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UPCOMING RELEASES
Reissue of Jailhouse Rock on LP on Not Not Fun with new artwork by Heath. Solo cassette on Ecstatic Peace. LP follow-up to Devil If You Can Hear Me. Scorces I Turn Into You CD. Solo 7" on Golden Lab. Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast 2xLP reissue on Dull Knife. Taken from Heather Leigh Murray's website |
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Behind the Beat: The Importance of Being Earnest
Local avant-gardist Matt Krefting releases I Couldn't Love You More, an album of "straight" covers. Thursday, May 07, 2009 By Matthew Dube  Photo Courtesy of Ecstatic PeaceMatt Krefting likes to sing in the car. A lot. His daily commuting activities, loudly accompanying his car stereo, served as inspiration for the avant-gardist's first solo album, a foray into a new realm of songs and performance. Most musicians follow the familiar archetype: create some accessible, straight-ahead music, build a following, and then, once comfortable, begin to experiment, going farther and farther afield, sometimes to the dismay and alienation of said followers. For Krefting, Valley musical gadabout and purveyor of all things experimental, the process has worked in reverse. As a Hampshire student, he found critical success in early "quiet music" project Son of Earth—an experimental anti-folk combo and integral part of what Wired Magazine dubbed the "New Weird America" scene. He proceeded to add over a dozen other outre projects to his resume, including the short-lived but much-loved Believers. Then along came Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, helmsman of internationally revered and Easthampton-based Ecstatic Peace Records. "At one of the Flywheel Record Fairs, Thurston was like, 'You should do an Ecstatic Peace record,' and I said okay," recalls Krefting. "I had been doing these readings where I would do some a cappella singing afterwards and he had seen some of those and was a fan of Believers. His initial concept was that I would do some electronic stuff, sing some songs, but that it would be the most fucked-up record ever. I was like, 'Okay, I'll try that.'" It didn't turn out that way. After spending time in Moore's basement "playing guitars together and scraping stuff around," Krefting felt that the results were fine, but that something wasn't quite right. "It was really [Ecstatic Peace's] Andrew Kesin who pushed me into the covers thing," he says. "We were talking about the record and he asked me if I was thinking that the album was going to be all covers. That hadn't really occurred to me until right then, but I said yes and ran with it." As a self-described "non-musician," Krefting needed some assistance to realize his new vision. Kesin hooked him up with jack-of-all-trades John "Towns" Townsend. "We would just hang out in Towns' attic, drinking beer, listening to records," he says. "I would give him a song, he would learn it instantly and we would come up with arrangements. We called it the Munroe Lab, for the street he lives on. It was a really concise, concerted thing." Krefting chose a handful of old favorites by the likes of John Martyn, Richard Thompson, Rick Danko, Bill Fay and others to record. "I remember the first time I heard every single one of these songs," he says. "It was important to me that I could see myself somewhere in the song, and that it represents me in a certain way. I wanted songs that would sort of put myself out there, you know? There's a lot of songs that I really love." Presentation was a part of the deliberations for Krefting: "I never thought about covering the songs directly. I didn't want to do literal interpretations, but I also didn't preoccupy myself with radically reinterpreting them. [Jerry] Garcia's 'To Lay Me Down' is the only one with real spacey, far-out departures. In arrangement, they're all pretty similar to what the original was." After working through the tunes, the next task was to find some musicians to assist in the recordings. "I put out an APB to everyone I knew, basically, asking who could do this project," Krefting says. "I emailed two bass players, two drummers, everybody I knew who might be into this kind of stuff; pretty much everybody said yes, and we had this kind of motley crew coming in and out of Bank Row Studio up in Greenfield." Those who contributed to the making of I Couldn't Love You More include Townsend, Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, Sunburned Hand of the Man members Phil Franklin, John Moloney, Ron Schneiderman and Rob Thomas, Krefting's wife Jamie Jo Oltmans and old pals Josh Burkett, John Shaw and Lynn Meyers. The album was recorded by Bank Row wiz Justin Pizzoferatto. According to Krefting, the resultant product demonstrates a different, but not incompatible, side of him: "It never really felt like a departure for me until it was totally done, and I went, 'Wow, this is totally different than anything I've ever done.' But I still felt the same about it, that it was part of me. ... My personality, and everyone's who I was playing with on the project—that's what I really wanted to be able to come through, and I can hear it right away." Krefting is interested to see how the public—including the experimental music community of his past and present—will react to his latest turn. "In an ideal world, I would hope and think that people would realize that it's coming from the same place as all my other stuff," he says. "As long as it's a reflection of me and where I'm at, I don't