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Showing posts with label show. Show all posts
4/12/09
4/10/09
4/8/09
SATURDAY! EPIC PERGS SHOW!
Not to be missed for Santa Cruzans (Cruzians?)! I feel tingly just thinking about sharing the stage with these three acts.
4/6/09
This coming MONDAY night, 4/13
So epic. I've seen Cloud Archive twice recently and they can take you from ambience to heavience in like 3 seconds flat.
4/4/09
4/1/09
FRIDAY! Palm Yard at 811
Palm Yard will be unleashing some shed jams at 7:30, last Monsters from Mars show for a while, James Rabbit is an ecstatic joyful explosion.
3/28/09
3/27/09
WHYSP show tonight
Psych folk piper at the gates of dawn mystical natural 20 strings 2 percussionists smoke weed
3/12/09
Pics/Review: Efterklang, Peter Broderick, Cloud Archive, 3/8/09, Bottom of the Hill
Cloud Archive
Cloud Archive are an ambient post-rock band, leaning more towards an aggressive alt-rock sound than the heavily textured ethereal indulgence that most of their peers dwell in. Whether this is good or not is up to you, I happen to like that this is a band taking the approach of Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky, yet their influences are probably closer to Sublime or Nirvana.
The last time I saw them was at the Bike Church in Santa Cruz, and they really rocked the place, but this show was slightly more subdued. The songs hung on ambient interludes, building ambience before bursting forth in glorious distortion.
Peter Broderick
I'll be honest, when Peter was setting up I was preparing to sit at the bar till Efterklang played. I'm not a big fan of singer songwriters, especially not those who play solo with keys or guitars. His first song started simple, just guitar and voice; he made it through a verse or two before the scene changed. He hastily stomped on a looping pedal, dropped the guitar, and started pacing the stage, adding loop after loop of lush violin.
Each song demonstrated immense creativity with the looper, I definitely got a lot of ideas that I want to steal from him. Two things really stuck out:
1. He started one song by saying, "Thanks, this is a song my grandfather used to sing to me", he plays a short little tune, hits the looper, and it starts over again "Thanks, this is a song...". But that loop captured the energy and ambience of the audience, who had just clapped for the previous song and were eagerly awaiting the next. Maybe I'm not explaining it well enough, but somehow the dude captured the feeling of ending one song and starting another live, and incorporated it into a beautiful tune.
2. Looping his I LUV SF OMG spiel over itself over and over again. I burst out laughing.
Efterklang
I missed these guys last time they came through town, and definitely had to catch them this time around. The sound was absolutely gorgeous, all the songs from their albums were either re-created perfectly or improved on. I wasn't sure how they'd handle the glitchy beats of their earlier releases, but a dedicated Laptop-ist was rocking the mixer with a level of expression I rarely see among traditional musicians. With the amount of knob twisting I saw him do I doubt any of the loops ever repeated once without some filter being spun, some frequency range cut out.
They played 4 or 5 new songs, which were all very good, although they sound far less like big-band Victorian glitch pop and more like American rock music.
Oh and they played Caravan which was all I cared about. Some ass kept yelling for Polygyne during every song break. But Casper from Efterklang managed to skillfully deflect or ignore him every time.
Cloud Archive are an ambient post-rock band, leaning more towards an aggressive alt-rock sound than the heavily textured ethereal indulgence that most of their peers dwell in. Whether this is good or not is up to you, I happen to like that this is a band taking the approach of Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky, yet their influences are probably closer to Sublime or Nirvana.
The last time I saw them was at the Bike Church in Santa Cruz, and they really rocked the place, but this show was slightly more subdued. The songs hung on ambient interludes, building ambience before bursting forth in glorious distortion.
Peter Broderick
I'll be honest, when Peter was setting up I was preparing to sit at the bar till Efterklang played. I'm not a big fan of singer songwriters, especially not those who play solo with keys or guitars. His first song started simple, just guitar and voice; he made it through a verse or two before the scene changed. He hastily stomped on a looping pedal, dropped the guitar, and started pacing the stage, adding loop after loop of lush violin.
