offramp Posted March 28, 2011 Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 it gives interesting music promotions immense pleasure to announce:tUnE-yArDs (4AD) + Thousands (Bella Union) + FoxhuntingTuesday, 14 June 2011The Tunnels (Room 1), Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. Phone (01224) 211121Doors 8pm Tickets 8+bf in adv / 9 on doorAvailable from One-Up Records, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. Phone (01224) 642662 or Welcome to TicketWeb!* Please use One-Up Records for your ticket purchases / CDs etc - use them or lose them! Also, see those tickets, they are one-offs, ask Titch!interesting music promotions | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, VideosHometUnE-yArDs (4AD)After two attempts to get tUnE-yArDs to Aberdeen, its third time lucky because Merrill Garbis is about to explode on to the live scene with her second long play. Her live shows are, we believe, the stuff of legend, being completely and utterly amazing. So much so, she has tried to recreate her live vibe on record with her new release touring the world with a full band. 4AD - Tune-YardsTUNE-YARDS | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, VideostUnE-YarDs - w h o k i l llots of links from here >> http://drownedinsound.com/releases/1...eviews/4138426Thousands (Bella Union)Thousands is the name of Seattle duo Kristian Garrard and Luke Bergman whose beguiling debut album, The Sound Of Everything, is one of the gentlest, most tender records youll ever hear; just two entwined voices, exquisite acoustic guitar and a very occasional harmonium. Oh, and sounds from nature; bird calls, falling leaves, blowing wind and natural reverb are all present, underlining the organic creation of Thousands songs and their surreal, nature-focused lyrics.Thousands came to Bella Unions attention via Fleet Foxes guitarist Skye Skjelset, who is a friend of the pair, and the duo are both are long-standing members of Seattles heralded underground scene. When the bands initial home recordings didnt feel right, Kristian and Luke decided to travel around Oregon and Washington looking for interesting or inspiring places to record. To get away from the sterile sounds we were achieving at home, and to offer something with a real sense of place. We want people to listen to this with headphones on and feel like they're immersed in these locations, and there's us, sitting next to you, playing a song. The field recordings led them across the Pacific Northwest; to Luke's family's cabin on the Oregon coast, the banks of the Columbia River, abandoned barns and old farmhouses.At times the music of Thousands echoes Fleet Foxes hymnal beauty. But the overriding feel shares some of the hushed simplicity of Elliott Smith and Simon and Garfunkel, fused to the finger-picking dexterity of John Fahey and Bert Jansch. But dont let the simplest of acoustic formats hide the deep well of emotion inside. The Sound Of Everything is all about the human voice and heartbeat, the purity of sound, capturing a specific place at an exact moment; in other words, the sound of everything that matters.THOUSANDSBELLA UNIONPumaJawFive albums to date, with a sixth in progress due for release mid 2011, the bewitching Pumajaw are one of the Scottish music scene's most exotic animals. Instrumentalist John Wills (formally of the legendary band LOOP) builds a heady soundtrack by looping effects-laden guitar and beats, but all eyes are on the engrossing Pinkie Maclure, who dresses like a glamorous flapper girl and sings like a siren. Pumajaw always astonish their audience and we are reliably told that their new release moves away from a mix of folk / electronica into more experimental uptempo electronica. We are utterly delighted they have joined this fantastic line-up as it has been a while since their last visit to Aberdeen.PUMAJAW | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, VideosPumajaw | Facebook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted March 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Since this was originally posted, PumaJaw have pulled out and been replaced by Foxhunting.Can a mod please change the thread title please?Foxhunting, despite the name, doesn't actually partake in the killing of carnivorous vulpines. Instead, he's a teenage singer-songwriter from the barren north of Scotland, writing fresh and catchy (and often violent) folk-pop. He's in the middle of recording a second EP in his bedroom with a laptop. Foxhunting WOW-ed everyone at our Withered Hand gig in January - definitely one to watch on the local scene.http://huntingfox.es/http://www.facebook.com/fxhntng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted March 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Can a mod please change the thread title please?And also remove PumaJaw from the main post as I don't think I can edit. ta very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted March 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Tickets now online as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Bought a ticket from One Up today. Pretty excited for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milners Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 it gives interesting music promotions immense pleasure to announce:Indeed you should be proud - looking forward to the gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Stream of the new album - Tune-Yards whokill: exclusive album stream | Music | guardian.