Welcome to BPBS Arts and Media!
Beast, Please be Still behaves primarily as a resource center for
folks committed to grassroots methods of expressing, distributing and
archiving their artistic endeavors. We engineer and edit short films, videos and field recordings, host local shows, help book tours, produce the annual (recurring) DREAMS film scoring event and BPBS Fest. We promote artists we are related to, or simply, artists we like
and release the occasional cassette or compilation.
Gospel
The
BPBS bloodline may be traced to 2001, when members of Datura Blues
adopted "Beast, Please be Still" as their Mantra. The Beast’s infancy
was spent in Humboldt County, where it served as host to Datura Blues'
more experimental leanings (as a recording project, improvisational
ensemble and the opening track on Datura Blues' 2003 album "Master the
Tempest is Raging!") After a brief spell in Seattle, a short stint in
Austin and decade-long love affair with Portland, Oregon, the Beast has
returned to its former hunting grounds behind the Redwood Curtain.
The
BPBS Mantra has never been limited to one particular vision, medium,
setting or cast of characters. However, over the course of its
evolution, the moniker has been interpreted in a number of ways, now
representing many things to many folks. Despite nomadic
tendencies and deviation from one mode of operation to the next,
the tradition and enduring purpose of Beast, Please be Still is to
explore the collective creative interests of Datura Blues and their
satellite community, inspired by shared aesthetics and with devotion
towards this shipwrecked mankind.
Shine Bright Little Stars...
BPBS Arts & Media is the representative for the creative archives of Oryan Peterson-Jones & Andrew E. Pritchard.
