wolf colonel/jason anderson
tiger saw
phosphorescent
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Wolf Colonel is Jason Anderson: sometimes solo, sometimes with a band.
Sometimes it’s acoustic, sometimes it’s electric. Folky, but also catchy.
Lots of lyrics. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad. Always honest. Often
triumphant.
The music itself is not unlike bands like the Weakerthans or Pedro the
Lion, a fairly even mix of loud, energetic power-pop and quiet, focused
indie-rock. There is an emphasis on passionate live performance. And
connecting. And feeling awesome. Also: Jason was the drummer for Yume
Bitsu, has been the touring drummer for the Microphones, played guitar and
drums with Calvin Johnson + the Sons of the Soil, has accompanied Little
Wings on guitar, has been a studio—and sometimes touring—keyboardist for
David Dondero, once played guitar and drums with Son, Ambulance on a tour,
has recorded and played with the Blow and, rather infrequently, has played
a live Guns ‘n’ Roses cover with Mirah (“Civil War”; great version, Mirah’s
idea). Jason also is the proud owner of a very cool “Bryan Adams/Reckless”
tour t-shirt, which Stacie really likes a lot.

Tiger Saw formed at the turn of the century in a hotel in Los Angeles,
where Dylan Metrano wrote much of their self-produced winter 1999 album How
To Be Timeless Tonight. He brought his creations back to his hometown of
Newburyport, a seaside town 40 miles to the north of Boston. There the
slow, quiet and decidedly non-rock sound of his band tended to frustrate
its players, who came and went in the tradition of the loose-knit jazz
combos of a generation or two ago. By 2000, a line-up had finally
solidified. Tiger Saw has recently done scores for theatre and film,
including one they play live to accompany the classic silent film
Nosferatu. This band specializes in the whisper, the waltz, and songs that
are jazz in concept, but not in execution. Theirs is an exquisitely
mournful music, numinous and sweet. We invite you to experience the
beautiful desolation that is Tiger Saw.

Phosphorescent is Matthew Houck; curly haired, twenty-four years old, a
gifted writer with a magnetic southern voice. In the year 2000, after
home-recording and pressing 1000 copies of a solo folksy record under the
odd name Fillup Shack, he found himself on a solo tour of the UK and Spain
where the album and shows received outlandish praise. Now living in Athens,
GA, Matthew has formed a new group called Phosphorescent, and made a new
album titled A Hundred Times Or More. Recorded over the warmer months of
2002, A Hundred Times Or More eschews all the simple options: no simple
singer-songwriter schtick or acoustic coffee bar bag. Instead a whorl of
slowed and stretched out songs, a cracked voice sometimes soft and
sometimes howling alongside a reedy organ swallowed by fuzz and thrum and
squall. A Hundred Times Or More seems to fall somewhere in the middle of
the works of Will Oldham, Jeff Mangum and, indeed, the young Bob Dylan.
Rough cut, yet solid, it unfolds and unfurls and reveals itself to be a
masterful, powerful thing, dense and dark, coiled and restless.

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