Smithfield Bargain (record release)
Sunshine Factory, Evangenitals, Molly Bergen
Fri, February 1, 2013
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Bootleg Bar
$10.00
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Smithfield Bargain (record release) - (Set time: 10:00 PM)
Los Angeles-based indie folk/jazz trio Smithfield Bargain began at a birthday party in late 2009, when a sassy young lady in a pretty dress met two ruggedly handsome, stylish brothers in a room with a vacant piano. Discovering a mutual love for all sounds old and new, vintage and blue, and a willingness to make music out of anything at arm’s length, the young lady and the two gentlemen convened over tea, instruments and voices in a Los Angeles living room two weeks later. David rummaged up a wine glass, a vase, an empty wine bottle and a ceramic bowl, intermittently tapping out melodic rhythms while playing his cello. Daniel put on a hat and delivered some lines from his guitar. Sri took off her shoes and sang a melody with no words. Someone brought out a piece of paper and a pen. The best darn idea that night.
The result, Smithfield Bargain, offers up a musical encounter that connects the listener with the flip of a switch to sounds that cut across different worlds and genres, culturally and temporally. Sri lends a sun-dappled contemporary voice laced with an old-time, gypsy sweetness honed from years of classical training in South Indian vocals and singing rather loudly in venues both appropriate and inappropriate. Daniel (also of "The Brothers Landau," with brother David) provides a guitar of multiple faces overflowing with rhythmic progressions and chords alternately complementary and conflicting, and rich, honeyed vocals that coax both grandmothers and teenage girls alike. David imparts a picturesque cello that relates sounds from deep within, ranging from strong and soulful to sweetly melancholic, warm and handsome tenor and bass vocals, and an uncanny knack for excavating sounds from unconventional objects that didn’t even know they had it in them.
The band's finely crafted songs and charismatic, vaudevillian stage performance have earned them radio play on KPFK 90.7 FM, music video spots on Gorillacoustic.com, which features them playing live and unplugged from Shakespeare Bridge in Los Angeles, and shows at landmarks of the Southern California music scene, including the Troubadour and Fox Theater.
The result, Smithfield Bargain, offers up a musical encounter that connects the listener with the flip of a switch to sounds that cut across different worlds and genres, culturally and temporally. Sri lends a sun-dappled contemporary voice laced with an old-time, gypsy sweetness honed from years of classical training in South Indian vocals and singing rather loudly in venues both appropriate and inappropriate. Daniel (also of "The Brothers Landau," with brother David) provides a guitar of multiple faces overflowing with rhythmic progressions and chords alternately complementary and conflicting, and rich, honeyed vocals that coax both grandmothers and teenage girls alike. David imparts a picturesque cello that relates sounds from deep within, ranging from strong and soulful to sweetly melancholic, warm and handsome tenor and bass vocals, and an uncanny knack for excavating sounds from unconventional objects that didn’t even know they had it in them.
The band's finely crafted songs and charismatic, vaudevillian stage performance have earned them radio play on KPFK 90.7 FM, music video spots on Gorillacoustic.com, which features them playing live and unplugged from Shakespeare Bridge in Los Angeles, and shows at landmarks of the Southern California music scene, including the Troubadour and Fox Theater.
Sunshine Factory - (Set time: 9:00 PM)
The story of Sunshine Factory began in the sleepy desert town of Palmdale California just outside of Los Angeles. Corey learned to play clarinet at age nine and played it for six years until he discovered the guitar at age fourteen when the love affair with music took flight. Corey grew up listening to a lot of old jazz and rock with some hip-hop in the mix for good measure. Bands like the Beatles, Beach Boys, and Pink Martini are big in his record collection. Corey met Jordan when his parents brought him home from the hospital - If you haven’t figured it out, they are brothers. Jordan learned to play the guitar at age thirteen and joined a few different bands over the years during high school. Jordan’s love of music covers the wide spectrum from Giacomo Puccini and Bear McCreary to Simon and Garfunkle to the Shins and everything in between. One day in 2005 Jordan invited a drummer friend of his over to jam with him and Corey, and that’s how Sunshine Factory began.
Evangenitals - (Set time: 11:00 PM)
The Evangenitals, founded by playwright/director Juli Crockett and opera, jazz & gospel singer Lisa Dee are an alt-country/Americana love revolution made flesh for your listening pleasure. On a quixotic crusade in the key of life hell-bent on breaking hearts open, they are a genre-bending, ever-creating force of nature.
Combining pioneer lineage with a love of performing arts, the Evangenitals push not only the frontiers of creativity, but strive to foster a renaissance of compassion, love and gratitude as the platform to engage in global collaboration, activism, and community building.
Filled with an insatiable desire to explore new forms of musical instrumentation and arrangements, the Evangenitals take listeners on a journey of passion and creative freedom, embracing all of life as source material, from the mundane to the sublime.
Ranging from truck-stop lullabies to Klezmer-punk-jazz, from ballads & barn-burners to hillbilly stomp, citing influences from the new-wave intelligentsia of the Talking Heads to the archetypal fire of Johnny Cash welded together with the mutant masterminds of Ween, the jukebox at the Mad Hatter’s tea party is the Evangenitals.
Combining pioneer lineage with a love of performing arts, the Evangenitals push not only the frontiers of creativity, but strive to foster a renaissance of compassion, love and gratitude as the platform to engage in global collaboration, activism, and community building.
Filled with an insatiable desire to explore new forms of musical instrumentation and arrangements, the Evangenitals take listeners on a journey of passion and creative freedom, embracing all of life as source material, from the mundane to the sublime.
Ranging from truck-stop lullabies to Klezmer-punk-jazz, from ballads & barn-burners to hillbilly stomp, citing influences from the new-wave intelligentsia of the Talking Heads to the archetypal fire of Johnny Cash welded together with the mutant masterminds of Ween, the jukebox at the Mad Hatter’s tea party is the Evangenitals.
