AMY ANNELLE (the places): here
2008 Summer Tour of the CHTHONIC STATES*
July onward.
Please write highplainssigh-at-gmail-dot-com if you'd like it to come to where ye be!
**chthonic...typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than
the living surface of the land, or the land as territory. It evokes at
once abundance and the grave.
The term 'chthonic' can be used to describe the spirit of nature
within, the unconscious earthly impulses of the Self, one's material
depths, but not necessarily with negative connotations. In the
positive sense, it appears as a 'spirit of nature', creatively
animating Man, things, and the world.
(from the Greek khthonios, of the earth, from the earth; pertaining
to the Earth)
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a bee buzzing around town had a look around says it might come down to
this: a pack of mules falling from a ledge into the abyss. two
separate storms speaking lightning together over the high plains. a
refractory pattern and an overtone. a whole lot of feedback and then,
static.
a house concert:
Amy Annelle w/ Hello Lovers, Aaron Blount
Friday March 14 @ 12 AM
104 Chicon St. (@ Cesar Chavez)
Austin, TX
AA will be singing in Jandek's band for his SXSW performance Saturday
March 15.
Jandek show info here:
http://2008.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/69298.html
A new duo of Ralph White & Amy Annelle:
PRECIOUS BLOOD. digging deep in the traditional music game bag for
the ones with the lean muscles and the beautiful hide.
Precious Blood has a new myspace music page:
the falcons are well fed. now a NEW ALBUM's path is tread.
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2008 is happening. did you see the space lattice the night it turned,
smoke curling around your head, your breath a slow and steady stream
of white?
not long before dawn i rose in the hay field. the cedar waxwings
flocked around. we were scratching the dirt for seeds, tossing fermented
bushberries into the air and swallowing them whole, wheezing tenderly
to each other through bandit masked beaks. there was plenty to eat,
oh there was plenty to eat.
next, i was a human walking a meadow with no paths or fencelines. i
found an old horseshoe in the dust and hung it on my wrist. my
pockets bulged with fine specimens of igneous incidents, of earthly
metamorphosis.
i picked up speed and let the wind lift me. south, to drift cross a
mountain range i'd seen in a dream. i drank from the creek upstream
from where my hides were softening. and the light, the light got
gold. a portentious start. take heart.
have a look at two new photo zines:
"Fever Dream Winter Tour" and
"Twenty Square Feet of Shady Lane"
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11.6--11.18 The Places bring the MUSICAL FEVER DREAM out for a MIDWEST TOUR:
11/6 AUSTIN, TX Bouldin Creek Cafe
11/7 DENTON, TX Dan's Silver Leaf
11/9 CHICAGO, IL Ronny's
11/10 CHICAGO, IL Martyr's
11/11 URBANA, IL Iron Post
11/12 MILWAUKEE, WI Neighbor's
11/14 JACKSON, MI TBA
11/15 DETROIT, MI Trumbullplex
11/16 CLEVELAND, OH Bella Dubby
11/17 CLEVELAND, OH Museum of Contemporary Art w/ Matt Valentine & Erika Elder
all shows with Ralph White See you Out There
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8.24--9.20 The Places, Ralph White embark on HIGH PLAINS AND PEAKS WESTERN US TOUR
Most dates with the great Michael Hurley
see shows page for details!
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THE PLACES IN BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
"Like genuine folk singers before...Annelle makes music borne up from the land. Keen, empathetic observers, they seem to move, like ghosts, through walls and locked doors and into the homes and lives of men and women they'll never be, yet whose stories are somehow always in part their own -- and our own."
read the whole Billboard article here
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COME ON OUT, NEW YORK CITYZENS!
THE PLACES with SPECIAL GUEST RALPH WHITE @ Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York City
Friday July 13 9:30 PM
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Ralph Whiteto join Jandek's backing band for one show July 21 concert at Rose Marine Theatre, Fort Worth TX And Lee Daniel ("Be Here To Love Me", "You're Gonna Miss Me") is filming it for a Jandek documentary. Click above for the story.
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Greetings from Six Feet Under the Underground!
...or make that Five and a Half Feet, as The Places are featured in an NPR broadcast
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it was a cold and starry dark, a month or so back at brenda's shack, which is unlike any other home base ever created. brenda is an extrordinary creature who's gone to great lengths to create a suitable habitat. a pad with the appropriate paramaters, paleattes and textures. there's furs and claws, adornments from a dozen decades and a dozen foreign lands. it's a mongolian yurt in an urban yard, there's lamb and millet and lentils from a propane stove and small glasses of red wine and kombucha tea. the books that line the walls all have red spines. a gentlemen who knows what's best might follow a sign suggesting a climb to the top of the loft.
the inestimable jolie holland was there that night. the evening was whiled away in gentle celebration. jolie and i got to trading songs. and jana and brenda and chris drury were listening, and chris is a filmmaker, so his camera saw things, and secretly captured these twilit pixels. it's a video of an unreleased song of mine called "Everyone Has Spoken". that's jolie's guitar and brenda's belongings abstrusely illuminating everything.
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SONGS FOR CREEPS
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE CRITIC'S CHOICE: TOP ALBUMS OF 2006 (Susan Visakowitz)
"Amy Annelle is a brilliant desert troubadour with a dark and compelling vision"~~Brian Baker, Amplifier Magazine
"Conventionally this record might be folk, psychadelic, avant-pop--more or less undefinable--but most of all it's got a grip on the sprawling, strange, optimistic, terrifying feel of open-road America."~~David Snyder, IndieFolkForever
"...consistently eschews the tried-and-true...a prog-pastoralist vortex of charm"~~Rod Smith, Timeout NY
"A starkly beautiful collection of dark avant-folk wanderings that can be eerily quiet and breathtaking, Songs For Creeps mirrors the nomadic lifestyle of its maker...utilizing vintage equipment and instruments, found sounds like bird calls and ghostly Native American chanting, and her own sweet voice, Annelle crafts wonderfully weird, macabre songs about fading love, murderous intentions, seers and midnight explorations" Peter Linblad, Goldmine Magazine
SONGS FOR CREEPS the new original album from The Places. Produced by Brian Beattie with Amy Annelle. Additional recording by Jay Pellicci. Album art & design by E*Rock. Streaming and downloads deprive you of the full release of an album encounter. Mail order your triple-gatefold-sleeved beauty today. Pick it up and put it down. Look at the art, see the ink and light diffuse. Read the lyrics as it plays. Touch something to make it go or stop. Then, file according to your Inividual Music Phylogeny.
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Songs For Creeps
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...also recently released on High Plains Sigh:
'FAWNS WITH FANGS: SELECTIONS FROM THE DARK HEART OF THE THICKET' The Places covers album
SPINNING FREELY ON WFMU---WNUR---KDVS---WPRB---KGNU and in your mind.
"...not the usual premeditated studio covers album: it's more of an accidental self-portrait, drawn from a wealth of live recordings and home 4-track sessions. The album digs deep into the hallowed underground of British and American folk and psychedelic rock--with a few wild cards mixed in"
Handmade and numbered, CDR in gatefold sleeve w/ booklet.
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and we will exchange latitudes and longitudes.