Posts Tagged ‘Glaciers’

If You Could See This Song XVIII (Noise Pop Edition)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

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[mp3] Tape Deck Mountain – Ghost Colony from Ghost (2009)

CITAY / SCOUT NIBLETT
WITH: GREG ASHLEY, TAPE DECK MOUNTAIN
CAFE DU NORD
Doors: 7:00 PM, Show: 8:00 PM
Adv: $12, Door: $14 / 21+

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[mp3] Nice Nice – Nein from Chrome (2003)

ATLAS SOUND
WITH: GEOGRAPHER, MAGIC WANDS, NICE NICE
GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL
Doors: 7:00 PM, Show: 8:00 PM
Adv: $16, Door: $18 / All Ages

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[mp3] Battlehooch – Somersaults from Upcoming BATTLEHOOCH LP (2010)

PRESENTED BY LIVE 105
WALLPAPER / THE LIMOUSINES
WITH: BUTTERFLY BONES, BATTLEHOOCH
SLIM’S
Doors: 7:00 PM, Show: 8:00 PM
Adv: $14, Door: $14 / All Ages

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[mp3] Birds Fled From Me – Staring at the Sea from Deeper Lurking (2009)

KALX PRESENTS
BLACK PRAIRIE
WITH: TRAINWRECK RIDERS, BILLY & DOLLY, BIRDS FLED FROM ME
RICKSHAW STOP
Doors: 8:00 PM, Show: 8:30 PM
Adv: $14, Door: $14 / All Ages

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[mp3] NewVillager – Rich Doors from Rich Doors 7″ (2010)

FOUR TET
WITH: NATHAN FAKE, RAINBOW ARABIA, NEWVILLAGER
THE INDEPENDENT
Doors: 7:00 PM, Show: 8:00 PM
Adv: $16, Door: $18 / 21+

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[mp3] Glaciers – Southern Passage from And The Sea Won The Battle (2009)

SCISSORS FOR LEFTY / JUDGEMENT DAY
WITH: GHOST AND THE CITY, GLACIERS
BOTTOM OF THE HILL
Doors: 8:00 PM, Show: 9:00 PM
Adv: $12, Door: $12 / All Ages

Tags: Battlehooch, Birds Fled From Me, Glaciers, If You Could See This Song, NewVillager, Nice Nice, noise pop, Noise Pop 2010, Noise Pop Festival, Tape Deck Mountain
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show review: Gifts From Enola / Glaciers / Winfred E Eye

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Gifts From Enola

It was already late at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, so I was really hoping tonight would be a success despite the venue being half full. Two decent bands proceeded instrumental act Gifts From Enola.

Winfred E. Eye

First up was Winfred E. Eye with their barn-burning hoedowns and in the Pogues-ian joyous-noise (a stomping “Lil Peck”) and sweetly downered folkadelic intropsection (a Wilco-ian “Two Baby Moths”). It was an interesting set…I might want to see them again.

Glaciers

Next up was the Melvins inspired instrumental act, Glaciers. Glaciers‘ soundscapes were intriguing, alternating between a thunderously apocalyptic atmosphere and almost dream-like drones. Unfortunately, the band sometimes seemed lazy and bored, leaving some people nodding their heads to the mindlessly grinding rock music. It was quite good, but even during their set, it felt like an appetizer for the headlining act.

Gifts From Enola

Rolling out huge equipment and several lights, it was a clear signal that Gifts From Enola were going to be louder than any band you’re likely to see outside of a stadium. Fortunately they were never loud for the sake of being loud. They were not, for instance, as blisteringly face-melting as Isis. But they did play music as sonically rich and heavy. You might call their sound a gloriously abrasive flood of dense guitar atmospheres across the sonic spectrum.

Gifts From Enola

Some might wish they were a metal band, but they were too far outside the box on their song dynamics and their penchant for creating ambient stretches inside their songs. Playing some of their greatest song from both their latest onslaught ‘From Fathoms’ (buy) and their debut ‘Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind (buy),’ the band barely paused between songs, making the entire experience feel more like a journey rather than a tiny concert in tiny venue. They clearly cared about mood and how their sounds affected the listener emotionally and not merely if they were rocking harder than anyone had ever seen before.