Each song demonstrated immense creativity with the looper, I definitely got a lot of ideas that I want to steal from him. Two things really stuck out:
1. He started one song by saying, "Thanks, this is a song my grandfather used to sing to me", he plays a short little tune, hits the looper, and it starts over again "Thanks, this is a song...". But that loop captured the energy and ambience of the audience, who had just clapped for the previous song and were eagerly awaiting the next. Maybe I'm not explaining it well enough, but somehow the dude captured the feeling of ending one song and starting another live, and incorporated it into a beautiful tune.
2. Looping his I LUV SF OMG spiel over itself over and over again. I burst out laughing.
Efterklang
I missed these guys last time they came through town, and definitely had to catch them this time around. The sound was absolutely gorgeous, all the songs from their albums were either re-created perfectly or improved on. I wasn't sure how they'd handle the glitchy beats of their earlier releases, but a dedicated Laptop-ist was rocking the mixer with a level of expression I rarely see among traditional musicians. With the amount of knob twisting I saw him do I doubt any of the loops ever repeated once without some filter being spun, some frequency range cut out.
They played 4 or 5 new songs, which were all very good, although they sound far less like big-band Victorian glitch pop and more like American rock music.
Oh and they played Caravan which was all I cared about. Some ass kept yelling for Polygyne during every song break. But Casper from Efterklang managed to skillfully deflect or ignore him every time.
3/1/09
BrownIrish/ManimalHospital/ElectricLeaves, Blue Lagoon, 2/27/09
Brown Irish
Joey's vocals and piano work were both pretty and catchy, sometimes epic, and they fit seamlessly into the rhythms that Matt and Peter were putting out. You could dance, or you could rock out, or you could admire the musicianship. The sound is nostalgic of some general period in popular music between the invention of the Fender Rhodes and 1992. Very polyphonic rock power trio.
Mountain Animal Hospital
These guys were still as tight as ever after a few months off due to an injury involving alcohol and a bicycle. The new songs have a much more defined "Manimal" sound, and they played an epic slow song that I should have been high for. The dudes are pros. I went up front towards the end of their set to stare lustfully at Chris' pedal board; some sort of POG->distortion combination was making lovely sitar tones.
Electric Leaves
Very stripped down pop music with really really fast drumming. I had played samples in a 6 person incarnation of this band a few weeks ago, and hearing the songs performed by a duo was very refreshing after the wall of noise.
Click on any of the images to see more on my Flickr page.
2/27/09
2/16/09
Au live
Au at Cafe Pergolesi, Santa Cruz, 2/13/09
Au on Myspace
Au goes from playing beautiful sing along melodies to insane cathartic noise in an instant. This sort of extreme dynamic shifting is usually reserved for epic post-rock bands, yet somehow two guys from Portland, (with drums, synth, slide guitar, and sampler) can fill a room with this ecstatic happy pop explosion music. Many jaws were dropped at Pergs.
The chain on the cymbal was a very nice touch, as well as the broken metal junk and t-shirt for the snare drum. I definitely need a set of colored bells. Probably should have been taken notes...
What in the hell was that sampler doing? He started it for the first beat on the first song and then I couldn't tell what was what.
Video from Brian, who also set up the show:
Summer Heat from This Is Not A Record Label on Vimeo.
Note: crazy-eyed dude who came into get coffee and ended up crawling up to the drummer and watching the whole show.
I caught the last half of the Luis Guitee set, which looked insane, but the bass wasn't carrying through to the entrance area so all I could hear was insane drumming over deep ambience.
2/12/09
Collecting Dead Trees.
I have about 1/3 of the doors covered in wheatpasted flyers, dating back like 6 months or so.
