PERFORMING THIS SATURDAY 07/07/12 AT THE LAB IN SF:
Barn Owl featuring Jacob Felix Heule
Common Eider, King Eider
Sokai Stilhed (Seattle)
Saturday, July 7, 2012
8:30pm doors/ 9pm show
The Lab
$5 - $10 Sliding Scale
Barn Owl is a psychedelic drone band from San Francisco, California, USA, formed by Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras in 2006. The duo will be joined by Jacob Felix Heule on drums and percussion for a special improvised set. "Barn Owl makes densely layered guitar music that is equal parts heavy and beautiful." - Tomas Palermohttp://electrictotem.com/
The enigmatically titled Common Eider, King Eider exists as an ever shifting music and art collective, initially envisioned by founding member Rob Fisk. A transient musician, Fisk's membership in groups such as Deerhoof, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, and Badgerlore has been interspersed with sojourns living and working in Alaska; the landscape and wildlife of the area live on as a unifying thread of inspiration... The musical incarnation of the collective often takes the form of a quartet, with Fisk being joined by longtime Bay Area mover and shaker George Chen (K.I.T., Chen Santa-Maria, etc.), designer and musician Vicky Fong, and noise-maker Gregory Hagan (Pale Reverse, Grale, Thomas Carnacki, etc.). Exploring piano and viola led spacious improvisations, reverb-drenched choral vocal passages, through to sheets-of-noise guitar blowouts, the group restlessly vary arrangements and instrumentation, breathing continuous life into compositions.http://commoneiderkingeider.blogspot.com/
Sokai Stilhed
"Sokai Stilhed is the stage name for the soft-spoken Heather Cullen, whose vocal and sound-sculpting abilities should be taken quite seriously given the strength of her work. There's the perpetual crackle of old vinyl achieving a golden patina which accentuates her otherworldly reverberations; but most importantly is her voice which drawls haunting reconstructions of Appalachian psalms which crosshatch a world-weariness with a hallowed adoration for the divine. Even as she pushes her own voice deep in the recesses of the faux-tape compression and dreamily droning ambience, there is a potency and strength to her voice. Given the opportunity, she could belt out a bluesy, a capella number at a Baptist church that would give many people the shivers; but instead of that well-trod path, she fragments her own voice to complement the delicate artifacts" - Jim Haynes http://sokaistilhed.bandcamp.com/
http://sokaistilhed.blogspot.com/
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