CD E#86D CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/28/2015

RIP BARBARA ESS (1948--2021). The only release of her music we have on hand is this old/classic 2002 CD on ECSTATIC PEACE. Radio Guitar is nine tracks of fantastic music and noise utilizing radio sound and electric guitar as realized by artists Peggy Ahwesh and Barbara Ess respectively. Filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh came of age in the 1970s with feminist politics and the experimental film underground. She started working with Super-8 film in her teens and went on to make feature films, including Splice This (1999) and Girls Beware (1997). Her work has been shown at Rotterdam, Osnabrook, and The New York Film Festival. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the NYSCA Film Production Grant, Jerome Foundation Grant, and a grant from Art Matters, Inc. She has taught at Bard College since 1990. Barbara Ess has been performing music in NYC since the 1970s w/ such famed no-wave groups as The Static and Daily Life as well as The Glenn Branca Ensemble and Y Pants, a trio of women playing music on toy instruments. She has also been a member of Ultra Vulva. She has also worked as a publisher of Just Another Asshole -- a series of anthologies of artists works in various formats. She also works as a visual artist, making and showing large-scale photographs. A book of her photo work, I Am Not This Body, was published by Aperture in 2001.