Torsdag 20/5 >> SIC ALPS (US, Drag City) + ORA COGAN (Can) + MAG (Se)
Koloni i samarbete med Twisted Robot presenterar:
- SIC ALPS (US, Drag City) >http://www.sicalps.com/
- ORA COGAN (CAN, Born music) >http://www.myspace.com/oracogan
- MAG (Gbg, Kassettbolaget) >http://www.myspace.com/magagren
dj´s:
- Noel Harmonson (US, Comets on Fire, Sic Alps)
- Midnight O Connor (Berlin, Twisted Robot) >http://www.twistedrobot.com/
+ mat och bar
Torsdag 20/5 @ Kulturhamnen
majnabbehamnen 46 (Nära Chapmanstorg)
kl 20.00 (första band på scen 20.30
80 kr
inget förköp
Eventet på Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125295684153133
info om akterna:
SIC ALPS (US, Drag City)
Rock songs, as viewed far too often, are a dying breed. Not even talking
about - not even noticing - reports of rock’s death, the form in itself,
The aesthetic, the approach, is seldom acknowledged as being treated
intelligently, creatively, progressively. This is total bullshit, of
course, but you can’t really help but understand some of the folks that could
be lead to think that way. There’s only so many stories you can tell with a
guitar, there’s so many years and sides of great rock music, there were so
many breakthroughs in the 60s up until now, that the rock and roll song
could be mistaken for a corpse, fetishized only by the genre’s
enthusiasts, collectors & suburban dreamers.
The Sic Alps, though, are a different matter. While you can see rock’s
evolution throughout the 70s, with the Swell Maps, Sonic Youth in the 80s
and 90s, or people like Sightings nowadays, rock, in its swinging,
hip-shaking, daydreaming, bar and bedroom ruckus universe has been
apparently stagnant to most people for a number of years, save for some
notable exceptions (the Hospitals, Comets On Fire, the Black Lips, a ton
Of stuff on In The Red). If it ain’t crazy it ain’t rock’n'roll and that’s just the
way it is (that & yr dad has to be able to boogie to it).
This duo (now trio) out of San Francisco are the perfect hybrid for this rock idiom -
wild boys when they gotta be wild; rock scientists and genre scholastics
with a - huge - heart and a true passion for the game. They remanufacture
rock’s narrative, its metrics, adapt it to their musical and verbal
phrasing, demolish rock recording conventions, resituate it as being
dangerous (in some other new way). They have the freedom, the damage, the
will and the craft, and boy they pull it off.
If you haven’t seen’em live but you love the records (’Descriptions of the
Harbour’ 12″, ‘Pleasures & Treasures’ and a ton of singles and
limited-release editions recently compiled on ‘A Long Way Around a
Shortcut’, just released on Drag City records) it’s pretty much mindblowing how
they’are able to reproduce such rich deviant sound onstage, but they do and it’s
such truly fresh shit. The energy ever bursting, the narrative never lost (though reality’s forgotten), freedom unquestioned, fire continuous. True heavy delivery from one of contemporary rock’s visionaries, flying high since day one, flying high right now, wanting to bring the storm and the goodness near you.
- Pedro Gomes
http://www.sicalps.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHdYSlbB7Lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEF5quy4LI
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11976-a-long-way-around-to-a-shortcut/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12263-us-ez/
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ORA COGAN (CAN, Born music)
Ora Cogan was born and raised Salt Spring Island, B.C. Her house was in equal parts a home, recording studio, dark room and a haven for travelers and Musicians. Ora began to write her own songs at the age of 12 and in her adolescence taught herself to play Guitar, Violin, Piano and Dulcimer.
Over the past few years Ora has become a darling of the independent music scene. touring worldwide and collaborating with Folk and Experimental artists including: Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, The Be Good Tanyas, Rio en Medio, Daniel Lercher and Anni Rossi. Ora also co-founded Cornerstone, an A’cappella gospel quartet with Frazey Ford, Matt Anderson and Khari McClelland and Her Jazz Noise Collective in Vancouver.
Ora has released an album a year as well as appearing on a smattering of underground tapes and compilations and shared the stage with the likes of Hope Sandoval and while touring extensively throughout Europe & North America. She will embark on a worldwide tour in early 2010 in support of her new record “The Quarry,” released on Isolated Now Waves/Borne Recordings.
“Ora’s voice possesses that haunting, soulful quality that seems like its source is coming from deep deep within or beyond. Like a mysterious transplant from decades past, it’s as though she opens her mouth and a lilting voice from the ’20s comes drifting out. It’s beautiful in its simplicity, just her and her guitar and a few banjo and back-up vocal additions.”
- AQUARIUS RECORDS
“Ora plays true folk, the kind that is strong and tells stories with a sense of urgency, be it heartbreak or revolution. This album is gorgeous, bitter sweet, and incredibly powerful.”
‘- ONLY MAGAZINE
http://www.myspace.com/oracogan
http://www.oracogan.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyk_6fTjgK8&feature=related
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MAG (Gbg, Kassettbolaget)
MAG works with live samplings of trombone, megaphone, voice, guitar, sound and noise around her. The music is built up from scratch. From the smallest simple element it grows to a gigantic dystopian lo-fi orchestra that sometimes is restrained and suggestive, sometimes chaotic and wild.
MAG aka Magdalena Ågren is a musician/performer and stage designer that lives in Gothenburg. Since 1995 she has been involved in many different bands such as
Surplus People, Good Morning Sweden, Maggot and Jurassic Jesus and toured around in Scandinavia and in Europe. At the moment she is most involved with her solo project. But she is also playing in three other band project, SORK, Trapped in a loop and Snöft. Last summer MAG did a tour in USA and Canada, and performed for example at The Mission Creek Music And Arts festival at The LAB in San Francisco , Worksound in Portland, and the Cobalt in Vancouver.
http://www.myspace.com/magagren
http://kassettbolaget.tumblr.com/