APosition International Music Forum (APositsia) - X, 2014, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Peter Stampfel (USA)
One of the first artists to explore the nexus where folk and psychedelia meet, Peter Stampfel is best known as the founder of the freewheeling acid-folk collective the Holy Modal Rounders, one of the first salvos in a recording career that's spanned six decades. By 1963, he was living in New York City, and met fellow eccentric folk fan and poet Steve Weber, who played guitar. Stampfel and Weber formed a duo and named their group the Holy Modal Rounders, playing folk rarities and offbeat originals with a purposefully primitive bent. The group attracted an audience on the New York folk scene, and they landed a deal with Prestige Records, who released their first album in 1964. That same year, Stampfel was recruited to play with the Fugs, and not only served as an accompanist but wrote and sang a few songs with the group, including the crazed "New Amphetamine Shriek." Eventually the Rounders would grow into a full band and dive into proper lysergic madness, winning major-label recording contracts and scoring an underground hit with "Bird Song," which would appear on the soundtrack to the hit film Easy Rider (the Rounders also featured Sam Shepard on drums years before the playwright became a successful actor), but the group was never especially stable, and one of their greatest successes came after Weber left the group: Have Moicy!, a 1976 album Stampfel recorded as the "Unholy Modal Rounders" in collaboration with Michael Hurley and Jeffrey Frederick. While Stampfel and Weber would periodically collaborate, by the end of the '70s he spent more time working with other artists (most often Michael Hurley), and was one of the few artists from the folk scene who remained a presence when punk and new wave came to dominate New York clubs in the '80s. In 1986, Stampfel introduced his folk-rock band Peter Stampfel & the Bottle Caps, with whom he would release three albums, and he would appear as a guest on albums by Yo La Tengo, They Might Be Giants, Bongwater, and Mark Bingham; he also performed and recorded with the Du-Tels, a project with celebrated guitarist Gary Lucas.
APosition’s aesthetic and cultural roots are transparent even from its name. “Wrong” A instead of the right “O” in the beginning of the word is an instant allusion to the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra. And opposition – apart from general oppositional spirit of any radical art form – is a direct reference to rock-in-opposition, a unique artistic and political movement in European and American rock, where intellectual sophistication, compositional complexity and improvisational freedom were going hand in hand with unambiguous political and ideological position (opposition) towards the cultural establishment as well as the show business.
International Music Forum APositsia is an annual event taking place in St.Petersburg, Russia.
It is a festival that represents musical projects from all over the world associated with creativity or even experimental.
It consists of a 4 days of concerts, masterclasses and collaborations with local musicians.
In a last ten years following musicians took part in APositsia festivals: Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Miya Masaoka, Marcus Stockhausen, Brian Godding, Burton Greene, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Phill Niblock, Famoudou Don Moye, David Moss, Jim Thirlwell, Charles Gayle, Rhys Chatham, Tim Hodgkinson, Shelley Hirsch, Peter Principle, Chris Corsano, Dror Feiler, Dok Gregory, King Ayisoba, Evelina Petrova, Peter Brotzmann, Keith Rowe and many others.
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