August 2007 Archives
yes hello hi i was just thinking i would put this yarnlazer.com news update here cause i took the time to make all the links work and everything and to re-write it to fit the vibe here would be a drag and i am lazy. beyond this semi official business news, i am doing fine. i pretty much hate my wine delivery job right now. just sick of it after 2 years. if anyone reading needs a job, has a working car, can lift 35 to 40 pound boxes repeatedly, knows how to get around portland, is familiar with working with a hand-truck, has a high tolerance for this city's growing traffic crisis, can work well under the pressure of impending deadlines, can tolerate mild to fairly overt guilt-trips from asshole and/or yuppie restaurant and/or wine shop owners, knows how to add, has a mild understanding of spanish and french pronunciation, can decipher others' butchered pronunciations of french and spanish, likes an occasional free bottle of wine, has a valid driver's license, can work tues thru friday from around 10am to around 4pm, will be happy with the average weekly pay of $200 to $300 and would be willing to train with me for a few days to a week...well then.....do the do... so on a related note if anyone needs their record mastered at affordable rates, would pay to listen to the rants of a bitter young man, would pay for pretentious, possibly useless and misguided advice, would pay to learn the pentatonic "blues" scale on the guitar in any key or any other such thing...well then.....lets get pizza'd. furthermore if any reader has actually useful tips towards alternate income sources that lead to actual earnings in cold hard american cash dollars, i will gladly give up a small percentage of these earnings as a sort of "finder's fee".
as a side note, someone should do something about the entertainment booking at the Produce Row cafe. jazz jam mondays suck, as do the shitty bar bands that play on saturday nights. only generic, clean, pastel colored spineless indie pop would upset me more if blasted straight from a loud outdoor PA into our windows every god damned night of the week. seriously. this band down there just played the worst rendition of that "whats your name (chik-oo-ahhw) who's your daddy (chik-oo-ahhw)" song i have ever heard in my fucking life.
besides all that everything is great! here's the yarnlazer update. love adam
"Wow sorry no update for 3 months! Yarnlazer took the summer off kinda. Everything from the spring/early summer 07 is sold out on our end. One can always try the various little online shops that specialize in these sorts of things, someone somewhere has something you might be able to purchase and enjoy.
Valet has been hard at work on a new record for Kranky, which will probably come out early next year. And she's got an awesome new seven-inch of the songs 'Fire' b/w 'Beach Gaze' on the new Burnt Brown Sounds Label out of Chicago. Aquarius has some now.
Two new White Rainbow releases are about to drop. Prism of Eternal Now CD on Kranky comes out October 1st. The double-vinyl gatefold fancy version on Marriage is available NOW. Secondly, the sequel to SunShifts called SKY DRIPS DRIFTS is coming out on States Rights very very very soon. White Rainbow will be on tour with Dirty Projectors and YACHT on the west coast in early September 2007. Check the white rainbow page or myspace or virb for the dates.
Valet, White Rainbow and Rob Walmart are all playing the second annual Halleluwah Festival here in Portland. This time Aug 31st thru Sept 2nd at Holocene, 21+. We play our own sets on friday the 31st and then on sunday the 2nd we play with Damo Suzuki as part of a portland improv super group of 'sound carriers' as part of Damo's ever expanding Network.
Also, this fall Valet and White Rainbow are playing an all-day festival at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California with a bunch of cool groups including Whysp, Akron Family and other weirdos. The show is called "((3D)) PICNIC: A Musical and Visual Arts Gathering." Saturday October 13th. Get in if you fit in! White Rainbow will be in full vibe-hut healing prism audio/video formation, after dusk.
Lots of famly-band collaboration going on all summer. I just helped T Greenwood and the JOMF crew finish up a new record called 'Valley of Fire', which should drop from the Textile label by year's end. Both Honey and I have been playing lots of cool jams with Adrian Orange and Curtis and anybody else who stops by the Marriage Records Official Jam Room and Club House upstairs from Yarnlazer HQ. Honey's been working with M. Evan Burden of Silentist on her new record, which is rad and cool. She's also working on starting a new vintage store in portland tentatively titled Rad Summer. No direct relation but also rad is my deeply un-official title of Assistant Regional Manager (Northwest and parts of Asia) of Rad Records Skateboards and Other Sundries, a new sub-label of Marriage Records curated by Kyle Field of Little Wings. People should check out the first release on Rad, Little Wings' Soft Pow'r.
here's a big ol' batch of new white rainbow and other related records for your listening pleasure! woohoo!!!
first off, i am supremely excited to announce that the double LP gatefold version of PRISM OF ETERNAL NOW, the record i have been working on for a long time is finally available from marriage records the CD will be available October 1st on KRANKY.
secondly, available extremely soon from states rights is SKY DRIPS DRIFTS, sort of the sequel to sun shifts, 70 minutes done in one sitting, this time split up into vague track markers that flow into each other. starts with deep ash-ra vibed echo-guitar guitar tryps and then moves on to a positive spring/summer mantra of chanting voices, guitar strums, tabla grooves, phaser fuzz guitar, deep drones and stuff. The best representation of current White Rainbow live sets.
then there is the long anticipated return of SURFACE OF ECEON
available NOW from music fellowship is the VINYL ONLY release of REVENGE OF DRAGON, the last known recordings of this legendary super group of me, the dudes from landing and the pounding kraut drumming of the one and only Phil Jenkins. These recordings are circa 2000-2002 when Surface was in full swing. Full on 3 guitar crazy fuzz solo love attacks versus deep deep deep ambient dream drones. side 2 is a 20 minute fuzz blanket vibe out unto infinity. put it on repeat!
and finally there is the new awesome double-disc marriage records comp (sorry no image, i guess the new marriage site won't allow hot linking) in an old-school hand screened arigato stumptown case which features an exclusive white rainbow track as well as new music from a whole bunch of homies:
Privacy, Adrian Orange, Valet, Spencer Kingman, Davis Hooker, Andrew Kafffer, Lucky Drgaons, Be Gulls, Jesse Durost, Matt McCormick, Aaron Flint Jamison, Dirty Projectors, Ghosting, Mount Eerie, Arington, The Dead Science, Rob Walmart and the Watery Graves.
as carlos at marriage would say: BOOYOW!
just got an email a couple days ago from the dj of this radio show in australia called the quiet space
"My name is Paul Gough from Sydney, Australia.
I present a program on ABC Radio National across Australia
called the Quiet Space, this weekend I'll be playing the
FANTASTIC
White Rainbow 'Sun Shifts' [well, as much as of it as I can
in my 53:58 duration - basically the whole hour.]
You can listen online if you feel inclined [or tell people
who may be interested]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/quietspace/stories/2007/1988473.htm
Based on West Coast USA time would be 11am Sat 4th August,
however the program stays online [not as Mp3 for 4 weeks]"
SO THE AUDIO IS UP FOR A FEW WEEKS. IN GENERAL THIS SHOW IS AWESOME DEEP TRYYPS!
anyway, this is an incredible honor to me. thanks Paul Gough!