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Monday, November 6
Admission: $10, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations
are recommended
Phew. CMJ is gone. You can breath again.
And to complete your ear flush, we offer for your consideration
the fine voice and tunes of Josephine
Foster. At some point it looked like this might be
the final show we were ever going to host and we thought her performance
would mark a wonderful end. But now, we're simply honored to host
an intimate evening of song with Josephine and opener Spider.
We will crib from a Stylus
review of her last album, Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You:
"Part of the success of Hazel Eyes
lies in the fact that songs are somehow wiser than their mechanics
and the weight of their patronage. The other part is Foster's
layered, 'wild woman in rags' vocals that kick you in the stomach
and force a stance straightaway..."
"Foster has released records and toured under the monikers
Born Heller (her "years long" collaboration
with bassist Jason Ajemian, recorded by Paul Oldham),
The Children’s Hour (with Andy Bar, asked by Billy
Corgan to open for Zwan on their first
world tour), and JF & the Supposed (a borderline folk rock
opera project acknowledging her professed influences Jefferson
Airplane, The Who, and Patti Smith). Self-produced in Madison,
Wisconsin, Foster plays every instrument on Hazel Eyes,
including (in addition to the usual guitars, harps, and dulcimers)
wooden spoons, cittarina, kazoo, sandblocks, black cat (?!) and
"a box of wire ties."
Spider
Many fine things have been written about this Brooklyn group headed
by Jane Herships, and here are a few such notices...
"After listening to this disc, all we can say is Marissa
Nadler and
Joanna Newsom better watch their backs. If there is any justice
in the
world, the throngs of bearded and bead encrusted modern free folk
freaksand forest maidens that make up the new weird underground
will bow down before Jane Herships, the woman who is Spider..."
Aquarius
Records
"Spider is Jane Herships' folk project. Her tunes have the
quality you
look for in music if you've been under the spell of artists like
Leonard
Cohen, Jeff Buckley and Cowboy Junkies. Intense, poignant, delicate
and
somewhat dreamy, Spider's beautiful songs remind us that the strength
of our thoughts and emotions might not be very noisy
but can be very powerful indeed." Deli Magazine
(June 2006 CD of the
Month)
"...Unless Joanna Newsom drops another brilliant album this
may well
be the very finest folk that New Weird America has to offer this
year."
Lefthip.com
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