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In case you missed our first post about this tour, we would like to remind all of our East Coast friends that Mark and Beth from Pillars and Tongues are now officially on tour with Elephant Micah, who we love. Check here for dates. …and pick up the Pillars and Tongues record, “Lay of Pilgrim Park” at our store.
David Wilson is a magic man, amazing artist, and the soul behind Ribbons Publications.
A couple weeks ago David introduced Book 1 of the Ribbons Box set (thanks Southern Exposure), a project revisiting past gatherings. Over the last several years, Ribbons Publications has hosted a number of truly inspiring events in magical settings – an imagined cave, a deserted island, an aged barn, a moving bus, a beautiful memorial in the woods – and with luminous participants – Little Wings, Michael Hurley, White Rainbow, Barn Owl, Mount Eerie, Joseph Childress, Luck Dragons, and many many more…
This is Book 1:
Book 1 commemorates the first of these events – A quiet evening in an East Bay eucalyptus grove with the songs of Joseph Childress and Mariee Sioux among others.
In the book you’ll find:
A recording of a recent morning spent at the eucalyptus grove talking and sharing songs with Mariee Sioux and Joseph Childress, and a bonus song by Nat Russell…photographs by Terri Loewnthal, Kevin Haas, and Ryan Junell….a letter about the show…a second edition of the original invitation…directions how to have your own journey finding the grove…a series of drawings of different moments spent in the grove…
This is a $15 way to support efforts towards future big plans! …and get a limited edition field recording of Joseph.
SONNY SMITH: 100 RECORDS
April 9th – May 31, 2010
Opening reception Friday, April 9, 6 – 9pm
Gallery 16
501 3rd St
San Francisco
Live music by
Sonny and The Sunsets
and
The Sandwitches
Gallery 16 is pleased to welcome San Francisco based artist, musician and playwright Sonny Smith to his first solo show with the gallery. 100 Records is a dauntingly ambitious project that bridges his interest in art, music and dramatic form. Smith invited 100 artists to produce artwork for the record covers of fictional bands. Smith concocted the personas of each 100 fictitious bands, then wrote and recorded two hundred songs (the A side and B side) for each. All of the original artwork will be on display as well as a jukebox that plays all two hundred songs recorded by Sonny Smith and other notable musicians. Artists include, William T. Wiley, Mingering Mike, Chris Johanson, Reed Anderson, Jo Jackson, Harrell Fletcher, Chris Duncan, Tucker Nichols, Paul Wackers and 91 others!
…and in Sonny’s words:
This is a year long project that began at the Headlands residency last march. I’ve written 100 songs for 100 record jackets hand made by a shitload of artists. Also there will be a handmade jukebox to play all the songs. there’s gonna be a Volume 1 limited edition box set put out by Gallery 16 available for sale with some limited edition reproductions signed by some of the artists. This thing is a sight to be seen. Later in the year there will be a volume 2, 3, 4 etc.. Which is exciting and I will tell you more about
that soon enough.
100 records, 100 artists, 100 songs, 1 year, 1 opening, 1 jukebox, 1 you, 1 me, 1 gallery. My birth year adds up to 1 btw.
This project incorporates all that i’ve ever been working on all these years: literature, visual, music, collaboration, fictional characters.
It is my year of Individuation: those processes through which differentiated components become integrated into stable wholes. Coincidentally I couldn’t have completed this oneness without lots of people’s help.
So don’t be afraid to celebrate this oneness of one-of-a-kind togetherness/oneness with five or six glasses of (free) wine.!!!
…and in the immortal words of Endless Nest:
THIS RULES!
Keep your ear to the ground for beautiful limited edition 100 Records releases from Turn Up! and Empty Cellar records.
Read This Article or visit the Turn Up! 100 Records Blog for more information.
This morning, Gorilla vs. Bear premiered The Sandwitches first official music video, “Kiss Your Feet”, taken from their debut LP “How To Make Ambient Sadcake” (Turn Up!).
The video – starring the band – was filmed in entirety at a remote cabin over the course of a single remarkably-creepy foggy night in a wooded area in Northern California. It is full of horror that you cannot unsee. The director, Joey Izzo, is a young Bay Area filmmaker who has logged hundreds of hours of live music footage, and created music videos for Port O’Brien among others. We love it, and hope you do to!
A note from Director Joey Izzo:
When I was racking my brain for video ideas, drummer Lance’s low budget creepy-as-all-hell Halloween costume popped into my mind. And from there, the rest came pretty quickly. I tried to come up with something that utilizes iconic horror movie imagery without obnoxiously paying homage to any specific films. But perhaps most impacting was the song itself and the ghostly lovesick imagery it was able to conjure up in my mind.
Shooting a horror movie themed music video at a cabin in the middle of the woods sounded like a great idea at the time, but in practice, it proved to be much more harrowing than originally anticipated. With only one night to shoot, the Sandwitches and our small but dedicated crew braved themselves against the harsh winter elements and no-sleep exhaustion to get everything needed for the video. The band really put themselves through the ringers to get this one done and done right. I couldn’t be happier with the results, but in hindsight we probably all should have called in sick the next day.
The best comment I’ve received so far was from a friend who, after watching the video, told me he didn’t realize that the song was so dark until now. I think a video can be deemed a success when it’s able to touch upon a feeling deeply embedded into the song and bring it out in an interesting visual context.
On the heels of a European tour with Pillars and Tongues, Mark Trecka took to the road as the drummer for Dark Dark Dark‘s SxSW tour, and on the heels of that tour… Mark and Beth Remis of Pillars and Tongues are departing on an East Coast tour with one of our favorites, Elephant Micah! Indian Summer, of Endless Nest, hosted Elephant Micah in San Francisco last month at a truly bomb show, and this tour promises to be just as bomb… if not bomberer?
Mark and Beth will be performing Mark’s solo material and a few stripped down versions of Pillar’s tunes. It will rule even though they are totally neglecting us on the west coast.
