On Land Festival

Description

Despite occasional attempts by yardstick-makers to place them in any of the various genres that rose & fell in their musical proximity, Charalambides have remained dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force. Their sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics. Their appearance at San Francisco's On Land festival marks their first live performance in over 2 years.

Grouper is Portland residenct Liz Harris. Since the release of her first CD in 2005, her work has slowly transformed from a black & white fuzz & feedback to lovely, bleak, stripped down pop songs anchored by her radiant vocal lines.

Daniel A.I.U Higgs, Interdimensional Song-Seamstress and Corpse-Dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the Harbor City of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millenium. Having begun singing 25 years ago, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band Lungfish, which is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hinderance of collaborative influence.

Guitarist Bill Orcutt formed, with drummer Adris Hoyos, Harry Pussy in Miami in 1992. After some 10 years of silence he self-released the LP 'New Way To Pay Old Debts' last year to much critical acclaim. His volatile mix of lightning-fast blues runs and dire immediacy channeled straight from the void is something that has to be seen live to really believe.

Portland based Ilyas Ahmed traffics a sound that has been called everything from "gone" to "darkly emotional and sweetly mournful". His often times simple play on a raga/folk/drone axis is nothing short of hypnotizing.

San Francisco based Common Eider, King Eider was started as a solo project for Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Deerhoof) but has now expanded to a four member group. Fisk's gentle falsetto lays over any number of scrapped & plucked instruments, always perched on the edge of imploding completely.

Beginning in 2007 Lisa McGee and Evan Caminiti began experimenting with improvised home recordings capturing a drifting cosmic narrative. After years of recording experiments and several live performances, the duo’s sound has evolved to a spacious, fog-shrouded mind-gaze. Sourcing their sounds primarily from guitars and vocals, the duo spins repetitive song structures, emphasizing texture and harmonic detail. With previous releases on Root Strata and Digitalis, the duo’s third album and most fully realized statement, “Pacific Fog Dreams” is due out this summer on Root Strata.

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