GIA MARGARET
Aug 30 Ghent, BE @ Dok
Sept 01 Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Sept 02 Manchester, UK @ YES
Sept 04 Leeds, UK @ Hyde Park Book Club
Sept 05 London, UK @ Old St. Pancras Church
Sept 07 Bristol, UK @ The Louisana
Sept 08 Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin
Sept 10 Amsterdam, NL @ Cinetol
Sept 11 Paris, FR @ Le Pop-Up du Label
Poster by Joshua Price, photography by Carley Solether
On August 30, Orindal Records will release Kleinmeister, the new album by Brattleboro, VT experimental pop/folk singer & songwriter Ruth Garbus. Kleinmeister is available for pre-order on vinyl, compact disc & digital formats HERE.
This morning, Various Small Flames premiered "Strash," the lead-off track from Kleinmeister, & its accompanying music video, directed by Joey Agresta.
Various Small Flames' Jon Doyle writes:
"Her fifth solo record, Kleinmeister represents the perfection of Garbus’s esoteric art. Recorded with Travis Laplante and with production and mixing by Ryan Power, Kleinmeister is altogether more vivid than previous releases, and Garbus herself has worked to develop her own sound too—spending two years under the tutelage of opera singer Jim Anderson to fully realise her mezzo soprano vocal range.
Far from dampening Ruth Garbus’s idiosyncratic vision, the studio recording and professional training elevate it to a higher plane, lending a sanctified edge to the singular tone. Poetic and often bizarre, Kleinmeister is an album where light and dark are marbled into intricate swirls, the lasting emotion not anything as simple as happy or sad but rather a kind of extra-personal awe, that of standing before the great overwhelming forces of the world and still having to remember to breathe."
You can read the entire article HERE.
This morning, Week in Pop premiered Matt Bachmann's music video for "To Be in Love" from his 2018 album, Unconditional Love.
Week in Pop's Sjimon Gompers writes:
Known from work in Mega Bog and Big Eater — the one and only Matt
Bachmann delivers the world debut of the "To Be in Love" video courtesy
of Slopehouse Production's Adam Gundersheimer, Vanessa Haddad, Elena
Balara and Alex Hartley. Much like the oeuvre of Bachmann’s work; “To Be
in Love” strikes at those closely guarded places of the heart and
spirit where intimate expressions are expressed in earnest and sublime
manners. It’s a song that beautifully wraps together the entire range of
joy, melancholy, hopefulness, heart-break and that abandon of
helplessness that goes hand in hand with being in the throes of the
inertia of amour (that is something greater than you, the other person
and perhaps something greater than the bond itself).
Read the whole piece HERE.
Catch Matt Bachmann on tour!
July 16 Fredericksburg, VA @ Hodge Podge Lodge (w/ Her Kind)
July 17 Philadelphia, PA @ TBA (w/ Friendship & Lina Tullgren)
July 18 Providence, RI @ Warmer, Warmer
July 19 Portland, ME @ House Show (w/ Lisa/Liza & Greg Jamie)
July 20 Bar Harbor, ME @
Lompoc
July 22 Montreal, QC @ Brasserie Beaubien
July 24 Greenfield, MA @ The Root Cellar
July 25 Boston, MA @ Blockbuster Video (w/ Lisa/Liza & Sun Dog)
July 26 Kingston, NY @ Kingston Artist Collective
July 27 Catskill, NY @ HiLo
July 28 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool (w/ Julia Shapiro)
Aug 15 Brooklyn, NY @ Alphaville (w/ Colamo and Anna RG)
This morning, Balloon Machine premiered Claire Cronin's supernatural music video for "Saint's Lake." The video, directed by Brian Getnick, features demon puppetry, a floating head serenading its decapitated body, & a skull-faced violist.
"Saint's Lake" is taken from Claire Cronin's new album, Big Dread Moon. Order it on vinyl or digital formats HERE.
Claire Cronin is touring the eastern US/CA with Advance Base! Pick up a limited edition t-shirt or colored vinyl LP at any of the dates below.
