tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51107265103339051412024-03-05T07:50:08.245-08:00sokai stilhedSokai Stilhedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05454730969028227985noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110726510333905141.post-57354873610593837192012-07-02T13:20:00.002-07:002012-07-02T13:21:45.806-07:00Performing this SATURDAY 07/07/12<br />
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;">PERFORMING THIS SATURDAY 07/07/12 AT THE LAB IN SF:</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Barn Owl featuring Jacob Felix Heule<br /> Common Eider, King Eider<br /> Sokai Stilhed (Seattle)</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Saturday, July 7, 2012<br /> 8:30pm doors/ 9pm show<br /> The Lab<br /> $5 - $10 Sliding Scale</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Barn Owl</strong> 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 Palermo</span></span><a href="http://electrictotem.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">http://electrictotem.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">The enigmatically titled <strong>Common Eider, King Eider</strong> 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.</span><a href="http://commoneiderkingeider.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">http://commoneiderkingeider.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Sokai Stilhed</strong><br /> "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 </span></span><a href="http://e2ma.net/go/11075663180/208923747/234462434/1407975/goto:http://sokaistilhed.bandcamp.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">http://sokaistilhed.bandcamp.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">--</span>Sokai Stilhedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05454730969028227985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110726510333905141.post-5024644675420325062012-06-20T21:07:00.001-07:002012-06-20T21:07:28.291-07:00Performance at The Lab<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">I will be performing July 7, 2012 at The Lab in SF, California</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">doors at 8:30pm</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Lab<br /> 2948 16th Street<br /> San Francisco, CA</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">For details click</span><span style="color: cyan;"> </span><a href="http://www.thelab.org/schedule/events/608-common-eider-king-eider-barn-owl-featuring-jacob-felix-heule-sokai-stilhed.html"><span style="color: cyan;">here</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Also performing will be:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Barn Owl featuring Jacob Felix Heule</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Common Eider, King Eider</span><br />Sokai Stilhedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05454730969028227985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110726510333905141.post-69076012640427673172012-04-25T13:36:00.002-07:002012-04-25T13:39:27.787-07:00new music<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">I now have a </span><a href="http://www.sokaistilhed.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">bandcamp site</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">I also have come up with a new album. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">It is a mix of four songs that I didn't quite know what to do with and therefore decided to give them away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">You can either download the whole thing free off of my bandcamp </span><a href="http://www.sokaistilhed.bandcamp.com/"><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">site</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">You can go to </span><a href="http://www.wosound.com/"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Wall of Sound</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> and ask to recieve a free hardcopy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">I also will have a slew of hardcopies on hand that I'll give away whenever I perform.</span>Sokai Stilhedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05454730969028227985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110726510333905141.post-46510939094705077912011-11-02T00:02:00.000-07:002011-11-02T00:02:13.235-07:00A Tribute to Harry Smith and the Anthology of American Folk Music<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">I've contributed a song to Ball of Wax's Volume 26 which serves as a tribute to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Everett_Smith"><span style="color: cyan;">Harry Everett Smith</span></a>, American archivist and ethnomusicologist and native to Bellingham, WA, who was responsible for compiling the great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_of_American_Folk_Music"><span style="color: cyan;">Anthology of American Folk Music</span></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://ballofwax.org/2011/10/ball-of-wax-26-a-tribute-to-harry-smith-and-the-anthology-of-american-folk-music-1125-at-the-columbia-city-theater/"><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly</span></a> has partnered up with <a href="http://americanstandardtime.com/"><span style="color: cyan;">American Standard Time</span></a> and <a href="http://www.hearthmusic.com/"><span style="color: cyan;">Hearth Music</span></a>, to present a music performance celebrating the release of the tribute album, featuring many artists, including myself. The performance will be held at the <a href="http://www.columbiacitytheater.com/"><span style="color: cyan;">Columbia</span> <span style="color: cyan;">City Theater</span></a> on November 25th, 2011 at 8:00pm. For details, info and tickets please go <a href="http://strangertickets.com/location/4322704/columbia-city-theater"><span style="color: cyan;">here</span></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;">It is going to be a great night.</span><br />
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<a href="http://hangedman.bandcamp.com/track/city-of-love" style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">I contributed a song</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></div><a href="http://devdformats.blogspot.com/2011/08/hanged-man-vol-1-cs.html" style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Dead Formats wrote up an awesome review</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
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<a href="http://digestblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/hangedman-vol-1-cs-comp.html"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-small;">PRISONFOOD also wrote up an awesome review.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I've self released a third album. The title is called Record. Eventually I plan on re-releasing it on custom vinyl. The packaging is handmade per usual. I use materials from old RCA record albums of the 1920's and 30's and materials from old photo albums, as well as pages of a train ticket receipt book. Each one includes a photo that I took from around town, along with its corresponding negative on the cover. The whole packaging corresponds with Record keeping. The album includes a track of myself and my mother singing. This one is mostly different from the first two released albums. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You can purchase the album online or in person from Wall of Sound www.wosound.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">or you can write to me directly and I will send you a copy for trade.</span></div>
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