Johnny Brenda's - on to Rashomon
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Gemini Wolf rawked it at Johnny Brenda's last night! Awesome venue, awesome sound, awesome crowd. Thanks to everyone that came out. We got a really good recording, so we'll put a track or two up here soon, or over at MySpace. Speaking of mySpace, we have uploaded two rough-mixes of two tracks from our forthcoming album, Josiah. You can listen to blissed-out-tribal-freakout "(Bittersweet) Dirts)" and epic "Enganlements" right now, go forth and listen.
Next up for da wolf, is to work on the final three songs for the album as well as working on some new tunes for our live set. Our next live performance will be Feb. 9 playing at the monthly second Friday art / music and multi-media show at Art@Sophi. You can read about this mind-bending experience and see some photos from past Art@Sophi events on their website.
This weekend, the Rashomon Effect returns for its second installment with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd. I mentioned last week that this Rashomon is going to embrace the effects of silence and minimalism as an interpretation of movement and sound. The musicians are going to be same as last time, Mikronesia on synths and processed glockenspiel, music boxes and melodica, Bilwa on laptop and dub/delay effects and Helena Espvall (from the Espers and Vashti Bunyan's ensemble - an interesting side note, I noticed on her webpage, her next show after the Rashomon will be at Carnegie Hall, with Vashti Bunyan sharing the bill with Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, CocoRosie and Adem!!, so you can only image, we always blessed to be playing with someone as talented as Helena) on cello. The dancers will be Emily Sweeney, Rebecca Patek, Daniele Strawmyre, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Allison Lorenzen. We got a nice little review in the Philadelphia Weekly, you can read it here. For the record, any similarities between Bilwa and David Caruso are merely coincidental.
One last item I'm very excited about, is that I've been selected to perform as part of the American Composers Forum in SoundExchange_2007 with Pauline Oliveros and Roscoe Mitchell. I'm headed to a six hour workshop on the project this Saturday, so I'll know more about it next week. It's going to be the weekend of April 20-22 at theAnnenberg Center
Next up for da wolf, is to work on the final three songs for the album as well as working on some new tunes for our live set. Our next live performance will be Feb. 9 playing at the monthly second Friday art / music and multi-media show at Art@Sophi. You can read about this mind-bending experience and see some photos from past Art@Sophi events on their website.
This weekend, the Rashomon Effect returns for its second installment with Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd. I mentioned last week that this Rashomon is going to embrace the effects of silence and minimalism as an interpretation of movement and sound. The musicians are going to be same as last time, Mikronesia on synths and processed glockenspiel, music boxes and melodica, Bilwa on laptop and dub/delay effects and Helena Espvall (from the Espers and Vashti Bunyan's ensemble - an interesting side note, I noticed on her webpage, her next show after the Rashomon will be at Carnegie Hall, with Vashti Bunyan sharing the bill with Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, CocoRosie and Adem!!, so you can only image, we always blessed to be playing with someone as talented as Helena) on cello. The dancers will be Emily Sweeney, Rebecca Patek, Daniele Strawmyre, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Allison Lorenzen. We got a nice little review in the Philadelphia Weekly, you can read it here. For the record, any similarities between Bilwa and David Caruso are merely coincidental.
One last item I'm very excited about, is that I've been selected to perform as part of the American Composers Forum in SoundExchange_2007 with Pauline Oliveros and Roscoe Mitchell. I'm headed to a six hour workshop on the project this Saturday, so I'll know more about it next week. It's going to be the weekend of April 20-22 at the