On this date, we embark towards engulfment in celebration of the release of Evan Caminiti’s Night Dust on Immune Recordings, as well as Marielle Jakobsons’ Glass Canyon on Students of Decay. Traversing the indefinable divide is another local hero of the obscured: KWJAZ.

Evan Caminiti

KWJAZ

Marielle Jakobsons

LIMINAL SPACE | 950 54th St. Oakland 94608
Saturday May 26th | 8:30 doors, 9pm start
Contribution: $7 – $10

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Looking forward to this evening of record-release celebration at the fantastic Liminal Space in Oakland. We are so lucky to have this amazing new space which creates the ideal environment for absorbing new sounds and a communal vibe. I will play new material focusing on live tape manipulation, guitar, and synthesizer.

Since 2005 Evan Caminiti has explored the potential of psychedelic guitar music informed by American traditions and kosmische inspirations alike. Working in both Barn Owl and Higuma as well as releasing three full length LPs under his birth name, he has released records on Thrill Jockey, Three Lobed, Important, Root Strata, Digitalis, Not Not Fun, and Handmade Birds.

With Night Dust, his debut for Immune, Caminiti shifted the focus away from amplifier worship and the desert themes his work is often associated with to focus on texture, fractured dub techniques, and spacious electric guitar compositions. Recorded entirely to 4 track cassette, Caminiti embraced the limitations of the medium and warped the original sound sources with analog electronics, searching for beauty in the hazy and degraded sounds. Inspiration came from smokey blue hues and washed out lights of some of the 80’s best vampire movies which contributes to the visually evocative narrative flow the album possesses.

Guitars moan like horns through empty city streets, vocal samples erode in devotional bliss, and webs of synthesizer float like mist. The sounds of Caminiti’s guitar become disembodied as intricate fingerpicking techniques give way to percussive thuds, streaks of feedback, and textural crumble.

Night Dust is presented with the utmost highest production standards – mastered and cut to vinyl by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at D&M in Berlin, pressed on high-quality virgin vinyl at RTI and housed in a heavy-duty old-style tip-on gatefold jacket printed on uncoated stock by Stoughton. Also included is a free download coupon.

To preorder and listen to track please visit http://immunerecordings.net/catalog/night-dust/

Caminiti will continue his busy touring schedule with Barn Owl and plans to also perform solo in support of Night Dust.

Not Here Not There, the first transmission from Painted Caves aka Evan Caminiti, offers a set of deconstructed sounds recorded to cassette tape and then processed with analog and digital tools. Floating synthesizers decay into bottomless tonal pools as guitars are picked, bowed, and battered, leaving plumes of multicolored impressions hidden behind a thin grey veil. Hints of nostalgia and surrealism permeate this disorienting journey which explores new territory for Caminiti with it’s focus on minimal rhythms, submerged textures, and tape processing. These electronic manipulations hidden in the confines of magnetic tape suggest a take on retro-futurism in which we imagine the future from a fragmented past too distant to remember. This is the first release for the Dust Editions imprint and it is limited to 200 pro-dubbed chrome tapes with full color J-cards and pro-printed cassette shells labels on black cassettes. Digital download included with purchase.

For the time being this album will be exclusively available on Barn Owl’s upcoming European tour and for those of you who can’t make it, Aquarius Records will have copies available for mail-order. In addition, a new track from the album has been posted for you listening pleasure: http://paintedcave.bandcamp.com/track/between-worlds

For more information: http://off-festival.pl/en/2012/news,off-club-sounds-and-images,247.html

Wilhelm Sasnal “Untitled”, 2008. Oil on canvas.

11/04/12 Hamburg (DE), Hafenklang w/ OM
12/04/12 Krefeld (DE), Suedbahnhof
13/04/12 Tilburg (NL), Roadburn Festival
14/04/12 Brussels (BE), AB
15/04/12 Paris (FR), La Maroquinerie w/ OM, Pelican
16/04/12 Bristol (UK), The Croft
17/04/12 Manchester (UK), Islington Mill
18/04/12 Leeds (UK), Brudenell Social Club
19/04/12 London (UK), Cafe Oto
20/04/12 Dunkerque (FR), 4Ecluses
21/04/12 Haarlem (NL), Patronaat
22/04/12 Groningen (NL), Grand Theatre
23/04/12 Erfurt (DE), Thomaskirche
24/04/12 Nuernberg (DE), K4
25/04/12 Innsbruck (AT), P.M.K
26/04/12 Vienna (AT), Arena w/ OM
27/04/12 Leipzig (DE), UT Connewitz w/ OM

 Barn Owl will be playing a set featuring brand new material and carrying some exclusive items.

“Beautiful new full length LP featuring Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (Root Strata, Tarentel), Evan Caminiti & Jon Porras from Barn Owl, Lisa McGee (Higuma), Gregg Kowalsky (Date Palms), Marielle Jakobsons (Date Palms), Maxwell Croy (Root Strata/EN) Steven Dye & Tony Cross (Tarentel alum) and Michel Elrod, who plays tambura with Date Palms, Barn Owl & The Alps among others. Edition of 500. Screen printed jackets.  First 100 on color vinyl.

This large group is somehow able to focus and refine their sounds into sublime acoustic drone full of deep tones, rich harmonics, and an overall lush blend blend acrosss a wide range of frequencies.

Recorded & mixed by the Normal Conquest who also worked on the recent Barn Owl/Infinite Strings Ensemble (IMPREC335).”

PAINTED CAVES

Painted Caves is Evan Caminiti on guitar, synthesizer, and electronics.