new pere ubu alb, tour
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Ilka Erren Pardinas
T. 323-667-1344
flypr@flypr.net
WHY I HATE WOMEN, PERE UBU¹S FIRST ALBUM IN FOUR YEARS, WILL BE RELEASED ON SMOG VEIL RECORDS
national tour kicks off at UCLA¹s Royce Hall on October 29th
Chicago, IL, Tues., July 25, 2006 Smog Veil Records announces new Pere Ubu release to street on September 19, 2006. National U.S. tour dates are lined-up and the first show is confirmed for UCLA¹s Royce Hall on October 29th.
Why I Hate Women was produced by David Thomas and engineered by Paul Hamann at Suma, Painesville OH (Grand Funk Railroad, The James Gang, The Outsiders, Firehose, Wild Cherry) at various times during 2005, principally in October and November. ³I don't use EQ in the mix stage,² Thomas notes. ³Over the years Paul Hamann has invented and built a number of specialized microphones for my use. They have names like The Box, The Fly's Eye, The Horn, The West, The Phone and The Fan. These microphones² he elaborates ³are designed to capture the sound of an instrument or voice in a very limited frequency range.² He adds ³I don't like using 'store-bought' audio effects, so the effects are from room mics, a spring reverb from an old Hammond B-3, my specialized microphones and maybe an echo plate.²
About the music, the title and the songs Thomas explains ³My work on an album begins as a sound I hear in my head. I construct or intuit a back story to that sonic framework. This back story is more or less detailed and is peopled with characters. The purpose of the album then becomes to capture a specific psychological moment from one of those characters² he details. ³Finally there is the album title. This is the last chance to shape the envelope of that moment. The title came to me as I was sitting in my local pub. Knowing what would lay ahead I was not happy. Weeks went by as I searched in vain for an alternative.²
Frank Mauceri, head of Smog Veil Records is clear about why he wanted to be involved with the band and this release: "The Songbook of American Independent Rock Standards,³ Mauceri states ³if such a book exists, surely lists Pere Ubu, immediately alongside Velvet Underground, as the progenitor of a unique outsider sound. Instead of resting on those laurels, the band expands the known universe with their new album, Why I Hate Women. While maintaining an angular discordance, the band with Why I Hate Women recognizes that fans do occasionally like to tap their toes and hum along while questioning, 'what really is rock 'n' roll anyways?¹"
UbuProjex.net meticulously documents the band¹s history. A sample of the exhaustive chronicling on this site is excerpted here: ³Pere Ubu burst upon the scene in 1975 and changed the face of music. For over 27 years they've defined the art of cult; refined the voice of the outsider; and influenced the likes of Joy Division, Pixies, Husker Du, Henry Rollins, REM, the Sisters of Mercy, Thomas Dolby, Bauhaus, Julian Cope and countless others. They make music that is a disorienting mix of Midwestern riff rock, "found" sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals. The band¹s single, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" b/w "Heart of Darkness",
released in 1975, along with Television's "Little Johnny Jewel," signaled the beginning of the New Wave movement.²
Pere Ubu has been written about by some of America and Europe¹s greatest rock journalists. Rolling Stone Magazine noted "Pere Ubu have been neglected pop geniuses for 20 years..." Contemporary music writers, continue to discover and cover the band¹s evolution. Stylus recently wrote "downright irresistible to even the most hardened fuck-all-that-art-wank musical traditionalist." And Dusted.com concurs, opining "They've since put out music that's even more dry, frightening and violent than those early years, so this record documents merely the first of many Ubu mood swings between pop and noise." While blogger Jack Feeny head-scratchingly admits
"I've heard few albums quite so deliberately inaccessible as this one" and concludes ³an excellent fusion of punk and avant-garde art-rock."
