Here is the latest updates for the grand tour featuring
the Skaters, Davenport, Lau Nau, Hertta Lussu Assä,
Pekko Käppi, Tomutonttu, Taikuri Tali, Islaja, and Kuupuu.
Bios for all the bands are listed below.
We are still filling in many blanks, but this is the official schedule.
More info coming soon.
Drop me an email with any questions, concerns, or help.
clayruby@23productions.net
All start times for are strict due to the number of bands per night.
Please show up on time.
Voyages on Vinlandia (Part One) Tour, 2005
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AUGUST, 2005
Sun21 Rochester @ A/V Space @ 9:30PM, $5
Davenport, the Skaters, Joe+N, special guests
Mon22nd OFF
TUE23rd New York City @ 345 Eldert St Rooftop 9:30PM,
Leannan Sith, Watersports, Davenport, the Skaters, special guests.
Wed24 New York City @ Tommy's Tavern (doors open at 8pm)
Davenport, the Skaters, special guests.
Thu25 New York City @ Tommy's Tavern (doors open at 8pm)
Islaja, Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Pekko Käppi, Tomutonttu
Fri26 Boston @ P.A.'s Lounge, 9:00PM,
Davenport, Feathers, Kuupuu, Islaja, Lau Nau
Sat27 Boston @ Nom D'Artiste 8:00PM
black forest/black sea, The Skaters, hertta lussu ässä, Pekko Käppi,
Tomutonttu
Sun28 Autonomous / Gladtree Collectives Present @ TBA
Davenport, Black Forest / Black Sea, Islaja, Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Pekko
Käppi, Tomutonttu
Mon29 @ TBA
Davenport, the Skaters, Duck, TAIKURI TULI
Tue30 Portland @ The Church 7:00PM
Davenport, the Skaters, hertta lussu ässä, Pekko Käppi, TAIKURI TALI
(Tue30th special broadcast of Finnish WFMU recordings at 3:00pm (eastern
time)))
Wed31 Portland @ the Church 7:00PM
Black Forest / Black Sea, the Visitations, Islaja, Lau Nau, Tomutonttu,
Kuupuu
SEPTEMBER, 2005
Thu01 Providence @ Private Party
Fri02 Providence @ AS220 8:00PM
Davenport, Pekko Kappi, Islaja, Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Tomutonttu
Sat03 Philadelphia @ TBA
Davenport, Islaja, Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Pekko Käppi
Sun04 Philadelphia @ TBA
The Skaters, TAIKURI TALI, Tomutonttu, Hertta Lussu Assä
Mon05 Chapel Hill @ the Nightlight
The Skaters, Davenport, more special guests
Tue06 Ashville @ Harvest Records
Leannan Sith, the Davenport Family, Islaja, Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Tomutonttu,
special guest
Wed07 Knoxville @ TBA
Davenport, Islaja, Lau Nau, Kuupuu, Tomutonttu, special guest
Thu08 Nashville @ TBA
Davenport, the Cherry Blossoms, the Skaters, hertta lussu ässä,
Tomutonttu, TAIKURI TALI
Fri/Sat09-10 St Louis @ Spooky Action Palace
Davenport, The Skaters, Burning Star Core, the Eyes and Arms of Smoke,
Tomutonttu, Hertta Lussu Assä, TAIKURI TALI, many more special guests.
Sat17 - Madison @ Nottingham Coop
Davenport, islaja, lau nau, kuupuu, tomutonttu, TAIKURI TALI, special guest
Sun18 - Chicago @ the Empty Bottle
Davenport, islaja, lau nau, kuupuu, tomutonttu, special guest
BIOS:
TOMUTONTTU
Tomutonttu is the leading clown of Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams,
mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colors
used to create
the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like
a confusing detail from the KY freedom flow, a microcosmos of strange
sound creatures
and dirt flying around and interacting with a logic all their own.
http://www.kemiallisetystavat.com/tomutonttu/
PEKKO KAPPI
Pekko Käppi is a folk musician who has slipped in to the Finnish
psychfolketc
(or what ever it should be called) scene from the historically oriented
Finnish
folk music scene. Käppi´s main instruments are jouhikkos and fiddle and
singing voice.
He tends to sing long poetic stories with more or less mythical
elements, which he
has dug out from archives on top of droney and wondering melodic
structures from
the string instruments. He has been collaborating among others with
Kiila, Lau Nau,
Kemialliset Ystävät, Avarus, Maniacs Dream and is a member of Päivänsäde
and
has been involved in various music and theater projects.
Releases:
Minun Päiväkunnissani (Imvated, 2004)
Bubnit Sebje Pod Nos (267 Lattajjaa, 2003)
Kalastajia ja Kaivostyöläisiä (Amerikan Peikko, 2001)"
http://www.dlc.fi/~hhaahti/267lattajjaa/ltj-14.htm
ISLAJA
Islaja is Merja Kokkonen, a young visual artist and musician living and
working in Tampere Finland. Her debut album Meritie (Fonal Records 2004)
gained praise in international music media such as The Wire, Dusted
Magazine and WFMU. The follow up release Palaa Aurinkoon (Fonal Records
2005) has caused equal amount of excitement and stir. Islaja records her
music at home using a rainbow of instrument to accompany her personal
vocal delivery sang in Finnish. Her first solo show was at Femmes Festival
in Belgium spring 2005. She has toured Europe as a member of Avarus and UK
with Hertta Lussu Ässä, a free folk super trio with Lau Nau and Kuupuu.
