A scarecrow-like figure with a distressed expression stands in a field of dry stalks against a cloudy sky, advertising a CUSP Presents event for AK'CHAMEL and MOTHCOCK.

Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project

General Admission

Ak&rsquo;chamel has built a solid reputation as a compelling stage project. Wearing nightmarish costumes and engaging in hallucinatory &ldquo;rituals&rdquo;, their singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and lo-fi ritual-folk is as unique as the physical theater of their live performances.&nbsp; Ak&rsquo;chamel, The Givers of Illness plunged into truly deranged extremes to summon the decayed, otherworldly essence captured on Spiritually Unemployed, embracing unhinged and esoteric methods during the tracking process. Recorded in a makeshift adobe studio amid liminal border-zone ruins. Nocturnal treks along forgotten stretches near the U.S.-Mexico line, through derelict border outposts and sun-bleached vehicle husks, yielded unique recording opportunities: Ak&rsquo;chamel dragged tape decks like sacrificial talismans, to capture gravel crunch, distant javalina fights, and unintentional EVP-like anomalies. Harvesting the psychic weight of migration, abandonment, and geopolitical limbo. (e.g., Track 9: Blu Ray S&eacute;ances and Weather App Prophesies) Thus the desert claims its due: instruments tortured into prophecy, tapes interred and exhumed in chapels of malfunction. Spiritually Unemployed is the resulting artifact; where enlightenment arrives not as a sealed doctrine but as an open infested wound. // Kent, OH duo, Moth Cock will be sharing the bill. Moth Cock is Doug Gent and Pat Modugno. Moth Cock has released on these labels: Hausu Mountain, FairChild Tapes, I Just Live Here, Tusco Embassy, ITDN Group, Pizza Night, Human Conduct, Cylindrical Habitat Modules.

Ak’chamel has built a solid reputation as a compelling stage project. Wearing nightmarish costumes and engaging in hallucinatory “rituals”, their singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and lo-fi ritual-folk is as unique as the physical theater of their live performances.  Ak’chamel, The Givers of Illness plunged into truly deranged extremes to summon the decayed, otherworldly essence captured on Spiritually Unemployed, embracing unhinged and esoteric methods during the tracking process. Recorded in a makeshift adobe studio amid liminal border-zone ruins. Nocturnal treks along forgotten stretches near the U.S.-Mexico line, through derelict border outposts and sun-bleached vehicle husks, yielded unique recording opportunities: Ak’chamel dragged tape decks like sacrificial talismans, to capture gravel crunch, distant javalina fights, and unintentional EVP-like anomalies. Harvesting the psychic weight of migration, abandonment, and geopolitical limbo. (e.g., Track 9: Blu Ray Séances and Weather App Prophesies) Thus the desert claims its due: instruments tortured into prophecy, tapes interred and exhumed in chapels of malfunction. Spiritually Unemployed is the resulting artifact; where enlightenment arrives not as a sealed doctrine but as an open infested wound. // Kent, OH duo, Moth Cock will be sharing the bill. Moth Cock is Doug Gent and Pat Modugno. Moth Cock has released on these labels: Hausu Mountain, FairChild Tapes, I Just Live Here, Tusco Embassy, ITDN Group, Pizza Night, Human Conduct, Cylindrical Habitat Modules.

Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project

CUSP Presents: Ak'chamel The Giver Of Illness // Moth Cock

1433 E 33rd St

General Admission

$20

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