Sonic Youth along w/ The Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon and others will be featured on the tv program ‘Best of Austin City Limits Festival 2010’ premiering Saturday June 18 at 9pm EST on Palladia.tv. Additional airings of the show throughout June are listed here
Monthly Archive for June, 2011
Lee is doing 5 very differnent dates in the coming week or so—a solo gtr performance in Bordeaux at the CAPC Museum on June 17: info here, ‘sight-unseen’, a suspended gtr performance with films by Leah Singer at Cote Court Festival, just on the edge of Paris, on June 18: info here, a fully spoken word session at the Silencio Festival in Lisbon on June 19: info here, and two dates at Sled Island Festival in Calgary–June 23–suspended gtr performance w films in a beaut old church, should be pretty great: info here, and on June 24, a free-ranging workshop or talk on extended gtr techniques, tunings ,etc. Info here. AND he continues to work completing the recordings for his album continues throughout June and early July…
Sonic Youth’s soundtrack of the French film ‘Simon Werner A Disparu’ is now available – cds and lps(with download card) are available now at our webstore and the digital download is available via Midheaven.com (song samples available here) or iTunes. The album is available in France at major retailers or via iTunes.
In Spring 2010 Sonic Youth gathered at their Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, New Jersey to watch the rushes of a new film, ‘Simon Werner a Disparu,’ by French director Fabrice Gobert. The band spent the following few weeks recording music which was then shaped to fit the various scenes of the film. For this release it was decided to do more than present the abbreviated clips of music used in the film. Instead the band went back to the original tapes and re-organized the various pieces; sometimes montaging multiple tracks together, other times extending cues into new sonic realms.
SYR 9 – SIMON WERNER A DISPARU
1- Thème de Jérémie
2- Alice et Simon
3- Les Anges au piano
4- Chez Yves (Alice et Clara)
5- Jean-Baptiste à la fenêtre
6- Thème de Laetitia
7- Escapades
8- La Cabane au Zodiac
9- Dans les bois / M. Rabier
10- Jean-Baptiste et Laetitia
11- Thème de Simon
12- Au Café
13- Thème d’Alice – cd bonus track + available as download w/ vinyl.
The film ‘Simon Werner a Disparu’ is available in France on DVD with a bonus preview CD featuring Sonic Youth’s music from the film.
Track list as follows:
1. M. Rabier (aspect)
2. Jean-Baptiste à la fenêtre (aspect)
3. Alice et Clara (aspect)
4. Thème de Jérémie (aspect)
5. Thème de Simon
A trailer to the film ‘Simon Werner a Disparu’ here
Thurston Moore will appear at Wilco’s Solid sound Festival. The festival takes place June 24 + 25 + 26.
Thurston will perform twice, a solo set and with Pillow Wand, a duo with Nels Cline.
Sonic Youth gear including – a Rhythm Ace drum machine, a custom-made mixer used by Kim onstage, a glockenspiel, a xylophone that was used on daydream nation and an Ibanez Roadmaster guitar are up for charity auction today.
100% of the funds from the auctions will benefit ShelterboxUSA.org to provide immediate shelter and necessities to the homeless tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan and elsewhere.