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The STORY presents:
Chapter III, Journey to the MOUNTAIN
Tuesday, December 11th 8:30 pm The Stork Club Oakland
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"Hello
Bay Area denizens! Just to let you know that I will be MC'ing the next installment of The Story, an ongoing series of magical musical evenings curated by mysterious denizens of the outer and inner planes, but realized in Oakland. Intrigued with a night of deep earth freak folk and related meditation drops on mountain mind and other freeform esoterica? So am I!" -Erik Davis |
Erik
Davis is joining us as the
evening's MC. He's going to give brief 2-minute lectures on themes like
mysticism, drugs, far out music theory, shamanism, before everyone's
sets by way of introduction.
Erik wrote the crazy book "Visionary
States," and is a
regular Arthur Mag contributor, and his massive interview with Joanna
Newsom was recently collected in the De Capo Best Music Writing 2007.
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Gregg
Kowalsky Acousmatic / Tape music / Psychedelic ! Gregg Kowalsky resides in Oakland, California where he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College. Kowalsky’s compositions range from drone and noise pieces to meditative psychedelia, which are highly influenced by the thick, humid air of South Florida where Gregg lived for most of his life. His recent series of Tape Chants explores the acoustics where the performances occur by setting up cassette players around the space.Gregg moves around the space adjusting the amplitude of the players as a live mix. Kowalsky has had the opportunity to perform throughout Europe and the United States over the past several years. He participated in festivals such as WDR’s SoundArt-Köln Festival, Sonar, OFFF (Online Flash-Film Festival) and The Nursery Summer Festival in Sweden. |
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Cody
Coyote Acoustic /Folk Rock Currently working to finish an album entitle "IN LOCK STEP." Here's what I've named some of the songs. I'm Thinking Of A Jacket Between One And Ten. Wanda And Me. A Wish Called Panda. The Rubberband; A Bracelet For Masochists And The Fashion Savvy. Leave It To Cleavage and The Return Of Mutagen. and there are other songs with other names. the songs up on this profile are demos posted in may of 06. |
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MASS
at Dawn Experimental / Psychedelic / Folk Dylan & Simon, play bongos, drums, bells, drones, gongs, voices, tape echos, sounds, melodies, atmospheres. beyond the prophetic glare of the sunset which rises and falls, we descend on the ashes to the east and west. we are those of the dawn. we are gathered in masses. raise high those banners of might to the skyward souls. we are a guidance through the night. |
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Almaden Acoustic /Shamanism Michael Hilde (aka Almaden)plays very much in the hermit folk style that Kyle Field and Phil Elverum have claimed as their personal sanctuary. Songs are carefully crafted with themes of Life, Meditation and Death. Almaden is a corrosive mixture eating at the conceptions of pop and folk and lighting the bedroom on fire with dissonance.
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Bird
By Snow Indie / Freestyle / Roots Music BIRD By SNOW led by Composer/Arranger Fletcher Tucker craft songs that walk up to the edge of acid folk, but steer towards rock with their various distorted elements, and the solid, melodic backbone most of Durutti Column-esque new age aether in parts, and towards forest-minded deadheads like Still Life. |
"Who
decides The Story but for the Song and the Loom? And Who is there to
weep The Story: alone: the dreamer: in her deep-thick reverie. And who
is there to dream it, beyond the time we are given?"
-Jesus America, Hunter and Gatherer
8:30pm, Tuesday, December 11th
The STORY presents:
Journey to the
MOUNTAIN
featuring:
Visionary Author & Journalist
Guest
speaker, MC
DJ sets by
SorceryBird & Aliza Penelope
The Story is a monthly freak folk happening that falls asleep and wakes up in Oakland, CA, at the historical, dangerous & atmospheric Stork Club.
The Story gets told through the words and sounds of the each nights artists, whatever that story may be...~Reality decides~
Every show is a new chapter, and every artists is telling the next part.
$5.
21 and over with ID please.
