BARN OWL (Usa/Thrill Jockey) & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA (Usa /Type) :The Joinery, 28 April (1 Viewer)

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Skinny Wolves Presents:

BARN OWL (Usa, Thrill Jockey )
/ JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA (Usa, Type Records)
w/ EAMONN BAILEY


Thursday 28th April
The Joinery, Arbor Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin 8


☠☠☠ THIS IS A BRING YOUR OWN BOOZE EVENT ☠☠☠


Doors : 8PM / Tickets 10e from
www.tickets.ie/skinnywolves

San Franciscos BARN OWLs hypnotic psychedelic shoegaze drone and black metal atmospherics evoke the likes of Earth, Flying Saucer Attack, Popol Vuh & Sunn 0))) while ex Tarental and Alps member Jefre Cantu-Ledesma journeys into the beautifully cacophonous worlds of shoegaze, drone and soundscaping dream pop noise.


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BARN OWL (Usa, Thrill Jockey )


http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=12625


VIDEO :
http://vimeo.com/13590725

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Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) met in San Francisco in 2006 and immediately started playing music together. Over the next four years, the two gradually sculpted a vast collection of hazy desert sky meditations – ominous, barren expanses of music for desert walks at dusk, and dark, pastoral passages embellished with psychedelic and atmospheric wash. A mixture between devotional ragas and dusty stomp with atmosphere and production that references shoegaze and black metal influences.


Ancestral Star, their third LP, marks the evolution of the Barn Owl sound into a territory where it has become wholly its own, transcending the sum of its influences and taking on a life of its own. At the same time, it is a more realized extension of that sound. Caminiti and Porras paid close attention to the composition of each track and its flow within the album as a whole. Engaging throughout, every moment contributes to an overall feeling of mysterious desert expanse and a sonic narrative that unfurls like a cinematic metaphysical western.




Recorded by The Norman Conquest in the fall of 2009, this was the first time that Barn Owl were able to take their time in a professional studio, fine tuning and honing the pieces over the span of a couple months. The majority of the tracks were recorded live to tape and were a mix of composed and improvised elements. The near limitless options, as far as equipment and microphones were concerned, allowed the band to shape and refine the definition of the Barn Owl sound. The extra time in the studio also allowed for other textural embellishments. Marielle Jakobsons (of
Darwinsbitch, Date Palms, Myrmyr) contributed violin to “Flatlands” and “Awakening” which gave the two pieces a heavier Americana vibe and really enriched the sonic palette. The Norman Conquest lent vocals to several tracks and also played modular synth through a Marshall half-stack that added a nice low end to the title track. On “Incantation”, an ensemble that Caminiti and Porras are members of called Portraits, played gong, bells, singing bowls, and other percussive metals which really lends to the ritualistic feeling of the piece. At the very least, there are 10 people playing on the track. Ancestral Star also acts as the first album in which bowed guitar is heavily explored.

In addition to having put out several releases on labels such as Root Strata, Digitalis, Not Not Fun, and Blackest Rainbow, the band also has a collaboration album called Barn Owl and the Infinite Strings Ensemble on Important Records in the works. Caminiti continues to work in visual art (illustration and printmaking mostly) and release records under his own name as well as with Lisa McGee in Higuma. Porras is a photographer and also releases solo material and has another project called Elm. Ancestral Star will be available as a CD and an LP with download and the band will be touring in support of the record this fall on the East Coast and early next year in Europe.



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JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA (Usa, Type Records)


http://www.myspace.com/jcledesma

http://www.shiningskull.org/


Listen to the LP here :
http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/jefre-cantu-ledesma-love-is-a-stream



As a member of San Francisco legends Tarentel and Type’s premier astral travellers The Alps, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is hardly a new addition to the label, so it’s hard to believe that ‘Love Is A Stream’ is his first Type solo album. Previously releasing on Arbor, Spekk and his own Root Strata imprint, this latest album marks his journey into the beautifully cacophonous world of dream pop.


Shoegaze music has been much maligned in recent years, probably due to its rebirth and subsequent explosion of popularity (which gave rise to hundreds of young bands aping the over twenty-year-old sound). However it was only a fragment of the genre that these bands attempted to re-create, and on ‘Love Is A Stream’ Cantu, instead of focusing on tired weeping melancholy ballads, focuses solely on expansive, almost noise-ridden hopefulness. This is the kind of noise we fell in love with when My Bloody Valentine blew our ear drums performing ‘Loveless’, or the kind of harmonic excess we heard on hundredth listen to Catherine Wheel’s ‘Ferment’, but taken into deeper, more abstract realms.


‘Love Is A Stream’ is dedicated to love itself, and the dreamy, shimmering blown-out textures might at first sound like white noise before they ultimately give way to blissful harmony and hidden melody. Underneath the grit and growl are hidden guitar parts, synthesizer drones and even vocals (provided by Lisa McGee, John Twells and Maxwell August Croy) that succeed in swelling the dense, tape-saturated songs to heady new heights and belie any influences they might have. On each listen the mind strips away another layer of dust and bones to reveal haunting and deeply moving beauty.


The world might be spiralling into despair, but Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has brought us a record that isn’t afraid to share the love. All that’s left to do is drown in it.

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EAMONN BAILEY

http://www.myspace.com/eamonnbailey

With an interest in loops,slowly shifting drones,patterns and repitition, Eamonn Bailey blends fragments of strings and shards of fuzz together to create soundscapes both narcotic and unnerving.

 
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EAMONN BAILEY

http://www.myspace.com/eamonnbailey

With an interest in loops,slowly shifting drones,patterns and repitition, Eamonn Bailey blends fragments of strings and shards of fuzz together to create soundscapes both narcotic and unnerving.


oh hai Jimmybreeze!
 
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EAMONN BAILEY

http://www.myspace.com/eamonnbailey

With an interest in loops,slowly shifting drones,patterns and repitition, Eamonn Bailey blends fragments of strings and shards of fuzz together to create soundscapes both narcotic and unnerving.


AAAAAAAGH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Look at the head on him!

Mega LOLs
 
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Skinny Wolves Presents:

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EAMONN BAILEY

http://www.myspace.com/eamonnbailey

With an interest in loops,slowly shifting drones,patterns and repitition, Eamonn Bailey blends fragments of strings and shards of fuzz together to create soundscapes both narcotic and unnerving.


'unnerving' being the operative word. don't go to this show unless you're prepared as an audience member to get a good eye-balling from the opening act!
 
Re: BARN OWL (Usa/Thrill Jockey) & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA (Usa /Type) :The Joinery, 28 A

What timeses do bandses be playing at dis? No nitelinks :(
 
Re: BARN OWL (Usa/Thrill Jockey) & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA (Usa /Type) :The Joinery, 28 A

Will there be tickets on the door for this? Cheers
 
Re: BARN OWL (Usa/Thrill Jockey) & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA (Usa /Type) :The Joinery, 28 A

Barn Owl were incredible, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma was deadly as well - the man obviously has a few Slowdive LPs in his collection.
 

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