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 consistently pleasing reviews coming in for whokill & its released tomorrow Recent music reviews & album reviews by Any Decent Music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15321-w-h-o-k-i-l-l/8.8 from PitchforkThe stylization of the name tUnE-yArDs in print is a bit off-putting, but it at least gives people fair warning: This is not an act with any interest in politely conforming to expectations. tUnE-yArDs is the music project of Merrill Garbus, a songwriter, vocalist, percussionist, and ukulele player who has fused elements of acoustic folk, R&B, funk, Afro-pop, and rock into a bold, uncompromising hybrid all her own. Garbus is blessed with an extraordinary voice, and she wields it with great confidence, always coming off in total control of her phrasing while seeming totally uninhibited in her expression. There's an authoritative quality to her voice-- she often sings with a commanding, full-bodied boldness, but even at her softest, Garbus sounds assertive and forthright.w h o k i l l, Garbus' second album as tUnE-yArDs, delivers on the promise of her 2009 debut, BiRd-BrAiNs. Unlike that album, which she recorded almost entirely on her own using a digital voice recorder and the sound editing program Audacity, w h o k i l l was mostly made in traditional studios in collaboration with bassist Nate Brenner, engineer Eli Crews, and a handful of other musicians. The music benefits from the increased professionalism, but Garbus has not abandoned her lo-fi aesthetic. As on BiRd-BrAiNs, Garbus layers sound to create a patchwork of contrasting textures. This time around, the greater clarity allows for more exaggerated dynamics. This is most apparent in "Gangsta", a carefully arranged track that evokes danger and fear with bluntly abbreviated blasts of horn noise and sounds that cut in and out erratically like a set of headphones with a busted wire or a cell phone that can't hold its signal. On the opposite end of the spectrum, she creates an almost unsettling intimacy on "Wooly Wolly Gong" by mixing the ambient hum of room sound with closely mic'd arpeggiated chords and vocals.Brenner's presence on bass is the biggest difference between w h o k i l l and BiRd-BrAiNs. His style is loose and jazzy, with fluid, melodic lines that add dimension to Garbus' compositions. She sounded so isolated on BiRd-BrAiNs, but suddenly her music is like a conversation, with Brenner's parts bouncing off her voice and rhythms like thoughtful banter. He brings a janky funk to "Es-so", a zippy groove to "Bizness", and a delicate weight to the airy "Doorstep". On "Powa", his lead lines slink around Garbus' slo-mo rock riff as if in a subliminal duet with her expressive vocal performance. That song builds steadily over the course of five minutes until it reaches a stunning climax in which Brenner's bass bounces gently as Garbus hits a glorious high note like a feral Mariah Carey.Throughout w h o k i l l, Garbus confronts thorny issues of race, gender, body image, and privilege in ways that are pointed but nuanced. She mostly sticks to personal narratives, suggesting big ideas and complex tensions in her subtext while emphasizing the urgency of small moments and concrete details. She's most direct in the opening cut "My Country", in which she wrestles with guilt over her own privilege, but she's more thought-provoking when in murkier, more ambiguous territory, like when she sings about a sexual fantasy involving the brutal cop who arrested her brother in "Riotriot" or when she wonders aloud why she does not have more black male friends at the end of "Killa". Garbus is particularly fascinated by violence; most of the tracks on w h o k i l l deal with power struggles that arise from inequity and lead to further cruelty and injustice. Her lighter moments are still quite complicated-- she playfully wrestles with negative body image in "Es-so", while that same lingering disgust and self-doubt brings a moving subtext to "Powa", an ode to a lover who can get her to momentarily let go of stress and insecurities.Back in 1983 Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon wrote an essay for Art Forum that suggested that when we go to rock performances, we pay to see other people believe in themselves. A lot of what makes w h o k i l l and tUnE-yArDs' excellent live performances so compelling is the degree to which Garbus commits to her ideas and displays a total conviction in her personal, idiosyncratic, high-stakes music. This, in and of itself, is very inspiring and empowering. This unguarded, individualistic expression encourages strong identification in listeners, so don't be surprised if this record earns Garbus a very earnest and intense cult following. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 DrownedinSound review today as wellEvery now and then, a record comes along so good it makes you want to revisit an artist's back catalogue to see if you missed anything first time round. Two Dancers by Wild Beasts and The Horrors' Primary Colours are two recent examples that spring to mind. Then of course there are records by artists whose name has had little bearing or significance in the past, yet thanks to the CD that's spent literally weeks on repeat play at every given opportunity, it has become something of an obsession in acquiring their entire repertoire. It's at this point I'd like to introduce tUnE yArDs, the one-woman project of New England-born and current Oakland resident, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Merrill Garbus. Having been making music under the tUnE yArDs guise for the best part of five years now, it wasn't until 2009's BiRd-BrAiNs that her multi-faceted, genre-transgressing talents first came to the attention of anyone outside her native locality, and even then, as with yours truly, its impact was short-lived, eventually passing all and sundry by. To cut to the chase, whokill, the follow-up to BiRd-BrAiNs, is a breathtaking collection of song-based ideas interspersed with both a lyrical and musical ingenuity that goes far beyond any expectations based on Merrill's previous work. Even listening back to her earlier creations now - and believe me, I've trawled through her career history since whokill implanted itself in my nervous system - there's little warning of this near-flawless exercise in creativity. Where its predecessor was recorded using little more than a tape recorder and ukulele, whokill came together at the studio of California-based producer-cum-engineer Eli Crews, whose previous credits include the likes of Why?, Deerhoof and Erase Errata. Having also enlisted a permanent bass player in the shape of fellow Oaklander Nate Brenner, along with various session musicians - tenor sax player Matt Nelson being the most notable - it's clear to see why Garbus' musical vision has taken so many radically different shapes along the way. As introductions go, whokill couldn't be much simpler or straight to the point. A lone voice precedes 'My Country' announcing "Ladies and Gentlemen, Merrill is performing at the..." before heavy Burundi style drums kick in Go! Team style and its creator's off kilter vocals take hold. At precisely two minutes and 24 seconds the song changes tack completely, Garbus' horn arrangement coupled with the varying sax accompaniments offering yet another dimension. It almost goes without saying that this is probably where Florence Welch would like to be. Signing off with the quip "The worst thing about living a lie is just wondering when they'll find out", 'My Country' is just the opening gateway to a record crammed so full of ambition one wonders if its seams are at bursting point. 'Es-so' could quite easily have been recorded by another artist completely, so different is it to the opener. Propelled by a post-punk orchestrated riff not a million miles away from Adam and the Ants' 'Friends' and accentuated by a hip hop beat once honed and perfected by Beck Hanson, Garbus could have crafted her first perfect pop moment were it not for the discordant Animal Collective style breakdown at the mid-point that would no doubt have radio playlisters scrambling for the fader. Better still is 'Gangsta', a looped beat heavy concoction of voice projections that feels like Paul Simon's Graceland receiving a ghetto blasted makeover courtesy of The World Famous Supreme Team. The laid back strains of soulful groover 'Powa' once again recall Beck's Odelay, yet delve deeper into its lyrical content and that's where any similarities end. "Your power inside it rocks me like a lullaby" sings Garbus, an ambiguous statement whose subject matter becomes apparent when she adds the devilish "My man likes me from behind". "Baby, baby, baby, oh..." this most definitely isn't. Barely halfway into whokill and Merrill Garbus has embarked on more diversions than an impatient BMW driver trying to avoid the North Circular during rush hour. 'Riotriot's colourful haze evokes Ariel Pink's more intricate creations, coupled with an abstract playfulness Miles Davis would have been proud of. Lead single 'Bizness' mixes African rhythms with Garbus voice now taking the form of a xylophone. Listen again and you can vaguely hear her insisting "I'm a victim, yeah", while a backing track that appears to be based on Bjork's 'Big Time Sensuality' coasts along merrily in the distance. More hard-hitting percussion introduces 'Doorstep' before giving way to an air of tranquility culminating in Garbus declaring "I've tried so hard to be a peaceful lovin' woman". Arguably the most fragile sounding four minutes on the record, it shows off another string to Merrill Garbus precious bow. 'You Yes You' meanwhile takes the looped jazz funk punk of the Hoodoo Gurus and strips it down to a schizophrenic muddle of voice-controlled confusion, its creator again bigging up her man via the suggestive riposte "If home is where the heart is baby, then my home is inside you." For all its charm and diversity, whokill isn't quite perfect, tailing off somewhat towards the end. While its acoustic-led inroads signal 'Wooly Wolly Gong''s sleepy dreamlike intent, at six minutes long its welcome is momentarily outstayed. Album closer 'Killa' meanwhile, for all its cheesy bass lines and summery vibes doesn't pack the same punch as what's gone before, although much of that is down to the ridiculously high standards Merrill Garbus sets elsewhere. Yet as long players go, 2011 won't get much better than this, and with whokill, Merrill Garbus has somehow managed to encompass more ideas into just over 40 minutes than most artists manage in a lifetime. It goes without saying the bar has been raised, both in terms of Garbus and the rest of the competition. One can only hazard a guess as to what her next venture will sound like, but if whokill is anything to go by, tUnE yArDs' prospects are endless. 