During the month of October 2008, we will be in residency at The Fire, located at 412 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA.
We will be playing every Tuesday night (October 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th) with some of our local friends and a few out of town bands.
These shows will celebrate the cd release of our new album, "The Distance Brings Us Closer", on Silber Records.
Our new record is full of droning goodness and we'll be playing some improvised and collaborative shows in the near future to
further celebrate the release.
Come on out to the shows...pick up a copy of our new cd...and witness the drone that lies within!
We were in Iceland from June 8th-12th, playing with our friends,
For a Minor Reflection.
We played four shows in and around downtown Reykjavík, including Organ on June 10th, Kaffi Hljómalind on June 11th, Glætan bókakaffi on June 12th,
and a show on the island of Viðey, on June 8th, at Viðeyjarkirkja, a church (pictured below on the left) that was consecrated in 1774 and is the second oldest one still standing in Iceland!
Pictures and comments from the tour will be posted sometime soon...once we adjust to not being in the midnight sun!
Before we headed to Iceland, we were asked to play a show on May 26th, at Tritone (in Philadephia) to open a screening of the Sigur Rós documentary, "Heima"
Leopard's Mouth, the first cd-r in our field recording series, Rusted Gates, has been re-released on Gears of Sand Recordings in a limited run,
with special packaging done by Matt Borghi of the Hand Work Press. It is limited to 100 hand numbered copies and all of the text and images on the recycled, chipboard sleeves were created using hand engraved dies and a genuine letter press.
Pick up a copy before they are all gone!
Pick up a copy at CD Baby here...
We are back from our tour with For a Minor Reflection.
They came over from Reykjavík, Iceland for their first US tour and we had a blast with them...we miss them already.
Not only did we get to rock the stage and hang out into the early morning hours with them, but we learned more about Icelandic culture and language along the way,
including many great pick up lines and nice names to call people!
We played at some of our favorite places, as well as some new places, and met a lot of great people along the way.
Thanks to everyone who let us play at their place, all of the bands who played with us and/or let us crash at their place,
and Dickinson College, for having great 'fort building' furniture.
A picture is worth a thousand words...images from the tour are posted here
The 2nd installment of our 5 disc series of field recordings and improvisations will be ready for release in Spring 2008.
It is called "A Faint Light Still Glows", and it includes music and material from 1977-2008; including stuff from our childhood years,
as well as public sessions in Virginia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia...and out in middle of the international waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
More information will be posted once it's ready!
As part of a Valentine's Day series of interviews with couples in bands, we (Robert and Amy) were interviewed for issue # 36 of
QRD. We're featured alongside of interviews of other band couples
(Windy and Carl, Low, Lycia, Rollerball and more).
Go check it out: here
Thanks to everyone who came out in support of local and touring music as we hit the road with some great shows that
bridged the gap from 2007-2008. A very special 'thank you' to Jeff for joining in our merry band and rocking out on the road with us (great things to come with Jeff on board!)
And a very special 'thank you' to our tour-mates, Aydin,
for coming out from Pittsburgh to rock NYC, Philly and Charlottesville with us. We love Aydin! Incredible sounds from an incredible group of people!
From rocking the shows to hanging out, jamming, and all the in-between...Aydin put Pittsburgh on the map!
Thanks also to:
the original 'weapons of mass distraction'...The Graboids for playing with us at the end of December on two shows...
Mammoth Hunter and Florida=Death for being our introduction to great music and great people in Connecticut...
Goodbye Blue Monday and Millions for a great show in NYC...
Radio Eris for hosting an impromptu jam session/concert...Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar for everything under the sun (we love that place)...
Ben Fleury-Steiner for inspiring us to further let go and 'just be' (see below)...and Pacific Before Tiger for showing once again that
if you play quietly, people will listen...beautiful music Andrew!
Timh Gabriele interviewed us for Origivation Magazine and his article about Northern Valentine appears in the September 2007 issue. We think it's the most wonderful article ever and we're happy that Timh took the time to write about us and say such nice things about our music!
You can find locations where you can pick up free copies of Origivation Magazine,
or you can read the article online, on their website.
If you can't find a copy near you and just want to read about us:
Click Here for a PDF file of the Northern Valentine Interview
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Visit our show archive to see our detailed history of past tours and shows, bands/performers who have played with us, and songs that we've played.
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