lookit that came outta nowhere

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

REVIEWS OF "RED STATE"

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here are a few excerpted reviews of "Red State". A lot more can be found on our website. Gowns' music dares to venture into alien haunts, the eerie intersections between past and present, the strange spaces where AOR rock meets the avant-garde, places where the trio finds quiet beauty and moments of bristling cacophony. - kimberly chun for the sf bay guardian Holy fucking fuck. [Gowns are] the best thing I've seen this whole festival, and I need to see them again as soon as possible. In the three years I've covered CMJ, I'd never experienced a moment remotely like that one. - Tom Breihan for the Village Voice this band is a myth in the making. - kicking_k for plan b Gowns strikes a fiercely unstable balance between the simplicity of '60s folk, the risk-taking experimentalism of early American no-wave and the no-mincing-of-words directness of '90s grunge on its latest album, Red State. - bill picture for the san francisco chronicle In an era where indie's fetishes have been for composure, discretion, muscle, and nice shoes, Gowns' agenda- to make a porno about confusion- is radical. Mike Powell for Pitchfork Media This unsettling California group specializes in half-hidden songs. On "Red State," an intense but surprisingly pretty album released earlier this year, you can hear refracted echoes of punk rants and indie-rock ballads, surrounded by crashes and whispers and electronic gurgles. Kelefa Sanneh for the New York Times Gown's debut remains original... It is accomplished in creating disquieting atmosphere through dislocated frequencies, the squalor of fuzzy mics and faltering drones switched with short interludes of haunting acoustics. - Jennifer Allan for the Wire Recorded in both Los Angeles and Anderson’s native South Dakota, Red State‘s rustic, yet eerie appeal makes perfect sense. While “Cherylee” and “Fake July” evoke an agrestic touch of backwoods living with their prickly chords, mollifying string work and looped chamber static, the threesome tweak the song structures into an emotional and raw-sounding betterment of basement noise. - chris sabbath for performer magazine It's not quite freak. Nor is it ambient, noise, or drone. Imprecise tags like "art rock" or "experimental" are an injustice. It's hard to state where "White Like Heaven" comes from, and it is precisely that inability to peg it down, that makes it so compelling. Yet, I never stopped playing 'Red State' one through ten...Slowly, I came to the realization, not only was "White Like Heaven" an elusive work of genius, so was the entirety of Red State. Bill for I Rock Cleveland a disc that feels distinctly American, a fractured folk, its tendrils wet with the violated entrails of numerous other genres, music heavy with memory and hallucination... - adam strohm for dusted Gowns comes from the Bay Area experimental scene with a debut that co-opts the very best of noise and folky psychedelia for a very modern-sounding pop...like Sonic Youth with better lyrics (both Anderson and band-mate Ezra Buchla are fantastic writers) and a smart aesthetic editor. Best thing about Red State is that no matter how out there the get, Gowns keep it free of deadweight and artsy BS; there's an incredible sensibility about their music that shows they know when to quit and when to back off the electro-dissonance and get catchy again. This is some shockingly new-feeling music. Outstanding. ??? for Risen magazine Gowns are from the East Bay and their new record makes me feel good about things—that experimental music can be wildly new, smart, and catchy at the same time, and that records from people I don’t know can still make my blood pump like it should... - adam gnade for asthmatic kitty A mess up and twisted, original dusty jewel of a record, which managed to be memorable, psychedelic and darkly charming. A ramshackle master piece that is bound to sit somewhere or another in all it's hunched glory on my end of year list. - Roger Batty for Musique Machine It’s not a low fidelity album, but there’s something about its intimacy and bedroom sonic wanderings that puts it at home with early ‘90s lo-fi underground recordings...the band shows an admirable willingness to explore and not always play it safe. - -Ernest Paik for the Chatanooga Pulse Exactly what type of band Gowns are is difficult to conclude...they've erected a domain where they concurrently inhabits regions of noise, rock, drone, folk and free music without tipping into any camp too deeply. A large role is also played by electronics, giving the lo-fi production a feel closer to a computer crashing than a cassette tape breaking. Gowns are the sound of the eternal discord. - sean rabin for foxy digitalis Crazed-but-confident narrator Erika Anderson has an epiphany that takes her from kitchen table to a suburban road trip to a meditation on desire, the cracked secrets of the universe revealing themselves in between. - KRISTAL HAWKINS for paper thin walls

SDH LIVE REVIEW

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="SDH at Cafe Du Nord "][/caption] Ok man I gotta admit I had a pretty great time opening up for Throbbing Gristle. Damn I could get used to those big stages. And that big sound!!! Special thanks to Mick and Alo for helping out with that. Here is a pic from our Cafe Du Nord show with Jamie Stewart. It was taken from DO THE FEEDBACK, which also posted a nice review of the set. In fact, I'm going to excerpt here:

When we got up toward the stage and saw three non-Xiu Xiuers setting up gear, I’m not going to lie to you; I was bummed. When the singer got up to the microphone, said their name was Some Dark Holler and that their set was going to depict the birth and death of rock and roll I’m pretty sure I rolled my eyes so hard that I gave myself a hernia. And you know what’s fucked up? They kinda did it. Starting out as a slow, bluesy dirge and then erupting into one of the most vicious maelstroms I have ever witnessed, the three members really did conjure up a spot on middle finger to some of rock music’s more bullshit laden conventions. Never have I been so anti a group and then immediately turned around by their music. I don’t care if they play one long continuous 30 minutes song, I would watch that shit for 30 hours. And then I’d probably die. But whatevs. I was doubly lucky in that I accidentally got to see them play "Kind Hearted Woman" again when they opened for Throbbing Gristle a couple nights later (though simply under the name Erika Anderson). The Regency Center, with its cavernous sound, and harsh lights suited their deconstructionist, feedback overloaded sound and I can’t imagine anyone in the sold out crowd was disappointed. I certainly wasn’t.

BAD AT BRANDING

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id="attachment_316" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="gowns' YOU CAN'T WIN t-shirt"][/caption] When Ezra first saw the 8 Belles T-shirt, he chuckled. "It's awesome! It's so like, post-band shirt". I hadn't really thought of it like that but I suppose it's true. I mean, most band T-shirts are supposed to at least say the name of the band somewhere on the shirt. Oh, and speaking of, just what is the name of the new band anyway? Erika M. Anderson? Some Dark Holler? Erika M. Anderson and the Some Dark Holler? Hmm... Mounting evidence points to the fact that I am BAD AT BRANDING.

PLAYING WITH IAN AND CALVIN TOMORROW

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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CONTACT: myrobobedroom (at) gmail.com thegowns (at) gmail.com

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Did you tip your last bartender? The last waitress that served you food? What about the last musician or artist you downloaded music from? I'm just sayin...

FAME KILLS

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So I had been wanting to do a post for a while now called FAME IS THE GREAT DESTROYER. But I think after the MJ dead at 50 thing today I think FAME KILLS is also appropriate. I don't get it. People go on reality TV and do humiliating things just for "fame" and "exposure". People act like fame is a currency, that artists and musicians should not only give their stuff away for free, but also just be happy and grateful that someone even bothered to look or listen. And we are! But I think it's kind of weird.

kind heart notes

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Although there are 6 different racks and interpretations on the upcoming record, "Kind Heart" is in many ways it's thesis, (and, consequently, it's "heart"). While the project seeks to contextualize pedal noise and mixer drone as a new facet of American folk music

One of the most challenging things I attempted to do on this record was make a 16 minute version of the Robert Johnson song "Kind Hearted Woman". (The original clocks in at about 2:30.) I wanted a lot of textures and dynamic changes, but I've never really learned to read or write music, and so after playing around with the form for a while I decided to make a map. I scrawled it all out on notebook paper, using different shapes to represent what the different guitars were doing. I like to think of it as a music equivalent to the hobo code, although some would refer to it as a graphic score.

This page shows the first 2 verses of the song. The bottom row of dark squares represents the slow, steady strum of the main rhythm guitar. This guitar part goes throughout most of the whole song, and I thought of it like a backbone, so that's why it looks like vertebrae. The blocks get taller as the guitar gets louder. The little outlined circles represent harmonic "hits", where I used my fingernail to strike way up on the fretboard to make a percussive harmonic texture. They kind of float above the backbone and get denser as the song progresses.

The song then shrinks back down into a taut strum on the low E string. The little air squiggles represent the waves of harmonic overtones coming off the backbone and floating out into the ether.

Ah and here's a good one, where the "RIFF" comes in. As you can see, the drawing gets real big again cuz this is the part where it gets LOUD. I used staircases because it's a descending riff. So it's moving down in pitch but staying big in volume. Can you see it?

At some point the whole thing dissolves into a good five minutes of tonal feedback. But it looks like I either didn't know how to draw that or maybe I just didn't want to use another sheet of paper. So at the end here we get the "low feedback back bone" and lots more squiggly lines that represent the ghosty harmonic atmosphere of high-pitched feedback that rolls through the rest of the song. The very last thing on the map says "dissolve into all feedback, pulse comes back in". I think if I was going to draw that part now I would maybe make a bunch of swirls and waves and curliecues to show the layers of feedback fog, all "Starry Night" style. Any other suggestions? Send me a pic and I'll post it.

So I have actually been working on this piece for a long time. Here is a demo I made of it in about 2005. I had never played it before I decided to record it. I won't even speculate on my state of sobriety, I will just warn you that the recording is RAW!!!

[audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/kinddemo.mp3]

When I first started performing it I did it solo. Here is a video of a show I did at the Fort in San Francisco in 2007? The piece is really dependent on feedback and interaction with the amp, and how the amp interacts with the room to create feedback. This room was about 40'x40' with beautiful hardwood floors, so it sounded totally bitchin'. I was also using a pedal made out of a modded '80s cassette player, which added to the long sustain.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSJb0rsCTUU]

When I got asked to open for Throbbing Gristle, I knew I wanted to do this piece and I knew I didn't want to do it alone. So I brought in my little sister, who had never played drums in a band before and never sang in a band before. I realize that this was a bit audacious. Some would say foolish but I really had faith in her. A few days after the show was announced Aaron Davis (who plays beautiful complex drone as ACRE) called me up and jokingly asked if he could play with me and I immediately said yes. I love playing with Aaron. He played bass in GOWNS on one of our US tours and I trust his taste and talent completely.

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

SOME DARK HOLLER is a conceptual pretty/noise project from Erika Anderson of the band GOWNS. It is a reconstruction of American folk music, informed by the underground's vital focus on feedback and drone, but infused with distinct compositional choices and unabashed vocal harmonies. This project seeks to explore/explode genre and technology, and come to terms with the fact that the modern folk song is probably being made on a computer.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Read about "Kind Heart", (including hobo map.)"] Listen to the track TROUBLE IN MIND: [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/trouble.mp3]

SDH has been performing on the West Coast for several years, including shows with Anni Rossi, C. Spencer Yeh, !6 Bitch Pile Up and legendary noisemakers Throbbing Gristle. Read a live show review here.

SOME DARK HOLLER OPENING FOR THROBBING GRISTLE:[vimeo http://vimeo.com/4502437]with my lil sis Nicole Anderson and Aaron Davis (ACRE).

[/caption] RECORDING GUITAR FOR "KIND HEART": [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtXpWcQz9JM] influences: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="248" caption="roscoe holcomb photo by john cohen (?)"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="202" caption="moe tucker"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="robert johnson"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_157" align="aligncenter" width="184" caption="george thorogood"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_159" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="diamanda galas"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="344" caption="steve reich"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_162" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="eight belles"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="meredith monk"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="575" caption="acre"] [/caption]

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

: kind heart road map (click to view BIG in another window)

[caption id="attachment_633" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="kind heart hobo code page 1"][/caption]

: kind heart hobo code page 2 (click to enlarge)

The song then shrinks back down into a taut strum on the low E string. The little air squiggles represent the waves of harmonic overtones coming off the backbone and floating out into the ether.

: kind heart page 3 (click it!)

: kind heart page 4 dissolve (click = BIG)

[audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/kinddemo.mp3]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSJb0rsCTUU]

TOUR PART 1: CANADIA

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id="attachment_751" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="me playin cool in toronto with my official tour T-shirt"][/caption] Ok here is the much belated GOWNS 09 tour diary. I kept meaning to do it, but I got home and went straight to work and I'm actually one of those people who doesn't think the world reads their blog, until recently I ran into someone and they were like, 'hey you haven't blogged in like a month, what's up with that?' Whoa! So here I am. I'll start out in Canada, which I have to say is totally fucking cool. I mean, I knew, right? But I didn't like, know. Our whole little adventure was spurred by Matt/Chuck of the beautifully beautiful Toronto band Creeping Nobodies. We played together a while back in Boston and he had kept in touch over the years trying to see if we could ever come out and play as part of this series he was throwing called Extermination Night. The shows were essentially underground-rave style, where they would take over an abandoned or condemned building somewhere in Toronto and throw a crazy art party there with photography and installations and bands playing amidst the rubble and ruins. I had to admit it sounded like a perfect fit for us! But it was always kind of like, yeah, looks totally fucking amazing but I just don't know if we'll happen to be in Toronto on July 2nd, or whatever. But this summer, after years of playing cat and mouse with the Toronto Police (Toto Popo?), he decided to go all official style and actually got a small arts grant from the Canadian Government. How fucking rad is that? Makes you wonder if someone like John Benson could get a grant to do the bus in Oakland. So we were finally able to make it out there and they set up a show on the grounds of this haunted Inn outside of town on the cliffs of Lake Ontario, total "Shining"-style. Soft grass, lake air and a long Canadian night that just kind of slowly faded into darkness. Complete magic. [caption id="attachment_749" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="the stage at the (canadian) parthenon"][/caption]

Besides the MidSummernight's Dream vibe, all the bands we played with that night were totally great. Carl Didur started with a cliffside set using tape loops and other assorted analog technologies. It was warm and dense and fit in well in the foliage.

Secondly, when we first showed up I was like, who is this cute dude dressed like Robin Hood? Turns out it was WYRD VISIONS, who played second and was, wow, so cool. A point of reference would maybe be Burt Jancsh, but he had such a unique vibe, playing double-necked guitar in all these mideval modes, and using a loopstation in a really tasteful way. Precise to the point that I would maybe even let him shoot an apple off my head. Totally worth checking out.

Got some video of the next band, HUCKLEBERRY FRIENDS, one of those awesome bands with three 17-yr-old girls where everyone switches instruments and sings all together. [wpvideo KPWCoz9p] Final Fantasy finished the night and unfortunately had to be cut off to fit in with a time constraint. (And that was actually NOT OUR FAULT, as the show started late. I asked Matthew if we should play shorter and he said no but we did anyway, we cut a song. I did tell a lot of jokes though. Maybe like half a song's worth of jokes. Sometimes if I'm nervous and can't tell how it sounds I tell jokes. And we were basically playing the f-ing Parthenon! So I kind of hammed it up)) [caption id="attachment_750" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The view of Lake Ontario"][/caption] After the whiskey morning in Toronto, we took the train to Montreal and everything was super lovely; the show was in a beautiful hardwood loft space run by gorgeous young things that had just graduated from Canadian art school and they were accommodating and gentle and funny. Sunset soundcheck, dinner with friends, everything was ideal but for somereason as we were watching the first band I felt a wave of darkness come over me, and I knew it would be hard to pull out of it by showtime. I sat alone in the darkness and tried to get drunk. I know I'm not the first musician in this predicament: staring at the bald horror of having to go up and play a show in front of people when you just don't want to, and you just don't think you can. For me it's less Cat Power and more Sex Pistols; more Cobain; more Townsend. The need to please is gone and I wanna spit and thrash and I would love to break the guitar if I could afford to replace it. It's a super frustrating place to be in as a performer, because you want to be able to give nice things to the audience: excitement, hope, sex,commiseration, release or even a sweet wistfulness. But in this case there is nothing to tap into but the frustration, it's the only real thing that's there. It's hard to trick yourself into smiling and faking through a song when the urge is to turn the show into a ritual of destruction. It scared me a little. I didn't break the guitar but I did break some strings and had to borrow a telecaster to finish the set. I pulled it all out on "Heaven" because that song is free enough to be a vessel for anything, and I could pour out all the frustration and sadness into it. And it was loud and loose and long, and then I sat alone on the back of the stage for a while after the set. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CMzcfBL2U] (So now a month has gone by and I was just looking up guitar smashes on youtube and they look really, really fun. I think everything might have been ok if I was just rich enough to be able to break a guitar when I needed to. I mean, look at this awesome Nirvana video where they smash everything, Doesn't that look so fun? Of course, we all know where that ended up so perhaps not. That was the other thing about that tour, I kept being haunted by the phrase "100% fun", which is of course a ridiculous idea but is probably something that will be ingrained in the minds of my generation forever. And that's a hard moral to make sense of, growing up in the shadow of that. (Did I ever tell you that a week before Michael Jackson died I made a Tshirt that said FAME KILLS?)) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HO2bhaHHcM] The next day we went to play at KCUT, and the ____ program manager there, a wonderful woman named Laurie looked me in the eyes and said, "I remember when you played here 4 years ago. I had never heard of you before but I have never forgotten it and I've been waiting 4 years for you to come back". And that's when I got kind of a bad little feeling in my stomach that I later identified as shame. There were 3 younger women there as well who were helping to engineer, and I felt as though by giving in to the sadness and defeat the night before that I had let them all down. I guess I had been feeling like it didn't really matter if I toured, how I played, what I produced. GOWNS have never worked with a PR firm or a manager or a booking agency, and I often feel like what we are doing just gets lost in the roar of the one billion bands in the world that are fighting to be heard. Which is of course true! It's true for most people. And if I didn't make the music that was going on in my head, it wasn't going to get made.

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HO2bhaHHcM]

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here are a couple of stills from a video we are making for "Marked". Shot by Severiano Martinez. You can find these in print along with a feature in the East Bay Express: GOWNS UNVEILED

GOWNS ON INDEFINITE HAITUS

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For about 5 years, GOWNS has been an often tumultuous, often beautiful roller coast ride of It was hard to know where to place your bets I'm not into being Sid and Nancy, Kurt and Courtney. This shit's like knife throwing. And I'm mostly dodging. So here is the last GOWNS track. I think it's in some ways one of the best things we've done. 17-minute epic form, viola drones, feedback, singing and light. Like only we could do. I'm sorry we couldn't keep it together. But this way ensures at least that we'll each be around to make something else.

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

DON'T YOU KNOW THAT FAME IS THE GREAT DESTROYER?

