Outer Reaches 2016 Lineup Announced!

Rebranded festival, Outer Reaches, launches this Fall at recordBar

 
 

KANSAS CITY, MO. – The organizers of the Kansas City Psych Fest, an annual live music festival in its fifth year, have announced an official name change, official dates, and lineups for their upcoming two-night event. On Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2016, the festival Outer Reaches will take over recordBar’s new location at 1520 Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.

 
The festival began in 2012 at FOKL Center, a community art space in downtown Kansas City, Kansas and was organized by Dedric Moore of Monta At Odds, a local psych/experimental indie band. Adding Haymaker Records owner Brenton Cook and recordBar owner Steve Tulipana to the Outer Reaches crew, the trio have sought to include regional acts along with national touring bands. With the fresh moniker as part of the festival’s rebranding, Outer Reaches aims to include music outside the psychedelic genre.

 
“This new vision for the festival is really about experimenting within and pushing boundaries in every genre,” Tulipana said. “We want to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar bands putting on great shows.”

 
The music of Outer Reaches 2016 will be showcased on two stages over two days at recordBar on Friday, September 30th and Saturday, October 1st. Friday, September 30th will feature the local acts Gamelan Genta Kasturi, Freight Train Rabbit Killer, and Psychic Heat on the first stage, joined by the touring acts Open Fields (Little Rock, AR) and L.A. Witch (Los Angeles, CA). The second stage Friday features the local groups Salty, Youngest Children, Arc Flash, and The Deep End (Brandon Draper & Joc Max). Saturday, October 1st features local acts Emmaline Twist, Michael Angelo’s Dreamfeast, and Be/Non on the first stage, joined by the touring acts Gramps the Vamp (Chicago, IL) and Magic Sword (Boise, ID). Michael Angelo’s performance is just a week after his performance at the POP Montreal festival, marking the first times that he’ll have ever performed the material from his self-titled (and now famously reissued) 1977 album. The second stage Saturday will feature Kimmie Queen & Cody Wyoming, The Tambourine Club, Witch Jail, and HMPH!. Both days will have accompanying video projection provided by Cinemaphonic.

 
Sponsors for this year’s festival include Records With Merritt, Josey Records, It’s a Beautiful Day, 7th Heaven, Sound 81 Productions, Boulevard Brewing Company, Seen Merch, Haymaker Records, and C&C Drum Company.

 
For more information, please visit www.outerreachesfest.com. Also review the Facebook Event Page. The show is 18+ and $12 for each day. Advanced tickets are available at $10 for Friday or Saturday or $18 for both days.

Outer Reaches 2016 – Night 2 @recordBar

The music festival Outer Reaches presents its fifth annual live music festival. Outer Reaches, rebranded from KC Psych Fest this year, emphasizes musical acts experimenting and pushing boundaries within a variety of musical genres. The fest aims to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar musical acts performing captivating live music.

On Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2016, the festival Outer Reaches will take over recordBar’s new location at 1520 Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The show is 18+ and there are 9 musical acts performing each day over two stages.

Friday, September 30th – (times subject to change)
Stage 1
07:00PM – Gamelan Genta Kasturi
08:00PM – Freight Train Rabbit Killer
09:30PM – Open Fields (Little Rock, AR)
10:45PM – Psychic Heat
12:00AM – L.A. WITCH (Los Angeles, CA)

Stage 2
07:30PM – Salty (Formerly Lil Toughies)
08:45PM – Youngest Children
10:15PM – Arc Flash
11:30PM – The Deep End (Brandon Draper & Joc Max)

Accompanying video projection provided by Cinemaphonic.


Saturday, October 1st
– (times subject to change)
Stage 1
07:00PM – Emmaline Twist
08:00PM – Michael Angelo’s Dreamfeast
09:30PM – Gramps The Vamp (Chicago, IL)
10:45PM – Magic Sword (Boise, ID)
12:15PM – Be/Non

Stage 2
07:30PM – Kimmie Queen & Cody Wyoming
09:00PM – The Tambourine Club
10:15PM – Witch Jail
11:30PM – HMPH!

Accompanying video projection provided by Cinemaphonic.


Tickets

Tickets are $12 each day, with a limited number of advanced $10 advanced single-day tickets are available at recordBar location and website. Advanced two-day tickets are available for $18 at recordBar location and website. The first 10 people to purchase an advanced two-day pass, will receive a 2016 Outer Reaches T-Shirt printed by Seen Merch.

Friday Ticket / 2 Day Pass:
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1308445
Saturday Ticket: / 2 Day Pass:
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1308447


Outer Reaches Sponsors:

Records with Merritt
Josey Records
It’s a Beautiful Day
7th Heaven
Sound 81 Productions
Boulevard Brewing Company
Seen Merch
Haymaker Records
C&C Drum Company

For more information on the festival, visit www.outerreachesfest.com. Also review the Facebook Event Page.

Outer Reaches 2016 – Night 1 @recordBar

The music festival Outer Reaches presents its fifth annual live music festival. Outer Reaches, rebranded from KC Psych Fest this year, emphasizes musical acts experimenting and pushing boundaries within a variety of musical genres. The fest aims to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar musical acts performing captivating live music.

On Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2016, the festival Outer Reaches will take over recordBar’s new location at 1520 Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The show is 18+ and there are 9 musical acts performing each day over two stages.

Friday, September 30th – (times subject to change)
Stage 1
07:00PM – Gamelan Genta Kasturi
08:00PM – Freight Train Rabbit Killer
09:30PM – Open Fields (Little Rock, AR)
10:45PM – Psychic Heat
12:00AM – L.A. WITCH (Los Angeles, CA)

Stage 2
07:30PM – Salty (Formerly Lil Toughies)
08:45PM – Youngest Children
10:15PM – Arc Flash
11:30PM – The Deep End (Brandon Draper & Joc Max)

Accompanying video projection provided by Cinemaphonic.


Saturday, October 1st
– (times subject to change)
Stage 1
07:00PM – Emmaline Twist
08:00PM – Michael Angelo’s Dreamfeast
09:30PM – Gramps The Vamp (Chicago, IL)
10:45PM – Magic Sword (Boise, ID)
12:15PM – Be/Non

Stage 2
07:30PM – Kimmie Queen & Cody Wyoming
09:00PM – The Tambourine Club
10:15PM – Witch Jail
11:30PM – HMPH!

Accompanying video projection provided by Cinemaphonic.


Tickets

Tickets are $12 each day, with a limited number of advanced $10 advanced single-day tickets are available at recordBar location and website. Advanced two-day tickets are available for $18 at recordBar location and website. The first 10 people to purchase an advanced two-day pass, will receive a 2016 Outer Reaches T-Shirt printed by Seen Merch.

Friday Ticket / 2 Day Pass:
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1308445
Saturday Ticket: / 2 Day Pass:
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1308447


Outer Reaches Sponsors:

Records with Merritt
Josey Records
It’s a Beautiful Day
7th Heaven
Sound 81 Productions
Boulevard Brewing Company
Seen Merch
Haymaker Records
C&C Drum Company

For more information on the festival, visit www.outerreachesfest.com. Also review the Facebook Event Page.

Outer Reaches 2016

Rebranded festival, Outer Reaches, launches this Fall at recordBar

 
 

KANSAS CITY, MO – The organizers of Kansas City Psych Fest, an annual live music festival in its fifth year, have announced a name change and official dates for their upcoming two-night event. On Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2016, the festival Outer Reaches will take over recordBar’s new location at 1520 Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The fresh moniker is part of the festival’s rebranding, with aims to include music outside the psychedelic genre.

 

“The term ‘psych’ was convenient at first, but we’ve found it to be limiting,” said Brenton Cook, owner of Haymaker Records and festival organizer. “We really want to branch out from a particular genre, widening the base for adventurous music.”

 

The festival began in 2012 at FOKL Center, a community art space in downtown Kansas City, Kansas and was organized by Dedric Moore of Monta At Odds, a local psych/experimental indie band. From the beginning, Moore and partners have sought to include regional acts along with national touring bands.

 

“When we started, the intent was to bring a focus to bands and artists that wouldn’t otherwise have a stage or forum,” Moore said. “And we wanted it to be an immersive, interactive multimedia experience. So we’ve always had video projection and visual elements to lend to that idea. We plan to continue that as we move forward into the next phase of the festival’s evolution.”

 

In subsequent years, the festival expanded into other venues, finding a home at recordBar in 2014 and 2015, when recordBar owner Steve Tulipana became involved.

 

“This new vision for the festival is really about experimenting within and pushing boundaries in every genre,” Tulipana said. “We want to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar bands putting on great shows.”

 

The Outer Reaches full festival lineup will be announced in August and there are plans to host two stages in recordBar’s new space during each night of the event. The artists showcased over the years have been culled from a wide range of talent, with past acts including Gringo Star, White Mystery, Slim Twig, and David Hasselhoff on Acid.

For more information, please visit www.outerreachesfest.com

Be/Non Record Release Party – Scottish Rite 2016/02/28

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KANSAS CITY, MO. – Kansas City-based Haymaker Records releases the album Mystic Sunrise / Sunset Magic by space rock group Be/Non on vinyl LP and digital media on leap day February 29, 2016. Mystic Sunrise / Sunset Magic is the sixth album for Be/Non and will be celebrated with an album release concert entitled MEDITATION: A Live Presentation of Mystic Sunrise / Sunset Magic by Be/Non in the temple of the Kansas City Scottish Rite, 1330 Linwood Blvd, Kansas City, MO, on Sunday February 28th 6-10PM.

In 1996, Brodie Rush and his rock band Be/Non recorded two sets of songs in a small home studio in Lawrence, Kansas – material that would become their first two EPs released on cassette. Twenty years later and with a rotating cast of band members, Be/Non is still at it and proud to present the release Mystic Sunrise / Sunset Magic. Recorded over the course of six years in Brodie Rush’s home studio, the album features Be/Non family old and new performing compelling songs that incorporate pop elements into synth-drenched space rock. A musical direction unlike all previous endeavors, Mystic Sunrise / Sunset Magic is a meditative album based on deep thought and cosmic oneness. It’s a one-two punch into the unknown with intuitive trajectory, a must-listen for those with a bucket-list for the bizarre. The vinyl is pressed in limited edition purple blob vinyl with digital download included. It is the fifth vinyl release for Haymaker Records.

