[Oct 25, 2015] Beach House, Dustin Wong (Vicar Street) (1 Viewer)

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Aiken Promotions presents
BEACH HOUSE
Dustin Wong

Vicar Street, Dublin Oct 25th
Mandela Hall, Belfast Oct 24th

Tickets priced €28 for Dublin & £20.50 for Belfast (incl booking fee) on sale Friday May 29th @ 9am from www.ticketmaster.ie & outlets nationwide – tickets limited to 2 per purchase


Beach House
Beach House is Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. We have been a band for over a decade living and working in Baltimore, MD. Depression Cherry is our 5th full-length record. This record follows the release of our self-titled album in 2006, Devotion in 2008, Teen Dream in 2010 and Bloom in 2012. Depression Cherry was recorded at Studio in the Country in Bogalusa, Louisiana from November ’14 through January ’15. This time period crossed the anniversaries of both John Lennon’s and Roy Orbison’s death.

In general, this record shows a return to simplicity, with songs structured around a melody and a few instruments, with live drums playing a far lesser role. With the growing success of Teen Dream and Bloom, the larger stages and bigger rooms naturally drove us towards a louder, more aggressive place; a place farther from our natural tendencies. Here, we continue to let ourselves evolve while fully ignoring the commercial context in which we exist.

Here are a few quotes that we feel relate to the feeling and themes of this record:

— "I’ll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven’t a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I have yet to meet, others I’ll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes.” - from Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
— “We inhabit a world in which the future promises endless possibilities and the past lies irretrievably behind us. The arrow of time… is the medium of creativity in terms of which life can be understood.” - from The Arrow of Time by Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield
— “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” - from Parerga and Paralipomena by Arthur Schopenhauer
— "Hark, now hear the sailors cry, feel the air and see the sky, let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic……
….when the fog horn blows, i want to hear it, i don’t have to fear it” - from “Into the Mystic” by Van Morrison

Here is the track listing with selected lyrics.

1. Levitation – “The branches of the trees, they will hang lower now, you will grow too quick, then you will get over it”
2. Sparks - “It’s a gift, taken from the lips, you live again”
3. Space Song - “What makes this fragile world go ‘round, were you ever lost, was she ever found?”
4. Beyond Love - “They take the simple things inside you and put nightmares in your hands”
5. 10:37 - “ Here she comes, all parts of everything, stars in the motherhand”
6. PPP - “Did you see it coming, it happened so fast, the timing was perfect, water on glass…”
7. Wildflower - “ What’s left you make something of it"
8. Bluebird - “I would not ever try to capture you"
9. Days of Candy - “I know it comes too soon, the universe is riding off with you…... i want to know you there, the universe is riding off with you."

For us, Depression Cherry is a color, a place, a feeling, an energy… that describes the place you arrive as you move through the endlessly varied trips of existence…

Dustin Wong
Dustin Wong, the hugely talented guitar virtuoso has announced he will be joining Beach House on their European tour which starts next month. These will be his first live dates in Europe in over two years, and first in the UK since 2011!

Armed with a guitar and numerous loop and effects pedals, Wong's astounding live performances are intricate and detailed, building a sonic empire out of beautifully constructed singular elements.

Wong was an integral part of the vibrant Baltimore indie scene in the 2000s, best known for forming cult art-rock group Ponytail. Since their break up, Wong has established himself as a solo artist, completing his acclaimed trilogy of solo looped guitar albums in 2013 with the joyous "Mediation of Ecstatic Energy".

After relocating to Tokyo, Wong has collaborated with Japanese singer Takako Minekawa, releasing "Savage Imagination" in 2014, a collection of colourful pop songs, laced with the sounds of video games, radiophonic experiments and indigenous inspirations from around the world.

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