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Man, this is sad and scary. If you haven't seen this you should, a SWAT team entering a house in Missouri, shooting 2 dogs and terrifying a family, all over a "small amount of marijuana". _

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

SOME DARK HOLLER the first solo record from EMA of the band GOWNS. It is a reconstruction of American folk music, informed by the underground's vital focus on feedback and drone, but infused with distinct compositional choices and unabashed vocal harmonies. This project seeks to explore/explode genre and technology, and come to terms with the fact that the modern folk song is probably being made on a computer.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="click to read about the KIND HEART "HOBO" SCORE"]

TROUBLE IN MIND [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ema_trouble-in-mind.mp3]pretty, minimalist, quietly explodes KIND HEART [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ema_kindheart.mp3]17-minute feedback-blown version of the Robert Johnson classic MOONSHINER [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ema_moonshiner.mp3]super drone big muff banjos turns into feedback angel vocal loop ZIP FILE

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtXpWcQz9JM] _

Material from SOME DARK HOLLER has been performed on the West Coast for several years, including shows with Anni Rossi, C. Spencer Yeh, !6 Bitch Pile Up and legendary noisemakers Throbbing Gristle. Read a live show review here.

Erika M. Anderson has sung and strummed in influential West Coast pretty-noise bands GOWNS and Amps for Christ. She is a South Dakota native and a direct descendant of Erik Blood-Axe, the ruthless Viking Warrior. Read an interview with Jessica Hopper here.

KIND HEART GRAPHIC SCORE

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In her 17-minute version of the blues classic "Kind Heart", ex-Gowns frontwoman EMA (aka Erika M. Anderson) claims to channel the entire history of rock and roll, from "birth to destruction". It's a pretty bold statement. "Grey Ship", the first track off her upcoming solo record, prompted similarly brazen commentary on "sonic signifiers" and using fidelity as an instrument. Is she total bullshit? While everybody knows one or two certifiable geniuses and even more certifiable crackpots, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. However, there is some strong evidence to support her ideas as being possibly quite grand instead of simply grandiose. For example, there is her cred-worthy musical history. A South Dakota native, EMA says she moved to LA when she was 18 allegedly because she really liked "Welcome To The Jungle". Once there she started off playing a mean guitar in legendary folk/noise outfit Amps For Christ and putting in a lot of time at The Smell. In 2005 she formed the genre-defying cult duo (trio?) Gowns with Ezra Buchla. Gowns' 2007 album Red State was an electronic folk and feedback through-composed masterpiece that left critics both raving and bewildered. Foxy Digitalis compared them to Godspeed! You Black Emperor while Pitchfork compared them to the Mountain Goats. One could make the case that both were right. There was also Gowns' explosive live shows, often revolving around EMA's spellbinding vocal delivery and stage presence. After seeing them at a New York showcase, the Village Voice was left to succinctly declare: "Holy fucking fuck!" [caption id="attachment_134" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Screenshot of EMA in "Live At The Smell""][/caption] Despite a complete lack of any formal music or audio training, Anderson has managed to write, produce and mix her own records. The result is both neurotically assembled and essentially raw, the product of obsession by somebody who never learned the "right" way to do things. Not being able to technically write music but looking for a way to represent the Glenn Branca-esque "Kind Heart", she drew out what she called a "Hobo Code", which looks a lot like the name sounds: a graphic score created by an outsider artist living under a bridge. Her work on redefining classic American music led to a currently underway collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. [caption id="attachment_135" align="aligncenter" width="520" caption="Kind Heart "Hobo Code""][/caption] "Grey Ship" is another semi-long piece (7 minutes) that pop logic dictates should be divided into two parts, one sunny and strummy and the other low lit and dramatic. But as EMA explains, "I wanted to make a song that changed fidelity in the middle of the song, from lo-fi to hi-fi. I imagined it being like when Dorothy opens the door to Oz and the whole world turns from black and white to technicolor." (WARNING: if you are listening to this on laptop speakers, you are not going to hear the bass drop!) She also clarifies that the song is not about alien abduction, but actually about the Viking funeral ships of her ancestors, and that the change in fidelity also serves as a "sonic signifier" for transferring from the earthly plane to one beyond. In the end, it's her voice that makes any debate about the credibility of her musical musings pretty much irrelevant. Evoking the whisper-to-yell dynamics of early Cat Power but without the oft-copied melancholy, it is a voice that completely compels the listener. Her songs are filled with harmonies and hooks that exist right in those sweet spots between melody and dissonance. It is a knowing voice, the sound of a drunken laugh while crying. While these first few songs display a penchant for epic rock structures, EMA drops hints that her upcoming release is much more diverse, including a "4track bedroom grunge demo, a blown-out trashy dance number, a badly damaged 60s girl group ode", and even her take on a hip hop piano ballad. It's tentatively titled Past Life Martyred Saints and drops sometime in early 2011 on Souterrain Transmissions. FMI check out her blog: www.cameouttanowhere.com Oh yeah, did we mention she's a badass and insane guitar player? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/wtXpWcQz9JM]

EMA

emanderson1902 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:48:01 +0000

[caption id="attachment_960" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="photo be Severiano Martinez"][/caption] Erika M. Anderson grew up in the dive bars and rotten graveyards of South Dakota. She is a direct descendent of Erik Blood-Axe, the ruthless Viking warrior. All the boys ask her why she is so tough. She is 6 feet tall. She loves the jukebox. _ CONTACT: erikam.anderson AT gmail DOT com

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grandpa and grandma with the indians

emanderson1902 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:05:33 +0000

here is an old picture of my grandma and grandpa with some "injuns". this was in the early 50s i imagine. seemed like a good inaugural image for the Some Dark Holler.

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emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:53:40 +0000

recording a guitar track for "kind hearted woman" in my house in west oakland. my roommates were not home... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtXpWcQz9JM]

eight belles

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:03:19 +0000

scrappyeightbelles1

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:07:41 +0000

emagiftsmall

emanderson1902 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:02:03 +0000

GOWNS '07

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motel 2005

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erika guitar

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walkie talkie

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guitarphoenix2007

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ema with a walkie talkie

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dangers cover

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teeth

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backstage @ branca

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ema @ glenn branca's 100 guitars in LA

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bedroom guitar

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kitchen with beer

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AFC guitar

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mountain hair

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machine improv

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paper (live) 2005

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from a very early (4th?) gowns show.

white like heaven (live) 2005

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from a very early (4th?) gowns show.

shaved women (CRASS cover) 2005

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from a very early (4th?) gowns show.

Rope, Stained Glass

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Cherylee

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couch

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RED STATE cover

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GOWNS

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[caption id="attachment_45" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="ezra and erika 2007, photo by c bozulich"][/caption] GOWNS began in 2005 as a very scrappy 2-piece consisting of Erika Anderson and Ezra Buchla on a furry blue rug in Southern California. It involved mandolins and max patches, contact mics on speaker cabinets, walkie talkies and bullhorns. The early sound could almost have been considered part of the "freak folk" movement that was popular at the time if not for the squeals of guitar feedback and one-of-a-kind electronic signal processing. As Ezra later wrote,

"it was an attempt to synthesize several of our musical interests: the formal minimalism and elasticity of folk music, the abrasion of crass-era anarchist punk, the directness and lyricism of grunge rock and the alienating, arguably anti-human time bending techniques of modern digital signal processing. we wanted to write songs you could be fooled into thinking you'd heard before. we wanted to tell the bleakest and most affecting memories and fantasies of our childhood and adolescence, like our favorite grunge bands seemed to be doing when we heard them on the radio in high school. we wanted the computers to take our mandolins and guitars and simple, desperate stories and subject them to another kind of intelligent process, a process appropriate to this time and place: los angeles, CA, early 2000's? but not really, because i decided early on to use no samples or sequences, only the humans breathing directly into the shine and dust of the fuckup machine."

[caption id="attachment_56" align="alignright" width="278" caption="'dangers of intimacy' EP original 3" cover"][/caption] The recording process for the first EP set the precedent for our work habits. Most of the songs came from completely improvised material. Some of them were left almost totally "as is" (feathers, apple, you are on the phone), and some were painstakingly edited, such as the instrumental "crossed out" track. Released by freaky Riverside whiz kid Wolfie Whitman on his Folktale label. Here are some audio files from a very early GOWNS' show in 2005: shaved women (CRASS cover) 2005 [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/12-shaved-live.mp3] paper (live) 2005 [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/09-paper-live.mp3] white like heaven (live) 2005 [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/heaven-live.mp3] That summer, GOWNS went on a big family tour with Amps for Christ and Carla Bozulich, with both of us often playing all 3 sets a night. Some photos from that will be posted soon. After crossing the country we landed at my childhood home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where we began to record what would eventually become Red State. [caption id="attachment_105" align="aligncenter" width="260" caption="Gowns' RED STATE, art by Kyle Parker"][/caption]

Red State is a political record.

A lot of people hear it and think it's just a drug record. But the record is not about drugs, it's about desperation. This record was made in the middle of the Bush Administration's reign, when the whole country, maybe the whole world, was just rolling over and giving up. We were defeated. The people in charge didn't give a shit about our protests, the economy was dying, our rights were eroding. They were slowly grinding the soul and hope out of the nation and I felt that the middle of nowhere states, the Red States, were getting hit hardest of all. Red State is a protest record. From an interview originally posted on Paper Thin Walls:

"when we got [to South Dakota] they had a bunch of old newsweek magazines lying around and one of them had a big cover story on meth, and how popular it was and it had all these fucked up stories and pictures of people who had lit themselves on fire and melted their faces and teeth, and statistics talking about how whole towns in the midwest were on it. this was during the same time that south dakota was trying to become the first state to totally ban all forms of abortion with no provisions for rape or incest or a woman's health. i had just come off a tour of the east coast and before that had been living in los angeles, amidst these kind of liberal enclaves where everyone was an artist and no one had kids. but that's not really where i was from, so going back home and then seeing all these mainstream "news" magazines about anorexia and drug abuse and teenage pregnancy, i knew i wanted to make a record about that, because that is what so many people's real experience is like. lots of media and art comes from new york and LA and other big cities, but lots of people live in the middle of nowhere. i'm from the middle of nowhere! and i wanted to make something that reflected that experience. "

(For more about the making of the record, the whole interview can be found here.) The record was released in 2007 by Cardboard Records. It got generally pretty enthusiastic and sometimes confusing reviews, some of which you can read here. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="533" caption="corey fogel"][/caption] We had our friend Corey Fogel record some drums on the record for the songs "White Like Heaven" and "Mercy Springs". We liked it so much we asked him to play with us. Here is a video of us playing at a house show in Olympia during our first tour together in 2006: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgTSkMjn6Ok] The 3piece lineup increased our musical vocabulary but maintained the chaos and fragility of a typical GOWNS performance. This is something that used to bother me a lot, playing a show and not being sure if we would make it through a song or not, if the technology we relied upon would backfire and meltdown, or if one of us would get mad and throw a kick drum pedal out the window. As a performer, it was nerve-racking. It was a long time before I realized that for an audience member, it could be exhilarating. Songs were improvised, noise pieces were plotted on paper but never fully practiced, and the electronics were constantly changing and always temperamental. No one (including us performers) could ever be sure that the set wasn't going to collapse in an explosion of feedback and poor communication. But when we did pull it off, it always felt like a great triumph. Here is a version of "White Like Heaven" from that time period in April 2007, after our first US tour: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VKhd35Zwrs]

lyrics

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fargo i can see that blue room in fargo north dakota with an american flag draped over a basement window it's a soldier's room, got sent away we stayed up for days in the summer... on merazine and ephredine and benadryl dramamine and ketamine and nyquil dextromethorphan hydrobromide and the light shining in through the window was golden and the days stretched out as far as the horizon and you could see the dust float like sparkles in the air rope i've seen the sound of angles i've heard the sound their wings he said that i was judgement you know i'm everything i've heard the sound of trumpets you know the sight their wings he said that we are judgement you know we're everything i've seen that light i've seen that light above me baby and the rope i've seen that hole above me baby and the rope i've heard 'em calling calling i've heard it 6 below i've heard em calling calling calling calling calling calling calling i've seen the light above me baby and the rope i've that hole above me baby and the rope (we are the rope) i know the side of angels the terror in their wings the slow drown of a life worth living the bite of wedding rings the weight of a beautiful home you're looking down that long hallway it's white. you can see it, but what does it say? fake july (e. buchla) when we die a never-ending summer a merciless july when our savior slides down the mountainside bringing down our houses if you remain firmly believing in every single word they will take you with them you can smell that desperation like a huge sick bird the promise of salvation hovering overhead when we die they fuck you so completely, fake july circle round never quite touching down cast your first vicious stones at the sky fake july a short man hair thinning shot glass clutched forgotten his left hand leaning against the door young lady discovers a hole in her coat pocket suspects a thief says something to the wrong person you were not born into salvation more than any of us white like heaven was it white like heaven or dark like space? was it bright like god or ace black spades? i was sitting i was sitting at the table and suddenly i could see it and it was just like the movie and i couldn't move cuz i could see the cracks in everything in every little thing and it was like the time that we were in your car i was sick i was on drugs you were smoking pot and we were driving we were driving we were driving and suddenly i could see it i could see it i could feel it and... i saw the world break open i could see all of it i could see for thousands of miles in every direction every direction looking up looking out and i saw thirty seconds turn into 10,000 years and it was horrible i saw the man outside walking his dog mowing his lawn and the kids out in the yard and i knew right then that she was gonna have another baby let it grow up in front of the tv eat maccaroni and cheese and the dog will bark in the yard on a chain and the kid will huff gasoline and rape a girl while she's passed out on the sofa years and years and years later and i know that i could never stop it even if i tried even if i wanted to even if i wanted to and i really, really, really wanted to. and is it white like heaven or dark like space is it bright like god or ace black spades when it burned (e. buchla) when it burned my throat it did not kill me as i'd hoped and when the fever broke it was as violent as i'd hoped subside (e. buchla) my sleep had fled, the shivers would not subside i could not speak to you directly inside a suffering spacesuit some pressing issues remain which hand or whose intention has been moving here tonight i must have missed it there's nothing innocent clawless you were clawless, fangless you were the only thing a gambler needs you were flawless entertainment you were the apple falling from the leaves when every body gathered round him you were the only one left to believe you were clawless and fangless advice (cheryl henke) i think that people like her, me, you--if we don't have something that gives us some joy, that gives us some creativity, that gives us some outlet, you will become an addict. and it isn't the dumb people that it happens to. yeah, there's a lotta fuckin' losers out there, who smoke pot every day and they're yo-yo. but there's some brilliant minds out there that have been destroyed and mine was one of them. i mean i'm still here, but oh! what i could have done erika! i pictured myself standing up on a podium talking to thousands of people, and being inspired to say the right things, that they would hear me. cherylee she is crying at the kitchen table saying i can't stand to think about the way i let those men touch me i can't stand to think about the way they touched me i can't even see their faces anymore but i can't stop thinking about the way they had seen me oh can't stop thinking that i should've been waiting for you the whole time if i'd known you were coming into my life i would have been waiting for you the whole time you gotta look it in the eyes and say that i don't believe you gotta hold it underwater so you'll see where it bleeds you gotta stare into the mirror until you name this disease you gotta know you gotta write down all your symptoms even though it's obscene you gotta stay there under water till you get yourself clean you've gotta keep on going till you feel finally free you gotta look it in the eyes and say that i don't believe you gotta look up at the water till you can't hardly see you gotta keep on walking you'll forget about me you've gotta know

Paper Thin Walls

emanderson1902 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:18:40 +0000

Paper Thin Walls feature on the making of Red State

(originally published winter 2007) We started working on what became "red state" after touring the east coast with amps for christ in fall 2005. we decided the best place to do it would be my parents lake cabin in south dakota since it was fairly isolated and we could make noise. when we got there they had a bunch of old newsweek magazines lying around and one of them had a big cover story on meth, and how popular it was and it had all these fucked up stories and pictures of people who had lit themselves on fire and melted their faces and teeth, and statistics talking about how whole towns in the midwest were on it. this was during the same time that south dakota was trying to become the first state to totally ban all forms of abortion with no provisions for rape or incest or a woman's health. i had just come off a tour of the east coast and before that had been living in los angeles, amidst these kind of liberal enclaves where everyone was an artist and no one had kids. but that's not really where i was from, so going back home and then seeing all these mainstream "news" magazines about anorexia and drug abuse and teenage pregnancy, i knew i wanted to make a record about that, because that is what so many people's real experience is like. lots of media and art comes from new york and LA and other big cities, but lots of people live in the middle of nowhere. i'm from the middle of nowhere! and i wanted to make something that reflected that experience. i like to call this record "over the counter psychedelic", because it's jagged and stream of consciousness and to me it really feels like drugs, not the amazing wonderful acid trip that is oft-represented by wailing raga guitar solos, but shitty drugs or medications or over the counter things that real people take. it feels disjointed and confused and ambivelant and dirty, and there is always a comedown. it's true that there are a lot of drug references on the record, but it's never glamorized and i hope it's not gratuitous. i feel like it accurately reflects what people do when they grow up in a boring, hopeless place; they obliterate themselves.

FARGO

EMA: i was driving one day and i had a vision of this and used it later in a song. i can't explain it much more than that. i have never actually been in that room but i have a very vivid memory of it. the craziest part about this was one day showing up to visit our friend (and current bass player) aaron davis in olympia, who happens to be from north dakota. he was living in a blue basement apartment with an american flag covering his living room window. he grew up outside an air base in minot and his dad was career military. Ezra Buchla: The keyboard part was originally from another song, a radically different sounding version of "subside." I gave up on that one but I'd made these nice staticky organ chords so I handed them to Erika for salvaging and she layered all the changes over the D major and made this lovely sliding drone thing. It seems like sometimes these stories and ideas exist already and then if you're lucky a certain sound gets in the head and pushes them to the surface.

ROPE

EMA: all the songs on the record are different colours to me. they are like a spectrum. "fargo" is a blue spectrum with some gold and yellow in it, and rope is like a darker blue. the rhythmic processed guitar starts out kind of a jagged indigo and then the chords come in and each key is a shade of blue and green, and they are like the colours of a stained glass window i once saw. i originally wrote this song with my college boyfriend in a motel room. it accompanies a really dark vision that is probably even worse than the hanging death that the lyrics imply. at the lake in south dakota ezra was drunk and talking about tarot cards. he said that if i were a card i would be judgement, which i originally thought meant that i was judgemental, but the card of judgement actually shows an angel with a trumpet and it symbolizes change and resurrection. i feel like i didn't know that until i just looked it up, but considering the lyrics that seems crazy and i must have known. did i? [caption id="attachment_88" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Rope, Stained Glass"][/caption] EB: This is the one song that existed in any concrete form before we started playing together, so I guess it was the first Gowns song. Erika had done it on a four-track in college, and we played it live a bunch of times before recording it. I would always sample her live guitar and the samples would slide in and out of phase, so you can hear that on the recording except it's done with a tape. The rhythmic noise at the beginning is also generated from the acoustic guitar line. The organ parts are pure sine waves in some kind of just intonation and each voice is treated with its own very fucked up panning algorithm; the combined effect is that it disappears into a subliminal part of the mix and makes you feel a little ill.

