Chaz Prymek – Queen City Sounds and Art

A Brief Guide to Ghost Canyon Fest 2026

Denver’s premier left field music festival spanning weirdo heavy music to ambient, noise rock to post-hardcore and avant-pop among others runs Thursday August 26, 2026 through Sunday August 30, 2026 in various venues. Below is a brief description of the artists with links. For more information and to buy tickets please visit: ghostcanyonfest.com.

Th 08.27 at HQ doors 7pm
Wax Trax Music Panel: DIY In the Age of Slop: A Discussion Sponsored by Smashed Plastic: Local music heads discuss the perilous future in the age of tech bro oligarch vampires. 7pm

Ryan Wong & Sunswept: A fusion of improvisational impulses weave together guitar and cosmic flute soundscapes. 8:45pm

Kathryn Mohr: Psycho-cinematic pastoral ambient grunge folk. 9:30pm

Holy Sons: Dark psychedelic industrial folk drone. 10:30pm

Six Organs of Admittance, photo from Bandcamp

F 08.28 Free In Store at Wax Trax Broadway Bazaar 4pm
Prairiewolf: Library music jazz kosmiche in the extended IDM spectrum. 4:15pm

Six Organs of Admittance: Tripped out extradimensional ritual folk noise. 5pm

F 08.28 Hi-Dive 7pm doors
Supreme Joy: Psychedelic No Wave post-punk. 410,757, 864, 530 Dead Carps can’t be wong. 7pm

Dust Congress: Self-styled “pioneers of the depressive realism genre” but really deconstructed baroque pop. 7:45pm

Silkworm: Influential, scrappy, angular, emo-adjacent noise rock. 9:15pm

The Gotobeds: Like a 90s K Records band fueled by a punk interpretation of C86. 8:30pm

Steve Von Till: Apocalyptic drone psych Americana from one of the founders of Neurosis. 10:30pm

claire rousay, photo by Katherine Squier

S 08.29 Bug Theate doors 12:30pm doors
Nora Mal: Pastoral shoegaze from Salt Lake City joined by Chaz Prymek of Lake Mary and Mike Fuchs of Passive Tourist. 1pm

Shane Parish Plays Autechre Guitar: Improvisational guitar wizard interprets the electronic music and tonal detail of Autechre for acoustic instrumentation. 1:45pm

Daniel Higgs: Poet, mystic, visual artist and legendary singer/lyricist for Lungfish. Keen crafter of transcendent ambient psychedelia. 2:45pm

claire rousay: Masterful musique concrète ambient collage pop. 3:45pm

S 08.29 Hi-Dive 6pm doors
Watch Yourself Die: Borderline terrifying confrontational performance art post-punk prog. 7pm

Blacks’ Myths: Free-associating free jazz and drone collage commentary on cultural historical moments. 7:45pm

ABANDONS: The sound of civilization collapsing and evolving into more exciting forms. 8:30pm

Water Damage: Organic motorik Neu!-esque drone rock featuring noteworthy members of Austin’s experimental scene including Thor Harris. 9:15pm

Moor Mother: Avant-garde free jazz noise and the poetry of cultural heritage. 10pm

Kowloon Walled City: Colossal and crushing post-hardcore noise rock. 11pm

Su 08.30 Wax Trax Broadway Bazaar free in-store, show 1:15pm
Burn Barrel: Kansas City-based crushing post-hardcore noise rock including members of Canyons. 1:30pm

Circling Over: Melancholic, transcendent, shoegaze-adjacent post-metal. 2:15pm

Arson Charge: Thrashcore scorchings of the baked in abuse of human culture. 3pm

Su 08.30 The Skylark Lounge 4pm doors
Blööd Ôath: Demented and thrillingly abrasive metallic post-punk like a collision of Oblivians and The Cramps. 5pm

Infinite Ohm: Hypnotic drones and other mind-altering sounds courtesy Justin Lemons (and the name of his studio, label and this project). 5:45pm

Violenteer: Brooding, menacing and caustic industrialized noise rock for fans of Unsane and Shellac. 6:30pm

Great Falls: Relentless and unhinged mathcore. 7:15pm

Dead Rider: Left field noise rock and experimental electronic strangeness with connection to avant-guitar rock band U.S. Maple. 8pm

Midwife: Cathartically heartbreaking ambient folk heavenmetal. 9pm

Fuubutsushi’s Tranquil, Ambient Flow on “Loop Trail” is an Invitation to Take a Break From the Insistent and Persistent Demands of Late Capitalism

Fuubutsushi releases its new album Columbia Deluxe, a set of live recordings of the only live performance the ensemble has performed in 2021 at the First Baptist Church of Columbia, Missouri for the Columbia Experimental Music Festival. The quartet comprised of Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage and Patrick Shiroisi, all prominent figures in the world of avant-garde and ambient music, approach the music with a punk ethos of spontaneity, commitment and diversity of approach coming from worlds of classical music, jazz, heavy music, pastoral folk, ambient and abstract indiepop. On the live record you can hear a transformed but no less gorgeously pastoral and layered version of the song “Loop Trail” originally from the project’s 2022 release Birthingbodies. The song masterfully weaves together a sense of wonder and spaciousness as the various musical voices step in and wander out of hearing like the perfect manifestation of a walk in a place of great, quiet beauty and absorbing the often missed details of the surrounding landscape and of the experience of the environment itself when there isn’t a layer of technological civilization to catch the bulk of your attention. The song conveys this sense so elegantly it’s easy to lean into its quiet energy and go along for the drift into more tranquil emotional spaces and an acceptance of the inherent value of a place and time that doesn’t completely serve the demands of violently transformative commerce. Listen to “Loop Trail” on Spotify and follow Fuubutsushi at the links below. Columbia Deluxe releases on vinyl on July 11, 2025 as well as for digital download and streaming.

Fuubutsushi on Apple Music

Fuubutsushi on Instagram

Fuubutsushi on Bandcamp

Queen City Sounds Podcast S4E35: Lake Mary

For over a decade, Chaz Pyrmek has been a prolific artist releasing recordings as Lake Mary and as a member of various ensembles including the free jazz group Fuubutsushi. Prymek has found himself in various environments over the years including his hometown, where he is now once again located, of Salt Lake City, Columbia, Missouri and Denver, Colorado but in each case the environments have impacted the composer and multi-instrumentalist in terms of the physical and cultural landscape. Prymek’s music could broadly be described as ambient improv and abstract Americana created with an intuitive, improvisational approach to the songwriting. Whether edited later or the inspired moments simply captured and released into the world, Prymek’s musical endeavors sound fresh, intimate and welcoming. In recent years Prymek has collaborated with free jazz saxophone legend Patrick Shiroishi in the aforementioned Fuubutsushi as well as on Lake Mary recordings and the 2024 album Eventually The River Rises Here Too, As It Always Has as a trio with Prymek, Shiroishi and Thom Nguyen.

Listen to our interview with Chaz Prymek on Bandcamp and follow the links below to listen to his music and keep appraised of his live performances and other adventures in music. Lake Mary will perform at the Ghost Canyon Fest the afternoon of August 24, 2024 at Mutiny Information Cafe. To buy tickets to the festival visit the website here.

chazprymek.com

Lake Mary on Bandcamp

Chaz Prymek on Instagram