So much drone I'm still shaking the day later

... or maybe it's the fact that I'm incredibly fatigued.Regardless. Last night I saw one high-quality concert. The bill was rather ridiculous for someone like me who never thought he'd be able to see any of music he really likes.CM von Hausswolff played a set of super-low, super-loud undersea power drone, never noisy or forceful, but very subtle and DEEP... I was really impressed with him especially by the fact that he didn't nerd-out or concept-art-out.He was joined at the end of his set by Henrik Rylander of the Skull Defekts and Union Carbide Productions. Rylander added much more grit and harsh noise, and eventually Hausswolff left and Rylander continued with some more abrasive noise. He was good but felt lackluster and flat compared to Hausswolff's subtlety and true darkness.I should emphasize how wonderfully loud and low they both were. I really enjoy it when my body is shaken by the bass but by ears aren't scratching from the treble. The entire night continued in similar form. Very "male" in a way, the filling of space.These two were followed by local beat-mixer Mokira. I hadn't him before but he was quite nice, creating some really dark, scuzzy industrial dub tracks. I really wanted to dance but all of the Swedes stayed at least 2 meters away from the stage... what the fuck...Then we got to hear Sir Richard Bishop, late of the Sun City Girls, play a solo set. I thought he was really great, but he is a bit polarizing. You either like this stuff or you don't. He played a mixture of his trademark unsettling, strangely arranged folky songs and his longer-format instrumentals.THEN I got to hear Tony Conrad, the famous American violinist. I have never heard this kind of music (minimalism, "eternal music") live before but it was really wonderful. This was perhaps not the right venue for him, he really begs a more open and sublime space. This is music without composition or sense of time. It does not begin and end, it only exists in the now. This was really wonderful to see, especially his energy and enthusiasm. He's 67 years old!THEN!! Earth played. Dylan Carlson's band is regarded as the forefather of all the drone-rock bands of today, playing since the early 90's. They have changed since 2005 into a truly remarkable form of zombie cowboy music. I don't know how else to describe it. It really, to me, sounds like the Old West, lots of dust and heat and loneliness. But it's so unnaturally slow, in such a weird meter, that I think of zombies slowly trudging around. They proved to be a confident and totally competent live band, even with such oddly timed material. The songs are excellent too, well composed and unusually catchy.My friend commented on the unusual addition of a keyboardist to their lineup, stating that it's weird to have a guy jazzing around on a Rhodes in a drone-rock band. While I agree it's weird, I think it's a good think. The idiosyncrasy really shapes the mood.They were very loud but wonderfully smooth. An absolute pleasure to hear.They were followed by a brief performance of Mats Gustafsson, a Swedish jazz hero who literally screams his lungs out into a baritone sax. He only played about 8 minutes, but was it ever fun!I'll try to write about some other concert adventures soon... apologies to my MOG friends for my absence...