Blues Run the Game: The Tragedy of Jackson C. Frank

Naturalismo has no involvement with Jim Abbott. We are keeping his words below as his final statement on the issue. Natuarlismo is keeping this post in place to provide a forum to discuss strategies for resolving the situation. If we deleted this post, everyone would be left in the dark, including [...]

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Video Naturalismo:

Here’s a menagerie of videos i’ve been cycling through on a regular rotation over the past few weeks. The first two are from the serendipitous La Blogotheque and the third was inspired by the ingenious madness over at WFMU’s Bewware of the Blog.

Is it presumptuous to think that everything Animal Collective sets their collective minds [...]

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Radialvedic @ Johansson Projects

“Johansson Projects presents Radialvedic, an art exhibit which explores the subtleties of intrigue with simple objects, zippers, needles, ink and glass, transformed into complex and curious spectacles. Kristina Lewis’s sculptures seem to extend organically from Jill Gallenstein’s ink renderings with a hypnotic grace. Kana Tanaka harmonizes the trio with the element of light as the [...]

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naturalismo presents: hollywood hoot

To all our friends that live in the Los Angeles area: this Saturday, August 2, naturalismo is proud to host the first of what we hope will be many gatherings in the Los Angeles area. We call it the hoot, short for hootenanny, in honor of such a great (but lost) tradition in folk music. [...]

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((FolkYEAH))’s Stacie Willoughby: The Naturalismo Interview

It’s not too hard to see that Naturalismo and (((folkYEAH!))) have been kissing cousins for quite some time now. Now, to celebrate our partnership on the upcoming Festival in the Forest (as well as a lot more exciting events coming in the near future!), we wanted to highlight the amazing artist behind all of (((folkYEAH!)))’s [...]

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Ebenezer Obey

I’ve been on a bit of a world tour of music seeking lately. I guess if I can’t travel there physically somehow, might as well make it there musically. While there’s many fruits of this labour to share in the coming weeks, one thing for sure is that I can’t sit still. That was-until I [...]

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Golden Apples of the Sun Returns to Print!

This is what started it all.
This is more than a compilation–it’s expertly sequenced and paced, like one long, slow flow of a particularly rich vibe. Liner notes are by the artists themselves, paying tribute to each other, all handlettered by Devendra, who also provides artwork on cover, back cover, sleeve, tray and the disk itself.
Track [...]

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ARTHUR #30: On Newsstands Now!

How a brush with death, a haunted guitar and filmmaker Harmony Korine helped Spiritualized’s JASON (SPACEMAN) PIERCE wrestle a new album of narcotic gospel music into being. By Jay Babcock, with photography by Stacy Kranitz.
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, legendary film director/author/poet ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY (El Topo, Holy Mountain) reflects on his encounters [...]

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Bert Jansch & John Renbourn: BBC Interview

Bert Jansch and John Renbourn were interviewed together on the Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie show on BBC Radio 2 last Wednesday.  If you missed it you can listen again at: www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffemaconie.
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Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie is considered by many to be the best female blues singer of all time.  A gifted guitar and banjo player since her early teenage years, she not only ranks along with the blues’ best female artists, but also along with the best male blues artists as well.
Around 1904, Minnie (born Lizzie Douglas) and [...]

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NATURALISMO PRESENTS: A FERNWOOD FIRE RELIEF BENEFIT FESTIVAL

It is with great pleasure and ecstaticment that we here at Naturalismo can finally tell you about a benefit concert that we’re helping put on in Big Sur that just so happens to be THE EVENT of the summer. It has only been possible (and a giant thanks to) Folkyeah and Arthur Magazine. It’s [...]

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Premiere: Devendra Banhart’s Music Video for Carmencita

Brazilica fantasmo Bollywood
[ download ] Devendra Banhart – Carmencita
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(((folkYEAH))) presents: Pegi Young Band Live

We are pleased to announce 3 very unique and intimate shows with Pegi Young Band (featuring Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Anthony Crawford of Neil Young’s current touring band!!!) plus very special guest and support. Only 200 tickets for each show are available! Pegi Young will be performing new songs plus songs from her debut release. [...]

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Hope For Agoldensummer

Hope For Agoldensummer is sisters Claire and Page Campbell and their neighbor Deb Davis from Athens, Georgia (sometimes Atlanta). The girls are back home in the South, playing shows here and there, after touring coast after coast earlier this summer. They were featured a few weeks ago on Soundies, an Athens-based odd-places-performance series a la [...]

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Donovan Quinn & The 13th Month

Donovan Quinn is a singer/songwriter from San Francisco, California. Since 2001 he’s performed his songs with the Skygreen Leopards (collaborating with Glenn Donaldson) and under the name Verdure. Currently he can be found operating solo, occasionally being joined by various friends and collaborators, under the umbrella of the 13th month.
Donovan’s first full-length solo record, The [...]

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I Met the Walrus

“In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording [...]

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Devendra Banhart Contributes Poem & Preface to We Meet

Preface by Devendra Banhart:
I came across Kenneth Patchen the way one dreams of a tumbleweed rollin’ on by, leaving trails of luminosity from within its prismatic pit. [...]

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Daniel Clay – The Protestant

Daniel Clay’s music is as bitter as it is beautiful. With The Protestant, his new album, Clay soothes you before you have the time to realize you’ve been stung. It’s ten raw guitar-and-voice songs that provide a picture of a stripped-down world. A world of naked energy, good and bad. A world where the bad [...]

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Naturalismo adds new member to the family!

I’m thrilled to announce that the naturalismo family is growing. Please give your warmest of welcomes to Josh Fleet.
And then there were 3:

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Jana Hunter: new tour, unreleased tunes

Since her amazing Carrion EP last year, we’ve been eagerly awaiting to hear more from the enchanting Jana Hunter. She’s embarking on a pretty darn expansive tour of the United States and Canada, so if you haven’t seen her live yet don’t miss this chance. And don’t steal her guitars.
[ download ] Jana Hunter – [...]

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