kdvs presents... this week (tera melos, anni rossi, foot foot, matt bauer....
Posted by jason on 2008-02-27 8:49:37pm
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KDVS Presents...
Tomorrow night at 7pm sharp!!
Anni Rossi
myspace.com/annirossi
Anni plays some seriously stripped down and beautiful viola-pop with a really playful and different voice and unconventional structures. She's playing with a band this time (last played solo at Delta a few years back) so expect something more textured and noisier. This makes total sense for fans of Andrew Bird, with her odd use of a very conventional classical instrument. It's hard not to think of Jocelyn from Alas, Alak, Alaska as well, and I hope a band has all the positive effects on Anni as it does on Jocelyn. Yes!
Mad Gregs
http://www.myspace.com/madgregs
Mellowed out oboe-in-place-of-keyboard slow-motion and in their words " Quietish music designed and written for intimate space". They're mellower than just about any other band I can think of (especially when you consider they're out of 300 mile an hour Los Angeles) so it's hard to draw comparisons.
Joe Davancens
http://www.myspace.com/josephdavancens
Completely psychadelic in its beauty, so much reverb you can barely hear the words. Pared down to just a guitar and vocals mixed with a few vocals and strange electro-harp sounds.
Possible special ex-patriate guest to be announced!
at a new new House show spot called:
Thugz Manshon (yeah that's really the name)
900 colby dr. davis, ca
just a little north of campus, super easy to get to.
starts promptly at 7pm.
donations are a good idea.
Tomorrow, thursday, feb 28th
And then on Friday... a cool-sounding event:
Astral Asshaker leap year electronic dance party - electrohouse/indie dance/dancepunk/synthpop/disco/funkyhouse/trance/fun in no particular order
Technocultural Studies Building on UCD campus
9:00, $free, all ages
that's all I know but I'm always into more campus events.
and then on Saturday March 1st
KDVS Presents...
Foot Foot
http://www.footfootmusic.com/
Foot Foot has self-produced three albums crafted from the notebook jottings and dream phrases of Robin Brown. The spinning dustclouds of early lineups have coalesced into the dusty matrimonial pair of Josh and Robin Brown, who travel the old Camino Real sowing their songs amongst the California poppies.
The band's first recording was a demo created in a week long home recording session. It features years of careful songcraft performed on half-broken instruments: bells, acoustic slide guitar, casio keyboard and cock-eyed percussion. This is music to dream to, evoking the sand-scabbed knees and street-tarred soles of Los Angeles childhood.
Foot Foot's second release, "Snaggle and Buck", was put out by Oedipus Records in 2006. It is more polished than the roughly hewn demo, but still ragged and whisperingly raucous. They spent the next year playing all over LA, San Francisco and up into Oregon and Washington. Two split 7" followed. The first was part of Not Not Fun's Bored Fortress series and was split with My Little Red Toe and blessed in glitter. On the second split 7", released on Oedipus Records, Foot Foot was joined by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and was dressed in Carrie Dietz's wonderful dream drawings.
Foot Foot's third album,"Trumpet", (to be released February of 2008 on Oedipus/Aagoo Records,) takes the energy of the first two albums and explodes it onto the canvas of rock music. The title refers to both loud horns and the hearing trumpet used by the deaf to capture the most elusive of sounds. As the title suggests, this album teeters in bipolar frenzy, blowing up with drums and fuzz guitars only to be put back to bed with softly fingerpicked murmurings. This is Foot Foot's most diverse album, but the core of the songs have all the lyrical tension and visual poetry of the first two releases.
They've just put out a new record so check it out!
Emily Jane White
http://www.emilyjanewhite.com/
Emily Jane White is a rare solo performer who can cut through noisy club din and turn antsy foot traffic into apt listeners. Her voice pierces the egos of those within earshot; it's a low, lilting alto, often compared to Chan Marshall and Hope Sandoval. Ghostly melodies float through her songs on ornate piano passages and simple guitar figures. But no matter how you find your way into White's world, it's easy to stay there. Like the best songwriters, the San Franciscan leaves room for the listener's subjectivity, with lyrics that read more like a Cormac McCarthy novel than a diary entry.
White's characters are defined by what they lack. Lovers drive away; the dead require mourning. Men beyond redemption deliver images from a very American landscape. These are people who admit to their evils, to dancing with the devil, to having holes in their hearts and only "lady luck" for company.
