FRANK FAIRFIELD
with support
CAKEHOLE PRESLEY
JOSHUA CAOLE
Friday 31st August 2012
Dempseys,
Castle Street, Cardiff
7.30pm / 18+ show
£7 adv from | www.swnpresents.com |
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| Spillers Records |
FRANK FAIRFIELD
The California based fiddle, guitar and banjo player and ardent 78 collector Frank Fairfield sings soaring hillbilly ballads, arcane rambling songs and murder ballads delivered in a reedy tenor with that irresistible dust to digital quality. Still in his early twenties but steeped in the pre-War Americana of Mississippi John Hurt and Dock Boggs, he cut his teeth as a street performer in LA and has the raw intensity and spellbinding technique to make your hairs stand on end.
Fleet Foxes handpicked him to open for them on their 2008 US tour and since then he has found fans elsewhere in Ry Cooder, CW Stoneking, Charlie Parr and Grammy winning producer Chris King (Charley Patton, People Take Warning box set). His eponymous debut album came out last year on Tompkins Square and picked up rave reviews across the board, and was followed by Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts, a compilation of rare and unheralded gramaphone recordings from around the world, on his own Pawn imprint.
“A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who’s crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before it.” - Greil Marcus
“one of America's best conduits of antiquity” - Pitchfork Videos:
“Nine Pound Hammer”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefJBwJhQ6E "Poor Ellen Smith" - http://vimeo.com/9693398 "Sweet Milky Peaches" & "Darling True Love" - http://vimeo.com/9731696 Frank Fairfield & Blind Boy Paxton - http://vimeo.com/16229680
Myspace: www,myspace.com/frankfairfield Pitchfork interview: http://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/7777-the-out-door-1/3
JOSHUA CAOLE
Caole’s music evokes the American songwriting greats like Gram Parsons yet simultaneously tiptoes along the lines of alt rock, post punk and folkier climbs. What binds these disparate influences together is his rough-with-the-smooth combination of coarse, velvet vocals with clean, beautiful ringwheeling guitar parts. Combining the songwriting of Elliot Smith with the vocal fragility of Bright Eyes; tales of misspent nights and love not quite won makes his debut album Moon Palace (released April 2012) an impressive, impassioned collection of songs.
After releasing his EP Slow Hearts in December 2010, Joshua Caole spent much of the past year playing in cramped, dark rooms in the UK and Europe including support slots with superb acts such as Smoke Fairies, Sarabeth Tucek, Richmond Fontaine and Laura Gibson - to name just a few - and appeared at festivals including; Lounge on the Farm, Apple Cart and Swn. The year was topped off with a slot at the December Sessions at the O2 arena in London.
This year he’s doing it all over again, touring Europe far and wide with freshly pressed copies of Moon Palace under his arm.
"Subtle, understated songs with death and beauty at their heart.”
- Adam Walton (BBC Wales)
Joshua Caole:
Website: www.joshuacaole.com
Record Label: www.bullopill.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/joshuacaoleuk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/joshuacaole
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/joshua-caole
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