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Shaun O’Dell of Sword + Sandals and WR/DS Book Release Tomorrow
Official Book Release at Park Life Gallery
Thursday, September 30, 6 – 8PM
220 Clement Street
San Francisco
“Good & Plenty is definitely channeling the spirit of those BYG Actuel release from the late sixties from the likes of Don Cherry, Sun Ra or Sunny Murray. The dueling dynamic of O’Dell and Sutherland’s horn interplay is not one of willful free jazz cacophony, but a means to reach a harmonic connection through disparate starting points, often sounding like the horns are worrying back and forth over the same small tonal point creating a tense movement of sound. But unlike their live shows and recordings, the horns are not always locked in battle. The overall flow of the record tempers the noisy urgent moments with quieter moody tracks of looser and more playful rhythms, sometimes ramshackle and other times more marital with strange washes of bell sounds, out of tune piano, weird bleeps, and minimal plaintive horn drones. It’s one of those records where the band has finally come into their own, harnessing the ferocious energy of their live shows into something deeper and more reflective and at times quite beautiful. Highly recommended!” – aQuarius recOrds
San Francisco artist Shaun O’Dell painted the monad-aperture that was reproduced for the Endless Nest logo. Thank you Shaun. Here we are transporting the piece between his house and ours.
He is also one of the three eminent forces on, and album artist for, the Sword & Sandals debut LP, Good & Plenty.
Tomorrow, Thursday 10/30, he will be celebrating the arrival of his new artbook. This book is the culminating project of his Tournesol residency. O’Dell is 7th artist to receive the prestigious award, which provides a Bay Area painter with a year-long residency at Headlands. You can preview the book and read an excerpt from Shaun’s interview with curator Tara McDowell HERE. The book (initial press limited to 1000 copies) will be available for purchase at the event and will also be available at the Park Life Store.
Shaun will be performing at the event with Randy Sutherland (also from Sword + Sandals) in their two-piece WR/DS.
Thursday, September 30, 6 – 8PM
220 Clement Street
San Francisco
Finally… we thought we would attach last week’s San Francisco Bay Guardian interview/feature on Shaun O’Dell, Sword + Sandals and WR/DS: Horns of plenty
“Good & Plenty is definitely channeling the spirit of those BYG Actuel release from the late sixties from the likes of Don Cherry, Sun Ra or Sunny Murray. The dueling dynamic of O’Dell and Sutherland’s horn interplay is not one of willful free jazz cacophony, but a means to reach a harmonic connection through disparate starting points, often sounding like the horns are worrying back and forth over the same small tonal point creating a tense movement of sound. But unlike their live shows and recordings, the horns are not always locked in battle. The overall flow of the record tempers the noisy urgent moments with quieter moody tracks of looser and more playful rhythms, sometimes ramshackle and other times more marital with strange washes of bell sounds, out of tune piano, weird bleeps, and minimal plaintive horn drones. It’s one of those records where the band has finally come into their own, harnessing the ferocious energy of their live shows into something deeper and more reflective and at times quite beautiful. Highly recommended!” – aQuarius recOrds
Pillars & Tongues Tour On Home Stretch
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Pillars & Tongues Tour Continues!
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Pillars and Tongues live at Annie St. Arts Collective in Austin 9/10 (photo by Dan Grissom)
After a rad show in San Francisco Pillars and Tongues are now on the home stretch of their western states tour in support of their new LP, Lay of Pilgrim Park.
Listen to “Decadent Crossing” courtesy of Bluesanct from their 9/05 performance in The Pine Room Tavern in Nashville, Indiana HERE
Some praise from the road:
“Using layers of harmonized vocals and accompanying them with little more than a violin or a double bass—if anything at all—Pillars & Tongues approaches Americana and gospel with a style that’s both hauntingly simplistic and ambitiously complex.”
– Santa Cruz Weekly
Pillars & Tongues Tour Continues!
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Friday, September 24 – 7:30 PM
Prescott, AZ – The Raven Cafe – with tba
Saturday, September 25 – 8:00 PM
Albuquerque, NM – The Kosmos – with North America and tba
Sunday, September 26 – 8:00 PM
Santa Fe, NM – the Process presents at Little Wing
Tuesday, September 28 – 7:00 PM
Colorado Springs, CO – Modbo Gallery – with tba
Wednesday, September 29 – 8:30 PM
Denver, CO – Meadowlark Bar – with Princess Music
Thursday, September 30 – 8:30 PM
Lincoln, NE – Clawfoot House
Friday, October 1 – 9:30 PM
Grinnell, IA – Grinnell College Herrick Chapel – with tba
Saturday, October 2 – 9:00 PM
Iowa City, IA – White Lightning Warehouse – with Prince Rama and Skye Carrasco
Sunday, October 3
Daytrotter session
Sword+Sandals Release Celebration Part II: Joseph Childress, WR/DS, Pillars & Tongues, The Up Died Sound
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Wednesday, September 22nd
Come celebrate once more the release of Sword + Sandals debut studio LP, Good & Plenty tomorrow night! It will be a super night for Empty Cellar, with three label artists on the same stage. In a way, it is a double record release show between Sword + Sandals (represented by WR/DS (words)) and Pillars & Tongues (on tour from Chicago in support of Lay of Pilgrim Park). The night will also feature Joseph Childress and New Yorkers, the Up Died Sound. The evening will be capped with the debut screening of the latest Chasing the Moon Video Podcast featuring Birds and Batteries; so in a way, it is a triple release show.
Wednesday, September 22nd
The Up Died Sound (NYC)
Pillars & Tongues (Chicago)
WR/DS (Shaun O’Dell & Randy Lee Sutherland of )
Chasing the Moon Video Podcast debut of Birds & Batteries at Hyde St. Studios
Viracocha
998 Valencia st. @ 21st st.
San Francisco
The Sandwitches – Live tonight at the Elbo Room, TONIGHT!
Catch The Sandwitches at the Elbo Room (San Francisco) tonight!
9pm 9.13.2010
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St
San Francisco
Also, check out what Kimberly Chun at the San Francisco Bay Guardian said about their latest EP, Duck, Duck, Goose! out now on Empty Cellar Records.
“Produced by the Fresh and Onlys’ Wymond Miles, the new Sandwitches EP, Duck, Duck, Goose! (Empty Cellar/Secret Seven) plunges even deeper into the shadows, tackling “Baby Mine,” Fresh and Onlys’ honcho Tim Cohen’s “Rock of Gibraltar,” and other eerie lullabies with confidence and tangible vision.”
That article also features really great profiles of two of our favorite female fronted bands (period) Grass Widow and Brilliant Colors check it out: Girl School 2010