Celebration for Dolphin Midwives debut cassette release, Orchid Milk on the evening of the Full Moon in Sagittarius!
Hosted at the Kenton Masonic Temple!
Opening up will be avant/shamanic puppetry/experimental music project, Dead Death.
Featuring handmade puppets, multiple personalities, electronic and acoustic textural sonic landscapes, Dead Death will take you there and beyond.
https://www.facebook.com/deaddeathsound/?fref=ts
Second, the Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan Orchestra, directed by Mindy Johnston.
http://www.vsbgamelan.org/
Dolphin Midwives, closing it down, offers cyclic, avant harp environments, choral caverns, microtonal zither realms and jungular percussive textures from her debut, Orchid Milk.
http://dolphinmidwives.bandcamp.com/
A rare, beautiful and mystical evening of music and celebration.
Tickets $12, available online at http://orchidmilk.brownpapertickets.com/
This is an all ages event.
DEEP SEA DIVER
In late 2013, Dobson put in her notice to former Shins boss, James Mercer, in order to give full attention to her own musical vision. Mercer agreed, saying “I’ll miss you, but I give you my full support. You’ve gotta pursue Deep Sea Diver”. While much was gleaned from the experiences in her many years spent playing with top tier musical outfits (Beck, the Shins, Spoon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs,) something was brewing that demanded a sort of dedication and alertness that couldn’t be fully engaged while moonlighting as a side-woman for those greats. “Good thing too," noted Stereogum, "because Jessica is an incredible front woman.”
Recorded with Darrell Thorpe (Radiohead, Beck) and Luke Vanderpol at the Bank in CA, Jessica and band (comprised of husband Peter Mansen on drums, Garrett Gue on bass, and Elliot Jackson on guitar and synth) have together created an album that is colorful, energetic, and varied—with an emotional depth and pulsating charge that demands the listeners full attention. As she and Mercer sing together on Creatures of Comfort, “I’m in my own world”, the listener is brought in, and very content that this is the world that she has chosen and invited others into. Secrets is an album you will not want to keep to yourself.
LOST LANDER
lyrics, either of which are all too easy to get lost in. What started out as a project founded by singer/songwriter Matt Sheehy and producer Brent Knopf of Menomena, has evolved into a strong four piece band, with a rich, rounded sound.” - KEXP
Portland, OR’s own Lost Lander is very happy to announce that Medallion, their second full length record, will be released on February 24th. A short run of Pacific Northwest dates in celebration of the announcement begins on Friday in Enterprise, OR. Seattle bastion of independent radio KEXP was gracious enough to premiere a cut from the record to coincide with the announcement. “Walking on a Wire” can now be heard via http://blog.kexp.org/2014/12/03/song-premiere-lost-lander-walking-on-a-wire/
If DRRT, Lost Lander’s first independently released album, was about the confluence of nature and technology, Medallion, its latest, concerns dualities - experiences of love and loss, impermanence and longevity, death and rebirth.The confrontation of these dualities resulted in a set of songs that explore “more human territory,” according to Matt Sheehy, a professional forester who spends his days in Oregon’s immense wooded expanse. The coming-apart of Sheehy’s marriage engagement and nearly concurrent loss of his mother, followed closely by the blooming of a relationship with longtime friend and bandmate Sarah Fennell, heavily influenced the lyrics on Medallion. “Nothing lasts forever,” Matt observes. “And the seeds are already planted for the change that’s inevitable.”
Sheehy took the seeds of the songs into “the idea factory/workshop that is (producer) Brent Knopf’s (Menomena) brain,” he relates, “where he spits out all the bells and whistles you can hang on those structures.”
Medallion is all about wrenching joy from despair, of finding the permanent within the temporary. “This record is an exclamation of love and loss,” Fennell declares. “It’s emotional, dealing with life in an exuberant way, even if it’s sad, hard, wonderful, and crazy. We’re all just lucky to be here to experience it.”
HOSANNAS
What people are saying about Hosannas:
"The best, most unfuckwithable avant-pop I've heard in a while..." – Portland Mercury
"Lush, melodic songs built upon echoing acoustics." – Willamette Week
"Soft, beautiful music that pulsates, drones and spikes." – Fuck Bad Music
Ryan Meagher’s Evil Twin is an exploration of spontaneous, collective composition using loose forms, basic sketches, and total abandon.
Evil Twin is a double trio of Ryan Meagher – guitar(s) Ryan Miller – guitar(s) John Gross – tenor sax Tim Willcox – tenor sax Scott Cutshall – drums Todd Bishop – drums RyanMeagher.com
The Ian Christensen Quartet plays original music by its members that aims to blend jazz, rock, and free improvisation and propel tasteful communication between members. Featuring local staples Noah Bernstein (alto saxophone), Andrew Jones (bass), and Jonas Oglesbee (drums), the quartet plays with passion and discretion, looking simultaneously towards the past and the future. ianchristensenmusic.com
With his new album, Are You Serious, Andrew Bird has widened the breadth of his art by directly refecting his own human experience. With key contributions from Fiona Apple and Blake Mills, Are You Serious attains a level of expression that's a personal, evolutionary leap. "Here I am with my most unguarded, direct, relatable album to date," Bird says, "Go easy on me."
"I set out to make a record that's diferent than any I've made before,” he explains. "I wanted to make an album musically crafted like a Wrecking Crew session, where you have to be good. There's less wordplay and more intention to process some brutal times that I went through. What happens when real ordeals befall someone who has always been happy writing from their imagination and the distance of the third person? Who has time for poetics while grappling with birth and death? What's the role of sincerity for a songwriter who doesn't really go in for the confessional thing? This is what I struggled with for this record. I suppose the title could be poking fun at my own foray into the confessional realm."
Are You Serious is the second record Bird has made with producer Tony Berg, following 2005’s breakthrough The Mysterious Production of Eggs. "Tony and I spent months preparing for Sound City," says Bird, referring to the legendary Los Angeles studio where Nirvana recorded Nevermind and Neil Young made After The Gold Rush. "We went through every part of every song, every note, scrutinizing the voicing of the chords, fnding melodically interesting ways to move from one chord to the next. I decided to work with a producer because I wanted the recording process to be more rigorous. Novelists have editors and playwrights workshop their drama. Tony really played that role for me on this album.”
An up-tempo blitz addressing personal chemistry as a rearrangement of molecules, “Roma Fade” may be the album's centerpiece. Its sense of longing– "from the tips of your fngers, every strand of hair...you may not know me but you feel my stare" – is based in part on how Bird met his wife, or rather, the times he saw her before they met. “It always seemed to be at a party, from fifeen or twenty feet away,” he explains. “‘Roma Fade’ and ‘Truth Lies Low’ present both sides of the phenomenon of observing and being observed. Desire draws a fine line between what's romantic and what's creepy."
The album’s surprise revelation is "Left Handed Kisses," a duet with the singular Fiona Apple. With Bird playing the skeptic and Apple the romantic, the stop-start ballad portrays two lovers who are philosophically opposed but inevitably drawn together. It feels like it could be a lost Johnny Cash/June Carter classic.
"The song began as an internal dialogue," Bird says. "At first it was just my voice. Then this other voice came creeping in and I thought 'this should be a duet if I can fnd the right person.' I needed to find someone really indicting. And Fiona does the pissed of thing really well! She was totally committed. The session was a long whiskey-fueled night. We were unhinged, for sure. All worth it, of course... I can't write simple love songs. People are complex. My inclination was to write a song about why I can't write a simple love song."
"My favorite songs I write are the ones that change and adapt according to my mood," says Bird. Album- opener "Capsized" is a prime example, having been in his live repertoire for close to a decade under various titles and guises. In the album's recorded incarnation, "Capsized" is a propulsive gem evoking both the chamber-soul of Bill Withers and the backbeat of The Meters. Bird's vocals are driven onward by drummer Ted Poor and bassist Alan Hampton. The musically expansive nature of Are You Serious is due in part to ace ensemble players like Poor and Hampton, and the guitar playing of Blake Mills. "Blake raises the bar and gets where I'm coming from like few musicians I've met. He's as restless as I am and gets the odd accents and microtonal stuff that's outside western music.”
The album closer "Valleys of the Young" encapsulates the album’s themes. This is what Andrew means of when he uses the word “brutal.” “For years now, the code I've been trying to crack is how to translate plain- spoken real life into song and have it meet my melodic, syntactic standards. There are no riddles here. No encryption. I've left the valley of the young, the small-seeming dramas, the brunch and misery, for a far more perilous place where your heart breaks from cradle to grave. The musical setting for this had to ensure that both young and old listeners can relate. Tony kept making us look at photos of the dust bowl storms raging across the prairie, the ones that made Woody Guthrie sing ‘So long it’s been good to know ya.’”
Jettisoning established methods begets reinvention. This is part of the great success of Are You Serious. See how it plays out in person on Bird's 17-date Spring 2016 tour, kicking of March 30 at The Ryman in Nashville. "I never walk onstage knowing what I'm doing," says the artist. "It's a shrug-of-the-shoulders approach and people like it, it seems human to them. I began playing with the idea of reinvention, so that onstage a wild untamed thing can happen. I wanted to make a record that lets me subvert or expand my on- stage personality." A personality now ready to answer the question, Are You Serious.
Artist Website: www.andrewbird.net
Lovercaft Bar welcomes Blair Minor into the mix alongside MR regular 187 MOOCHIE (aka DJ Champagne Bukkake) and your hosts PRHSLN and MISS CLEO.
+ Visuals by MISS CLEO
Get ready to dance and get into the #mood! Starts a 10PM and goes til close! ♥
NO COVER // 21+
DARKWAVE // INDUSTRIAL // WITCHHOUSE // TECHNO // EBM // DRAG // TRAP
BLAIR MINOR
https://soundcloud.com/blairminor
https://www.mixcloud.com/Blairminor/
187 MOOCHIE
https://soundcloud.com/187moochie
https://soundcloud.com/dj-champagne-bukkake
PRHSLN
https://soundcloud.com/prhsln
MISS CLEO
https://soundcloud.com/i-am-miss-cleo
Alberta Cross - led by lead singer and guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee - announced their Spring North American headline tour will begin on May 4th in Toronto, and will bring the band's memorable live performance to shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and more!
The headline tour is in support of their current, acclaimed self-titled album (out now on Dine Alone Records), which was co-produced by Stakee and Claudius Mittendorfer (Temples,Interpol, Johnny Marr). The LP captures new sonic elements for Alberta Cross. For the first time Stakee orchestrated and recorded broadening brass and string sections that were weaved throughout the 12-track offering, which help to beautifully capture the band's timeless, alt-folk sound that is all their own. "On this record, we have all these new colors," Stakee continues. "It felt pretty amazing. It was very loose, not a lot of structure. I wanted to keep that vibe-the looseness and the soul. Mandolin, violin, French horn, flugelhorn, trumpet-we put those on a lot of tracks. That was a new thing for me and very inspiring. This record seems so... pure to me."NPR, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Paste and more have all highly-praise Stakee on the new musical direction.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 8th, at 1PM EST / 10AM PST - visit www.albertacross.net for more information.
Past Haunts Presents
Caustic Touch (PDX / Member of Vice Device / SINIS Recordings)
Hive Mind (LA / Member of Pure Ground / Chondritic Sound)
OilThief (LA / Member of Wand / Chondritic Sound)
Sleeping With The Earth (Chondritic Sound)
9PM / $7 / 21+
Reception: Saturday, May 14, 12 - 6pm
Exhibition: May 14 - June 26; open Sat & Sun 12 - 6pm
Publication Release: Saturday, June 25, 5 - 7pm
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What is this idea that if we pick up a rock it belongs to us? Hasn't extractionary thinking caused enough harm?
For every object there is a corresponding absence somewhere else.
The hole in the Ross Island lagoon is a reverse monument to Portland.
The Ross Island Residency is a renegade project initiated by Taryn Tomasello and curator Will Elder, spanning June 2015 - June, 2016, at the site of a sand and gravel mine in the center of the city. This exhibition is the residue of symbolic gestures of replacement and a ritual-relational witness of trespass.
Believe You Me presents a night of house and disco music featuring Mule Musiq artists and special guests.
Main Event at The Liquor Store:
Axel Boman (Mule Musiq, Pampa, Studio Barnhus, Stockholm) PDX debut!!!
+ Resident DJs Andy Warren & Ginkgo
10pm-2am
Followed by a private afterhours featuring
Toshiya Kawasaki (Mule Musiq, Endless Flight, Tokyo)
Strategy Live (Mule Musiq, Endless Flight, PDX)
Ben Tactic (Spend The Night, PDX)
+ Special Guest
Midnight-6ish
More details TBA
Brett Naucke is an experimental & electronic composer residing in Chicago, IL. Working largely with modular synthesis, Naucke has released music on labels including Spectrum Spools, Nihilist Records, Umor-Rex, Centre, Arbor, and many others in addition to producing the original scores for several short and feature films. Since 2013 his live performance output has been heavily focussed on live sound installations and quadraphonic listening pieces while also performing in long-time avant-garde acts including Panicsville and ONO. Naucke's second full length for Spectrum Spools; The Mansion will be released in 2016.
https://soundcloud.com/brett-naucke
https://brettnaucke.bandcamp.com/
Matt Carlson is an electronic music composer from Portland, Oregon. He works with analog modular synthesis, voice, computer control, field recordings, and improvisation to construct dense clouds of surrealistic electroacoustic sound phenomena. He also performs with bass clarinetist Jonathan Sielaff as Thrill Jockey recording artists Golden Retriever.
http://bucketfactory.com/
E M S vs T E C
(Vern Avola & Mike Erwin)
http://emsvstec.bandcamp.com/
All Ages, $7
Assembly is a co-authored social practice conference that includes presentations, discussions, interventions, and activities that address topics related to art and social practice. Participants shape the collective experience by contributing to dialogue, group projects, and publications.
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016
2:00 – 3:00 PM The Unknown, IPRC, Lauren, IPRC
4:00 – 5:30 PM The Mammalian SMYLE, PICA, Darren O’Donnell
5:30 – 6:30 PM DINNER
6:30 – 8:00 PM Community Discussion: The Ethics of Photography, Newspace, Steve Davis, Emily Fitzgerald, Jim Lommasson, and Beth Nakamura
8:30 – 9:30 PM The First Session, LIKEWISE, Derek Hamm
9:30 -10:30 PM Opening Conversation, LIKEWISE, Ariana Jacob
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2016
10:00-12:00 PM Student Research with Free Lunch, PSU Broadway Res Hall (6th Avenue entrance and go to the second floor), Roz Crews
1:00 – 2:00 PM Williams Ave Mapping Circle, Project Grow, Emma Colburn
3:00 – 5:00 PM Art & Sports Museum Opening, Rec Center, Anke Schüttler & Lauren Moran; Data Drafting with Adam Carlin, Rec Center
5:00 – 7:00 PM DINNER
7:00 – 8:00 PM Ink Visible, Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, Arianna Warner
9:00 – 11:00 PM Getting to Know YouTube: Influence’s Influences, curated by Roz Crews with presentations from Roya Amirsoleymani, Harrell Fletcher, and Lisa Jarrett, LIKEWISE
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016
10:00-11:00 AM Something To Teach You, Meeting at the North end of SW Salmon and SW Park, Adam Carlin
11:00-12:00 PM Common Language, Renee Sills & Kimberly Sutherland, The Portland Open Space Sequence
12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 – 3:00 PM Some Time Between Us, Emily Fitzgerald, Hollywood Senior Center & Beaumont School
4:00 – 6:00 PM The Global Table: Tasting Party, Zenger Farm, Amanda Leigh Evans and Krysta Williams
6:00 – 7:00 PM DINNER (suggested – Portland Mercado)
7:00 – 9:00 PM Collaborative Learning for Physical Prowess (on the dance floor): How to Dance Like a Boss, Jens Hauge & Renee Sills, Performance Works NW
9:00 – 10:00 PM The People’s (dance) Party, Jens Hauge & Renee Sills, Performance Works NW
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2016
10:00-11:00 AM Wearable Worlds, Anya Wild and Natalya Kolosowsky
11:00-12:00 PM Motherhood and Social Practice Picnic, Overlook Park, Yara El-Sherbini and Davina Drummond
12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 – 3:00 PM Backyards, 4535 NE Garfield Ave, Kimberly Sutherland & Paul West
4:00 – 5:00 PM The Useful Art Object, Amanda Leigh Evans with Daniel DuFord, Namita Gupta Wiggers, Nicole Gugliotti, Lisa Jarrett, and Denise Mullen.
5:00 – 7:00 PM DINNER
7:00 – 8:00 PM Artist Talk by Yara El-Sherbini and Davina Drummond, Likewise
8:30 – 9:30 PM Closing Conversation, LIKEWISE, Ariana Jacob
ONGOING
Thoughts on the Assembly by Students from the Native American Youth and Family Center, Darren O’Donnell and NAYA’s Art and Social Change Class.
Are you coming from out of town? Please get in touch with harrell@pdx.edu.
Free and open to the public.
Julianna Barwick’s new album Will comes out on May 6 on Dead Oceans Records. Since her 3rd album, Nepenthe, was released in 2013, Julianna has toured with Sigur Rós, sung with children’s choirs around the world, recorded and performed with the Flaming Lips, recorded Bach’s “Adagio from Concerto In D Minor” on Sony Masterworks, played piano and sang with Yoko Ono and brewed a wasabi beer, Rosabi, with Dogfish Head.
Barwick’s diverse past has also included collaborative albums with Ikue Mori and Helado Negro, a remix commission from Radiohead and her song “Vow” remixed by Diplo. Upcoming Barwick projects include a film score and a music box.
TV Girl was formed in 2010 by Brad Petering as an outlet to blend the love of Spector-esque girl-group pop with an emerging interest in hip-hop. Featuring shimmering vocals and sampled beats, the self-titled debut EP of the same year turned heads online immediately; the group’s lush vintage rhythms and timeless pop hooks were even making waves on the BBC. Soon after, Jason Wyman joined the band and they continued to release increasingly popular EPs and mixtapes between tours. Last summer, TV Girl unveiled their first full-length, the critically acclaimed French Exit.
tvgirl.bandcamp.com // facebook.com/tvgirlz // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLwEUBdez_0
Vektroid:
Brainchild of 21 year old electronic music producer, composer and graphic designer R. Andra Xavier. Creator of Macintosh Plus, New Dreams Ltd., PrismCorp and more.
https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/ // https://www.facebook.com/Vektroid //https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbEaSHhQRe0
$8 ADV / $10 DOS
Mayer Hawthorne, is a Grammy-nominated American singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio engineer, DJ, rapper and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. "Mayer Hawthorne and The County" is a name Cohen often uses when performing or recording as Mayer Hawthorne with other artists. In Cohen's words, "The County" is basically anyone who plays an instrument or sings on his album. It is also his band when he performs live. Cohen also performs and records hip hop under the stage name Haircut, sometimes as part of the groups Jaded Incorporated, Now On, Tuxedo, and Athletic Mic League.
Bayou Maharajah explores the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker, the man Dr. John described as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” A brilliant pianist, his eccentricities and showmanship belied a life of struggle, prejudice, and isolation. A wild genius with a style that combined elements of rhythm-and-blues, jazz, ragtime and classical music, he gained the nicknames “Piano Prince of New Orleans”, “Black Liberace” and “Bayou Maharajah”. Illustrated with never-before-seen concert footage, rare personal photos and exclusive interviews, the film paints a portrait of this overlooked genius.
- See more at: http://hollywoodtheatre.org/bayou-maharajah/#sthash.9vg7EB1h.dpuf
$9 | Buy advance tickets here.
Please note that no items from the Society's permanent collection will be sold. For questions regarding the sale, contact the library reference desk at libreference@ohs.org or leave a voicemail at 503.306.5240.
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King Black Acid "I'm Rolling Under" video
King Black Acid covers "Sea Of Unrest" - video
Cat Hoch songs
Daydream Machine songs
One Grand Gallery is pleased to present Heavy Pop, a solo exhibition by Morgan Rosskopf. The opening reception will be on Friday, May 6, 2016. The artist will be in attendance.
Mixed media artist Morgan Rosskopf combines drawing and collage to produce an amalgamation of imagery that speaks to the complexities and intimacies of the mental landscape. Working as a visual huntergatherer, Rosskopf combines images to illustrate the fragmented and often melodramatic voice of the internal monologue. Using the juxtaposition of images as a visual representation of cognitive dissonance, Rosskopf’s work explores ideas surrounding vulnerability, love, anxiety, and violence.
For more information, please follow this link: http://goo.gl/fVrOR1