Home Normal and Arctic Circle present: The Boats
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | No Comments
The fine folks at Home Normal present The Boats, an evening of music from The Boats, Danny Norbury, Ian Hawgood, Konntinent, Isnaj Dui, and Simon Scott. Looks very nice, and if you’re in or around London on December 20th, it definitely seems worth your time.
Room40 Openframe
Posted on | November 13, 2009 | No Comments
I will not be in London December 9th and 10th, but perhaps you will be. The always excellent Room40 present Openframe, featuring Mike Cooper & Pat Thomas, Steinbrüchel, Organ Octet, Tujiko Noriko / Lawrence English / John Chantler (trio), Dolphins into the Future, Tomasz Bednarczyk, and Makino Takashi. Very nice.
Plateaux Festival 2009
Posted on | October 14, 2009 | No Comments
I unfortunately will be nowhere near Poland next month, but maybe you will be. The 2009 Plateaux Festival has a lineup featuring Ambient Music Blog favorites Lawrence English, Fennesz, Deaf Center, Morgan Packard, and more.
(Live +) In Person
Posted on | April 3, 2009 | 6 Comments
I have to say, I find seeing ambient artists doing live shows to be pretty boring. I find the music to be pretty useless without some context for, well, use. I’m falling pretty hard here into one side of what an old literary theory professor of mine called the Kant/St. Augustine divide, and I think that’s fine. Maybe you have other ideas, and I think that’s fine as well.
But I’m also pretty interested in expanding the spirit of what this site has been doing for the last few years, and so I’d like to start thinking about some ways of getting the music I point to on this site out from under your headphones and out into the actual world for use. But in a way that’s a bit more indirect than promoting live shows. That’s not very interesting to me.
So consider this an invitation for artists, designers, and anyone else reading to collaborate on some kind of project that applies ambient music to the world. I really have no idea what that means, but I’d like to try to do something. If you have an interest, or ideas, or anything, leave a comment, shoot me an email at ambientmusicblog at gmail.com, or berate me via twitter.com/ambientmusic.
Hammock & Taylor Deupree, Live in NYC
Posted on | October 31, 2008 | No Comments
A couple of Ambient Music Blog favorites, Hammock and Taylor Deupree are teaming up to play a live show November 22nd in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at Monkeytown.
From the Monkeytown site:
“In a special north/south collaboration, Nashville, Tennessee’s melodic ambient duo Hammock and New York sound artist/photographer Taylor Deupree conjure up a stargazing soundtrack with captivating visuals.“
Help Joy Wants Eternity Book Some Shows
Posted on | August 29, 2008 | No Comments
Just passing along this note from Joy Wants Eternity. Perhaps some of you reading from these locations can help out.
We need your help. Joy Wants Eternity is heading out on a month long tour in a few weeks and we need help booking a few remaining shows. If anybody wants to help out with a show we’d greatly appreciate it! Any suggestions for venues, bars, art spaces, DIY spaces, house shows, college dorms, in-store appearances, people to contact, bands, to play with, etc. would be awesome as well.
We’d like to fill these dates with something rather than having a day off, so any ideas you have are encouraged! Here’s the dates we need to fill:Sept. 11th – Preferably Missoula, MT but we’d also do something in Spokane,WA
Sept. 12th – in or around Billings, MT.Sept. 17th – in or around Detroit, MI
Sept. 29th – Nashville or Murfreesboro, TN.Oct. 4th – Omaha or Lincoln, NE
Oct. 7th – Boise, ID
Corduroy Road, Goldmund
Posted on | August 27, 2008 | No Comments
Corduroy Road by Goldmund on eMusic.com
Deaf Center in NYC
Posted on | August 18, 2008 | No Comments
Norwegian duo Deaf Center will be playing a Wordless Music Series show in September in New York City. I’ve been listening to their records lately, good stuff.
Stars of the Lid Back in New York City
Posted on | August 12, 2008 | No Comments
Stars of the Lid will be playing New York City twice this year, as they’re returning to play another Wordless Music show with Hammock at Le Poisson Rouge.
Here’s a clip from the last time around if you missed it.
Video: Stars of the Lid
Posted on | May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
Here’s a quick video I took of Stars of the Lid performing at the Good Shepherd Faith Church as part of the Wordless Music Series. Some photos and a bit of a review coming later this week.
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