MAY 10 / 9:00PM
21+ / $12 Advance

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Nectar, SugarMission, & The Stranger Present:

Subtle

• Efterklang
• Slaraffenland

SUBTLE

Since it's genesis in 2001, Oakland-based sextet Subtle has been home-recording its way to the far side of song. Drawing from a diverse palette of instruments: sampler, synth, guitar, cello, winds, electronic and acoustic drums, and the unmistakable voice and prose of doseone, the band fashions a self-sampled and live-mic'd honest to genreless music. For Subtle, the last twelve months have been nothing short of life changing. Surviving through and recovering from a terrible tour van accident last February has led the subtle6 to their most adventurous and clear-hearted achievement, the soon to be released "for hero : for fool". A contiguous and conceptual work of album as art, picking up and running away with the motifs and musical arrangements of "a new white" and their four self-released season themed ep's. "for hero : for fool"boldly follows the B-movie dreams and midday terrors of a working-class poet, born of raw raps and the somewhat vacuum times of the last quarter century... Their latest release "wishingbone" is a CD/DVD collection of new material, re-approaches and remixes as recorded by Subtle and a few of their closest friends… Mike Patton, Beck, Console, Hrvatski, Fog, and Ms. John Soda. The DVD features three music videos by London-based animators SSSR, tied together as a short film. Creating a twice-textured and all-era style, SSSR melds filmed miniatures, surreal sketch work, and classic animation to create a world in and of itself.

EFTERKLANG

Parades is the highly anticipated second album by Denmark’s Efterklang, the follow up to their underground hit of 2004, Tripper. Comprising 11 majestic, otherworldly pop songs, Parades manages to be both magnificently ambitious and engagingly intimate; a breathtaking panorama of sound with few clear antecedents. Music with no boundaries. In a parallel universe, songs like ‘Mirador’ and ‘Caravan’ would be number one forever… Though the music that became Parades was recorded concurrently with the critically acclaimed (and already collectible) Under Giant Trees mini-album that preceded it in April, the latter was essentially a summation of songs the band had pieced together on tour in 2005. Parades is cut from a different cloth: this is all new material spun from raw ingredients, carefully stitched and lovingly embroidered with fine detail. If you let yourself be enveloped, this living tapestry could take years to unpick. Childhood friends Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the small Danish island of Als, close to the German border. Fuelled by youthful ambition, the trio moved to Copenhagen where they were joined by Rune Mølgaard and Thomas Husmer, forming Efterklang in December 2000. Early on, the band instituted a self-sufficient working method that they still apply to everything they do: writing, recording, producing and organizing every element of their music and performance from their Copenhagen bunker.

LINKS

• Subtle on MySpace
• Efterklang on Myspace
• Slaraffenland on Myspace

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