To Enjoy is the Only Thing

Be Mean, It's Kinder Than Crying

"For The People" Available Now. On iTunes http://bit.ly/1aPdZwG and Bandcamp http://bit.ly/13n6Gut

Biography

Thee Dang Dangs are a Denver, CO based 4 piece Psych Surf Garage Rock band. Thee Dang Dangs are a delightful fusing of fuzzy surf guitar riffs, and reverb-heavy psychedelic vocals by frontlady Rebecca Williams. Their sound conjures up images of dirty bums wandering around on Venice Beach in the 60s in a hazy search for something heavier to cave in droopy eyelids. The most succinct description I’ve read of their Stone Coast EP (from Westword’s review) is that it “sounds like it was recorded in the bathroom of a Sunset Strip titty bar in 1967.” I dare you to have a listen and not visualize this image.

Williams’ reverb-soaked squeals and wails melded with the cloudy guitar lines and terse percussion patterns like a funny cigarette matches the crackle of your favorite Lou Reed record. There is something profoundly nostalgic and timeless in spite of itself about Thee Dang Dang’s music; they don’t have to come out and tell you who their influences are, because it’s so apparent within the sun-drenched howls and crunchy guitar riffs. Who knows, maybe they’ll become an act to revisit 50 years in the future, just as they are fondly recreating and reinventing sounds from our musical past right now in 2013.

Dust In The Mojave

"Is What It Is" by SHE KEEPS BEES is the first single taken from their new album "Eight Houses", out now in Europe through BB*ISLAND (on LP / CD / DL)

"Is What It Is" written by Jessica Larrabee, performed by She Keeps Bees. 
Guest appearance Sharon Van Etten.
Produced and recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Red Book Studio

album at iTunes (EU): http://snip.ftpromo.net/eighthouses

She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant. They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat."

Their new album "Eight Houses"  finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time and enlisting guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz.

She Keeps Bees have created a beautifully timeless and haunting album. Eight Houses revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Jessica Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls.

:::LIVE IN EUROPE April/May 2015::::
24.04.15 BE-Bruxelles, Homeplugged
25.04.15 GER-Offenbach/., Hafen 2
26.04.15 GER-Berlin, Roter Salon
28.04.15 GER-Jena, Glashaus
29.04.15 CH-Basel, Parterre
30.04.15 CH-Lausanne,Le Romandie
01.05.15 CH-St.Gallen, Palace
02.05.15 BE-Arlon,Les Aralunaires
03.05.15 BE-Brügge, Cactus Club
04.05.15 FR-Llle, La Péniche
05.05.15 FR-Paris, Espace B
06.05.15 FR-Nantes, Stereolux
08.05.15 ES-Madrid, Siroco
09.05.15 ES-Barcelona, Sala Apolo
12.05.15 FR-Figeac, La Chapelle de Figeac
13.05.15 FR-Macon, Cave a Musique
15.05.15 UK-London, Bush Hall
16.05.15 NL-Amsterdam, London Calling
17.05.15 BE-Hasselt, Muziekodrom
18.05.15 NL-Utrecht, Ekko
19.05.15 GER-Leipzig, UT Connewitz
20.05.15 GER-Regensburg, Alte Mälze
21.05.15 GER-Freiburg, Great Räng Teng Teng
22.05.15 GER-Dortmund, "Way Back When"-festival
23.05.15 GER-Beverungen, Orange Blossom Special Festival
24.05.15 GER-Hamburg, Knust "About Songs Festival"
see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
http://www.bandsintown.com/SheKeepsBees
see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
http://www.bandsintown.com/SheKeepsBees

Vinyl / CD pre-order  eg. at
Rough Trade UK
http://roughtrade.com/albums/85304
Piccadilly Records LP and CD
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/SheKeepsBees-EightHouses-Bb*Island-98135.html
or in Germany 
https://www.flight13.com/details/111069/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
http://www.finestvinyl.de/de/item/74243/vinyl.20.html
in Benelux
http://www.konkurrent.nl/winkel/produkt/she_keeps_bees_eight_houses_4260064999610/


shekeepsbees.com/
www.facebook.com/shekeepsbees
www.bbisland.de

She Keeps Bees - Is What It Is

Yo La Tengo
2015-10-10
Kings Theatre
Brooklyn, NY  USA

Exclusive download hosted at nyctaper.com
Recorded and produced by acidjack

Soundboard (engineer: Mark Luecke) + Schoeps MK41V>KCY>Z-PFA>>Edirol R-44>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (patch first song, align, mix down, amplify, balance)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, effects, image)>Audacity 2.0.3 (track, amplify, balance, downsample, dither)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Special thanks to Mark Luecke for his assistance and the patched audience portion of the first song.

