FRIDAY JUNE 17
Hollow Deck
Eames Armstrong, Renée Regan, and Rex Delafkara
Pony Moon
Hollow Deck
“The debut LP by this Western
Mass duo is a masterpiece of fractured air. The two performers are ANDY
ALLEN (from the original line-up of GUERILLA TOSS, among many other
places) and MIA FRIEDMAN (whose collaborations apart from this include
Lichen and appearances with Lauri McNamara’s Carbuncles). Previously
issued as a cassette, Hobson’s Choice is a blend of traditional and
experimental approaches that alternately puts us in mind of several
units inhabiting the landscape of Strange Maine over the last decade,
and the animated ‘30s cartoons of Max Fleischer. And HOLLOW DECK have a
unique way of quivering between their two main style poles guaranteed to
put hair on anyone’s chest. From its first song,
the album is a bridge between beauty (as personified by Mia’s singing
voice) and odd instrumental work that moves from clutter to clack to
clam in the space of a blink. A few of the tracks are so sweetly
arranged—rural voice and flute gliding above warm fields—that it almost
feels like insanity is on the wind when the musical proceedings turn
dark and unruly. But, as in life, they always do eventually, if only for
the nonce. Before you know it, the scene turns into a nursery room
theatrical with mice in white gloves capering while the cat naps. Other
gorgeous bits recall Joanne Robertson at her most elegiac, singing along
to a broken record. Then flutes join the fun, as though representing a
pack of wolves mourning the death of the moon. Hobson’s Choice is filled
with many other such seemingly contradictory juxtapositions. Letting
them flow through your head will free you—if only for a moment—from the
world around us, delivering you somewhere new before snatching you back
to reality. Enjoy the trip."—Byron Coley, 2016
https://friendshiptapes.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-deck-hobsons-choice
Eames, Renée, and Rex
http://www.eamesarmstrong.com/
http://www.reneeregan.com/
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Pony Moon
multiple choice:
a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-VLfFiBob4
b) https://www.facebook.com/awillingway/posts/1036639489764743
c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2AV3M7dRR8
DOORS at 730 SHOW at 8
$10 suggested donation
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