Sunday, February 13, 2011

Sugar Candy Mountain, Pancake Breakfast, Full Hunger Moon, Bday Potluck! SUN. Feb. 20th - SeaweedSway Showcase!


Sunday February 20th
SeaweedSway + Chasing the Moon Present:
SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN (Debut Show! Feat. Will Halsey of the Blank Tapes & Ash Reiter's band)
ALAMEDA (from Portland)
Mike Midlo of PANCAKE BREAKFAST (from Portland)
+
EVER ISLES' Chasing the Moon premier for the FULL HUNGER MOON
BIRTHDAY PARTY + POTLUCK
and your hosts JEREMY DALMAS & THE ABSURDISTS
~at the Make-Out Room~
Address: 3225 22nd St. between Mission & Valencia
Tickets: $7 at the door - $5 if you bring a potluck item
RSVP on facebook: http://on.fb.me/feb20rsvp
Time: 7:30pm doors / 8-11pm showtime
Press Inquiries (including ticket giveaways), please contact: seaweedsway@gmail.com

The next SeaweedSway Showcase has even more than usual going on, and it's my birthday!! So it's going to be a February birthday party potluck, which fits well with the food name bands and full hunger moon on Feb. 18th! Next Sunday promises to be an extra special and fulfilling night for all who attend. Here are the bullet point reasons of why you should go:

*Sugar Candy Mountain's Debut Show! featuring Will Halsey (drummer for the Blank Tapes & Ash Reiter) ~ the band includes members of the Blank Tapes and the backing band for Ash Reiter and Anna Ash!
*Portland Invasion w/ Alameda & Mike Midlo of Pancake Breakfast! *Birthday show & potluck!!! on Jessie's Bday + for other February bdays ~ Raw Vegan Organic is encouraged, but bring what you like!
*Chasing the Moon featuring Ever Isles' episode premier! in honor of the Full Hunger Moon (Feb. 18th)!
*Jeremy Dalmas & the Absurdists hosting the night away! Will Jeremy bring cookies? *Too good to be true! (but it is)
*President's Day is the next day, so many people have the day off - easier to stay out late!
SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN
http://www.myspace.com/smokedturkey Sugar Candy Mountain is the vehicle for Will Halsey's flights of pop fancy. When he's not drumming for Ash Reiter or The Blank Tapes, Will is concocting his own Grade A ear candy, drawing from an inspirational well filled with Beach Boys-style vocal harmonies, electronic dance-pop, sunny good vibes and songwriting that recalls the golden era of fun-in-the-sun 1960s pop music. Will and his great big band of friends and co-conspirators - featuring members of The Blank Tapes, fpodbpod, and the backing bands for Ash Reiter and Anna Ash - are plotting to win your heart with irresistible sweetness. They plan to succeed. This show will be the live debut of Sugar Candy Mountain! ALAMEDA
http://myspace.com/alamedaportland Alameda is a five piece band composed of guitar, violin, cello, clarinet, and drums w/ members of AgesandAges, Crooked Fingers, and the Portland Symphony. They have been compared to the likes of Nick Drake and Low. They're touring in support of their upcoming debut album. Their average national draw is: 50 people. Their myspace is: www.myspace.com/alamedaportland "Alameda, sports a fluid lineup that crafts melancholy, atmospheric songs that teeter between folky simplicity and chamber-music lushness. Besides stepping up to the microphone, [Stirling] Myles has switched from bass to guitar; Alameda's debut EP, The Floating Hospital, reveals his hushed and tranquil songwriting, a solid core around which revolves the outfit's baroque yet stark multi-instrumentalism." - Jason Heller, Westword "You have your acoustic guitar singer-songwriter backed by a lush group of musicians. This is a formula that when done well, I do not tire of. There are a few people who do this around town, most notably Horse Feathers. But I assure you there is no Horse Feathery occuring in this music. It is its own thing. Perfect for the current cold and rain filled atmosphere that has take[n] Portland over." - Ben Meyercord, Crappy Indie Music Blog "Alameda's luminous, spare melodies suggest solitude without loneliness and the peace of fruitful introspection. Like the work of early Low, the latest songs from Alameda are soothing yet haunting and possessed of a delicate immediacy." - Thomas Murphy, Music Editor "...currently enjoying the release of their EP The Floating Hospital, a stoic four-song set of moving, minimalist acoustic-based tunes. Vocalist/guitarist Stirling Myles (also of Autopilot is for Lovers, also a contributor to The Deli Portland) stirs lush melodies with ample yet subdued accompaniment from bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello and other various effects-laced gadgets that, when dialed in correctly, evoke a melancholy, though cathartic kind of slow-burn orchestral-folk." - Ryan Prado, Deli Portland Mike Midlo/ PANCAKE BREAKFAST
http://myspace.com/pancakebreakfastmusic http://blog.limewire.com/posts/51043-album-review-pancake-breakfast-%E2%80%93-pancake-breakfast-noise-nest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+limewiremusicblog+(LimeWire+Music+Blog) Pancake Breakfast is a nine-member roots machine from Portland, Oregon. Most of these songs were made-up on a little farm, far away from the big city. Mike Midlo wrote them. He tested each one by singing it to the dog and chickens before playing it for the band. That seemed to work out pretty well. The members of Pancake Breakfast like to have a good time. You can hear that on their debut full-length record. Sometimes they holler and make loud noises. You can hear that on the record, too! All the tracks were recorded by Mike Coykendall (She & Him, Blitzen Trapper, M. Ward) in a comfy house near a dormant volcano.

