I'm very excited to announce an epic bill
for our Boston CD release show. This show marks a reunion with our beloved REVEREND GLASSEYE (relocated from Boston to Austin two years ago) who will debuting a new band and playing new songs as well as some of the older material. In addition, the astounding 30-piece circus punk marching band from Chicago MUCCA
PAZZA, Boston supergroup KETMAN,
and singer/multi-instrumentalist/phenomenon LARKIN
GRIMM (Young God Records) all help us release our third full-length
Boy From Black Mountain (Cuneiform Records) on Friday September
11 at the Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge MA. And we've scheduled the cd release show 2 weeks in advance of the actual street date so you can get your hands on the album early!
Tickets go on sale Friday July 24th in person at the Middle
East Box Office (1-7pm every day) and at all Ticketmaster locations. Get
tickets soon as these are going to go quickly! More information on the SHOWS
page.
The cover illustration for Boy From Black Mountain is by the great Carson Ellis from Portland, Oregon. Carson is known for her illustrations for children's books such as The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Composer Is Dead and her artwork for The Decemberists. She and her husband Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) have a three-year old son Hank. Carson used the photograph of my grandparents' house pictured in the previous blog entry as inspiration for the house in the lower left corner. Boy From Black Mountain will be released September 29, 2009 in the US and Europe on Cuneiform Records.
My
uncle Donald "Bur" Carpenter passed away suddenly last Tuesday at age
63. He was a hard-working watermelon farmer married 44 years with two
kids in Grand Ridge, Florida, an hour west of Tallahassee near the
border of Georgia. It was to be the last summer before his
retirement. We attended the funeral in a little country church not far
from their house. Their entire lives are farming and family, and no
other distractions. Here is a photograph taken last week of the house
they grew up in. "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is a song I wrote about
my father and Donald growing up in this house. It is a classic cracker
house architecture, tin roof, susceptible to leaks, built in the early
1900s.
The new Beat Circus album Boy From Black
Mountain is mastered. It will see a release date on September 29th on Cuneiform Records. The album
was recorded at Camp Street Studios by Sean Slade (Dresden Dolls, Dinosaur Jr., Radiohead) and mixed by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Antony &
the Johnsons, Angels Of Light). Special guests include vocalist
Larkin Grimm (Young God Records), cellist Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons),
and multi-instrumentalist Bill Cole (a specialist in non-Western wind instruments
such as the Chinese suona). We are planning a big cd release show in Boston in early September
so you can get your hands on it a little earlier so stay tuned for that.
Here is the track listing: 1. The February Train
2: The Life You Save May Be Your Own
3: Boy From Black Mountain
4: Clouds Moving In
5: Petrified Man
6: As I Lay Dying
7: Saturn Song
8: The Course Of The River
9: The Quick And The Dead
10: The Sound And The Fury
11: Judgment Day
12: Nantahala 13: Lullaby For Alexander
Last
week we announced the street date for our forthcoming album Boy From
Black Mountain, September 29th on Cuneiform
Records. We are planning a big cd release show in Boston on Friday September
11 so you can get your hands on it earlier. We are now happy to present
the first single "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" on the MUSIC
page.
The cover illustration is by the great Carson
Ellis, known for her illustrations for children's books such as The
Mysterious Benedict Society and The Composer Is Dead and artwork
for The Decemberists.
The third full-length Beat Circus album Boy From Black
Mountain will see a release date on September 29th on Cuneiform
Records. We are planning a big cd release show in Boston in early September
so you can get your hands on it a little earlier...stay tuned. The album
was produced by Brian Carpenter and Bryce Goggin (Akron/Family, Antony &
the Johnsons, Bishop Allen, Angels Of Light). Special guests include vocalist
Larkin Grimm (Young God Records), cellist Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons),
and multi-instrumentalist Bill Cole (a specialist in non-Western wind instruments
such as the Chinese suona). For more background behind the album, read this
story published by the Boston Phoenix in advance of the cd release.
