AMR Podcast #8: Typhoon - Offerings and Chamber/Baroque Rock

Instead of making the entry 1st and then making a podcast, I decided to do the opposite previewing what may be in the Chamber/Baroque Rock/Pop/Folk entry.

Also initially sparked-by Offerings, just giving initial thoughts on this great new album from Typhoon.

I do think there is almost a yearning to do something soon about progtessive college rock in the 2000's and nostalgia. Maybe a Top 10 Albums or something, initially. Maybe make a podcast or video about that specifically.

I of course didn't mention every name, namely Sufjan Stevens who may be the most successful/popular/influential artist making Chamber Rock, but so be it. He'll be included in the actual entry.

I also failed to mentioned The River Empires as well..but there's many others of course.

Genders (ex-Forest Park members band, Portland, OR)

11/16/13 1:45PM

edit:
Well they are in town tonight 11/16/13 playing at the Kitty Cat Klub with Aaron & the Sea, UMAMI and 1 other group. I probably could clarify 1 thing though: Katherine Paul, Genders Drummer/Vocalist may be the only member from Forest Park in Genders. For some reason I thought another 1 or 2 other members of FP were in Genders as well, but o well. But in FP she played guitar and sang, whereas in Genders she's a drummer and sings.

I dunno, if I am able to chat with her and the other members of Genders tonight, some of those details could be more clear to me. It does make me wonder a bit still on what the other Forest Park members are doing now (like I wonder about some of the ex-members of Margot & the Nuclear So & So's of course, whose fans introduced me to Typhoon to originally. Funny how these connections all come full circle/X-degrees of, etc, lol).



11/3/13 10:32PM

For those who may not be familiar with the Portland, Oregon-based band Forest Park I was totally blown away in 2012, and then included their debut EP rather high on my year-end list. And I think I did post something about their ending/demise/breakup. At least a couple of the members of that great yet maybe not highly committed group, were part of this group called Genders.

Now I recall 1st hearing about Forest Park per Typhoon's Facebook in 2012 I think, and came to believe 1 or 2 of the members of Typhoon were part of Forest Park. As it turned out, I was partially right, LIVE I guess. If I am remembering correctly, Alex Fitch, 1 of Typhoon's drummers played with Forest Park LIVE, but not on the EP.

edit: I spoke to Katherine tonight (11/16/13), and I guess Shannon Steele (violin) and Ryan McAlphin (trumpet) of Typhoon are on the FP EP as guests.

Anyway, I got to hang with many of the members of Typhoon at their show back in September at the Cedar Cultural Center and among the other Portland bands I started talking to them about, Forest Park came up and if I remember, Alex told me a lot about their situation and this band Genders.

I came to learn about Genders around the time of learning last year of Forest Park's breakup, and I even *liked* them on Facebook, but their music, from memory, didn't remind me all that much of FP or didn't do as much for me.

Well, but Alex I recall told me their newer stuff was more in the FP vein if I recall. So I just noticed Genders posted a new single on their Bandcamp earlier, and while it's not as layered or having the use of trumpet I loved in FP, it does have that dreamy post-rock style with the female vocals that I love.

If I recall, Alex may have mentioned they are looking to release a full-length soon; likely in 2014. They have from looking at their rateyourmusic.com recorded 3 Demos/EPs of sorts over the last couple of years. But this new single "Something to Get You By" (from the album Get Lost due out December 8th) maybe has more of my attention than some of the stuff I checked out way back when I 1st heard about them. The crescendo is tremendous at the end.

It kind of reminds me of Warpaint, which being highly original or not, if the songwriting is good to me I often don't care.



http://genderspdx.bandcamp.com/

Typhoon - White Lighter (2013)

8/4/134 11:40PM
Whole Album Streaming on NPR's website

6/26/13 4:33PM

new single "Young Fathers"




Tour Dates Page including Tickets/RSVP links

Including September 19th at The Cedar fucking Cultural Center!

