Virginia’s Carbon Leaf hit Bumbershoot 2011 in early September. In May they released Live, Acoustic . . . And In Cinemascope!, their second live album. Enjoy photos by Kirk Stauffer of their Bumbershoot appearance:
Carbon Leaf
Photos: Bumbershoot 2011 w/ Sallie Ford & Trombone Shorty
We’re very close to wrapping up our coverage of Bumbershoot 2011. We’ve still got a few more photos coming your way, including Kirk Stauffer‘s pix of Sallie Ford and Trombone Shorty.
Sallie Ford
Trombone Shorty
Photos: Bumbershoot 2011 w/ YACHT
YACHT brought their electro-sounds to Bumbershoot 2011 with an outdoor performance. The duo, Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, state on their site that YACHT is not a religion. How do you feel about that? Thank you to photographer Kirk Stauffer for more beauties from Bumbershoot:
Photos: Bumbershoot 2011 w/ Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten, a New York-based musician with two albums to her credit, performed at this year’s Bumbershoot. A song of Van Etten’s you are probably familiar with is the beautiful “Love More.” Enjoy photos taken by photographers Nicky Andrews and Kirk Stauffer:
Sharon Van Etten – photos by Nicky Andrews
Sharon Van Etten – photos by Kirk Stauffer
Interview & Show Preview: Gomez @ the Showbox Market, Tues. 9/27
Gomez, an eminent and groovy band from Great Britain who continually defies classification, will be in Seattle tonight for a headlining show at the Showbox. I had the good fortune to see their two Seattle dates last year at the Crocodile, and both shows were supreme. The band has a new album out, Whatever’s On Your Mind, and it’s crucially excellent they’re touring behind it. Yesterday I talked with Gomez drummer and one of Gomez’s songwriters, Olly Peacock about the new music and what exactly what the band is up to.
What is your favorite thing about the new album?
Olly Peacock: A thing that we like the most about it is that, for the first time, took our time and looked at possibly our weakness and tried to correct them. We tried be as precise as we could be and have everything finished before recording.
Members of Gomez are living in all different areas now?
OP: I live in New York, Ian lives in Los Angeles and three of the guys still live in Brighton. I moved to New York (Brooklyn) about five years ago. I love it. It’s a great city – it’s always inspiring. There’s people carrying around guitars and you’re never far away from music.
Gomez
Your last album was made with a view to performing the songs live, did you try to do that again with Whatever’s On Your Mind?
OP: Because of the way the songs were created and we all used the same studio setups, it meant that [we‘d] see the songs on our computers exactly the same. We recorded a lot of the elements before going into the studio. The live element was less so probably on this record than any other record. At the same time because we put in so much effort to make the structure right, I think it made the songs feel like there was a synergy.
You and Ian Ball were part of Operation Aloha, a fourteen-member band. Do you think of doing this type of project again?
OP: It would be wonderful to do it again. [Getting] to any part of the world where we could all be there at the same time is a little difficult. It was a great project, sort of a happy accident.