Ithaca Underground presents:
Listener (Kansas City)
The Homeless Gospel Choir (A-F Records : Pittsburgh)
Red Sled Choir (Lily Tapes : Ithaca)
Wed Oct 26th | Chanti-Loft | 8PM | $10 | All Ages
LISTENER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExndJ7owhHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckKZ4bi0bs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld6E5hvvD6U
http://listener.bandcamp.com/
http://iamlistener.com/
If your best friend was a band, who would they be? I think they might be something like Listener. Because Listener is a band of best friends, who have experienced the best and worst of times, and have survived on songs. No one knows you like they do and no other band can describe how you feel like they can. They have captured just the right words and just the right sounds and pinned on them all of our deepest emotions, our greatest fears, our toughest challenges, and our unbridled hopes. This is a group that sticks close to your heart no matter where you go, who you’re with, or how you feel. When you put in a Listener album every song is like an old friend and every moment enjoyable.
Beginning in 2002 as a solo act the band Listener has evolved over the years into a full fledged rock and roll band, and has toured the world over playing their brand of Talk Music. Based out of Kansas City Missouri with Dan Smith on vocals and bass, Kris Rochelle on drums, and Jon Terrey on guitar. With thought provoking stage banter, music that keeps your mind busy, and words that quickly take hold of your heart, Listener is a near perfect balance of what words and music are supposed to be.
The Homeless Gospel Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyxVOrpgHOI
https://thehomelessgospelchoir.bandcamp.com/
The Homeless Gospel Choir is the Woody Guthrie of the post-hope-pre-apocalypse world that we live in today. He’s personally charged to tear down greed, privilege, and complacency, and is armed with hard truths, humor, and a world view that every human could benefit from listening to.
“I Used To Be So Young” is his opus. It takes an extremely personal look at what it’s like to wake up in your thirties and be staring down the barrel of adulthood without any desire to participate in it. The record makes observations on everything from the “preppers” movement and the fear that our TVs feed us every day (Armageddon), to our consumer greed (Black Friday), to the real effects of what has happened to our generation that marched off into an endless war on terrorism (When The War Is Over.) He also shares with us some heavy self-analysis on growing up and what makes a life a good one (Slow Down the Time) as well as the importance of casting off the chains of materialism that our society has shackled to us (Capitalismo.)
Produced by Chris#2 of Anti-Flag, “I Used To Be So Young” is an important record, both sonically and ideologically, for anyone who cares about where the human race is headed.
RED SLED CHOIR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ugSfVyjnk
https://redsledchoir.bandcamp.com/
Beautiful outstretched tapestry of voice, banjo, synth, percussion and toys through live looping.