Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 3:30pm until Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 3:30am
Along Ballona Creek
12447 Milton St, Los Angeles, CA

performances by MOOMAW and GRAVID WIVES, art installations by Beth S. Mcnamara & more!

To commemorate 2011 a bit more I suggest you listen to such a wicked mix by Dj Protoghost including a Moomaw track as well as heaps of (mostly Oakland-related) bands including Pine, Sun Araw, Religious Girls, Swanifant, Hottub, Cash Pony, Katie Clover, so much more:

http://theartofmix.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-of-2011.html

Also, check out the lovely archived article on Moomaw (covering the release “Aminalia”) on the Sergeant Sparrow blog:
http://www.sgtsparrow.com/

It’s that time of year again! Join us for an amazing holiday spectacular done proper by some of your favorite Bay Area musicians…
Tartufi and The Verdi Club present a special edition of Dark Nights: The 6th Annual Outta Sight Holiday Show*!

Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110-1423
December 14 at 8PM
FREE.
yum yums
beer and wine for sale and possibly a cocktail or two.

and the most important part….

HOLIDAY TUNES BY:
Tartufi
Moomaw
Upstairs Downstairs
Birds and Batteries
Lia Rose (Built for the Sea, Minipop)
Karina Denike (Dancehall Crashers)
Rainbow Beast
Music Wrong
Justin Frahm (Gloaming Boys)
The Lesser Half
B and not B
John Blaylock/The Ambulators
Raul Sanchez (The Aerosols)
Walking in Sunlight
Davyd Nereo (Winne Byrd)
Gravid Wives
Hang Jones
and more!

And FriDAY in da BAY come get some booTAY SHAKE in the WAY of SPAce STAtion rockHAUSin Oakland lovlies:

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MOOMAW

GRAVID WIVES

PINE

d.j. PROTOGHOST

…special guests
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6:30pm, fREE

Recorded Spring 2011 in Barcelona, All Day Jah Voo is released on Gazebo Music for the date of 11/11/11. More than a handful of ones for a sweeping, swallowing, self-enveloping, self-driven, yet naturally destructive creational vortex.

171 hand-pressed Compact Discs are about, but you can listen to the whole album from the Gazebo Music site, through the player in the page: alldayjahvoo.gazebomusic.com

You can also donate what you wish for the album or simply donate $0 to download the album free from the concept of gold reserves.

To usher in this new a release ceremony will be held down in LA a week from the release, on Friday 11/18/11. Moomaw will, live, be performing All Day Jah Voo for your trance-state:

Echo Country Outpost
1770 Glendale Boulevard
FRIDAY ▲ 11/18/11 ▲ 8 O’CLOCK PM

MOOMAW’S “All Day Jah Voo” Album Release Ceremony!

<><> HEAT WAVE <><>
http://heatrave.com/
http://youtu.be/IiVIiMbd-vM

<><> GRAVID WIVES <><>
http://www.gazebomusic.com/releases/gravidwives/

<><> MOOMAW <><>
http://youtu.be/GrawVZmq4E0

$5 Donation // $10 with hand-painted cd

Here are the first 2 installations of video for the songs of All Day Jah Voo, more to come:

If you like the Beach Boys (what a funny thing to ponder…) you should also come out to Mt. Wilson this Sunday for a Beach Boys Tribute Concert, live outside, hosted by The Natural Stage Project. I will be performing “Do It Again” alongside Mr. Hans Dobbratz:

Directions are here: http://www.thenaturalstageproject.com/ and it is Sunday afternoon from 3pm - 5pm (give you self time to hike out there).

Mission Creek Oakland Presents: Flood The Creek!! >> FREE ALL DAY BBQ
Saturday, September 24 at 3:00pm - September 25 at 1:00am
Bounce House
2756 MLK Jr Way
Oakland, CA

“”We’ll see you with our grills a-blaze and amps cranked! Two stages, 12 bands, 4 djs, live painting, video projections, and bike workshops! Are you ready for summer to be over yet? Neither are we!

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FINAL LINE-UP!!

