Welcome back Music and Lies fans! Just a quick update. We’ve been really busy on this side, searching for new and upcoming bands needing to be heard. might I say, “There are plenty in the rarest of places”. Be sure to check out your local bands folks! You never now what small group of people are conjuring up in there basement as we speak. “Every great band starts local in the beginning.”
We’ll enough said. On the 3rd of July, The Music and Lies Team had the great pleasure of attending a concert from Rhode Island’s own Deer Tick, with opening bands, Dawes and QuickSand. One of our team members was assigned to report back the set-list, but got wasted out of sheer excitement and completely forgot (apology’s).
Although we were able to take some pics and obtain two videos for your viewing pleasure! One of “Streets of Bakersfield” ( A Buck Owen’s Original ) and Dirty Dishes which was mostly done in a in a boozy A Capella style. Hope you enjoy!!!
- Gilbert C
The Music And Lies Team
Deer Tick Live @ The Celler – Visalia, CA Dirty Dishes
Deer Tick Live @ The Celler – Visalia, CA – Streets Of Bakersfield Cover
It was the greatest night of my life.
Although I still had not found a wife
I had my friends
Right there beside me.
We were close together.
We tripped the wall and we scaled the graveyard
Ancient shapes were all around us.
The wet dew felt fresh beside the fog.
Two made love in an ancient spot
One chased a rabbit into the dark
A girl got drunk and balled the dead
And I gave empty sermons to my head.
Cemetary, cool and quiet
Hate to leave your sacred lay
Dread the milky coming of the day.
The Early Morning
The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other:
The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother.
The moon on my left and the dawn on my right.
My brother, good morning: my sister, good night.
Hilaire Belloc
I begin and end, fixed
On a rainbow of hoods & rows.
I walk in a field without a gun.
Fallen. Crawling through mist
With a mouth that reeks of a graveyard.
I look for the ladder of water.
Midnight brings the gift of trembling.
I want a passport for hell.
From the east, a horse with a saddle of sea-weed
Returns me to the land of sand and blindess.
I begin and end, fixed
On hoods, on rows, on rainbows
And coral.
Check out Michael Runion’s brand new track ‘Maxine’, taken from his super
limited tour EP. Only 500 copies have been made and will be sold exclusively
on his upcoming tour with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band as well as
his own shows in America.
The EP was produced by Alex Greenwald from Phantom Planet and Jason Boesel
from Rilo Kiley in Los Angeles and is a taster of the new direction Michael
Runion has taken his music. It also features a very special version of the
song “Daylight” from his debut album, now feat. Z Berg from The Like.
View Video Here: The Daylight vs Z Berg
MySpace: myspace.com/michaelrunion
Sample Music Here: Josh Likes Me.mp3
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Much like a handmade quilt, Sleep Whale’s music is filled with collected scraps of material, beautiful patterns and meticulous crafting. Though the possibilities for both quilts and music are many, the ultimate purpose is to keep one warm. For guitarist/cellist Joel North and violinist/sequence programmer Bruce Blay, the melding of traditional live acoustic sounds of violin, cello, and guitar with vanguard electronic processing is the most natural thing in the world. Woven throughout the infectious melodies of violin, cello, and guitar you’ll find music boxes, shortwave radios, tape machines, field recordings, and much more. The six songs on Little Brite conjure a universe whose ancient forbears include Steve Reich, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Eno’s looping ambiences, Brit-folk guitarist Bert Jansch, gamelan ensembles and Hindustani hand percussion, however, the wall-to-wall beauty of the proceedings is anything but reverential ear candy. Engaging, melodically rewarding, and sophisto-whimsical, Sleep Whale’s cerebrally atmospheric marriage of the luddite and techno worlds makes for essential listening
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PRESS
“We’ve been impressed by everything we’ve heard from them.”
– Gorilla vs. Bear
“so stirringly beautiful you almost drop your jaw the first time you hear it….You’ve gotta hear them. See them too.”
– Dallas Observer
“Every track on this record is full of surprises, textures and effective broad strokes, but it’s the intangible quality of the songcraft that takes these “electro-acoustic” pieces beyond merely interesting and thrusts them into the realm of celebratory emotional resonance.”
– We Shot JR
“Taking a page from the Books, Denton’s [Sleep Whale] weaves mesmerizing audio collages.”
– Austin Chronicle
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FOR MORE INFO
SLEEP WHALE’S WV ARTIST PAGE
SLEEP WHALE’S MYSPACE
US/EU PRESS: press@westernvinyl.com
US/EU RADIO: radio@westernvinyl.com
Formed in the summer of 2004, the rock/pop quintet of Otenki (now consisting of Enoma Asowata (rhythm guitar/vocals), German Hernandez( lead vocals), Fausto Padilla(lead guitar/vocals/programming), Josh Tenorio(bass/vocals) and new comer Kris Hiatt(drums)) had a start that most bands would envy. Formed through exchanging emails through mutual friends, within six months of being a band, they headed to California to record their first EP. Also during those formative months, they were selected by MySpace users to play with My Chemical Romance and The Used during the inaugural year of the Taste of Chaos Tour. Shortly after that they performed at the 2005 Vans Warped Tour and the 2006 Taste of Chaos tour.
