Unmissable Gig - Whelans Tuesday 10th February

RipNorton

Hello Boardies!

I'm coming to the end of a costly tour with my band and some great American musicians. We'll be playing one last show at Whelans, upstairs tomorrow night (Tuesday) and would love to get some more bodies in the door after recent blizzards, and economic crises, seriously depleted our audiences!

The Line up is Matt Taylor & Patrick Ferris, The Unseen Guest, and my band, The Good Time Maritimes. Here's some info about what we do:

Matt Taylor lives now in a quaint little craftsman house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, his hometown. Fresh from the recording of his first EP, a collection breathed alive by Kenneth Pattengale and played vigorous by a few of California's greatest (as yet) unknowns, Taylor is ready once again for some movement. Traveling has been an inspirational constant in his work; at the age of sixteen, he abandoned school for the road, and it was shortly thereafter, the songs began to come. Tempered by the broadness of the American musical lexicon as much as the broadness of the landscape through which Taylor travelled, this first record is a convergence of past and present, signifying a bright future, a new old sound taking root on the narrow peninsula between country and soul. Hold the line, you won't regret it.

Patrick Ferris is a gentleman and a scholar. A scholar or history, to be precise, a fact that informs everything about the man, most especially his music. Somewhere in his formative years, time divided between San Francisco's crowded north beach and the open land of more rural points north, Ferris developed a deep and abiding respect for and, more importantly, a profound understanding of the American musical tradition. His grasp of not only the modes but the motives of American music allows his own work to transcend mere imitation;rather, it accomplishes that most difficult of artistic feats:authenticity. Ferris finds new uses for old sounds and produces music which is at once fresh and familiar with a skill that belies his young age. Newly transplanted to Los Angeles, his truth is marching on. Have a listen.

The Unseen Guest make music that is difficult to pin down. Wedding traditional Indian instruments with Western song-writing and guitar, and covering it with rich vocal harmonies, they apply this basic idea to songs that come from every end of the spectrum - sounding sometimes like a mix of American folk blues and Carnatic music, sometimes like a Parisian taking on Nick Drake, at others like Buena Vista by way of Mumbai. They manage to incorporate Western music with traditional Indian instruments in a way that makes it genuinely new, avoiding patchouli-scented cliché or Bollywood bombast.

The Good Time Maritimes was conceived by a geneticist and a poet in Chaplins Pub sometime before the phantom summer of 2008. Sean O’hEigeartaigh and Lauren Norton have since assembled an impressive crew of musicians to play their sea songs, ranging in style and influence from Joanna Newsom to Tom Waits. David Boylan blows the sax, and the transatlantic impresario Rich Lennon fills the gaps. Come on, get your feet wet, the good times are a-coming.

myspace.com/patrickferris
myspace.com/hislaurels
myspace.com/unseenguest

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