FAKE JULY

EMA: this song changes the colour of the record from blue to orange. this song is a fire colour with yellows and bright reds when the synths come in. ezra wrote these lyrics several months before hurricane katrina but now that's all i can think about when i listen to it. EB: This is still hard for me to understand. At some point I was thinking about the mudslides in southern California that killed some people in Santa Sarbara and fucked up our friend Carla's house (Carla is on this record a lot, actually, in spirit). California is home to a lot of natural disasters of the earth and fire varieties and I guess that's what the song's about. Assuming that it's possible to consider one's own death after the fact, what would it feel like to die as a statistic in a seasonal mudslide or forest fire? Kind of sour, probably, especially if you're expecting Heaven? I think probably the only afterlife is the world's memory of you, and it's likely to be a name and a number, if anything. So, there is a buzzing, jittery, drifting analog synth part, and some sour visions: I flashed this one of a short, balding man, unpleasantly drunk, leaning late at night on someone's doorbell. I also remembered this actual thing: an attractive young lady, a tourist in southeast asia, losing her fancy pocketknife and accusing a boy of stealing it when in fact she had a hole in her coat pocket. There was a verse about this layered over the end, but it never sounded quite right so I used violas instead.

WHITE LIKE HEAVEN

EMA: this is the thing that took longest on the record. probably 2 years overall, from when gowns began until i made the record late in coming out. i recorded it over and over and mixed and remixed until ezra wanted to kill me. but if i hadn't i think the record would not hold together the way it does. the first version of the song was just me and electric guitar in a garage in LA. the second version was recorded in south dakota and had about 5 different vocal tracks. it was ugly. the third version happened after i came back to LA from south dakota. i didn't have anywhere to live, and carla b. was very generous and let me live at her house for a little while. she had a protools rig in her living room and i would spend hours trying to mix the record. carla knew i was stuck on this song and offered to take a crack at it, so she ran all the different tracks out and into small amps and radios and ran them back in and edited the fuck out of it. it was a totally different beast. there was no serenity left in it at all, it was just an out-of-sync chorus of wide-eyed crazy girls that couldn't sing. it was amazing and terrifying. but i knew no one would want to listen to it more than twice; it was like the margaret keane painting equivalent of harsh noise. later i re-recorded it AGAIN in berkeley with just one vocal take. the final version has tracks from every one of the previous versions in it, kind of a sedimentary history. when it says "it was just like the movie and i couldn't move", the "it" is the nothing and the movie is the never ending story. the drugs were one regular dose of dayquil and half an ultram (i used to have a messed up back), and one hit of pot. really nothing too spectacular. the way this song looks to me is like a body. the most important is the low oscillator which is a throbbing dark purple. it is like the backbone of the song but because it's alive it's the spinal cord instead. it moves. all the other sounds here hang off of that like meat, they are all orange and red like organs and they are woozy and throbbing like blood. this song is alive to me! it's a real breathing beast. the drums and words are bright white and yellow, and they are the synapses firing inside the brain. besides taking the longest, this is probably the most important song on the record to me. writing it was really freeing, just realizing, "oh, i can just do whatever the fuck i want, i can just tell this story for 8 minutes and say a bunch of weird shit!" and then shyly playing the demo for ezra and having him actually think it was good. for whatever reason getting his approval on it just changed everything for me, and allowed me to entertain the notion that people might be interested in all the weird ideas i had in my head. now i don't worry so much about approval. but i think that's part of the reason this song was so important to me, just writing it changed me; it was about coming out of a paralysis. [caption id="attachment_90" align="alignright" width="500" caption="woman and dog."][/caption] EB: I have a really strange relationship to this song. It's Erika's thing of course, but we've played it many many times and it's often felt like trying to move in twelve directions at once (at least for me...when we were playing as a duo I'd be trying to make a ton of different sounds, that all play continuously and move concurrently, and I had to invent techniques or technologies to do this). We have about 12 recorded versions that should probably all go on one mega-single CD someday; here we took the other route, making a vertical amalgamation. There are a couple weird things about the last recording process: I was finally really happy with the main vocal sound, which was a very complicated affair; reverberation came from a bass amp at the top of a weirdly shaped stairway and a mic at the bottom; high frequency distortion courtesy of a small speaker close-mic'd. We used only cheap microphones and shitty digital preamps on this record, so getting the right balance of grit and fullness was sometimes a problem, especially for Erika's voice at higher volumes. Making whispers sound nice is easier, somehow. The drums were almost an afterthought. Again they were recorded with total crap equipment, in a dead room which was maybe a mistake. We did a mix where we tried to make them sound huge but it seemed to serve the song better to keep them kind of clattering and shitty. You may notice this one bass oscillator that sweeps its pitch in response to the volume of the kick drum, a very retro-signifying electro sound. I don't know exactly what made me want to do that but I liked how it made the whole aesthetic that much more confused...

WHEN IT BURNED

EB: This is a song about a little kid drinking bleach thinking that it will make him die but of course it just burns your throat and stomach and then makes you throw up and then burns you again. How maudlin.

SUBSIDE

EB: This song is about waking up in the middle of the night and not knowing who is touching you. The sensation is shocking, and eventually dies away but leaves a kind of stain. The first version of this sounded much different, really pretty and hymnal with the organ that ended up in "fargo", but it wasn't working. I kind of gave up and decided one sine wave, and some discontinuities in time, would suffice. It is gave-up-sounding; the themes of the song infected the process of making it... there was going to be more singing but I gave up on that too, so there is kind of a floaty hole instead that the song falls into. The vocal treatment included using two microphones, each with a different compression curve and a minutely varying displacement in time and stereo location. Again I added violas later, which is maybe just my instinctual reaction when I think the ending of a song needs help, oh well, but in this case the parts kind of wrote themselves so I figured they should stay. A cut-up guitar shows up in a sort of dissonant meter, and erika's weird crooning style which she is normally embarrassed to use but since this was "my" song she kind of didn't argue too much. Maybe a picking-your-battles thing.

CLAWLESS

EMA: i took ambien and got in the shower. when i got out i recorded this directly into garageband. for months and months afterward i tried to record it again because it was poor quality and had lots of noise in the background and i fucked it up at the end. but i could never get it to be as candid loose unguarded; everything i tried to do sounded too self conscious. EB: The low tones in this song are often thought to be a synth but are actually a marimba, played by Corey Fogel who did all the drums too; he kind of kidnapped the recording and brought it back with several layers of this sound. Wherever he recorded had a bunch of little kids yelling on the street outside, or something, which is kind of crazy; I think you can sort of hear them in there but I must be fooling myself. One weird thing was Erika did all the vocals first, using only her computer's built-in mic and monitoring through the effects in Garageband. So the only rhythmic reference she had was the hard drive making those little purring sounds through some echo, and the only pitch reference was her own reverb tails. As a result her intervals are impressively accurate, but the overall pitch drifts very slowly up and down (mostly up, I think?). I made an analysis of the drift and used it to affect the playback rate of the marimba recording to sort-of try (but not too hard) to keep them together. It's a really small and slow effect but it makes the relative drift kind of up and down as the process plays catch-up, rather than having them just be more and more out of tune, and I think it makes the marimba sound less like an instrument of the real world. Erika will make fun of me for talking about this, she thought it was a dorky obsession in the first place and she's probably right.

MERCY SPRINGS

EB: "Mercy Springs" is an exit off of the 5 freeway. the song is about spontaneously driving really far to escape from a bad situation. I've found that this can simultaneously make you feel a little comforted and totally crazy. I once drove almost completely across the country in this state of mind, with an old Marantz field recorder on the passenger seat, mumbling and humming into it the whole way; I thought I was escaping the worst period of my life but I was actually starting it: moving in the direction of worseness. The drone that starts the song is an ancient space heater that I was using one winter. It made this beautiful E somehow, and I took it and picked out a lot of harmonics with a bandpass filter. (Actually, maybe I had to first pitch it down to get E, can't remember.) I did each vocal take without listening to the others, which had the effect of randomly improving on my plan for asymmetry. The last section sounds especially inhuman because all the inhalations are cut short automatically. Initially the song had no drums and the vocals were louder, which in hindsight I maybe sort of prefer; it made the screams super scary when there was nothing around them. At the last minute I did this thing that I sometimes do, where I got really self conscious and turned the vocals way down in the mix. Oh well... EMA: this song was a mess until i got a hold of it with my little OCD editing brain. originally the end was going to be buried beneath everything. i scaled all the noise back and i felt like i was excavating this beautiful little layer of ezra's voice. a lot of gowns songs are written in the editing process. like: take an idea, record it, improvise it, and then put it back together. rarely do i sit down with a guitar and like play a bunch of chords over and over. i often feel like a sculptor with a piece of rock, i know there's a song in here somewhere!

ADVICE

EMA: ezra and i mic-ed a piano and ran it through some pedals and amps and made a weird feedback loop with it. this is him improvising and me obsessively editing. there are about 20 versions of this song and they probably sound exactly the same to everyone but me. "a lot of brilliant minds out there have been destroyed and mine was one of them." the woman talking is a good friend of mine. she is my best friend's mother, who grew up in south dakota but moved to san francisco in the mid-60s and just lived the hippie thing to the fullest, from communes and love-ins to charlie manson's bus. she is wise and witchy probably a little damaged. we hang out as often and possible and talk and talk. it's easy to imagine our roles reversed, that i could have lived that life if not for a few deciding factors. EB: These are really one song. I kind of wanted them to be one track but I was vetoed, which is only fair because my contribution was to set up a ridiculously convoluted feedback network around a grand piano and record an hour or two of stuff, ranging from total noise to the four-chord progression that you hear a lot. At some point Erika heard that and instructed me to just keep playing it for a while, then she did the initial vocal takes on the spot through walkie-talkies. Then she spent many months cutting up noises and layering them and changing the timing of everything, and I eventually helped mix the piano and vocals at the end a little, and that was that.

CHERYLEE

EMA: this is a lot of people's favorite song on the record. it's so funny, we're at a point in time where lots of people listen to all sorts of experimental stuff, but everyone still totally responds to four chords and a voice singing to them. i do. that shit is good! when the vocals go up high and split into harmony, that is probably my favorite moment of the record. everytime i listen i think "why aren't there more verses?" but that was how many times ezra played those chords in a row when we were fucking around. isn't that funny? someone called this "the eeriest power ballad of all time". it is a power ballad. it's just that the structure is scrambled because it was recorded first and written later. but i think that's ok. everyone has heard enough pop music in their lives to understand exactly how it would sound otherwise. my best friend had just quit drinking after years of some serious abuse. i wrote this song for her, and for me, and for all the other ladies i knew who had problems with trying to stay sane.

bohusch_bluebirdt3gowns03

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:46:49 +0000

bohusch_bluebirdt3gowns02

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you can't win bluebird

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ema balloons

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PICTURES

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:15:29 +0000

[caption id="attachment_993" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="NYC 2009"] PDX 2010 __ __ Oakland 2009 [/caption]

: South Dakota 2005

[caption id="attachment_61" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Highland Park 2006"][/caption]

Live At The Smell screening 2009

highland park 2005

[caption id="attachment_152" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="San Francisco 2005"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Some Dark Holler, Oakland 2008"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_67" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Mt Shasta 2005"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Amps For Christ Practice, 2004"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1365" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="highland park 2006"]

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_161" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Some Dark Holler, Oakland 2006"]Toronto 2009__ __ [/caption]
San Francisco, 2010

[caption id="attachment_995" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Oakland 2009 by Suzy Poling"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_54" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Queens 2007"]Forest, 2004

[/caption] motel, 2005

george thorogood

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:40:27 +0000

ruffian-astoria-bw-stretch-may-10

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:41:56 +0000

diamanda

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:44:07 +0000

some dark holler at the terminal

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:48:07 +0000

eight belles

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:53:35 +0000

SOME DARK HOLLER

emanderson1902 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:15:24 +0000

SOME DARK HOLLER the first solo record from Erika Anderson of the band GOWNS. It is a reconstruction of American folk music, informed by the underground's vital focus on feedback and drone, but infused with distinct compositional choices and unabashed vocal harmonies. This project seeks to explore/explode genre and technology, and come to terms with the fact that the modern folk song is probably being made on a computer.

Please click here to enter a mockup of the SOME DARK HOLLER DIGITAL LP. If may be interested in releasing this, please contact: erikam.anderson@gmail.com

Gorgeous George

emanderson1902 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:56:14 +0000

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="First George Thorogood and the Destroyers record, released on Rounder in 1977 "][/caption]

I originally heard the first George Thorogood and the Destroyers record when I was 17 and living in New Zealand. I made friends with a bad girl known as Pamela "Cheekyface" Johnson. She had a car and we used to roll around the streets of Dunedin listening to this tape and drinking beer I had bought with my American fake ID. Before this I did not have a very good impression of George Thorogood, my main association being "Bad To The Bone" as the theme song for Problem Child II.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="George Thorogood"][/caption] However, this record has become one of my favorites. It came out in 1977, and while it's not by any means punk, it's got a lot more raucous energy than classic Southern Rock like the Allman Brothers or Lynard Skynard. His band is named the Destroyers. It's got these extended guitar solos and also the spoken-word intro for "One Burbon, One Scotch and One Beer" (tried that once at a bar and puked!), but it's not really psyched-out or jammy. It came out on Rounder Records and I don't know if it was ever very popular in the US or not. Almost no one I mention it to has ever heard of it. For me it's got these really pure associations of riding around in a car with "no particular place to go". Here is Thorogood's version of the Robert Johnson song "Kind Hearted Woman". [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/kindheartedwoman.mp3] Thorogood's Kind Hearted Woman My favorite part is when his voice breaks at 1:44! (George if you're mad about me posting this, get in touch ok?)

kindheartedwoman

emanderson1902 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:40:07 +0000

Thorogood's Kind Hearted Woman

emanderson1902 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:49:39 +0000

gowns mystery show

emanderson1902 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:08:17 +0000

gowns at cmj

emanderson1902 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:08:28 +0000

Gowns at the Cake Shop, NYC

ema forest

emanderson1902 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:22:55 +0000

SHOWS

emanderson1902 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:04:01 +0000

4.17 Some Dark Holler @ Cafe Du Nord w. Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu)

2170 Market st, San Francisco

4.19 SDH @ The Terminal w. Work (16bitchpileup, Child Pornography) Dadfag, Kraakdoos, Darwinsbitch * 3957 San Leandro, Oakland

4.23 SDH @ Grand Regency w. Throbbing Gristle SOLD OUT

1290 Sutter St., San Francisco

4.29 SDH @ UC Irvine w. Dan Friel and Chen Santa Maria * Irvine

4.30 SDH @ The Smell w. Dan Friel, Chen Santa Maria, Lucky Dragons, and The Finches * Los Angeles

5.1 SDH @ Pehrspace w. Dan Friel, Chen Santa Maria * Los Angeles

5.2 - SDH @ Oven51 w. Dan Friel, Chen Santa Maria, and High Castle

San Francisco

SDH april flyer

emanderson1902 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:53:07 +0000

the PRESS

emanderson1902 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:40:31 +0000

Selected GOWNS press: _ This unsettling California group specializes in half-hidden songs. On "Red State," an intense but surprisingly pretty album released earlier this year, you can hear refracted echoes of punk rants and indie-rock ballads, surrounded by crashes and whispers and electronic gurgles. - Kelefa Sanneh for the New York Times One of the most innovative, original bands in Los Angeles... performance-wise they just can't be touched. Gowns were recently included on the scene-defining Live At the Smell DVD where even there they stood apart from the pack. - LAWeekly One of the most heart-stoppingly great live bands on Earth. - Pitchfork Media Gown's debut remains original... It is accomplished in creating disquieting atmosphere through dislocated frequencies, the squalor of fuzzy mics and faltering drones switched with short interludes of haunting acoustics. - The Wire After listening to the album dozens of times as a whole and to every song individually dozens of times more, I believe what they produced is unprecedented, peerless, and indeed perfect. - Tiny Mix Tapes This band is a myth in the making. - Kicking_K for Plan B Erika M. Anderson plays in Gowns and Some Dark Holler: she’s an incredible guitarist, a keen and serious shredder whose work I have always been a huge fan of. She’s a bright young artistic force in California as part of the punk and experimental scenes, though she is originally from South Dakota. My friend saw her play last week and wrote to me: “To see her play live is just, mind blowing. Literally Jessica, MIND BLOWING I felt like I was watching Jimi Hendrix.” - Jessica Hopper In an era where indie's fetishes have been for composure, discretion, muscle, and nice shoes, Gowns' agenda- to make a porno about confusion- is radical. - Pitchfork Media Holy fucking fuck. [Gowns are] the best thing I've seen this whole festival, and I need to see them again as soon as possible. In the three years I've covered CMJ, I'd never experienced a moment remotely like that one. - The Village Voice Gowns strikes a fiercely unstable balance between the simplicity of '60s folk, the risk-taking experimentalism of early American no-wave and the no-mincing-of-words directness of '90s grunge on its latest album, Red State. - San Francisco Chronicle Recorded in both Los Angeles and Anderson’s native South Dakota, Red State‘s rustic, yet eerie appeal makes perfect sense. While “Cherylee” and “Fake July” evoke an agrestic touch of backwoods living with their prickly chords, mollifying string work and looped chamber static, the threesome tweak the song structures into an emotional and raw-sounding betterment of basement noise. - Performer Magazine Gowns' music dares to venture into alien haunts, the eerie intersections between past and present, the strange spaces where AOR rock meets the avant-garde, places where the trio finds quiet beauty and moments of bristling cacophony. - SF Bay Guardian It's not quite freak. Nor is it ambient, noise, or drone. Imprecise tags like "art rock" or "experimental" are an injustice. It's hard to state where "White Like Heaven" comes from, and it is precisely that inability to peg it down, that makes it so compelling. Yet, I never stopped playing 'Red State' one through ten...Slowly, I came to the realization, not only was "White Like Heaven" an elusive work of genius, so was the entirety of Red State. - I Rock Cleveland a disc that feels distinctly American, a fractured folk, its tendrils wet with the violated entrails of numerous other genres, music heavy with memory and hallucination... - Dusted Magazine Gowns comes from the Bay Area experimental scene with a debut that co-opts the very best of noise and folky psychedelia for a very modern-sounding pop...like Sonic Youth with better lyrics (both Anderson and band-mate Ezra Buchla are fantastic writers) and a smart aesthetic editor. Best thing about Red State is that no matter how out there the get, Gowns keep it free of deadweight and artsy BS; there's an incredible sensibility about their music that shows they know when to quit and when to back off the electro-dissonance and get catchy again. This is some shockingly new-feeling music. Outstanding. - Risen Magazine Gowns are from the East Bay and their new record makes me feel good about things—that experimental music can be wildly new, smart, and catchy at the same time, and that records from people I don’t know can still make my blood pump like it should... - Adam Gnade for Asthmatic Kitty A mess up and twisted, original dusty jewel of a record, which managed to be memorable, psychedelic and darkly charming. A ramshackle master piece that is bound to sit somewhere or another in all it's hunched glory on my end of year list. - Roger Batty for Musique Machine It’s not a low fidelity album, but there’s something about its intimacy and bedroom sonic wanderings that puts it at home with early ‘90s lo-fi underground recordings...the band shows an admirable willingness to explore and not always play it safe. - Ernest Paik for the Chatanooga Pulse Exactly what type of band Gowns are is difficult to conclude...they've erected a domain where they concurrently inhabits regions of noise, rock, drone, folk and free music without tipping into any camp too deeply. A large role is also played by electronics, giving the lo-fi production a feel closer to a computer crashing than a cassette tape breaking. Gowns are the sound of the eternal discord. - Sean Rabin for Foxy Digitalis Crazed-but-confident narrator Erika Anderson has an epiphany that takes her from kitchen table to a suburban road trip to a meditation on desire, the cracked secrets of the universe revealing themselves in between. - KRISTAL HAWKINS for Paper Thin Walls

corey in the kitchen

emanderson1902 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:42:01 +0000

FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

emanderson1902 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:47:45 +0000

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="SDH at Cafe Du Nord "][/caption] Ok man I gotta admit I had a pretty great time opening up for Throbbing Gristle. Damn I could get used to those big stages. And that big sound!!! Special thanks to Mick and Alo for helping out with that. The only thing that bums me out is that I don't have any pictures from that set! If you have some please get in touch: * myrobobedroom AT gmail.com * But here is a pic from our Cafe Du Nord show with Jamie Stewart. It was taken from DO THE FEEDBACK, which also posted a nice review of the set. In fact, I'm going to excerpt here:

