White Rainbow

or something like this, but down a dirt road past some dirt pyramids.

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so, be mellow, don't be too loud or rowdy on the way in (i would suppose), possibly beware of guard dogs, BYOB, bring us donations of money, food, beer, etc, bring a blanket or something. should be a hoot.

SUNDAY JUNE 29TH: ILYAS AHMED W/ LIZ HARRIS (GROUPER) AND HONEY IN HIS BAND
ALSO PLAYING IS HEAVY WINGED
AT VALENTINES

MONDAY JUNE 30TH: THANKSGIVING (slight return), GROUPER, O PAON (aka Woelv, Genevieve Castree)
AT THE ARTISTERY

TUESDAY JULY 1ST: KRANKY RECORDS ARTISTS WINDY WEBER (of Windy and Carl) AND TOM MELUCH (AKA Benoit Pioulard) collab set as LAMB'S LAUGHTER
AT RAD SUMMER

FRIDAY JULY 4TH: ROB WALMART, OTHERS
@ MISSISSIPPI STREET NO WAR USO LITTLE FEST OF SOME SORT.

SATURDAY JULY 5TH: COOL PIZZA PARTY PAPER RAD/GNAR TAPES/MARRIAGE TAZ VS TWEETY VS MARVIN THE MARTIAN VS ANDRE THE GIANT FANTASY SHRED HOUSE SHOW!!!!!EXTREME ANIMALS, FORTRESS OF AMPLITUDE, WHITE FANG, WHITE RAINBOW (me), ROB WALMART
AT THE CLATTER HOUSE (2626 NE MULTNOMAH)

SUNDAY JULY 6TH: PETE SWANSON'S MONTHLY CHALLENGE
FEATURING WHITE RAINBOW/WINDY WEBER COLLAB SET, ACRE, PULSE EMITTER, possible E*Rock Video Projection
THIS MONTH'S THEME: ALIENS/UFOS/TAKE ME TO YOUR DEALER
AT VALENTINES

AND THEN...
GET READY...
JULY 12th thru JULY 21ST:
MARRIAGE/SUPERTAPES/GNARTAPES/YARNLAZER TAKEOVER TOUR
WHITE RAINBOW WHITE FANG ROB WALMART
CALIFORNIA SUMMER 2008 (aka Andre Vs. the Sea Worm)

july 12th eugene @ campbell house
july 13th arcata @ starving weirdos killer sunset
july 14th sacramento @ S Street House
july 15th oakland @ Lobot Gallery
july 16th SF somewhere within the city, but remote and strange and awesome
july 18th LA @ echo curio gallery
july 19th LA @ santa monica pier (rainbow only)
july 20th LA @ family books (instore w/ tom blood reading)
july 20th LA @ The Smell w/ Lucky Dragons
july 21st monterey @ monterey live (hometown homecoming show for me!)

keep on boogie-in'

Gnar Tapes, the new tape label run by the White Fang dudes, finally has their first batch of releases ready (or at least almost ready)! killer tapes from Dust Collector (rapping), Super Destroy (noise), White Fang (punk/tape collage), Feather Headdress (tape collage+beats)
check em out over at GNARTAPES.BLOGSPOT.COM

among the heap is a killer new white rainbow tape. C10, limited to 10 copies. i think its kind of a new age boogie neon burner.

also on the horizon been working on a bunch of summer rap tunes with a bunch of these dudes and other dudes. trying to make a summer mixtape comp of the best flows, freestyles, beats and shout outs. COMING SOON.

anyway
just shouting out the GNAR TAPES

be on the lookout for these tapes, as well as hopefully some new Rob Walmart affiliatedSUPER TAPES on the upcoming white fang rob walmart white rainbow tour coming up next month

GET A TAPE DECK!

honey just got back from a week long adventure in Japan playing in Jackie-O Motherfucker and one solo show as Valet, as well as various gallery things etc.
she has a wonderful set of photos and short videos up on her flickr CHECK EM OUT! CUTE KITTENS! HIGH HEELS AND STOCKINGS! COOL SHOWS! KYLE FIELD LITTLE WINGS ART SHOW! TOM GREENWOOD JOMF ART SHOW! OTHER STUFF!!!