"I would say isolation is definitely a consistent theme in my music," White concedes over coffee, adding that her intention is to "[reach] out for an understanding of, an empathy for, other people's experiences" Her words are underscored by storytelling languages of the musical variety: blues, folk, and American spiritual traditions. Her religious references bring an atavistic sensibility to the work, making her subjects' isolation more universal. White's capability with ancient musical traditions also gives the songs a devotional quality, so the simplicity of a line like "oh, father lay me down," from the song "Bessie Smith," really connects. The title of that track also displays White's admiration for the late blues singer's "strength and influential and transgressive contributions to the history of the blues," she explains.
White developed her brand of "dark folk," at UC Santa Cruz in the early '00s. Her vision was shaped by both classic country and blues songwriters (and contemporary fare like Nick Cave and P.J. Harvey) and her discovery of cultural mythologies through the American Studies program. Although the Santa Cruz music scene provided White a comfortable place to develop her sound, she lacked the confidence to go beyond the house-show circuit with her band the Diamond Star Halos. A post-collegiate sojourn in France increased her sense of self-reliance and further shaped her outlook. "My experience of the world became more vague, spiritual, strange, less concrete," she explains. Playing music to a warm Bordeaux audience provided new encouragement. People she met there wondered "why I didn't have a CD out, why I wasn't touring, why wasn't I on a record label," White explains. "And I didn't really know what to say."
In 2006, White moved to San Francisco and started performing with new musicians under her own name. Her debut album Dark Undercoat, which will be released in September on Oakland's Double Negative Records, draws on five years of songwriting, collecting together songs that "felt the most tangible." Indeed, the album has a warm physicality; you can feel the weight of her fingers on the keys. The song "Wild Tigers I've Known" features a particularly beautiful lead melody accompanied only by graceful piano passages and a brief vocal harmony. Though the song was written for Cam Archer's film of the same name, it is movie-like on its own; visually rich and starkly scored. And like the rest of White's work, it demands a repeat audience.
$3 8pm start.
If you aren't privvy to the new Firehouse spot on campus, then come by and try it out. People have been coming out to this spot for the shows so far and that's really cool.
Firehouse is right next to/just east of the Music Building, about three buildings east of Shields Library, and at the southeast corner of campus.
KDVS Presents...
8pm at the Firehouse this Sunday March 2nd $4 cover
Tera Melos
myspace.com/teramelos
Most of you are familiar with these duders right? Intense, mathy, and kind of nerdy in its composed-ness, it's hard to look away. Straight out of Roseville! It's funny because they can get almost Tina Turner poppiness and then switch right back into punkish loud but certainly still composed dissonance. And they don't mind mellowing out for breakdowns and harmonic prettiness.
Them Hills
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=79039516
Them Hills sound as they should: an amalgamation of 60s/70s classics and 80s pop gems—heard over the radio while strapped in their car seats as children—torn apart by the first rock records they purchased on their own in the 90s, and smoothed over by the new or rediscovered underground albums they began obsessing over in high school and up through today. The debut Them Hills full length album, Greener Grassing was recorded over a couple weeks in the winter of 2007 at Brighton Sound, Sacramento, CA, engineered by Dana Gumbiner (Golden Shoulders, Deathray) and produced by Zach Hill (Holy Smokes, Marnie Stern).
Worker Bee
http://www.myspace.com/workerbeebuzz
"We are a band from different points in the Bay Area. We are working a few different things right now and some of which will be for free on the internet soon. And two of those things will be available on a little cd-r at shows."
Star Destroyer
http://www.myspace.com/stardestroyertheband
Watch friends of Fiction like Non-Fiction tear the new Firehouse space apart as they open for the loudest show so far. Plexiglass windows will break, chairs will be thrown. No just kidding please don't break anything but do come at 8pm to watch these dudes open. On Guesthouse Records
KDVS recommends...
Monday March 3rd
@ Primary Concepts
8pm
$5
Matt Bauer
myspace.com/mattbauer
Sad sad lonely lonely beautiful beautiful. Crossbill duder out of Brooklyn. Minimalist simplified folk music. If you feel like napping or feeling sad in some really beautiful way listen to Carve it out on the myspace.
Garrett Pierce
myspace.com/garrettpierecemusic
Crossbill-records superstar and ex-Davisite, Garrett
Pete Bernhard (Devil Makes Three)
link
Cool old-timey folk. Pete of Devil Makes Three busts a solo set.
Pete Bernhard was born on a small ranch just outside the small village of Jelly Roll Alaska. After breaking both his legs in a terrible fishing accident pete took to playing the three string guitar. As the years passed by pete grew restless and built a soap box racer and went out on the down hill roads of american with his trusty chimpanzee albert. Eventually albert was murdered after suffering massive hair loss and frost bite and the rest as they say is history.
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