2/11/09
Shows this weekend
FRIDAY
Au and Luis Guitee & Friends at the Perg
SATURDAY
Happy Meal and Bella Somna at the Britannia Arms
SUNDAY
Shivers and Hermit Convention at the Crepe
Au and Luis Guitee & Friends at the Perg
SATURDAY
Happy Meal and Bella Somna at the Britannia Arms
SUNDAY
Shivers and Hermit Convention at the Crepe
1/8/09
SHOW: Saturday 1/17/09 Cafe Pergolesi
ART:
TAPES:
We'll have copies of the SAS/SDGB split cassette, and other tapes, for $2 a cassette, 3 for $5
MYSPACE:
Surplus Audio Supply
I.E.
Sad Dads Gone Bad
ALSO:
Go to pergs for MAH and Silian Rail and New Bengal Spice the night before
TAPES:
We'll have copies of the SAS/SDGB split cassette, and other tapes, for $2 a cassette, 3 for $5
MYSPACE:
Surplus Audio Supply
I.E.
Sad Dads Gone Bad
ALSO:
Go to pergs for MAH and Silian Rail and New Bengal Spice the night before
1/6/09
The santa cruz scene exploded...err something
I am excited and amazed by all the shows going on in Santa Cruz this month, I wanted to list them all in one place for enhanced visual effect:
1/6 Animal Collective listening part at Metamusic/ Andrew Jackson Jihad at the Crepe
1/7 James Rabbit/Sunshine Factory/Brown and Blue/Yetis on Film at Storey st.
1/8 Stephen Steinbrink/New Bengal Spice/World Wide Computer God at Zami
1/9 Fell Voices at Pergs
1/10 Campfire at Storey st.
1/16 Room For A Ghost/Kamm/Mangled Bohemians at Metamusic AND Mountain Animal Hospital/New Bengal Spice at Pergs
1/17 Surplus Audio Supply (anomie)/i.e./Sad Dads Gone Bad at Pergs
1/19 Peter and the Wolf, Johanna Lefever, Hod, Golden Bandat 811
1/21 Brown Irish, Bro Montana, and Depth Charge Revolt at the Blue
1/31 Battle /MTN\ and /MTN\ Animal Hospital at the Crepe.
There goes my nights and weekends.. I'll add more shows to this entry as they pop up.
1/6 Animal Collective listening part at Metamusic/ Andrew Jackson Jihad at the Crepe
1/7 James Rabbit/Sunshine Factory/Brown and Blue/Yetis on Film at Storey st.
1/8 Stephen Steinbrink/New Bengal Spice/World Wide Computer God at Zami
1/9 Fell Voices at Pergs
1/10 Campfire at Storey st.
1/16 Room For A Ghost/Kamm/Mangled Bohemians at Metamusic AND Mountain Animal Hospital/New Bengal Spice at Pergs
1/17 Surplus Audio Supply (anomie)/i.e./Sad Dads Gone Bad at Pergs
1/19 Peter and the Wolf, Johanna Lefever, Hod, Golden Bandat 811
1/21 Brown Irish, Bro Montana, and Depth Charge Revolt at the Blue
1/31 Battle /MTN\ and /MTN\ Animal Hospital at the Crepe.
There goes my nights and weekends.. I'll add more shows to this entry as they pop up.
12/22/08
[video] C.P. Willsea Live at Metamusic Records
C.P. Wilsea from This Is Not A Record Label on Vimeo.
Items used: Squier bass, Ampeg tube combo amp, two fifteen watt practice amps, Boss sp-505, rc-2, oc-2, bf-2, xt, cello bow, drum stick.
Tracks played:
1. Baked Alaska (for William S. Burroughs)
2. The West
3. Cut-Up Technique
Thanks to Brian for filming, and to John for letting us making atrocious sound in his store!
12/4/08
12/5/08 c.p.willsea playing at Metamusic Records
KAMM is a very impressive noise rig. Young Fiction is a dude and a sweet guitar and a lot of keys. c.p.willsea hits shit with hammers and plays hits with samplers.
FRIDAY december 5th, 2008. 8pm, METAMUSIC RECORDS, 320 cedar. st. Santa Cruz, CA FREEEEEEEEE
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