6th Annual (recurring) DREAMS in Arcata!!!

BPBS Arts + Media Presents: 

The 6th Annual Production of (Recurring) DREAMS

Friday, June 10th
  8pm, sharp!

@ The Sanctuary
1301 J Street
Arcata

As in years past, we will project Akira Kurosawa's 1990 film DREAMS onto a large movie screen.  The film is divided into 8 short sequences (each segment is around 15 minutes long,) with each scene scored in real time by a different musical act (the movie is subtitled, so the audience can still follow the plot.)  Musicians perform from behind a screen, out of sight (similar to an orchestra pit,) which adds to the mystery and suspension of disbelief!


Dream 1...  Sunshine Through the Rain 
performed by:  Datura Blues  (Arcata/Portland)
“The alchemy of Portland experimental psych ensemble Datura Blues is loaded with disparate sonic bases that meld together Eastern European jazz, bits of improvisational noise, transitioning instrumental post-rock, psychedelic rock freakouts, and haunting ambient textures..."

Dream 2...  The Peach Orchard 
performed by:  Elektro-Kraken  (Portland)
"Bass, drums, guitars, and saxophones make up the primary colors of a nuclear mess somewhere between colorful chaos and primitive bliss..."

Dream 3...  The Blizzard 
performed by:  Beat Totem  (Portland)
"The music of Beat Totem includes everything from Garage Rock, early punk, Psychedelic Soul, and Go-Go Swing, Jazz and Folk Rock. The sound is eclectic and inspired drawing from a combination of years of musical experience and a tribal vibe..."

Dream 4...  The Tunnel 
performed by:  ORRRA  (Arcata)
"ORRRA is Hannah Rosencrans and Daniel Nickerson. ORRRA is cabin song,redwood drum and wood stove drone. ORRRA is a rock and roll band..."

Dream 5...  Crows 
performed by:  Opossum Suntrail  (Arcata)
"Opossum Sun Trail is an American primitive country experimental band form Arcata featuring members of Moon Pine and Motherload..."

Dream 6...  Mount Fuji in Red 
performed by:  Die Geister Beschwören  (Arcata/Portland/Oakland) 
"Krautrock collective from Portland, Oregon. Multiple textures of music with widespread arrangements. A humble but perfect journey through 70‘s underground styles.  Imagine all your favorite obscure German bands condensed into one..."

Dream 7...  The Weeping Demon 
performed by:  Jonathan Kipp  (Arcata)
"Jonathan Kipp is a percussionist living in Arcata, California. He has a BA in music from Humboldt State University. He participates in a variety of projects and styles including classical, improvised, experimental and electronic..."

Dream 8...  Village of the Watermills 
performed by:  Leone  (Eureka)

Some Kind Words About Die Geister Beschwören!

"While the sounds on Die Geister Beschwören‘s Music Feeds Stars fall within the realm of folk music, elements of blissful psychedelia, droning experimentation, and even pop-friendly melodies all sit beautifully beside each other to make an experience that is equally welcoming and challenging in its beauty. Worming through many points of culture and time, Music Feeds Stars sounds like a group of cosmic musical voyagers discovering earth’s history as a collection of its more soothing and strange sounds. Field recordings serve as the occasional segue between gaps of whimsical and sometimes jarring electroacoustic folk, which feels equally composed and improvised. The inclusion of dreamy effects and a member of the band performing on a saw serves as a nice balance to the classical guitar and softly sung vocals that drive the majority of the album. I’ve had the privilege of seeing Die Geister Beschwören perform twice now, (they’re a Portland band) and each performance was quite unique. It’s the spontaneity and clear joy of creativity that make this album a welcome burst of strangely oscillating light in these darker months. This cassette was just issued on German label Tarkosvky Green and is worth the small investment..."
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New Die Geister Beschwören Album on Kartovsky Green Records!

