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Soft Openings Tour, the birth of Physical Release

A cultivation of confusion induction across the country for the sake of love or art or the coyote spirit. lay hands upon the beauty, full of it, what? this. More like a purveyance of vibrations than making something as traditional as music. For this sake, I’m not sure we even “got” what we were doing, but we drove it out and it curled. A spiral in this circle, birthplaces, a meeting of all the ones who gave us life, crooked with their own confusion. “… so spiritual,” commented, questionably mocking. Sure, I guess it is.

Mostly high, but a few lingering lulls, the ramshackle mystique argued by the dual of each, one, mind. Smiles throughout. Porcelain heads, one of a giant baby and one of a disintegrating unicorn, in fact, both chipping and tumbling, akin the the Father Tray, magically spranging an amorphous jangling, sharp with unexpected jorts and swellness. It was a Soft Opening. Maybe a few. And now that we’ve reached a Physical Release, bred from a blurring, child of baby head come. Insistently it’s still folk, mesmerized, alienized, a projection by a human must be nothing other than human folks.

And so hooray for the States! all spangled with cigarettes and Jim Beam and Budweiser, a steady diet of greasy eggs and rattle-bottle painkillers for worse than the reoccurring cold, broken one day, awestruck at how good you can feel about feeling good to no longer feel bad. This fluid, this is not easy. This comes in waves and spurts. This comes through jeans and fills rabid energies, trickling down the skin a saliva of nostalgia for realinglyreal.

Cool down. Collect up. Have a drink in the tour van that’s really just a small rental car, stenched with ash and sweat, crammed with gear, hustled out, hustled back in, scraping cold dry hands bleeding onto the music. Out of the eyes near the stage, where all is quick, too quick for meditative workings, judging eyes, manipulated, mutilated, lost, pulling some energy you were saving to make this rainy day. And so those moments alone, the 2 of us, listening to pages of Quran, tired and surrounded on the outside of the starship by a displacement that beats you down just enough so you still have the drive to escape, and make it, the next night to the next place. And there’s the first beer upon arrival.

Sanctuary. A pause in the awkward leanings of the day. Hospitables, bohemian non-chalants of the roadsides. staying or moving, a collection of rocks, tumbleweed and blades of grass.

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Soft Closings ~ finals shows and voyagehome

Come catch Moomaw/Gravid Wives aka Soft Openings aka Physical Release aka Soft Release as they cultivate confusion on a last few shows of their over-monthed tour. We have tour CDs that you don’t have…

Thursday dec 9 @ 9pm: Bolinas - Smiley’s Schooner Saloon w/ Jeffrey Manson, Winnie Byrd

Friday dec 10 @ 9pm: Sacramento - The Hub w/ Sevi Katur

Saturday dec 11 @ 8pm (early show!): San Francisco - Viracocha (998 Valencia st) w/ Ed Masuga, Winnie Byrd

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Soft Openings Tour across the whole USA starring Moomaw and Gravid Wives

Traveling with a host of magical props and some questionable spells, onward they jaunt!

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Oh what a lovely road and some more and more

The Urban Bedouin tour schedule has been updated and will continue to be updated as you may view it below:

May 21 ~ 9:30p @ Fantastico ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 22 ~ 9:00p @ Scruffy Murphy’s ~ Madrid, Spain
May 23 ~ 8:00p @ Le Bukowsky ~ Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
May 26 ~ 8:00p @ Sala Mariscal ~ Girona, Spain
May 27 ~ 10:00p @ Cafè El Cercle ~ Girona, Spain
May 28 ~ 9:00p @ Bar Ese Efe ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 30 ~ 8:00p @ Officine Pigneto ~ Roma, Italy
May 31 ~ 9:00p @ Pavillons Sauvages ~ Toulouse, France
Jun 3 ~ 8:00p @ The Rock’n’Rhum ~ Cran-Gevrier, France
Jun 4 ~ 9:00p @ Party in Montreuil [Moomaw & Gravid Wives] ~ Paris, France
Jun 4 ~ 9:00p @ La Pension du Content [AntonetteG] ~ Gap Rhône-Alpe, France
Jun 5 ~ 8:00p @ L’alibi ~ Hery-sur-Alby, France
Jun 7 ~ 8:00p @ Artika Festival ~ Recanati Italy
Jun 9 ~ 8:00p @ Mobile Blues Club ~ Hamburg, Germany
Jun 10 ~ 8:00p @ Sweet Home Cafe ~ Hamburg, Germany
Jun 11 ~ 8:00p @ Café Hilde ~ Berlin, Germany
Jun 12 ~ 8:00p @ Des Geigers Rätsel ~ Leipzig, Germany
Jun 15 ~ 10:00 @ Davant ~ Girona, Spain
Jun 16 ~ 10:00 @ Oxígeno Líquido ~ Madrid, Spain

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Urban Bedouin European Tour

My American tour-mates have landed and are en route to meet me here in Spain. I believe they are traveling via camel. At the same time, That Blasted Hound has made another departure from Europe, having already stayed, left, and returned again. And so we embark upon a slew of shows across Spain, Italy, France and Germany. Giddieyup!

May 21 ~ 9:30p @ Fantastico ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 22 ~ 9:00p @ Scruffy Murphy’s ~ Madrid, Spain
May 23 ~ 8:00p @ Le Bukowsky ~ Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
May 26 ~ 8:00p @ Sala Mariscal ~ Girona, Spain
May 27 ~ 10:00p @ Cafè El Cercle ~ Girona, Spain
May 28 ~ 9:00p @ Bar Ese Efe ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 30 ~ 8:00p @ Officine Pigneto ~ Roma, Italy
May 31 ~ 9:00p @ Pavillons Sauvages ~ Toulouse, France
Jun 3 ~ 8:00p @ The Rock’n’Rhum ~ Cran-Gevrier, France
Jun 4 ~ 9:00p @ Party in Montreuil ~ Paris, France
Jun 5 ~ 8:00p @ L’alibi ~ Hery-sur-Alby, France
Jun 7 ~ 8:00p @ Artika Festival ~ Recanati Italy
Jun 9 ~ 8:00p @ Mobile Blues Club ~ Hamburg, Germany
Jun 11 ~ 8:00p @ Café Hilde ~ Berlin, Germany
Jun 12 ~ 8:00p @ Des Geigers Rätsel ~ Leipzig, Germany

I’ve still yet to recap the Pangealogical tour with That Blasted Hound, but worry not your pretty little head. Here are some snippets from it:

That Blasted Hound and Moomaw (Pangealogical) play Forever Lion @ Fantastico (A Viva Veu):

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