know that the emotional content changes that much. And if you can hear that, then it works. It works for me anyway. I have second-guessed it, at points. I listened to Richard Thompson's song and my version side-to-side and I'm just like, 'I'm a charlatan.' But that was at three a.m., and it was a lonely night on the couch." Is he concerned that people might think, because of his background, that he is approaching this set of songs with sarcasm? "I have a hard time thinking that anyone would think it too sarcastic," says Krefting. "If anything, I think they're going to find it too earnest. That's my only real concern with this. That's why I'm going to swing back a little bit with the tour, to show that I do have a sense of humor about myself." To this end, Krefting hopes to bring a sense of theater to the series of live shows lined up to celebrate the album's release: "This is going to be a big band. I'm viewing this as my Plastic Ono Band, and it keeps getting bigger. We might have up to three drummers. I've got crazy people coming from all kinds of geographical areas. It could be a train wreck, but I'm trying to orchestrate it so that the train wreck works to our benefit. I want it to be less concise, drastically different than the record. Now that I've done the record, I feel like I can do this stuff, but it doesn't necessarily mean that I'll keep doing this stuff. I get pretty impatient pretty fast. I'm always looking for the next frontier." I Couldn't Love You More comes out this June on Ecstatic Peace! Records. For more information and show listings, visit: www.mattkrefting.com. |
Suppression In The Third- Jason Crumer + Roxann Spikula - Double 10" on Ecstatic Peace DUE 8/6 on Ecstatic Peace.
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MP3 At 3PM: Wand
http://www.magnetmagazine.com:80/200...3-at-3pm-wand/ May 5, 2009  A man with more (or maybe just as many) nametags as Will Oldham, James Jackson Toth (a.k.a. Wooden Wand) is donning the simplified Wand moniker for Hard Knox, his collection of home recordings and demos due May 26 on the Ecstatic Peace! label. Lead track “Arriving” has a Leonard Cohen/’60s Britfolk/angry liberal-arts-dorm-room vibe. Speaking of arrivals, however, there is news that Toth has teamed up with Timothy Bracy (former frontman of the Mendoza Line) in a new outfit called the Jescos. A debut album is currently being mixed. If you haven’t already read our feature on the end of the Mendoza Line, live the drama here. “Arriving” (download) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "MP3 At 3PM: Wand", url: "http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/05/05/mp3-at-3pm-wand/" }); |
Saturday, May 9, 2009
hybrid moments  IT'S THE LAST DAY! crazy! we have one more album song and two b sides to mix, and then we are done!! making this record has been so much fun, and john and i are really going to miss hanging out with john agnello everyday. i am excited about getting out of jersey and back to brooklyn...... if we finish early (not likely) we are going to go see awesome color tonight at market hotel. they totally rule, so if you live in the area come out tonight!  yesterday we had a great steak dinner thanks to kesin at ecstatic peace! everybody came down to the studio to have a listen. we were pretty nervous and crossing our fingers, but they all dug it. yay!!
 sex zombie it just for fun. it sounds like 60s cave man nuggets rock. maybe we will play some shows this summer?? but we got a lot of work ahead of us for this record. not sure if we'll have time for it. all photos by kesin! Posted by jemina pearl at 10:06 AM |
A release date for Andrew WK's solo piano album
Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009  Wow, so Andrew WK will actually be releasing a new album--the better news is that it will actually be available on CD. The odd part of the announcement is that this is going to be a collection of Andrew's solo piano works. The album is called 55 Cadillac, and it will see a release on September 8 thanks to Ecstatic Peace. Rumors about why Andrew W.K. has released records as vinyl only in the past have abounded, but it's good to see him get back to a more universal format...even if it's for some of his possibly least accessible works! The one-man party machine has also announce a string of tour dates across Canada in June; check them out below!Andrew WK tour dates: May 28 - Santos Party House - New York, NY Jun 23 - Neptoon Records In-Store - Vancouver, BC Jun 23 - The Biltmore Cabaret - Vancouver, BC Jun 24 - The Uptown Theater, Sled Island Music Festival - Calgary, AB Jun 25 - Royal Canadian Legion 1, Sled Island Festival - Calgary, AB Jun 26 - Amigo’s - Saskatoon, SK Jun 27 - Avenue Theatre - Edmonton, AB Jun 28 - The Royal Albert Arms - Winnipeg, MB Jul 16 - The Paragon Theatre - Halifax, NS |
Leslie Keffer - Greatest Hits CS
 Self-released cassette compilation of the best moments from Leslie Keffer’s back catalogue that spans the years 2003-2008 and runs the gamut of primitive eerie tape constructs that feel like glam parallels to the early LAFMS home-cooked avant/punk synthesis through whorls of pink electronics and great synth pop miniatures. |
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1. just finished a solo recording for a Ecstatic Peace Casette (!!!)relaese… 100 copies only… hard core filthy low fi live electronics and tenor sax… release date tba asap |
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3) new songs by JEMINA PEARL posted on her myspace: http://www.myspace.com/jemi...