Pere Ubu are David Thomas on vocals; Keith Moliné on guitar, backing vocals, bass; Robert Wheeler on EML synthesizer, theremin; Michele Temple on bass, lead vocal and Steve Mehlman on drums, clave, wood block. This is also the line-up that will perform live on tour. On the album, Rodolphe Burger plays stylophone on ³Texas Overture.² Robert Kidney plays lead guitar on ³Love Song.² Jack Kidney plays harp on ³Blue Velvet² and tenor sax on ³Synth Farm.² Andy Diagram plays trumpet on ³Mona.²
The eleven tracks on the album are 1. "Two Girls (One Bar)" (2:28), 2. "Babylonian Warehouses" (4:27), 3. "Blue Velvet" (5:51), 4. "Caroleen" (4:21), 5. "Flames Over Nebraska" (2:07), 6. "Love Song" (6:08), 7. "Mona" (2:47), 8. "My Boyfriend's Back" (0:57), 9. "Stolen Cadillac" (6:14), 10. "Synth Farm" (3:02) and 11. "Texas Overture" (6:12).
Smog Veil is an independent record label based in Chicago, IL (founded in Cleveland, OH). The label is distributed by Koch (Canada), Revolver, Morphius, Super D, CTD, Southern, Choke, Get Hip, Forced Exposure, Surefire, Century Media, Cargo. Radio promotion for the album will be handled by Advanced Alternative Media and Rock Œn¹ Retail will handle marketing. The label¹s other priority releases are Thor: Devastation of Musculation, out on July 25, 2006 and a new album by Unknown Instructors (with Mike Watt of Minutemen, fIREHOSE) out on August 29, 2006.
Visit Pere Ubu online at http://www.ubuprojex.net and the label at www.smogveil.com for more information and tour updates.
Pere Ubu Tour Itinerary (all dates may be subject to change):
Sun., 10/29 at UCLA - Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA
Mon., 10/30 at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA
Wed., 11/22 at Knitting Factory in New York, NY
Thurs., 11/23 TRAVEL DAY
Fri., 11/24 at Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, OH
Sat., 11/25 at Abbey Pub in Chicago, IL
Sun., 11/26 at 400 Bar in Minneapolis, MN
Ilka Erren Pardinas
T. 323-667-1344
flypr@flypr.net
WHY I HATE WOMEN, PERE UBU¹S FIRST ALBUM IN FOUR YEARS, WILL BE RELEASED ON SMOG VEIL RECORDS
national tour kicks off at UCLA¹s Royce Hall on October 29th
Chicago, IL, Tues., July 25, 2006 Smog Veil Records announces new Pere Ubu release to street on September 19, 2006. National U.S. tour dates are lined-up and the first show is confirmed for UCLA¹s Royce Hall on October 29th.
Why I Hate Women was produced by David Thomas and engineered by Paul Hamann at Suma, Painesville OH (Grand Funk Railroad, The James Gang, The Outsiders, Firehose, Wild Cherry) at various times during 2005, principally in October and November. ³I don't use EQ in the mix stage,² Thomas notes. ³Over the years Paul Hamann has invented and built a number of specialized microphones for my use. They have names like The Box, The Fly's Eye, The Horn, The West, The Phone and The Fan. These microphones² he elaborates ³are designed to capture the sound of an instrument or voice in a very limited frequency range.² He adds ³I don't like using 'store-bought' audio effects, so the effects are from room mics, a spring reverb from an old Hammond B-3, my specialized microphones and maybe an echo plate.²
About the music, the title and the songs Thomas explains ³My work on an album begins as a sound I hear in my head. I construct or intuit a back story to that sonic framework. This back story is more or less detailed and is peopled with characters. The purpose of the album then becomes to capture a specific psychological moment from one of those characters² he details. ³Finally there is the album title. This is the last chance to shape the envelope of that moment. The title came to me as I was sitting in my local pub. Knowing what would lay ahead I was not happy. Weeks went by as I searched in vain for an alternative.²
