Niagara Falls in the Studio from honeymoon music on Vimeo.
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I have some hot images back up in the Gallery. Peep work from Ryan Deemer, Lauren Luloff, and Erich Breimhurst.
Happy new year lovers, and sincere wishes for a prosperous 2008 to you all! In lieu of making a “Best of 2007″ list, I’ve been involved in a mass copying and pasting ritual here on the Honeymoon site. Going back through all the old news posts from before we were all up in the web 2.0 business is bringing back some deep, vintage memories. I’m still looking for the news items from June 2004- November 2005, but here are some choice entries from what’s been unearthed so far.
Backyard Honeymoon Compound percussive fire action back on New Year’s Eve 2004. Wow, three years ago. Carrie filmed this with a hand-held still camera, check that vintage quality! Thanks Carrie! Cole’s in there, and so is Tom, Jeff, Nat, Jason. Who else was there?
Deep in the process of some retooling around here. Hopefully adding some features, deleting the lame ones. It’s all happening very much in real time, which means you can expect non-fatal accidents, gaper delays, and errors of all kinds, as a result of my limited css, etc knowledge. The site’s been hibernating a bit, and so have we, but promise to get back in the saddle soon. Oh, I found these Enumclaw vids for yr pretty eyes. Will you enjoy them, please?
Enumclaw from Mark Schoneveld on Vimeo.
Enumclaw Live from Mark Schoneveld on Vimeo.
Mr. Mike Tamburo is throwing a festival, and you’re all invited. Two big days, over twenty performers. I’m really psyched for this one, and for a beautiful drive from Philly to PBurgh, with the air having that perfect amount of late October crispness. Leave it to Mike to curate a festival solely of solo performers, and he’s put together a rad line up. Many cats here that I’ve heard about, but have yet to see live. Thanks Mike!
FANTASTIC VOYAGERS FESTIVAL
October 20 and 21 at
AIR
518 Foreland Ave. (North Side) Pittsburgh, PA
3PM both days. $10 per day or $15 for both days.
Approximately 25-30 minutes for each performance.
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DAY ONE
Saturday, October 20
3PM
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R. Keenan Lawler – Louisville, KY
Nick Schillace – Detroit, MI
Michael Johnsen – Pittsburgh, PA
Enumclaw – Philadelphia, PA
Marichal – Pittsburgh, PA
Dissappearo – Richmond, KY
Layne Garrett – Washington D.C.
Pete Spynda – Pittsburgh, PA
Alexai Plotnicov – Pittsburgh, PA
Anup Kishore Pradhan – Baltimore, MD
David Bernabo – Pittsburgh, PA
Michael Cosentino - Pittsburgh, PA
Josh Beyer – Pittsburgh, PA
Josephy – Pittsburgh, PA
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DAY TWO
Sunday, October 21
3PM
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Mike Tamburo – Pittsburgh, PA
Eric Carbonara – Philadelphia, PA
Ken Camden – Chicago, IL
Tusk Lord – Pittsburgh, PA
Dave Kuzy – Pittsburgh, PA
Matt Mcdowell – Portland, OR
Adam MacGregor – Pittsburgh, PA
Hunted Creatures – Pittsburgh, PA
Noctuelles – Pittsburgh, PA
Jim Lingo – Pittsburgh, PA
Brad Heiple – Pittsburgh, PA
The Instances – Pittsburgh, PA
Ian Bonnet – Pittsburgh, PA
Sweet new review of the Niagara Falls / Clear Spots split from Erica Rucker at Foxy Digitalis…
“Whose idea was it to take ambient music past ambient and into a less Yanni, more “drone” sound? Where can I sign up to thank them? The Niagara Falls split release with The Clear Spots is reason enough to do so. Niagara tends to find its groove pretty early and settle into it. However unlike some artists who find that groove and beat you with it, Niagara never does. The other things going on keep everything fresh and interesting enough. “Play Spiral Isles” is exactly enough and never too much or too little. The air/space in the songs is quite welcome. On “Notochord” the hollow sound of the chimes immediately transports the listener somewhere breezy and tropical, at times tribal. There is also something almost classical in the presentations of their songs. Perhaps the song structure; the way certain elements are used as refrains, or as a sort of foundation a la Canon style.”
Full review HERE
Niagara Falls Live from Mark Schoneveld on Vimeo.
Oh damn! Another new Niagara vid, posted by our man Mark. This one’s from the recent show at Johnny Brenda’s, here in Philly. Peep Erich working the beginning stages of what will be our Voltron-esqe, trash-picked Gamelan, as well as a few of Sam’s new handcrafted fun trick noisemakers. Thanks Mark.
ALSO…
For a few months now, Noah (of Niagara Falls & The Molecules) and Ashley have been hosting one of the most vibed out nights in the city of Kensington. They call their scene The Kaleidoscopic Eye (check the sweet flyer from a previous night by Bob Howsare above), and they throw down every other Tuesday at the previously sleepy LOST BAR OF ATLANTIS on the corner of Frankford and Haggert, in previously blood drenched Kensington, Philly. Tomorrow, July 31st, I’ll be joining them for a night of jams of the Kraut variety, in addition to their rad blend of “the finest selection of 60’s international psych, garage, freakbeat, Italiano beat, and Tropicalia in the city of PHILADELPHIA.” Stop by and say, “Vibe”.
Friday July 20th:
8pm The Compound, 2037 Frankford Ave. Phila, PA
$5 donation, BYOB
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SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE
ANDREW LAMPERT / ALAN LICHT duo
(16mm and video projections + sound)
FURSAXA
MEARA O’REILLY / BROOKE SIETINSONS duo
(“jamalon” installation + projections)
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Saturday July 21st:
11am, Diamond Days Fest @ The Church of the Messiah (129 Russell between Nassau and Drigggs) Brooklyn, NY.
Full line up on the myspace page
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GOLDEN BALL hits at 6:30pm
WOODWOSE at 3pm
other highlights include, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Plastic Crimewave Expanse, and La Otracina
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Sunday July 22nd:
9pm Johnny Brendas, Phila, PA
We’re getting so psyched for the Catalpa Lodge Music Festival. This jam is a Deep Water Acres production, and promises to be a very vibed out event taking place in the ridges and valleys outside of State College in raw Central Pennsylvania. Check out the full line up and more info on making reservations here.
Niagara Falls will be in full effect, and I’ll be debuting solo as Enumclaw.
Deep Water Acres is an online music/life zine run by some very rad dudes. In addition to the zine, DW is also a cdr label that in only a few short years has released some deep searching sounds, including the last record by Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls Plays Spiral Isles, which is available in our Distro Shoppe.
From that DW release, the track, “Acid of Ants” is included in our new Honeymoon Player which you’ll find in the sidebar to your right. I’ve been searching right mp3 player for awhile, and have settled on this one. It does the basics without being too preachy or gaudy. I’ve been thinking of making up band specific players for each of the band pages, instead of having all the tracks together in one player, but I also like being able to scroll through all of the tracks together. What do you guys think, one biggie player, or separate ones?
One may also now browse through the Honeymoon Flickr Page with our new easily clickable Flickr Badge, also conveniently located in the sidebar to the right. The ‘77 VW bus in the pics may or may not be for sale, make me an offer. Yow!