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Friday, August 26, 2011

ToniTE! LITTLE WINGS, SALT MINDS (w Mariee Sioux), MARK DAVID ASHWORTH & MURALISMO, & WILL SPROTT OF THE MUMLERS @ GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL

HELLO!

last minute reminder for tonight's show at the great american music hall!

if you're keeping track, it's the first official seaweedsway show there, & my first official collaboration w/ loving cup (justin davis). LITTLE WINGS, SALT MINDS, MARK DAVID ASHWORTH & MURALISMO, & WILL SPROTT OF THE MUMLERS + BOB THAYER OF RAD CLOUD DJ'ING -what???!!!

it should be a pretty mellow night overall; but you never know with these folks, little wings could break out a freestyle rap that will blow your mind & get you dancing like you never knew how. actually that is highly likely. important: doors are at 8, and will sprott of the mumlers starts at 8:30. he's so good that it's worth making an effort to be there for his set, seriously. & anyone who arrives before mark david ashworth & muralismo's set gets a free download of their latest album. see? we even have incentive items for early arrival! (they go second, so may as well catch will's set too, & enjoy the whole night). salt minds will be featuring sean kae of dearest, mariee sioux, & jeff manson tonight. they're one of my new favorites too. dance between sets to tunes spun by dj of the night bob thayer of rad cloud. the essential details are here: http://bit.ly/aug26rsvp & tix are here: http://www.gamhtickets.com/events/160694/Little%20Wings & hope you are there! oh, & this show is a good way to celebrate the end of mercury retrograde + the approach of the new moon! community event!

a list of lots o' september shows i'm helping with are below...

for those interested in yoga, i teach a weekly saturday gentle yoga class, 10:45am-12pm. it's only $10 to make it accessible to the community, & all levels are welcome...  this sunday will be the last restorative yoga class on that day/time, 6:30-8pm at the loft, also $10 & all levels. :) as it's switching to monday nights starting the 2nd week in september, 7:30-9pm. http://theloftsf.com

here are stories & pathways to songs for the bands playing tonight:

LITTLE WINGS
Little Wings was formed in San Luis Obisbo, CA, and the music of Little Wings carries the landscape of its place of origin like clouds carry water vapor, to release it in a myriad of forms over a changing landscape. Little wings is a project that revolves around frontman and songwriter Kyle Field, sometimes with drummer Adam Selzer, keyboardist Rob Kieswetter, bassist Mark Leece, and others. His debut album, Discover Worlds of Wonder , was released in 1999 by Walking Records and later in 2000 by K Records. It has been called "a dreamy, balladic tribute to the surreal aspects of the contemporary Californian landscape." Little Wings followed up this first release with The Wonder City and Wonderue to complete their Wonder Trilogy, consisting of three albums released on K and Knw-Yr-Own Records. In 2003, Little Wings released Harvest Joy , followed by Magic Wand in 2004 and Glow in 2005. He released Soft Pow'r in 2007. Kyle Field has played with the likes of Grandaddy, Lee Baggett, and Devendra Banhart, and is also a talented visual artist. A book of his drawings was published by the label Ahornfelder.
http://kyledraws.com
http://facebook.com/pages/Little-Wings/130230123665874

SALT MINDS
"Salt Minds Sounds like the last sequoia being turned into a tunnel through which to drive your car. Also it costs ten dollars every time you pass through the tree."
-Roger Waters
http://facebook.com/pages/Salt-Minds/130947443621991

MARK DAVID ASHWORTH & MURALISMO
http://markdavidashwroth.com
http://markdavidashworth.bandcamp.com
http://facebook.com/pages/Mark-David-Ashworth-Muralismo/166364723434353

WILL SPROTT of THE MUMLERS
http://themumlers.com
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ObmQ95akE-8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q32QbVLgC1o
http://thebaybridged.com/2011/04/12/will-sprott-starry-plough

...SEPTEMBER SHOWS...
** = seaweedsway presents

Saturday Sept. 3rd
Tiny Home Album Release w/ Walking in Sunlight at the Yoga Loft**
7pm doors / 8pm show / no shoes please! (wear socks you like)
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108076155961954 - please rsvp so we know how many to expect (smaller space) & bring friends who are respectful of the space!

