Foot Village

We just played the mindblowing NHY/Smell 12 Year Anniversary fest. One of the best audiences we’ve ever gotten to play for. Thank you so much, you guys rules!

Below are excerpts from some press on the fest, please follow the links to see the full articles:

from LA RECORD:
“Saturday night’s show at The Smell felt real.
Foot Village didn’t so much play their tens of drums as lovingly, joyfully, expertly abuse them. The sole unit of amplification was a megaphone that functioned more as a cute, occasionally remembered accessory to their jugular-swelling screaming than any kind of appreciable sound enhancement; sort of like how the long-haired guy’s shirt was more like a mildly useful sweat rag rather than actual clothing. They made you not care about the nosebleed you might get from being accidentally head-butted by one of the twenty people thrashing around you in a brutal tribal ceremony from a post-apocalyptic world in which a ring of drums with an electric constellation woven through them wrote our new communal history and taught us about our lost one.”

from LA WEEKLY:
“One drummer can make a lot of noise, but not as much as four feral witch doctors beating their drum kits. If you’ve ever crawled inside a trash can during a hailstorm, you know how a Foot Village performance feels. The intensity aims to unite rather than destroy, but they scream a lot, occasionally using a megaphone to mark territory and elicit more wailing from the human sweat lodge surrounding the musicians in a corner. The oscillating drum patterns suggest complete chaos — every man (and woman) for himself! — but the rhythms unite almost telepathically and improvisation plays little part in the brutal beat barrage. Beauty persists in their post-apocalyptic drum circle.”

Some more press on the NHY/SMELL 12 Year Anniv Fest:
LA TIMES by David Cotner
LA WEEKLY (on night one) by Wendy Gilmartin