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Thursday
July 9 2015 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $10 in advance / $12 at the door Porcelain Raft porcelainraft.com/ Indie electro glam synthpop Gracie And Rachel www.gracieandrachel.com/ haunting classical string / minimalist Andrew St. James www.andrewstjames.com/ Folk, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter Porcelain Raft Mauro Remiddi from New York, NY- Porcelain Raft is Mauro Remiddi's main music project. The New York-based musician began his long, prolific career in Italy, the place of his birth, playing for small, local projects. After composing the original soundtrack for the 1997 Italian short-film La Matta dei Fiori, and collaborating and touring the world with various bands, Remiddi launched his first solo recording project under the moniker Porcelain Raft, and in 2010 released his first solo EP Gone Blind with Acéphale Records. In 2011 he signed with Secretly Canadian and released the debut Porcelain Raft full-length record Strange Weekend which peaked at #33 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums chart.- Gracie And Rachel Gracie Coates, lead vocals, piano, Rachel Ruggles, violin, vocals from Berkeley to Brooklyn- The Brooklyn-based, Berkeley-raised piano-violin duo, Gracie and Rachel, crafts intricate tunes combining classical string elements with haunting, fierce vocals augmented by sparse but powerful percussion. It is ivory satin lined with teeth, finding beauty in stark simplicity and pausing to breathe a hint of the abstract into the highly emotive, evolved body they create. Their forthcoming debut album "Go" is a penetrating record of a lifelong friendship which flows freely between virtuosic violin textures to sylphlike melodies highlighting seasoned songwriting. The result: a heartfelt glimpse into two artists’ intertwined lives. From the pit of despair to the summit of success, Gracie and Rachel are always headed somewhere new.- Andrew St. James Andrew St. James from San Francisco, CA- Andrew St. James outlook may seem contrary to his generations unwavering optimism and the idea that the best is yet to come…that what we have done before is only setting the stage. His music is complex and introspective and sometimes dark. Like the over 50 million young people of his generation, he grew up with images of the Twin Towers falling; Occupy Wall Street; wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and inner-city violence being replayed daily on the nightly news...and it shows in his writing. As a voyeur of modern life’s travails, his lyrics echo with complex questions and commentary. Described as a Dylanesque voice of the millennial generation, his new album, Shakes will both surprise us and indulge our need for a new but familiar voice. As part of that super generation aged 18-29 called Millennials, St. James exhibits all of the narcissism of his age, bringing the perspectives of his generation to an old genre of rock music with a new connectivity we have not seen before. - |
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