Tuesday Sept. 6th
Avi Buffalo, Wild Pack of Canaries, & You Are Plural (Olympia) + DJ Ted Bagel Radio @ Bottom of the Hill
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261419623884118

Thursday Sept. 8th
Michael Musika, Yesway, & Ramon & Jessica at the Beatbox
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152439011502007

Friday Sept. 9th
YesWay, Passenger & Pilot, You Are Plural (Olympia), & Hanalei at Mama Buzz Cafe in OAKLAND**
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125129674249738

Sunday Sept. 18th
The Disposition, Morph Dwarf, & Uncle Rebel @ the Make-Out Room, SeaweedSway Showcase, Mission Creek Arts & MusicFestival co-presents**
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220455564639915

Wednesday Sept. 21st
Loving Cup Presents: The Blank Tapes, Chloe Makes Music, & Range of Light Wilderness @ the Great American Music Hall
http://theblanktapes.com

Thursday Sept. 22nd
Dominique Leone, Body Parts (LA), & 3 Leafs at Amnesia**, Mission Creek Arts & Music Festival co-presents
9pm
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142184825871908

Friday Sept. 23rd
Sonya Cotton Album Release w/ Kelly McFarling at the Community Music Center
http://sonyacotton.com

Thursday Sept. 29th
Sugar Candy Mountain, Ramon & Jessica, & Lone Valkyrie (Portland) at Amnesia**
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104510939653965

....A FEW MORE THINGS....

PARLOUR TO PARLOUR: 
go on an adventure with Obo Martin! http://popdose.com/parlour-to-parlour-episode-32-obo-martin
interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giKHAhV4Zkw&feature=player_embedded
learn the inter-workings of Michael Musika's world! http://popdose.com/parlour-to-parlour-episode-31-michael-musika
while you're there, see past episodes of Anna Ash, Ash Reiter, The Beehavers, fpodbpod, & the Blank Tapes, and stay tuned for more of Michael Fortes' take on Bay Area Music in 2011.

CHASING THE MOON:
Chasing the Moon is a monthly music video podcast that is celebrated with a live show and screening of the new episode near the full moon each month. See past episodes of James Vincent McMorrow, 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, Ever Isles, Sonny & the Sunsets, Gojogo, Brass Menazeri, Cuckoo Chaos (San Diego), & Matt Bauer. http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com
SF WEEKLY SEAWEEDSWAY INTERVIEW: i'll be plugging this for awhile, skip if you've read it. :) emily savage of SF Weekly's All Shook Down music blog recently interviewed me about promoting shows for 7 years in the bay area with SeaweedSway. yay! THANKS emily & to all of you for being a part of it!
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/07/promoting_bands_in_sf_a_how-to.php 

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

quinn deveaux & the mumlers saturday + masuga, miwa, & moomaw sunday! sean hayes, fpodbpod, & matt bauer chasing the full thunder moon tonight! bombino & magic leaves tuesday 7/26! & yoga


hi everyone!
thanks to all who made it to the 7 year anniversary show for seaweedsway last thursday, & thanks to those who came out sunday too. so nice to celebrate with you all!

show highlights this week:

today is the full thunder moon! thus we are premiering a new chasing the moon episode. matt bauer's chasing the moon episode will open the night for sean hayes & fpodbpod at the new parish!! doors @ 8, chasing the moon starts at 9. right off the 19th st. BART stop in oakland. IMPORTANT: 50 tickets have just been released but once they're gone they're gone! so get a ticket now if you plan on coming... http://bit.ly/kMoGNy

poster by jeff milton, surfer babes on acid

this weekend is ammmazing as well - saturday & sunday are seaweedsway shows - are you ready??

