The Small Beast and The Delancey present:
The BIG Small Beast!
Friday, May 21st 2010
The Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk Street
New York City
With: MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON; SAVOIR ADORE; BOTANICA; BEE AND FLOWER; LITTLE ANNIE & PAUL WALLFISCH; BARBEZ; SERVICES; FRANZ NICOLAY; BLACK SEA HOTEL; LAPIS LAZULI
Doors at 6:30, music to follow immediately…
The BIG Small Beast celebrates a year and a half of the acclaimed Small Beast music series at the Delancey, curated and hosted by Paul Wallfisch. This show marks the end of phase one of The Small Beast, as Paul moves to Germany to take over as music director at the Stadt Theater Dortmund. The Small Beast gets up on its hind legs; roars; goes international!
We’ve put together a fabulously eclectic night of music representing the best of New York City; transcending genre, yet somehow of the same scene—an elusive word that has come to life this past year through The Small Beast. The magnificence of the venue—a landmarked, 19th century synagogue--cum artist’s studio--cum performance mecca, will present the natural theatricality of all the artists on the bill in an ideal setting. The BIG Small Beast will be a unique New York City event not to be missed!
In addition, The BIG Small Beast serves as record release party for Botanica’s 7th album, (and first domestic release in 10 years), “Who You Are,” out on Devil’s Ruin Records, May 25th. Limited edition white vinyl will be available at the show.
The BIG Small Beast also marks the U.S. release of Paul Wallfisch & Little Annie’s eagerly anticipated new album “Genderful” on Southern Records.
$20 through Ticketweb http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/EventListings.action?orgId=73553
Ticket includes 1 hour of select open bar + free admission to the after party at the Delancey
Email: redvenus88@gmail.com for hi-rez photos of artists
Press: Carl Hanni ModMedia mailto:modmedia@theriver.com
http://www.myspace.com/smallbeast
http://www.facebook.com/bigsmallbeast
Press on the Small Beast:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2009/11/02/091102goni_GOAT_nightlife#ixzz0kd1K5xQd
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/01/baby_dee_w_andr.html
http://www.nypress.com/article-19354-bash-compactor-que-syrah.html
http://thedowntowndiaries.com/2010/03/04/whats-goin-down-the-small-beast-at-the-delancey/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=ping.fm
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/concert-review-paul-wallfisch-barmaljova-and-the-georges-brass
Since January 2009, The Small Beast has hosted over 120 artists, including, in no particular order: BABY DEE, ANDREW WK, INGRID OLAVA, EDSION WOODS, LENNY KAYE, BEN WEAVER, PILLARS & TONGUES, LARKIN GRIMM, STEVE WYNN, DAVID J, KEN STRINGFELLOW, BARBEZ, FRANZ NICOLAY, GREG GARING, HONNE WELLS, BEE & FLOWER, MARIANNE DISSARD, MARTIN BISI, LITTLE ANNIE, JULIA KENT, GUTBUCKET, GUIGNOL, THE CAIRO GANG, EXTRA LIFE. MARNI RICE, JAMES ROSS, BLASCO, SPOTTISWOODE, THE SNOW, REID PALEY, C. GIBBS, ENABLERS, ERIC SANKO …
MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON http://www.myspace.com/milesbenjaminanthonyrobinson
This 25-year-old Brooklyn bard’s sophomore album is Summer of Fear, out now on Saddle Creek Records. Lizzy Goodman in the NY Times includes his song “The Debtor” on her list of “40 songs that define NOW, “ (including Vampire Weekend, The National, Diry Projecotrs, MGMT, Grizzly Bear…)
MBARobinson’s song “Woodfriends” appears on Q Magazines “50 Essential Tracks” and Other Music calls his new album, Summer of Fear, "One of the most emotionally and musically evocative and compelling records of the year"
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-02/music/empire-of-dirt/
SAVOIR ADORE
http://www.facebook.com/savoiradore
http://www.myspace.com/savoiradore (3 free tracks available…)
A self-coined "fantasy rock" duo, Brooklyn's Savoir Adore, signed to the Cantora label — home of the likeminded neo-psychedelic group MGMT —released their first album, The Scientific Findings of Dr. Rousseau, in 2007. Savoir Adore immediately drew favorable comparisons to such established names as Postal Service and Broken Social Scene.
“L-Magazine”—“8 New York City Bands You Need to Hear”
Starting as a two-piece consisting of singer-songwriter Deidre Muro on keyboards, and Paul Hammer on drums, they’ve since become a six-piece, with the 1st single from their upcoming album, the instant hit “We Talk Like Machines” already available.
BOTANICA http://www.botanicaisaband.com/ http://www.myspace.com/botanica
… the main songwriting vehicle for the local piano man Paul Wallfisch, celebrates the release of its latest album, “Who You Are.” Wallfisch entered the eighties East Village demimonde as an eighteen-year-old keyboardist in the pioneering gay comic Frank Maya’s New Wave band. Since then he’s lived in Europe and L.A. (where he started Botanica), acquiring decades of world-weary insights to fill his exquisitely crafted rock songs and Tom Waits-tinged ballads. Botanica’s current incarnation includes Brian Viglione, the hard-hitting former Dresden Dolls drummer, and John Andrews, a longtime collaborator who contributes meticulous, occasionally dissonant guitar lines. ~The New Yorker
“…Paul Wallfisch remains one of the most brilliant songwriters of our time.” ~Eclipsed Magazine, Germany 3/2010
Like Joy Division or Nina Simone, Botanica enjoys a cult appeal with a taste-defining sensibility, a still-necessary antidote to so called “hipster irony.” Botanica have a rep for intense live shows – anybody who’s seen their frontman Paul Wallfish do his solo thing at the weekly Small Beast show on Thursday evenings at the Delancey knows this – but Friday night’s sonic onslaught caught the crowd like a low-flying jetliner. ~Lucid Culture Blog, Joe’s Pub Review 3/2009
BEE & FLOWER http://www.beeandflower.com/
Founded in 1999 in New York City by singer-songwriter, bassist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Dana Schechter and keyboardist Roderick Miller, the music of Bee and Flower envelops the listener into an intimate, luxurious and orchestrated world, filled with moody strings, piano, percussion, ghostly slide guitars, and lush female vocals. Produced by Toby Dammit, Bee and Flower's second album, "Last Sight of Land", features a 25-piece string section, and collaborations from members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Calexico, Keren Ann, Iggy Pop, & Swans.
