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VETIVER (Fat Cat / Gnomonsong) + Adrian Crowley

Saturday 31st May 2008
The Tunnels, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121
Doors 7.30pm
Tickets £8+bf in advance / £10 on door
Available from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642682 or http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

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VETIVER

Vetiver are a “New-Weird-Americana-Freak-Avant-Chamber-Folk” supergroup from San Francisco. With lush, acoustic textures; simple yet charming, effective arrangements; and a core of really strong writing, Vetiver's sound takes influence from a deep well - late-'60s pastoral folk, tropicalia, '70s west coast rock, and much more beyond.

Centred around the delicate voice and guitar playing of chief songwriter Andy Cabic, Vetiver is fleshed out with an ever-changing and hugely talented line up, aided and abetted by some of the finest players in the extended family of cosmic experimentalists Andy finds himself a member of. Previous incarnations have included Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Colm O'Ciosoig (My Bloody Valentine), Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Kevin Barker (Currituck County), Otto Hauser (Espers) and cellist Alissa Anderson.

Since the highly-acclaimed To Find Me Gone LP was released in 2006 (Piccadilly Records ‘Album of the Year’, no less) Andy has toured the world extensively and intensively as part of Devendra’s backing band, plus taken Vetiver out on stints with The Shins, Vashti Bunyan and Bright Eyes, amongst others.

Vetiver’s new record Thing Of The Past (May 2008 - FatCat/Gnomonsong) is Andy's mixtape to the world - a collection of some of his favorite songs collected from some of his favorite records, with contributions from Vashti Bunyan and Michael Hurley. With an original album also due for completion this Spring, come and see a band totally on top of their game – they blew Devendra away at The Lemon Tree last time round, now let them do it to you.


“Do not, repeat DO NOT, miss Vetiver, the Bay Area not-folk-but-not-rock outfit whose vocals-guitar-cello-violin live lineup brings an extraordinary air of grace and sway to leader Andy Cabic's strangely ageless, moonlit songs, the kind that Neil Young still writes sometimes.” LA Weekly

“… a dizzyingly euphoric tangle of freaked-out folk and scratchy strings, all twisted sheets and sweaty brows, upside-down trees and wicked flowers. Vetiver is swampy and sublime, a compelling mix of sweet, candlelit laments and jagged hymns.” Pitchfork review (Vetiver, 8.3)

“…the album finds Cabic nudging Vetiver toward the lost canyons of airy West Coast soft-rock and laid-back, country-tinged introspection, all harvested with a dreamy, narcotic warmth and just enough melodic grit to avoid a complete departure off into the twilight.” Pitchfork review (To Find Me Gone, 7.3)

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http://www.fat-cat.co.uk
http://www.gnomonsong.com


ADRIAN CROWLEY

Adrian Crowley is a self-taught guitarist from Dublin who sings disparate songs with a deep, gentle voice, and writes touching ballads with a sensitive flair. He was nominated for a Choice Music Award in 2007 (Ireland’s version of the Mercury Music Prize) for his latest album ‘Long Distance Swimmer’.

Adrian has toured extensively with Adem, James Yorkston, Damon & Naomi (ex- Galaxie 500), and Hood. He has also shared the bill with Animal Collective, Jose Gonzalez, The Fence Collective, Arab Strap, Badly Drawn Boy and has recorded with Steve Albini. In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Ryan Adams named Crowley one of his favourite underground songwriters.

“The minute you hear Adrian’s soft, woozy monotone crack into song, and reverberate through the speakers, you'll drift away. He plays the electric guitar, rocking it around his waist, and bending the neck to produce a shudderingly ambient and sonorous ringing sound. His music hits you like the fever you get when you come in from the cold, sending your temperature soaring.” [Fence Records]

“a lo-fi, high-intensity collection of acoustic musings that suggest Van Morrison singing with Red House Painters... Star of the Harbour and Brother at Sea evoke the opiate slow-core of Low or Codeine.” [The Guardian]

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