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Soft Openings Tour, the birth of Physical Release
December 27th, 2010A cultivation of confusion induction across the country for the sake of love or art or the coyote spirit. lay hands upon the beauty, full of it, what? this. More like a purveyance of vibrations than making something as traditional as music. For this sake, I’m not sure we even “got” what we were doing, but we drove it out and it curled. A spiral in this circle, birthplaces, a meeting of all the ones who gave us life, crooked with their own confusion. “… so spiritual,” commented, questionably mocking. Sure, I guess it is.
Mostly high, but a few lingering lulls, the ramshackle mystique argued by the dual of each, one, mind. Smiles throughout. Porcelain heads, one of a giant baby and one of a disintegrating unicorn, in fact, both chipping and tumbling, akin the the Father Tray, magically spranging an amorphous jangling, sharp with unexpected jorts and swellness. It was a Soft Opening. Maybe a few. And now that we’ve reached a Physical Release, bred from a blurring, child of baby head come. Insistently it’s still folk, mesmerized, alienized, a projection by a human must be nothing other than human folks.
And so hooray for the States! all spangled with cigarettes and Jim Beam and Budweiser, a steady diet of greasy eggs and rattle-bottle painkillers for worse than the reoccurring cold, broken one day, awestruck at how good you can feel about feeling good to no longer feel bad. This fluid, this is not easy. This comes in waves and spurts. This comes through jeans and fills rabid energies, trickling down the skin a saliva of nostalgia for realinglyreal.
Cool down. Collect up. Have a drink in the tour van that’s really just a small rental car, stenched with ash and sweat, crammed with gear, hustled out, hustled back in, scraping cold dry hands bleeding onto the music. Out of the eyes near the stage, where all is quick, too quick for meditative workings, judging eyes, manipulated, mutilated, lost, pulling some energy you were saving to make this rainy day. And so those moments alone, the 2 of us, listening to pages of Quran, tired and surrounded on the outside of the starship by a displacement that beats you down just enough so you still have the drive to escape, and make it, the next night to the next place. And there’s the first beer upon arrival.
Sanctuary. A pause in the awkward leanings of the day. Hospitables, bohemian non-chalants of the roadsides. staying or moving, a collection of rocks, tumbleweed and blades of grass.
Soft Closings ~ finals shows and voyagehome
December 8th, 2010Come catch Moomaw/Gravid Wives aka Soft Openings aka Physical Release aka Soft Release as they cultivate confusion on a last few shows of their over-monthed tour. We have tour CDs that you don’t have…
Thursday dec 9 @ 9pm: Bolinas - Smiley’s Schooner Saloon w/ Jeffrey Manson, Winnie Byrd
Friday dec 10 @ 9pm: Sacramento - The Hub w/ Sevi Katur
Saturday dec 11 @ 8pm (early show!): San Francisco - Viracocha (998 Valencia st) w/ Ed Masuga, Winnie Byrd
Soft Openings Tour across the whole USA starring Moomaw and Gravid Wives
November 3rd, 2010Traveling with a host of magical props and some questionable spells, onward they jaunt!
Nov 4 @ Rotture w/ SARCASTIC DHARMA SOCIETY ~ Portland, OR
Nov 5 @ Hoot House w/ HUNTING HAT, CHELSEY WEBER-SMITH ~ Bellingham, WA
Nov 6 @ Pet Seminary w/ ALEX MIRANA, CLOUDBUSTRR ~ Seattle, WA
Nov 7 @ TBA w/ TBA ~ Olympia, WA
Nov 8 @ VAC w/ WITH CHILD ~ Garden City, ID
Nov 12 @ The Meadowlark w/ THE LEGENDARY RIVER DRIFTERS, DUSTIN REID, BLACKBERRY BUSHES ~ Denver, CO
Nov 14 @ Replay Lounge ~ Lawrence, KS
Nov 15 @ Czar Bar w/ Mary Fortune ~ Kansas City, MO
Nov 16 @ No Fun House w/ PHILLY CRAWLERS ~ Kalamazoo, MI
Nov 17 @ TBA w/ AUTOPILOT ~ Columbus, OH
Nov 18 @ Zebulon w/ MIWA GEMINI, BABY COPPERHEAD, CITYFUN DJs ~ Brooklyn, NY
Nov 19 @ Branded Saloon w/ BLACK FOREST ~ Brooklyn, NY
Nov 20 @ By Appointment Or By Chance ~ Brooklyn, NY
Nov 22 @ Zuzu ~ Cambridge, MA
Nov 25 @ Rocky’s Thanksgiving House Party Acoustic Show ~ Richmond, VA
Nov 27 @ Broadway’s ~ Asheville, NC
Nov 29 @ Caledonia ~ Athens, GA
Nov 30 @ Hi Tone ~ Memphis, TN
Dec 1 @ Cosmic Charlie’s ~ Lexington, KY
Dec 2 @ Super Happy Fun Land w/ ARTHUR YORIA ~ Houston, TX
Dec 3 @ TBA ~ Austin, TX
Dec 5 @ TBA ~ Phoenix, AZ
Dec 6 @ Red Room w/ ANDREW COLBERG & The Magical Powers Record Show ~ Tucson, AZ
Dec 7 @ Dry River ~ Tucsan, AZ
Dec 9 @ Smiley’s w/ JEFFREY MANSON, WINNIE BYRD ~ Bolinas, CA
Dec 10 @ The Hub w/ SEVI KATUR ~ Sacramento, CA
Dec 11 @ Viracocha w/ ED MASUGA, WINNIE BYRD ~ San Francisco, CA
Psy-Fi Freakout Halloween Boogie!
October 29th, 2010TONIGHT! FRI OCT 29! 9:00pm☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶\§ PSY-FI FREAKOUT HALLOWEEN BOOGIE ☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶\§
Show and Psychegasmic Dance Party!
Deep Magic / Moomaw/ Gravid Wives / Processors / HerdVision /DJs / Performance of Banda Dance
COSTUMES! and DDDDAAANCING and INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL and LACK OF PLANETS AND TIME WHATSOEVER! and CANDY!
October 29!☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶\§ In time for the calendar to speak of Halloweeeee☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶\§n
Gravid Wives : Gravid Wives : Gravid Wives
October 19th, 2010Gazebo Music has a wing under the nest, trembling, to present such a present, indefinite of glory for repentance. Gravid Wives. Today, a sterling gem of twisted, cosmic, rock’n'roll and country is unleashed. You may pay as you wish for this. It pays for you:
Beautiful artwork done by the one, the lovely, the only, the one: Jeff Stratford (http://jeffstratford.org/).
To celebrate this release and hail the coming of the upcoming Nov/Dec US tour for Gravid Wives and Moomaw tune your radio receptors to KZSU on Wed Oct 20 and listen to the 2 projects make noise over radio streams:
Moomaw / Gravid Wives LIVE on KZSU
Wed Oct 20, 9pm-10pm
Tune in on the interconnectedmessofcomputers: http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/
