When the American Seaman's Friend Society formed in New York in 1828, the nautical man's reputation could have used a good polishing.
Sunday night culminated with the band's pal Andrew WK performing droning synthesizers alongside Young and Nautical Almanac's Twig Harper, as well as a beautifully subdued closing set from Wolf Eyes themselves.
Behind her hangs a nautical museum's worth of antique model ships and a large gaping swordfish.
Preppy types favor nautical Turk's head rope bracelets; Italophiles tend toward wood bead bracelets or Tateossian braided leather; and heritage-loving urban woodsmen opt for rugged leather wraps or cuffs.
But Nautical Almanac's work is structured free improvisation and sound collage made with sound-producing discarded children's toys and other battery-operated junk; old tape recorders; various kinds of manipulated feedback; instruments that are not played with much degree of technique.
Before I could get comfortable donning my nautical captain's outfit, the tide shifted, and some of the Larry fandom turned on me.
In addition to Bristol's nautical connections, the city's economy relies on the aerospace industry, defence, the media, information technology, financial services and tourism.
The event featured high-brow experimental practitioners like Morton Subotnick and Joseph Hammer alongside a host of psychedelically inclined noisenicks and pranksters, including Baltimore's Nautical Almanac, and New York's MV Carbon and DJ Dog Dick enigmatically publicized via a single billboard downtown that read, "TRIP METAL IS FREE".
Events "ROBBIN'S REEF WEEKEND," with activities to celebrate the city's nautical history, at the Staten Island Children's Museum, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Livingston, (718) 27182060.
Kicking things off is PLO Man's "TX-i," followed by surely the year's first example of nautical techno, Bullion's "Blue Pedro," and we're keeping with the Pedros with the new release on Swedish label Born Free Records, Pedrodollar's "Money Money Money".
