Tuesday, January 29, 2013
One listen to Dorian Wood and you'll be musically scarred for life and this is a good thing.
What can we say about Dorian Wood that hasn't already been said? He is an enigma. A genius. Possibly a soothsayer. But, really, just a man that will move you with his words and his music unlike most any other artist you'll ever encounter.
On March 1st, Wood celebrates the release of his new album Rattle Rattle, a sweeping triumph of a musical extravaganza if we ever did hear one. Individual songs on their own like the mammoth "Glassellalia" (featuring Correatown's Angela Correa) and the hypnotic "Pearline" are so epically orchestrated you'd think they were written for Broadway, not the DIY performance spaces that Wood so often performs. Other songs like "We Are The Heart of Human Hair" and "A Gospel of Elephants/Hpssos" slither and swarm in ceremonial vestments of beats and moans -- it's Wood at his sermonical best, when you can almost feel the sweat rolling down his spine and the saliva dripping off his tongue with every stinging lyric. We doubt there will be another album released in Los Angeles as bold and raucous as Rattle Rattle -- finally, the album we needed to wake us up from our winter slumber.
Below, we are honored to premiere Dorian Wood's Rattle Rattle album trailer featuring the diabolically Herrmann-esque opening number "Bodies (The Levitant)" -- which, we have to mention, is gorgeously sequenced on the album into the fantastic "La Cara Infinita." On March 5th, Rattle Rattle will be performed live at The Echo with the live choir The Difficult Women and very special guests Killsonic and WIFE. It is crucial that you do not miss this show.
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Directed by Van Maximilian Carlson and featuring Denna Thomsen and Nina McNeely
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It's been a good seven months since our last show and boy did we need that break. Instead of boring you with stories on what we've been doing this whole time, we'll just show you in the form of presenting three shows in February featuring a bunch of bands we've been stalking before and during our half-year slumber.
We begin this Friday at our beloved pehrspace with Détective, Kent State, Pop/Soda, and Galaxy of Tar. Détective returns from a quick West Coast tour promoting their three fantastic 2012 releases including one of the year's best However Strange, a 90's indie rock lover's wet dream of an album. Oh and we love Guylaine. When you hear Kent State's latest cassette release "Behind Closed Doors", their self-proclaimed Psych Death Pop sound pretty much nails it, but feel free to mix and match any of these choice descriptors in your genre nameplacing: Horror Fuzz Garage Doom Cave Noise. If you haven't heard cave recordings are the new bedroom demos, welcome to 2013. Oh and Kent State rules. We couldn't fathom bassist Jimmy Fusil being in any other band besides the beloved Bloody Robots let alone one that comes even close to the sheer brilliance of that band, but he is. And that band is Pop/Soda. Oh and peep this vid they did for Machine Project. Galaxy of Tar played their debut L.A. gig a few weeks back at Space 15 Twenty having moved from New York a few years back and we loved lead singer Naima Mora's raw yet visceral feel for the stage -- which isn't much of a surprise since she's been killing it on runways for over 10 years. Oh and get their first single "1% of Static" on Bandcamp for free.
Even though no one comes to this site anymore except for Google bots and those sending us hate mail, we still love you. We'll be back soon to type some more words in a sec...
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Los Angeles Loves...
DETECTIVE - 10pm (homecoming show)
KENT STATE - 11pm
POPSODA - 12am
GALAXY OF TAR - 9pm
with DJ LORD THRUST
pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
$5/9pm/All Ages
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