Deaglan
New Member
POD Concerts & Trends Lab presents
ESPERS
Support: tba
Wednesday April 25th
Crawdaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €12.25 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets.
www.espers.org
www.myspace.com/espers
Critically acclaimed Philadelphia folksters who are signed to Wichita. Think Fairport Convention and Bert Jansch. Evocative.
Praise for Espers:
Mojo 4/5 - "Some of the prettiest music to inhabit this sonic postcode"
NME 8/10 - "Medieval folk wonder. A spellbinding listen that recalls all that was great about 70s prog rock"
Word - "Both mesmerising and very, very addictive"
Independent 4/5 - "Some of the most beautiful, challenging music of their era"
Metro 4/5 - "Simultaneously not of their time and yet fantastically relevant"
The Wire - "Deeply psychedelic"
NY Times - "delicate acoustic traceries of the Incredible String Band"
pitchfork media - "an album which manages to embrace its influences while eclipsing them"
Philadelphia collective Espers first came to our attention in the summer of last year when they released their beautiful self-titled debut through Wichita. Since then their star has been on a steady ascent through good old-fashioned word-of-mouth, touring (with Stereolab, Devendra Banhart, All Tomorrow’s Parties) and their recent signing to Drag City in the United States.
Espers ‘II’ is an album of precious gems, where gentle and fragile folk songs become eerie, otherworldly tales spun around acoustic guitar parts and Meg Baird’s unnervingly pure vocals. And where Meg brings light, fellow vocalist Greg Weeks’s brings darkness by deviating from the traditional folk template and letting rip with his Gibson Les Paul. With the addition of instruments such as doumbek and dholak, it’s a heady mixture of joy, wonder and humour that sets Espers apart, far-out there in fact, from their contemporaries.
Espers are Greg Weeks (vocals, guitar, noises), Meg Baird (vocals, guitar), Brooke Sietinsons (guitar), Helena Espvall (cello, vocals), Christopher Smith (bass) and the very much in demand Otto Hauser on drums, who played in no less than 4 bands in one day at All Tomorrow’s Parties.
ESPERS
Support: tba
Wednesday April 25th
Crawdaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €12.25 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets.
www.espers.org
www.myspace.com/espers
Critically acclaimed Philadelphia folksters who are signed to Wichita. Think Fairport Convention and Bert Jansch. Evocative.
Praise for Espers:
Mojo 4/5 - "Some of the prettiest music to inhabit this sonic postcode"
NME 8/10 - "Medieval folk wonder. A spellbinding listen that recalls all that was great about 70s prog rock"
Word - "Both mesmerising and very, very addictive"
Independent 4/5 - "Some of the most beautiful, challenging music of their era"
Metro 4/5 - "Simultaneously not of their time and yet fantastically relevant"
The Wire - "Deeply psychedelic"
NY Times - "delicate acoustic traceries of the Incredible String Band"
pitchfork media - "an album which manages to embrace its influences while eclipsing them"
Philadelphia collective Espers first came to our attention in the summer of last year when they released their beautiful self-titled debut through Wichita. Since then their star has been on a steady ascent through good old-fashioned word-of-mouth, touring (with Stereolab, Devendra Banhart, All Tomorrow’s Parties) and their recent signing to Drag City in the United States.
Espers ‘II’ is an album of precious gems, where gentle and fragile folk songs become eerie, otherworldly tales spun around acoustic guitar parts and Meg Baird’s unnervingly pure vocals. And where Meg brings light, fellow vocalist Greg Weeks’s brings darkness by deviating from the traditional folk template and letting rip with his Gibson Les Paul. With the addition of instruments such as doumbek and dholak, it’s a heady mixture of joy, wonder and humour that sets Espers apart, far-out there in fact, from their contemporaries.
Espers are Greg Weeks (vocals, guitar, noises), Meg Baird (vocals, guitar), Brooke Sietinsons (guitar), Helena Espvall (cello, vocals), Christopher Smith (bass) and the very much in demand Otto Hauser on drums, who played in no less than 4 bands in one day at All Tomorrow’s Parties.
