Bowerbirds + BELL

Tuesday, April 28
Admission: $12, $10 minimum
Showtime: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations are recommended
Both shows are SOLD OUT

Bowerbirds
Hymns for a Dark Horse CD / LP (DOC017, released: 06/19/08)
"Only once every ten years or so does one hear a new band this good, this bursting with ideas, this audibly in love with music... It is beyond stunning. This band is the complete package."

Ears tend to prick up when a record review sings praises like these, especially when the praises come from the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, as they did recently on his Last Plane to Jakarta website hailing the Bowerbirds' debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse.

Dead Oceans is overjoyed to be sharing the sounds of Bowerbirds with listeners worldwide. Hymns for a Dark Horse was originally released in July of 2007 on Burly Time Records, and now will be issued in an expanded form featuring two bonus tracks.

BELL
Born in Moscow and raised in Alaska, Olga Bell was bilingual at two years old. At three she made up chromatic songs about ghosts, at four she attempted to sing multiple string parts at the same time after a Bolshoi production of Swan Lake. She played Telemann sonatas on the recorder at six, started piano at seven, wrote a four-hand keyboard suite by the time she was nine, won a concerto competition at ten, and discovered pop music--trouble, obviously--at eleven.

In summer '05, after dutifully completing a Piano Performance degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Bell promptly took a deferral from graduate programs and scampered down to NYC with a laptop, staff paper and an insatiable curiosity for each and every sound in the metropolitan area--even more trouble.

Released in May 2008, BELL's debut EP is a self-released/self-produced/self-everythinged mosaic of organic, electronic and found sounds. The music is a gloriously urgent mashing together of fancy-free improvisation, opulent live arrangements, meticulous programming and above all, kitchen-sink exuberance----with regard to everything. Recorded partly at Edison and Avatar studios in Manhattan, partly in Bell's tiny loft bedroom in Brooklyn, the six songs on EP have garnered kudos and kisses from a myriad of blogs and magazines, most notably Pitchfork, SPIN, Stereogum, Gorilla vs. Bear, NYLON, MetroPop and Paste.