Anybody here give a crap about them? Castanets dude is boys with Sufjan Stevens...
Clavius Productions presents:
Thursday, March 8
Warehouse Next Door
1021 7th NW WDC
http://www.warehousenextdoor.com $8, all ages!
Doors at 9, show at 9:30
Castanets (Asthmatic Kitty, freak-folk from NYC-by-way-of-San Diego)
Shapes & Sizes (Asthmatic Kitty, melodic indie-rock from Victoria BC)
Soft People (psych-pop from Philly, feat. Eric Carbonara)
Castanets http://www.myspace.com/castanets http://www.asthmatickitty.com CASTANETS is American music drowned then reborn clear-eyed and wet with sea spray. Castanets is murderous nights and the 10 west sunset and crying gulls. Castanets is Raymond Raposa. Castanets is Raymond Raposa alone, walking through the dark and crowded dancefloor, singing bare voiced (rangy, high, cracked and real) with acoustic guitar. Castanets is a four-piece or a five-piece, six-piece, seven-piece, all-of-us-everywhere-piece stomping out electric tombstone chants or something that sounds like Pink Floyd with more heart. Castanets is delta heart, Nashville hands, outer space brain. Castanets is banjo and strings of bells and howling feedback and high plains drifting and horn sections and brother folk-rock riding in a beater Datsun with sister free-jazz.
Shapes & Sizes http://www.shapesandsizes.ca/ http://www.myspace.com/shapesandsizes Shapes and Sizes' melodic pop inhabits a world of beauty, noise, whispers, and elusive, contradictory moods, where the dynamic of a steam piston gives way to elegiac understatement, often within one song. With three of its four members writing for the band, their repertoire is one of constant surprise, often going out on a limb, but never falling off.
From Victoria, BC, Canada, but soon to call Montreal their home, Caila Thompson-Hannant, Rory Seydel, Jon Crellin and Nathan Gage have shared stages with Frog Eyes, Silver Jews, The Thermals, Architecture in Helsinki, The Blow, Apples in Stereo, The Immaculate Machine, Japanther, Chet and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Soft People http://www.softpeoplemusic.com/ Philadelphiaâ??s Soft People is the new collaborative endeavor between former members of the psych-pop group, The Doctor and Philip, improv-noise band Burrs, and experimental solo guitarist Eric Carbonara.
"The Soft People sound is one that is rooted in a deep understanding of classic folk and pop songwriting, and grows from there to include elements of European art rock and contemporary progressive indie. One might recognize the influence of Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Pentangle alongside sounds reminiscent of Can, Robert Wyatt, Sun City Girls, or Captain Beefheart."
