Oh My Rockness Presents
Fol Chen (album release show)
Royal Canoe, egroeg (Vacation Vinyl)
Fri, March 29, 2013
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Bootleg Bar
$12.00
Tickets
This event is 21 and over
http://www.foldsilverlake.com/event/184641/
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Fol Chen (album release show) - (Set time: 10:00 PM)
Fol Chen makes the soundtrack to a future that never was. To listen is to leave the comfort of nostalgia and
land with both feet in a bolder 21st century. The False Alarms (Asthmatic Kitty, March 19) continues the
band's electro-pop odyssey with a honed character and a distinct palette of sounds. Fol Chen has also
traded its cloak of anonymity for defiant confidence featuring Sinosa Loa as its new front voice.
Since 2009, the Los Angeles-area collective has created their signature sound from field recordings and an
electronic junk drawer, building compound beats and sending warped vocal transmissions. Led by producers
Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, Fol Chen's first two records, PART I: John Shade, Your Fortune's
Made (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009) and PART II: The New December (Asthmatic Kitty, 2010), cemented the
band's place as peddlers of dark pop in the alleys of independent music. Their live entity has a wide artistic
reach with a propensity for interactive projects like the Tetrafol, a motion-based sound toy developed with
musical interface pioneers Monome. Band events have been presented at sites such as the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, the Annenberg Space for Photography, and the Walker Art Center.
The False Alarms is electronic music with rich chords, progressive beats, and addictive melodies. The band
calls their genre “Opera House,” a name lifted from Malcolm McLaren but recoined as beat-driven
electronica with grand, operatic gestures and lyrically dense storytelling. The songs, written by Bing and
Sinosa, play together as a surreal journey with a human core, created in a year marked by sudden losses of
family and friends. Fol Chen builds music with honesty and obsessive precision, and the results are songs
that move and are moving. On the dance floor or in the bedroom, The False Alarms is a set of pop
symphonies that are chopped, screwed, mangled and beautiful.
Asthmatic Kitty presents The False Alarms: songs of uncertainty, identity, part-time love, loss and mistaken
reality. It's pop music for people who aren't sure where or when they are, but who know it's nowhere they've been before.
land with both feet in a bolder 21st century. The False Alarms (Asthmatic Kitty, March 19) continues the
band's electro-pop odyssey with a honed character and a distinct palette of sounds. Fol Chen has also
traded its cloak of anonymity for defiant confidence featuring Sinosa Loa as its new front voice.
Since 2009, the Los Angeles-area collective has created their signature sound from field recordings and an
electronic junk drawer, building compound beats and sending warped vocal transmissions. Led by producers
Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, Fol Chen's first two records, PART I: John Shade, Your Fortune's
Made (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009) and PART II: The New December (Asthmatic Kitty, 2010), cemented the
band's place as peddlers of dark pop in the alleys of independent music. Their live entity has a wide artistic
reach with a propensity for interactive projects like the Tetrafol, a motion-based sound toy developed with
musical interface pioneers Monome. Band events have been presented at sites such as the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, the Annenberg Space for Photography, and the Walker Art Center.
The False Alarms is electronic music with rich chords, progressive beats, and addictive melodies. The band
calls their genre “Opera House,” a name lifted from Malcolm McLaren but recoined as beat-driven
electronica with grand, operatic gestures and lyrically dense storytelling. The songs, written by Bing and
Sinosa, play together as a surreal journey with a human core, created in a year marked by sudden losses of
family and friends. Fol Chen builds music with honesty and obsessive precision, and the results are songs
that move and are moving. On the dance floor or in the bedroom, The False Alarms is a set of pop
symphonies that are chopped, screwed, mangled and beautiful.
Asthmatic Kitty presents The False Alarms: songs of uncertainty, identity, part-time love, loss and mistaken
reality. It's pop music for people who aren't sure where or when they are, but who know it's nowhere they've been before.
Royal Canoe - (Set time: 9:00 PM)
Royal Canoe is a group of musicians on a mission to construct ambitious, inventive music. The songs are thick with catchiness, rich in rhythm and are consistently pushing against the boundaries of pop music.
They spend almost every day in a shit-hole rehearsal space writing hooks, singing through effects pedals, scrawling lyrics on scraps of paper, and constructing heavy beats in odd time signatures. They create samples by running conventional sounds through unconventional pieces of gear, drumming on bathtubs and garbage cans, listening to Big Boi and manipulating bits of old records.
The band calls Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada home – the enigmatic prairie city, which has served artists as both an abundant, creative watering hole and a debilitating quagmire. The city's mood swings from euphoric summers spent biking with beers, fence-hopping residential pools and climbing abandoned roof-tops to harsh, bitter winters that are countered first with defiance, then self-loathing, then denial, then "you've got to be fucking kidding me." Royal Canoe's songs are, in part, an effort to make sense of the resentment and romanticism of the city's divergent identities.
Royal Canoe releases their EP, Extended Play, on February 21.
They spend almost every day in a shit-hole rehearsal space writing hooks, singing through effects pedals, scrawling lyrics on scraps of paper, and constructing heavy beats in odd time signatures. They create samples by running conventional sounds through unconventional pieces of gear, drumming on bathtubs and garbage cans, listening to Big Boi and manipulating bits of old records.
The band calls Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada home – the enigmatic prairie city, which has served artists as both an abundant, creative watering hole and a debilitating quagmire. The city's mood swings from euphoric summers spent biking with beers, fence-hopping residential pools and climbing abandoned roof-tops to harsh, bitter winters that are countered first with defiance, then self-loathing, then denial, then "you've got to be fucking kidding me." Royal Canoe's songs are, in part, an effort to make sense of the resentment and romanticism of the city's divergent identities.
Royal Canoe releases their EP, Extended Play, on February 21.
