Foggy Notions presents
DIRTY PROJECTORS
+YACHT
WHELAN’S, APRIL 30th
TICKETS FROM WAV/TICKETMASTER/CITY DISCS/ROAD RECORDS/TICKETS.IE
“Rise Above will drop plenty of jaws. Rise Above finally displays the perfect counterargument to the portrait of Longstreth as another nutso college dropout: It displays a pattern.” - Pitchfork
“The simplicity of Rise Above is foreign and refreshing; like Indian or African music, you can find comfort in not understanding how the sounds coalesce.” – Stylus Magazine
www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors
Dirty Projectors is the brainchild of musical mastermind David Longstreth. Over the past four years, the Brooklyn-based artist has fronted five different live incarnations of Dirty Projectors and has released four full-lengths and one EP spanning afro-pop, sub-fi folk and art punk. His first album, The Graceful Fallen Mango was released under his own name and introduced his distinctive arrangements of both lo-fi and hi-fi production. Longstreth released his first album as Dirty Projectors in 2003 entitled The Glad Fact (produced by Yume Bitsu’s Adam Forkner) with Western Vinyl. Slaves’ Graves and Ballads was his third proper full-length, classified as Dirty Projectors’ most accessible work. In 2005, he released The Getty Address, a concept album surrounding musician Don Henley – think Justin Timberlake and 19th century opera. Most recently he released Rise Above, a retelling of Black Flag's seminal punk album Damaged as re-imagined from memory.
“I didn't listen to the album or read the lyrics while I was doing it, and I hadn't heard the record since middle school. I relied on memory and intuition mostly. I wanted to see if I could make this album myself, not as plagiarism or mimicry, but as an original creative act. I did it because I thought it might be fun to stage my own theft of the punk rock spirit, like they did with new wave and grunge and American Idol. Only my doing it would be more like an observation than an action: not muscular at all: purposely useless, beautiful, like a witness.”
Rise Above resounds with a kind of elegant simplicity: beautiful interlocking guitar parts, gorgeous three-part vocal harmonies, and some great songwriting. Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear manned the knobs, giving Rise Above the same rich sound that he brought to his own band's acclaimed album Yellow House. Rise Above captures the inventiveness and raw power of Dirty Projectors' live arrangements at long last.
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YACHT’s Jona Bechtolt has plied his unique breed of laptop wizardry and grunge intuition to endless collaborations, both as drummer and producer, with mainstays like Panther, The Blow, Little Wings, Mt. Eerie, Bobby Birdman, Devendra Banhart, and E*Rock.
The songs that make up YACHT’s third solo album I Believe in You. (Your Magic is Real) (ERR/Marriage) travel well - they’re wide and warm-hearted, bouncing without pretension from iPod to turntable. Behind the beats and the choruses, which come from left-field and bloom into frenetic dance breaks, are big ideas about how positive thinking, optimism, and luck can replace blind faith in a world without a lot of white gloves, wands, or magic.
YACHT shows are uncluttered, inspiring sessions of improbable dance moves and synchronized crowd-waving; the songs shudder happily into the air, and any relationship to “laptop music” is shattered by Bechtolt’s own strain of shamanistic bombast.
www.marriagerecords.com <http://www.marriagerecords.com>
www.teamyacht.com <http://www.teamyacht.com>
DIRTY PROJECTORS
+YACHT
WHELAN’S, APRIL 30th
TICKETS FROM WAV/TICKETMASTER/CITY DISCS/ROAD RECORDS/TICKETS.IE
“Rise Above will drop plenty of jaws. Rise Above finally displays the perfect counterargument to the portrait of Longstreth as another nutso college dropout: It displays a pattern.” - Pitchfork
“The simplicity of Rise Above is foreign and refreshing; like Indian or African music, you can find comfort in not understanding how the sounds coalesce.” – Stylus Magazine
www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors
Dirty Projectors is the brainchild of musical mastermind David Longstreth. Over the past four years, the Brooklyn-based artist has fronted five different live incarnations of Dirty Projectors and has released four full-lengths and one EP spanning afro-pop, sub-fi folk and art punk. His first album, The Graceful Fallen Mango was released under his own name and introduced his distinctive arrangements of both lo-fi and hi-fi production. Longstreth released his first album as Dirty Projectors in 2003 entitled The Glad Fact (produced by Yume Bitsu’s Adam Forkner) with Western Vinyl. Slaves’ Graves and Ballads was his third proper full-length, classified as Dirty Projectors’ most accessible work. In 2005, he released The Getty Address, a concept album surrounding musician Don Henley – think Justin Timberlake and 19th century opera. Most recently he released Rise Above, a retelling of Black Flag's seminal punk album Damaged as re-imagined from memory.
“I didn't listen to the album or read the lyrics while I was doing it, and I hadn't heard the record since middle school. I relied on memory and intuition mostly. I wanted to see if I could make this album myself, not as plagiarism or mimicry, but as an original creative act. I did it because I thought it might be fun to stage my own theft of the punk rock spirit, like they did with new wave and grunge and American Idol. Only my doing it would be more like an observation than an action: not muscular at all: purposely useless, beautiful, like a witness.”
Rise Above resounds with a kind of elegant simplicity: beautiful interlocking guitar parts, gorgeous three-part vocal harmonies, and some great songwriting. Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear manned the knobs, giving Rise Above the same rich sound that he brought to his own band's acclaimed album Yellow House. Rise Above captures the inventiveness and raw power of Dirty Projectors' live arrangements at long last.
*********************************
YACHT’s Jona Bechtolt has plied his unique breed of laptop wizardry and grunge intuition to endless collaborations, both as drummer and producer, with mainstays like Panther, The Blow, Little Wings, Mt. Eerie, Bobby Birdman, Devendra Banhart, and E*Rock.
The songs that make up YACHT’s third solo album I Believe in You. (Your Magic is Real) (ERR/Marriage) travel well - they’re wide and warm-hearted, bouncing without pretension from iPod to turntable. Behind the beats and the choruses, which come from left-field and bloom into frenetic dance breaks, are big ideas about how positive thinking, optimism, and luck can replace blind faith in a world without a lot of white gloves, wands, or magic.
YACHT shows are uncluttered, inspiring sessions of improbable dance moves and synchronized crowd-waving; the songs shudder happily into the air, and any relationship to “laptop music” is shattered by Bechtolt’s own strain of shamanistic bombast.
www.marriagerecords.com <http://www.marriagerecords.com>
www.teamyacht.com <http://www.teamyacht.com>
I bet Yacht's great live.
