Press Release « Thread Started on Sept 18, 2006, 3:39pm »
Here's the press release I've been sending out. If anyone has a need for the info for press or anything else, here it is. If anyone has a need for artist images or poster image, email me. Best, Jason
WHAT: Palais Idéal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music
WHEN: Oct. 19-22, 2006
WHERE: Chico, CA—1078 Gallery (main venue), Crux Arts Collective, Cafe Flo, Paradise Lost Video, Has Beans Coffee & Tea, Tower Records (Herreid-Fender Stage), Moxie’s Café/Gallery, 24 Hr Drive By Gallery, The Serenity Center
WHO: Over 70 musical experiments from Northern California (Chico, San Francisco, Sacramento) and beyond (see full roster below).
COST: Four-day pass: $40/advance; $45/door (avail. Thurs. night only). Available at www.chicotickets.com and the 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, Chico. Individual show tix range from free to $8, and are available at door.
Le Palais Idéal: The Ideal Castle
Ferdinand Cheval was a postman from Hauterives, France who, one day in 1879 while walking his route, tripped on a strange looking stone. The stone intrigued him so he picked it up and put it in his pocket. Cheval returned the following day to collect more of the curious rocks, and he just never stopped. For the next 33 years he collected small and large stones from along his postal route and used them with cement and lime to build an ornate and surreal castle that he had daydreamed about on those long walks delivering the mail. Cheval had no experience building or sculpting and his neighbors quickly labeled him insane, yet he stuck to his vision and—working alone for those 33 years—completed his “fairy-like palace beyond imagination”: Le Palais Idéal.
Another dream: A large collection of musical oddballs and innovators gather together in the sleepy college town of Chico, Calif. and take the place over for a few days under the banner of Palais Idéal: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music. This is not merely an experimental music festival; this is a an occasion for weirdness of all stripes and for braveness in the name of new ideas: art rock, experimental, free jazz, noise, improv, visionary, sound art, electronica, ambient, broken folk, homemade instruments, multi-media, performance art, adventurous rock and whatever else is out there…
Everything is welcome, and over 70 performers will be there:
“As Slow As Possible” (dedicated listening room for John Cage’s very long song as it plays on an organ in Halberstadt, Germany): www.john-cage.halberstadt.de/
The Atomic Bomb Audition (Oakland—A trio wherin surf guitars make way for discordant soundscapes; and electronic drones enter civil unions with folk melodies. To compress this vision, imagine Ennio Morricone leading The Melvins): www.theatomicbombaudition.com & www.myspace.com/theatomicbombaudition
Barry Threw (Berkeley—Experimental, ambient, textural computer music): www.barrythrew.com
Dead Western (Sacramento—Solo weird folk: “harrowing and gently piercing expulsions of the sound of a brave kingdom as it empties its eroding soul.”): www.myspace.com/50690003 & www.snailonastick.com
Dud (Bay Area—Large group of musicians and artists making multi-media improvisational jazz hippie art via films, cameras, computers, cello, guitar, percussion, electronic drums, vocals and more): www.dudland.com
Gregg Kowalsky (Oakland—Ambient/psychedelic streams of sound using computer, cassette tapes, sine oscillators, whistles, and other odds and ends): www.greggkowalsky.net
M.E. and Me (Olympia, WA—Acoustic/electric cello improvised accompaniment to a self-made slide show of manipulated undeveloped film): www.myspace.com/derekmjohnson
Micromovement workshop: w/ Maria Navarro-Easton (music by Dann Sargent)
Modular Set (S.F.—Multi-instrumentalist sonic explorers employing pedals, loopers and analog synths to create beautiful sonic textures, prog-like riffs, epic crescendos, ambient raga drones, and avant-jazz grooves—a beautiful balance of melody, tension and release): www.modularset.com & www.myspace.com/modularset
Mute Socialite (S.F.—Moe! Staiano’s Jesus Lizard/Dog Face Hermans-ish rock-band-of-sorts): www.moestaiano.com
Philip White & Kevin Taylor (Oakland—Solo experiments with laptop and guitar and films): www.newmusiccollective.org
Phillip Greenlief (Oakland—Improvised work for solo saxophone based on Hopi Indian Mythology…explores the cracks and crevices of an emerging exploratory language for saxophone): www.evandermusic.com/artist_detail.asp?artist_id=117
Triometrik (Berkeley—Guitar, violin and bass trio coupled through an intelligent computer network to create an organic computer music, with video integration): www.beamfoundation.org/triometrik.php
Uberkunst (Sacramento—“We’re going to set up a bunch of musical instruments and a bunch of metal things, and then we’re going to bash them together until someone makes us stop): www.uberkunst.net & www.myspace.com/uberkunst
Palais Idéal will be happening in the midst of Artoberfest, which is an effort by the city and local arts organizations to make the month of October into a power-packed festival of arts that will showcase Chico, Calif. as a desirable arts destination. The vision for Palais Idéal is to build a fun and highly visible castle that will function as an unpredictable irregular heartbeat for the month’s festivities.
Tickets Four-day pass: -$40 in advance: www.chicotickets.com and at 1078 Gallery (820 Broadway) -$45 night of first show, Thurs. Oct. 19 (at 1078 Gallery)
Individual shows: -$3 to $8 (call venues to check availability) -Mid-afternoon shows on Fri., Sat. & Sun. are free
Contact Jason Cassidy/The Party palaisideal@sbcglobal.net (530) 893-4594 MySpace: www.myspace.com/palaisideal
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