(If I'm doing this wrong lemme know, I'm still new to "blogging", if you will. Isn't this called reposting?) I really liked it as a review, as it's always interesting to see how what you say and do is perceived, especially since I thought I was being cool by talking about destroying rocknroll. Apparently not! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="(even nikki looks skeptical)"][/caption] And if you missed us in the fancy rock clubs and want to see us in trashy dives like THE SMELL (just kidding! I cut my teeth at the smell. Probably played there more times than any other venue), we have a couple of shows coming up with the awesome DAN FRIEL and CHEN SANTA MARIA. Unfortunately, we will be sans Aaron Davis, our bass player and drone master also known as ACRE. :( But come out and say hi! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="518" caption="awesome tour poster by paul morgan"][/caption]

8bellesweb

emanderson1902 — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:57:55 +0000

EIGHT BELLES

emanderson1902 — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:19:11 +0000

[caption id="attachment_291" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Racehorse filly Eight Belles, as drawn by Zak Hutson"][/caption] EIGHT BELLES was one of only 39 fillies (female horses) ever to run in the Kentucky Derby, which just celebrated its 135th run last Saturday. 135 years x 20 horses a year is 2700 horses total to run the race. If my math is correct, 39 fillies makes %0.0144 of total horses run. Eight Belles was one of them. She came in second. During her victory lap she fell and broke both ankles. She was euthanized on the track and died minutes after crossing the finish line. This year was another year without a single filly in the race, although some say that one, Rachel Alexandra, would have had a pretty good chance. Instead she was entered into the ladies only "fillies for the lillies" Kentucky Oaks, which took place the day before the Derby. She won easily. Her jockey, Calvin Borel, coincidentally also rode the gelding Mine That Bird to his Derby victory the next day. His verdict on the two horses: "I think she's the best horse in the country right now", referring to Rachel Alexandra. When asked whom he would choose to ride if the two horses were to compete in the same race, Borel responded, "I would ride her."

SDH VIDEOS

emanderson1902 — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:38:48 +0000

So I'm finally almost recovered from all my recent playing, practicing and a short stint on the road. Much love and thanks to Chen Santa Maria and Dan Friel. Dan got me whiskey drunk the last night of tour, and I came up with a whole new ending to the song! Oh whiskey, you're my darling. Here's a few videos from tour. This one was taken by good friend and awesome KSPC station manager Erica Tyron. It's a kind of jerky handicam video of the first 12 minutes of our Throbbing Gristle set: [vimeo http://vimeo.com/4502437] I know there was a pro camera crew there, thanks to Mobilization and Recombinant Media Labs, so hopefully at some point a video of the full concert will be available. And for those in the know, (and in the bay!) we played a few nights before TG at the TERMINAL in Oakland. I think this one might be my favorite cuz it's all dark and mysterious: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EylkwLtYmZ0] And lastly we have some footage from The Smell. This was the first show me and lil sis Nicole played as a duo, after Aaron Davis went back to Portland Pizza land, and it's got some great close-ups of Nik's awesome drumming skills. Courtesy of the the rad Penny Ante magazine. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVP6MyOjFVU] Once again if you have any pics or videos to send, please get in touch! myrobobedroom AT gmail.com . Or if you just want to say hi. I'm still new to this blahhging stuff...

YOU CAN'T WIN

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:15:48 +0000

8bellesT

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:15:58 +0000

GOWNS party

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:37:17 +0000

DSC01510

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:38:17 +0000

ezrarock

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:43:52 +0000

DSC01485

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:59:53 +0000

oakland bed room

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:03:49 +0000

pink elephant

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:16:42 +0000

ROCK FACE

emanderson1902 — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:12:58 +0000

[caption id="attachment_325" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="ezra summoning the ROCK!"][/caption] Ok, so as of yet I haven't done too many of the ooh look what I did this weekend! type of posts, but I thought these pictures were pretty hilarious. Plus, this weekend I went to 5 shows in 3 days. And when you're that busy, what else are you going to post about? [caption id="attachment_323" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="erika making her ROCK face after a bottle of wine"][/caption] So my five shows were: Friday night -- Mirror Mirror in oakland at a crazy 70s wonka porno dancehall mousetrap piano warehouse. ...and disco pole dancefloors, an old bar and a whole room made of beds... uh... [caption id="attachment_327" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Me and Ryan from Mirror Mirror hanging out in the sex bed room at the Flophouse. No sex for me thank you! But she looks like she might be going for it..."][/caption] Saturday was first Compression Of The Chest Cavity Miracle (which is Ezra) at ATA, with Josh Churchill and Micheal Gendreau. I have some video I'll see if Ezra lets me post. AFter that we went down to Oven 51 where we missed Mirror Mirror and we too drunk to watch Girls. But we did get a new band photo out of it! [caption id="attachment_321" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="but what does it mean???"][/caption] Last but not least Sunday morning, where I was so hungover at GodWaffle Noise Pancakes that a pink elephant actually appeared in front of me! A goddamn pink elephant! Sometimes if the hangover is particularly bad they'll just kind of dance around my head and blow their trunks at me. But never had I seen one play the keyboard. [caption id="attachment_329" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption=" godwaffle noise pancakes in SF"][/caption] And last of all was Eternal Tapestry at 21 Grand, sunday night. Totally blazing set. I even picked up a CD for MOM for Mother's Day!

PDX NET

emanderson1902 — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:37:59 +0000

ema iowa city

emanderson1902 — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:28:01 +0000

ROOL V. DROOL

emanderson1902 — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:38:59 +0000

i rool and drool, the jury's still out! {kool collage made by an iowa city sweetheart.}

So the prolific music writer and all-around badass Jessica Hopper asked me to write some stuff for her new blog, THE GIRLS GUIDE TO ROCKING, which aims to give advice to girls just starting to play music. Pearls of wisdom include: PLAYING GUITAR IS A CON GAME. LEARN HOW TO PLAY WITH BOYS. IT'S OK TO FAIL. There's a lot more on the site, including some gear talk, the first time I smashed a guitar, and me trying to explain why I like conceptual work to a presumably teenage audience. Check it out here. What's funny is that one of the most controversial things I did last summer was volunteer at the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls. In case you aren't familiar, the Rock n Roll Camp for Girls was founded in 2001 in Portland, and has spread worldwide with the mission of offering summer camps and after school programs to help girls ages 8-16 form bands and learn about music. It's pretty posi. But it was really interesting how everyone I told about it felt the need to offer their opinion about the validity of a gender-segregated environment. And I could understand that, because I have ambivalence about it too. But I have to say that working at the camp was fucking awesome. It was so much fun. I mean, all theoretical debate aside, can you really hate on this? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dcj30Ur8eM] The singer was in my vocals class, and you can hear me inadvertently teach the girls the classic heckle, LESS TALK MORE ROCK! before I "shush!" them at 00:15. That part always cracks me up. Here is another one taken during my "vocals" class. (I asked to teach guitar, but I guess they needed vocal instructors more. That's funny because I've never taken a vocal lesson in my life! Can you tell? There was a lot of karaoke.) During this exercise I'm teaching the girls how to improvise by just playing some basic chords and having them sing something off the top of their heads. Here I totally geek out like such a nerd. I'm so stoked for her that I'm grinning like an idiot the whole time and actually get misty-eyed whenever I watch the footage. Maybe it's all the estrogen :P [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZlVeK8725o] Find out more about the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp.

IT ALL COMES BACK TO HAUNT YOU

emanderson1902 — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:17:41 +0000

Back one million years ago (ok 4 years ago, but that's one million mid-20s years, right?), Ezra and I were going to go on our first west coast tour. We had only been a band for like, a month. But Ezra's old friend Peter B. was coming to the west coast and asked Ezra to go on tour with him, and then Ezra asked me to come with. We were barely a band but said yes. I remember Peter and Seve hanging out in our Highland Park apartment (which was very small), and going out on the steps and into the little backyard. This eventually got us evicted. I mean, they only hung out for a few days, but the fact that we would even be associated with such suspicious characters was enough to make our landlady decide we needed to GO. During that time, Peter and Seve made some CDRs for their band Sejayno to take on the road. Merch, man. "Merch" is the only way to make touring money for the brokeass noise crew. What, you think you get a guarantee? [caption id="attachment_67" align="alignleft" width="480" caption="shasta stop on gowns tour 05 with sejayno"][/caption] So Ezra and I decided to follow suit. We had some little demos we had each made individually, and someone had recently recorded a show of ours at a little gallery (David Kendall?). I thought the live recording was cool and wanted to put it on a CDR to sell. Ezra was firmly against it. He tried to warn me by saying, "you know, once you put something out into the world, it's out there forever." and I was like, "yeah whatever, who gives a shit? NO ONE WILL EVER LISTEN TO THIS ANYWAY!!!" Last week BJ Rubin, who runs the Pukekos blog, got in touch with me. From Brooklyn. Apparently his roommate, who used to work at Kill Rock Stars had a really old CDR or ours that he had brought from Olympia to New York, and could he post it on his blog? There were like 35 of these made TOPS. Could be more like 20. There were probably 5 people at the Olympia show we played. The fact that this poor little CDR survived 4 years and 3000 miles is pretty remarkable. And a good lesson to us all that once you put something out in the world, it never goes away. Make it good. [caption id="attachment_357" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="playing in a PDX living room w. sejayno and smegma one million years ago"][/caption]

2 peace gowns

emanderson1902 — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:17:35 +0000

2peace

emanderson1902 — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:21:50 +0000

Ok so we got some footage of the recent GOWNS show in Oakland. We played as a 2piece for the first time in years. Some of it is normal quality (thanks Connor!) and some of it is totally blown out and crazy. I like it. I think the show sounded great. Ezra was processing everything, all vox and guitar and his keyboard. He was running it all through his computer, through supercollider patches he wrote himself. That's our secret recipe. You can hear it really well on "Rope", where the computer samples the live guitar, chops it up, pitch-shifts it and runs it backwards. YEAH that shit ain't even proprietary, just not that many people can do what he does. He's real nice though and shares. You can download some software he wrote here from his site. He has a tone application and a noise generator for you to play with. Thanks Ezra!!!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMadj0E5V7c]

And here is the super blown-out footage, which fits the sound. We were clipping the input (purposely) of our interface which kind of makes it sound like it's coming through a blown boombox speaker. I love it! Sonic assault.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39H7OdwcPU0]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLc2s9qL2vs]

gowns2piece

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:27:36 +0000

colusa county fair

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Brianna at the Demolition Derby

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:53:20 +0000

Brianna's dad was a Derby driver, so it's in her blood. Can you see it?

Brianna at the Demolition Derby

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:56:24 +0000

moonlightderbycrop

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:18:33 +0000

Mud Beer

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:18:40 +0000

DEMOLITION DERBY

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:26:05 +0000

[caption id="attachment_452" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Dusk at the Demolition Derby"] Brianna at the Demolition Derby So this weekend I had the pleasure of going to the Colusa County Fair. My friend Scott is from Colusa, which is a town of about 6000 people outside of Sacramento, and he still lives there. The city has a mostly agricultural base, so the County Fair is obviously a big deal. The Demolition Derby takes place on the closing day, and Scott says it is the town's most exciting event of the year. And jesus christ it was pretty dang magical. The whole night seemed technicolor. Scott said it was the dust in the air. Maybe it was all the exhaust I inhaled. Even afterwards as we wandered down the midway, all the lights from the rides looked especially beautiful and vivid. Here is a video of the start of the Derby that I think is really nice. For me it's all about the ferris wheel in the background. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIaV9HsR_Y] So sometime during the ride up I had started talking about The Zipper. All my ex-boyfriends know how I love the Zipper. What? You don't know what the Zipper is?!? No, it's not that, silly! It's an awesome ride they have at county fairs that spins you up and down and around AND upside down all at the same time. (Just watch the video and you'll see) For some reason when we finally found the Zipper after the derby winners had been announced, I almost didn't go. $5?!? no way!!! I said. Even after I had talked it up for hours. "Erika," Brianna said, "listen to the screams. It's worth 5 bucks." And you know what? She was right! Here is a video of the Zipper. I think it gets real good at about 9 seconds, when it starts to look like the cars are just falling out of the sky: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUj1l_-JxM] Yeah listen to those screams! That is exactly how I sounded, except louder.

[/caption] [caption id="attachment_448" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="same time next year?"][/caption]

mary2bless

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:38:23 +0000

love

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:59:18 +0000

mary2donate

emanderson1902 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:18:16 +0000

GOM_V1

emanderson1902 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:58:49 +0000

garden of memory

emanderson1902 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:00:57 +0000

GOM_V1

emanderson1902 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:08:48 +0000

GARDEN OF MEMORY

emanderson1902 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:11:38 +0000

So every solstice there is an awesome huge new music concert at the Chapel of the Chimes columbarium in Oakland. What's a columbarium, you ask? It's where they keep dead people! Well this one is a totally gorgeous labyrinthian building with huge halls and narrow passages and lots of stained glass. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="288" caption="Julia Morgan's Chapel of the Chimes"][/caption] Every year they have a new music concert that is totally packed and awesome. It's one of those things where people bring their kids to see micro-tonal string quartets and old ladies get to fuss with max patches. There are always about 200 guys in Hawaiian shirts and you think, oh man not another old guy in a Hawaiian shirt! until you realize it's Terry Riley. Very Bay Area! This year I have the pleasure of performing with my favorite group, the Cornelius Cardew Choir. This is a fun-loving and sincere little group that meets in Berkeley and is inspired by the works of graphic composer Cornelius Cardew. Here is one of his scores: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="737" caption="Image from "Treatise" by Cornelius Cardew"][/caption] Our group is not doing that piece though, thank goodness. We're actually focusing on several piece by Pauline Oliveros, including one I love very much called "Heart Chant". That's one where the audience can join in. Here is the score: ****The Heart Chant (2001) by Pauline Oliveros © 2001 Deep Listening Publications; performed by the Cornelius Cardew Choir and willing audience members This is the text of the original score: Stand together in a circle with feet about shoulder width apart and knees a little soft. Warm up your hands by rubbing palms together until you feel the heat. Place your right hand over your own heart. Place your left hand on the back of your left hand partner (back of the heart). After a few natural breaths sing/chant/intone "AH" on any pitch that will resonate your heart. Sense the energy of your own heart and that of your partner over the course of several breaths. Can you imagine that the heart energies are joining together for healing yourself and others? Can you imagine heart energies traveling out into the universe as a healing for all victims and toward the end of violence? When The Heart Chant ends, gradually release your palms and bring them forward parallel in front of you. Sense the energy between the palms as if there were a sphere or ball that can be moved around. Then bring your palms to your own center, fold them over and store the energy. We invite you to join our performance of The Heart Chant. Once we have begun singing, you are welcome to find a place in our circle and intone the syllable “ah” in length-of-breath notes that resonate your heart and those of the person to your left in the circle. ("Choreography" developed by Joe Zitt and the Cornelius Cardew Choir.) We invite you to sing with us: Ask a choir member (wearing jewel tone and black) for guidance OR use these directions: 1. ENTERING THE CIRCLE: a. Warm your hands by rubbing them together b. stand just outside the circle at a spot of your choice c. Place your right hand over your heart and place your left hand on top of the left hand of a person in the circle d. That person will open the circle and place her/his left hand on your back behind your heart e. Use the syllable "Ah" and sing for as long as you wish, breathing deeply between your notes and standing with relaxed knees (At the end of the piece everyone will fall silent. If that happens while you are in the circle, please follow the gentle chi-gathering movements) 3. LEAVING THE CIRCLE: a. Fall silent b. Lift your left hand from your neighbor’s back and rotate to your left until you are out of the circle. The singers on either side will close the gap. -------------------------------- Maybe it sounds a little hippie, but this piece actually creates some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard. There are beautiful chords and microtones that emerge. It's really a magical experience and if you are in Oakland tomorrow you should come by and experience it.

GODDAMN

emanderson1902 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:15:51 +0000

GOOD NIGHT IRENE

emanderson1902 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:17:19 +0000

KIND HEART

emanderson1902 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:25:11 +0000

MOONSHINER

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SUNSHINE

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TROUBLE

emanderson1902 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:36:01 +0000

SDH LIVE REVIEW

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inunscrop1

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SOME DARK HOLLER is a new solo record from EMA of the band GOWNS. It is a reconstruction of American folk music, informed by the underground's vital focus on feedback and drone, but infused with distinct compositional choices and unabashed vocal harmonies. This project seeks to explore/explode genre and technology, and come to terms with the fact that the modern folk song is probably being made on a computer.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="click to read about the KIND HEART "HOBO" SCORE"]

TROUBLE IN MIND [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ema_trouble-in-mind.mp3]pretty, minimalist, quietly explodes KIND HEART [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ema_kindheart.mp3]17-minute feedback-blown version of the Robert Johnson classic _ MOONSHINER [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ema_moonshiner.mp3]super drone big muff banjos turns into feedback angel vocal loop _

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtXpWcQz9JM]

SOME DARK HOLLER has been performing on the West Coast for several years, including shows with Anni Rossi, C. Spencer Yeh, !6 Bitch Pile Up and legendary noisemakers Throbbing Gristle. Read a live show review here.

SELECT PRESS FOR GOWNS 2007 'RED STATE':

This unsettling California group specializes in half-hidden songs. On "Red State," an intense but surprisingly pretty album released earlier this year, you can hear refracted echoes of punk rants and indie-rock ballads, surrounded by crashes and whispers and electronic gurgles.

Kelefa Sanneh for the New York Times

Gown's debut remains original... It is accomplished in creating disquieting atmosphere through dislocated frequencies, the squalor of fuzzy mics and faltering drones switched with short interludes of haunting acoustics.

- Jennifer Allan for the Wire

this band is a myth in the making.

- kicking_k for Plan

In an era where indie's fetishes have been for composure, discretion, muscle, and nice shoes, Gowns' agenda- to make a porno about confusion- is radical.

Mike Powell for Pitchfork Media

Holy fucking fuck. [Gowns are] the best thing I've seen this whole festival, and I need to see them again as soon as possible. In the three years I've covered CMJ, I'd never experienced a moment remotely like that one.

- Tom Breihan for the Village Voice

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CONTACT:

erikam.anderson@gmail.com

cameouttanowhere.com

(510) 520-5145

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KIND HEART GRAPHIC SCORE

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GNIGHTIRENE

emanderson1902 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:22:58 +0000

BOOTYBOOTYBOOTYDROP

emanderson1902 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:56:42 +0000

ok, lots of stuff going on. GOWNS featured on LIVE AT THE SMELL DVD. release party THURSDAY 8.27 in LA! GOWNS "latitudes" session imminently released by Southern Records. GOWNS going to CANADA and the EAST COAST: 9.5 TORONTO - extermination night 9.6 MONTREAL 9.10 BROOKLYN - death by audio 9.11 MANHATTAN - cake shop 9.12 BROOKLYN - west nile. also, we work on the new record, late at night over in a lovely bright corner of dirrty west oakland we have lovingly dubbed "EAST NILE". aren't those oberlin boys everywhere? i think i finally might have found my favorite though... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8U5eCE_zsA] here is my new favorite song. it's by ester dean. no video really, just sounds but i can't find it anywhere but youtube. i heard it the other day on KMEL while i was driving and the whole fucking set they played was so good that i got goosebumps. it culminated in this and it's all i could remember to google later: "drop it low girl". some of the info says chris brown is on it but i hope not cuz fuck him after what he did to rihanna, right? OK more details on the above:

LIVE AT THE SMELL.

i haven't seen this yet and of course i'm nervous to cuz in most cases ezra and i would both rather get a root canal than watch live footage of ourselves. also, because of timing, we're the only band that has no audience! we had to record it one afternoon before we played a show because micheal and bobb couldn't make it that night. so as bobb says in his filmmaker's blurb: "The Gowns were the only ones to not have had an audience, but it was either this way or not at all, due to scheduling constraints. So the awkward 1980s music video vibe of their segment was the lesser of two evils. Still, I don't notice anything lacking, and I hope you can tell them how good they are, cos they are great people and great artists." aww... thanks bobb! actually, despite my girlie-girl aw-shucksing i am of course flattered to be included in this DVD. all the bands on here really are important and awesome. and micheal and bobb are awesome for making it work, making sure we made it on here, and choosing to use a fucking 13minute song of ours in their cut. EPIC! but just to warn you i do have a really strange haircut. 80s skater hair, like this boy i had a crush on in middle school. still looking for a picture. closest i found was DOLPH from the simpsons. in some ways it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, unless you believe like i do that the following EMF video is the basically the height of fashion right now... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waacof2saZw] CONFIRM OR DENY? (i'll let you know after we play baltimore.)

LAT_dog

emanderson1902 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:40:34 +0000

smellscreening

emanderson1902 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:47:32 +0000

+DOG+

emanderson1902 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:50:23 +0000

GOWNS TOUR DATES

emanderson1902 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:54:04 +0000

[caption id="attachment_602" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="LIVE AT THE SMELL screening"][/caption] California trio GOWNS is making a rare east coast appearance in conjunction with a pair of new audio and video releases. We'll be playing an exciting mix of art events and more traditional venues:

9.5 BITE YOUR TONGUE, TORONTO

9.6 LAB SYNTHESE, MONTREAL

9.10 DEATH BY AUDIO, BROOKLYN

9.11 CAKE SHOP, NYC

9.12 PARISLONDONWESTNILE, BROOKLYN

9.16 HEXAGON SPACE, BALTIMORE

These will be the first New York appearances by Gowns since the critically lauded Cardboard Records showcase at CMJ 2007.

Village Voice

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted

ABOUT THE SHOWS:

9.5 We are stoked to play a Bite Your Tongue festival by the people who put on EXTERMINATION NIGHT, a clandestine experimental art and music series that takes place in abandoned and condemned buildings around Toronto, where musicians and artists perform amidst rubble and ruins. We are sharing the bill with Final Fantasy and others, although the exact location will remain a secret until the day before...

9.6 Our good friends at Constellation Records set us up with HRSTA and Blue Hawaii at this radical new audio/visual community space.

9.10 Our first NY show will be the opening night of the MAZE at Death by Audio, a full-gallery installation by Sam Hillmer (Zs) and artist Laura Paris. Should be hot in every sense of the word. Also performing that night will be Social Junk, Skeletons, Knyfe Hyts, Dan Friel and Mincemeat or Tenspeed.

9.11 If you would like to see as well as hear us, we recommend this show at the Cake Shop, with Noveller and U.S. Girls, or

9.12 at Shinkoyo Record's ParisLondonWestNile space, with Mirror Mirror, Talk Normal and Zeldjko.

9.16 We will be keeping real at Baltimore's Hexagon Space with local electroacoustic shamans Sejayno and filmmaker Nicky Smith.

NEW RELEASES:

LIVE AT THE SMELL is a new film documenting 10 bands involved with the legendary downtown Los Angeles venue THE SMELL, including appearances from Gowns, HEALTH, No Age, Mae Shi, and Ponytail. From Cold Hands Video, the makers of the acclaimed Portland documentary People Who Do Noise:

"Featuring over 2 hours of live bands from Los Angeles and beyond, "Live at The Smell" captures the live energy that pumps through LA's legendary independent DIY all-ages venue. Recorded in high-quality audio and video over a month period in Fall 2008, the DVD gives you the feeling of being immersed in one of the many gigs presented there each week for over 10 years. The music is clean and powerful, the footage is raw and wild, and the energy is LIVE."

LIVE AT THE SMELL

SOUTHERN LATITUDES SERIES is a limited-edition collection of single-session recordings (similar to John Peel's BBC broadcasts), made at the famous CRASS studios in London. The series has included avant-rock voyagers as Magik Markers, Sir Richard Bishop, and Grails. The GOWNS session was recorded one day in November 2007 by our hero Harvey Birrell (who has engineered punk classics from Babes in Toyland to No Age...) and is finally seeing the light of day.

"Latitudes began as a simple concept, to put the bands we work with in touch with our studio and to release the resulting material. Swiftly we agreed it would be a great idea to offer our favourite bands - many of them passing through London as part ot their tour - the opportunity to spend some time recording something spontaneous, collaborative, fun or experimental in our studio. Whatever the band wants to achieve in a few days essentially - something truly transient, imaginative and unique. Something we hoped to capture in the aesthetic of the resulting record - something with boundless creative scope and freedom - specific to a certain time and space - something with latitude."

SOUTHERN LATITUDES

+DOG+ from GOWNS latitudes session: [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dog.mp3]

kind heart end

emanderson1902 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:13:44 +0000

kindendweb

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comp3

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irene_demo

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kindheart demo

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kind heart map 1

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kindpage1

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mr johnson drink

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kind heart page 1

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kind heart page 1

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kind heart page 2

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kheart page 1 big

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comp_3

emanderson1902 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:03:54 +0000

<3 johnny

emanderson1902 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:46:41 +0000

ok, tour posts coming soon, "kind heart" hobo-sign roadmap coming soon, but until then please just enjoy these videos of the brilliance, recalcitrance and intoxication of john frusciante: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDiTUUXTAo&NR=1] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3juD8uIbo] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-65sjgVyM]

kind heart page 3

emanderson1902 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:02:02 +0000

kind heart page 4

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kind heart 4

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kind heart 3

emanderson1902 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:45:57 +0000

kind heart 3

emanderson1902 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:50:09 +0000

kindheart road map crop

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emanderson1902 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:38:02 +0000

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The song then shrinks back down into a taut strum on the low E string. The little air squiggles represent the waves of harmonic overtones coming off the backbone and floating out into the ether.

[caption id="attachment_693" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="kind heart page 3 (click it!)"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_672" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="kind heart page 4 dissolve (click = BIG)"][/caption]

[audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/kinddemo.mp3]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSJb0rsCTUU]

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:21:44 +0000

safecss

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:21:44 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:23:28 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:23:40 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:23:40 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:23:41 +0000

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} .alignright { float:right; } .alignleft { float:left; } .aligncenter,div.aligncenter { display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } .wp-caption { border:1px solid #ddd; text-align:center; background-color:#f3f3f3; padding-top:4px; -moz-border-radius:3px; -khtml-border-radius:3px; -webkit-border-radius:3px; border-radius:3px; margin:10px; } .wp-caption img { border:0 none; margin:0; padding:0; } .entry dd.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text,.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text { font-size:11px; line-height:17px; margin:0; padding:0 4px 5px 0; } .commentlist li { float:none!important; } .commentlist .children { margin-top:10px; margin-left:10px; float:none!important; border-left:1px dotted #BBBBBB!important; width:auto!important; } .commentlist .children li { float:none!important; list-style:none; border-bottom:0!important; width:auto!important; padding:10px!important; } .commentlist #respond { margin-top:20px; background:white; } .commentlist #comment_form { float:none; } .children #respond { padding-left:10px; } #wp_tag_cloud { line-height:normal; }

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:29:40 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:29:40 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:33:39 +0000

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} .alignright { float:right; } .alignleft { float:left; } .aligncenter,div.aligncenter { display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } .wp-caption { border:1px solid #ddd; text-align:center; background-color:#f3f3f3; padding-top:4px; -moz-border-radius:3px; -khtml-border-radius:3px; -webkit-border-radius:3px; border-radius:3px; margin:10px; } .wp-caption img { border:0 none; margin:0; padding:0; } .entry dd.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text,.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text { font-size:11px; line-height:17px; margin:0; padding:0 4px 5px 0; } .commentlist li { float:none!important; } .commentlist .children { margin-top:10px; margin-left:10px; float:none!important; border-left:1px dotted #BBBBBB!important; width:auto!important; } .commentlist .children li { float:none!important; list-style:none; border-bottom:0!important; width:auto!important; padding:10px!important; } .commentlist #respond { margin-top:20px; background:white; } .commentlist #comment_form { float:none; } .children #respond { padding-left:10px; } #wp_tag_cloud { line-height:normal; }

safecss

emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:33:40 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:33:41 +0000

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irene

emanderson1902 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:43:26 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:36:47 +0000

MOV02337

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:39:07 +0000

ema west nile peace

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:44:38 +0000

emawestnile

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:44:42 +0000

emawestnilesmile

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:44:46 +0000

DSC02210

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:54:48 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:54:52 +0000

emamirror

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:54:55 +0000

MOV02238

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:26:40 +0000

MOV02248

emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:33:38 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:39:52 +0000

MOV02496

emanderson1902 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:57:38 +0000

anteroom demo

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:03:48 +0000

goombah

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:59:57 +0000

YOU'RE WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO PERFORM WITH

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:06:32 +0000

[caption id="attachment_769" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="the great one-eyed goombah"][/caption] Oh man so I was just in Portland and had the obscenely coincidental pleasure of running into Oblivia and Ju Suk Reet Meate of SMEGMA in a damn KARAOKE BAR. I went to go see them later in the week and Ju Suk showed me this video he had of GOWNS playing in portland in 2005 at a breakfast show in a living room. The fact that he had kept and remembered the footage and then made it into a little piece made me feel so special, it was like a little unexpected gift of something very precious, like someone finding something from your past that you thought was lost forever. I still remember the show, it was from the first GOWNS tour with SEJAYNO, first tour ever really for me, and it's amazing how it keeps coming back to me now considering probably only 100 people saw it (maybe I'm exaggerating a little but not much!) So here I am with really long dirty hair. From a simpler time...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTTMvxlzzUY]

antenik

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:38:01 +0000

antenik

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:43:41 +0000

kent ave brooklyn

emanderson1902 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:24:37 +0000

westnile smile

emanderson1902 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:50:17 +0000

kentavesm

emanderson1902 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:12:50 +0000

MOV02315

emanderson1902 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:38:14 +0000

ezmoma

emanderson1902 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:32:30 +0000

emanderson1902 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:10:33 +0000

TOUR PART 2: NYC

emanderson1902 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:00:24 +0000

[caption id="attachment_803" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="kent ave in brooklyn, where we stayed and played"][/caption] So this last trip to NYC was the first time that the city really made sense to me. I'm a country mouse at heart, and when I tell the folks at home that I'm living in California they repeat the word back to me as if I had just said that I was living on MARS. But if I had said New York City they would probably think perhaps I should be committed. Why on earth would you want to live there?!? It's big and dirty and they'll slit your throat for a nickel! They would probably think I was some sort of pervert. And while I never quite believed all that, I also never understood how people could actually live there. It did seem so expensive and scary and closed-in and in a word, hard. But this time I began to understand why people say it is the only city in the world. It kind of is.

my first

[caption id="attachment_739" align="alignright" width="200" caption="first world"][/caption] Despite that fact, the whole time I was there I did not see a single homeless person, which I found pretty shocking. However, I did go to a sort of homeless-themed fashion show, where the models wore sandals and shirts made out of plastic bags and other recycled materials. Here is a pic of a girl wearing a skirt made out of an Ikea bag. It was my first fashion show, and the whole thing initially struck me as absurd and surreal, like a satire of a hip fashion show instead of an actual hip fashion show. I definitely was not sure how to take it. Especially since I had came from a week of band practice in downtown LA, where the homeless problem is huge and very real, and people often wear plastic bags on their feet out of necessity, not style. So I had a couple moments of looking around and wondering "uh, this is fucked up right? am I the only one that thinks this is really fucked up?" [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="real deal (?)"][/caption] But after I let it sink in a bit, I could kind of appreciate the post-collapse/world-village vibe as celebrating resourcefulness and promoting the reappropriation of the world's trash. I mean, maybe we all should be wearing plastic bags on our feet instead of buying new shoes every year. It's got to be more sustainable than leather and fur and neoprene and whatever else people usually put on the runways. [wpvideo 15VZgDd1] Also, this was the first time I recognized fashion as an interesting art form with little to no conscience. Not necessarily this show, but most of it is so unabashed, like; hey we wanna look at really skinny beautiful people and we don't care who or what we rip off to get our point across! Which is kind of cool in a way. Honesty is usually thrilling. I mean, it's probably more complex than that, but I get most of my clothes once a year at the Sioux Empire Mall JC Penneys after-Christmas sale. (Thanks Mom!)

shows

[caption id="attachment_755" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="social junk rocks out at DBA"][/caption] For our first show in NYC we played at the opening of the maze at Death By Audio, which was rad because the bill was rad but I have to admit I did get a little frustrated by trying to get around during a show because it was literally a maze. And space or time are not really dimensions that I travel well in. The bill was packed and great, with Skeletons, Dan Friel, Knyfe Hyts and Mincemeat or Tenspeed. But the band I actually got to watch the most was Social Junk, which for this show was 2 cute boys from Philly who both wore thick glasses and holy Tshirts and looked kind of like identical twins. Their set was sludgy, percussive and I'll just go ahead and say it: TRIBAL. The next night at the Cake Shop was a super sweet bill that was like power-lady time, us and Sarah Lipstate (Noveller) and Megan (US Girls) and Real Rags, who was Ezra's old Oberlin friend Stefan Tcherepnin and his friend whose name now escapes me because I am also bad with names (space, time, words... how do I get by in this world???) And speaking of fashion, this show had the potential to be super awkward cuz not only do Sarah and I play the same kind of guitar (Jaguar), but me and Megan sometimes favor the same kind of 3rd-grade-boy bowl haircut (check out this sweet video of her playing at the hemlock). But that night hers was dark and mine was shaggy so it was fine. (Can you tell when I'm kidding? boys and haircuts and stuff? If you think this is bad you should read the Andy Warhol Diaries) For our last show we played at West Nile in Brooklyn and I think it was partially because it was our last show, but I really let loose and had a great time, felt really free and I think we played well. So here are some post-show pictures of me after I got my groove back (and my whiskey on!) I would like to thank the cute sweet drunk boy who insisted that he take these pics right after I played. As he said, "this one's for you!"

At that show we played with WISH who I missed because it was so hot I kept feeling like I was gonna throw up, so I went outside to get some air. Talk Normal also played right before us and they were really great, I think we were all like, "where have you been all my life?!?" Fast friends and they were fucking great, I just had a huge grin on my face the whole time they played, so excited. Here is a video: [wpvideo wPveZXyv] Mirror Mirror was scheduled to close the show, who are some of my favorite people. Unfortunately 3 songs into their set their drummer turned into a werewolf, smashed the drums and ran out of the building. He ripped off his shirt, howled at the moon and took off down the street. For reals. You can ask them.

And I'll leave you with this cute pic of Ezra at the MOMA, in an exhibit where attendees were invited to record their height and name on the wall with black sharpie. Jesus wow, the MOMA is,,, damn. So great. My absolute favorite was an exhibit on 70's Dutch Conceptualists like Jan Dibbets and Bas Jan Ander. Do you know? How he rode his bike into a canal and disappeared at sea? And while I slack-jawed through the white rooms a lightbulb went off in my head as it occurred to me that a GOWNS performance often felt more like falling off a roof than it did like Austin City Limits. Those thoughts exhilarated me, and planted a seed that set the stage perfectly as we headed off to Baltimore...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiWyrEyLY8Y]

emawestnile

emanderson1902 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:08:37 +0000

ema kanye

emanderson1902 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:26:11 +0000

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emanderson1902 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:51:25 +0000

wilburys

emanderson1902 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:58:34 +0000

IMMA LET YOU FINISH

emanderson1902 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:21:13 +0000

[caption id="attachment_844" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="lobot halloween 09"][/caption] Being Kanye for Halloween felt amazing and very powerful. The costume came together at the last minute and before that I was thinking of being Ronnie Spector cuz my friend was going as crazy Phil, but that would have meant wearing a dress and heels and I think I would have felt very uncomfortable. Suit jacket and microphone felt great. We went to the SFMOMA party on 10.30 and ended up at Lobot on actual Halloween. I don't mean to generalize, but I felt like there was definitely a racial gap as to who recognized the Kanye signifiers. And interestingly enough there were more at MOMA in downtown SF than at LOBOT, which is in West Oakland. I mean, I know the costume wasn't perfect and I looked kind of New Wave-y, but the sunglasses alone should have given it away. Which is unfortunate cuz by then I had gotten pretty good at making "Imma let you finish..." jokes on the fly. BUT at Lobot I did run into a Beyonce and a curly blonde girl who I made pose for a photo-op as Taylor Swift (results above). A lot of people thought I was Tom Petty, I guess cuz of the heartbreak patch and OK, BECAUSE I AM TALL WHITE AND BLONDE. (But I am determined not to let those details hold me back in my rapping career.) [caption id="attachment_846" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Seve Sinatra and L. Spector"][/caption] I went with my friend Seve who was Frank Sinatra, and Leif, who was a crazy Phil Spector. I thought we had a slightly incongruous group costume that was kind of pulled together by us all being musical icons from different eras who were all probably misogynist, ego-driven assholes. It was only at the very end of the night that I realized that oops! We were accidentally the TRAVELING WILBURYS, the 80s supergroup featuring Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne. Seve, with his dapper suit, could easily have been a Roy sans shades and Leif, with his fuzzed out trial-era Spector hair, was actually a ringer for Dylan. NOOOOO!!! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!?

Although, I must say that the phrase Traveling Wilburys, and all its connotations, is basically the BEST PUNCHLINE EVER, so as a group costume it was actually pretty sweet.

LAweekly

emanderson1902 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:02:57 +0000

GOWNS in LA weekly

emanderson1902 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:03:54 +0000

me and sis

emanderson1902 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:40:44 +0000

talk normal

emanderson1902 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:58:05 +0000

colin

emanderson1902 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:59:08 +0000

DSC02581crop

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:02:38 +0000

bedbuddies

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:03:51 +0000

wet hair

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:05:10 +0000

weekly_2

emanderson1902 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:28:17 +0000

ROUND UP

emanderson1902 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:38:33 +0000

Jesus ok, know I haven't updated for a second but man this has been kind of a crazy 2 weeks filled with mucho ROCK. First of all, last last Friday we threw a really fun show for BLUES CONTROL at Studio 1510 in West Oakland. Super great lineup that included WORK (Sarah from 16bitchpileup and Erin from Child Pornography), JAWS (one man band, white pants and a knife) SIC ALPS (the same band you know and love now with noel from comets on fire playing drums) and of course Blues Control from NYC. (Terry Riley was playing up the street, but Blues Control is basically the modern equivalent, dig?) The only bad part was that I forgot my damn camera so I have no video or pictures of it. BUT the good news is that since the show was in a studio we got a really nice recording of all the bands, which I will post now for your benefit. You can thank me later. Or thank LEIF from Studio 1510 (aka "East Nile"). Send him a postcard. SIC ALPS BLUES CONTROL JAWS WORK Right after that Ezra was here and we practiced and wrote a new piece and then went down to LA to play it. We played at the ECHO with 60 WATT KID, BEST COAST and TEARIST, all totally sweet bands that represent a cool cross-section of what is going on in LA, (and 3 out of us 4 were female-fronted, so howabout that?) Which is part of the reason it was especially flattering to get this really nice write up in the LA WEEKLY... The picture choice is a little funny, as it shows the old European tour lineup from 2 years ago, but I guess the one with 4 people really does look the most like a real "band" and nothing says "lead singer" like a miniskirt! But all kidding aside, it was a very nice surprise and a great review.

Another great thing was playing this new piece that I really like. It's huge and epic with swirling strident viola exploding into industrial guitar feedback. It's also about 15-20 minutes long, which I feel like is a really good length for a song. We got a chance to track it in a little back shed in Claremont, and the question now of course is how to put it out. Do we try to record more and make it part of a "full-length" album? Does it make any sense to release "full-length" albums anymore? Is one 20 minute piece the same as an EP? What if we put track breaks in it? Does a work that long still cost 99¢ on iTunes? Please weigh in with comments if you've got any advice. In some ways it seems so baroque! having to wait for a physical object. But on the other hand, something that never makes it out of ones and zeroes is kind of like the puppet that never becomes the real boy...

[caption id="attachment_876" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="me and lil sis, funny face"][/caption]

Right after I got home from that lil sis showed up to practice for our new grunge band WHEEL. I had been wanting to make music with her again since she played with me in Some Dark Holler when we opened up for Throbbing Gristle. She is an all-around excellent player, but in many ways the part I like best is harmonizing vocals with her. It's a total old-timey/Carter Family style pleasure, the sister vocals relating and overlapping, weaving around each other. Our first show was a little shaky but overall really rewarding. Here's a short video of the show we played at 21 GRAND in Oakland:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Dby74CULA]

That night's show was especially fun as I got to reconnect with some old and new friends.

[caption id="attachment_877" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="TALK NORMAL at 21 GRAND"][/caption] We played with TALK NORMAL again, who have a new record out on Rare Book Room Records. Here is a video of them from when we played together in Brooklyn. WET HAIR also played that night, which is Shawn Reed from Racoooon's new band. Someone described it as the Doors playing Can, which I liked, cuz there is lots of nice tranced out Manzerik-sounding keys, and also singing that is kind of a Morrison/Suzuki hybrid. But that's a stretch so don't quote me!

[caption id="attachment_878" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="colin's black eye"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_880" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="jeff and darren cuddle up on the couch"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_881" align="alignright" width="300" caption="WET HAIR at 21 GRAND"][/caption] Another good thing is that I finally got to give Shawn a master of some solo material that will be coming out as a tape on his label NIGHT PEOPLE. It's all little song-y things that were improvised straight to tape late at night mostly in my bedroom, using the voice function on the tape player to create a weird whirling atmosphere, really using the tape as another instrument. It's going to be called Little Sketches On Tape, and I'll post more info as the release date nears... Sorry this post was so scene-y but these coupla weeks were crazy! Next post will include roasted kale recipes and outfit ideas that utilize blaze orange.

1212show1

emanderson1902 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:38:56 +0000

DON't MISS!

emanderson1902 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:50:01 +0000

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="434" caption="CONTINENTAL CLUB, west oakland"]

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MAGIC MARKERS

SIC ALPS

GOWNS

INGOT ROT

SATURDAY DECEMBER 12TH

CONTINENTAL CLUB

1658 12TH ST WEST OAKLAND

9PM 21+ 5 bucks

As if the bands alone weren't sweet enough, the venue is over the top. THE CONTINENTAL CLUB: An old wood-floored ballroom from Oakland's bygone glamour days. Rumor has it that Martha and the Vandellas, Ike and Tina, Otis Redding and more played here in yesteryears. Lately shows here have been very rare, so we're trying to make it a real special event. Soul DJs, red curtains and a mirror ball. FREE ADMISSION if you come as Santa Claus or Freddy Krueger...

teeth_tongue

emanderson1902 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:25:11 +0000

lorena_

emanderson1902 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:28:16 +0000

dogmouth

emanderson1902 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:48:24 +0000

+DOG+

emanderson1902 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:55:34 +0000

dog

emanderson1902 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:06:34 +0000

GOWNS - "Broken Bones" out on Southern Records

$15 + shipping : thegowns@gmail.com

Listening to this recording evokes a time when we were barely holding on by our fingernails. Ezra had broken bones in his foot, which the cold and rain didn't help. There were points during that tour where I just kind of lost my mind, and during the recording of "HEAVEN" there was a moment where I completely forgot where I was, who I was, and what I was doing. Can you hear it?

[audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/04-dog.mp3]+DOG+

BROKEN BONES

emanderson1902 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:14:37 +0000

So here we are to celebrate the new year and 2 new old releases, including "Broken Bones", which was recorded during our 2007 tour of the UK, and "Dangers of Intimacy", our first EP recorded in 2005. We're also working on lots of new stuff, which has mostly been tracked but needs to be mixed, which is kind of a major task if you want to do it right. We typically mix everything ourselves, and that's like hand stitching. You know how you can listen to Red State over and over again? That took a long time. I want to make things that wear well, and a lot of that is really obsessive, tasteful mixing... So "Broken Bones" is basically one live session. It is a document. It is part of the "Latitudes" Sessions created by Southern Records in order to pick up where John Peel left off: bands come in for one day, record whatever they want, and then mix. (Just for reference most albums take anywhere from 2 weeks to ??? years (Chinese Democracy)). So I don't consider this session to be a GOWNS record per se, I more consider it to be a high quality, beautifully mixed version of what GOWNS circa 2007 sounded like live in a sweet studio with a full rhythm section. We were all super-stoked and honored to have a chance to record in fucking CRASS STUDIOS (!!!) with the amazing Harvey Birrell (No Age, Babes in Toyland, etc). FMI check out an interview here: That said there is an Aesop's fable/long anecdote that describes not only our mindset going in, but also kind of illuminates some essential and primal fact about the band itself. Before arriving in the UK, we had just been in Italy for 2 weeks, and the contrast between the mild weather, luxurious foods and gracious continental hospitality to Britain's cold and rain was extreme. Somewhere far in the past of initially booking the tour, we had been invited by one of the headliners of ATP to drop in and hang on the house, gratis. For some reason we decided not to go. I think it had to do with money, and we decided that we should try and make some (no matter how small an amount) instead of spending any to get there. It seems like vaguely sound reasoning, but really, from a band careerist perspective, it was quite stupid. If you are a self-respecting ambitious indie band that wants to get somewhere in life (dammit!), when the festival headliner invites you to show up, you should show up. But instead we decided to go to Hull. Hull. If you're from GB, you already get the punchline, but if you're not, Hull is an industrial port town that in 2005 was named by the BBC as the "Worst Place to Live in the UK". Its claims to fame include an overabundance of gunshot wounds and chip shops, making it the "fattest" city in the UK and also where you are most likely to get mortally wounded. There also seemed to be a fuckload of drugs. When we showed up that night at the Adelphi, we were 3/4s sick with the flu and seemed to be reaping the whirlwind of not only the stupidity of skipping a free trip to ATP, but perhaps a whole lifetime's worth of mistakes. That night we played our best show of the tour. There is something about playing a small show in a bar in the middle of nowhere to a few people. Where you know that it probably won't end up on a blog or in a magazine, and you won't likely meet anyone that will offer you a record deal (whatever that means these days). And if it doesn't depress the fuck out of you, it can be a very beautiful and freeing experience. At the end of the night we still weren't sure where we were staying, and as the small crowd trickled out we faced the possibility of sleeping inside the freezing club. As I said, we had just come from Italy and Europe proper, where they not only feed you but give you a place to stay as well. But in the UK, much like America, you've got to beg. (Insider tip to non-bands: if you want to hang out more with a band you just saw AND you've got the space, offer to put them up. You'd be surprised how often they'll take you up on it. Just don't be a creepo, ok?) BUT THEN, out of the beer-soaked blackness, an angel appeared. A slight young man in beanie who looked like he might support the legalization of marijuana showed up at the last minute and offered us couch and floor space. He led us to a small flat in a questionable neighborhood and I felt like Mary and Joseph so grateful for the haystack. Blankets! Cats! Tea! And most importantly, a chance to rest. I don't know how much my life and career might or might not have been different if I had spent that weekend hobnobbing at ATP, but I know I will never forget the feeling of being taken in and cared for by complete strangers. They let 4 unknown people in off the streets and gave them a place to sleep. They let us stay through the whole weekend. They cooked for us. They gave us showers. They let us recover from the road. And right before we left for our next stop, I complimented one of the girls living there on the sweater she was wearing. Without hesitation, she gave it to me right off her back.

grace.

[POST SCRIPT] ... This post was originally up for a second but then Ezra read it and got really sad and angry about it. How could I leave out Paul, the wonderful owner of the Adelphi, and the great soundguy and the awesome lead singers of the other bands? And how could I boil a gracious invitation to ATP down to a joyless careerist schmoozefest? He felt I was basically leaving certain things out in order to tell a story, (and being a total asshole about it.) And he was right. I was trying to tell the fable, of the promise and desire of the material being triumphed over by the surprise fulfillment of the spiritual, and of being completely humbled by blind kindness. I can't explain all the intricacies, they don't read well. But I can tell you that it's not just 20/20 hindsight that tells us that choosing to play in Hull was a good idea. I think we knew from the start, and it's a bet we make again and again. (I still have the sweater).

trouble_1

emanderson1902 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:57:37 +0000

EMA_guitar

emanderson1902 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:32:14 +0000

Ezra_video

emanderson1902 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:34:07 +0000

DAY JOB

emanderson1902 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:54:51 +0000

eatstapes

emanderson1902 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:16:06 +0000

UNVEILED

emanderson1902 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:20:42 +0000

Here are a couple of stills from a video we are making for "Marked". Shot by Severiano Martinez. You can find these in print along with a feature in the East Bay Express: GOWNS UNVEILED

Stand and Encounter

emanderson1902 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:36:32 +0000

EMA_peace

emanderson1902 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:31:01 +0000

EMA_pool

emanderson1902 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:38:25 +0000

standedit

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:42:13 +0000

boiled in lead

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:56:16 +0000

r_harmonics

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:02:46 +0000

mouth like the sun

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:20:18 +0000

ema_babybuggy

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:47:36 +0000

LITTLE SKETCHES ON TAPE

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:01:39 +0000

TAPE OUT NOW ON NIGHT PEOPLE RECORDS. ORDER HERE.

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR THE VISUAL ART COLLABORATION. AND :) CONTRIBUTE :) !

_ EVERY MINOR ARCANA AND THE LITTLE SKETCHES ON TAPE is a collection of songs and fragments recorded late at night, straight onto cassette. They are all completely improvised, and that honest and immediacy makes them some of my favorite recordings I have done. I think there is something really magical that you can hear in a piece of art that is being written at the exact same time it's being made. It's like trepanation, a hole straight to the brain. I know that part of my love for these little snippets has to do with the sound of the tape itself, and the way my voice sounds going into the tiny condenser mic. I started making them right around the time that the current lo-fi explosion was just starting to take form, and I realized that for my generation, tape itself has some magical properties. For many of us, it was the first album format we purchased for ourselves (mine was Appetite For Destruction, natch), and therefore it was somehow the first music that we really heard. And from that we subconsciously learned that this was the way things are supposed to sound. From there, many of our first attempts at recording our own music were make on analog 4-tracks, and the high hiss and lo-fi saturation became sonic shorthand for honesty, intimacy, naivety, comfort and nostalgia. For those just a little bit younger, tape had an even more mystical appeal. It was a portal to a world that existed before they were born: like Super 8, like Lascaux. _ _Boiled In Lead Mouth Like The Sun [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/r_green-eyes.mp3] _The tape player I used was one I had lying around, left over from an awful awful job I had driving around LA videotaping depositions. Even to think of it now makes me shudder. When I started the job they used to record all the audio onto cassette tape, but when I quit they had upgraded to digital. The tape recorder had a function on it called Voice Activation, which made the tape slow down and stop whenever the audio coming in wasn't loud enough. It's a clever idea for saving tape, and it would have worked great as a gate on a digital device that had a clean divide between stop and start. But a tape is analog, it's a real physical thing. And when the tape slowed down to a halt because it wasn't getting enough signal, the audio actually sped up in a sickly lurch and abruptly broke off, like a roller coaster crashing into a brick wall. The tapes were for the stenographers, who had to make a written transcript of the live interview, and every once in a while I would leave the Voice Activation Feature on and they would be really mad because the tape then would basically be unusable, just a garbled mess of swirls and thuds. _ The first time I used the recorder for my own purposes, I also accidentally left the Voice Activation feature on. I gave no thought to what it would do while I was recording, but afterwards I listened back and realized that this was a way that I could play the tape as an instrument in and of itself. (This also had a psychological benefit, as I found it nearly impossible to improvise lyrics while watching the tape roll. This way, whenever I stopped, it stopped too.) The results are fragmented but also somehow imperative, and like archeological clues to a collective memory just passed, evoke the imagination to fill in the gaps. __ _ Dirty Guitar

[audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/r_harmonics1.mp3]

_These pieces are coming out as a tape on Shawn Reed's fantastic Night People label out of Iowa City. He does all the work for his releases, and I'm stoked because he's a great artist. But I also wanted to open it up and give other people a chance to do art for it as well. When I listen to these songs I think of them as "sketches", outlines of things that may or may not ever get filled out with the details of choruses and extra instrumentation. So send me a drawing! Or a photo or sketch on a napkin or a scratching in the snow. I'm putting some of the tracks from the release up on the site, and if you send me a JPEG of something inspired by or that reminded you of the songs, or of tape itself, I'll post some of them up on the site. Please email images to: myrobobedroom AT gmail DOT com with TAPE in the subject line. When the run of actual tapes has sold out, I'll make a zip file with all the songs and art and make it available for download with an optional donation to Doctors Without Borders (which George Chen tells me is better than the Red Cross). I'd love to see a collaborative digital release made out of a piece about an analog technology, because if there's one great strength that digital technology has, it's the ability to collaborate over distances and to bring people together. _ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="Andy Warhol's Roy Rogers"][/caption] _ Cowboy [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/r_cowboy.mp3] _ Boiled In Lead [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/boildedinlead.mp3] _ _ _ ==================================== _

SKETCHES

_ So I got my first collaborative sketches! These are by David Chun and they come all the way from South Korea. Thanks David! _ [caption id="attachment_1095" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="by David Chun"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1096" align="aligncenter" width="476" caption="by David Chun"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1097" align="aligncenter" width="476" caption="David Chun"][/caption] _

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So I played some of these songs for a captive audience of 2nd graders. I called them over in little groups and made my eyes very wide and serious as told them that they were going to be part of a conceptual art project. And although they had probably never heard that phrase before, the responded in kind. I played the songs off my iPod and told them to draw about the music, whatever it made them think of. I was surprised at who ended up taking it very seriously and which ones were bored and confused. Some good quotes: "It sounds like a rocket ship taking off!" .. "Can you play some real music now? Some Michael Jackson?" and "Is this a man or a woman? It sounds like a man-woman!" to which Antoine replied "I seen a man-woman once! It was doing a funny dance." _ [caption id="attachment_1186" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Singer by Ajit"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="attachment_1185" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Big Green Eye by Jasmine"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1184" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Cowboy by Jesse"][/caption]

_ [caption id="attachment_1188" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="I Rock by Krista"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1187" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Monsters by ES"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1180" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="There Is A Foot The Monster Is Eating It"][/caption]

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Here are some more beautiful sketches by Keren Petrie from Toronto. To accompany them she wrote, "here are a few sketchbook pages that were also very 'alone late at night in a weird head space' for the Little Sketches on Tape project. You've got four to choose from. Enjoy! Thanks Keren! But they are so pretty I didn't choose at all...

