All the songs above were recorded during a live broadcast on KTUH.org on June 25th. The songs are available for download at PureVolume.com/AtSea
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Thank you for everything Kurt Vonnegut. When you said "Life is no way to treat an animal" you spoke to everyone who's been through the nauseating experience of loss amid the redundancies of American "star-time". An iconoclast, where Twain was a progenitor, a writer's longevity that outlived those who died too young, the smiles you gave us live on. Kurt Vonnegut
November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007
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The audience, the band, rules, bright lights and the utopian are dead forever. The shadows atop pianos and broken metronomes haunt the disruptively ignorant and impatiently diligent, post-catastrophic, band named At Sea. Mourning, heads-down, against a dimly lit mosaic of confusion, shattered somewhere between the fragmented cultures of two continental landmasses they ask (i.e., KTUH asks) “why post-rock?” Textures, layers, rational systems destroyed by the beauty of orchestral melodies, the drums that drive reverberating waves of sound along the dissipating end of the lowest possible point. At Sea and music: grasped by the time it has inevitably faded. A soundtrack and disjointed partitions of centuries: Chopin’s flower of the revolution, Shostakovich’s Stalin, Plato’s apology, Debussy’s anguish over George Sand, Mono’s memory of Hiroshima, Dante’s Inferno relived in The Cure’s Pornography, the blue of the cradle of history in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, burned at the stake in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, the most heartfelt tear in The Passion of Joan of Arc, walking into the darkness of trees in Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady, solitary walkers fading into the concrete walls concealing time, music and celluloid. At Sea. She. He. We. All through a glass darkly.
"Tuesday night Honolulu was treated to a performance by one of her local bands, At Sea who took the stage at Nextdoor downtown, or should I say they floated over the stage just long enough for the audience to get a glimpse of them between the lofty sounds and spacey visuals.
It is rare that an instrumental band can headline a show. At Sea proved beyond a doubt that it can be done, and they did it with ease. They held the crowd at their beck and call from the first sweet note straight through to the last noisy attack. Phasing between swelling intensity and ambient string pads exhibited At Sea’s commitment to rehearsal and the on-stage communication that comes with the intimate knowledge acquired in the practice room.
At Sea’s well thought out balance of bowed strings versus plucked strings and percussion would have done the trick alone, but the addition of low lighting, quality ambient films projected behind the band, and the audience’s willingness to be whisked away to outer space made for a perfect mix." -By: Will Conner, text taken from Kalamakua.org
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"The night was all about sensory overload, starting with a new experimental progressive rock band, At Sea. Add a cello to the rock formula of guitar, bass and drums, change out the drumsticks with tympani mallets (basically drum sticks with felt heads), stir in a creative mindset and you get dreamy meditative music with a backdrop of rolling thunder. Advisory: Must hear to understand." -By: Michelle Takiguchi, text taken from Honolulu Weekly, Vol. 16 Num.6
The 808 Scene Zine and Half/Jones presents Frank Bressi, on tour in Hawaii, July 18th - 27th! Check out this New Jersey indie artist's music & tour dates at www.myspace.com/thechillingdetails and www.myspace.com/frankbressi.
Look for his special performances at The 808 Scene Zine's Recycle Zine Show at Ong King on July 24th and at On Stage on July 25th with Kit Dylan and Friends of Adam.
FULL TOUR LINE UP:
**July 18th on KTUH 90.3FM, www.ktuh.org, 12:30pm Barefoot Bob talks to Frank Bressi during the Songwriter’s Showcase
**July 18th at Hank's, 9pm, 21+, FREE Frank Bressi joins Barefoot Bob and other members of the Oahu Songwriter's Group
**July 24th, Recycle Zine Show, 6pm – midnight, ALL AGES, $2 for 6-9pm, $5 for 9pm – midnight, $3 pupu spread, BYOB with ID and $3 corking fee Featuring: 6-9pm (Acoustic) Barefoot Bob, Kit Dylan, Shawn Davenport, & Frank Bressi 9pm - midnight (bands) The Chilling Details/Whitport, SMITZ, & 82Fifty
**July 25th at On Stage, 9pm – midnight, 21+, FREE Kit Dylan, Frank Bressi, & Friends of Adam
Plus catch him on Sunday, July 19th & 26th, at Ong King and Monday, July 20th & 27th, at Anna Bannana’s for open mic.
I LOVE YOU JACK. Love, Ryan. PS- ...and I thought you folks were amazing when I left in '06. Geeeee-whiz! I'm so proud to show you guys off to these poseurs in Boston. You guys rule, hope to see a show when I come back to visit.
Join us TOMORROW night, Dec 20th, 2008 for a very special Broken Liquid.
Hawaii Hip Hop Legend, Creed Chameleon joins KTUH’s innovative DJ T.K.O. for their first ever live Glitch collaboration.
Saya & Toki hold down the main room with Liquid Drum & Bass while Victor J & Monkey fill out the back patio with Dubstep, UK Garage, Electro, Breaks & other rare beats.
Great vibes, great people, great drinks, great music & always free. Hope to see you there. Happy Holidays!
Broken Liquid is THIS SATURDAY: November 15th, 2008
Residents Night!!!
Saya & Toki take over the back patio with a special electro/breaks set from Toki and an exclusive Dubwise DnB set from Saya while the boys take on the front room with their brand of crazy beats.
So happy to meet you and be your friend!
Beautiful!
Julia & Tarik
Al Andalus Ensemble
www.OudGuitar.com Tarik & Julia Banzi with their Al Andalus Ensemble www.Andalus.com create intriguing, sophisticated modern chamber World music "A new musical language that unites East & West."
P.S. Links to buy our music are at www.CDBaby.com/group/banzis
We’d like to invite you to Don Ho’s Island Grill on Friday, June 20th to celebrate the release of the JUNE issue of The 808 Scene Zine! Doors open for those 21+ at 9:30pm with an $8 cover charge.
This show will be featuring Mistah D.R.E.D., originally from Houston. There will also be sneak preview of Slapp Symphony and Official Clothing’s “Landz of the Lost” album, with performances by artists featured on the cd (which is going to be released in a few weeks). For more information on the new cd, go to myspace.com/SlappSymphony.