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Haha, cool. I'm gonna check these out. Heartbeats is a fun little track, but not very good, I'll give it a C. Ecstatic Appeal is better, i like her vocals a lot. A- Nashville Shores is good, but I hate when she says Nashville Shores. B Sheena is a Punk Rocker, harder to hear, but from what I can hear it's pretty cool, kind of poppy. B |
New Music Posted: Jemina Pearl, WAND, Matt Krefting We posted new tracks from Jemina Pearl, WAND, and Matt Krefting on our myspace player
Jemina has (3) new songs on her personal myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/jeminapearl WAND posted a track here: http://www.myspace.com/woodenwand Matt Krefting posted a few tracks here:http://www.myspace.com/mattkrefting Look out for more more more sooooooooooon .... |
Bree
Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal #8 BREE "Laying Pans" Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal #8 #d edition of 100 A special edition of Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal where we dedicate this issue to one writer. And that would be BREE, a young woman from Cleveland who’s poemz have always touched our ear-to-mind zone with distinct alacrity and genuine word love. Byron Coley sez thus: Bree is a great poet. But she’s such a whiz at so many other things – editing, publishing, designing, organizing, it becomes possible to not remember how goddamn great her writing is. She’s a goddman polymath. But at the root of it, she’s a writer. A poet primarily, in the great tradition of Cleveland’s visionary proletarians – Tom Kryss, rjs, Kent Taylor, Peter Laughner et al. Bree manages to find the Buddha nature lurking in the dark corners of early morning kitchens, and she nails the details brilliantly. The confusing essence of the night’s dead middle. The zen-like clarity of repetitive stress activities. The scent of a well-greased kitchen. Having worked many kitchens in my life, as well as other jobs that required alarms going off just at the moment I should have been stumbling home, I can easily appreciate the truth of Bree’s words. The impossible stillness of the pre-dawn, the crackle of a quiet city, the thrumming symphony of muscle pain. Laying Pans is a fantastic read. You’ll catch the whole kaboodle, too. Even if you’re one of those prissy-ass trust fund maggots who’s never done an hour of honest work in your life. Buy a book. Save your soul. It’d be cheap at twice the price. http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=1&pro ducts_id=299 |
Jemina Pearl
jemina's blog > | myspace > NEW RECORD THIS FALL!! Jemina Pearl: Vox John Eatherly: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Vox Additional Performances by: Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Dave Sitek, Derek Stanton All Songs by Jemina Pearl and John Eatherly Produced, Recorded and Mixed by John Agnello at Water Music, Hoboken, NJ Additional Production by Dave Sitek |
Matt Krefting Video Preview of "I Couldn't Love You More" http://bit.ly/lNsRU
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Sorry if this has been mentioned before!
