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SECRET HISTORY PRESENTS: All Ages Show! PARK THE VAN TOUR w/ SPINTO BAND / GENERATIONALS / PEPI GINSBERG
Sunday Nov 1, 2009 6:00 PM
Canceled
Canceled
Park the Van Records works together to bring awesome music to your ears and they're bringing their bands to Birmingham!
The Spinto Band's style is difficult to discribe. Neurotic, hooked packed songs that are very well orchestrated are bursting with melodies -- and Atari bleeping?
New Orleans duo Generationals are seemingly obsessed with the twist 'n' shout of yore, jam-packing their tunes with blasts of late-1960s sunshine pop.
All ages show! Doors at 6 pm/ Show at 7 pm! Tickets for this show are $8/10.
PEPI GINSBERG | 6:00 PM
 Brooklyn-based Pepi Ginsberg began putting her poems to songs while living in Philadelphia where she moved to study writing at Penn. Nine months into her songwriting journey, Pepi, with local friends, made the limited-press Orange Juice: Stephanie/Stephanie (2006), her first recording, which taps into raw, experimental folk. The next year, Pepi arranged and recorded Sometime Momma/Sometime Babe(2007), solo with her acoustic, in her bathtub. "It added reverb to the vocals," she explains, matter-of-fact. A few months later she crossed paths and formed a partnership with Dr.Dog frontman Scott McMicken. Her first "studio" album, 2008’s acclaimed, RED (Park The Van), explores vintage psych-rock and folk and is the first album to show her live potential with a full band.
Not one to stay put artistically, Pepi decided to experiment with a wilder, fuller band sound for her follow-up, East is East. "I didn't want to just strum a song anymore," she says. "It's funny, but theses days it grosses me out to accompany myself with traditional arrangements. I've been corrupted." One member of her touring band, guitarist Amnon Freidlin (Normal Love, Zs), proved a catalyst for Pepi's “remodeling” of her sound. Bassist Jon Guez joined and further pushed the direction with his unique approach. Finally drummer Pete Angevine(Satanized, etc) whom Amnon and Jon had played with for many years, joined on, cookie sheet mounted on drum set and all, and completed the final piece of the puzzle. Over the course of the past year, Pepi and her guys hung out around Fishtown, Philadelphia, deepening their friendships and creating the vibrant Indian-summer world of East is East. Each composition takes the classic “songwriter's song” out of its traditional landscape and casts it in a bright, metallic light.
The idea for East is East was hatched while driving along the Montauk Highway, listening to Blonde on Blonde. According to Ginsberg, “I was hearing that record and feeling so excited about the idea of an album that was very contemporary for its time, but was also a lyrical rock and roll journey. I wanted to know what the love child of Bob Dylan and Deerhoof would sound like."
In East is East, Pepi Ginsberg and her collaborators step into the golden hour of the day and embrace "The most ephemeral of seasons." A mood and a time where we "know that change is coming in the form of a cool wind; we hold on until we let go." The song 'Summer Sick as Love' accomplishes this feeling, with its mythical descriptions of gutter punks and wind ravaged stop-signs, while other songs, such as 'Shake This', prove Ginsberg as a true craftswoman, expounding emotion through simple, yet profound turns of phrase. Tracks, such as the electrically defiant 'Lost River,' find Ginsberg pushing against lyrical and melodic boundaries, in a story of adventure that ends in a cry of freedom from behind the walls of a jail. 'Coca Cola' is classic Pepi. Here again, her words, cadence, and delivery remind us that she participates in the great American songwriting tradition, even as she places her songs in an entirely new context. Ginsberg, with arrangements expertly handled by her band, creates a world with East is East, that is "the season in between," and parts the waters, navigating change in the sea of these strange times.
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SPINTO BAND | 6:00 PM
 Brevity, soul and wit: some of the hallmarks of the Spinto Band’s latest forthcoming release. Slim & Slender is the Delaware native sextet’s self-recorded debut. A succinctly stated 4 song package, this EP serves as a precursor to the self-recorded LP to follow in 2010. The early results were so good and exciting that the band’s label, Park The Van Records, wanted to get this collection of tracks out as quickly as possible, opting for 10” vinyl and digital download commercial release options, landing October 6, 2009.
Self recorded in eastern PA, these very well may be some of the The Spinto Band's best stuff yet. Included are a lot of extended instrumental explorations , like the bouncily jubilant cover of "Brazil" from the Terry Gilliam film of the same title. “Brazil has been a long time classic amongst the band,” singer/songwriter/guitar-player/production-guru Nick Krill explains. “I first heard it in the film and have overheard Jeff and Tom and others playing the melody on different instruments over the years. The song brings to mind flying high above a city with angel wings sprouting from my back.” Their previous full-length, Moonwink, had Spinto’s crafty penchant for taking care in carving out space for all sounds in elaborate arrangements, and “Thayer Function”, Slim’s original instrumental is a sunwinked continuation of this calling card. Krill explained the genesis of this cut: “Back when we used to record in Thomas and Sam's basement, our former band mate, Albert Birney, penned a song called Layer Function. Albery now lives on Thayer Street in Rochester, New York, and Joe made up the riff for what would eventually become Thayer Function during a sing along on Albert's porch while we were on tour last year. The title just popped out and immediately made perfect sense...kind of making a nice reference to our old basement recording days just as we were beginning recording ourselves again almost ten years later.”
Continuing work on building out the band’s own studio for this return voyage into their self-recording roots, the Spinto Band plans and prepares for what’s next. “We are working on that new material in a new studio we have been slowly piecing together over the course of the summer,” according to Krill. “Now that we have found a bass clarinet, we are a lot closer to being done. The next step is to figure out how to play the bass clarinet.”
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GENERATIONALS | 6:00 PM
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