UNCUT, UK
… the real selling point is her out-of-body sounding voice. Among the gothic droning, she sounds like Polly Harvey sticking pins into a voodoo doll of Burt Bacharach, and it’s a hugely arresting sound.
— Bella Todd
TIME OUT NEW YORK
"Bee and Flower makes a slow-moving, seductive morass of lyrical noise that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you down before you even know what’s hit you.
— LD Beghtol
THE VILLAGE VOICE
Their sound is otherworldly - you almost feel as if you could leave your body while listening to it..."
— Ken Switzer
LITTLE ANNIE & PAUL WALLFISCH http://www.brainwashed.com/annie http://www.myspace.com/littleannieakaannieanxietybandez
For nearly three decades Little Annie - a.k.a. Annie Anxiety, - has everybody's favorite special guest star singing with Crass, COIL, The Wolfgang Press, Fini Tribe, Khan, Larsen, Khan & The Legally Jammin, Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound, Current 93, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, Mike Grimes and Misty Roses, among others. Her decade-long collaboration with Paul Wallfisch - is a new crown jewel for her career's rhinestone tiara. Paul, besides being a stalwart presence on the NYC-scene via the band he fronts - the redoubtable Botanica, has likewise lent his prodigious talents in the service of Firewater, Love and Rockets, Stiv Bators, Syl Sylivan, Stan Ridgeway, Anne Pigalle and Johnny Halliday. Over the past few years, the duo has opened shows for Antony & the Johnsons, Sun Oh))), Marc Almond and Sleazy, as well as countless headlining dates & festivals in a dozen European countries.
BARBEZ http://www.barbez.com/ http://www.myspace.com/barbez
Barbez has been a constant, vibrant part of the New York music scene and the group tours frequently across the U.S. and Europe. Over the years the group has been privileged to perform with a wide variety of artists including Cat Power, Sun Ra Arkestra, godspeed you! black emperor, Faun Fables, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, MC5, Devendra Banhart, the Dresden Dolls, the Lonesome Organist, Shelley Hirsch, and the Angels of Light.
Barbez, finds an enticing middle ground between Kurt Weill's cabaret, droning avant-garde rock and the twinkling perpetual-motion pieces of Erik Satie.” ~NY Times
…on originals, including the percussive “Strange” and the title cut, the band members display a command of dynamics that rivals noise innovators Sonic Youth and Swans. ~Time Out New York
SERVICES http://www.myspace.com/services
Services mastermind, Tristan Bechet has collaborated with FM Einheit of Einsturzende Neubauten, done production for The Melted Men; remixes for Foetus and recently worked with Karen O on 2 songs featured in the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s recent film Where the Wild Things Are, “Rumpus” and “Love is All.” Services are part of the A Touch of Class Recordings (ATOC) roster. Services were also part of the prestigious All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in the UK. In addition, their full-length album on ATOC was produced by Roli Mosimann (aka the other half of Wiseblood, and production wizard for The The, Faith No More, as well as New Order).
FRANZ NICOLAY http://www.myspace.com/franznicolay
That mustachioed man-about-town you've seen with The Hold Steady, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Anti-Social Music, and more, steps up to the spotlight and salutes.
Rolling Stone: "The Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay is best known for his classic boogie piano lines, jubilant backing vocals and sharply curving mustache, but his new solo album Major General looks to catapult him to star status."
Pitchfork: 7.3/10 "Eclectic and ambitious but unshowy, Major General is about as satisfying as any solo effort from a member of an established band still killing it themselves as I can think of... Nicolay's skill at playing punk sage on one song and slightly troubled troubadour on the next is really something special."
LA Weekly: "…cinematically scaled opera of open-heartedly big ballads, wayward Gypsy troubadour tales and hilariously scabrous sermons about the importance of living large in these crampingly caution-strewn times."
BLACK SEA HOTEL http://www.myspace.com/blackseahotel
…will perform 2 songs, unamplified, from the Angel Orensanz balcony!
Brooklyn vocal quartet BSH performs arrangements of traditional Balkan melodies in venues ranging from the Bulgarian Embassy to rock clubs. Their debut album can be bought on CDBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/blackseahotel
http://www.theworld.org/2009/10/21/black-sea-hotel/ (on National Public radio…)
LAPIS LAZULI http://www.lapislazulimusic.com/
…will greet concertgoers as they entere the Angel Orensanz. Kurt Wolf’s (Pussy galore, Boss Hog etc), new one-man orchestra.Rolling Stone says: "...Ennio Morricone making a raga pilgrimage to India alongside the Stooges...this is what they would have recorded for some long-lost cinematic masterpiece."
http://www.botanicaisaband.com/
http://www.myspace.com/botanica
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Botanica/252674717283
http://www.myspace.com/smallbeast
http://theadventuresofmollybaltimore.blogspot.com/
http://www.botanicaisaband.com/
http://www.myspace.com/botanica
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Botanica/252674717283http://www.myspace.com/smallbeast
http://theadventuresofmollybaltimore.blogspot.com/
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