cool friends doing cool things
xerox scan of collage by James Roemer (glochids, sungsang, tent city, pigeon religion, pigeon eggmen)
1. Sungsang live at Meat Market, 2/24/12
2. Excavacations live at Meat Market, 2/24/12
3. Garrincha & The Stolen Elk live at Meat Market, 2/24/12
4. D. Pupillo & A. Jarson live at Meat Market, 2/24/12
TOMORROW, vvest temple presents
SUN ARAW BAND (on Thrill Jockey, Woodsist, Not Not Fun, Stunned, etc from LA)
MATTHEWDAVID (on Brainfeeder from LA)
M. GEDDES GENGRAS (on Stunnded, Digitalis Ltd, from LA)
DIVA (of Pocahaunted, from LA)
w/
MARSHSTEPPER (aurelius nappa)
at Meat Market
8PM - ALL AGES - $5
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New Excavacations CD available now on Weird Forest. The whole album can be heard on soundcloud.
http://soundcloud.com/garrincha-1/sets/excavacations-object
Thanks
http://www.weirdforest.com/store/bandPages/exca.html#object
“What to make of Excavacations? Are they a pop band? Perhaps, except they spend as much time zoning out and embedding weird sounds into extended soundscapes as delivering infectious payloads loaded with hooks. Are they drone? If so, this is the catchiest drone you’ll ever hear. Are they rock? Maybe — they rock hard at times but not often. Are they bad spellers? Probably (don’t miss that extra ‘ca’ in the name). But if we live in a post-post-everything world, then Excavacations is simply music for the 21st century.
Object Permanence is one of the catchiest releases in the Weird Forest catalog but this isn’t empty-calorie Diet Mountain Dew for the ears. The hooks will stand out initially but repeated listens reveal nuances embedded in the music and the care that went into creating these compositions. The boys aren’t afraid of big hooks and choruses but they warp traditional song structures and abandon verse-chorus-verse. Indeed, Excavacations don’t write songs as much as they craft delicate sonic vignettes, song miniatures that ebb and flow, often interweaving and bleeding into each other. Maximalists by nature, nearly every track incorporates overdubbed layers and unusual sonic elements into its core but somehow it all just works — the songs never sound overcrowded or weird for the sake of it.
Object Permanence comprises of songs culled from a string of underground cassette releases on the venerable Stunned, Avant Archive and Paramita labels plus 4 new exclusive tracks but the album sounds like a cohesive statement. Partially re-recorded, mixed and mastered specifically for this release, these songs have never sounded better.”