from the mats gustafsson: 1. just finished a solo recording for a Ecstatic Peace Casette (!!!)relaese… 100 copies only… hard core filthy low fi live electronics and tenor sax… release date tba asap http://matsgus.com/archives/category/news |
Krefting CD available now:
 Artist:KREFTING, MATTTitle:I Couldn't Love You MoreLabel:ECSTATIC PEACEFormat:CDPrice:$11.00Catalog #:E#91D"My 'career' in music is about to enter its 13th year. Lucky 13! I've performed in at least 15 groups (probably more on the order of 20 if you count guest spots) over the years, the most prominent being the long-running 'quiet music' combo Son of Earth and the short-lived-but-muchhyped Believers. Historically more of an experimental man, the Believers project showcased my always right-below-the-surface interest and passion for all things rock, and so, a couple of years after the demise of that group, I was approached by Ecstatic Peace, who asked me to produce a solo record. For the better part of a year I conceptualized, recruited, and eventually came up with I Couldn't Love You More. An early attempt to marry electronics, field recordings, and song was scrapped in favor of the personal and perhaps obvious choice of producing a covers record. It was the perfect idea, the realization of a dream. Years of singing in the shower and on long car trips had given way to the stuff of fantasy. Why stick to what you know when you can reach for what you've always desired? I asked friends to help with the realization. John Moloney, Phil Franklin, Ron Schneiderman, and Rob Thomas (all of Sunburned Hand of the Man), I've known for years. Same with J Mascis. Old friends John Shaw (who I've done more music with than anyone) and Lynn Meyers provide some vocals here and there, as does my wife, Jamie Jo Oltmans. The Wild Card here is John Townsend. Andrew Kesin of Ecstatic Peace introduced me to him, and he was a jack-of-all-trades. He plays on most of the tracks, sometimes exclusively, and co-produced. I chose songs from all over the map, from Rick Danko to John Martyn to the great Bill Fay. Not exactly lightweights, and quite intimidating when their full historical weight is taken into account. However, I attacked each piece with the intensity of one who truly loves these songs. I didn't concern myself with being overly arty or inventive in my interpretations (there are no truly radical re-workings of anything here), instead allowing my own emotional investment in the material to guide me and inform the other players. These are songs of love and longing. The themes are eternal. It's an honor to have had the chance to play them. Enjoy the music." -- Matt Krefting, December 2008 |
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http://www.myspace.com/bobevanstheband
Bob Evans is a band from Maplewood, New Jersey that spent most of it's active career working out of a sweet rented bungalow on the north shore of Boston in a town called North Reading, MA. The band began as a 4 piece with Dave Gloshinski (Guitar + Vox), Chris Zusi(Guitar+vox), Andrew Kesin (bass) , and Brian O'Neill(drums). In '90 Zusi left and the band continued as a 3 piece for the rest of its recording career. In '95 when O'neill wasn't able to tour the summer, John Gerlach stepped in to join Gloshinski and Kesin for what became the last tour for the band. http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=9943 Bob Evans June 2009 Dates (dates/venues are confirmed, lineups/order could change a bit) Thursday June 25th - Flywheel, Easthampton, MA Guerrero Black Helicopter Matt Krefting Band (featuring members of Sunburned Hand of the Man) Bob Evans Friday June 26th - Middle East, Boston Guerrero Meadhall Kudgel/Black Helicopter Bob Evans Saturday June 27th - Union Pool, Brooklyn Special Guests including Ryan Sawyer Matt Krefting Band (featuring members of Sunburned Hand of the Man) Bob Evans Sunday June 28th - Maxwells TBD Matt Krefting Band (featuring members of Sunburned Hand of the Man) Bob Evans |
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Human Taste, by Little Claw (CD on Ecstatic Peace)
 CD on Ecstatic Peace DUE 3/8 Format:CDLabel:Ecstatic Peace Little Claw, jesus...what can you say? Too much for Michigan's mirror, they shifted ass to Portland Oregon (land of JOMF, Smegma, Meltzer and so much more) in order to stew their mushrooms in relative peace. They're the only band I've heard that seem capable of tapping into the indescribable art-raunch wobble of Leesa Aldredge, watch them and tremble." Byron Coley Little Claw was born in Detroit, Michigan during the Great Eastern Seaboard blackout of 2003…having nothing to do, nowhere to go, Heath Heemsbergen and Kilynn Lunsford began playing their acoustic guitars and singing into the darkness. An auspicious beginning to be sure… Even now, Little Claw are still strumming and screaming into the void. Formed originally with Jamie Easter from the Piranhas on drums, the band played a string of shows, starting with their debut