The always epic, kraut-based compositions of Moonface and Siinai (Jagjaguwar) hit Fortune Sound Sunday June 4th featuring Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade and guests
Date/Time: Jun 4 2017, 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm
Vancouver, Fortune Sound Club | Event calendarAge: 19+
Cost: $12.00
Find tickets: here
Moonface:
January 2015. I am standing in my bright, spacious bedroom, in a big old dirty house, in the small town on Vancouver Island in which I live. Against the north wall is a low set of shelves. I am proud of these shelves because I built them myself—donned the old work gloves and sorted through a pile of planks in the yard that had once been a fence, sawed them to size by hand, sanded them smooth, erected them sturdily, painted them white. I am no carpenter, but these are nice shelves. Yes, I am proud of these shelves. But upon these shelves, on the very bottom shelf in fact, is an external hard drive. It’s a LaCie—a flat rectangle of silver aluminum wrapped with a thick lip of orange rubber. I took this hard drive with me from Finland when I moved last summer, because it contains all the music I recorded with Siinai, now already a year ago. But the music is still unedited, which in my mind means just a pile of notes sitting in there like loose jigsaw puzzle pieces. And the words have not been sung, because even now, not all the words have been written. The idea was that I would finish the album in Canada, but the songs still sit inside that hard drive on the shelf, unedited, unwritten, unsung. No, I am not proud of my LaCie hard drive, with its showy orange trim, snootily perched on my shelves like it fuckin’ owns the place. And as I stand here alone in my spacious bedroom I hear it whisper to me in harsh bursts, like a jackknife along the flint: “You hack. You poseur. You silly fraud! Thought yourself a songwriter? Where are the words now, Sylvia? Your friends are waiting. Oh, sorry, was that your banana that Cohen is holding? I guess he took it while you were listening to Philip Glass in reverie. And you can’t fit into those old leather pants anymore, hey? And now, ladies and germs: Here Come The Luke Warm Jets! You thought you’d tricked everyone, didn’t you, but now you have nothing to say. Because you have no heart. Because you have have no soul. You’re just a zombie in a top hat, isn’t that right?” I walk over to the hard drive on the shelves and pick it up and mutter something into the air.
Siinai & Moonface new collaboration album "My Best Human Face" out 3rd of June on Jagjaguwar.
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