Oct
26
The Violet Hour, Girls In Trouble & Jefrey Brown At Normal’s This Thursday
Greetings Music and Book Lovers -
big in store show this Thursday: The Violet Hour with touring duo Girls In Trouble (Alicia Jo Rabins and Aaron Hartman) plus Jefrey Brown of Jackie-O-Motherf*cker and Evolutionary Jass Band fame. Here is some further info:
Thursday, Oct. 27th. 8PM at Normal's - 425 E. 31st St.
Baltimore, Cultural Capital of the Known World
Suggested donation of $5 or $6 for musicians
The Violet Hour
Alicia Jo Rabins and Aaron Hartman
Jefrey Brown
Local duo The Violet Hour who played an amazing Sunday afternoon here long ago return to enchant and introduce their touring friends Alicia Jo Rabins and Aaron Hartman, who play "post-biblical art-pop" - Leonard Cohen meets Owen Pallett with Violin looping; lyrical songs about leprosy, betrayal, and love.
Here are some rave reviews from top guns:
"Hauntingly lovely" -- LA Weekly
"Dynamic folk-rock" -- New Yorker
"Stellar"--Largeheartedboy.com
And here are their sites to check out:www.myspace.com/girlsintroublemusic
girlsintrouble.bandcamp.com
Doors will open at 8 and the suggested donation at the door for the groups is $6.
Also, there's a rare Shattered Wig Night coming up Friday, November 4th at the 14 Karat Cabaret -218 W. Saratoga St. It's a CD release party for the local string duo Sea Couch with additional music by City Paper award winner Her Fantastic Cats, a performance by poet Bruce Jacobs and a reading by Philly author Kim Gek Lin Short.
Doors will open at 9 and the cover charge is $6.
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STACK OF WAX JUST IN:
Catching up with local heroes Future Islands, we have their "On the Water" in on CD and LP, plus "Undressed" and In Evening Air" on LP.
Plus new Glenn Jones on double LP, "The Wanting".
We also re-upped our Double Dagger vinyl with copies of "Masks".
Now back to the eldritch platters:
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Juju Music. Near mint on Mango, $6.00.
King Sunny Ade - Synchro System. Near mint on Mango, $6.00.
Blues Breakers - London Collectors Edition, $6, near mint.
Jimmy Cliff - I Am the Living. Near mint 1980 MCA pressing with insert, $6.00.
Ornette Coleman - Virgin Beauty. Near mint in vg+ jacket, $12.00.
Miles & Monk at Newport. Very good + original Columbia mono in vg+ jacket, $20.00.
Doctor John - Desitively Bonnaroo. Near mint UK Atlantic pressing in very good + jacket with top right corner cut, $12.00.
Doctor John - Hollywood Be Thy Name. Very good + United Artists original in vg+ jacket, $12.
Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life In the Bush of Ghosts. Near mint on Sire, $10.
Robert Fripp - The League of Gentlemen. Original 1981 Polydor near mint, $10.
Fred Frith - Gravity. 1980 avant-rock classic on Ralph, $15.
Fred Frith - Speechless. Near mint on Ralph in near mint jacket, $15.00.
Stefan Grossman - Bottleneck Serenade. Very good + on Kicking Mule in vg jacket. $12.00.
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Early Blues. Near mint on Olympic, $6.00.
Laraaji - Day of Radiance. Ambient 3 produced by Brian Eno. Near mint on EG in near mint jacket, $15.00.
Michael Mantler - Movies. Vg+ in vg silver foil jacket on the WATT label. With Carla Bley and Tony Williams. $10.
New Order - Substance. Near mint double Qwest lp, $10.
Mark O'Connor - Pickin' In The Wind. 1975 Grand Master Fiddle Champion with Norman Blake and John Hartford. Near mint on Rounder, $8.00.
Annette Peacock - The Perfect Release. Near mint on Tomato in vg+ jacket. With inner lyric sleeve, $15.00.
Persuasions - Street Corner Symphony. Very good + on Capitol, $6.00.
Steve Reich/Richard Maxfield/Pauline Oliveros - New Sounds in Electronic Music. Near mint Columbia Odyssey, $15.
Rhythm and Rock: The Best of Chess Checker Cadet. Near mint UK press in very good jacket, $10.
Ravi Shankar in New York. Very good + on World Pacific, stereo pressing in gatefold, $10.
Trash, Twang and Thunder: Big Guitars From Texas. Near mint on Jungle Records, $12. With Evan Johns and Keith Ferguson.
McCoy Tyner - Sahara. Vg+ 1972 Milestone in vg jacket, $15.00.
Varese/Colgrass/Cowell/Saperstein/Oak - Percussion Music. Near mint on Nonesuch, $8.00. With the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble.
The Velvet Underground & Nico. Verve reissue, near mint, $8.00.
Tom Verlaine - Self-titled. Very good + original Elektra pressing with inner lyric sleeve. Leader of Television's first solo album, with "Grip of Love" and "Flash Lightning".
Doc & Merle Watson - Two Days in November. Very good + on Poppy, $10. Cut-out notch to bottom left.
Doc & Merle Watson - Then and Now. Vg+ on Poppy in vg+ jacket, $10.
Mary Wells - Greatest Hits. Original Motown stereo, 1965. Near mint in very good + jacket, $8.00.
Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt. Near mint on Diskreet, $8.00.Frank Zappa In New York. Near mint double Diskreet album in very good + gatefold jacket, $12.00.