performance with legendary Ohio art-punks the Bizarros, which then led to the recording of the first Little Claw LP with Warn Defever (His Name Is Alive) The album was released by Ypsilanti records in 2005. Jamie left the band in the summer of 2005 and after one show as a duo, Hendrik Deherder joined up on the drums. A second LP was recorded with Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry) in his Hamtramck living room mid-2006 and was subsequently released by Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label in 2007. Later that year, there was a release of a split 7" single with Michael Yonkers on X! records. Little Claw's move from the urban nightmare of Detroit to the more subtle cloudy terrors of Portland, Oregon prompted some more augmentations to the line-up: Adam Svenson (of Seattle improv band Du Hexen Hase) took over the caveman beat on the drums, freeing up Henrik to bang the synth and add additional percussion. On the road and on recordings, the Little Claw sound is graced by the touch of Toledo native, Damon Sturdivant (Puffy Areolas, Tyvek) on additional percussion and synth. "But what do they sound like anyway? They sounded like the greatest godammned fucking band on the planet the time we saw 'em. Two minimalist drummers, a guitar dude with a nice underhook rhythm rip and a girl with a badass no wave slather tongue tearing hell out of her slide guitar given half the chance. And not all hellbent rage either--some nice licorice melt drizzle crud groove too. Fuckin' awesome." Thurston Moore. track listing: 1/frankie 2/frozen in the future 3/modern vampire 4/lay to waste 5/colors you drown 6/slow sticky tornado 7/summerphile 8/breathing tape 9/golden boy 10/human taste (below the tide) |
Violent Soho Wrapping New Set
June 30, 2009 - Global | Indies By Lars Brandle, Brisbane Aussie buzz band Violent Soho is currently camped in the Welsh countryside putting the finishing touches to their awaited new record for Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, Billboard.biz can reveal. Gil Norton (The Pixies, Echo and the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters) is behind the desk at Rockfield Studios producing the Brisbane grunge revivalists' as-yet-unnamed set. The band's manager David Benge, director of Melbourne-based music company Speak n Spell, chatted to Billboard.biz about the release, which is due early next year. "It sounds like Weezer, meets Pixies, meets Nirvana," he says. "They're huge pop songs, but lots of anger and dirt." The audio cuts are reminiscent of "long hair ripped jeans and flannel shirts. It sounds like the suburb of Mansfield 4122 in Queensland." Sonic Youth frontman Moore's Universal Music-distributed Ecstatic Peace added Violent Soho to its roster this February, a development which had the band declaring on their MySpace blog as "pretty much our biggest dream come true." The group already has one album in their discography, 2008's "We Don't Belong Here", released in Australia by Emergency Music. |
Angels In America "Cunt Tree Grammar"
Ecstatic Peace8/10 A Black Sabbath intro with droning three-bar repetition, a slowed-down and drugged-out Nancy Sinatra, a raspy minimalist Björk, with little twisting and stabbing interludes of distortion. Night music, for that long stretch of time between three and four a.m., for those places affixed between abandoned and demolished. The gritty sort of photographs you find in serial killer biographies. Really excellent transportive guitar that alternates between grunge metal riffs and tuneless plucking, and for a second, it almost even sounds like church bells. The vocals have that raw smokiness and unassuming lucidity that set Angels In America apart from the grating nasal whines of current pop punk bands. Side B isn't as good, I'm sad to say, but it is interesting. Spoken word over doom acoustics, which seems to speed up and intensity imperceptibly. It's nothing you wanna be left alone with, that's for sure. There is Zeppelin, simplified but still gauzy and alchemistic, gentle accusations, broken vans left on roadsides, and a bit of Peter Murphy without the Gothic narcissism. An experimental moment with that sounds like an alien carnival barker over rising and falling wahs. Their music could carry for miles if they wanted it to. This all sounds like something I've heard before but cannot place, and there remains the constant underlying itch to identify it in my incapacitated memory, a void surrounded by etched words like Sonic Youth and Bethany Curve. It is, certainly, more memorable and articulate than Nelly's album of not-quite-the-same name. 8/10 -- April Larson (14 July, 2009) |
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THE ENTRANCE BAND TO RELEASE ECSTATIC PEACE!/UNIVERSAL RECORDS DEBUT SELF-TITLED ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 BAND WRAPPING UP TOUR WITH SONIC YOUTH, HIT THE ROAD WITH NEBULA IN AUGUST
