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Sommer Sonorum
Lichens + Cloudland Canyon

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Sunday, July 9
Admission:
$8
Showtimes:
7:30pm and 10pm
reservations are recommended

Lichens is Robert Lowe's "personal vehicle, created for performance and recording solo and with collaborators. Lichens has performed in Chicago, beginning at the Arthur magazine sponsored Million Tongues Festival in summer 2004 and New York solo and in duos. Lichens live is a transfixing experience, looping wordless vocals into curtains of drone. Lowe adds acoustic and electric guitars, percussion and other effects to create alternately thick and delicate works."

Lowe recently performed and recorded with TV On The Radio for their upcoming album. He also plays bass and sings in 90 Day Men.

Cloudland Canyon is the dream child of Panthers guitarist Kip Uhlhorn and German Simon Wojan the SF Bay Gaurdian has said:

"The duo fabricate an introspective ambience shimmering with subdued guitar rhythms and gurgling electronic overlaps, a hybrid that took its initial breaths during Uhlhorn's tenure in the late 90s hardcore band Red Scare. Analogs and synthesizers bubbling with 70s electronics mesh with savvy krautrock orchestrations and then the raw edges of free jazz. Elements of no wave and freak folk splash, foam, and crackle through the album's tracks, making a sound evocative of what might happen if Syd Barrett scrambled from his seedy nest to jam with the Black Dice."