Faun Fables w/ Tar Pet and Negative Example
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
8:00 pm
We are excited to be promoting this show at High Noon, 701 E Washington Ave.
Since 1998, Faun Fables has represented the musical world of Dawn McCarthy, visited in collaboration with her partner Nils Frykdhal. In early times, their wild spirit roamed the streets and hills of the SF-Oakland community and, pilgrim-like, wandered the world, self releasing music before continuing onward to create six albums for Drag City.
Over previous albums, the passions of Faun Fables seemed to be laid firmly on the stones of the Old World. Dawn's songs seemed to well forth from a more elementary fundament: one that lived in knowing intuition with nature, gathered in blood-based tribes, worked in the light of day and played by the fire at night. Born of the Sun continues in this exalted tradition but also reflects the new rhythms of life, and as such, the necessarily scorched earth of raising children, each day becoming a new and irreversible step forward. Living what was once only dreamed and sung about makes for an earthier and more expansive Faun Fables record, informed by the slow and sudden progress of time that occurs when we are with the very young. And so Born of the Sun became another birthing, gestating over several years, then recorded mostly in concentrated periods over the past two winters.
Six years have passed in highly dramatic, entirely everyday fashion since their last album, Light of A Vaster Dark. Born of the Sun is forged in the crucible of NOW, and as such has a feeling apart from the previous phases of Faun Fables. Riding along with Mother Nature, Dawn and Nils and the kids (whose vocals on "Wild Kids Rant" suggest they are following their parents path into the forest) are embracing the phenomena of creation as they move inexorably forward. Born of the Sun is the bountiful and exuberant album of this place and time, so go forth and mark your calendars for July 22nd!
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Tar Pet is the solo project of Taralie Peterson from the legendary psych veterans Spires That In The Sunset Rise. Both projects seek to recapture creative music through invention. Taralie has recorded and released 9 albums with her band and two with her solo project. She has toured throughout the states and Europe extensively over the past 15 years. Over the years there has been a focus on using and manipulating acoustically based instruments from around the world, though lately there has been a settling on the cello and alto saxophone. There is a constant disintegration of oppositions in her ritualistic music – meandering yet simultaneously focused, beautiful and melodic but unnerving and discordant. Great for opening the mind to the cracks between worlds. Tar Pet is completely riveting, mysterious, and a very rare occasion to listen again, as if for the first time.
https://soundcloud.com/hairy-spider-legs/sets/tar-pet-deaf-drawing-blind
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Negative Example has a singular sound inhabited by odd chord structures that are dissonant but warm and accessible at the same time. Rock veteran Bucky Pope, who cut his teeth in the early eighties hardcore scene with the Tar Babies, fronts the band and has a lot to say after wandering through the wilderness of his life for the past 25 years, which is when he last released a set of new music. There is a lot weird stuff going on within Negative Example's songs but it melds together into sharp musical hooks that are actually good for you.
