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The Story is an ongoing music series which tells a continuous narrative from show to show.
The bands tell the story with songs.
Each Chapter is curated by me, Feather (Michael Curtis Hilde from Mountainhood).
Further:
The Story is happening all around us, made of TV molecules, lives, lies, dreams, perceptions. The Story, in and of itself, is an idea that encapsulates all that's happening on the inner and outer plane, real and superreal, canny and uncanny: everything.
People's music and lyrics tell it. The purpose of our happenings is to gather together and hear it.
Whatever the narrative may be
~reality decides~
Only We perceive.
Every happening is a new chapter, each band tells the next sentence.
"Who decides The Story but for the Song and the Loom? And Who is there to weep The Story: alone: the dreamer: in her deep-thick reverie. And who is there to dream it, beyond the time we are given?"
-Jesus America, Hunter and Gatherer
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THE STORY
Chapter XII: Blisses
Friday, February 27, 2009
Marissa Nadler
mv + ee
Mountainhood
7 pm + $8 + All Ages
Lutheran Church of the Messiah
129 Russell St
Brooklyn, NY 11222
| Presented by Todd P.:.Curated by Michael Curtis Hilde |
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THE NIGHT AFTER IN BUSHWICK BKLYN CHAPTER 13 GOES DOWN BE AT BOTH BE IN
Poster by Arik Roper prints by once and future prints
The Story ch. xiii
ARTHURDESH
benefit for arthur magazine
MV & EE
Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders) and the Ether Frolic Mob
Dr Ragtime & Pals (Jack Rose Band)
Jana Hunter & TJO
quad (Helen Rush, PG Six, Samara Lubelski, Bob Bannister)
Sharon Van Etten
Mountainhood
Headdress
White Hills
Readings by Byron Coley, Louise Landis Levi, Angela Jaeger, Gary Panter, Wesley Eisold & Max Morton, Robbie Snyderman
Visuals by Flying Andes
Saturday, February 28, 2009
8pm
$8-30 sliding scale | all ages
Market Hotel
1142 Myrtle Ave
Bushwick, Brooklyn
11221
curator michael curtis hilde .:. readings curator byron coley .:. production todd p
About this Chapter:
.:. Arthurdesh: desh is a hindi suffix that denotes a sense of home or country This special chapter of The Story literally themes as a benefit for the magazine, which in the current depression has been forced to go out of print and take it online. This is unacceptable to myself and many other Arthur readers, as Arthur is the only great American publication to currently be seeing print. The days of Rolling Stone are over, the high-era of rad zines has passed; Arthur stands alone as a sole halycon of rugged American individualism and the timeless values associated with nature, consciousness, and evolution into higher human potential. Their struggle today is as much a part of The Story as the metaphysical concepts we've been discussing up to this point with the series, and we hope that this show will directly turn around real funds to get the mag back on earth.
arthur links: http://www.arthurmag.com/
About the Performers
.:. MV & EE
MV & EE have been at it for almost 9 years now and their stunning accomplishements in the idiom of rustic American dream narcotics blues and ragas is just now beginning to reach the ears of the wider realm in a real way. Kicking things off with a rapid fire release schedule of limited edition CDRs on his own Child of Microtones label, MV & EE produced a virtual plumage of unending music bearing rad titles like "The Suncatcher Blossoms a Nova and is So Grateful it is No Longer Willing to Dark the Sun" and "Ragantula." They've since ascended to representation through Ecstatic Peace with forthcoming records from the cloistered and enigmatic Dicristina Stair Builders, the label who re-brought us Vashti Bunyan and the first Vetiver jam. Don't think twice about not getting super-heavy into the proper inheritors of stoner forefathers Neil Young, Ron McKernan, and broke down piped-out van-bound roadtrippers forever.
" This is heady, strung-out stuff... crash-and-burn idealism and its mesh of Eastern music and mysticism with mutated country blues... a haunting, spaced-out... orgy of grinding feedback and guitar fuzz... -- Playboy Magazine
.:.Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders) and the Ether Frolic Mob
is one of the founding members of iconic local duo The Holy Modal Rounders. Pioneers, The Modals were first to forge directly American traditionals with consciousness-expansion tonality and song-structure, pushing folk ahead from found-object into futuristic emission of psychic splendor and unveilings of days-to-come. Crew with Dylan, the Fugs, and pre-playwright Sam Shepard on animal skins.