Tracks
01 Tried So Hard [Gene Clark]*
02 Automatic Doom [Special Pillow]
03 Rickety
04 My Heart’s Not In It [Darlene McCrea]
05 Double Dare
06 Naples [Antitam]
07 Deeper Into Movies
08 Butchie’s Tune [Lovin’ Spoonful]
09 Awhileaway
10 Corona [Minutemen]
11 Today Is the Day
12 Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
13 Can’t Forget 
14 [banter]
15 Here Comes My Baby [Cat Stevens]
16 Friday I’m In Love [The Cure]
17 Yellow Sarong [The Scene Is Now]
18 Ohm
19 Our Way To Fall
20 [encore break/artwork intro]
21 Bottled Up [Devo]
22 [Nick Lowe intro]
23 Walk Away Renee [The Left Banke]&
24 Rollers Show [Nick Lowe]&

* no soundboard for first 1:20; audience mics are patched from the band’s source
& with Nick Lowe

Yo La Tengo - Friday I'm In Love [The Cure] (live at Kings Theatre Brooklyn 2015)

Miracle Waves

Transparent Water is the new studio collaboration between 7-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist-composer-bandleader Omar Sosa and London-based Senegalese singer and kora master Seckou Keita.  It’s slated for release in January 2017.

The project idea grew out of Sosa’s impromptu addition to a mid–2012 date with drummer Marque Gilmore at the CLF Art Café in London, in what was Sosa and Keita’s first musical encounter.  Profoundly moved by the experience, Omar told Seckou he wanted to invite him to work together on a future recording project.
Given their respective touring and recording schedules, it took a year, but in July 2013 Omar and Seckou went into the Fattoria Musica recording studio in Osnabrück, Germany and laid down the core tracks for Transparent Water.

Another chance meeting informs Transparent Water:  in April 2013, Galician bagpiper-pianist-composer Cristina Pato invited Omar to Santiago de Compostela, where Pato hosts an annual residency frequented by associates of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.  There Omar met Silk Road charter member and sheng master Wu Tong, whom Omar was moved to bring into the project.  In connection with a concert date in Shanghai in July 2014, Omar arranged a side trip to Beijing to record Wu Tong’s traditional flute overdubs.

Tokyo-born, Paris-based koto player Mieko Miyazaki came to Omar’s attention via her recorded work with French jazz guitarist Nguyên Lê.  When Omar finally had the chance to meet her, Mieko’s creative spirit utterly impressed him, and he enlisted her distinctive voice for Transparent Water.

For percussion, Omar turned to longtime collaborator Gustavo Ovalles, who divides his time between France and his native Venezuela.  Ovalles (who can be heard on three prior Sosa projects—Sentir, Ayaguna, and Eggūn) brings the polyrhythmic soul of the African Diaspora to Transparent Water.

Paris-based drummer-producer Steve Argüelles crafted the mix with Omar, having previously worked on Sosa’s award-winning Mulatos and Afreecanos CDs.

Transparent Water is the latest example of Omar Sosa’s transcendent determination to seek new combinations, a manifestation of improvisatory freedom wherein the musical destination is subordinate to the extemporaneous joy of shared artistic expression.  Omar observes that, as he did with Sentir, “What I wanted to do was create something totally improvised.”

Transparent Water—suggestive of translucence and flowing light—is a deeply spiritual recording that reveals its inspiration in the close and compassionate listening of artists engaged in a genial and captivating musical conversation, liberated from time itself, reaching across five continents to probe the collective spirit of the human condition.


Fatiliku (5.38)

When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day

Oak Tree

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René Aubry - L'abîme

Our debut album "Life in Reverse" is out now!

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