[caption id="attachment_1190" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Keren Petrie"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1191" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Keren Petrie"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="attachment_1192" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Keren Petrie"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="attachment_1193" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Keren Petrie"][/caption] __

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_ _These next works come all the way from Italy, from Luca Garino, who describes the pieces as being partially "inspired by the end of Heliogabal emperor (mine great obsession)". I had to google that. Pretty wild stuff. Thanks Luca for bringing that to my attention, and also for these beautiful pieces! _ _ [caption id="attachment_1233" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="untitled I I by Luca Garino"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="untitled II IV by Luca Garino"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="attachment_1234" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="untitled I II by Luca Garino"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="attachment_1236" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="untitled II V by Luca Garino"][/caption] _ _

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"Hey, I'm Matt Eldon of Long Beach (and/or Irvine). I gave your sketches a listen and was, to my surprise, inspired to create a. . . visual response?" SWEET. Thanks Matt!!!

[caption id="attachment_1305" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="a "Little Sketch" by Matt Eldon of LONG BEACH"][/caption]

Clifford Morrissey writes, here "is a picture of my pal, Rob. I was listening to 'Cowboy' and looking through photo-files and found this. I realize it isn't a sketch, but I think it fits the song well." The picture is really beautiful, actually, and deserves to be clicked on and enlarged.

[caption id="attachment_1304" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="A Picture Of My Friend Rob by Clifford Morrissey"][/caption]

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Francesco Cassi is a visual artist working in Berlin. He also runs a screenprinting press called HARDCORE BRICOLAGE that makes gorgeous handmade artbooks. He got in touch like this: "Hello Erika .. simply it worked in this way .. I was just listening to the Red State album, still founding it amazing .. so I took my laptop and I am arrived to your blog .. good to see that although the end of Gowns still a lot of things are in movement..." Thanks Francesco! Movement indeed. Keep me moving by sending your contributions :)

[caption id="attachment_1306" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image still from Francesco Cassi, Berlin"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="attachment_1307" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Francesco Cassi, Berlin"][/caption] _ _ [caption id="attachment_1308" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Francesco Cassi, Berlin"][/caption] _

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Be part of this collaborative release by sending your own sketches or pictures to myrobobedroom AT gmail DOT com with TAPE in the subject line. Thank You!!!

VIDEO

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:02:35 +0000

So in between high school performance art/punk bands and post-college performance art punk bands (AKA while I was in college), I actually used to do a lot of video. I've had work shown at the New York Underground Film Festival, Portland Short Film Festival, the UC Riverside Romancing Heteroglossia Colloquium, The LAB and ATA in SF, featured on Miranda July's Joanie 4 Jackie Chainletter, written about in a book published by Duke University Press and released on 2 different Kill Rock Stars DVDs. I'm working on excerpting some longer works to put up here, but until then here are a couple of short music videos. More coming soon... _ [wpvideo fJ1nsWVg] Super8/video for the Amps For Christ "Tower Song". Featuring Henry Barnes and Tara Tavi, originally released on the Kill Rock Stars Video Fanzine #3. _ [wpvideo HvIBWtCe] Here is a short video I made for the original 4track version of what later became "rope". (Featuring a young Britt Brown on backing vox, probably the 2nd time he ever plugged into a tascam.) _ [wpvideo uKfK35UL] Ah! Now here is a funny one that I made for the Mae Shi song "Megamouth" that appeared on their ambitious Lock the Skull, Load the Gun DVD. Featuring the old upside-down chin-face trick that provided just as much amusement in making this video as it did when I was 8 and used it to perform skits for various babysitters. In fact, I think this one was even more fun. Featuring Ezra and some post-college hippie roommates that probably don't remember making this.

GOWNS: final release

emanderson1902 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:42:25 +0000

ezra and erika 2007

- As of last week, the collaboration between artists Erika Anderson, Ezra Buchla, and Corey Fogel, also known as GOWNS, has ceased to breathe.

The band had been together for about 5 years, creating in that time a small-run EP known as Dangers of Intimacy, the critically acclaimed LP Red State, a recently released Latitudes Session for Southern Records, as well as a standout appearance on the Live At The Smell DVD.

Pitchfork Media once described GOWNS as "one of the most heart-stoppingly great live bands on Earth", and it was the same tension that produced these electrifying performances that ultimately drove us apart. Another reviewer once referred to the themes of light and darkness that ran through Red State, which funnily enough I had never noticed, but seems now like an apt metaphor for the entire experience in general.

We were tapping into some very raw emotions, and I'm ultimately proud of the risks we took. In spite of anything else, I feel like we were honest, and I feel like we were brave.

I'm also proud of the sounds we created, as though the combination of our talents created something that was rare and unique.

Before this we were just finishing work on a piece for our next record, and I think in many ways it's one of the best things we've done. At 17 minutes long, it's a good representation of everyone doing the best of what they do best: it's got Corey's frenetic yet graceful drum patterns, Ezra's swelling viola drones, a rhythmic and powerful guitar line, and a vocal and lyrical style that is at once direct and oblique.

I'm posting it here as a free download, because I know people were anxious to hear something new from us, and I know we had kept them waiting far too long. I'd like to think of this as our final release.

I'm sorry we couldn't keep it together.

STAND AND ENCOUNTER

http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gowns_stand.mp3_

please click above to hear entire song, a short excerpt is below[audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/standedit1.mp3]

Please feel free to forward and REPOST this link. The distribution of it is now in your hands.+

Like Gowns' fantastic 2007 album Red State, this set was positively charged with desperate energies and highlighted by moments of profound focus and clarity. During those brightest moments (light and brightness being a leitmotif of Red State) it feels as though Gowns are grasping at some quintessential truth, and in so doing, tottering at the edge of oblivion. And then oblivion always wins.

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All members continue to be involved with other endeavors. EMA has a soon-to-be released tape on the Iowa City-based Night People label, which is paired with a short personal essay on fidelity and nostalgia, and a collaborative art project. Find info on that here. Also in the works is a digital LP version of the Some Dark Holler material, including a Hobo Code/graphic score of the epic "Kind-Hearted Woman", which was performed earlier this year in support of Throbbing Gristle's recent US tour. More info on that here. EMA: http://cameouttanowhere.com EZRA BUCHLA: http://catfact.net/ COREY FOGEL: http://knitdrums.tumblr.com/ Most releases remain in print, but some are down to only a few copies. Please email to inquire about Red State, Broken Bones; info on the brand new vinyl re-release of Dangers of Intimacy, here. _ While GOWNS has ceased, we still have love in our hearts, and haven't ruled out the possibility of future collaborations. Please contact thegowns@gmail.com for more information. _ _ _ _ _

standedit

emanderson1902 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:15:53 +0000

cowboy

emanderson1902 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:12:56 +0000

mouth like the sun

emanderson1902 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:38:28 +0000

green

emanderson1902 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:43:26 +0000

dirty guitar

emanderson1902 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:46:13 +0000

can't imagine

emanderson1902 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:53:57 +0000

dirty guitar

emanderson1902 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:55:25 +0000

EMA into the emptiness

emanderson1902 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:34:10 +0000

Spiderwoman Ballet by David Chun

emanderson1902 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:06:55 +0000

by David Chun

emanderson1902 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:08:32 +0000

by David Chun

emanderson1902 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:09:30 +0000

FUNNY DUDE

emanderson1902 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:45:04 +0000

DAY JOB

emanderson1902 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:52:42 +0000

I love these kids. They keep me tough, and also not so tough. They are, in some ways, what the last GOWNS song was about. Them vs the fatcats of the world. [wpvideo BueMi51w] _ And of course, FUNNY DUDE. [wpvideo KdKlyKYs] _ In other news, when I'm not telling jokes or dodging spitballs, I've been spending some time going over other unreleased material. I believe it could be time for the EMA solo record...

queens3

emanderson1902 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:21:47 +0000

EMA0200crop

emanderson1902 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:26:12 +0000

bruiser

emanderson1902 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:28:24 +0000

WHEN THE QUEENS MUSCLE ACED INFINITY

emanderson1902 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:53:08 +0000

[caption id="attachment_1112" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="EMA 2010"][/caption] _ Tomorrow I'm lucky to be performing at the closing of a beautiful art show put on by 0th. It's called WHEN THE QUEENS MUSCLE ACED INFINITY. I think that's a great name. _ I'm going to be doing some things I've never done before, including playing a synth version of DANZIG through a custom-built MAX/MSP / Arduino pedal and telling a story from when I was a teenage Bukowski. Hot, right? And here's a pic of my new haircut. What a bruiser. _ 0th is a badass art, music and technology collaboration among Rose / Canner MEFE, Jacqui Gordon, MNDR and Caryl Keintz. Their collective output is very impressive, and the show is definitely worth seeing in person if you're in the area. INFO for QUEENS MUSCLE: [caption id="attachment_1110" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="0th art show at 21 GRAND "][/caption] Closing Performance: February 26th, 8PM Laetitia Sonami Ava Mendoza/Matt Ingalls/Jordan Glenn - Trio Erika Anderson 0th Location: 21 Grand Gallery 416 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612-2409 (510) 444-7263 Gallery Hours: Thurs 4-8pm, Fri 4-6pm, Sat & Sun 2-6pm http://0th.cc http://21Grand.org _ _ _PS-- show went great! The whole evening felt really electric and high quality. I've got a great recording that I'd like to post, I just might need to edit it cuz my Grandma internet-stalks me and I don't want her to hear the story about my crazy teenage exploits. I try to hide from her but she is savvy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA! (she just turned 80)

AFC "Tower Song"

emanderson1902 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:12:31 +0000

...and the rope

emanderson1902 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:24:47 +0000

AFC_tower2

emanderson1902 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:14:14 +0000

megamouth

emanderson1902 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:28:25 +0000

MUSIC

emanderson1902 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:06:13 +0000

EMA = AWE

GOWNS

_

SOME DARK HOLLER

EVERY MINOR ARCANA AND THE LITTLE SKETCHES ON TAPE

VIOLENT WORLD

emanderson1902 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:21:03 +0000

VIOLENT WORLD

emanderson1902 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:44:39 +0000

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="598" caption="Die Antwoord pic from Mhambi.com"][/caption] J. Kit Clayton told me Die Antwoord is a hoax, and that they are an art collective that used to do Powerpoint presentations on how to rap. But for some reason I kind of don't care. It's strange because Leif watched the videos and said they reminded him of Borat, and I got really mad because for once I just wanted to BELIEVE in something, and root for someone and let them make me happy instead of just letting cynicism take over. And apparently this is the one time I should have been more cynical. (I mean, look at that website, right?) But as I said, I'm kind of with this guy on this one in that I don't care. I mean, I think James Frey is a total sleazefuck, but most hiphop videos are all about fantasy anyway, and the debate about legitimacy has always been there. I mean, how's it that different from selling suburbanites a fantasy version of "ghetto" Compton? South Africa just seems like the logical next level of exoticism.

VIOLENT WORLD

And here's me cashing in on the exoticism of my hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It's an excerpt of the piece I did at the Queens Muscle show a couple weeks ago. The set wove in and out between narrative and music, and this section cuts to the end of a longer story and focuses mostly on the loop/ARP/MAX version of Danzig's "ARCHANGEL". (Gawd he's just so big, dumb and sexy) The whole thing is really a love letter to all the rough and tumble boys in my hometown who taught me how to throw TVs off of balconies. But in the excerpt it comes off as a little harsh; my apologies to J.H. Diamond, who bears the brunt._ [wpvideo 4ZS04G8k] I know that's not really a "video" so much as a static shot, but video seems like the only searchable medium these days (skip to 7:30 if you get bored). So if you want more of a real video, I've got one for ya. It's Psychic Handbook doing a cover of "White Like Heaven" on the day after Christmas at Rhinoceropolis in Denver. It's a little dark and at first you can't see the singer, so I thought in the beginning that maybe it was a record. She starts to fucking wail at about 2 minutes in and it sounds so good. I always wished I could wail like that. I think they do a really beautiful job and it gives me the craziest feeling to watch. Kind of makes me cry actually, but also makes me wonder if now other people are more easily able to access that person who wrote the song than I do. That person: me. One of the members was DJing at Cansifus' comedy night at the Ivy, and he ordered a drink next to me at the bar, but I couldn't talk to him. What did he give me by playing that song? I will never be able to put it into the right words. _ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObMlOu8-xeE] _ _ _

emanderson1902 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:57:35 +0000

THE PERENNIAL TULL

Erika Anderson I should have started to wonder if my mom had been a teenage stoner the moment I found out her favorite band was Jethro Tull. With that mystical yet kind of dirty flute, proggy guitar and lecherous lyrics—Jethro Tull is not like Led Zeppelin, which is also mystical and dirty. Led Zeppelin somehow bridged the loadie/square gap, which might have something do to with the Hobbit lyrics. Jethro Tull was strictly for stoners. “Bungle in the Jungle”? Come on! They didn’t even have as wide of appeal as the Doors, which I liked to listen to stoned out of my teenage mind two floors below where my parents slept. I used to listen to “The End” on repeat, my mind following every note of Robbie Kreiger’s faux-Asian snaky guitar riffs, every syncopated cymbal skip of John Densmore’s drumming, and I knew by heart every self-important lyric that fell out of Jim Morrison’s smirking mouth. Looking back, my parents must have known that anyone lighting candles in their room, burning incense and listening to “The End” on repeat was smoking tons of shitty pot. But they never busted me for it. My mom grew up in a very small town in Nebraska not far from Sioux Falls, where I grew up. The town has about 600 people now but maybe it had more in the early ‘70s, before corporate farming made small time agriculture a slow road to poverty. Tales of her early childhood are filled with cute anecdotes about her and her siblings dressing the cat up like a baby and pretending to eat mud pies and whatever other wholesome and zany things kids get up to in small towns. However, the stories kind of trail off during her teenage years—so I’ve had to fill them in with stock footage of butterfly necklaces, oversized head- phones and joints smoked on gravel roads. Rural ‘70s midwest was a place far removed from the hippie movement, yet a perusal of her surprisingly large record collection later turned up not only Tull, but also heavy jams from such psych-masters as Deep Purple, Pink Floyd (of course) and even Alice Cooper. Despite her groovy and far-out record collection, she went to a nice respect- able college right after high school, and when she was done with that went straight into med school. She had two kids right along with her boards and residency and even (briefly) convinced my dad that he should become a lawyer. She is now vice president of her group, is totally on top of her shit and never smokes any pot (that I know of). When I was 17, she convinced me that perhaps on the off-chance that the world didn’t end on Y2K, I might want to consider college. (My contingency plan had been taking somewhere between one to five years off, working at a shitty Irish/Mexican chain restaurant in Sioux Falls, and smoking lots more pot.) What followed were four confusing years outside of L.A. stiflingly surrounded by terrible hippies. Since then, she’ll often start conversations with, “So, have you thought any more about grad school?”, to which I usually reply with mumbled deferrals. While I was home over the holidays my mom proudly announced that my sister was planning to go to med school. I winced inwardly, thinking about my shabby room in West Oakland, and the tiny, scattered paychecks I got from substitute teaching that barely covered rent, my cell phone bill and the steady diet of beans and kale I subsisted on. Whatever financial stability I was able to nail down was always thrown into chaos by going on month-long tours across the country or across the sea. I would try to impress my mom when she called by telling her about the occasional expenses-paid hotel room at a festival or small time record offers or tiny blurbs in mainstream newspapers. “So are you making any money?” she would invariably ask, and the whole “band thing” would be exposed for what it was: childish, indulgent and financially doomed. Whenever I asked her about it she’d always insist, “Of course we’re proud of you honey! We just don’t really understand what it all means.” And what meaning could be assigned to underground mp3 blogs, indie record deals with no advances, DIY tours and CD-R comps? Even when I tried to explain it to myself I often ended up in a shrug. After our house burned down in a South Dakota thunderstorm, my parents redid the basement with a pool table, a dart board and a new stereo system with a record player. My mom likes to go down there after work, crack open a Miller Lite, shoot pool and listen to old LPs: Neil Young, the Rolling Stones, Led Zep and of course the perennial Tull. Listening to those records growing up, did my mom ever dream of being in a rock band? Or was being a small town girl from Nebraska who played clarinet and sang in church simply too far removed from that for her to even consider it? Perhaps if she would have had blogs and DIY tours things would have been different. But I had to wonder: did she ever, just for a second, dream of getting up onstage in front of tons of people and rocking her clarinet like Ian Anderson rocked his flute? I like to think maybe so. ___ ___ Originally published in the Interrobang?! 5 Anthology on Music and Family, available in softcover or as a free downloadable ebook. More info here.

witch

emanderson1902 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:30:58 +0000

emanderson1902 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:31:17 +0000

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msa_RICH2

emanderson1902 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:32:58 +0000

monsters

emanderson1902 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:35:07 +0000

cowboy_ES

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:59:59 +0000

greeneye

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:00:04 +0000

ajit_singer

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:59:45 +0000

ES_monster

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:59:52 +0000

KRISTArock

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:03:08 +0000

littlesketches1

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:14:05 +0000

littlesketches2

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:14:24 +0000

littlesketches3

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:15:02 +0000

littlesketches4

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:15:19 +0000

LITTLE SKETCHES

emanderson1902 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:35:18 +0000

SO I've got some new collaborators for the Little Sketches On Tape project, including this gorgeous piece by Keren Petrie from Toronto, along with some debut works by willing and confused second graders. FMI here. The project is a collaborative art piece and if you'd like to contribute, send some images my way! email: myrobobedroom (AT) gmail (DOT) com _ [caption id="attachment_1190" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Keren Petrie"][/caption] _ In other news, Shawn Reed says he's almost done with his version of the artwork, which means hopefully the actual tapes will be ready soon! _

1_EMA_the grey ship (demo)

emanderson1902 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:07:36 +0000

AWE_californiaboys (demo)

emanderson1902 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:08:52 +0000

3_EMA_momma said (demo)

emanderson1902 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:10:07 +0000

4_EMA_marked (demo)

emanderson1902 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:11:42 +0000

emanderson1902 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:16:43 +0000

EMA = AWE

"PAST LIFE MARTYRED SAINTS" LP ** MILKMAN_demo [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/milk2.mp3] CALIFORNIA (BOYS) [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/2_ema_california-demo.mp3] GREY SHIP / CHOIR [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/1_ema_the-grey-ship-demo.mp3] MARKED [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/ema_marked.mp3] *** Also, here is a rough draft of the video for the song "Marked" by Severiano Martinez: [wpvideo ndp070T6] _ Plus a teaser for "CALIFORNIA BOYS" by EMA [wpvideo FQ1YrkeZ] _ Link to past press here.

