LOTS OF SHOWS AND ACTIVITIES COMIN UP FOR YA EARS .
JULY 13 - EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND - @ PSU (smith center) 9:30
JULY 20 - GULLS & AU - @ VALENTINES 9PM
...If you have never heard Au.... please come to this show you will not be sorry, 3 virtuosic expressive fellas, making lovely scapes scented with dust and pine. sweet harmonies, heavy accordian, clarinet, banjo, and the drumming enlightenment of Marq Kaylor. mmmhmmmm.
ON the P tip ....
The new record has recieved some really nice reviews most recently from dutch based publication/podcast
Vital Weekly. Heres what hey had to say.....
" Jesse Munro Johnson is Gulls, and he is from that beautiful city, Portland, who is said to be a multi-instrumentalist, which, if he played all of this here, is very much true. We hear a trumpet, some bass, drums, xylophone and a stack of electronics. He improvises his music, but not as an end: as a means to create something else. All the work he does, is part of the larger work: the finished composition, the collage of sound that are the eight tracks (although some pieces cover more tracks) on this CD. The drums come largely out of a box, but on top he waves his trumpet, guitar, samples, field recordings and sticks the various pieces of tape together in his highly vivid piece of music. Ranging from hip hop (but louder and dirtier) to musique concrete, from sound collage to ambient glitch, Gulls covers many territories, which do not really bite each other. You could have though it would, but it all makes great sense here. Gulls takes you out on a trip, a headtrip of space music.
Spacious trumpet sounds, static crackles and heavy pounding drums: it all passes easily, and does it in a great way. Big city music with sometimes a country feel."
**They also included "this is clever freedom pt 2" the second track from the record in there weekly podcast of new and experimental sounds from the globe. download it
HERE!