GO THERE NOW

this weekend
Cluster shows in big sur, santa cruz and SF at the great american music hall
WHITE RAINBOW playing the one in San Francisco on Sunday!!!
gonna be fun!!!!!!!!

germany meets the bay in a dummy style:

white fang/ white rainbow /flaspar @ the killer gnar shred erik's bedroom basement show! one of the best shows ever!!!
photos by steve schroeder

video of this event by a. flint jamison

Man do I love me some White Fang. Get ready for the White Fang, Rob Walmart, White Rainbow west coast tour July 08!!!!
GNAR TAPES (photo by krystal south). ALSO get ready for the new tape label run by white fang: GNAR TAPES. white rainbow c10 coming soon. edition of 10! 5 minutes a side! other tapes include White Fang, Super Destroy (white fang related damaged stoner noise), random one-of-a-kind rap tapes, etc etc. should be available at Rad Summer and at shows soon. maybe Marriage will cary a few too.
Here's another video of a recent White Fang show that I took:

THEN THERE WAS THE VIBE ZONE:
Here's a photo steve took of the 24 hour vibe zone we did last weekend... Boy was THAT long.....E*rock, Garrick (aka Stag Hare) and i spend much of friday night and saturday afternoon building this:

and then from 5pm saturday until 5pm sunday people gently popped in and popped out, jammed a bit, made some noise.
around 630pm Michael Hamilton and his partner Sara popped with french horns and bassoons and looper pedals. Brian Thackeray got in for a minute, as did Jason Buehler.....it was a cool scene. some kids came with their dad. Fox was running around too. Fun times.
830pm: Strategy's set was awesome 4 track cassette tape loops through various filters and delays. nice sounds,
10pm: there was a Dub-step night in the adjacent room that blasted us with bass for most of the evening (until around 230am) but Tom Greenwood took it and stride and just DJ'ed weird records and loops on top of it. E*rock added blasts.
1am Jordan played viola for a while after that, with some girls singing and whooping and playing flutes..
things got more confusing and vaporous and late night mushy. plus the dubstep bass kept it weird.

3am Gabe Mindell came over after the last Yellow Swans show on saturday night and jammed a bit with me and eric. a little while later we got some late night after-hours party people in there, but i don't know if our mellow ambient vibes suited their post-bar party vibes. or maybe it was perfect. i couldn't tell, i was really tired. I remember Kelvin and I making a loop out of him whistling, but it was mostly wind noise. At some point, Tom Blood approached the Dome. I played until i couldn't open my eyes or move my hands

430am Tom Blood and Andy Brown unexpected combo jam that went from around 430am until around 830am. then honey woke up and brought them some McDonalds breakfast...

i fell asleep around 730 until about 1pm sunday, in which time i think Tom and Eric and Andy finally lost steam and honey started jamming with no-one around.....

1pm sunday : Curtis brought over the Rob Van for early afternoon on sunday and proceeded to blast some crunk

3pm-ish sunday randomly, James Squeaky came and did a set. a refreshing dose of tape noise to clear the ambient pallet. nice.
then eric and honey and i jammed and finally started taking things apart around 430pm........the whole thing was pretty awesome.......
Garrick's Stag Hare project is something i cannot recommend highly enough. super deep chant/chimes/swells from downtown city life SLC hyphy. He was laying it down heavy off and on throughout the event. Such a kind dude. It was nice to meet him and hang out. I'm mastering his new record right now, and it will probably come out on A.Star (a little label his homies run as a collective)

some kids hitch-hiked all the way from Eugene to be there. They stayed up the entire time. Me, I crashed out of exhaustion around 7am Sunday and woke up and got back in the zone around 2pm for the last few hours of madness. All-in-all a fun, exhausting mellow zone. It was fun building the geo-dome. now if i ever end up going to that nasty cyber-tribal festival in the desert i will have both the dome building and the MIDI skills to impress all of the naked 'freaks'....

Next up: the White Rainbow, Tussle, Cluster show in SF that's coming up in a couple weeks.....

oh yeah, and did you see honey in the paper?

24 Hour Concert & Vibe Zone_May 03, 2008! from Audio Dregs Recordings on Vimeo.

24 Hour Concert Vibe Zone & Double Record Release Party: featuring Strategy and The Eternal Now Jamm Squad PDX

24 hours: May 3rd 5 pm until Sunday May 4th 5 pm

@ Hippodrome,
SE 3rd behind Office Depot, below Rotture, used to be called Loveland, Meow Meow, etc)
free admission,
all ages,
all night.
bring a cushion!

This 24 hour long concert will have no breaks in music, and will take place inside an installed vibe zone at The Hippodrome. There will be psychedelic projections and ambient tone bursts from the largest Jamm Squad in Portland psychedelic history (featuring members of White Rainbow, Valet, E*Rock, Strategy, Rob Walmart, Dark Yoga, Jackie-O Motherfucker, and 71,000,000 other local drone/psychedelic/ambient bands TBA...)
This concert/installation is also a celebration of the new collection of ambient recordings by Strategy, entitled Music for Lamping (Audio Dregs Recordings) as well the release of Ambient Not Not Ambient compilation (Audio Dregs Recordings) which features such local musicians as White Rainbow (as heard in this clip), Valet, Yellow Swans, Grouper, E*Rock and Smoke & Mirrors .

dudes, i have to announce this very last-minute Little Wings show that I had a small hand in putting together at the co-operative, collectively-run-and-owned vintage/retro/altered clothing (and record/tape/CD) store Rad Summer this Sunday, April 6th 2008. Please come out and tell a friend!

A RARE NORTHWEST PERFORMANCE BY
LITTLE WINGS

SUNDAY APRIL 6TH 2008
@
RAD SUMMER

SE Division and 36th, next to the lizard shop
Portland Oregon

7 PMish, early sunday show vibe
FREE/DONATIONS
ALL AGES
bring your own/ some snacks provided

more info on little wings:
little wings is the band name under which mysterious artist/poet/dancer/performer KYLE FIELD (aka Uncle Kritz, Dr Krunch, Kaisle Feeled etc) plays and records. He is often considered as either "a father/uncle/cousin-figure", "a founding/influential member of" or "a deep influence on" various separate-but-related micro-cultures of contemporary underground avant-folk/punk music, including the K Records/Marriage/States Rights northwest 'scene', The 'New Energy/Nu Energee Movement', the 'Freaky-Folky' trend of 2002-2006, etc etc.....
Little Wings was even the focus of a 2004 amateur documentary entitled WISE OLD LITTLE BOY, more info on which can be found HERE...

Field is also an extremely accomplished visual artist, with gallery representation across the globe. many many images of his art can be found at his art siteKYLEDRAWS.COM

several albums of material under the group name 'little wings' have been released by various independent record labels, both in the USA and abroad, dating back almost a decade:

a brief discography:
the early years: (1998-2000ish)
1999 wonder city CD (the knw-yr-own re-issued it in 2002ish)
2000 discover worlds of wonder CD (later re-issued on K records around 2002 or 2003)

the K Records era: (2001ish to 2006ish)
2001 wonderue CD/LP
2002 light green leaves CD/LP/Cassette
2003 Harvest Joy LP
2004 Magic Wand CD/LP
2005 Grow CD
also various 7 inch singles, cassettes, cd's on K records, States Rights Records and other labels

the RAD RECORDS era (late 2006-present)
2007 SOFT POW'R CD/LP
2007 small town nut SKATEBOARD
2008 BEGULLS ON THE BEACH CD/LP
(RAD is Kyle's own imprint which he runs and manages. RAD is manufactured and distributed by Marriage Records of Portland, Oregon)

more info on Little Wings, including song samples can be found at http://marriagerecs.com/rad/rad.html

Kyle is one of my deepest, oldest homies. We've played a lot of music together over the years and its always a complete delight and pleasure when he graces us with his presence up here in the Northwest. He is a very funny, bright, talented, brilliant light of a man, and none who attend this special event will leave disappointed. So please come out!