Ecstatic Peace!/Universal Records are pleased to announce the release of the self-titled debut album by The Entrance Band on September 1, 2009. An incendiary, ten-song journey into the creative group-mind of three talented and inspired musicians; guitarist and vocalist Guy [FONT='Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial]Blakeslee[/font], drummer Derek W. James and bassist Paz Lenchantin. The three players have committed to the full realization of the power trio, the primal impact of guitar, bass and drums throbbing together in electrified unity. The songs on The Entrance Band feel and sound like a group realizing their own vision, freed from past constraints. The end result is ten powerful songs, working as a whole to create an ethereal yet driving melodic concoction—heavy without being plodding, psychedelic without being whimsical. Blakeslee sings with unbridled emotion and plays left-handed on an upside-down guitar, scraping and bending the strings in search of new sonic adventures. James’ kinetic rhythms conjure dances both ancient and futuristic. Rounded out and locked together by Lenchantin’s primal and pulsating bass lines, the music transcends any retro stylings and brings their sound into the present day and beyond. “We are all based in Los Angeles, California” says Baltimore native Blakeslee, “but our origins are in Chicago.” The critically acclaimed LP Prayer of Death (2006) was recorded in Chicago under the name Entrance (a vehicle for mostly solo output by Blakeslee), with collaborative input from Lenchantin and James. All three players contributed to the recording process, but it was not until after the completion of that album that the band played live together as a trio for the first time. “This is the beginning,” confirms Guy. “We’ve been together for three years, but this will be our first presentation to the world as a trio.” Now truly a band, they decided to name this, their first unified effort, The Entrance Band. Co-founder of Ecstatic Peace! Records, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, says, “The Entrance Band’s new music is the most alluring and, yes, entrancing vibe I’ve yet to experience in this new age. A soundtrack for the new groove.” The album was recorded in East L.A. at Infrasonic Studio, with producer Nadav Eisenman (RTX). The band was recorded essentially live in the studio to preserve the spontaneous interaction they had become known for in performance. While the band has built a reputation for their ability to improvise, on the album, “the songs are pretty structured,” says Paz. “We worked it all out by playing it all live, and then took the knife to it,” notes Blakeslee. “We want our music to reach as many people as it can,” enthuses Blakeslee. “We know Ecstatic Peace! is a good place to do that, with the guiding hand of someone who has an ethos that’s similar to ours in terms of punk rock. Thurston’s been able to bring a lot of underground stuff to the mainstream without the music or the people getting diluted in any way. We don’t want to compromise, we just want what we do to be broadcast further.” World, have a listen to The Entrance Band. TRACK LISTING: Lookout! M.L.K Still Be There Sing For The One You’re So Fine Grim Reaper Blues (pt. 2) That Is Why Lives You Must Turn Hourglass Silence On A Crowded Train* LP Bonus Track ON TOUR WITH NEBULA IN AUGUST 08/04/09 Elbo Room, San Francisco CA 08/05/09 Nocturnum, Eureka CA 08/06/09 Rotture, Portland OR 08/07/09 Chop Suey, Seattle WA 08/10/09 3 Kings Tavern, [FONT='Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial]Denver CO[/font] 08/11/09 Jackpot Saloon, Lawrence KS 08/12/09 Turf Club, St. Paul MN 08/13/09 Bottom Lounge, [FONT='Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial]Chicago IL[/font] 08/14/09 Ravari Room, Columbus OH 08/15/08 Club Echo, Huntington WV 08/16/09 Peabody’s, Cleveland OH 08/17/09 Bug Jar, Rochester NY 08/18/09 Call The Office, London ON 08/19/09 Casbah, Hamilton ON 08/20/09 The Wreck Room, Toronto ON 08/21/09 il Motore, Montreal QC 08/22/09 Santos, [FONT='Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial]New York NY[/font] 08/23/09 Johnny Brendas, Philadelphia PA 08/24/09 Ottobar, [FONT='Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial]Baltimore MD[/font] 08/25/09 Black Cat, Washington DC 08/26/09 Jewish Mother, Virginia Beach VA 08/27/09 Soapbox, Wilmington NC 08/28/09 Masquerade, Atlanta GA 08/29/09 Hi Tone Cafe, Memphis TN 08/31/09 Walters on Washington, Houston TX 09/01/09 Emo’s, Austin TX w/The Entrance Band 09/02/09 Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar, San Antonio TX 09/03/09 Conservatory, Oklahoma City OK 09/05/06 The Sets, Tempe AZ |
I downloaded the free PaGODa B-Sides EP the other day... I even made myself a little CD of it. Quite nice, actually.
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MV & EE are following their 2008 release Drone Trailer with their feature-film-for-the-blind "Barn Nova" on October 13, which marks their return to the Ecstatic Peace! label.