EVER ISLES
San Francisco based dream folk duo of Kaitlyn Smith & Jeremy Harris.

FULL HUNGER MOON or FULL SNOW MOON - FEB. 18TH
"Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February’s full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult."

CHASING THE MOON (Co-Presenter)
Chasing the Moon is a monthly local music video podcast that is celebrated with a live show and screening of the new episode on the full moon each month. See past episodes of Quinn DeVeaux, Thao & Mirah, Birds & Batteries, John Vanderslice, Sonya Cotton, Indianna Hale, Michael Musika, Silian Rail, Slow Motion Cowboys, Oona, Judgement Day, Lavay Smith, Foxtails Brigade, Steve Taylor, Kacey Johansing, TaughtMe, the Devotionals, Magic Leaves, & Sea of Bees.

SEAWEED SWAY (Co-Presenter)http://facebook.com/theseaweedsway
http://bit.ly/seaweedswaycalendar (google calendar of events)
SeaweedSway is an evolving project by Jessie Woletz & friends, with an intention to encourage, cultivate, & support community through music, yoga, & nature events. SeaweedSway presents music shows & events, featuring musicians & artists who share similar creative intentions. SeaweedSway was a term first used by Karl Blau & Jessie to describe the awesome way people danced during BrightBlack Morning Light at a Great American Music Hall show, and now SeaweedSway is a collaborative project presenting shows and spreading the word about great music and beyond. Get updates of future events & stay connected through the links above.

next UP:
Tomorrow, Monday Feb 14th - Valentine’s Day!
8pm - 11pm   
SeaweedSway on Valentine's Day! Chloe Makes Music Album Release Show w/ Honeycomb & Magic Leaves
Where: Café Du Nord, 2170 Market St., San Francisco, CA
Description:  Honeycomb
Chloe Makes Music (Album Release Show!!! New cd produced by Chris Chu of the Morning Benders, new lineup, new songs!) 
Come spend Valentine's Day with us. Kissing booth at the merch table! Valentine's card-makingstation! If you don't arrive with a date, we'll make sure you leave with one! 8pm sharp / tix: http://cafedunord.com
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SeaweedSway on Valentine's Day! Honeycomb, Chloe Makes Music (Album Release!), & Magic Leaves


Monday February 14th, Valentine's Day
SeaweedSway Lovingly Presents:
HONEYCOMB
CHLOE MAKES MUSIC (Album Release!)
MAGIC LEAVES
~at Cafe du Nord~

Address: 2170 Market St. SF, CA 94114
RSVP on facebook: http://on.fb.me/RSVPfeb14
Time: 7pm doors / 8pm show
Press Inquiries, please contact seaweedsway@gmail.com
Beautiful poster by Emily Ritz of Honeycomb!

SeaweedSway on Valentine's Day!
What better way to spend Valentine's Day than with Honeycomb, Chloe Makes Music, & Magic Leaves singing to you??? Even better, and most importantly, this is Chloe's long-awaited album release show!!! Her new cd, The Puppeteer, was produced by Chris Chu of the Morning Benders, plus she has a new lineup and new songs, and she's taking requests for old cheesy love songs! Josh Bruner of Magic Leaves is going to play a rare mellower acousticy solo set for the occasion; and this is Honeycomb's anticipated follow-up to their recent show at the Rickshaw Stop with Sonya Cotton.

Oh yeah, and rumor has it there will be a kissing booth at the merch table! Valentine's card-makingstation as well! If you don't arrive with a date, we'll make sure you leave with one!

HONEYCOMB
Local indie-folk ensemble full of soul singing and nimble-fingered folks, with beats that you can groove to and feel down to your bones. "I was blown away at the gorgeousness of the five part harmonies of lead singer Emily Ritz, and backup vocalist Kacey Johansing. . . Those vocals combined with Nate Blaz on cello, Joe Lewis on upright bass and Andrew Maguire on vibraphone create a wall of sound that sucks you in." --Examiner.com
The band now includes local multi-instrumentalist Eric Kuhn (Silian Rail, Sean Hayes, Michael Musika).

CHLOE MAKES MUSIC
This is the long-awaited album release show for San Francisco folk musician Chloe Roth, aka Chloe Makes Music (CMM). Produced by Christopher Chu of the Morning Benders and recorded at San Francisco’s Different Fur Studios, CMM’s debut LPThe Puppeteer features a bevy of local musicians, including cellist Jen Grady (Adam Stephens, Emily Jane White), Sara Gambina-Belknap (The Bitter Honeys, Gamelan Sekar Jaya) on banjo, jazz great Noel Jewkes on clarinet, and Chu himself lending both instrumentation and vocals.

"…An impressive debut…Roth packs her sensitive songs with a torrent of words, line after line of images and emotions and interior rhymes in a kind of 19th century Victorian-style that sounds like a reincarnated Elizabeth Barrett Browning…All in all, a lovely package."
–The Marin Independent Journal

"Quirky and lithe-voiced…The Puppeteer showcases her talent for wordplay and storytelling."
–The Bay Bridged           

“…Lovely, haunting harmonies…a catchy melody of puppets still singing in my head.”
– The Deli SF

"…Folk-pop duos (Jenny and Johnny, She & Him, et al.) are a popular trend these days, so standing out is no easy feat. Chu and Roth’s “The Duel” holds its own against other charismatic efforts by their boy-girl contemporaries."
–TwentyFourBit

In October 2009, Deli SF readers voted Chloe Makes Music (CMM) their artist of the month. Around the same time, Chloe enlisted longtime friend, and frontman of the Morning Benders, Christopher Chu to produce her debut full-length record. The album sees a departure for CMM—from a pared down minimalism of guitar and cello to a larger, fuller sound. Chu brought his unique brand of arrangement to the panoply of instruments featured on The Puppeteer, which includes guitar, piano, violin, cello, harmonium, saw, accordion, banjo, clarinet, and glockenspiel.

Listening to CMM live, it’s hard not to be captivated; she typically plays to a silent and rapt audience. Her haunting songs weave stories of memory, loss, nature, and art, with what the Bay Bridged called “agile and buoyant melodies.” In her soft, vulnerable voice Chloe takes on dark narratives (three of the songs on the album are tributes to three young people who passed away in the last few years) and renders them heartbreaking and beautiful. Imbued with imagery from her upbringing on the California coasts and in the tropics and farmland of Kauai, CMM’s lyrics are a combination of the mythic and the quotidian (the track “Apollo & Daphne” is based on the myth as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, while the track “Wormwood” begins with a bird hitting a window). Striking a delicate balance between autobiographical and tall tales, CMM’s meditated manipulation of words and her flair for alliteration, syntax, and rhyme, make each song nothing less than a sung poem.

Growing up listening to the greatest lyricists and harmonizers of her parents’ generation, CMM lists Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills & Nash as key influences, along with folk contemporaries like Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens. Combining poetic, tongue-twisting lyrics with lush, multiple-part harmonies, CMM’s music is both timeless and inventive.

MAGIC LEAVES
Magic Leaves - always exploring new sounds, front man Joshua Bruner is leading an eclectic mix of sound flavors that include Garage Rock, Afro/Brasilian Psych, and that good ole Rock and Roll. Compare to Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, 13th Floor Elevators, Golden Dawn, the Moving Sidewalks. Band members include Shaun Elley, Henry Misner and Matt Adams of the Blank Tapes.

SEAWEED SWAY
SeaweedSway is an evolving project by Jessie Woletz & friends, with an intention to encourage, cultivate, & support community through music, yoga, & nature events. SeaweedSway presents music shows & events, featuring musicians & artists who share similar creative intentions. SeaweedSway was a term first used by Karl Blau & Jessie to describe the awesome way people danced during BrightBlack Morning Light at a Great American Music Hall show, then it became a list of recommended events in the Bay Area, and now SeaweedSway presents shows of all kinds. Get updates of future events & stay connected through the links below:
http://bit.ly/seaweedswaycalendar (google calendar of events)

next UP will be:
Sun Feb 20, 2011 *birthday show!
7:30pm - 11:30pm   SeaweedSway Showcase w/ Sugar Candy Mountain, Alameda, & Pancake Breakfast! Ever Isles' Chasing the Moon episode premier
Where: Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St., San Francisco, CA
Description: SeaweedSway Showcase w/ Sugar Candy Mountain (Debut Show!), Alameda (pdx), & Pancake Breaksfast/ Mike Midlo (pdx) with host Jeremy Dalmas & the Absurdists!  Portland Invasion! Sugar Candy Mountain's Debut Show! and it’s my birthday!!! Potluck (raw vegan organic preferred, but bring what you like)! Too good to be true! (but it is) $7 for a night of fun & good music SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN http://www.myspace.com/smokedturkey ALAMEDA Alameda is a five pieceband composed of guitar, violin, cello, clarinet, and drums w/ members of Ages and Ages, Crooked Fingers, and the Portland Symphony.
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177219588963002
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