Danny Paul Grody
Danny Paul Grody is a self taught guitarist and founding member of San Francisco-based bands Tarentel and The Drift. The melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of non-Western traditional music, Takoma-style fingerpicking and all things minimal, repetitive & hypnotic.
His debut album “Fountain” (Root Strata, 2010) laid the foundation for a steady stream of solo releases under his own name on labels including Students of Decay, Three Lobed Recordings, Geographic North, and Australia’s Longform Editions.
On his 2023 album “Arc Of Day” Danny gathered an ensemble of musicians and gave us compositions that conjured not just bird-like flights but the supportive skeleton of a bird itself - intricate, delicate, but able to carry a body (or a listener) through bright, airy spaces. That same ensemble, since renamed the Danny Paul Grody Duo, now bring us "Arc Of Night" - a sister collection to "Arc Of Day", shaped from core collaborations between Grody and percussionist/drummer Rich Douthit along with additions on select tracks from Trevor Montgomery on electric bass and Chuck Johnson on pedal steel guitar.
Tara Jane O’Neil
Tara Jane O’Neil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist. She composes and performs under her own name and in collaboration with other musicians, artists, dancers, and filmmakers. As a solo artist he has released ten full-length albums..
O’Neil was a founding member of Rodan, the Sonora Pine and several other bands. She has collaborated on recordings and stages with Papa M, Steve Gunn, Hand Habits, Lower Dens, Michael Hurley, Little Wings, Marisa Anderson, Catherine Irwin, Mirah, Mount Eerie, and many others.
Since 1992 has performed at clubs, galleries, and DIY spaces around the world and venues such as the Centre de Pompdou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer and the Broad. She starred in the cult classic film Half-Cocked and scored feature films including His Lost Name, Great Speeches From a Dying World and others. Her visual art work has been shown in cities including London, Tokyo, LA, New York and Portland and has been published in three monographs.
Tessellations
Tessellations, a new band from Oakland featuring members of Dire Wolves, Agnes Martian, and Suver, is a collaboration born of a shared appreciation for the ecstatic possibilities of free psych and the exploration of uncharted sonic territory. The band paints vibrating sonic moiré patterns that evince wide ranging musical interests–from the wide open expanses of Kosmische to the more lysergic fringes of the experimental and avant-garde–all the while moored by the gravitational pull of melody and song.
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