                                                                                                                        

"Krautrock collective from Portland, Oregon. Multiple textures of music with widespread arrangements. A humble but perfect journey through 70‘s underground styles.  Imagine all your favourite obscure German bands condensed into one album..."

www.tarkovskygreen.com
www.tarkovskygreen.bandcamp.com

Die Geister Beschwören European Tour Dates!

Portland Mercury reviews Die Geister Beschwören

"Led by Oryan Peterson-Jones, the musical collective known as Die Geister Beschwören (translated as: Call Up the Ghosts) has been exploring facets of world folk music while keeping true to the calling of psychedelia. Recent recordings like Music Feeds Stars and The Great Defenestration—both available on the group's Bandcamp page—are bewitching affairs that fold in elements of droning Indian ragas, thudding gothic pop, and shimmering pop songs that evoke the spirits of Syd Barrett and the Bevis Frond..."
Robert Ham
Portland Mercury

Review of The Great Defenestration!!!

"Die Geister Beschwören translates to "call up the ghosts."  And I have to admit; I had to look up the exact meaning of defenestration, which is:  "The act of throwing a thing (or especially a person,) out of a window."  This Portland experimental folk ensemble certainly does both in this intricate 17-minute sonic spree recently released on SQRT Records.  Laden with field recordings, aching string and bass clarinet orchestrations, loops, haunting drums and vocals, it paints a lush, if not eerie, mental picture.  It's artfully-layered and quite well-paced.  Let me put it this way:  I started out doing stretches and meditation to it, but 4 minutes in, I found myself pacing the floors thinking, "This would be an amazing soundtrack if I ever have a rapid descent into terrifying madness and an eventual reawakening to my highest self!"  Both menacing and beautiful, The Great Defenestration is one intriguing fall from a window..."

Leah Brzezinski, Savage Henry Magazine

...Kind Words About Die Geister Beschwören (from Italy!)

"When Oryan Peterson-Jones made contact to point me towards this album, he wrote “recommended if you like Six Organs Of Admittance, Sun City Girls, Ghost, Earth, Dirty Three, etc”. Thus he established a record of sorts, naming an entire clutch of bands of which – believe it or not – I never heard a note. Perhaps this lack of material for comparison is what let me appreciate Drawn To The Investigation Of Shadows more over the course of scattered plays in the last five months or so. In fact, beyond illustrious reputations and stylistic dimensions, this work was evidently designed with finely tuned ears and a definite taste for instrumental abstraction of the purest variety; furthermore, as the thing lasts less than 32 minutes, the risk of weariness is excluded from the beginning. And, did you see how many people helped? In spite of the numerous hands and voices, the music does not reveal itself as untidy or wild: everything appears to be at the right place in the right moment.

So, let the reviewer continue the game initiated by this Portland artist, namely that of finding points of entry in the psychedelic-but-not-too-much universe depicted by the two tracks. Consider that the project’s name translates as “call up the ghosts”, and that peaceful guitars, strings and theremins are prominent in establishing atmospheres between dreamy and bucolic, in any case quite removed from “urban” contaminations. However, keep also in mind that you won’t find the witless trademarks of drugged disorganization: no “warped nightmare” vocals, no low-cost replicas of Pink Floyd’s taped laughs, no amorphous bullshit justified by third-rate “cosmic trips”. The basic substances are predominantly folk-tinged, occasionally (and intelligently) utilizing field recordings and anthemic streams with just the necessary hints to remote latitudes and resonant auras, plus a few unexpected solutions warranting the birth of authentic interest in the listener. If anything, the lone entity to which I managed to relate Peterson-Jones’ vision is my old buddy Mirko Uhlig (currently AWOL) in his Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf embodiment. The genuineness of the intuitions and the credibility of the orchestral vibrancy are indeed pretty similar.

In a nutshell, this music is still innocent. Enough for me to sing its praises..."

by massimo ricci

www.touchingextremes.wordpress.com