Winnie Byrd
Tastyville
Jeepneys
Moomaw
Hannah Moriah
Zach Fischman
Ted The Block
Nicole Kidman/Jon Barba
Bummer Summer
Lungs of Pine ((j. lady))
Albatross Choir
Invasive Species

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DJ’s >> INTO THE NIGHT!!
Bobby Peru
Jon Hrabko
LaDyByRd // EHJ
Lauren Bikeyall

Live Painting by Erika Lipkes throughout the night!
Projections by Luke Judd at sundown // 8ish..

All Day Jah Voo, the upcoming Moomaw record [to be released 11/11/11] may appear early, as though time-traveled, at this festival

View the video for the first song on the album:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrawVZmq4E0]

Please take a moment and read a blog (in Spanish) about the last Moomaw show at The Makeout Room:

http://anothermusicblog.com/multifaceted-moomaw-the-make-out-room

Sunday, July 24 · 3:00pm - 6:00pm
The Starry Plough (3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA)
Its a Sunday Matinee w/Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Fort King (LA) and Moomaw (LA)!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129229197165090

The kitchen will be open! Come out for some great music, fun, a Guinness and a Plough Burger (or garden burger if you prefer….).

It’s all ages too–bring your kids in for a kiddie cocktail–I’ll be making recommendations–”the super natural” (two parts coke, one part sprite, grenadine, garnished with lime and cherry)

Yes, lovely artists, nice place fun times.

This is all quite on the heels of a wonderful festival in the woods of the Russian River. C.A.M.P. is a whole bunch of artists and lovelies making super a weekend in Guerneville.

I will be playing as a new member of Winnie Byrd on Sunday and enjoying all the other bands and activities in the meantime. YOu bet!

SATURDAY, July 16 · 1:00pm - 7:00pm
HM157 (3110 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA) www.thechurchoffashion.com

The Outpost Frog Fry will now be hosted by our good friends and heroes, HM157, at their beautiful Victorian haven in Lincoln Heights.

EAT… Frog Legs and Chicken Wings and Veggie Treats, served up with homemade hot sauce from right here in Frogtown, just across the park from the Outpost.

DRINK…Bubbly adult beverages and sweet and refreshingly childish hydrating options too! All by donation. Just added :: FREE ONE Coconut Water cocktails!!

GET GOOFED UP ON MUSIC…All this to bring you out for a day of beautiful, sweet, summery, super groovy music featuring…
<><> Moomaw Intro :: 1:00pm
http://www.moomaw.info/

<><> Crooked Letter I :: 1:30pm
http://www.crookedletterit​unes.com/

<><> Ruthann Friedman :: 2:00pm
http://ruthannfriedman.com​/

<><> Gold Paint :: 2:30pm
http://goldgoldpaintpaint.​com/

<><> Whitman :: 3:00pm
http://whitman.nfshost.com​/

<><> Miwa Gemini :: 3:30pm
http://www.miwagemini.com/

<><> Christina Antipa :: 4:00pm
http://www.myspace.com/chr​istinaantipa

<><> Moomaw :: 4:30pm
http://www.moomaw.info/

<><> Paula Frazer :: 5:00pm
http://www.myspace.com/pau​lafrazer

<><> Cabinet of Natural Curiosities :: 5:30pm
http://www.cabinetofnatura​lcuriosities.com/

<><> Haroula Rose :: 6:00pm
http://haroularose.bandcam​p.com/

<><> Fort King :: 6:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/f​ortkingmusic

$7 Donation. $4 Heaping Fried Treats Baskets. Cheapest day you’ll ever have seeing eleven bands and having fun.

Sponsored by Frogtown Fire Hot Sauce & O.N.E. Coconut Water.

Sunday July 17th
SeaweedSway Showcase with
Masuga (folk/blues/country from Berkeley, CA)
Miwa (acoustic/indie/folk from Brooklyn, NY)
& Moomaw! (psychadelic country, recently moved from Bay Area to LA)
and your hosts
Jeremy Dalmas & the Absurdists performing a soap opera (really this time)
at the Make-Out Room

Address: 3225 22nd St. between Valencia & Mission Streets
RSVP on facebook: http://on.fb.me/july17rsvp
Time: 7:30 doors / 8-11pm show
Tickets: $7 at the door
Venue: http://makeoutroom.com
Songs from the Bands posted (soon) at http://soundcloud.com/seaweedsway & photos + flyer at http://on.fb.me/july17pics

This is gonna be a really neat & sweet show, a gathering of three friends, whose names coincidentally sound really good together, playing their versions of folk music. A mid-summer’s dream. Miwa Gemini is traveling through on tour, from Brooklyn, NY; Moomaw moved away from the Bay Area to LA recently, so this is a reunion of sorts; & Ed Masuga is an east bay-er trekking to SF to blow us away with his fingerpicking song-writing genius. Good luck will come to all who attend.

