Songs From a Room
A night of music
Friday
December 17, 2010
7 pm
Acoustic performances by:
Katy Goodman & Jenn Prince of La Sera
Matt Popieluch of Big Search
Tim Presley of White Fence
Video by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir with
Accompanied harp by Christian Frederick Thierbach IV
Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir's work appears courtesy of Annie Wharton Los Angeles
Since joining all-female punk trio, Vivian Girls during the spring of 2007, Katy Goodman's DIY-style bass playing and drifty-faded vocals have sent waves of adoration rippling throughout Brooklyn's pop punk circuit. Her newest band La Sera, showcases her signature style, bringing her talent for creating dreamy pop songs even more to the forefront. Her new songs contain warm celestial-pop melodies that echo with the dreamlike effect of a church choir and effuse a softer, less aggressive sound. Hardly Art will release the full-length in early 2011, preceded by a limited 7" for "Never Come Around" in November 2010.
Matt Popieluch is an LA singer and instrumentalist. He has played with many bands over the years, including Foreign Born, Fool's Gold and Glasser. His current focus is on his solo project Big Search, where he incorporates elements of vocal harmony, rock n' roll, synth, and folk music. He most recently released "Lay of the Land", a collection of home recordings on Secretly Canadian's St. Ives label. The covers for the album were all handmade, using the image of Norwegian artist Anders Dahl Monsen's sculpture Beach Bum (2010). He is currently at work finishing his new studio album to be released next year and performing in the Los Angeles area.
Tim Presley is an artist and musician, living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in Printmaking. Presley is a former member of Mark E. Smith's The Fall (2006-07) and current member of Darker My Love, The Strange Boys, and solo project White Fence. White Fence is set to release its latest LP, "Is Growing Faith", in January 2011, via Woodsist. A self-published collection of writings and drawings titled You Don't Have Your Eyes Yet, is now available on blurb.com
