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Foggy Notions Presents
EARLY DAY MINERS (Secretly Canadian)
+ Autumn Owls
Dec 4 Upstairs @ Whelan’s
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Road Records, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
Early Day Miners are a “musical-cooperative” based in the rolling hills of Bloomington, Indiana. The group formed when Daniel Burton and Rory Leitch (both of Ativin) began playing on front porches and basements with Joe Brumley, a mutual friend of theirs.
Early Day Miners incorporate a revolving cast of accompanying musicians (friends) for both live shows and recordings. The resultant sound is not unlike a cinematic postcard; the words are there to serve as visual guides, the sound is camerawork
Over the course of the last decade Daniel Burton has become one of the mid-west's best kept secrets. Mentored by Daniel Lanois at his Teatro Studio in Los Angeles, Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records for the last ten years - anywhere from early Songs: Ohia recordings to the tribal rumblings of On Fillmore (Glenn Kotche of Wilco's band with the venerable Darin Gray) to the pink noise and melodies of Windsor for the Derby.
New album The Treatment (Secretly Canadian) is their most accessible and upbeat rock album to date - a departure so startling, you almost want to call it "their pop album." When Early Day Miners loosen up, it's almost a different band. The complex layers and atmospherics are still there, but front-and-center on The Treatment are insistent basslines and straightforward melodies on multiple organs and guitars. One of the poppiest here, "So Slowly", manages to combine a buoyant Cure bassline, a wah-wah solo worthy of Robert Fripp, and yet still conveys the lazy drift of summer. You can even hear an echo of "Sympathy for the Devil" on the album's centerpiece "How to Fall".
Behind the scenes, this album features significant changes in personnel. Burton and bassist Jonathan Richardson have drafted John Dawson on guitar and Marty Sprowles on drums. Whereas previous albums leaned towards sprawling explorations, The Treatment resolutely ditches the slide guitar in favor of overlapping layers of loops, tight motorik rhythms, and guitar and bass processed to resemble cello or brass.
www.secretlycanadian.com
www.earlydayminers.com
EARLY DAY MINERS (Secretly Canadian)
+ Autumn Owls
Dec 4 Upstairs @ Whelan’s
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Road Records, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
Early Day Miners are a “musical-cooperative” based in the rolling hills of Bloomington, Indiana. The group formed when Daniel Burton and Rory Leitch (both of Ativin) began playing on front porches and basements with Joe Brumley, a mutual friend of theirs.
Early Day Miners incorporate a revolving cast of accompanying musicians (friends) for both live shows and recordings. The resultant sound is not unlike a cinematic postcard; the words are there to serve as visual guides, the sound is camerawork
Over the course of the last decade Daniel Burton has become one of the mid-west's best kept secrets. Mentored by Daniel Lanois at his Teatro Studio in Los Angeles, Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records for the last ten years - anywhere from early Songs: Ohia recordings to the tribal rumblings of On Fillmore (Glenn Kotche of Wilco's band with the venerable Darin Gray) to the pink noise and melodies of Windsor for the Derby.
New album The Treatment (Secretly Canadian) is their most accessible and upbeat rock album to date - a departure so startling, you almost want to call it "their pop album." When Early Day Miners loosen up, it's almost a different band. The complex layers and atmospherics are still there, but front-and-center on The Treatment are insistent basslines and straightforward melodies on multiple organs and guitars. One of the poppiest here, "So Slowly", manages to combine a buoyant Cure bassline, a wah-wah solo worthy of Robert Fripp, and yet still conveys the lazy drift of summer. You can even hear an echo of "Sympathy for the Devil" on the album's centerpiece "How to Fall".
Behind the scenes, this album features significant changes in personnel. Burton and bassist Jonathan Richardson have drafted John Dawson on guitar and Marty Sprowles on drums. Whereas previous albums leaned towards sprawling explorations, The Treatment resolutely ditches the slide guitar in favor of overlapping layers of loops, tight motorik rhythms, and guitar and bass processed to resemble cello or brass.
www.secretlycanadian.com
www.earlydayminers.com