Gifts From Enola

The drummer, though, made their overall sound a lot more organic since he didn’t just play as fast and as furiously as he could. He went for a more tribal sound that always packs more of a punch rather than some acts that think they need to just assail us with double-kick rolls. That kind of thing doesn’t hit you hard — knowing when to use all your components does, and this band knew how to do it. Sure, they ran into a technical issue with the lights out about halfway through their set but they leapt that chasm and showed us how you can use aggression creatively in music while also stirring the body, heart, and imagination.

Gifts From Enola – Benthos

Gifts From Enola – Screaming At Anything That Moved

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This Week In Bay Area Live Shows: July 13th -18th

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Monday edition! Okay yeah I’m late on the Bay Area post but if you saw how my weekend went you’d understand. Anyway, if you made it out to the Laura Stevenson show last night, consider yourself lucky, she’s a special gal. Keep an eye on her. Okay, lets get started!

Tonight Coldplay heads over to the Shoreline Amphitheatre to entertain the white people, post rock heroes Tortoise and Pit Er Pat are leaving the The Great American Music Hall in awe, folk metal band Wolves in the Throne Room hit up Slim’s, Tori Amos plays the Paramount Theatre in Oakland and the San Jose Center For The Performing Arts on Tuesday, also Summer Cats and Magic Bullets perform at The Knockout tonight, New Zealand rockers The Veils and indie pop act Foreign Born crash the Bottom of the Hill.

Tuesday features Blonde Redhead at The Independent for two nights, the beautifully reunited Azure Ray play Nickel City Arcade in San Jose, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head rocks Café du Nord,…oh yeah and some website called Kata Rokkar presents post rockers Gifts From Enola with Winfred E. Eye and Glaciers. That should be fucking awesome!

Wednesday we have the lovely Laura Veirs at Café du Nord, instrumental group Pink Mountain play San Francisco’s Amoeba Records at 6pm, and Tears for Fears stop by the Mountain Winery in Saratoga.

The Mission Creek Music Festival featuring Judgement Day, Evangelista, Ann Magnuson, Jessie Evans, Shogun Kuntoki, William Winant, Weasle Walter, Moe!, Staiano Trio, Pop Noir, Ink Blots, Nacotheque, Juan Son, Curly Lou, Clara Gustavson, Dead Meadow, Xoel Lopez, Mranda Lee Richards, the Extra Action Marching Band and many many others will be pretty much all over the city from the 15th to the 22nd of July. More on that later on in the week.

Also going on this week is the The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival with Amanda Palmer, Lucero, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Loco Bloco, etc. I had no idea what this was until just now. It looks wild. The event will take place In Oakland right off the West Grand Avenue exit, between at the Oakland Army Base and the East Bay MUD Facility, at the corner of Wake Avenue and Engineer Road.

Thursday will have me visiting the Great American Music Hall to see Azure Ray and Cursive’s Tim Kasher. It wil a nice evening of calm heartfelt music on O’Farrell Street. Psychedelic rocks Thee Oh Sees with Meth Teeth (best band name?) at The Eagle Tavern, and indie punkers Girl in a Coma play the Bottom of the Hill.

Friday, Brand New returns with Dios at Slim’s, Infected Mushroom plays at The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center, thrash rocks Sabertooth Zombie rip-up 924 Gilman St., indie hip-hoppers Cage and Yak Ballz come to destroy The Great American Music Hall, THE VERY BEST (Radioclit & Esau Mwamwaya) come to party it up at Mighty, noise rockers Pterodactyl perform at the Hemlock Tavern, and the Great Northern and Eulogies show at Mezzanine is canceled.

Saturday, progressive art rocks Water & Bodies and Ambiance play the Hotel Utah, lounge DJ Bonobo will be at Mighty, and Three Mile Pilot crashes at the Bottom of the Hill.

Oh and hang out with Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth at the San Francisco Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY concert on July 18th at Davies Symphony Hall.

Lots going on. See you out there!

Water & Bodies – Something I Can Grasp

Azure Ray – If You Fail

Blonde Redhead – 23

Foreign Born – Early Warnings

Tags: Amanda Palmer, Ann Magnuson, Azure Ray, Clara Gustavson, Coldplay, Curly Lou, Dead Meadow, Evangelista, Gifts From Enola, Glaciers, Ink Blots, Jessie Evans, Juan Son, Judgement Day, Loco Bloco, Lucero, Moe!, Mranda Lee Richards, Nacotheque, Poor Man's Whiskey, Pop Noir, San Francisco Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, Shogun Kuntoki, Staiano Trio, The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival, the Extra Action Marching Band, The Mission Creek Music Festival, Tortoise, Water & Bodies, Weasle Walter, William Winant, Winfred E. Eye, Wolves in the Throne Room, Xoel Lopez
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Kata Rokkar Presents…Gifts From Enola / Glaciers / Winfred E. Eye

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Gifts From Enola

Sometimes Virginia based instrumental act Gifts From Enola start with a whisper and end with a scream, but on their latest album, ‘From Fathoms’, they begin with a scream and proceed into a symphonic odyssey that Aaron Copland might have composed if he’d played electric guitar. The sophomore effort from this band of epic-style prog-rockers, ‘From Fathoms’ was released on June 9th–and changes all preexisting assumptions of what ‘experimental post rock’ is supposed to sound like. Intense, instrumental music infused with fatalistic affect, this is a requiem for a planet. Expressionist, it recalls a simmering Arctic landscape placid for days, suddenly punctuated by a punishing electrical storm. Playing like a symphony in eight movements, the album is composed entirely of bass, guitar, and drums. A moody but gorgeous album infused with youthful sincerity, it is cinematic in scope with soothing soundscapes of atmospheric, ambient, and shimmering chimes interspersed with crashing interludes of heavy metal-style guitar explosions and drums with intricate time signatures. File under post-rock . . . or modern composition.

Gifts From Enola – Weightless Frame

Gifts From Enola -Benthos

Glaciers

Glaciers is the project of British musician and illustrator Nicolas Burrows, based in Leeds, UK and Montreal, QC. The material was originally initiated to create songs for a 6-track ep, released on Nous Vous Press in 2007. Glaciers is intended to be a collaborative musical outfit, with contributors so far including Mike Payne (Mechanical Owl), William Edmonds (VFT) and Katie Harkin (Sky Larkin). The songs are often based on sketchbook material built up over several months and eventually worked into songs. He is currently already working on his next album with Mike Payne as of May 11th. We look forward to see what arises.

Glaciers - How Long

Winfred E. Eye

Oakland based act Winfred E. Eye’s (which is actually 4 guys) music defies description except to say it is coming from somewhere steeped in early blues with a Neil Young overlay and the feel of country, blues, pop, and folk. Some would point to Tom Waits and others as Winfred E. Eye’s forbearers, but the muse here is genuinely unique and the sounds are those that only budding geniuses could make. Winfred E. Eye’s music features deft, poised guitar playing, vivid lyrical imagery, and melodies that burrow into your brain–as if they’d been there all along.

Winfred E. Eye - Lil Peck

Winfred E. Eye – Two Baby Moths

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This Week In Bay Area Shows

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

I’ve got company coming by this week so hopefully I can drag them to the God is an Astronaut show over at the Bottom of the Hill this week. If not, I won’t be too upset. I’m already going to see Jonah Matranga and Kevin Seconds rock out on Tuesday and then catch the Jets vs 49ers game on Sunday. I have no shortage of things to do, so neither should you. Here are some reasons to leave the house this week.

Sunday (Today):

The Herbaliser (full band set) plus DJ Shortkut
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

Monday:

Jaz Sawyer Presents Bay Area All-Stars
Yoshi’s San Francisco
1330 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

Tuesday:

The Sea and Cake / The Uglysuit
The Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

Jonah Matranga / Kevin Seconds / Christopher Fairman
Café du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114

Wednesday:

Oasis / Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Oracle Arena
7000 Coliseum Way
Oakland, CA 94621

Wu-Tang Clan
Regency Center Grand Ballroom
1290 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94109

Thursday:

Sébastien Tellier / Hearts Revolution / lilofee
Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street @ Mint
San Francisco, CA 94103