US tour dates
FINALLY a tour. Charlotte Gainsbourg dates:
04-11 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theatre
04-12 Victoria, British Columbia – Alix Goolden Hall
04-14 Seattle, WA – Crocodile Cafe
04-15 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
04-17 San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts
04-18 Indio, CA – Coachella
04-21 Chicago, IL – Park West
04-23 Montreal, Quebec – Olympia
04-24 Montreal, Quebec – Olympia
04-25 New York, NY – Webster Hall
Presale begins Saturday: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Charlotte-Gainsbourg
Hope you had your wits about you and caught Brian’s radio show last night – new music from Tobacco, Autolux, MGMT plus Bootsy Collins, Vanity 6, Ennio Morricone aaaaand…..more. Every Friday night at 8pm PST/11pm EST.
Ahhh, a tour memory from yore
Record Club III : Skip Spence “Grey/Afro”
The last track in the series. It was a true pleasure playing with such great musicians and good friends. The next RC is going to be bananas. Thanks Skip.
Record Club: Skip Spence “Grey/Afro” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Masses
An addendum to the last post, here is the Pecha-Kucha music presentation by Brian with photography by Francesco Valentino on behalf of rebuilding Haiti. This piece was performed live on February 20th, 2010 in Los Angeles. YOU can donate directly to building homes in Haiti at Architecture For Humanity. Thank you.
PechaKucha for Haiti
I’ll be doing a 6 minute and 20 second musical presentation as accompaniment to recent images taken in Haiti along with several other amazing artists and humans all gathering for the cause Architecture For Humanity as part of a Global event to donate money for building homes in Haiti. The event is FREE on Saturday, Feb 20th at 7:30pm in Downtown Los Angeles at SCI-Arc. Full press release.
More about what PechaKucha is and the plan for reconstruction:
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/pechakucha-for-haiti
SCI-Arc, Keck Lecture Hall
960 E. 3rd St.
Los Angeles, CA
(parking lot at 350 Merrick St.)
FREE. ($20 suggested donation) 7:30 pm. All welcome. Music provided by Dublab’s Carlos Ninos
Record Club III – Skip Spence’s “Lawrence of Euphoria”
Some hyper shit to start the week off right, tight, tonight. Thank you Jeff for bringing the mutant Omnichord.
Record Club: Skip Spence “Lawrence of Euphoria” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Anticon Records podcast
Brian’s radio interview and guest DJ session with Anticon Records‘ label manager Shaun Koplow is now archived and available as a podcast. ch-ch-ch-check-it. Shaun played some amazing shit from his roster and beyond, highly recommended for any discerning music futurist.
Playlist: 10.02.09 Shaun Koplow (Anticon Records) Guest DJ playlist
Brian’s show airs on Marfa Public Radio every Friday night at 8pm PST, you can stream it here.
Limited edition posters, Wolf on Letterman
Limited edition posters from Brian’s live score to “The Wind” are available now at marfapublicradio.org. Each poster has a unique hand-embroidered stitching.
Feist shows, new playlists, KCRW
It’s going to be cold but we must help preserve and protect the Olympian spirit with our melodious smite. Please join Feist and her cast of carnage, including Mr. LeBarton, in Vancouver for the Winter Olympics this February. Two shows, www.listentofeist.com for the dirty lowdown.
The playlists from Brian’s radio show have been updated including the James Gadson session. And while we speak of that precious format known as “radio” do tune in for the Charlotte Gainsbourg session on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” this Wednesday, January 27th at 11am PST. The day after her “IRM” album drops. Woot, woot.
Beck.com hosts James Gadson Interview
For those of you that missed my radio interview with James Gadson, you can now hear it in it’s entirety on Beck.com.
And with good timing, Beck has also posted the new Record Club song/video “Books Of Moses” by Skip Spence featuring James, myself and Jamie Lidell on his site as well as behind-the-scenes footage on the making of the track here.
Thanks Mr. Hansen.
Sights and sounds from “The Wind” live film score
Thank you to Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Public Radio for an unforgettable night. Thank you also to Joel Nelson for opening the show, his cowboy poetry is not to be missed. He is also the founder of the “Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering” held every year in Alpine, TX.
And thank you to Katherine Shaughnessy for the beautiful flyer and to Gory at Marfa Recording Co. for his sound equipment and expertise.
And here we have the prize fighting highlights from the aural portion of the performance, kindly forward it on kiddies.
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BEWARE THE WIND!
