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July 15th, 2011
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.crookedletteritunes.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/christinaantipa
<><> Moomaw :: 4:30pm
http://www.moomaw.info/
<><> Paula Frazer :: 5:00pm
http://www.myspace.com/paulafrazer
<><> Cabinet of Natural Curiosities :: 5:30pm
http://www.cabinetofnaturalcuriosities.com/
<><> Haroula Rose :: 6:00pm
http://haroularose.bandcamp.com/
<><> Fort King :: 6:30pm
https://www.facebook.com/fortkingmusic
$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
Such A Sunny Understanding
July 8th, 2011I (you?), well, we have this (Sunny Understanding) distinct pleasure of sharing some shows over the next week or so, with Miwa Gemini, beginning tonight!
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!
It is not the end of the song
June 6th, 2011Megalolaopus, squeaking rusted, none but a sparkling minddrop of mythical dew. And the trip has ended, back to LA with it’s pulsating purple and neon red, bastardly mingling among the patterns.
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.’”
All Day Jah Voo Tour, Moomaw / Shalants, starts tonight in Barcelona
May 17th, 2011Tonight Moomaw will be playing at Macondo Bar again in Barcelona and will soon follow that up with some shows in Spain and France with Shalants. About right, lovely. Something like this:
May 17, 22:30 - Barcelona, (ES) @ Macondo Bar (C/ Conca 21,
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
We are going to open a Vortex, Moomaw Sun May 8 in BCN
May 6th, 2011I speak and as I speak, it’s the clouds in the sky speaking through me, telling you it’s nothing, your fear, have a cup of coffee, shake it off, make yourself happy, please yourself. Let’s do it. Let’s make a new doorway. Let’s make love beyond love.
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:
