Archive for the 'Live Music' Category
In my experience, it’s been a rarity to find two musicians sharing a set. In fact, I don’t believe I had ever seen it done before the show on Thursday @ Luminous and Merry( in Decatur) where two acts from Lawrence, Kansas merged beautifully into one.
Brother Bird (aka JB) is the reason I was there. He invited me to play awhile back, with out really specifying that he had nothing to do with booking the show. This turned out to be perfectly alright as I got in touch with the venue’s curator, Wabash (who was the subject of my last blog), and all was well. The first song of his I heard was “Lunar Eclipse” and I was just floored by how amazing it was, I believe Regal Standard (Cody) is singing high in the background.
Really it was just incredible musicianship and vocals from both of them the whole way through. I look forward to listening to their albums which rumor has it are heading toward the collective. Keep your eyes peeled.
They are just finishing up their tour.
If you hurry you can still catch em’:
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Cream City Collectives | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | ||
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HUGE BAND SHOW AT A BAR | Galesburg, Illinois |
“Lunar Eclipse” is to be on the, as yet, unreleased Brother Bird full length.
http://www.myspace.com/brotherbird
http://www.myspace.com/regalstandard
I’ve got 15 minutes before Sunday is over which is just enough time to make a nice and rambly post about my musical endeavors of late.
Firstly and most important is Wabash.
Wabash is a strapping young lad by the name of Griffin living in Decatur, Illinois and also you and all of your friends– or at least this is the case if you have the pleasure of attending one of his shows.
Quite a treat it was Saturday. The show began by the throwing of woodblocks, triangles, maracas, egg shakers, drums and noisemakers of all shapes and sizes into the crowd. As you can imagine, there was a large commotion and then as Griffin began to sing and play his portable Yamaha, on the floor, silence……..THEN an amazing web of pretty well coordinated percussion. I was on some clocker sticks myself I felt they were pretty integral. As, I imagine most people felt of their own craft and the room was full with a warmth the other acts couldn’t muster.
It wasn’t just turning the audience into the band that made it so good. Wabash’s songs are very captivating. I haven’t yet finished his album, but it is much more bare from what I have heard. Just vocal and pianos mostly. Great production, courtesy of PJ records. So, I guess I will say for now: see him when you can and check out his myspace. Also, keep your eyes peeled in the collective releases because I get the feeling he would be happy to contribute.
P.S. If you live close to Decatur come see Wabash, Brother Bird, Milly Geronimo, Regal Standard, Good Night and Good Morning and me, Morgan Orion (I’m opening)!!!
Thursday, January 17th 7 PM
3280 E. Garfield Ave.
It’s going to be delicious!
http://www.myspace.com/griffineugeneiswabash
P.P.S I was going to mention something else, but it’s already Monday here. Well at least this is finished by the west coast deadline. I’ll save it for next week.
Love,
Morgan
It doesn’t normally rain in Los Angeles, and when it does, it’s generally laughable: light drizzle or that fine kind of mist that comes off of freshly poured soda. But lately, it’s been shitting rain in LA, slowing traffic, knocking down power lines, and generally making life a little more miserable. But I was fortunate enough to see Watercolor Paintings tonight. They performed in a quaint little gallery in Silverlake, and it helped us (the audience) forget the weather.
Rebecca and Josh Redman (that’s them by the artichoke) are the dynamic brother-sister duo that comprise Watercolor Paintings. They’re extremely kind and wonderful people, and if you get the chance to meet them you should. But if you don’t get that chance, you can still listen to their music. Rebecca writes beautiful pop songs that generally involve acoustic stringed instruments (harp and ukelele), but don’t exclude instruments such as toy drums and a children’s toy vocoder with an anarchy symbol scribbled on it.
More than any other band I’ve seen in recent years, Watercolor Paintings has mastered the art of the sing-a-long. With ease, they command whole choruses that will gladly and unabashedly do as told, singing whole songs that they have never even heard before. One example of this finely-honed craft is Watercolor Paintings’ “Tender Loving Care.” While the begins with an upbeat polka-like drum and uke combo, it quickly surges in to a triumphant chorus of TLC’s “I Don’t Want No Scrubs.” I’ve noticed that often times, people will join in not even really realizing that it’s TLC. They sing because they know the words, and they sing because they want to. It’s not an easy feat, but I believe that Watercolor Paintings pull it off on a nightly basis. And they don’t brag about it, either, because they’re eff-ing rad.
“Tender Loving Care” is an amazing song. Not only is it an honest song of young love and miscommunication; it cleverly co-opts T.L.C.’s 90s pop chart hit. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but if some part of you doesn’t enjoy some part of this song, then I think you’re dumb.
Real Live Tigers is so fuckin’ good. You don’t even know. Just like, fuckin’, listen to his shit, mane:
Real Live Tigers - This is Sometimes a Riverbed
Real Live Tigers - Winter Blues No. 1 (Spring is Found!)
In other news, the 001 collective is now home to lots of free recordings by lots of “free” musicians/bands, but if you head over to myspace.com/5432fun and scroll down to the “live recordings” section on the left side of the page, you’ll find tons of live recordings of amazing bands including Red Pony Clock, Watercolor Paintings, Little Wings, Real Live Tigers, Super Famicom, Redbear., Tinyfolk, The Robot Ate Me, Tinyfolk, Mt. Eerie, Cartoon Monster, Dear Nora, iji, Mirah, and more!!1 Not to mention you can listen to episodes of the actual 5432fun radio show, which plays all this shiz a lot.