SATURDAY is Quinn DeVeaux & the Blue Beat Review's big cd release show at the independent. the Mumlers are co-headlining!! you can hear some of quinn's songs here: http://soundcloud.com/seaweedsway - his songs have been making my day! the album, Under Covers, & is a completely joyous experience. here's quinn's chasing the moon episode to get a sense of how much fun you'll have hearing him live: http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com/2009/09/quinn/ the mumlers will be getting the dance party started... this video of their song "coffin factory" gives you a sense of their sound & sense of humor (maybe?): http://youtu.be/1oaWJN2doRk tickets are here: http://bit.ly/quinntix


SUNDAY!! is the monthly seaweedsway showcase at the make-out room! Masuga, Miwa, & Moomaw (no kidding)... This is gonna be a really neat & sweet show, a gathering of three friends, whose names coincidentally sound really good together, playing their collections of stories through song. A mid-summer's dream. Miwa Gemini (acoustic/indie/folk/western swing) is traveling through on tour, from Brooklyn, NY; Moomaw (psychadelic country) moved away from the Bay Area to LA recently, so this is a reunion of sorts; & Ed Masuga (folk/blues/country/alt) is an east bay-er trekking to SF to blow us away with his fingerpicking song-writing genius. Good luck will come to all who attend. 7:30 doors, 8-11 songs. The show will be interspersed with Jeremy & the Absurdists interactive entertainment (last month, they became robots trying to understand the human emotion of love). only $7!


in yoga news- i'm teaching a gentle yoga series on thursdays in august, 6-7:30, at the loft. 321 divisadero st. @ page. all levels are welcome, seriously. you can sign up & find out more here! http://theloftsf.com if you can't make the whole series, drop-ins are welcome, or it's $50 for 4 weeks. i also teach gentle yoga saturdays 10:45am-12pm, $10 community class. & most sundays, restorative, 6:30-8pm. 

if you didn't get to read it last week, i'd love for you to peruse this interview i did with Emily Savage for SF Weekly: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/07/promoting_bands_in_sf_a_how-to.php

thanks! 
jessie

.seaweedsway show recommendations.
*** = shows that seaweedsway is presenting OR i'm working on a lot & extra-specially request that you attend 

THURSDAY JULY 14TH***
Sean Hayes, FpodBpod, & Matt Bauer's Chasing the Moon episode at the New Parish (full thunder moon)
doors @ 8, show @ 9
a few more online tix were released, get em now! once they're gone then it's totally sold out  http://bit.ly/kMoGNy
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FRIDAY JULY 15TH (options)

EFFT @ Matching 1/2 Cafe 7:30pm

Ash Reiter, Wave Array, & She Beards (CD Release) @ Starry Plough 8pm

Buxter Hoot'n @ Kaleidoscope 8pm

A Quiet Night at the Vortex Room with Will Sprott (the Mumlers), Socks & Chimes (LA), David Copenhafer, Chloe Makes Music, & Dylan Flynn + DJ Neil Martinson is spinning between sets & celebrating his bday! 9pm

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SATURDAY JULY 16TH***

Gentle Hatha Yoga at the Loft SF w/ Jessie
10:45am-12pm. 321 divisadero st. @ page. $10 community class. all levels. move & breathe 

SeaweedSway Presents: Quinn DeVeaux & the Blue Beat Review's CD Release & The Mumlers @ the Independent***
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SUNDAY JULY 17TH***
SeaweedSway Showcase with Masuga, Miwa, & Moomaw at the Make-Out Room
with hosts Jeremy Dalmas & the Absurdists
doors 7:30, show 8-10, $7
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THURSDAY JULY 21ST
Throw Down for an Upright - Could be Grand - Benefit show for a piano at new venue BeatBox
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FRIDAY JULY 22ND
The Velvet Teen, Silian Rail, Worker Bee, & Not to Reason Why @ the Great American Music Hall

Langhorne Slim @ the Independent!
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FRIDAY JULY 22ND - SUNDAY JULY 24TH
C.A.M.P.
I think I've been convinced to go to this! Come with us!! Because it's worth elaborating on...

C.A.M.P. is a 3 day summer festival on the Russian River in Guerneville, CA featuring live music with over 30 bands and DJ's from all over the world. It is a collaboration-focused event with simultaneous live music, games, classes, and experiences. Come camp, swim, dance, rock, and have a great time. Tickets here: https://www.brownpapertick​ets.com/event/182145

Bands include The Aimless Never Miss, Arms + Legs, Jeff Manson, Salt Minds featuring Mariee Sioux, Saything, Soft Shells, Swanifant, Trainwreck Riders, TV Mike & The Scarecrowes, Winnie Byrd, The Blank Tapes, Little Wings & Silian Rail, among many others!
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SATURDAY JULY 23RD
Loving Cup Presents: The Ferocious Few, Rad Cloud, & Indianna Hale
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WEDNESDAY JULY 27TH
The Definite Articles, Dirty Mittens, & il gato @ the Rickshaw Stop
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FRIDAY JULY 29TH***
SeaweedSway Presents: Bells, Alameda (Pdx), & We Are the Willows (Mpls) @ Amnesia
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SATURDAY JULY 30TH***
SeaweedSway Presents: Les Trois Petits Oiseaux & the Avatar Ensemble + The B Stars @ Amnesia
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SUNDAY JULY 31st
Restorative Yoga at the Loft SF w/ Jessie
6:30-8pm. 321 divisadero st. @ page. $10 community class. all levels. rest & breathe 
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SATURDAY AUGUST 6TH***
WOMENROCK'S 5th Anniversary!! @ the Box Factory
      
.a few more things.

PARLOUR TO PARLOUR with Michael Musika! http://popdose.com/parlour-to-parlour-episode-31-michael-musika


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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Wed. 3/9: Emily Jane White, Helene Renaut Record Release, & Ed Masuga @ Cafe du Nord


Wednesday March 9th

SeaweedSway Presents:
EMILY JANE WHITE
HELENE RENAUT (Record Release!)
ED MASUGA
~at Cafe du Nord~

Address: 2170 Market St. SF, CA 94114
Time: 8:30pm doors / 9:30pm show
Press Inquiries, please contact: Jessie Woletz, seaweedsway@gmail.com
SeaweedSway is proud to present the record release show for Hélène Renaut's new album, The Deer Convention - at Cafe du Nord on Wednesday, March 9th - the line up will include local favorites Emily Jane White and Ed Masuga.

Hélène's long-awaited album is being released as a limited edition vinyl with download card. Recorded by Jason Quever (Papercuts) and with a roster including Matt Montgomery (Adam Haworth Stevens), Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopard, 13th Month), Jasmyn Wong (Skygreen Leopards) and members of the Mumlers, it is now available for review: 

- Feel free to view and share the video for the single "Bumblebee".
- Scroll down to read what the press had to say about Hélène's music and for a complete one-sheet.
The album is now available on Bandcamp, and is now on iTunes, as of today!

Please get in touch for interviews, press passes, photo passes, PR materials, or anything else.



******More Info About the Bands******
Co-headliner: Emily Jane White
Acclaimed dark folk-rock chanteuse Emily Jane White has just released her third album in Europe, Ode to Sentience, and is anticipating a release in the US. This will be her first Bay Area show since May 2010, a rare occasion to hear a preview of the new material.

 Co-Headliner: Hélène Renaut - Record Release
This will be the record release show for local folk-pop musician Hélène Renaut. Recorded by Jason Quever (Papercuts) at PanAmerican Studios, The Deer Convention features guest appearances by Matt Montgomery (Adam Haworth Stevens), Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards, 13th Month), Jasmyn Wong (Skygreen Leopards), members of The Mumlers, and Quever himself. The 12' limited edition vinyl, with a sweet cover designed by Simone Rubi (Feist, Kings of Convenience) comes with a download card, and will be made available at the show. A description of The Deer Convention and past quotes from the press for Hélène Renaut are below. 
Opener: Ed Masuga
Local favorite Ed Masuga is a self-described "finger-picking maniac; a folk and blues orchestra of beautiful clanks and calls". At two years old he saw his dad compete on the game show "Name That Tune," and though the appearance netted just a jukebox and a trip to Puerto Rico, Ed's future as a traveling musician had been fully inspired. Also a true dream-inducer songsmith.





More Info About HÉLÈNE RENAUT


NEW RECORD - THE DEER CONVENTION
by Jon Pruett
Somewhere on the coast of Northern California, whether amidst the watchful eyes of San Francisco's Mission District denizens or up the highway even further where the air is clearer, you'll find Hélène Renaut. Guitar in hand, she's hit up stages high and low and worked at carving out her own little corner in the world, preserving something otherwise intangible. 