Masuga (folk/blues/country/alt) headlines, Miwa (acoustic/indie/folk/western swing) is second, & Moomaw (psychadelic country) opens. The show will be interspersed with Jeremy & the Absurdists rendition of a soap opera (they were going to do a soap opera for the last show but got sidetracked becoming robots trying to understand the human emotion of love).

It’s also part of SeaweedSway’s 7th Year Anniversary series - 8 shows in July!

Below are stories, videos, & song links for the bands… Any help spreading the word is greatly appreciated.

Masuga (folk, blues, country, alternative)
Ed Masuga is a finger-picking maniac; a one man folk and blues orchestra of beautiful clanks and calls.

Ed Masuga is the youngest of ten siblings. After bringing him home as a newborn with the birth tag “Boy Masuga” on his wrist, his parents ended up calling him “Boy” for the first few years of his life. When they started calling him “Danny,” a shortened version of his given name, he refused, preferring to go by his middle name. So struck was he by a popular country star of the time, young Ed Masuga would reply to those calling him “Danny” by saying, “I’m not Danny. I’m Eddie. Eddie Rabbit.”

His drifting family was never satisfied in any one place for too long, and he grew up wandering between shacks, motels, casinos, trailers, forests, and barroom kitchens. At two years old he saw his dad compete on the game show “Name That Tune,” and though the appearance netted just a juke box and a trip to Puerto Rico, Ed’s future as a traveling musician had been fully inspired.

http://edmasuga.com
http://facebook.com/edmasuga
http://myspace.com/edmasuga

Miwa (acoustic-indie-folk-western swing)
In Miwa Gemini’s music we hear elements as disparate as the intense atmospheres of The Doors, Chris Garneau’s pop experiments, Tom Waits’ decadent sonic carnival. Miwa’s delicate, magical soprano defies all comparisons contributing to a sound that’s quite unique in today’s overcrowded music scene.

Miwa sings and plays the guitar and the banjo with her sidekick porcelain cat Sasha. Aaron on Accordion and Glockenspiel joins her on stage frequently. Her new album is out on Rockpark Records.

“Singer-songwriter Miwa Gemini can take your breath away. Her single “Goodnight Trail” just stopped this blogger’s day dead in its tracks. Whatever the roots and reasons “Goodnight Trail” carries you away to a storybook world and gives you a very real sinking feeling at the same time. It’s a neat trick that makes her forthcoming third album The Fantastic Lies of Grizzly Rose one to watch for.”
-MTV Iggy

http://www.miwagemini.com
https://www.facebook.com/miwagemini
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/142331-miwa-gemini-fantastic-lies-of-grizzly-rose
http://www.myspace.com/miwagemini
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=34336

Moomaw (psychedelic country)
“Crafted from old bones and new hardware, Moomaw builds shaky songs that remain intimate while drifting and charging off in to masked territory, the sound of waves on the beach bleeding into the hissing of the highway. With the love of lyric and the joy of risk, Moomaw finds those places where delicate folk meets heedless disco, stumbling out into avant noise and ambience before returning home to heartbreaks and vision quests. Hear synthesizers and hand percussion, drum machines and ukelele, vocal loops and musical saw join in chorus with grace and humility. Listen to Moomaw.”