CLAIRE CRONIN ON TOUR
June 21 Chicago, IL @ The Hungry Brain (w/ Advance Base & Moon Racer)
June 22 Rock Island, IL @ Rozz Tox (w/ Advance Base & Liv Carrow)
June 23 Grand Rapids, MI @ Green Acres (w/ Advance Base & How to Live Together)
June 24 Ypsilanti, MI @ Ziggy's (w/ Advance Base, Moon Racer & Kevin McKay)
June 25 Toronto, ON @ Burdock (w/ Advance Base & Clara Engel)
June 26 Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola (w/ Advance Base & Cedric Noel)
June 27 Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church (w/ Advance Base & Ruth Garbus)
June 28 Portland, ME @ The Apohadion Theater (w/ Advance Base & Greg Jamie)
June 29 Providence, RI @ 159 Sutton Street (w/ Advance Base & Marlon J Battad)
June 30 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (w/ Advance Base, Matt Bachmann & Moon Racer)
July 01 Washington, DC @ Songbyrd Vinyl Lounge (w/ Advance Base)
Big Dread Moon, the new album by Claire Cronin, is out in the world today! Here are some reviews:
Secret Meeting
Various Small Flames
Pitchfork recommended the album HERE.
& Bandcamp recommended the album HERE.
You can stream Big Dread Moon anywhere, & I hope you will. If you like it, please purchase a vinyl or digital copy, & recommend it to your friends! Orindal couldn't exist without personal recommendations from music lovers like you. Thank you for your support!
The Fader is streaming Big Dread Moon by Claire Cronin ahead of its June 14 release date. Hear the album in full & read an exclusive interview with Claire HERE.
Big Dread Moon, Claire Cronin's new album of gothic horror folk ballads, is now in stock on sea glass green & black vinyl. Order your copy HERE.
Record stores can order their copies from The Business.
S.T.L.A., Gordon Ashworth's 2014 electroacoustic dronefolk masterpiece, is back in print in a limited edition of 175 high quality black vinyl LPs. If you missed it the first time around, you can now purchase your copy HERE. (CDs & downloads are also available.)
Gia Margaret is hitting the road in October, playing eastern US & CA shows with Jay Som & Boy Scouts. You'll find ticket links for all of the dates HERE.
Yesterday, Post-Trash premiered Moon Racer's cover of Patty Loveless's "You Can Feel Bad." Post-Trash's Dan Goldin wrote, "Opting to recreate the song in her own vision, the Moon Racer version is
minimal and full of atmosphere, the synths offering more texture than
anything else. The construction of programmed drums and the depressed
fog of wavering synths gives the lyrics a whole new feel. It’s a
gorgeous cover that shows just how effectively the emotion put into a
song can manipulate the emotion taken from the song."
Read the full article, which includes an essay by Autumn from Moon Racer, HERE.
"You Can Feel Bad" is now available on Bandcamp, & will be released to all digital platforms on Friday, May 31.
Moon Racer will hit the road in June, playing around the American south, midwest & down the east coast, sharing bills w/ Orindal labelmates Claire Cronin, Matt Bachmann & Advance Base.
MOON RACER ON TOUR
June 14 Winston Salem, NC @ Monstercade (w/ Jaguardini & Transport 77)
June 15 Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre Rooftop (w/ Eureka California)
June 17 Cincinnati, OH @ The Listing Loon (w/ Brooklynn Rae)
June 19 Louisville, KY @ Saint Cat’s - Our Lady of the Good Couch (w/ Emily Yacina & R.L. Kelly)
June 21 Chicago, IL @ The Hungry Brain (w/ Claire Cronin & Advance Base)
June 24 Ypsilanti, MI @ Ziggy's (w/ Claire Cronin & Advance Base)
June 25 Youngstown, OH @ House Show
June 28 Providence, RI @ AS220 Psychic Readings (w/ Christians and Lions & Lady Queen Paradise)
June 29 Cambridge, MA @ Lilypad (w/ Christians and Lions & Kathy Snax)
June 30 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (w/ Advance Base, Matt Bachmann & Claire Cronin)
A deluxe edition of There's Always Glimmer by Gia Margaret is now available to stream on all digital platforms. The new edition includes two new tracks: "Babies" & "Smoke (Acoustic)." The tracks are exclusive to the streaming edition & are not available on physical formats.
Also:
The Orindal webstore now has a handful of CD copies of Dalliance Recordings' UK release of There's Always Glimmer. The CD edition is packaged in a mini-LP jacket with a printed inner sleeve featuring art by Rand Renfrow, plus a foldout poster with full color LP art & complete lyrics. North American buyers can order their CDs HERE.
