May 2007 Archives
tomorrow, honey, zach and i leave for california! if you are in LA, SF, OAK, SAC or DAVIS in the next week or so...GET READY FOR THE DEEP TRYYYPS!!!!!!!
we will be bringing some special tour-only white rainbow and valet CDrs and zach will have a bunch of new onomato label stuff, including the "new", possibly last-ever release by WORLD, which is me and honey's old project playing together. hope to see you out there on the road!
just put up a new podcast. live white rainbow set from reed college show with dirty projectors and ghosting. recorded by mike and curtis knapp.
just thought i would pause for a minute to give a little update on YARNLAZER.com, the little label honey and i run.... what with the multiple myspace/virb profiles, this blog and the actual yarnlazer site, sometimes news gets lost in the mix. my new theory (for this morning, at least) is to just put the info in as many places as possible as much as possible and hope for the best, and that people dont get annoyed. hey - at least i'm not doing a mass email!
(i'm not gonna put links into this post... mostly because i'm lazy and google is fun. if anyone wants any more info on any of these things email me or leave a comment.)
reposted from the yarnlazer myspace/virb profiles:
"may 2007 yarnlazer update
hi
so uh the tunnels color seance sold out on our end. nick tunnels may have some copies to sell you, as do aquariusrecords.org and volcanictongue.com and tomentosarecords.com
marriagerecs.com might still have a couple acre cds
statesrightsrecords.com has at least one more sun shifts at the time of this writing. might be the last one!
dark yoga second edition "breath of live live broadcast heavy truth" is still available as of this writing, but we have a handful left!
valet's blood is clean is now available thru kranky records. mp3 version also available thru itunes and the rest of them.
new white rainbow album prism of eternal now coming on kranky (CD) and marriage (2xLP) in early fall
a cool new white rainbow CD called sky drips drifts will be available via statesrights records sometime this summer.
tunnels and acre are going on an east coast tour this summer
ghosting valet and white rainbow are going on tour of california late may/early june. playing the foxydigitalis.com sponsored BOTTLED SMOKE FEST with lots of other trippers.
Rob Walmart keeping things crunk with deep van-time performances/audio assults/parties. last one was at the YACHT CD release extravaganza...ROB also had an art show in march. full discography mp3 sculptures (audio players embedded in paintings, styra-foam rabbits and human heads, etc) might be available for purchase...visit rob at virb.com/robwalmart or myspace.com/robwalmart
uhhhh
the comp CD is creaking along slowly...will probably end up 2 discs and a split yarnlazer/marriage records fancy release sometime in the future. sorry for the delay, we are busy peoples!!!
Yeah!"
Honey brought home a couple of lil' critters last night. They're pretty much the cutest little homies in the whole wide world.
SONGS AND THEN TRIPS
KATY D
ANDREW KAFFER
WHITE RAINBOW
ARTISTERY
TONIGHT
8PM
SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY
COME IF YOU CAN
JAH!
COOL RUNNINGS
In today's batch of reviews, Valet Blood is Clean is reviewed:
Valet
Blood Is Clean
[Kranky; 2007]
Rating: 7.2
The voice and presence of Portland's Honey Owens has a lent a captivating accent to every group she's been involved with, whether it's the dub-inflected Nudge or the roots-centered improv of Jackie-O Motherfucker. For her latest project Valet, however, Owens proceeds alone, shaping her environment with spare, dreamy traces of voice, guitar, and free-spirit drones. On Valet's debut Blood Is Clean, Owens uses her solitude to maximum effect, crafting a singularly hypnotic album that is at once intimate yet deceptively expansive, her every spectral breath and note focused in an uneasy, almost supernatural isolation.
TWO NEW RELEASES NOW AVAILABLE!
TUNNELS COLOUR SEANCE
TUNNELS is Nicholas Samuel Bindeman (of Eternal Tapestry, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Hustler White, Malibu Flacon, Alarmist etc) in full-on beautiful pastoral dreamy psychedelic drifted drone mode. Colour Seance is four ambient clouds of gentle, blurred color-blasts of sampled/looped/delay-drenched guitars chimes, synths, voice, etc. that evolve in dream-time and slowly fold in on themselves. A key example of the power, breadth and sophistication of the Portland Psychedelic-Drone underground.
EDITION OF 100 IN HAND-SCREENED COVERS
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DARK YOGA BREATH OF LIFE: LIVE BROADCAST HEAVY TRUTH (SECOND EDITION)
Crutial re-press and re-design of the Dark Yoga CD that came out in very limited numbers a little while ago.
Dark Yoga is an obscure Northwest American Psychedelic NOW VIBRATIONAL Music Commune founded in early 06 by Adam Forkner, Honey Owens, Brian Thackeray, Matt McDowell, Aria Benner and Dan Barone. Dark Yoga's music is a heavy heavy weird brown fog of loose psychedelic improv in a fuzz-wah style with 70's Miles vibes, distant flutes, bongos, etc etc etc.
LIVE BROADCAST: HEAVY TRUTH is a Radio Transmission from the Spiritual Heart of this Commune at the Apex of their groove recorded in May of 2006. Its an hour-plus of continuos improvisation that wanders from heavy psyche fuzz funk to strange passages of pastoral hippy bongo and flute melt-downs, and everything in between...
EDITION OF 100 in hand-screened covers
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