"Peter Stampfel is that rarest of all creatures, a modest genius. He has one of the most distinctive voices in American music, a twangy screech that somehow he can actually sing in. What makes him so modest is his conviction that all of the really great American music was done a long time ago, and mostly collected on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. What makes him a genius is that instead of putting his beloved old-timey music up on some pedestal, he makes it an organic part of his own life experience -- which is mostly that of a radical '60s speed freak who appreciates nothing better than a cosmic joke." -Rolling Stone
Dr. Ragtime & Pals (Jack Rose Band)
Jack Rose has been around for a minute shredding the blood back into a aether-bourne Weissenborn lap steel, a good demon out of Japanese buddhist panoply-myriad transcendental and holy precessions from nirvana. For the first time ever, Rose sheds his petals & loner-Fahey shredder vibe to adopt new skins as Dr. Ragtime and Pals, conjuring a full haunt of sessionists and rhythm masters to back his mile-long riffs and depthlessly blissful plummetings into black talkety-talk sparkly crystal tunage.
"Finally, someone has something to say on an acoustic guitar that hasn't been said before" -Ben Chasny, Six Organs of Admittance
Jana Hunter & TJO
Jana Hunter writes new songs. By new songs, I mean songs that haven't been written before-- a tall order, she fills it. Jana first came to us mysteriously on a split LP with future-legend Devendra Banhart-- another writer who fills the order. Whether Banhart discovered Hunter or not is debatable and meaningless, her songs are all her own and continue to break day into the endless night of rehash and convention. She'll be joined by her full band from B-more and heart-rendingly touching indy Portland singer-songwriter Tara Jean O'Neil, recent darling of Terrastock 7. Doom, love, industry, haunted brains, melting brains, the 80s, come hear an evolutionary American Singer-Songwriter-- the rarest of musical animals.
(hall of fame 1998)
.:. quad (Helen Rush, PG Six, Samara Lubelski, Bob Bannister)
In the tradition of all great benefits, Arthurdesh is yeah most definitely a show rife with secret guests, double identities, hidden corridors, and first-time collabos, but none may be so rich and rewarding as the one-off assembly of Helen Rush, P.G. Six, Samara Lubelski and Bob Bannister as quad. This band comes to us out of a long and winding history of the best in eastern seaboard psych collectives, stretching back to Hall of Fame stuff in the mid-nineties and early Tower Recordings with MV + EE, and even a few recordings here and there with TJO. Helen Rush's gorgeous windlike voice has been haunting us in a rad way since those early days; P.G. Six (Pat Grubler) has been doing great solo work updating classical english madrigal and ballad sounds for modern ears; Samara Lubelski's delicate-stoned energy-pop and candy-darling vocals bring us up to speed from the long drag of dready psych dirges. Won't it be interesting to see what they produce?
.:.Sharon Van Etten
Has been on the Brooklyn scene for a minute heralded as the current voice of New York. Could be true. The force of energy that fuels her tremendous voice with the windpower of the Stanford Linear Accelerator which can hurtle molecules at each other fast enough to break them into one molecule, yet with delicate beauty of a heartstring oscillating so sweetly then finally snapping with sadness, may be the same energy that keeps New York City alive and waking all hours of the day and the night. If you haven't heard Sharon's songs, you haven't heard what's happening right now.
.:. MOUNTAINHOOD
I come from Almaden, a small quicksilver mining town in Northern California. I moved to New York in August, 2008. I feel whales, Navajos, Santa Cruz, drugs (though I'm clean right now), and Blue Dress, which is a feeling I get sometimes where there is no difference between outside and inside. I started writing songs under the name Almaden a year before I started curating The Story and changed my name to Mountainhood. I've seen 5 CDR releases so far on obscure labels in Finland and the UK, recently on Ecstatic Yod collective in the US, and forthcoming my "debut" on vinyl with Time Lag Records-- two albums released at the same time with intricate and massively engrossing artwork packaging. Each edition will contain a handpainted rainbow by Nemo, head of Time Lag.
"Delicate Rusticity" -- San Francisco Guardian
.:. Headdress
I spent a lot of time talking to Caleb Coy lead singer of Headdress at the Ben Lomond Indian Summer festival in Ben Lomond, Northern California, last year, before he came to New York or was known in any fashion. It was an uncommonly real conversation then to happen among the bait-&-switch Bay Area folk scene mentality at the time. Caleb's a really well-read guy from Texas who was able to praise the massive contributions to Americn music made by Flying Canyon. He's done that drug that comes from frog poision, and his duo Headress is a really good stony slow-going song project of aetherial desert crooning blues-ragas, very focused and contained.