The show on February 28th will feature Be/Non playing the new album in its entirety, rotating in musicians who assisted in its creation. The Kansas City Scottish Rite was chosen as a location for the event out of a curiosity surrounding the Masonic temple itself that will undoubtedly compliment the music and viewing experience. Built in 1928 and featuring classic Greek design inspired by the ancient mausoleum at Halicarnassus in Caria, the temple has a rich history in Kansas City but little in the way of public music performances. Christian Hankel will be handling stage production for the event and Kansas City catering company Cool Guy Foods will provide catered small bites. Copies of the new vinyl record will be available to the public for the first time at this event. Check out the Facebook Event Page for more details.

Thank to our Sponsors
Haymaker Records
Kansas City Scottish Rite
Cool Guy Foods
Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club
KC Psych Fest
Money Wolf Music

KC Psych Fest / Charlotte Street Foundation Collaborative Audio & Visual at La Esquina 2016-01-22

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[Kansas City, MO] Charlotte Street Foundation is happy to announce a closing reception to celebrate Kevin Harris’ exhibition, Survival Always Sounds So Exciting, Friday, January 22nd, 2016 at 8PM at la Esquina Gallery Space ( 1000 W 25th Street, Kansas City, Mo). KC Psych Fest will present live music performances by Eric Hall (St. Louis) and Expo ’70 (KC), with live video projection accompaniments by artists, Kevin Harris and VJDN8.

Kevin Harris’ Survival Always Sounds so Exciting, is a sound sculpture utilizing multiple channels of audio to present an electronically created physical environment. As a sonic play, the piece uses dialogue, created with online Text to Speech tools, to examine the psychology of deception and self-deception. Through a series of mundane conversations mediated and determined by their environment, digital actors speak a language absent of context. The installation uses sound synthesis to re-create the geometric and sonic parameters of a Walgreens retail store. It is this setting that informs the dialogue being spoken, resulting in a new symbiotic relationship between language and environment.

ABOUT ARTIST
Kevin Harris is a St. Louis–based artist, musician, and engineer. His music has been commissioned by numerous organizations, and his visual art has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. His recent work focuses on the fabrication of immersive electronic environments.

ABOUT PRESENTER & PERFORMERS
KC Psych Fest started in 2012 as a way to bring together outsider musical acts and celebrate the variety of experimental music within Kansas City, particularly genres that ventured into the psychedelic realm. The goal of KC Psych Fest is to promote music that is adventurous and mind expanding. The festival aims to be genre-spanning. Folk, ambient, garage, heavy, electronic, drone, pop, rock, etc are all welcome – both young and established.

Eric Hall is a St. Louis, MO composer, improviser, producer, and performer of electronic-based music and video, as well as an installation artist, DJ, and freelance music and arts educator.

VJDN8 (Nate Bogert) blends his own video library with a live feed. This on the fly interaction offers a one of kind sensory experience that allows the audience to transcend to the next level as VJDN8 creates forever evolving extra-sensory dimensions.

Expo ’70 (Justin Wright) began producing this otherworldly music in 2003 while living in Los Angeles. Residing in Kansas City, Missouri now, Wright produces music that is sought after by people all over the world. Wright has toured extensively over the last several years. More recently Wright has added a drummer and bassist to the mix which has started release albums and touring less.

EVENT PAGES
KC Psych Fest Event Page
Charlotte Street Foundation Event Page
Facebook Event Page


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KC Psych Fest 2015

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KC Psych Fest 2015 @recordBar
KC Psych Fest 2015 @recordBar

Come celebrate recordBar‘s 10th Anniversary with the 4th Annual KC Psych Fest. This is a two-night event on Friday, October 2nd and Saturday, October 3rd at recordBar. The night’s entertainment features both local and touring musical acts with a broad range of adventurous musical styles.

The shows are 18+ and only $10 each night. Video projection provided both nights by Steve Gardells

 

Friday, October 2nd
Advance tickets available at http://ticketf.ly/1VNX99i
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/548603425289258

7:00PM – RLT (Kansas City)
8:00PM – Via Luna (Kansas City)
9:00PM – Holy Gallows (Memphis)
10:00PM – Crushed Out (Brooklyn)
11:00PM – The Philistines (Kansas City)
12:00AM – Merlin (Kansas City)

 

Saturday, October 3rd
Advance tickets available at http://ticketf.ly/1VNX99i
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1203874149638688

7:00PM – El Condor (Kansas City)
8:00PM – Jorge Arana Trio (Kansas City)
9:00PM – Be/Non (Kansas City)
10:00PM – Van Allen Belt (Pittsburgh)
11:00PM – Wet Socks (Savannah, GA)
12:00AM – Slim Twig (Toronto)

Sponsors:
The recordBar
KC Psych Fest
Duvel
Ink Magazine
Haymaker Records
Seen Merch
Mills Record Company
It’s a Beautiful Day

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