People who've played with LAYER: Cheryl Caddick, Erica Garcia, Aaron & Nicky Embry, DC Cooper, Grant Capes, Justin Dicenzo, Alex Ebert, Bradley Brown, Dana Kline, Jennifer Turner, John Wicks, Sky Minor, Gary Levitt, Erica Quitzow, and you???
Influences
Well, my music sounds like some or none of these, but I like: Arvo Part, Blonde Redhead, My Bloody Valentine, Nina Simone, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, Sandy Denny, Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Elliot Smith, Jesca Hoop, Velvet Underground, Radiohead, Bjork, Tom Waits, Gorillaz, Stevie Wonder, Laurie Anderson, Fred Neil, King Crimson, Pixies, Erik Satie, Debussey, Violent Femmes, Spiritualized, Bonnie Prince Billy, Joni Mitchell, Coltrane, Eno, Dylan, Bowie, Lennon, to name a few...
“Layer does a great job creating modern psychedelic rock with first rate arrangements, good dynamics and lyrics that offer interesting ambiguity rather being bland after thoughts.
He has… succeeded in creating the cohesion of band that has been playing together for several years.
For my money, there wasn’t one song on his disc that I didn’t like.” –- Phillip Hardy, soundthesirens.com
"The first act was Layer, a sort of pagan deviation from the Ben Folds gospel, but really more like
Quasi-Radiohead love child. I really dug this guy. He sang and played keys/synth or guitar while
being backed with a drummer, backup keys, a Macbook, and / or a percussionist on various songs.
The set kicked-off with some electronic noise and ambiance before morphing into some spoken word
and beat-boxing. Somewhere in the middle, there was trumpet playing. By the end of the set,
he was singing cabaret-style tunes that had parts of the room bouncing on their knees. I was into it..."
---Mouse, from his AWESOME BLOG: classicalgeektheatre
“If you think you’re going to hear that one-man band sound, you’d be completely wrong.
He records songs that are… bound to be interpreted hundreds of different ways...and that is, perhaps,
the real beauty of the music.” -- lmnop.com, music website
We've never been able to quite pin down exactly what it is that The Hunter Gracchus do, which is a wonderful thing. A shifting unit with Syed Kamran Ali, Fiona Marshall and Jon Marshall at the core, they have recently settled into a fairly stable unit of six, but it's hard to know how long that'll last. Still, while it does, it's producing all manner of magical and highly unexpected performances. The one captured here was recorded at the band's practice room cum gig space, Fagin's Hideout/The Furniture Makers and is a less blistering freakout than some of their recent output, preferring to quietly explore every nook of tonal space. It simmers rather than erupts and, the longer you become immersed in it, the less aware you become of the passage of time. It's a recording that feels like it should go on forever and, when it does come to a close, the silence is shocking. In a time when it's all too easy for a group of improvisers to just go full-tilt in some euphoric pursuit, the Hunter Gracchus provides us with a glowing alternative that draws us slowly in and drowns our senses. This is truly awesome.
Peeesseye I Woke Up and Drank a Bottle of Cheap Kojak CDR
Peeesseye made the scene at Dylan Nyoukis's Colour Out of Space festival last summer and hopped over to Manchester to play a show at the Town Hall Tavern, the recording of which forms the content of this incredible slab of dense droning harmonium, scraping, buzzing, subtly soloing guitar and pulse-free, scatter-drumming. We can't recommend this enough. Limited to 80 copies.
your fuckin still as cool as i remember. back from kottie days, and sneaking into your shows. lemme know when yuo play an 18+ show/ thanks dude. get some-AMERICA
RAINBOW^ARABIA at TANK TUESDAYS!
w/ Hecuba, We Are the World, Secret Circuit
Tuesday, Jan 27th 9pm
The Airliner
2419 N. Broadway
LA 90031
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Just a quick note to say that "through the trees" has been added to the subLAD MySpace player - it's the first track on my forthcoming album, entitled "where the land meets the sky".
We have also put up a preview of the whole album on the n5MD website:
This beautiful super-heavyweight LP, which comes packaged in a sweet full-colour sleeve reunites the UK's premier free drummer Alex Neilson, who's played, amongst others, with Motor Ghost, Directing Hand, Trembling Bells, Tight Meat Duo, Josephine Foster, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Jandek, MV&EE, Richard Youngs, Baby Dee and Alastair Galbraith, with Nmperign member Greg Kelley, whose reinvention of the trumpet is as crucial now as Anthony Braxton's reinvention of the sax was 30 years ago. A screeching, soaring, scattergun array of noises come maniacally out of Greg's horn, unlike anything we've ever heard and, with the addition of random stabs of electronics, he successfully straddles no wave, concrete and free jazz in a way that makes those genres seem like trite pigeonholes.
thought to be the ability to move or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.
TELEKiNESIS the magic cabaret every first tuesday of the month starting with Robbie's special extended Birthday Performance!
JANUARY 6th 2009 LINE UP CREATED AND HOSTED BY robbie daniels jr. STARRING calpernia addams mecca andrews diamondback annie tara avise lou becker squeaky blonde mario diaz sir heffington selene luna nina mcneely prince poppycock douglas little & leila bazzani lights by NELSTAR
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