Sep 03 MusicFestNW (Sept 3rd - 8th)
Portland, OR

Sep 09 Rickshaw Theatre
Vancouver, Canada

Sep 10 The Crocodile
Seattle, WA

Sep 11 Top Hat Lounge
Missoula, MT

Sep 12 El Korah Shrine
Boise, ID

Sep 13 Urban Lounge
Salt Lake City, UT

Sep 14 Hi Dive
Denver, CO

Sep 16 The Waiting Room
Omaha, NE

Sep 17 The Old Rock House
St Louis, MO

Sep 19 Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis, MN
Ticket Link, On Sale on Friday June 28th (just like The Dear Hunter)

Sep 20 Schubas
Chicago, IL

Sep 21 Beachland Tavern
Cleveland, OH

Sep 22 Wexner Center
Columbus, OH

Sep 25 Il Motore for POP MONTREAL
Montreal, Canada

Sep 26 Higher Ground
South Burlington, VT

Sep 27 Iron Horse Music Hall
Northampton, MA

Sep 28 Littlefield
Brooklyn, NY

Sep 29 Brighton Music Hall
Boston, MA

Sep 30 (Le) Poisson Rouge
New York, NY

Oct 01 Johnny Brenda's
Philadelphia, PA

Oct 02 The Rock N' Roll Hotel
Washington, DC

Oct 04 Austin City Limits (Oct 4th-6th)
Austin, TX

Oct 04 The High Watt
Nashville, TN

Oct 11 Austin City Limits (Oct 11th-13th)
Austin, TX

Oct 15 The Loft at UC San Diego
San Diego, CA

Oct 17 The Satellite
Los Angeles, CA

Oct 19 Wow Hall
Eugene, OR

11-member band per new pic on Facebook:


6/5/13 6:25PM 12/7/12 1:30AM

Unsure exactly when all this came out, but I know I was checking for awhile per their Facebook page and didn't see anything, but then today the video for Dreams of Cannibalism was shared. At any case, definitely a record to look forward to; but I am still un exposed to the videos below save for the one back from December.

But maybe this record could be a bit of a sleeper?..I hope so. August 20th should be a big day for their fans.

























1 Prelude    
2 Artificial Light    
3 Young Fathers    
4 Morton's Fork    
5 Possible Deaths    
6 The Lake    
7 Dreams of Cannibalism    
8 One Hundred Years    
9 Prosthetic Love    
10 Hunger & Thirst    
11 Caesar    
12 Common Sentiments    
13 Post Script      

 

 

12/7/12 6:45AM 
White Lighter - An Album by Typhoon from Matthew Ross on Vimeo.

So this is a promotional video for this upcoming album from the Portland, Oregon band Typhoon. A band by the way, it appears has 11 members and an additional 4-5 who also help out. I guess Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, back in the day, was not far from that large a band as well. But wow, that's a lot of musicians making the same music.

Anyway, that promo, doesn't really have any music, but some kid talking to his mom about the Sun and his dad. Maybe the subject matter of the album will involve the Sun? But, regardless, I got into them back in 2011 via their EP/Mini album A New Kind of House. I really enjoy a lot of that record and it's sort of subtle, chamber college prog of a kind. And to mention Margot again, I do see this band as maybe filling the void without Margot sounding or really being the same band, at least stylistically, they used to be.

When does this album come out? That hopefully will come out soon, and I'll be passing along in here of course.

Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Terror and Everything After (2011)

10/13/10 11:06PM

facebook link

Drop date for this album is February 1st, 2011. Here's the cover art.



Brookvale Records posting

"Barnaby Bisons Blind" and "Bad Canterbury" can both be streamed here, and both are awesome.

8/27/10 6:52PM

Terror And Everything After (Recording Doc) from Hotel Of The Laughing Tree on Vimeo.

here's a documentary on this album.

8/6/10 10:49PM

Terror and Everything After from Hotel Of The Laughing Tree on Vimeo.

So I just checked out this video they posted on twitter of the title cut (live) from their upcoming debut lp, and now must admit I'm a little more intrigued by this record.

now after hearing the title cut from Terror and Everything After, I may be right about them, probably more than I would have expected. Hopefully if it comes out soon enough, that will be more clear. But in the mean time, I can't help but be a little more excited to hear it.

HotLT I 1st checked out last year, with their debut ep Old Dominion



here's what I posted on rym (and maybe in this blog, I forget)

as much as this band seem HIGHLY influenced by some specific groups, namely The Dear Hunter and Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.

This is

a) a DEBUT ep

b) a collection of very well-written, hooky, layered songs.

I'm just guessing here, but I think Hotel of the Laughing Tree, if they play their cards right, won't fall into the trap of clone-bandhood. Certainly, there are many cases of bands who either have potential and never go far with it, or seem to limited to borrowing from other, better artists sound. However, most of the time, they don't develop as songwriters. There's enough here on this EP that may lead me to believe that. Not a bad track. "Lowlands 1887" is epic. "Arts 'N Ecomonic" is catchy.