Spiritualized, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Wilco, Mazzy Star, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Yo La Tengo, Ida, Love, Tom Waits, Low, Starflyer 59, Sparklehorse, Billie Holiday, Dirty Three, Portishead, Brian Eno, old blues and gospel, John Fante
Sounds Like
Driving through the desert at 4 am; ambient noise hanging in the air on a warm summer's eve; between sleep and awake
Divisadero's "Lefty" CD available now (Free shipping!)
It is just before twilight, you wait in anticipation for the first glow of the sun to appear over distant hills. Vast, dark plains stretch out on all sides. Empty desert roads wind for miles in all directions to who-the-hell-knows-where. The rhythm of the engine and a misaligned tire and thump in time. They threaten to overpower the lonesome AM signal creeping through your stereo (proof of life out there somewhere). This is the place where reality, daydreams, hallucinations, and memory collide. Fact and Fiction bed down together with Past and Future. Searching souls find solitary peace. Civilization breaks down at the edges and Superstition creeps in. The place between place. Between here and there. Between sleep and awake. This is the place in which Divisadero exists.
It started simply. Two in a room with guitars, trying to sort through the American Dream and the noise in their heads. Twenty-something in Los Angeles. Between youth and adult. Between contemporary and old. Between dreams and expectations. Between mountains and an ocean. Joined by others, the picture was clear, stronger. Sense was more sensible, and behaved herself.
The songs trickled out. First about sound: sometimes just barely heard; sometimes crashing down. Songs about lives, so ordinary but not: the war-torn bare-knuckle boxer, nose broken too many times (but the sense is he was once handsome); the boxer’s daughter, boiling over with her father’s fighting blood; the estranged couple who find understanding only in each other; the last of a family line, lamenting about the future of the family farm; the young man who meets an old recluse who dies alone; a vision of the giant wheel of the apocalypse, pulling us sinners into the sky. These are lives caught in that in-between place. The bleak roads may stretch out miles behind Divisadero, but the Hope and the Promise of Man, God and The Land will always lie ahead.
"LEFTY" CD REVIEWS:
One of the "Best Full-Length Albums Released by Los Angeles Acts in 2008" - CLASSICAL GEEK THEATRE
Divisadero's debut album Lefty is a sonic wash of melancholy and musical metaphors wonderfully tied together to tell the sad tale of an emotionally and physically scarred boxer (yes, it's a concept album -- and a damn good one). - L.A. UNDERGROUND
A blasted desert sprawl of far-reaching rock and inward-gazing folk wrapped tightly around the moon-lit introspection of a broken, down-and-out boxer, Divisadero’s Lefty is an expertly and complexly woven concept record as compelling as it is clever, and as moving as it is sonically textured. - WEB IN FRONT
BAND REVIEWS:
One of the Top 10 Best Emerging Artists in Los Angeles for 2008 - THE DELI MAGAZINE
Dream rock with suture wounds that show what they’re holding back. - LA CITY BEAT
There is not a classier band in Los Angeles than Divisadero. Their desert folk screams-out in whispered tones, ambient moans softly stab at your heart, and the mundane sadness of every day life is captured like a butterfly in a jar before your very ears. Fierce patience, careful urgency, and an introspective quality so perfectly conceived... there is nothing left to subtract from Divsadero's music and not much else to add save for maybe a full-blown orchestra, and only then if they played at an amphitheater, which is precisely where I hope to hear them one day. - CLASSICAL GEEK THEATRE
The orgy of noisy folk that is Divisadero... violin, slide guitar, glockenspiel, and occasional bursts of heavy feedback-laden guitar create an overall atmosphere that owes as much to Spiritualized as it does to Yo La Tengo. Check out “Black and Blue,” it should win you over immediately. - h MAGAZINE
With influences ranging from Woody Guthrie to Sonic Youth, the lineup included everything from saw and spoons to churning bass, heavy guitar, a cello and...violin. A loop of atmospheric black and white film imagery was projected onto the wall behind them throughout, elevating the show to the level of performance art. I have to say, I was absolutely entranced. The combination of the moving images and the wall of sound created an effect like a cascading waterfall of energy. I sat on the floor right in front and absorbed the spectacle for over an hour, and when I left I still felt tingly from all of the sensory input. - FLEUR D'AMOUR
Yoooo check this...I'm featured in XXL Magazine this month!! Wow and to be blessed to also be in The Source Magazine in December. Say what?! Yup, we've recently been interviewed by The Source as new up and coming artists and the exclusive interview is available now at www.thesource.com/2009/10/sihhn-j-rocka-saria-knowledge/ It's such an honor to have this opportunity....thanks to the hip hop community for your support! Now "Bump The Beat" and let conscious independent hip hop flow through you blastin loud through your speakers!
Diggin' your sound!!! Let's do some shows together!!! Thanks for the Add!!! At this time the Band "ONE" (= Our + New + Earth) is" re-tooling" and our new material and show are a bit harder more aggressive...We are doing some small local shows here in the Lake Arrowhead area to get rolling and work out the kinks. We also have some #3 older of our older tracks from our previous album just came out on an "Indie Bands Unite" compilation album this month! (Available NOW!!!) We are also headed into the studio to record our new EP!!! We will keep you posted on shows in LA and OC and touring again soon!!! – Thanks for the Add!!! Check out our music on our Myspace.com/onespiritmusic and let us know what you think...We LOVE your comments!!! Can’t wait for you to hear the new songs!!! All the LOVE to you and yours!!! A Viking Prayer…May the trade winds and good fortune fill your sails…May the sun warm you and make bountiful the fields…May the seas be calm and the nighttime skies be ever clear… For the stars to lead you to safe harbor... Kevin and ONE (The Band).
COME OUT AND PARTY WITH ME!!! J RockA and Sarai Knowledge performing live! The must be at spot... definitely an event you won't wanna miss!!!
Friday, November 6, 2009 7pm-11pm City Hall, San Francisco "Where Hip Hop Meets Couture" A historical evening of high couture fashion show infused with hip-hop,live performances, and music/fashion professionals...
Meet in greets with the likes of Ed Hardy, The Source Magazine, Warner Bros., Interscope Records, and more...
$40 / $100 VIP includes admission to the official afterparty at Club 525 11:30pm - 2:30pm 525 Howard St., San Francisco
Limited presale tickets available online at airbornetickets.com Or if you're a local,tickets are available at Gussie's Chicken & Waffles 1521 Eddy St. in the heart of the historical Fillmore jazz district... Come down for some good ol' soul food!
Would love to see your beautiful faces :-) Hit me up if your going!! And if you're not in the SF area, check out show updates on my website at www.justbetrue.com for live events at a town near you!!!
Give thanks for your support xoxo Sending love and wishing you infinite abundance... Sarai
Soooo excited to share with you the new record about the drop, JuST BE The EP. I just posted the featured single "Bump The Beat" produced by 2009 Grammy winning producer for Lil Wayne's "Mr.Carter", Drew Correa. Track is fiyah!!! Check out my website at www.justbetrue.com to sample/buy the EP and for shows, photos, and updates.
Give thanks for your friendship and support and for letting conscious independent hip hop flow through you blastin loud through your speakers!
Hey Guys! We just posted our newest episode of Castle Asshole, a dark, surreal mystery/comedy series. It's our 3rd episode! You can check them all out here:
