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Brooklyn duo signed to independent Chicago label Thrill Jockey comprising of multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson. Strains of Animal Collective and one on the radar for acts of 2009.
POD Concerts presents
HIGH PLACES
Support: TBA
Friday November 21st
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 11.30pm
Tickets €13 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
High Places began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse
artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic
tastes, and music-making approaches. Robert Barber grew up listening to punk
and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance, but both
gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and a love of layers. It is the
affinity for layering that has thus far defined the duo, both in ideas and
instrumentation. High Places¹ songs contain a fascinating range of aural
layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting
mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals
over Rob's homemade beats. The result is an imaginative and spacious
amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as
immediate as it is refreshing.
Since their inception in 2006, High Places have honed their "exquisite
corpse" style of songwriting, exchanging ideas back and forth, challenging
one another's expectations, pushing both performance and songs to new
places, or more aptly, new heights. With each single, from ³Head Spins² to
³Sandy Feat² from ³Greeting the Light² to ³Granola² the band has revealed
more complex elements within their layers be it in vocal texture, delicate
melodic sense, or in new dimensions to their ever inventive and propulsive
percussion.
High Places, first offering, due out in July 2008, is the singles collection
‘03/07 -* 09/07’ that collects the above mentioned songs plus a few harder to
find gems (‘Jump In’ being a song commissioned for an elementary school
music program, ‘Freaked Flight’ a reworked demo cut and ‘Canary’ which
appeared on a compilation) from 2007 (recently made available via special
arrangement with E-Music) making them all available for the first time world
wide on CD. No need to scour EBay. All the magnificent tracks that endeared
them to us and those lucky enough to have seen them so far, will be
included.
The CD release of 03/07 * 09/07 will be followed by their eagerly awaited
debut full-length due out on September 23rd, 2008. This summer the band will
hit the road for a European trek with Deerhunter, an American jaunt with
fellow DIY enthusiasts No Age and will also be making stops at a handful of
festivals world-wide, including Pitchfork and the MIDI Festival.
POD Concerts presents
HIGH PLACES
Support: TBA
Friday November 21st
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 11.30pm
Tickets €13 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
High Places began as an experiment in collaboration: two people with diverse
artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic
tastes, and music-making approaches. Robert Barber grew up listening to punk
and hardcore, and Mary Pearson studied bassoon performance, but both
gravitated toward a DIY compositional style and a love of layers. It is the
affinity for layering that has thus far defined the duo, both in ideas and
instrumentation. High Places¹ songs contain a fascinating range of aural
layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting
mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals
over Rob's homemade beats. The result is an imaginative and spacious
amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as
immediate as it is refreshing.
Since their inception in 2006, High Places have honed their "exquisite
corpse" style of songwriting, exchanging ideas back and forth, challenging
one another's expectations, pushing both performance and songs to new
places, or more aptly, new heights. With each single, from ³Head Spins² to
³Sandy Feat² from ³Greeting the Light² to ³Granola² the band has revealed
more complex elements within their layers be it in vocal texture, delicate
melodic sense, or in new dimensions to their ever inventive and propulsive
percussion.
High Places, first offering, due out in July 2008, is the singles collection
‘03/07 -* 09/07’ that collects the above mentioned songs plus a few harder to
find gems (‘Jump In’ being a song commissioned for an elementary school
music program, ‘Freaked Flight’ a reworked demo cut and ‘Canary’ which
appeared on a compilation) from 2007 (recently made available via special
arrangement with E-Music) making them all available for the first time world
wide on CD. No need to scour EBay. All the magnificent tracks that endeared
them to us and those lucky enough to have seen them so far, will be
included.
The CD release of 03/07 * 09/07 will be followed by their eagerly awaited
debut full-length due out on September 23rd, 2008. This summer the band will
hit the road for a European trek with Deerhunter, an American jaunt with
fellow DIY enthusiasts No Age and will also be making stops at a handful of
festivals world-wide, including Pitchfork and the MIDI Festival.
