Bio:
Singer-songwriter Paul Brill's latest recording, Harpooner, along with his original compositions for several acclaimed films, TV series, and commercials, and an NPR theme show that youthful adventures as an herbal smokes salesman, street performer, valet, corporate errand boy, and even marine biology instructor can serve the creative spirit well.
Paul's original score for the HBO film The Trials of Darryl Hunt was recently nominated for an EMMY Award and hailed by Variety as "memorably chilling, sounding notes of purest dread."
Young American Recordings recently released the Hunt soundtrack, curated by Brill, featuring selections from his score and contributions by Andrew Bird, M. Ward, Califone, and Dead Prez, among others.
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The Flying Change is the songwriting and performance vehicle for New York-based songwriter Sam Jacobs. The name The Flying Change was inspired by the poetry of family friend and Pulitzer-prize winner, Henry Taylor, the college roommate of Sam’s father.
Jacobs enlisted friend, acclaimed songwriter, producer and award-winning film composer Paul Brill to guide and shape the recording. Together, they assembled a stellar band of accomplished musicians; recorded live in two takes by master engineer Robert L. Smith (David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, etc.), the album features performances by Rob Burger (Iron and Wine, Lucinda Williams) Bill Dobrow (Sean Lennon, The Black Crowes), Amber Rubarth (Paper Raincoat), Antoine Silverman, Anja Wood, Matt Ray, Rob Jost (Imogen Heap, Saturday Night Live Band), Peter, Stan Harrison (Radiohead) Dan Levine (They Might Be Giants) and others.
Brill and Jacobs gathered these musicians to create a sound they've dubbed "landscape pop". Says Jacobs, “during early editing sessions, Paul went through the songs with a red pen and we kept editing and editing until they were as tight as possible. At the same time, we wanted every moment to be incredibly vivid. Small fragments of melody and emotion." These moments are everywhere on the record, from the inverted swells of the pedal steel on the opener "Broken Bow" to the swirling ghostlike sax solo on "Hold My Heartache."
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Take the timelessness of Patsy Cline. Mix in the insatiable curiosity of Socrates. Give it an edge, a roughness, refined in the spirit but raw in the performance, like someone singing in the shower. You'll start to have an idea of what makes up ambeR Rubarth.
At 17-years old ambeR moved to Nevada to become a wood sculptor. 3 years later the head instructor told her the most important thing he had learned was for a person to follow their number one passion. ambeR said "Thank you, then I am quitting and doing music," and she traded her chainsaw for a guitar.
She began touring, and people took notice. Hollywood's Music Connection voted her in their HOT 100 ARTISTS. Her debut CD was named TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR (alongside Kanye West & Alicia Keys) by the Owl Mag. NPR loves her "honesty and humor." The BOSTON HERALD says "she's a natural." Her musical hero TOM WAITS helped choose her as 1st place in the International Songwriting Competition for lyrics, and her songs have generated over 1.4 MILLION PLAYS ON MYSPACE.
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A New York City native, and founder/label manager for the Anticipate and Microcosm labels, Ezekiel Honig concentrates on his idiosyncratic brand of emotively warm electronic-acoustic music. Using the loop as more of a tool than a rule, Honig paints outside the lines, nestling into a comfortable space between techno, ambient and house - using them as reference points from which to stray, rather than as steadfast frameworks. Drawing on the rich history of musique concrete, Honig looks to incorporate a material nature into his music by imbuing it with a host of field recording/found-sound sources in the search for a balance between digital software innovation and the physicality of the world around us. His music is one of contrast and contradiction, combining minimal, abstract tendencies with a core of timeless harmonics - pairing inviting, fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty "mishaps."
Through a number of critically acclaimed releases, Honig's work has been featured in publications such as The Wire (UK), XLR8R (USA), The Village Voice (USA), De:Bug (Germany), Textura (Canada), Resident Advisor (USA), Flavorpill/Earplug (USA), Spex (Germany), TRAX (France) and many others worldwide, being variously described as, "stately," "evocative and impressionistic," "strangely solemn narratives," "ornate," "takes aim for the heart as much as the head," and "an anthill symphony." Taken as a whole these various descriptors give a fuller picture of a sound which has remained consistent while developing along a continuum. Honig's personal musical movement has also directed the development of his Anticipate and Microcosm labels. Spending as much time on curatorial activities and label management as he does on his own music production has afforded him a unique viewpoint from which to work and informs his activities throughout the musical process, as well as offering him the chance to collaborate with other artists on multiple levels.
Video:
Paul Brill's Enormity Band
Amber Rubarth
Ezekiel Honig
18+ or accompanied by legal guardian. This show is General Admission, first come, first serve. Seating is Limited. A purchased ticket does not guarantee you a seat. There is a two item minimum for all seated performances.
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