legendary 'krautrock'/'kosmische music' pioneers CLUSTER are touring throughout california in May, playing in LA, Big Sur, Santa Cruz and San Francisco! I'm totally psyched for these shows and triple double extra infinity psyched that i have the honor of opening up for these guys in San Francisco (5/25/08)....also playing these gigs are a slew of killer west coast trippers: Tussle, Arp, Jonhas Reinhart, Wooden Shjips, Ariel Pink, Howlin' Rain etc etc....

there is extensively informative micro-site built just for this tour HERE with info on cluster, the shows, the opening bands, the venues, accommodations for travels to the shows, etc etc....go check it out!!!!!

visual proof of harsh realities

video proof that it wasn't nearly as harsh as the photo would indicate. actually, it was really really fun (thanks Sonia from comments!)

White Rainbow Adam Forkner Pauly Shore Interview from analogmonkey.tv on Vimeo.
i sorta feel bad i wasn't more OMG OMG ITS PAULY SHORE...he caught me off guard. i feel like i might have been a little rude to him...SORRY PAUL!!! i should have given you a better 'in' to make some more cool jokes with me....regardless, thanks for making my day/week/month/year/life! i hope you're cool we put this up on the internets...
i was getting interviewed by mike from analogmonkey (who are a rad team of people making a documentary about the tour we were just on)...check out more awesome music footage (including a KILLLER valet live set in HD) on their vimeo and/or their youtube

thanks for catching this special moment, mike!

and it's true, we did meet john norris earlier in the tour (and again at sxsw!), and he is a very nice, very cool dude.

just back from tour....shit was long and fun and exhausting....

But the piste de résistance had to be the encore return. After Forkner, sounding “like Larry the Cable Guy”, egged the crowd into shouting for Cox’s return, the whole group returned shirtless – including drummer Stephanie Macksey and bassist Honey Owens (of first opener, Valet), and Owens wasn’t wearing even wearing a bra (“when you’re pushing forty, you just gotta let it all hang out” – she did then tie her shirt’s arms around her neck, covering herself by wearing it like an apron). Yes, you got to see Cox’s ultra-skinny torso, but he was anything but ashamed, crashing guitars with Forkner and wailing on an unfamiliar new number, going so far as to get on his knees at the front of the stage and play to the light of a fan’s encore flame. Not the show you’d expect, not a show you’d forget…

oh the memories.......

the rad new homie Sloan put up the valet and white rainbow sets from athens and atlanta on his awesome blog in mp3 and FLAC formats...check it out http://southernshelter.com

now off to boston in the fixed up cryptovan and hopefully not too much snow!

tour has been fucking crazy. van started fucking up around DC on thursday, we drove to baltimore got it looked at on friday, they couldnt fix it so we got a rental and drove to phil, borrowed a bunch of gear last minute, played a show, hung out, woke up, drove it back to baltimore, our van still not fixed, got a bigger rental, drove to new york, pulled up to mercury lounge at 830 on saturday, got a ticket for talking on the cell phone while trying to park the rental, met john norris of mtv news ?!?!?!, somehow lost the ticket in all the rock and roll fracas sunday was a show in brooklyn big pro place, not that packed, oscar night.... the car i was in on the way to the bar afterwards got pulled over for no headlight/me being in the car, keyboardist almost broke his ankle and had to go to a doctor the next morning, now on crutches. kristin and stephanie went back to baltimore to return the rental and get the van today then drove to phili to pick up the pedals honey left at the club friday night..... on monday honey brad and i hopped a ride with a film crew to play at vassar, left at 3pm got back at 3am. tomorrow we are supposed to go to boston and then on to montreal and so forth, but there is a huge blizzard scheduled to hit boston tomorrow, so we'll see.....
the white rainbow sets have been fun, its hard to get all calm and focused for my shows while in such a constant rush...whiskey has helped a bit. honey's valet sets with brian and bradford are seriously the best valet sets i have ever seen and heard. the drums and samples and keyboards bringing added depth and undulating pulses or psychedelic blues bliss. mmmm
atlas sound sets have been pretty fun. its fun to play songs again as opposed to the straight ambient improv i do, and it seems like for the most part the audiences have liked what we add to bradford's songs. its a very interesting combo of bands on this trip for sure.
also, return of dog drugs...

Thanks Lyn!!!!!