.:.White Hills
are an awesome band that could well be headlining this benefit on quality alone, however they're opening from a literary standpoint to illustrate a re-evolution from psychedelia forward into purer folk. I once read in a used bookstore music pamphlet the dubious but interesting claim that folk created psych. If that's true, it's time for psych to re-create folk. Tribal consciousness is nothing if but psychedelic by our modern terms-- native drum beats and natural tunings that throw the mind into new pattern of consciousness. These modes of folk music evolved into "psych sounds of the 60s" and today is carried forth by the extremely loudspace-rock sound of White Hills. They're good at what they do, a rarity in sound. I like this derogratory affection from pitchfork: If you're going to play this kind of gritty garage-bred psychedelia, it stands to reason you should lay it on thick, but maximalism takes on a whole new meaning in White Hills' "Glitter Glamour Atrocity". Among its key ingredients: motorik-mined grooves, cool bass drone, raw-wire monotone riffery, liberally-applied space noises, the lupine hiss of overzealous wah-wah pedals, and sampled radio broadcasts of 9/11 prognosticators and finger-waggers. All of that over feedback squalls and the barest traces of threatening, spitting vocals-- and that's just a part of this eight-minute freakout. It should have been 45 minutes longer. I can't think of a single excess they've left out, nor one they should have. -Pitchfork
::Notes from Byron Coley::
readers will be:
myself, with pantomime help from gary panter. he may read or do something also.
louise landis levi -- fantastic poet & translator (rene daumal, henri michaux, etc.), old pal of ira cohen's. she will be reading a piece called "the deep diamond," which is to be issued as a broadside by shivastan. she will be reading in with a "brilliant street poet" of her acquaintance -- name unknown thus far.
angela jaeger -- superb manhattan native poet, writer & musician. i believe she will be reading from her punk diaries.
wesley eisold & max morton. a pair evil provocateurs who will read a new collaborative work. wes runs heartworm press, the juanita & juan's store in philadelphia and is the mastermind of the duo cold cave. morton is also based in philadelphia and has been publishing his sordid memoirs through heartworm.
robbie snyderman a devotee of the theater of panic, and a friend of mr. hilde's. none of this would be possible without:
none of this would have been possible without:
.:. Todd P
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MV AND EE (Friday) Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, from Brattleboro, Vt., are pioneers of what has been called the New, Weird America, a folk-based idiom that’s as indebted to “The Anthology of American Folk Music” as it is to sprawling British psychedelia. With Mountainhood and Marissa Nadler. At 8 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Messiah, 129 Russell Street, at Nassau Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (718) 389-0854, toddpnyc.com; $8. (Petrusich)
Avant-folkie Michael Curtis Hilde—who performs as Mountainhood—presents the latest chapter of the Story, his bicoastal narrative-concert series.
The Story is more than your ordinary show.
It seems we’re all looking for something new and different when it comes to music - whether it’s that perfect blend of two completely polar genres or a groove in 7/8 time that we can actually swing our hips to. But for the last few months, a group of passionate locals has put together a collection of shows that does something new and different with the modern concert format: It allows the shows to write a Story.The Story is a “freak folk happening” that takes place at the Stork Club in Oakland once a month. Organized by Michael Hilde of Mountainhood, the series features “the best and brightest in new era folk and psychadelia.”With each show that takes place, The Story progresses. The Story is told with the words and music of the artists that play that night.This month is Chapter V: Love Wins. Tomorrow, with the Stork Club as the room of their own, Colossal Yes, Benjamin Oak Goodman, Alina Hardin, Mountainhood (formerly Almaden), Misty Mountain, Joseph Childress, Telepathik Friend and DJs Sorcery Bird and Black Lodge will create a literary work with music.
The Story concert series continues to unravel the Stork Club's rough exterior with another bill of lovely, somnambulant folk, featuring Emily Jane White and Mariee Sioux. White's clear-eyed ballads have won the ears of many local listeners, including filmmaker Cam Archer, who asked her to compose the title song for his film Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006). That gorgeous Cat Power-ish track — recently included on White's debut album, Dark Undercoat — is typical of the singer/songwriter's charms: a slow-turning snapshot evocative of both intimacy and ennui. Nevada City's Sioux also completed her first full-length this past year. Faces in the Rocks features light reverb and Native American flute accompaniments, which massage Sioux's flowing epics into one of the gentlest listens of 2007.
– Max Goldberg, Flavorpill
((((((((Read stories on Mariee and Emily in Spin, Rolling Stone)))))))))))
http://www.spin.com/mp3/2007/09/070917_marieesioux/
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/16722257/2007_hot_iss ue/13
Hello Bay Area denizens
Just to let you know that I will be MC'ing the next installment of The Story, an ongoing series of magical musical evenings curated by mysterious denizens of the outer and inner planes, but realized in Oakland. Intrigued with a night of deep earth freak folk and related meditation drops on mountain mind and other freeform esoterica? So am I!
Erik Davis, Arthur Columnist