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6/17: Cold Cave, Black Marble & Choir Boy at The Broadberry
The Broadberry
2729 W Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23220
THE BROADBERRY & SLIMEHOLE PRESENT:
COLD CAVE (Los Angeles, Matador)
http://coldcave.net/
BLACK MARBLE (LA/NY, Ghostly Int'l/Hardly Art)
https://blackmarble.bandcamp.com/
CHOIR BOY (SLC, Dais)
https://choirboy.bandcamp.com/
Sunday June 17th, 2018
@ The Broadberry
7PM Doors // 8PM Sounds
$15 Advance // $18 Day of Show
All Ages
Tickets on sale Friday, 4/13 at 10am: https://ticketf.ly/2uWUV4o
After bringing Strange Matter to capacity last time and headlining the short-lived Fall Line Fest in RVA before that, the mighty COLD CAVE returns to RVA, this time at The Broadberry on a crushing package tour with some of the modern goth/pop/industrial scene's most shining stars!! It's dually awesome that frontman Wes Eisold also just brought Broadberry to capacity in March (with his hc project American Nightmare) and hopefully does so again alongside NYC and Ghostly International/Hardly art's minimal post-punk sounds of BLACK MARBLE (who've twice packed the house in RVA) and the "new romantic" influenced dream pop all the way from Salt Lake City, Dais Records' own CHOIR BOY who also recently stole the show in March at Smatter with Soft Kill and True Body! This is one of the coolest packages we've seen in a while and suggest hopping on them tickets before it's too late!
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COLD CAVE: COLD CAVE is the electronic music of acclaimed musician, writer and artist Wesley Eisold. Beginning in 2007, Cold Cave has become a name synonymous with the contemporary resurgence of Darkwave and Synth Pop sub-genres, propelling Cold Cave to perform at world class museums The Getty and the Guggenheim, as well as performances with legends Sonic Youth, The Jesus and Mary Chain, among others. The sound has spanned from experimental industrial noise to rock?n?roll influenced electronic music.
According to the Guardian, ?Wesley Eisold is an absolutely new, young god of nihilism and despair ? he brilliantly captures Cold Cave?s aesthetic: the Morrissey of How Soon Is Now wailing over Nitzer Ebb beats and New Order melodies.?
According to Eisold, if anything, his music reflects what it feels like to live in the present. Eisold, whose baritone is as rich and resonating as that of Phil Oakey, Nick Cave or Iggy Pop, says ?Of course we love the lineage of the genre, early experiments with machines to convey human emotion; the marriage between pop and industrial music. At the time it was documenting the early stages of a new world, and we are recording what it feels like to be alive in that world.?
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BLACK MARBLE: On September 30, 2016 BLACK MARBLE released their second full-length, It?s Immaterial. Their first for Ghostly, It?s Immaterial follows up their EP Weight Against the Door (Hardly Art) and highly acclaimed debut full-length A Different Arrangement (Hardly Art). Still featuring Chris Stewart at the helm along with select collaborators as supplementation, the project's recent shift in locale from East Coast to West Coast lends a great deal to the overall feel of the new album: the light and dark elements of shadows, the salt and sting of evening?s high tide sea spray, a beautiful thing left on a shelf too high to maintain. The general mood is that of creating something new, but going back in time to do it. Like attempting to flesh out a song that you woke up humming but can?t find because it doesn?t exist yet.
With the end of the East Coast chapter of Stewart?s life on the horizon, It?s Immaterial was recorded in a period of mental and physical transition, trapped between spaces and unable to move on until the snow globe flurry of ideas floating around him settled just right. It?s Immaterial is soaring and muted all at once. It's a collection of songs pieced together from perfect seeming snippets heard while passing open doors. It's a framework in which your imagination creates its own version of what you need to hear but didn?t have a way to describe - like a favorite song heard on an unlabeled mixtape by a band you can?t uncover.
With both early releases the band followed a familiar path stomped down in the late 70's and early 80's by a kindred assemblage of synth acts whose gauzy tape sounds and DIY ethics paved the way for other likeminded artists. Pulling from the handmade approach of late 70's synth wave pioneers like Silicon Teens, Iron Curtain, Lives of Angels, and Solid Space, Black Marble dialed in on a clear understanding of its own specific sound, which has since evolved. Channeling Robert Palmer's early Island years, vocals have been pushed forward - their delivery more desperate. The result is a feeling more immediate yet claustrophobic.
?It's a lot of psychic turmoil about time, place, and the dissatisfaction that comes with being young and not having control over place, or being old and not having control over time,? Stewart says about the album. ?The record is filled with characters trying to convince themselves, and others, to change or to see things differently or to come along with them somewhere. It?s that moment of wanting between knowing and doing but frozen in time.?
It?s Immaterial is a further evolution in Black Marble's sound. Where the songs featured on their debut full-length seemed to hiss from a vent in the floor, the new tracks seem to be coming from the next room. Written, recorded, mixed, and performed entirely by Stewart, the new songs are a unified vision - one person?s attempt to patchwork together bits of vapor and the most subtle gleanings of preference to make something wholly new. It's an endless drive in the passenger seat of a car while listening to everything you?ve ever loved, but lasting only 40 minutes.
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CHOIR BOY: ?CHOIR BOY? was what the kids called singer/songwriter Adam Klopp in his early teens when he fronted punk cover bands in Cleveland, Ohio. An intended insult, the label seemed fair and fitting in a way, given Klopp?s religious upbringing and angelic voice. After high school, Adam left Ohio for college in Utah. While his career as a student would prove short-lived, he integrated into Provo and SLC?s underground music and art scene, left religion behind, and called his new band ?Choir Boy?.
?It seemed funny to me as sort of a comical reclamation of the mocking title I received from ?punk? peers as a teen. While serving as a weird reflection of my childhood and musical heritage.?
Since Choir Boy?s gorgeous debut LP on Team Love Records in 2016, the dream-pop outfit has gained a cult following online and in underground circles. Adam?s stunning vocal range, layered compositions, and heartbreaking melodies are backed by musical partner Chaz Costello on bass (Fossil Arms, Sculpture Club, Human Leather) - and along with a rotating cast of players, create the perfect blend of nostalgia-laced romantic pop music we?ve been waiting years to hear.
Dais is proud to announce the new single ?Sunday Light? b/w ?Madeline?. The new songs are a continuation of the strong compositions and songwriting evident on last year?s album, and a showcase of Choir Boy?s musical talent.
?Sunday Light? is a coming of age story, and touches on the frightening aspects of religion, ritual, and secrecy through the eyes of someone discovering the truth behind the door for the first time. Strong vocals soar throughout the composition, reaching dizzying heights and diving into low and commanding tones, backed with strings and reverbed keys ? it makes for majestic, but haunted nostalgia.
?Madeline? is the quintessential B-side heartbreaker ? ??a pessimistic commentary to an accumulative experience with love and romance. Ranging from memories of young love to hopelessness in adult relationships?, this ballad impresses with beautiful and delicate arrangements, the slow motion soundtrack for a hopeless young romance.
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