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milners Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 Tickets for this come through this time Looking forward to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 Tickets for this come through this time Looking forward to it1UP allocation of tickets now down to the last ten as of early afternoon today, once they have gone online tickets & cash on the door onlyIts massively pleasing that people have supported this show & bought their tickets via 1UPwho need all our support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Saw tUnE-yArDs on Saturday. I didn't think it was possible to be even more excited for this gig, but that made me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 Saw tUnE-yArDs on Saturday. I didn't think it was possible to be even more excited for this gig, but that made me.aaaaahhhh Primavera Festival you very lucky person, its funny that three artists we putting on in the next two weeks playing this festival, tUnE-yArDs, Julian Lynch & Ducktails.....I keep tell everyone these two gigs are goping to be special & tUnE-yArDs is going to be very very special. their date with Thousands @ The Scala in London has sold out already& the tickets flying in the last couple of days up here. Less than ten left in 1UPthanks for your heads-up confirming the live sensation this will be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 I know most people going to this gig will be focusing on Merill, but I wanna stake my claim to importance...Basically, new demos and that now out on my soundcloud...Damocles by Foxhunting on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for freeLittle Song by Foxhunting on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free<3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted June 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 I know most people going to this gig will be focusing on Merill, but I wanna stake my claim to importance...And so you should... well looking forward to this gig. Really strong line-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted June 1, 2011 Report Share Posted June 1, 2011 aaaaahhhh Primavera Festival you very lucky person, its funny that three artists we putting on in the next two weeks playing this festival, tUnE-yArDs, Julian Lynch & Ducktails.....I keep tell everyone these two gigs are goping to be special & tUnE-yArDs is going to be very very special. their date with Thousands @ The Scala in London has sold out already& the tickets flying in the last couple of days up here. Less than ten left in 1UPthanks for your heads-up confirming the live sensation this will be Yeah, I planned on going to see Julian Lynch and Ducktails but they clashed with other bands and I knew I'd be seeing them at the Tunnels so didn't mind so much. As for tUnE-yArDs, Bizness and Gangsta seemed to go down best. Gonna be a good'un. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 9, 2011 Report Share Posted June 9, 2011 think i'll have to forgive the Evening Express because Tune-Yards has just been given an amazing preview on the centre two pages today. I could go-on but just check out the preview. Also LIVE on 6music Marc Riley tonight.. Tune Yards & Thousands also played a sold out London Scala last night & if thats not enough Tune Yards is supporting Beruit The Brixton Academy in Sept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Today's Guardian Guide has this down as GIG OF THE WEEK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted June 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 some pretty cool live tUnE-yArDs vids from KEXP in SeattlePitchfork: Watch: tUnE-yArDs on KEXP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewarden Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 whats the times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 whats the times?You're coming down for the opener WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT ):< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Something fairly close to thisFoxhunting 8.30pmThousands 9.15pmTuneYards just after 10pmget excited Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckula Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Here's a track that's being played in the current set but didn't end up on the new LP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milners Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Something fairly close to thisFoxhunting 8.30pmThousands 9.15pmTuneYards just after 10pmget excited I would think most should get down for 8.30 as what i've listened to all bands sound amazing - looking forward to another great gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.