FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS
DIRTY PROJECTORS
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS NORTHSTATION
WHELAN’S, NOV 22ND
TICKETS FROM WAV/TICKETMASTER/CITY DISCS/ROAD
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.
“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
NORTHSTATION
Northstation is Dublin musician Steve Fanagan. Steve began recording as Northstation in 1999, when he provided the soundtrack for a collection of short films. 2001 saw the release of the first Northstation album, plink.plonk, a collection of songs originally compiled for the din sound exhibition. This was followed by some live performances. In 2003 Steve began work on the Bears album, which was released in July 2004, on risc records. Since releasing Bears, Northstation has gigged extensively playing alongside many and varied musicians. 2006 saw the release of the third Northstation album, Wagtail. In February of this year Northstation released an EP of remixes of music by bands such as Hood, Halfset, Herv and others. Steve currently works as a sound engineer and college tutor, and releases music under several different names. He also runs a small independent label called Slow Loris.
www.stevefanagan.com
DIRTY PROJECTORS
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS NORTHSTATION
WHELAN’S, NOV 22ND
TICKETS FROM WAV/TICKETMASTER/CITY DISCS/ROAD
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.
“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
NORTHSTATION
Northstation is Dublin musician Steve Fanagan. Steve began recording as Northstation in 1999, when he provided the soundtrack for a collection of short films. 2001 saw the release of the first Northstation album, plink.plonk, a collection of songs originally compiled for the din sound exhibition. This was followed by some live performances. In 2003 Steve began work on the Bears album, which was released in July 2004, on risc records. Since releasing Bears, Northstation has gigged extensively playing alongside many and varied musicians. 2006 saw the release of the third Northstation album, Wagtail. In February of this year Northstation released an EP of remixes of music by bands such as Hood, Halfset, Herv and others. Steve currently works as a sound engineer and college tutor, and releases music under several different names. He also runs a small independent label called Slow Loris.
www.stevefanagan.com
