Saturday, March 17   12:45 a.m.
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Mixing art-damaged beauty and acid-drenched insanity, Flaming Fire's new album "When the High Bell Rings" (released December 16) conjures a psychedelic rock landscape that is equal parts Aphrodite's Child, The Raincoats and Butthole Surfers. If freak-rock or freak-folk were written by truckers and cocktail waitresses, this is what it would sound like.

Flaming Fire has been an NYC cult phenomenon for over six years. The group has been featured on many popular compilations, including the first tracks on both Psych-O-Path Records' celebrated "Space is No Place NYC: Noise From The Underground" (along with songs by Sightings, No-Neck Blues Band and Centuries) and "WFMU's Tunes From Toxic Terrain: WFMU Live From New Jersey " (also featuring music by Gary Wilson, Devendra Banhart and Gogol Bordello). Beginning as a project with Dame Darcy formerly called "Rock Rock Chicken Pox," the group quickly became known for their frenzied, chaotic stage performances and mixture of pop, goth and avant-garde sensibilities. Their last album, "Songs from the Shining Temple" won rave reviews and was the #1 album of summer 2003 on WFMU 90.1 (America's most popular freeform radio station). Both their recent albums — "Songs from the Shining Temple" and "The Celesticide EP" — have sold out of their initial pressings.

When The High Bell Rings was produced by Patrick Hambrecht with co-producers Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu), Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth), JZ Barrell (White Zombie) and Zach Layton (Darmstadt). Performers on the album include: Sheila McCarthy (Faun Fables), Brian Dewan (They Might Be Giants), John Mathias (Team USA), Danny Tunick (Barbez), Polly Watson (Crimson Sweet), Lauren Weinstein ("Girl Stories" cartoonist), Jonny A, Tony Maimone, Brian Wilson (American Watercolor Movement), Julie Klausner (Free to Be Friends), and Sarah Blust (Heavy Creatures).