http://www.islaja.com/
http://www.fonal.com/islaja/
a review on an Islaja album can be found here:
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/review_detail.php?id=191
KUUPUU
kuupuu is a solo project of Jonna Karanka (Avarus, Kukkiva Poliisi,
Hertta Lussu Ässä etc).
kuupuu music is a blend of home baked sounds combined with naïve and
child-like folkish rhytms.
after sold out cdr and tape releases Time-Lag is putting out a
7inchfull of psychedelic sounds in spring 2005, edition of 600 .
http://www.mixoftheweek.com/kuupuu/
a reveiw of a Kuupuu release is available here
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/review_detail.php?id=654
LAU NAU
Lau Nau is Laura Naukkarinen's (of Kiila, Päivänsäde,
Avarus and the Anaksimandros) solo project which lives
with the help of her friends. Her abstract folk is a
mosaic of a myriad of instruments that fall where they
may, with free open structures, balancing on a thin
wire of logical evolution, with surprising harmonies.
Melody is suggested through the contours of a
wandering and warm voice. Still, the songs have strong
backbones.
Lau Nau's debut album has been released by the
Chicago-based label Locust and is an amazingly
beautiful slice of outdoor sounds,
multi-instrumentation, surreal and lush vocals.
"The music, compared to reading literature, is a book
with the leaves spread in the order of a tree. You get
a three-dimensional picture, like nature's sounds from
a human soul."
http://www.locustmusic.com/launau.html
Article: http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=10044
Interview: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/launau1.html
reviews of the album:
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/launau_kuut.html
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/l/lau-nau/kuutarha.shtml
Hertta Lussu Ässä
This is a super trio that includes Islaja, Kuupuu and
Lau Nau. What they play is partly improvised
psychedelia and folk with a wide range of instruments
& wild singing. It's a mess of sounds and changing
structures. And wow, they're good at it!
Hertta Lussu Ässä's performances have raised
excitement and euphoria and their debut album will be
out on Eclipse records, late 2005.
TAIKURI TALI
TAIKURI TALI (wizard tali) is Antti Tolvi's new project (rauhan
orkesteri, lauhkeat lampaat, master qsh, päivänsäde...).
TAIKURI TALI is travelling in wide swamps. Floating and jumping. Usually
TALI is travelling whit his elf friends,
but sometimes only whit his imagine cat. TALI's magic stick creates
beutiful psychedelic scenes.
Peacefully and minimal. It can sound like bear in winter sleep, or
butterflies playing in summer field.....
http://www.deepturtle.net/rauha.html
http://www.volcanictongue.com/lauhkeatlampaat.html
Article on the "Finnish Psych Folk Scene"
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-04-18-finnish-psych-folk.shtml
DAVENPORT
The Davenport Family is a loosely knit network of musicians, mainly
located in Wisconsin, led by Clay Ruby. Sounds from Davenport involve
improvisations
and song cycles created with voice and various acoustic and electronic
tools.
The recorded workings of Davenport are available through such labels as
Time Lag (US), PsuedoArcana (NZ), 267 Lattajjaa (Fin), Imvated (Bel),
Jyrk Collective (US),
Foxglove (US), Audiobot (Bel), Haamumaa (Fin), Polyamory (US), and our
own 23 Productions
and Skullfucking Tapes. This lineup of the Davenport Family Travelling
Band will feature:
Clay Ruby (Jesus Balls, Clay's Festering Lungs, etc), Woodman (Drunjus),
Endless (Craig Microcassette System, Postage), and accompanied by
Nic Stage (Amnesis, Retroactive Interference) and John Gould (Leannan
Sith) for
the first half of the tour and the occasional special guests throughout.
http://www.23productions.net/davenport/
An article about Davenport is here:
http://www.diskant.net/columns/dave_stockwell/november04.htm
a live recording can be found here:
http://www.bsrlive.com/archives/playlist.php?p=2601
Many reviews of Davenport can be found here:
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/alpha.php?letter=d
THE SKATERS
"THE SKATERS ALIGNED THEMSELVES AND MET IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA IN 2003.SINCE THEN THEY HAVE TRAVELED
TO SAN FRANCISCO,THE SKATERS ARE JAMES
FERRARO,SPENCER CLERK AND, SOMETIMES DAN BRYANT.THE
SKATERS PERFORM PSEUDO-RELIGOUS THEATER, SENDING
DEVOTION UPWARDS INTO THE UNKNOWN, APPRECIATING THE
AESTHETIC OF RELIGON AS THEATER.CHANNELING THE
ENTERNAL LIGHT SOUND "WE ARE ALIVE ON EARTH AND ALIVE
IN HEAVEN AT THE SAME TIME" SAID WHISPERS AN OLD
FRIEND OF THE SKATERS.MANIFOLD INVERTED TEXTURES MAKE
THE STAIRWELL IN WHICH THE SKATERS WALK TO MEET UP
WITH OHPA ON A PAVILION OF CLOUDS AND THERE HAND AND
HAND DROP DICE INTO THE WELL OF MEMORIES".
http://naturetapelimb.0catch.com/.htm
Davenport and the Skaters have an upcoming split LP on Not Not Fun
http://www.notnotfun.com/preorder.html
― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)