MySpace
myspace music my music  featured playlists  top artists  music videos  karaoke  shows  forums 


MySpace.com | rss | sign in
dust congress



Last Updated: 11/23/2009

Send Message
Instant Message
Email to a Friend
Subscribe

Status: Single
City: DENTON
State: Texas
Country: US
Signup Date: 5/9/2005

Blog Archive
[Older      Newer]
 /  / 
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 
nice of her to write about the record, though i must point out that tara only recorded bassoon on shearwater's album "rook", and is not a perma-member of their fine band. 
nf
We all have certain albums we turn to when in a particular mood or another. Music is, after all, the highest form of expression we have as human beings. What else are we supposed to do with ourselves? When I first heard Dust Congress, I knew they would be my go-to melancholia (maybe it was the bassoon). I consequently feel beautifully wretched each time I hear this dark chamber folk.
Regurgitate Sunshine State, the second project released by the five-piece Denton outfit, is most palatable on 12” LP. Pressed on baby blue vinyl with hand screened artwork by Nevada Hill on the blank side of the album, the artwork is initially what drew my attention to this project. I found it quite intriguing and had no idea the depths these four songs would take me. Suddenly I felt very far away, as though I was sharing in someone else’s pain -- someone from another time and place all together, perhaps -- but someone who understood the drudgery of facing tribulation. Incidentally, this album is the perfect drinking buddy. I highly suggest you accompany this record with bourbon.
The lo-fi crackling plays in perfectly over the jangled marimba and lonely horns. Nick Foreman’s vocals are anguished and raw; not unlike what we are hearing from Danny Balis, Telegraph Canyon, and Matthew Gray. In keeping with Denton’s incestuous nature, the members of the band also respectively represent Pinebox Serenade, Shearwater, and Baptist Generals. The resulting sound of this particular collaboration is all at once timeless and relevant.
It’s quite interesting, actually, to hear all this gorgeously blue music coming out of North Texas these days. It’s as though we’re all depressed about something, and the only way we can get through it is to create this sound reminiscent of the Dust Bowl. Perhaps that is how we should decipher if our nation is in a depression or not -- we may have tipped beyond a recession if the new music is consoling in its despair. I bet the economists on Marketplace couldn’t have predicted that effect. Now that I think about it and examine the resurgence of folk, blues, and Americana, it makes perfect sense. It makes me feel better about all the Ramen I’ve eaten over the past few years. We’re not alone in our trials.
Filthy South, the final song on the album (there are but four) provides a redemptive optimism necessary after three songs of wallowing in the mire. The trumpet peps up to provide a positively New Orleans feel (and I am an absolute sucker for anything that reminds me of NoLa) and you are given the distinct impression it’s time to suck it up and dance around the kitchen table (the bourbon will help this bit along). So what if we have no money! We have music and we’ll get by just fine.
9:37 PM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Friday, May 15, 2009 
hello all,
starting on wednesday the 20th, we're going out on a short tour in support of our new record, "regurgitate sunshine state", out now on the paperstain recording collective. we'll be playing a send-off show on wednesday night at dan's silver leaf in denton with invaluable friends chris welch of pinebox serenade and burnt sienna trio. please come out and give us a reminder of what he have to come back to, thus adding resolve to our fears in the deep south. for those of you not living in the fine town of denton, tx, here are the tour dates in full:


May 20- Denton, TX
  @Dan's Silver Leaf
       w/ Chris Welch, Burnt Sienna Trio
May 21- Birmingham, AL
   @The Bottletree
       w/ Don Chambers, The Broken Letters
May 22- Athens, GA
   @The Flicker Theatre
       w/ The Visitations
May 23- Savannah, GA
    @ The Wormhole
        w/ Mog Rocket
May 28-Ft. Myers, FL
     @ The House of Cats
        w/ Gheistheistler, Let's Go Exploring, French Paradox, and Squirrel Pool
May 29-Gainesville, FL
     @ The Kickstand
        w/ Gheistheistler, French Paradox, and Squirrel Pool
May 30- Mobile, AL
     @ The Blind Mule
        w/ Gheistheistler, The Broken Letters
Photobucket
6:40 PM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 
Regurgitate Sunshine State is OUT NOW! buy it on the informawebs! there's a code button on the dust congress myspage. click on it and help us put on our rally caps to get out of this economic downturn and get the auto industry back on track by fighting against the swine flu? if you don't have the money right now, just borrow it from china. you can also buy it from some local record stores and soon it will be available in selected stores in other parts of the country. more on that soon. 

we're also going on tour in about 3 weeks. dates are listed on the myspage. i'm not typing them all out. and yes, i am aware of copy+ paste, mine is a conflict of worldview, i worked hard to book it, i deserve thirty seconds off. click the back button.

nf
Currently listening:
Marimbas Mexicanas - The Favorite Orchestra Of Latin America (Vinyl LP)
By Marimba Chiapas
9:01 PM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate