Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned w/ Ramona Cordova at Grand Street Arts
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* March, 26, 2008. Albany, NY - *Sgt. Dunbar & The Hobo Banned with Ramona Cordova at Grand Street Community Arts*
When: June 28th 8pm Where: Grand Street Arts Community Arts 64 Grand Street Albany, NY 12202 Price: 7$
On Saturday June 28th Grand Street Community Arts hosts – My Friend Ramon.Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned, Ramona Cordova, Francois Virot, and We are Jeneric offer a night of sweaty and beautiful indie-freak-psych-pop-folk music.
Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned, Albany's Elephant 6 inspired indie folk music collective will be headlining the night recently back from their first festival experience at this year's Mountain Jam Festival. A staple of Albany's indie music scene they have been compared successfully to the salvation army band on acid.
Ramona Cordova is a project which was started in the fall of 2005 by Ramón Vicente Alarcón a former resident of the Hudson Valley. For the past few years Ramón has been traveling the world playing his music. His first release The Boy Who Floated Freely is a beautiful and thoughtful fairly tale inspired by tales told to him as a child by his grandmother.
Francois Virot, hails from the distant Lyon, France and has been called one man who sounds like Frank Black and Brian Wilson singing a duet.Francis Virot is currently touring with Ramona Cordova.
Lastly but not leastly We Are Jeneric of Altamont, NY will be making an all to rare appearance away from their haunted home. Described as "melodically mind-blowing" and "like… an old funeral parlor… surrounded by melting candles shoved inside old wine bottles, clocks that don't tell time, and great big giant mirrors taken from grand but abandoned train stations," We are Jeneric has honed their distinctive sound while dabbling in a dizzying array of musical styles.
Proceeds from this show will benefit GSCA's neighborhood based events and programming.
About Grand Street Community Arts
Grand Street Community Arts is a new neighborhood based non-profit that seeks to present a broad spectrum of art programs and performances that encourage art as a natural tool of expression available to everyone.Grand Street Community Art is based in the former St. Anthony's Church in downtown Albany and was purchased from the Albany Catholic Diocese in 2004.The space is currently being restored for use as a community arts center & performance space and will host both neighborhood and regional events in the summer of 2009. GSCA currently offers youth programming for south end residents including filmmaking and organic gardening.
RIYL: Devendra Banhart, Nick Drake,the Bowerbirds.
The new album from We are Jeneric is their second official B3nson release. Recorded entirely in the month of February 2008 for the RPM Challenge, (http://www.rpmchallenge.com/) the storybook songs on the self-recorded and produced In the Parlor With the Moon showcase the chameleonic vocals of Eric Krans and Jen O’Connor, whose multi-instrumental musicianship brings an epic nature to this collection. Violin, nylon stringed guitars, brass, natural imagery, and symphonic percussion evoke with passion and charm the theme of In the Parlor With the Moon; hopeful arrivals and the sadness of leaving.
Described as “melodically mind-blowing” and “like… an old funeral parlor… surrounded by melting candles shoved inside old wine bottles, clocks that don’t tell time, and great big giant mirrors taken from grand but abandoned train stations,” We are Jeneric has honed their distinctive sound while dabbling in a dizzying array of musical styles.
Track Listing: 1. Le Retour 2. On the Sidewalk in the Evening 3. Oolong Tea 4. The Wind 5. In the Parlor with the Moon 6. On the Second Day of April 1489 7. O Albany We Hope 8. The Heaviest Year 9. Both of Our Sake 10. Like the Dawn in the Morning 11. The Leavings 12. To the Children of Muu Baan Pri Char Who are Playing Outside my Window
17 New Scotland Ave Albany, New York 12208 US Cost:$8 Description:We will be releasing our new record, "The Thing About Time" at Valentine’s with the help of Son of Adam, Margan & the Red Lions. Specials on PBR and (maybe) Ten High Whiskey.
Albany, New York US Cost:N/A Description:a live performace, with host Michael Eck. There will probably be some talking, which we’re not very good at, and some playing, which we’re better at. The shows start at noon. If you’re in the area you can listen at 90.3 or 93.1 FM, and listen live online and wamc.org ....i think.
Valentines Albany, New York US Cost:N/A Description:Sgt Dunbar will enlist the help of their friends and enemies to play Neutral Milk Hotel’s In An Aeroplane Over the Sea from start to finish celebrating the 10th anniversary of its release.
The Thing About Time delves into the nooks and crannies of time itself. This new release by Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned is officially their third release, but the first to feature their current 7 piece onstage lineup. It features six multi-instrumentalists playing a style of psych-folk that has become synonymous with Sgt Dunbar, and vocalist Alex Muro using every inch of his vocal chords to relay to you an epiphany he stumbled upon.
Described as “a freight train of a band that will knock you down and help you up again before you hit the ground” and “a magical, music circus with accordion, saw, exuberance and wit”, Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned have been narrowing in on a loose but purposeful multilayered sound over the years, and they have accomplished it here on the self-recorded and produced The Thing About Time.
Selected by Albany's Times Union as one of the best local albums of the year.
Track List 1. Passing Time 2. Dave's Song 3. Don't Fall Asleep 4. The Weight 5. Move Your Memories part I 6. Move Your Memories part II 7. Realism is the Purest Form of Art 8. Telescope 9. Communist Father 10. Coin Operated Boy 11. Spleen & Ideal 12. I Blow As Aimless as the Wind
We are Jeneric