Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned w/ Ramona Cordova at Grand Street Arts

noreply@blogger.com (Alex) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:52:00 +0000

*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.

On the web:
Grand Street Community Arts- www.grandarts.org
Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned – www.myspace.com/thehobobanned
Ramona Cordova - www.myfriendramon.com
Francois Virot – www.myspace.com/francisviriot
We Are Jeneric – www.myspace.com/wearejeneric

Contacts:
Sgt Dunbar - Music Concerns
Alex Muro
845.594.2539
am3081@gmail.com

Grand Street Arts - GSAC Concerns
Jeff Root
gsca EVENTS!
518.396.5401
jeff.root@grandarts.org

Bonus: Mp3: The Hoborchestra Covers - Ramona Cordova's Heavy On My Head

press photos:
Ramona Cordova

Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned (by brittany worgan

“In the Parlor With the Moon” Press Release

noreply@blogger.com (Alex) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:59:00 +0000

We are Jeneric

Title:In the Parlor With the Moon

Release date: 26 April, 2008

Label: B3nson Records

Format: CD LP

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

Songs in bold type are recommended tracks

www.myspace.com/wearejeneric
www.myspace.com/b3nsonsrecords