Renaut is French by birth and that influence, that sound – that idea of the chanson is something that carries over distinctly into her own songwriting. She's married this with a hopeful, wistful air that is more akin to American folk - and still there's this hint of the sweet primroses from the British Isles. It's all one.

The Deer Convention is a pocket-sized valise carrying a dozen of Renaut's most expressionist sentiments. It's something she's carried with her for the past few years - honing, polishing, finding the ins and outs of the song and letting them all become part of the big fabric. They naturally found a recording home in PanAmerican Studios, helmed by Jason Quever (Papercuts), where  the album was captured almost nearly all live on tape, in one take. Additional help, flavor, and deep color was provided in parts by members of The Mumlers, as well as key individuals and friends Matt Montgomery (Adam Haworth Stephens), Jasmyn Wong, and Donovan Quinn (both Skygreen Leopards). The result is a lightly orchestrated, deeply personal world of acoustic guitars, strings, horns, upright bass and light drums - accented here and there by an electric guitar or glockenspiel line.

The Deer Convention fights in its own way against jaded sensibilities and rises up for the purity of songwriting. “Bumblebee” is pop song best appreciated among the wildflowers, while other tracks touch on the ease in which love can come (“To Be A Child”) or the difficulties when it doesn’t (“Wisdom Of the Dove”). There are moments within that switch up mysterious travelogues with the most subtle of backdrops - putting Renaut in the role of navigator ("February's Daughter") aided by an electric guitar lead that is akin to Richard Thompson's Fairport work  - but diffused, like a film in slow-motion. "The Way You Looked At Me" sounds as if you took your favorite song by The Shirelles and threw it in the ocean and waited for it to return - battered and beaten into a new natural form. Old forms give new forms. Similar words could be typed out for "Keep Your Garden Clean" - a spin on an Appalachian ballad, or “Orpheus” – where the Greek myth serves as metaphor for the uncertainty of love in our modern world.

If there’s a constant in her musical routes, it’s the forever and always influence of artists like The Beatles and Nick Drake – impeccable pop music but with introspection at every turn. Beyond that, Renaut cites the lyricism of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, the vocal work of '20s and ‘30s female jazz singers like the Boswell Sisters or Bessie Smith, Karen Dalton, Bert Jansch, Donovan, the Kinks, and the Zombies' lush harmonies as key chapters in her development.

Through all of this - through all of the lyrical mysteries, the spirited takes on girl group sounds, British folk, curious pop, and dusty avenues that haven't been given a permanent title yet, there is still Hélène Renaut at the center, spinning tales, playing guitar - singing her experience, making it ours. 

The Deer Convention will be made available on sweet, limited edition vinyl and will come with a download card for all of your new-fangled devices. 
PRESS QUOTES
"Hélène Renaut's simple tenderness evokes fellow Frenchwoman Françoise Hardy; her spare approach, Marissa Nadler. Complex acoustic guitar parts are trimmed with playful glockenspiel, trombone, and soft percussion. But what's most charming about the Brittany-born, San Francisco-based singer-songwriter is how she dresses up adult motifs in kid's attire."Bumblebee" finds Renaut grappling with crushing isolation through a blushingly cute chit-chat with a bee. The aching restlessness of "The Deer Convention" is hidden underneath her childlike wonder of golden light. Rather than showing the singer-songwriter circumventing grown-up crises, these songs offer the realization that adolescence can be damn fun, especially set against folk music that simultaneously makes you blush and squirm."
"The voice of Hélène is as lithe as a slowly moving could in the bright blue sky and her acoustic guitar playing is lulling and pure"
"Hélène Renaut sets this one on fire with "Bumblebee", providing all the intangibles that make French chanteuse-age so righteous when it works...a clean, full recording, simple and effective arrangements, and a voice to die for."
"The French pop splendour of Helene Renaut kicks off disc two in style, the sweet as honey "Bumblebee" oozing class."
"...delicate guitar melodies and charming ballads."
"...evokes early Floydians punting down the River Cam, albeit infused with La Francais... Superb summery sounds."
"...often recalls the broodingly ornate songs of Love's Arthur Lee spiced with just a little dash of Revolver-era John Lennon"
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