Avant-garde industrial group To End It All will be releasing a new album with Roman Numeral Records. On March 8 they released a video for “The Drink of Silence”, featuring Douglas Ridings, Kaoru Okumura, Vanessa Skantze, Joy Von Spain, Masaaki Masao, and Anne K. O’Neill. (Review by Veil of Sound)
The full length will be available on April 19, 2024. In case it’s too long for you to wait, To End It All’s performance last summer at Lunasa Cascadia (filmed by Shelby Kray of blueheronvideo) is available. Accompanying their performance was a film by Hali Autumn of Vanessa Skantze.
The release show will be on Thursday, April 18 at the Chapel Performance Space. Joining them will be Rachel LeBlanc (voice), Susana DuMett (voice), Jackie An (violin), and Lori Goldston (cello). Butoh performers will include Vanessa Skantze, Kaoru Okumura, and Douglas Riding. Greg Campbell will perform a solo percussion set.
The last show I attended before the pandemic was on March 12, 2020 for the Pathogens tape release along with To End It All. As it cut us off so suddenly, seeing people continue to create and collaborate provides a certain optimism and excitement. Weaving between noise, doom, and industrial the stray threads lead into somewhere ethereal, and yet vast. Under the roar of a glacier retreating, perhaps.
Another memorable performance was on August 31, 2019 at Reaktor Space as part of Mehreren Kammern 3.33.