Is this show going elsewhere? Not much of a "North American Tour" if it
only stops in Detroit. ;)
-Ryan
At 03:11 PM 4/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 158 lines via Mike Taylor:
>via Mike Taylor:
>
>
> >Thursday, May 3rd, at the Detroit Contemporary Gallery:
> >
> >Current Presents The Involve Records North American Tour: Detroit
> >
> >Aspen(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA
> >Signer(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA
> >Isol(Involve Records, New Zealand) Live PA
> >Bill Vanloo(Chromedecay, Detroit) Live PA
> >
> >Doors are at 8pm, and admission is $7, this is an all ages show.
> >
> >The Detroit Contemporary Gallery is located at:
> >5141 Rosa Parks Boulevard, Detroit USA
> >
> >For directions and gallery information call, write or visit:
> >(313)898-4ART
> >http://detroitcontemporary.com/
> >info@detroitcontemporary.com
> >
> >The Press Release for this tour is presented below.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Michael Taylor
> >
> >
> >Involve Records (NZ) North American Tour May 2001
> >
> >Who are Involve?
> >
> >Involve records bring the brightest stars of New Zealand electronica,
> >offering a fresh perspective of non-glitch pop beauty and electro-melodics.
> > Involve was set-up in 1998 in harbour capital Wellington by Bevan Smith,
> >who pulled together a bunch of friends and self confused geeks. Involve has
> >quickly established a reputation as a label to watch along side the likes
> >of City Central Offices (Berlin, Manchester), Morr Music and Carpark
> >Records (NYC) Artists on Involve share a love of warmth and intensity in
> >music whether that be a major 7 chord on a 1972 Gibson les Paul or minor
> >stab on a 1999 Waldorf Microwave XT.
> >
> >Label boss Bevan Smith (Aspen and Signer) and mastering technologist
> >Clinton Mitchell Francis (Isol, All the Pretty Things) are interested in
> >the subtleties of the modern sound of electronica and it's fusion with
> >current popular styles, Pop, Indie, Dub and Techno. That's not to say
> >you'll hear explicit copying, but the process or treatments used in these
> >genres.
> >
> >Their live show consists of synced Laptop Hijinx combined with lush vocal
> >treatments and simultaneous feedback mutation of samples and rhythms.
> >Elements of groove, improvisation, soundscapes and manipulation tweaked in
> >real-time.
> >
> >Current Releases
> >
> >The latest Aspen release 'Music from Passing Cars" has been welcomed with
> >loving arms by the electronic music communities both in his resident UK,
> >Europe and the US.
> >
> >Following a successful tour of Europe late last year, with dates in Berlin,
> >Hamburg, Netherlands, Antwerp, and France with Jake Mandell and Maurmari,
> >Aspen is now working in the UK and has appeared at one of London's leading
> >showcases for electronic music (Smallfish.co.uk) and is preparing to play
> >at the UK's most credible festival the Big Chill's Enchanted Garden.
> >
> >
> >What the Press Say????
> >
> >ASPEN: Music From Passing Cars CD (INVOLVE)
> >New Zealand's Involve label (on temporary exile in the UK at the moment)
> >return with yet another eye-opener from label boss Bevan Smith. This is the
> >second LP from Aspen and comes not long after the fantastic 'Sugar and
> >Spice' EP for Emanate. This is downtempo territory - lush multi-layered
> >harmonies with a signature electroid sound. While Involve's blinding
> >'Mandrake' LP went into slightly housey territory, Aspen returns to more
> >electronic listening atmospherics. Surely it must have occured to some of
> >you by now that with a catalogue as varied as the works of Signer, Isol,
> >Mandrake, Aspen and Jet Jaguar, that there is a serious talent on display
> >here...one that requires your attention. RECOMMENDED.
> >
> >Pelicanneck.com, Manchester UK
> >
> >LOVELY SUBTLE AND MINIMAL SOUNDS FROM ASPEN (AKA BEVAN SMITH). LUSH
> >MELODIES, WARM BEATS, AND AN OVERAL DEPTH - SHINE THROUGH. THIS IS QUITE
> >BEAUTIFUL. (IT'S A CRYING SHAME THAT THE PASSING CARS ON OLD STREET DON'T
> >HAVE SOUNDS LIKE THESE EMINATING FROM THEM!)
> >
> >Smallfish.co.uk, London
> >
> >
> >
> >Aspen 'Music from passing cars' 2001
> >
> >Both regular and uncertain, the rhythms that caught aspen's ears during
> >those long drives from Wellington to Titahi Bay (Porirua) and beyond (New
> >Plymouth, Taranaki). During this time aspen composed himself a soundtrack
> >to drive by. 'Music from passing cars' isn't an exact representation of
> >this, but it evokes the same feelings of escapism/release. Phrases and
> >melodies are overrun and
> >cycled endlessly as trees, pastures, and curves pass by. Rhythms and space
> >don't quite match up. Sometimes a phrase lasts for too long, other times
> >things pass before they might be noticed. There's a live feel throughout
> >and evidence that aspen can't really play, but then you who can when you're
> >stuck in that place between home and destination and home.
> >
> >NZ Pavement Magazine
> >
> >"Harmonies that make your heartflaps flap in a jolly rythm, a guitar here
> >and there, aspen's electronic drumkit, lots of funny turned backwards
> >sounds, and great piano bits. Music from passing cars is a fantastically
> >layered and laid-back piece of music. Everybody needs it."
> >
> >Thaddi Hermman. De:Bug Magazine (translated from German)
> >
> >"Music from passing cars' continues an ongoing fascination of the
> >relationships between landscape, memory, maps and journeys. A musical
> >expression that goes way back to earliest compositions. Proof, as if any
> >were needed, that while the tools may have changed we still look to music
> >to make sense of the world around us."
> >
> >Andy Greenman. Skinny, Xlr8R, On Magazine
> >
> >All the pretty Things Involve05
> >
> >All the pretty things 2000
> >
> >"What has emerged is a truly deep, intricate and moving body of music which
> >rewards with patience. Comparisons can be made from the ambience of Thomas
> >Heckmann, Jocham Papp to the modal stirrings of Seefeel and shoegaze bands
> >such as Slowdive. This is another monumental release on NZ's most important
> >electronic label."
> >
> >Grant Smithies. NZ Sunday Star Times.
> >
> >"Never judge a book, or CD, by its cover, unless it looks like this. The
> >Pretty Things cover hints at that liminal zone somewhere between
> >techno-graphics and organic structures. Its an apt representation of the
> >sounds which New Zealand's Clinton Francis crafts. Pretty things is part
> >informed by processed silicon overkill and perfect production values
> >(Francis is studying for an MA in production) and partly comprised of deep,
> >textural forms one can only find in nature. Francis creates a unique
> >beauty built using the tools that generate the promise of a technological
> >future, but ultimately conjures up sometimes only too human feelings and
> >thoughts. Are we evolving or involving?"
> >
> >Andy Greenman. Skinny, Xlr8R, On Magazine.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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