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Foggy Notions presents
ELF POWER
+ The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Sunday August 10
Tickets from WAV, tickets.ie, Road, City Discs, Ticketmaster
“In a Cave evokes the lysergic escapism of E6's glory days.” – Pitchfork Media
“The production is sublime, every beat and note fully realised in glorious colour.” – Drowned in Sound
Elephant 6 alums and Athens, Ga., natives, Elf Power mesh a slew of strings with psych guitar and the homemade, mellotron-like tape organ on their latest LP, In a Cave, which the Village Voice termed “an affirmation of the bells-and-whistles-within-worlds recordings of yore” on which Elf Power and its E6 compatriots (Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control) made their bones.
Elf Power formed in 1994 and have spent the last fourteen years releasing nine albums, two EPs, a handful of singles, and touring America, Europe, and Japan.
The group established its bona fides on albums like 1997's When the Red King Comes and 1999's A Dream in Sound - records that laid the astral foundations of songwriter Andrew Rieger's singular psychedelic universe. Save an intriguing diversion to T. Rex-style power-boogie on 2004's Walking With the Beggar Boys, Rieger hasn't changed Elf Power's game plan much since then, or needed to. In a Cave shows Krieger remains as restless as ever, utilizing Elf Power hallmarks like oddball instrumentation and shoestring recording techniques to put his warped signature on harmonically lush pop and inner/outer-space drone alike.
Members of Elf Power also own and operate Orange Twin Records, an independent record label focused squarely on the local community; besides earlier Elf Power albums, Orange Twin has also released records by Neutral Milk Hotel, The Gerbils, Madeline and many other stalwarts of the vibrant Athens scene.
A percentage of proceeds generated by the label helps fund The Orange Twin Conservation Community, which owns 155 acres of land on the outskirts of Athens and has initiated the development of a highly progressive, self-sustainable and ecologically-minded cluster village and nature preserve. This sort of thoughtful, perpetual motion through the years has sharpened the band’s instincts powerfully and all-inclusively.
Dark Developments, a new collaborative LP Elf Power recently worked up with their collab-happy fellow Athenian Vic Chesnutt will be released in October on Orange Twin.
www.elfpower.com
www.myspace.com/elfpower
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock is music from Dublin. Named after a poem about a haunted canal lock, the Spook plucks banjos and twangs guitars, he yelps and he drones and he sings songs about doomed revolutionaries, brave partisan, corrupt politicians and constant struggle.
Live the Spook plays solo with guitar, banjo and effects or swells to a full band with bass, guitars, drums.
www.myspace.com/thespookofthethirteenthlock
ELF POWER
+ The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Sunday August 10
Tickets from WAV, tickets.ie, Road, City Discs, Ticketmaster
“In a Cave evokes the lysergic escapism of E6's glory days.” – Pitchfork Media
“The production is sublime, every beat and note fully realised in glorious colour.” – Drowned in Sound
Elephant 6 alums and Athens, Ga., natives, Elf Power mesh a slew of strings with psych guitar and the homemade, mellotron-like tape organ on their latest LP, In a Cave, which the Village Voice termed “an affirmation of the bells-and-whistles-within-worlds recordings of yore” on which Elf Power and its E6 compatriots (Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control) made their bones.
Elf Power formed in 1994 and have spent the last fourteen years releasing nine albums, two EPs, a handful of singles, and touring America, Europe, and Japan.
The group established its bona fides on albums like 1997's When the Red King Comes and 1999's A Dream in Sound - records that laid the astral foundations of songwriter Andrew Rieger's singular psychedelic universe. Save an intriguing diversion to T. Rex-style power-boogie on 2004's Walking With the Beggar Boys, Rieger hasn't changed Elf Power's game plan much since then, or needed to. In a Cave shows Krieger remains as restless as ever, utilizing Elf Power hallmarks like oddball instrumentation and shoestring recording techniques to put his warped signature on harmonically lush pop and inner/outer-space drone alike.
Members of Elf Power also own and operate Orange Twin Records, an independent record label focused squarely on the local community; besides earlier Elf Power albums, Orange Twin has also released records by Neutral Milk Hotel, The Gerbils, Madeline and many other stalwarts of the vibrant Athens scene.
A percentage of proceeds generated by the label helps fund The Orange Twin Conservation Community, which owns 155 acres of land on the outskirts of Athens and has initiated the development of a highly progressive, self-sustainable and ecologically-minded cluster village and nature preserve. This sort of thoughtful, perpetual motion through the years has sharpened the band’s instincts powerfully and all-inclusively.
Dark Developments, a new collaborative LP Elf Power recently worked up with their collab-happy fellow Athenian Vic Chesnutt will be released in October on Orange Twin.
www.elfpower.com
www.myspace.com/elfpower
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock is music from Dublin. Named after a poem about a haunted canal lock, the Spook plucks banjos and twangs guitars, he yelps and he drones and he sings songs about doomed revolutionaries, brave partisan, corrupt politicians and constant struggle.
Live the Spook plays solo with guitar, banjo and effects or swells to a full band with bass, guitars, drums.
www.myspace.com/thespookofthethirteenthlock
