Upcoming: Peter and The Wolf
This Saturday afternoon Peter & The Wolf, Castanets, and Jana Hunter will play on the Empty Vessel Project. They will perform on a salvaged WWII Navy Rescue boat, which doesn't look seaworthy but could probably hold a music show. Supposedly these bands are touring on a boat as a protest to high gas prices among other things.
Austin's Peter and The Wolf play folk music cast under the shadow lo-fi sound. Their boy/girl singing dynamic works dark and lo-fi because is not always in sync, which keeps it coarse. If you are as curious as I am about this show, come down to the Gowanus Canal and wish them bon voyage on their tour of the eastern seaboard. I honestly don't know anything about the other two acts or who all those people are in the picture. But maybe touring on boat is kind of like The Oregon Trail and they have lost a few people to snake bites and malaria.
Access to the Empty Vessel is from the west side of 1st Street, one block south of the Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal. The Empty Vessel would like to become an Action, Art and Design Center fostering projects focused on Sustainable Living in Urban Landscapes.
SHOW
8/18 at Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Brooklyn), 9pm
8/19 at Empty Vessel, $5, 1pm
8/19 at Northsix, $8, 9pm
DOWNLOAD
Peter and The Wolf - Strange Machines (MP3)
Peter and The Wolf - The Fall (MP3)
Castanets - All That I Know (MP3)
Castanets - Three Days Four Nights (MP3)
Comments
I've heard that this show is RSVP-only? Not sure how many folks will show up. The boat looks really small! Your post is the only buzz I've heard so far. So stop it! Just kidding.
The other people in the picture are probably the P&tW junk orchestra. Friends who live in Austin tell me that Red doesn't have a band per se, so much as people he phones up and asks to play shows with him. They end up doing backup vocals and banging on random objects, like soda bottles.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of Castanets as they are on Asthmatic Kitty, same label as Sufjan Stevens. They make haunting, free-form Americana. I like the records, though, the last time I saw them, they were kind of a mess, particularly because they ended up starting the set 20 minutes late as one of the band members couldn't be found (he was taking a nap or something.)
Posted by: kathryn | August 17, 2006 03:05 PM
Red has said that the tour wasn't a protest against gas prices, though it was definitely twisted into that.
Posted by: Dustin | July 17, 2007 05:00 PM