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Sunday, Feb 13
Rite Spot Cafe
8:00 pm FREE
www.ritespotcafe.net
2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
kitchen closed sundays
featuring:
Tom Heyman (Court and Spark)
Radius - Jeff Ray and Mark Edwards
Ted Brinkley's Florid Ians
Helene Renaut(Beam)
Tom Heyman-
www.tomheyman.com
"Formerly a member of the late, lamented Go To Blazes, Tom Heyman has taken time out from his current gigs with San Francisco outfits Map of Wyoming and The Court and Spark to release a solo album. Given that Heyman contributed a goodly amount of both songwriting and ferocious guitar-playing to Go To Blazes, it's not surprising that some of the material here is reminiscent of his former group -"
Country Standard Time
Radius-
www.radiusmusic.net
Jeff Ray who was the principal songwriter for the San
Francisco post art-punk band, Zmrzlina,
www.zmrzlina.com, has created a project, along
with keyboardist and sound engineer, Mark Edwards,
called Radius, www.radiusmusic.net. Radius's
unique version of folk is often described as
folktronica., which is a hybrid of ambient and melodic
laptop electronica, and folk stylings. There are
beautiful ethereal melodies, samples, and sounds
coming from the electronics that well up from
underneath the sweet vocals, and warm acoustic guitar.
Think a combination of John Fahey, Nick Drake, Lou
Reed, Syd Barret, Aphex Twin, and Fennesz. Radius's
debut album, Please Hold On, will be out in March,
2004. Jeff Ray has also been accepted into a
prestigious residency for the Headlands Center for the
Arts, (www.headlands.org), to pursue his Radius
project, as well as his sound installations, which
includes a piece he is creating for the Project Room
in Philadelphia.
"Ted Brinkley's Florid Ians"-
Dour, blase, and lethargic, Ted Brinkley tried to
(over)compensate by forming a glee club.
True to the modern condition, inertia set in and
it now resembles a bloated immovable bureaucracy.
Three women and three men singers, plus bass and piano.
Helene Renaut-
By Scott Reid
December 08, 2003
With a sound best described as Belle & Sebastian meets
Stereolab with heavy doses of Joni Mitchell and
Donovan thrown in for good measure, Beam is first and
foremost a vessel for the beautiful French drawl of
singer-songwriter Helene Renaut. Though the group's
other three members give Beam a haunting atmosphere
that is impeccably suited for the cathartic lyrical
content, the main focus of this album - its real
source of appeal - comes straight from Helene herself.
Her thick accent adds an irresistible charm to every
last one of these songs, never feeling like a tired or
overemphasised shtick. The music sometimes boarders on
twee, and though it results in some of the album's
best songs, like the chamber pop bounce of "California
Cradled You" or the breezy "Les Anges n'ont pas
d'Aisles" (the only track sung entirely in her native
French), there is a much stronger focus on dark
psychedelic pop that drives the album and gives it its
real weight. "Jet Lagged," "Circles" and "We Look at
the Sun," the latter of which could've easily been on
either of the last two Delgados records, are both
imaginative and strong enough to make up for the
album's several lulls.
Rite Spot Cafe
8:00 pm FREE
www.ritespotcafe.net
2099 Folsom St. @ 17th
kitchen closed sundays
featuring:
Tom Heyman (Court and Spark)
Radius - Jeff Ray and Mark Edwards
Ted Brinkley's Florid Ians
Helene Renaut(Beam)
Tom Heyman-
www.tomheyman.com
"Formerly a member of the late, lamented Go To Blazes, Tom Heyman has taken time out from his current gigs with San Francisco outfits Map of Wyoming and The Court and Spark to release a solo album. Given that Heyman contributed a goodly amount of both songwriting and ferocious guitar-playing to Go To Blazes, it's not surprising that some of the material here is reminiscent of his former group -"
Country Standard Time
Radius-
www.radiusmusic.net
Jeff Ray who was the principal songwriter for the San
Francisco post art-punk band, Zmrzlina,
www.zmrzlina.com, has created a project, along
with keyboardist and sound engineer, Mark Edwards,
called Radius, www.radiusmusic.net. Radius's
unique version of folk is often described as
folktronica., which is a hybrid of ambient and melodic
laptop electronica, and folk stylings. There are
beautiful ethereal melodies, samples, and sounds
coming from the electronics that well up from
underneath the sweet vocals, and warm acoustic guitar.
Think a combination of John Fahey, Nick Drake, Lou
Reed, Syd Barret, Aphex Twin, and Fennesz. Radius's
debut album, Please Hold On, will be out in March,
2004. Jeff Ray has also been accepted into a
prestigious residency for the Headlands Center for the
Arts, (www.headlands.org), to pursue his Radius
project, as well as his sound installations, which
includes a piece he is creating for the Project Room
in Philadelphia.
"Ted Brinkley's Florid Ians"-
Dour, blase, and lethargic, Ted Brinkley tried to
(over)compensate by forming a glee club.
True to the modern condition, inertia set in and
it now resembles a bloated immovable bureaucracy.
Three women and three men singers, plus bass and piano.
Helene Renaut-
By Scott Reid
December 08, 2003
With a sound best described as Belle & Sebastian meets
Stereolab with heavy doses of Joni Mitchell and
Donovan thrown in for good measure, Beam is first and
foremost a vessel for the beautiful French drawl of
singer-songwriter Helene Renaut. Though the group's
other three members give Beam a haunting atmosphere
that is impeccably suited for the cathartic lyrical
content, the main focus of this album - its real
source of appeal - comes straight from Helene herself.
Her thick accent adds an irresistible charm to every
last one of these songs, never feeling like a tired or
overemphasised shtick. The music sometimes boarders on
twee, and though it results in some of the album's
best songs, like the chamber pop bounce of "California
Cradled You" or the breezy "Les Anges n'ont pas
d'Aisles" (the only track sung entirely in her native
French), there is a much stronger focus on dark
psychedelic pop that drives the album and gives it its
real weight. "Jet Lagged," "Circles" and "We Look at
the Sun," the latter of which could've easily been on
either of the last two Delgados records, are both
imaginative and strong enough to make up for the
album's several lulls.
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