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[offramp]

As part of SOUND Festival, The Lemon Tree & interesting music promotions present:

DAMON & NAOMI with MICHIO KURIHARA + PICASTRO + ADRIAN CROWLEY

Thursday 22nd November 2007
The Lemon Tree, 5 West North Street, Aberdeen AB24 5AT. Phone (01224) 642230
Doors 7.30pm Onstage 8.00pm
Tickets £9/£6 subject to booking fee available from the Lemon Tree Box Office, One Up (01224) 642682 and online at http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk

http://www.lemontree.org
http://www.myspace.com/interestingmusic
http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk



DAMON & NAOMI with MICHIO KURIHARA

Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang formerly of Galaxie 500 bring their dreamy contemplative folk-rock to Aberdeen for the first time - one of only three UK dates as part of a European Tour to promote their new album release ‘Within These Walls’. They will be joined for this evening by guitarist Michio Kurihara of Japanese psych-rock band Ghost.

"[Kurihara] hasn't so much altered what they do as augmented it, often beautifully. The results are occasionally breathtaking.... rare and graceful" [MOJO magazine]

http://www.myspace.com/damonandnaomi
http://www.damonandnaomi.com


PICASTRO

Picastro are an amazing collective from Toronto based around singer Liz Hysen. To celebrate the release of their third CD, they make a very welcome return to Aberdeen after their staggering debut in May 05. As always, there will be moments of heartbreaking beauty and heart-wrenching despair, made via an even more stripped down instrumentation of cello, guitar and Hysen's use of vocals more as a lead instrument than just another texture in the mix.

Picastro weave “an abstract framework of extended, moody soundtracks” [The Wire]

http://www.myspace.com/picastro
http://www.picastro.net


ADRIAN CROWLEY

Adrian Crowley, a self-taught guitarist from Dublin, sings disparate songs with a deep, gentle voice, and writes touching ballads with a sensitive flair.

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 satisfying and beautifully rendered collection of melancholia." [Alternative Press]

http://www.myspace.com/adriancrowley
http://www.adriancrowley.com

[Alan Cynic]

I will be there...looks like one of those ace IMP nights!

[chilli]

Originally Posted by Alan Cynic

I will be there...looks like one of those ace IMP nights!

Damon & Naomi & Michio Kurihara are touring the USA with BORIS just now
& apparently Michio is playing in both bands.

I like this "he's playing soft guitar with Boris & loud guitar with Damon & Naomi"

[Alan Cynic]

I've seen him with them before, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I have his autograph on my guitar somewhere!

[chilli]

utterly sublime line up, a dream

[idol_wild]

Delicious.

[all_his_engines]

This will be superb, I'm sure. I've not familiar with Damon & Naomi's material, but keep hearing very good things about them. I am, however, a big fan of Ghost and Kurihara's guitar playing in particular, so I'll be making an appearance.

[lowball]

such a fantastic line-up, Picastro were utterly sublime when they played Aberdeen the 1st time.

Very excited by this event.

[offramp]

If you retain your ticket stub from this gig then you'll get FREE ENTRY (on presentation of the Lemon Tree stub) to our Jackie Leven gig on 5th December...

[lowball]

Originally Posted by offramp

If you retain your ticket stub from this gig then you'll get FREE ENTRY (on presentation of the Lemon Tree stub) to our Jackie Leven gig on 5th December...

seems like a deal, although I know nothing about Mr Leven
but I will check him out. Any CD's worth investing in?