Channeling the psychedelic sounds of 60s pop music through nostalgic folk and Western, Moomaw sountracks the moment that one starts to feel oneself dreaming. Using a plethora of insruments, from ukuleles to dulcimer to singing saw, Moomaw cascades jangly loops of sound and harmonizes over them.

http://moomaw.info
https://www.facebook.com/MoomawMusic
http://vimeo.com/24475028 (awesome live performance)

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UPCOMING:
playing with Winnie Byrd at C.A.M.P Festival in Guerneville, Russian River Friday July 22, Sat July 23

Sunday July 24 - matinee show @ The Starry Plough w/ Fort King, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Super Natural

Friday, July 8 @7pm
Om Sweet Om
557 37th Street
Oakland, CA

featuring: Moomaw, Pacific Rhythm Co., Mark E. Deutsch, with special guests Miwa and Cabinet of Natural Curiosities

Better done believe it’s going to be a great show and it’s the first in a series put on by the one, Mr. Davyd Nereo for the release of a wonderinglywonderful compilation CD of East Bay bands playing summery songs entitled We Have This Sunny Understanding. Hear you, me, I’ve heard this CD and how wonderful it be! Come get one (some) tonight!

But Europe, oh Europe. Freaking out with Shalants long the coast of Catalunya and then to France for far out shows in Toulouse and Paris. All Day Jah Voo. What The Folk posted a great blog about our show at a flat in Paris:
http://whatthefolksession.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/homespun-session-2/

And here are some of the videos from such:

Shalants:

Coming up are some great shows in CA with the lovely Miss Miwa Gemini and more:

Jun 23, 2011 - Santa Cruz, CA (US) @ The Crepe Place w/ The Shalants & VOWS

Jul 16, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA (US) @ Echo County Outpost - BBQ w/ Miwa, Fort King and Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Whitman (LA), Christina Antipa, Ruthann Friedman, Haroula Rose, Paula Frazer

Jul 17, 2011 - San Francisco, CA (US) @ Makeout Room - Seaweed Sway Showcase - Moomaw / Miwa / Masuga w/ Miwa Gemini & Ed Masuga

Jul 24, 2011 - Berkeley, CA (US) @ The Starry Plough - Starry Plough Matinee! w/ Cabinet of Natural Curiosities & Fort King & Ed Masuga

“and the wounded harlequin glanced up with ease before he passed the world of wrong,
a stable mind on trembling knees, he spoke: ‘this is not the end of the song.’”

May 17, 22:30 - Barcelona, (ES) @ Macondo Bar (C/ Conca 21, L5 Camp de l’Arpa)
May 21, 21:00 - Peratallada, (ES) @ Café Art - w/ Shalants
May 22, 02:00 - L’Estardit, (ES) @ Mariscal - w/ Shalants
May 22, 21:00 - Girona, (ES) @ Cafè El Cercle - w/ Shalants
May 23, 21:00 - Toulouse, M-P (FR) @ Saint des Seins - DEUX MILLE RECORDS presents Julie Doiron (Canada) + The Entrance Band (USA) + Moomaw (USA) + guest au Saint des Seins (TBC)
May 24, 20:00 - Paris, (FR) @ flat show (contact for info) - What The Folk? presents Moomaw & Shalants
May 25, 20:00 - Barcelona, (ES) @ Fantastico - w/ Shalants

Sunday May 8 @ 21:30
MOOMAW @ Macondo Bar (C/ Conca 21, Metro: L5 Camp de l’Arpa)
Barcelona, ES

Come. Come again and again.

Similar to the Teufelsberg video posted before, the lovely Alexander Steffens created a video for the Moomaw song “Wait Up” from footage from Teufelsberg and from the show played at Die Frühperle in Berlin:

[photo courtesy Pau (The Transistor Arkestra) http://www.myspace.com/thetransistorarkestra]

A couple a more videos from tour, Moomaw and The Singer Not The Song playing a Thanks For The Postcard session in a backyard in Leipzig, Germany:

And, my Lord, I keep forgetting to mention a wonderful publication that has featured Moomaw in its last publication. Sergeant Sparrow Records is a wonderful concept in general and publishes a physical magazine including a CD compilation featuring all the featured artists and can be found and bought and savored here: http://www.sergeantsparrowrecords.com/magazine#!__magazine. Support independent love!

Lastly, and I say that there also is no last, Physical Release has posted another digital single on the Physical Release site: physicalrelease.us The following songs, Wahl Ballads and Let’s Do Something Wicked: