Filed under: jewelled antler collective | Tags: glenn donaldson, loren chasse, rob reger, steven r smith, thuja
[download] Thuja Museum #1 & #2
Jewelled Antler 3″ CDRs from 2002
Loren Chasse, Steven R. Smith, Glenn Donaldson, Rob Reger
[via Root Strata]
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Yes, Disney and Salvador Dalí nearly created a film together, but the production was halted due to money woes in 1946. Dalí and Disney artist John Hench worked on creating storyboards for Destino for eight months, but the project was laid aside when it came time for the film to be made. In 1999 the abandoned movie was unearthed by Walt Disney’s nephew who decided to complete the project. A team of animators from France deciphered Dalí and Hench’s storyboards and finished Destino in 2003. Hope you enjoy…
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Tiny Vipers’ newest record Life on Earth tiptoes the line between silence and melancholy without succumbing to self-pity. It’s music for looking back or, if indeed the past is shut out, looking ahead but seeing foggy, fatuous uncertainty. There’s a half-faded photograph underlying each numbed-out, insouciant melody that Jesy Fortino purrs into her dead midnight confessional; there’s a benign detachment from emotion that smolders in the austerity of sadness. The acoustic guitar is patient enough to sit back and let Jesy do the talking, but it is listening intently, waiting its turn to interject an opinion on the matter. Meditative, yes — but simmering, mindful, unable to sleep. This is an album of noisy inner dialogue.
[ stream ] Development from Life on Earth
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Filed under: akron family | Tags: Akron/Family, Dead Oceans, Set Em Wild Set Em Free, sun will rise, vincent moon
Shot by Vincent Moon, this video was shot during Akron/Family’s New York residency in March 2009, as part of multi-night stands the band did in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal and New York, leading up to the release of Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free.
In other news, Akron/Family’s label, Dead Oceans, will be releasing a series of Akron/Family 7″s. These releases can be purchased at the band’s shows first before they will be made available to traditional retail outlets. The first in this series, “Everyone is Guilty,” is all but sold out – there are a few copies left at the band’s web store at akronfamily.com. The second 7″ in the series, “River,” can be purchased during the September run and from traditional outlets in October. Details from the “Many Ghosts” single will be announced soon.
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Tour dates below the jump….
Increasingly digging these summer infused fuzzed out jams by Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, former Pocahaunted member. Here’s a new fan-made video that mostly works.
What’s not to love about the chorus “Sun was high/so was I”?
Buy the tape, it comes out next week…
Devin
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In celebration of the forthcoming release of Lauren Dukoff’s Family Book, Space 15 Twenty is pleased to announce a month-long series of musical performances, film nights and a gallery show at Gallery Space.
The collection of portraits and candid images from FAMILY includes Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Entrance, Bat for Lashes, Cibelle, Vetiver, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Little Joy, and many others individually and together, in performance and more private spaces. Complementing the photographs will be artwork by musicians Banhart, Matteah Baim, Jon Beasley (of Hecuba), Adam Tullie, Luckey Remington and more.
Stop by opening night to get your copy of FAMILY signed by Lauren while enjoying a live performance by Devendra Banhart.
Devin
Filed under: Young God Records
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Michael Gira of Young God Records has just released a limited run of 500 books of original artwork. These books were privately pressed at Stumptown Printers in Portland, OR and are hand-numbered, signed, and presented with the care and love of a personal letter to a friend. Head over to the Young God website for thumbnails and ordering info.
From Michael:
“As with my songs, I have no idea where these drawings came from. Usually, I stare at a page and wait for something to appear – either a short phrase or an image. I then begin fleshing it out, and it transforms itself along the way. In any event, familiar subjects appear – abjection, cosmic fury and dismay, addiction, love, bliss, hope, and naturally a good bit of a perpetually adolescent fascination with gross, icky things – and in this case the work was modeled with an unsteady and crude hand wielding a Sharpie on a blank white 8 ½ X 11 imaginary Ouija Board. The original drawings were done on cheap copy paper, blotched liberally and repeatedly with Whiteout, drawn over, cut up and pieced back together with clear packing tape etc. So, the final printed, more graphically clear version on nice paper is higher in quality than the drawings themselves, in the end. Anyway, maybe there’s something in them you’ll find useful for your own purposes.”
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Collie Ryan is set to play her first ever Los Angeles show next Sunday at the Philosophical Research Society.
¤ Collie Ryan ¤
¤ Mia Doi Todd ¤
¤ Erica Hyska ¤
8 PM, Sunday, July 12, $10
3910 Los Feliz Blvd, LA, CA 90027
[download] Star Bright (Song Of Silence)
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Sky Saxon, founder of the incredible 60’s garage band the Seeds, died Thursday morning at St. David’s Hospital. His influence on psychedelic rock was huge and he will be missed.
I like posting this amazing/slightly nutty video any chance I get of them preforming on some cheesy TV show in 1966
Devin
Filed under: folkyeah | Tags: Beach House, festival in the forest, folkyeah, megapuss, silver jews, sleepy sun
In September of 2008, the San Francisco and Los Angeles scenes converged under the ancient redwoods of Big Sur to make music, make merry, and make love. Performers included local favorites Megapuss, Entrance Band, Fool’s Gold, The Parson Redheads, as well as fantastic sets from Port O’Brien, Beach House, Sleepy Sun, Sam Flax Kenner and more, all capped by a grand send-off from The Silver Jews [the brilliant, brooding presence of David Berman in one of the band's final performances was worth the price of admission alone]. With attendance for this Big Sur Fire Brigade benefit capped at a mere 400(!) campers, the event retained a remarkable purity and intimacy. Festival In The Forest captures this soon-to-be-legendary (((folkYeah!)))-curated show, and the zeitgeist of the California folk/rock scenes, much as Celebration at Big Sur did some 29 years prior. A true gem of a film, Festival in the Forest is not to be missed by music lovers or documentary enthusiasts.
The Silent Movie Theatre, TONIGHT 8pm
$14
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Filed under: devendra banhart | Tags: devendra banhart, greg rogove, Luckey Remington, noah georgeson, rodrigo amarante
Devendra Banhart has completed work on his sixth full length album. The album was co-produced by Banhart and Paul Butler (of UK outfit Band Of Bees). Devendra and company moved into a house in Bolinas, CA (North of San Francisco), and set up a recording facility with the help of Tape Op Magazine’s John Baccigaluppi.
Filed under: 1 | Tags: drag city, father yod, magnificence of memory, yahowa13
Original LP pressings of Ya Ho Wha 13 are very rare and valued highly by beards everywhere – some sell for 1,000 bucks a pop! Fortunately, the original pressing of Magnificence in the Memory comes relatively cheap. This is because it’s a brand new release of never-before-heard material from the heyday of Ya Ho Wha 13, featuring the legendary Father Yod and his sons playing improvisational, psychedelic spirit music recorded in the wee hours of morning meditation. Father was a wealthy man, with a rich inner life, a family of disciples that loved him, many, many women and seemingly unlimited power. So why at the height of his success, did he choose to spend his time playing rock and roll? Having a band in residency at Father House provided him and all his children with another path to travel in their never-ending search for experience and wisdom. Taking time out from their busy schedule as Father’s students and spiritual seekers in the Source Family, Sunflower, Octavius, Pythias and Djin took instruments in hand and, at a mere gesture from Father, turned up the amps and began tapping into the cosmos.
[ listen ] “Treat You So Right”
Magnifience in the Memory is being released on June 23 via Drag City.
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From Ben:
“I want to mention that I am currently making a Six Organs guitar TAB book. I’m not really sure how big it is going to end up but I am thinking about 15 songs from the whole catalogue. What I am wondering is, are there any requests for any particular songs for me to TAB? So far I have already done Hallow Light Severed Sun, Words For Two, Elk River and Home. i was thinking i would probably do School of The Flower as well. After that, I am not sure. So basically I am taking requests. Any jams anyone might be interested in having me TAB? If not, it’s all gonna be basically what’s easiest for me to do!”
Head to the Six Organs MySpace and send a request via message!
[ Six Organs MySpace ]
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Castanets is set to release Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts on Asthmatic Kitty September 22nd. Ray Raposa has consistently put out great records that would defy any description or tag that I could attempt to place upon them. However, there is something to be said about a rich textural backdrop that allows the song-written core of an album to blossom. A sonic environment, be it sparse or dense, wherein a song reveals itself in its fullest glory.
You can catch Castanets on tour this summer. Dates and download after the jump…
Summer days turn into summer evenings and, as this summer sits nigh, Marc Brierly’s self-titled EP has been tickling me just the right way. Released in 1966, the EP bristles with deftly plucked acoustic guitar in a way that early Jansch and Donovan would certainly appreciate. There’s that British-isles cloudy day melancholy streaked all over this work, and what a finer time to soak up the sound than on these benign, slate-skied days that Los Angeles likes to call “June Gloom.” Brierly went on to record a few more records with an increasing level of instrumentation and psychedelia, but for me, this EP stands the test of time as a forthright, honest collection of songs that speak for themselves.
[ download ] Rel’s Song
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Video by Sam Falls
Video/Music by Matteah Baim, Julien Langendorff, and Jason Glasser
Be sure to check out Matteah’s website.
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The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.
This elaborate New Deal project was organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and cosponsored by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), this undertaking was one of the earliest ethnographic field projects to document European, Slavic, Middle Eastern, and English- and Spanish-language folk music in one region of the United States.
[ explore ] California Gold
[ stream ] “Camel’s Caravan”
- Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Fresno, California on April 23, 1939.
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Filed under: Arthur Magazine | Tags: Arthur Magazine, doug paisley, Espers, greg weeks, silver summit, sondra sun-odeon, willie lane
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Photo © Kristin Beck
Jason Mewbourn from The Baltimore Taper blog captured an excellent, high-fidelity live performance by Jana Hunter and her band playing live at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore, MD on June 2. The set is available in its entirety for download and stream over at his site and, trust me, this is an amazing show. Check it out.
Setlist:
1. Dog Water
2. Batman
3. Blue and Silver
4. Rosie
5. Truss Me
6. I Get Nervous
7. Hospice Gates
8. Deer Knives
9. Johnssong
10. Submit
11. Completely Golden
[ preview ] “Hospice Gates”
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