FMI: erikam.anderson@gmail.com

kind heart_demo

emanderson1902 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:08:01 +0000

EMA "Marked"

emanderson1902 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:20:20 +0000

MARKED_demo2

emanderson1902 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:24:17 +0000

EMA_bedguitar

emanderson1902 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:26:06 +0000

untitled I I

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:17:24 +0000

untitled I II

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:17:29 +0000

untitled II IV

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:17:35 +0000

untitled II V

emanderson1902 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:17:40 +0000

emanderson1902 — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:42:49 +0000

OK! While the ParisLondonWestNile NYC space has sadly closed, over at EastNile we are still steadily trucking and have been working on lots of video. Here are some stills of me shooting some video for the top-secret Sejayno Opera "Cezzano", that will be performed this month at the Baltimore Art Museum. Sejayno is a bi-coastal art collective featuring resident metaphysic Severiano Martinez, analog synth-master Peter B. and C18 wanderer Carson Garhart. More information can be found here and here. I don't want to give away too much behind-the-scenes magic, but here are some shots of me filming Seve in character over in sweet ol' West Oakland. [caption id="attachment_1253" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="CEZANNO unveiled"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1254" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="HUZZAH!"][/caption] _ Another plate on the platter is a video I'm making for a new solo song called "California (Boys)". It involves UFOs, skaters, reptilians and hula-hooping, (naturally.) I'm still collecting footage, so if you've got some good UFO footage, real or fake, send it on over to me: myrobobedroom AT gmail DOT com. Here is a preview involving me shaving my head while wearing a homemade Danzig Tshirt. _ And I think this is last minute but tomorrow I am performing tomorrow in the city at VIRACOCHA, in a space which apparently used to be used for Santeria rituals. Which probably means animal sacrifice, at least. Spooky shit! For the occasion I'm working on a group exorcism involving paper airplanes. We'll see how that flies (wink). NEW SENSATIONALISTS : FRIDAY MAY 7th Artists in order of appearance: Sara Beckley Nora Toomey Mark Matos Wax Sax Erika M. Anderson James Marchetti Alexander Friend/ David Petrelli @ VIRACOCHA -- 21st and Valencia 8pm -- donation based bar!

cezannoshoot1

emanderson1902 — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:07:02 +0000

cezzanoshoot2

emanderson1902 — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:07:05 +0000

sevewhiteface

emanderson1902 — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:07:07 +0000

I AIN'T NO GODDAMN SONUVABITCH

emanderson1902 — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:22:57 +0000

DANZIG TAPE EXORCISE

emanderson1902 — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:52:00 +0000

EMA SOLO TAPE OUT NOW ON NIGHT PEOPLE RECORDS.

ORDER HERE.

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON THE CORRESPONDING VISUAL ART COLLABORATION.

GREAT NEWS! The EMA "TAPE" tape is available now from Night People Records. This is my take on improvised music, but it ends up sounding kind of like a sweet girl version of Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-shirt, which is probably one of my favorite albums EVER. It's intimate and I think really beautiful. In conjunction with the actual tape release, I am doing an interweb collaborative visual art project, which you can find out about here, along with a short essay about the idea of TAPE. Please Contribute! _

EAGLES DARE

_ [wpvideo OWi7tOah] _ In other news, while we are sad about our East Coast sister school ParisLondonWestNile closing its doors, productions over in West Oakland's EAST NILE have been kickin, and our focus has been on video. Here's quick clip from a video I'm making for a new solo song called "California (Boys)". It involves UFOs, skaters, reptilians and hula-hooping, (naturally.) I'm still collecting footage, so if you've got some good UFO footage, real or fake, send it on over to me: myrobobedroom AT gmail DOT com. Here is a preview involving me shaving my head while wearing a homemade Danzig Tshirt. _

CEZANNO

_

Also, our resident metaphysic Severiano Martinez has been working on the upcoming Sejayno Opera : "Cezzano", that will be performed this month at the Baltimore Art Museum. Sejayno is a bi-coastal art collective featuring Severiano Martinez, analog synth-master Peter B. and C18 wanderer Carson Garhart. More information can be found here and here. _ _ I don't want to give away too much behind-the-scenes magic, but here are some shots of me filming Seve in character... [caption id="attachment_1253" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="CEZANNO unveiled"][/caption] _ [caption id="attachment_1254" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="HUZZAH!"][/caption] _

AND I DON'T PRACTICE SANTERIA

_ I know this is last minute but I am performing tomorrow in the city at VIRACOCHA, for the debut of the NEW SENSATIONALISTS poetry movement. The party takes place in the basement which apparently used to be used for Santeria rituals. Which probably means animal sacrifice, at least. Spooky shit! For the occasion I'm working on a group exorcism involving paper airplanes. We'll see how that flies (wink). NEW SENSATIONALISTS : FRIDAY MAY 7th Artists in order of appearance: Sara Beckley Nora Toomey Mark Matos Wax Sax Erika M. Anderson James Marchetti Alexander Friend/ David Petrelli @ VIRACOCHA -- 21st and Valencia 8pm -- donation based bar! _ Stay tuned for info on the new "Butterfly Knife" video from LA artists Dawn Kasper and Deanna Erdmann plus a post-exorcism report. Send luv hate and hugs to : myrobobedroom AT gmail DOT com _ _

EMA_kindheart

emanderson1902 — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:53:00 +0000

EMA_trouble in mind

emanderson1902 — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:01:13 +0000

EMA_moonshiner

emanderson1902 — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:06:33 +0000

EMA_MARKED

emanderson1902 — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:04:49 +0000

AWE_butterflyrough

emanderson1902 — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:09:44 +0000

CALIFORNIA BOYS ((short))

emanderson1902 — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:19:22 +0000

MARKED_tease

emanderson1902 — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:13:11 +0000

BUTTERFLY KNIFE

emanderson1902 — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:19:15 +0000

MARKED (short clip)

emanderson1902 — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:15:25 +0000

A Picture of My Friend Rob

emanderson1902 — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:42:44 +0000

Matt Eldon_little sketch

emanderson1902 — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:42:47 +0000

hardcore bricolage

emanderson1902 — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:56:41 +0000

hardcore bricolage 2

emanderson1902 — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:56:43 +0000

hardcore bricolage 3

emanderson1902 — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:56:44 +0000

CALI TEASE

emanderson1902 — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:41:10 +0000

_ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsyzw9loUuE] _ Here is a short preview of a new video I'm working on for an EMA solo song: CALIFORNIA (featuring UFOs, skaters, and a homemade Danzig Tshirt--it's really more about boys than geography, dig?) _

EMA_VIOLENTWORLD

emanderson1902 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:08:39 +0000

AWE_BLU

emanderson1902 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:02:02 +0000

AWE_anteroomdemo

emanderson1902 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:10:11 +0000

EMA = AWE

emanderson1902 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:24:23 +0000

AWE - Past Life Martyred Saints LP out SPRING 2011 on Souterrain Transmissions (Europe). _ CALIFORNIA (BOYS) [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/2_ema_california-demo.mp3] ANTEROOM (nirvana demo rare) [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/awe_anteroomdemo.mp3] BUTTERFLY KNIFE [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/ema_butterflyrough080119.mp3] _ Contact: erikam.anderson (AT) gmail (DOT) com for US inquiries. _

emamirror3

emanderson1902 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:14:32 +0000

EMA_queens

emanderson1902 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:25:02 +0000

EMA_tiger2

emanderson1902 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:36:52 +0000

EMA_tiger3

emanderson1902 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:52:09 +0000

VICE3crop

emanderson1902 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:12:41 +0000

emamirror2

emanderson1902 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:20:28 +0000

IMG_0612

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:21:48 +0000

IMG_0618

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:28:42 +0000

viceemployeecrop

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:29:50 +0000

bullhead

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:41:50 +0000

cthulhu2

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:43:47 +0000

cthulhu-baby

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:50:24 +0000

oaklandxmas

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:00:56 +0000

will

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:31:45 +0000

will_dan

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:31:48 +0000

will_james

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:31:51 +0000

mario playing the metal guitar

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:18:57 +0000

BALTIMORE

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:24:17 +0000

meandgramps

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:25:31 +0000

mefish

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:25:34 +0000

mefish2

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:25:36 +0000

FREQ PEDAL PROTOTYPE

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:05:13 +0000

grandpafish

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:30:14 +0000

meandgramps

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:38:10 +0000

bwfishes2

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:07:30 +0000

EMA_Thill

emanderson1902 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:33:36 +0000

shinkoyoiscoming

emanderson1902 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:04:36 +0000

SUMMER ROUND UP

emanderson1902 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:50:35 +0000

SUMMER ROUND-UP

Oh man so summer is almost over. I know it's true because I just did my perennial trip to JC Penney in order to reap the benefit of massive mall sales and procure back-to-school clothes without holes in them. I even picked up some cheap junky jewelry in hopes of perfecting my "real adult" simulacrum. I'll keep you posted ;) Oh yes, summer. A time when the substitute teaching season ends and I spend a month or two taking trains and sleeping on couches, visiting friends and strangers, wearing the same clothes every day and getting stinky... _

PORTLAND

My first stop was Portland, where I spent time in a lovely trailer off of 82nd street writing my first magazine article and practicing with my new band. The article is out now in the VICE Anti-Music Issue edited by Sam McPheeters. It's called "Keeping It Bleak: Modern Touring in America" and it's about deathbed noise-tour as artform. I was lucky enough to get some of my own personal tour heroes Elijah Forrest (Terrors, Cavelife) and Jeff Witscher (Rene Hell, Deep Jew, Impregnable, etc) for quotes and interviews. I think both of them are amazing artists and I hope that comes across in the piece. It also includes awesome illustrations by my good friend and former bandmate Tara Tavi. To top it off, I'm also EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH for the first time in my life! (Something that somehow never happened when I was a waitress or video store clerk.) [caption id="attachment_1376" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption=" the photo was also taken in the PDX trailer, so CK One!"][/caption] PS - I kind of like writing. If you want to hire me to write something, hit me up! erikam.anderson (AT) gmail (DOT) com _

AWE

The new band is called AWE and I'm REALLY excited about it. The name came to me in a dream ok so I can't fuck with it. It's my initials turned all inside out. The line-up is basically the same people that played with me when I opened the Throbbing Gristle show last April. It's my bestest NoDak friend Aaron Davis (ACRE) on bass and my lil sis Nicole on drums and vocal harmonies. Yes, that is correct, I'm forming a sister band. Is there anything cuter? They were just down for a couple weeks tracking some stuff at Studio 1510, so now I've got to buckle down and mix it. The AWE record is tentatively titled Past-Life Martyred Saints and will include some older stuff I recorded but never released like "Marked" and "Butterfly Knife", but also brand new stuff. It's going to be coming out early next spring in Europe on the truly rad Souterrain Transmissions label. At this point I don't have a plan for the US. What's up with the US these days? Anyone want to weigh in? [caption id="attachment_1373" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="summer, PDX"][/caption] So anyway, here are the bones of a new song called "Nirvana Demo Rare". Recorded in that Portland trailer on a borrowed 4track, with help from cats. The final version will prolly have drums and bass, but here is the skeleton. NIRVANA DEMO RARE [audio http://somedarkholler.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/awe_anteroomdemo.mp3] [caption id="attachment_1375" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Mona, who helped"][/caption]

_

MIDWEST

_ Next stop was my hometown of Sioux Falls, SD. Not a single picture from that time except one of me taking a body shot of tequila out of a former high school classmate's cleavage. Nope! Not posting it! From there it was a little cabin on a lake outside of Minneapolis (which happens to be one of the best cities in the US fer sure). No internet, and I stayed up til dawn 3 nights in a row fishing. And drinking miller lite. Jesus christ that was the best. All catch and release, mostly little panfish and trout and of course the hideous bullhead. For those who don't know these are quite awful creatures with a blubbery flesh body and horrible stinging whiskers. They are basically fucking cthulhu, total lovecraft fish, but also kind of a common meme/punchline in the midwest. They are like the devil whammies on press your luck. [caption id="attachment_1377" align="aligncenter" width="292" caption="bullhead"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1378" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Cthulhu"][/caption] See? Don't they look like fucking baby Cthulhus? Which brings me to one of my favorite memes : BABIES DRESSED LIKE CTHULHU! [caption id="attachment_1379" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="aw, aint he cute?"][/caption] Don't worry, I'm not super-maternal yet, despite all the time I spent in the Midwest. I can't even take care of a dog :( _

BALTIMORE

_ [wpvideo ZnqHI3Ln] _ From there I got a real cheap ticket to NYC, and from there ran down to Baltimore for what was apparently the last ever Whartscape. It was really really lots of fun. So much so that I didn't take a single picture! Saw lots of friends and the whole time was so hot and sweaty it was like a constant sauna. Also spent some time debating about which is more intimidating, West Oakland or West Baltimore. I had always felt really unsure and on my toes when I had visited Baltimore in the past, but friends that come visit us in West O feel the same way. I'm still kind of tripped out by Baltimore, with its blue flashing police cameras in the streets and hovering black helicopters that actually yell at people. Even the bar down the street from Peter's they have to buzz you in and take down your driver's license number in case you stab somebody. But in West Oakland we don't even have a bar, so that's that. We decided that both were intense in different ways. In Baltimore I noticed that ppl you pass on the street won't really look at you, (which seems kind of Southern in a way) but in Oakland you basically have to make eye contact and greet everyone you come across or else it's sketchy. The last time I didn't I had a group of boys holler at me "What's up? You bad-ass bitch! You exotic-ass bitch!" Which I think was kind of a compliment but so funny that this blonde-haired blue-eyed cornfed girl would be so exotic out here in Oakland. Funny, but true. [caption id="attachment_1380" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="me and lil sis pose for a West O xmas card"][/caption] As always, a big highlight was visiting Tarantula Hill and seeing whatever progress on the house that's been made since the last time through town. A sauna! A rooftop garden! A lightbox synthesizer from 1960! And to top it all off, Carly even gave me some of my favorite homemade lipgloss made out of beeswax from HER OWN BEES that she keeps herself in beehives on the roof. What a woman! [caption id="attachment_1404" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Carly, Elijah and me @ T-Hill"][/caption]

NYC

_ From there it was back to NYC for just a few days. Apparently everyone lives in Greenpoint now so that's where I spent almost all my time. My friend Will was having an art party/real-time photo collage, where he hired a model off of Craigslist and invited friends to come over, bring an object, and stage a still-life involving all objects and the model. The actual scene of the shoot was kept very secret, behind a big white sheet so that people couldn't peek at what one another was doing. We got there late so we just sat around drinking wine in the gallery with the other participants who were waiting for their turn to set up their shot. We also invented a new meme I really liked that boiled down to "I'd rather listen to Henry Rollins doing spoken word on a TOOL album than listen to Fugazi!!!" Here are some pics.

[caption id="attachment_1382" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="By Will Rahilly"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1383" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Will Rahilly and Dan"][/caption]

From there we split: me, Leif and Mario. 3 Midwesterners in the big city. And for some funny reason we ended up doing pretty much exactly as we would have done if we had been back in the dusty rural Heartland instead of buzzing Brooklyn: first we did karaoke, then we got Miller Lite and went back to Zeljko's apartment where we drank, listened to Danzig, talked metal and stayed up until dawn.

Here is an awesome video of Mario playing guitar with a prototype of Leif's new pedal. This is especially great because Mario is actually an accomplished composer with a release on Tzadik and performances of his work taking place all over the world. He recently told a former professor that he was in a new metal band and his professor said, "Mario, grow up!" But this here proves why he's got all the cred:

[wpvideo vMcQQaqN]

Yes Leif's pedal is still in prototype right now but it's going to be fucking crazy. Midi-sync stereo programmable tremolo patterns with tap tempo, feedback function and the ability to import settings into your ProTools sessions. WHA??? Basically a game-changer.

Here is a scrappy little video I took of him playing around with it plugged into a Big Muff and a volume pedal. Poor lil baby can't even really play guitar ;) (although he's real handy with a viola) BUT LISTEN TO HOW FUCKING SWEET IT SOUNDS when he's just basically holding it! Fuck.

[wpvideo et6mVh6p]

Check back for more updates on this, the first run should be available soon...

MIDWEST PART II

And from there it was home again home again jiggedy-jig. Back to the cabin on the lake where I was supposed to be working on more music but instead spent most of my time fishing and watching TV (which is really a wild time for me, since I haven't had TV in about 10 years). The best (besides having no internet) was being able to go fishing with my grandparents. I love them and feel so lucky to have all 4 of them still around to tell me stories about the "olden days", as I call them. This grandpa grew up around the Minnesota Iron Range 60 miles from the Canadian border and has the best accent I have ever heard and supreme comic timing. He wears wooden clogs and goes out to the barn every morning to feed the kittens. Apparently though he used to be a real hooligan, as he just told me a story of one Halloween where he and some friends tipped over an old lady in an outhouse with the DOOR FACING DOWN! Grandpa!!!_

[caption id="attachment_1394" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Grandpa hammin' it up! must run in the family ;)"][/caption]

OAKLAND

Ok I guess this is the real home again home again. EASTNILE has some crazy shit coming up. First of all is the online launch of SHINKOYO, which is a digital media label spanning New York, Baltimore and the West Coast. Besides releasing physical formats, the label will also be trafficking in digital 7"s, video art and even experimental opera and performance. I've been dreaming of putting the Some Dark Holler stuff into digital LP format and this looks like the place to do it...

Also exciting is the first ever festival we are throwing in conjunction with the traditionally more improv-based 1510. We’re calling it the ONE festival, for OAKLAND NEW AND EXPERIMENTAL, and it will be 4 days of music, video and performance from so many amazing acts. I helped curate this one and the lineup is definitely one of the most diverse and unique I have seen in a long time. Elizabeth Orr, Fred Frith, Warner Jepson, Holly Herndon, James Fei, Secretarial Pool, Greg Zifcak and more. I feel like these are going to be shows that really draw from the different scenes of experimental performance that are going on across the Bay Area, from the old guard of Improv to new Theatre and video works. We’re also going to take advantage of having Warner Jepson’s old Buchla synth here that was rescued from the SF Tape Music Center by having a different vintage analog synth set every night. Worth the price of admission alone! Hope to see you there <3 <3 <3

AND ONE LAST THING: This Friday we are throwing a show for Brooklyn's beloved LIGHT ASYLUM. FER REALS, COME SEE THIS NOW BEFORE THIS BAND IS OUT OF YOUR PRICE RANGE.

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emanderson1902 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:43:15 +0000

ONE FEST

emanderson1902 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:46:23 +0000

ONE FEST update coming soon. Plus Light Asylum, Justice Yeldham, Buchla, more.

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emanderson1902 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:48:40 +0000

AWE_MILKdemo

emanderson1902 — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:25:38 +0000

PERFECT DAY

emanderson1902 — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:07:05 +0000

Ok! Huge announcements and release news coming very, very soon. So sorry I've been away so long. But soon you will see why. Until then please enjoy some disturbing variations on the "Perfect Day" meme... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8OfKdOFR_c&feature=related] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupH9aLF4hA] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx1bleUOj80]