 Saturday, July 25,2009 [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']http://waylonhatchet.com/storage/l_9...=1248577416425"Still harvesting and sustaining in the deep woods of Vermont , MV & EE (Matt "MV" Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika "EE" Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show) are following their 2008 release Drone Trailer with their feature-film-for-the-blind "Barn Nova" on October 13, which marks their return to the Ecstatic Peace! label. [/font] [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']MV & EE aspire to the sort of beautifully rewarding standard in their documented output that Sun Ra or The Grateful Dead achieved. It is with Ecstatic Peace! that their most consistent works have been born and continue reach fans with The Golden Road, their most constant band. Together with Doc Dunn (pedal steel, rhythm guitar, vocals, drums) and Mike Smith (Rickenbacker 4001, vocals) who appeared on Drone Trailer as well as J Mascis (drums, guitar, plate reverb) and Woods' Jeremy Earl (vocal, drums) they take you on the ride now known as Barn Nova and here they jam. Justin Pizzoferrato also appears contributing percussion, space echo and aiding once again at the controls. This album was recorded at MV & EE's own home studio "Maximum Arousal Farm" as well as their current local New England rooms of choice, "Bank Row" (an old mid 1900's bank) and J's home studio "Bisquiteen." [/font] [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']These kindred spirits share a wealth of ideas including a serious reverence and desire to upgrade/expand the classic-rock idiom. Barn Nova marks the return of "Spectrasound," MV's production technique that places tones dancing all around the stereo sound field: it has to be heard to be believed. This effect is all the more impressive that the majority of it was created recording live, rather than conjured through studio post-production during mixing. Especially potent on the A side-ending stomp "Summer Magic" where Erika's economical leads go head-to-head with J's on a particularly mind-blowing live-in-studio effort; It brings to mind the vibe of "Green Blues", "Mother Of Thousands" and even an electric "Moon Jook" with matured songwriting. [/font] [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Inspired by the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Cipollina and Tom Verlaine, Matt Valentine displays an insatiable appetite to play in various idioms with constant exploration and development. Meanwhile, Elder's harmony leads recall the glorious twinned guitar lines of Canned Heat's Al Wilson & Henry Vestine at their most potent.[/font] [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Matt 'mv' Valentine hails from the green collar/blues dirt as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer, also known for his explorations on the bantar (a banjo/sitar hybrid he invented). His debut as a leader was released as "Glorious Group Therapy" (with assistance from Erika Elder, Tim Barnes, Dean Roberts) on the cassette format in 1998 by the Polyamory label under the sobriquet 'Matthew Dell'. The oxide was reissued soon after on LP under his proper name by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Yod. [/font] [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Prior to that release as a 'solo' stringman, he began cutting his big teeth on guitar excursions in the mid 90's when co-founded 'The Tower Recordings' fusing experimental acoustic songform with noise and other disparate avant garde techniques. That ensemble released 8 proper albums alongside various singles, 10-inches, cassettes and compilation appearances. During this time his bands played shows with John Fahey, Sandy Bull, Loren Mazzacane, Bert Jansch, Pearls Before Swine, Rudolph Grey, Borbetomagus, Arthur Doyle, Pavement, The Scissor Girls...as well as a tour with Cat Power. These experiences inspired MV & EE to establish their 'Child Of Microtones' label in 1999 which has been devoted ever since to issuing exploratory music in small editions of the highest quality form. To date they have 34 releases, and the COM subsidary 'Heroine Celestial Agriculture' numbering equal, if not unknown, catalog depth. the 'Heroine' label is run by Erika, along with her "MV & EE Medicine Show". [/font] [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Erika 'ee' Elder hails from the Forest and is a singer, lap steel guitarist, designer and a zen wrangler on a 'mini' firebird (a four stringed single humbucking pickup 'mandolin', but more "stoned age man" than Ernest Stoneman). She has been making music alongside MV since his solo debut, and has a composition as a group leader of "the Lady E Quartet" on the critically acclaimed U-Sound compilation. She is currently working on a duo LP with Nels Cline in tribute to John Fahey. [/font] [FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Barn Nova is their 4th major release after a decade's worth of recordings issued by their own "Child Of Microtones" label, (an imprint striving to follow in the footsteps of Takoma, Gate 5, Semina and Saturn) as well as additional releases through some of the most respected boutique labels in the world: Time-Lag, Three Lobed, Spirit Of Orr, The Great Pop Supplement, Golden Lab, Qbico, Audible Hiss, Siltbreeze, Blackest Rainbow, Communion, Dicristina, Ecstatic Yod and Honest Jons)." [/font] |
MV & EE with the Golden Road "Barn Nova" Promo Kit
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