Live music w/ Sea of Bees ~ Sands ~ Walking In Sunlight (Indie / Psych)
When: Fri, December 10
Time: 9pm
Cost: $6
Details:
Sea of Bees
Sea of Bees -shimmery lovely folk
http://www.seaofbees.com/home/
http://www.myspace.com/seaofbees
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sea-Of-Bees/197401657346
http://twitter.com/seaofbees
Sea of Bees is the musical project of Julie Ann Bee, or Jules as everyone calls her.
She sings, writes the songs, and plays lots of musical instruments.
“Took me about 50 seconds — the length of the woozy, haunting intro to “Marmalade” — to completely fall for Sea of Bees, the nom de tune of Sacramento indie-popper Julie Baenziger. Her debut album “Songs for the Ravens” sounds folky in some places, gauzy and ambient in others and twee as hell in still others, but beautiful throughout, and a potent reminder that emotional virtue is an artist’s most precious commodity. This one’s special, folks, let’s not screw it up.” -Kevin Bronson, Buzzbands LA, LA Weekly
“Songs for the Ravens is bound to be one of this year’s finest records;as soon as you hear it you’re not going to be able to shakeit.” -Ned Lannamann,Portland Mercury
“I’m not entirely sure why I love this album so much… …That which I cannot put my finger on, is the mysterious, wonderful, and addictive qualities of this album as a whole. Bravo to Jules and her Sea of Bees.” -Jason Lytle (Grandaddy, Admiral Radley)
[from website]
Sands • Photo by Katherine Levin
Sands – roadhouse reveries
http://www.myspace.com/damesatan
“Nuanced, heartfelt folk songs that sound like they could have been written anytime in the past century or so.” ..– Time Out New York
“If Quazar had sounded anything like Dame Satan, the San Francisco quartet that just played the Wednesday-night Americana Ramble at Marilyns on K, I might be translating dispatches from Zeti Reticuli right now. Ever heard music that makes you desperately try to remember if you’d innocuously eaten a brownie earlier that could have been, ahem, herbally enhanced? Dame Satans music had that effect. The instrumentation was boilerplate Americana–acoustic guitars, banjos, resonator guitars, bass and maybe even a mandolin–but the execution was closer to chamber music meets jazz. The influences, among them British folk, English post-psychedelic blues rock, spare Delta blues and the sort of weird Americana the Grateful Dead sometimes hinted at, melded into an original whole whose presence was rather startling. The four members played off each other like ancient jazz bodhisattvas, and there was a conscious awareness and manipulation of the spaces between the notes, again more a jazz trait than an element common to more straightforward genres like bluegrass or country. The overall effect is easy to recall. Its like that time you got really buzzed and played guitar in the stairwell and sang, and you heard yourself sounding like something from another dimension.” ..– Sacramento News and Views
“…Druggy, dusky hued country folks who slink about in the shadows…” ..– Aquarius
“…Underrated…” ..– S.F. Bay Guardian
“…Little ‘r’ rock with sweetly scented underpine…” ..– Byron Coley, The Wire
“BEACHES AND BRIDGES, the second long-play album by Dame Satan, is a leviathan of a record that’ll displace mass amounts of air from your speakers, whether it’s creeping along or flowing with speed and soul. The sounds it contains are huge, surreal, and timeless, easily holding their ground when compared to your parents’ musical documentations of progression, folk, harmony, and psychedelia.” ..– Thrasher Magazine
[from myspace]
Walking in Sunlight – gorgeous old-time harmonies
http://walkinginsunlight.bandcamp.com/album/walking-in-sunlight
We started singing together for the simple fun of it. This collection of songs represents the first few songs we happened to learn with each other. These are old time songs from the oldest necks of America, songs by modern ancients Doc Watson and Will Oldham, and a few songs by us. [website]