The band opted to hit the road for a 2 month self booked/promoted full US tour. They continued to hone their skills while being on the road and enduring the hardships of the DIY lifestyle. While continuing the writing process the band knew they would have to look beyond themselves to bring out all the potential the new material had. At the end of the band’s summer tour, the decision was made to work with record producer Paul Leavitt. Leavitt’s work includes pop punk heavy weights All Time Low, and Over It, as well as The Bled, Senses Fail, Circa Survive, Conditions, Mercy Mercedes, and newly signed Gwen Stacy. In November of 2007 the band headed to Valencia Recording Studio in Baltimore to work on the collection of songs that would become “Making Sense of Static”.
“As the title of the record suggests, the songs are about finding your place in the world. This record is the summation of us trying to figure ourselves out. And hopefully people can take hold of something to relate to in it,” states Asowata. Starting out with the lead single “The Tie That Binds” and following it with darkest and heaviest song “Empty Words”, a song about the falling out of friends or lovers, to the ending track “The Impossible”, a power-pop anthem of chasing dreams but being thankful for what you have, Otenki has redefined themselves with this effort. With thousands of miles clocked, over one hundred of shows played, and a ever growing fan base, Otenki has risen from the ashes a transformed group of wiser, more focused individuals that share one goal…to never slow down.
Listen Here: www.myspace.com/otenki
Our next artist is a singer song writer by the name of Orion Walsh.. Currently in the process releasing a new EP entitled “Freedom Lost or Freedom Found” that is due out this summer.. With the title track “Freedom Lost or Freedom Found” it opens up with fast strumming chords similar to that of Highway 61 from Bob Dylan, the song structures a man fed up with the daily grind of life. “It was driving him crazy/just to know the truth/System bent on money”. Other known Walsh tracks are “Legend of Young Billy”, “Melt with the Snow” and Transient Blues, which offers us a talking blues Harmonica arrangement, a hint of tambourine and an over Dub of people conversing in the background. Let’s give Orion a big welcome when he makes his way to California this summer.. – The Music And Lies Team
Orian Walsh will be on tour this summer.
For tour dates:
Listen to Music: Here
About Ice Dwarf:
It all started with a drum set and a fuzzy bass, 2 friends who grew up together Started jamming in a cozy 2 bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel.
With the assistance of some digital companions, they were capable of creating the following compilation.
For further information please contact:
elinahum@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/icedwarf
Look this name up on YouTube! or click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D3UL24Ogtk
This is very cool! He plays the kit with his hands. Then, he picks up the sticks and rocks it out!
Papa Jo Jones has played with Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Elle Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, Chuck Berry, Buddy Tate, Benny Goodman, John Coltrane.
Jo Jones
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jo Jones (October 7, 1911–September 3, 1985) (later known as Papa Jo Jones) was an American drummer, one of the most influential in the history of jazz.
Biography
Born Jonathan David Samuel Jones in Chicago, Illinois, he moved to Alabama where he learned to play several instruments, including saxophone, piano, and drums. He worked as a drummer and tap-dancer at carnival shows until joining Walter Page’s band, the Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late 1920s. He recorded with trumpeter Lloyd Hunter’s Serenaders in 1931, and later joined pianist Count Basie’s band in 1933. Jones, Basie, guitarist Freddie Green and bassist Walter Page are one of the more important rhythm sections in jazz. Jones took a brief break for two years when he was in the military. He played with the band until 1948 and performed in the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series.
Jones split off from the band in the late 1940s and created an image for himself. He was one of the first drummers to promote the use of brushes on drums and shifting the role of timekeeping from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal. Jones is regarded as the premier jazz drummer of the Swing era, and the transitional figure between classic and modern jazz drumming.
He had an incalculable influence on major drummers such as Buddy Rich, Kenny Clarke, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, and Louie Bellson. He also starred in several films, most notably the musical short Jammin’ the Blues in 1944. In 1985 Jones was the recipient of an American Jazz Masters fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jones performed regularly in later years at the West End jazz club at 116th and Broadway in New York City. These performances were generally very well attended by other drummers such as Max Roach and Roy Haynes, coming to pay court to an influential master.
In addition to his artistry on the drums, Jones was known for his irascible, combative temperament and his fondness for cognac. As he grew older he greatly resented jazz fans mistaking him for the bebop-era drummer Philly Joe Jones (no relation); Jo Jones and Philly Joe Jones died a few days apart in 1985.
Style
In contrast to drummer Gene Krupa’s loud, insistent pounding of the bass drum on each beat, Jones often omitted bass drum playing altogether. Jones also continued a ride rhythm on high-hat while it was continuously opening and closing instead of the common practice of striking it while it was closed. Jones’s style influenced the modern jazz drummer’s tendency to play timekeeping rhythms on a suspended cymbal that is now known as the ride cymbal.
Awards
In 1979, Jones was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame for his contribution to the Birmingham, Alabama musical heritage.
Discography
- The Drums (1973)
- The Main Man (1976)
- Our Man, Papa Jo! (1985)
Filmography
- Jammin’ the Blues (1944)
- Born to Swing (1973)
- The Last of the Blue Devils (1979)