Frank Mauceri, head of Smog Veil Records is clear about why he wanted to be involved with the band and this release: "The Songbook of American Independent Rock Standards,³ Mauceri states ³if such a book exists, surely lists Pere Ubu, immediately alongside Velvet Underground, as the progenitor of a unique outsider sound. Instead of resting on those laurels, the band expands the known universe with their new album, Why I Hate Women. While maintaining an angular discordance, the band with Why I Hate Women recognizes that fans do occasionally like to tap their toes and hum along while questioning, 'what really is rock 'n' roll anyways?¹"
UbuProjex.net meticulously documents the band¹s history. A sample of the exhaustive chronicling on this site is excerpted here: ³Pere Ubu burst upon the scene in 1975 and changed the face of music. For over 27 years they've defined the art of cult; refined the voice of the outsider; and influenced the likes of Joy Division, Pixies, Husker Du, Henry Rollins, REM, the Sisters of Mercy, Thomas Dolby, Bauhaus, Julian Cope and countless others. They make music that is a disorienting mix of Midwestern riff rock, "found" sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals. The band¹s single, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" b/w "Heart of Darkness",
released in 1975, along with Television's "Little Johnny Jewel," signaled the beginning of the New Wave movement.²
Pere Ubu has been written about by some of America and Europe¹s greatest rock journalists. Rolling Stone Magazine noted "Pere Ubu have been neglected pop geniuses for 20 years..." Contemporary music writers, continue to discover and cover the band¹s evolution. Stylus recently wrote "downright irresistible to even the most hardened fuck-all-that-art-wank musical traditionalist." And Dusted.com concurs, opining "They've since put out music that's even more dry, frightening and violent than those early years, so this record documents merely the first of many Ubu mood swings between pop and noise." While blogger Jack Feeny head-scratchingly admits
"I've heard few albums quite so deliberately inaccessible as this one" and concludes ³an excellent fusion of punk and avant-garde art-rock."
Pere Ubu are David Thomas on vocals; Keith Moliné on guitar, backing vocals, bass; Robert Wheeler on EML synthesizer, theremin; Michele Temple on bass, lead vocal and Steve Mehlman on drums, clave, wood block. This is also the line-up that will perform live on tour. On the album, Rodolphe Burger plays stylophone on ³Texas Overture.² Robert Kidney plays lead guitar on ³Love Song.² Jack Kidney plays harp on ³Blue Velvet² and tenor sax on ³Synth Farm.² Andy Diagram plays trumpet on ³Mona.²
The eleven tracks on the album are 1. "Two Girls (One Bar)" (2:28), 2. "Babylonian Warehouses" (4:27), 3. "Blue Velvet" (5:51), 4. "Caroleen" (4:21), 5. "Flames Over Nebraska" (2:07), 6. "Love Song" (6:08), 7. "Mona" (2:47), 8. "My Boyfriend's Back" (0:57), 9. "Stolen Cadillac" (6:14), 10. "Synth Farm" (3:02) and 11. "Texas Overture" (6:12).
Smog Veil is an independent record label based in Chicago, IL (founded in Cleveland, OH). The label is distributed by Koch (Canada), Revolver, Morphius, Super D, CTD, Southern, Choke, Get Hip, Forced Exposure, Surefire, Century Media, Cargo. Radio promotion for the album will be handled by Advanced Alternative Media and Rock Œn¹ Retail will handle marketing. The label¹s other priority releases are Thor: Devastation of Musculation, out on July 25, 2006 and a new album by Unknown Instructors (with Mike Watt of Minutemen, fIREHOSE) out on August 29, 2006.
Visit Pere Ubu online at http://www.ubuprojex.net and the label at www.smogveil.com for more information and tour updates.
Pere Ubu Tour Itinerary (all dates may be subject to change):
Sun., 10/29 at UCLA - Royce Hall in Los Angeles, CA
Mon., 10/30 at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA
Wed., 11/22 at Knitting Factory in New York, NY
Thurs., 11/23 TRAVEL DAY
Fri., 11/24 at Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, OH
Sat., 11/25 at Abbey Pub in Chicago, IL
Sun., 11/26 at 400 Bar in Minneapolis, MN
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