Seriously, Look at this Compilation

summer tour

so i’m touring this summer, pretty extensively. most of the tour will be with the really great band, Stubborn Tiny Lights VS. Clustering Darkness Forever, ok? Here are our projected dates – if you are in one of these places, we would love to play a show for you!

June 07 Greensboro, NC

June 08 Charlotte, NC

June 09 Greeneville, SC

June 10 Atlanta, GA

June 11 Memphis, TN / Huntsville, AL

June 12 Memphis, TN

June 13 Fayetteville/Hot Springs, AR

June 14 St. Louis, MO

June 15 Kansas City, MO

June 16 Lincoln, NE (AW Joins Stubborn Tiny Lights)

June 17 Sioux City, IA

June 18 Cedar Falls, IA

June 19 Minneapolis, MN

June 20 Madison, WI

June 21 Chicago, IL

June 22 Bloomington/Ft. Wayne, IN

June 23 Cincinatti, OH

June 24 Louisville, KY

June 25 Nashville, TN

June 26 St. Louis, MO

June 27 Joplin, MO

June 28 Tulsa, OK

June 29 Denton, TX

June 30 Houston, TX

July 01 Austin, TX

July 02 Day Off

July 03 Albuquerque, NM

July 04 Flagstaff, Arizona or Phoenix

July 05 Los Angeles, CA

July 06 San Francisco, CA

July 07 Day Off

July 08 Eugene, Oregon

July 09 Portland, Oregon

July 10 Seattle, Washington

July 11 Boise, Idaho

July 12 Salt Lake City, Utah

July 13 Boulder, CO

July 14 Lawrence, Kansas

July 15 Kansas City, Kansas

July 16 Des Moines, IA

July 17 Iowa City, IA

July 18 Cedar Falls, IA

July 19 – 22 – Points in Between Iowa & North Carolina!

update: march

wow. it’s been a while since i’ve updated this thing. life has been busy & taken over.

my album is still out, and you can still check it out here and here. if you feel moved to pick it up, please do so, full spectrum would greatly appreciate it.

the album is in rotation at a few radio stations. if you’d want to call and request it, that would be cool. or if you want to just listen and wait for it to come on, that’s cool too, but i don’t recommend that method. it’s at the following radio stations:

WUAG – Greensboro, NC

WQFS – Greensboro, NC

WXYC – Chapel Hill, NC

KTRU – Houston, TX

WNYU – New York, NY

stillstream.com – Online

WBMR – Boston, MA

I’ve been working on a piece that I think is pretty interesting – a drone piece for flexible instrumentation. It’s going to be performed March 22nd in Greensboro, and April 30th in Austin, TX as part of the FuseBox Festival. I’m really looking forward to these performances. The groups will be incredibly different and diverse, and I think we’ll get two great, but totally different pieces. Other than these two performances, I’m not doing too much in the way of performing. Recent shows around town have been solo banjo shows. I’ve worked up some covers and a few original banjo songs, just to do something totally different. I felt the need to take some time off from performing my music, in order to focus on the direction I want to go to next.

I haven’t been totally taking a break, though. I’m working on a release for Future Recordings. This is close to done, and I’m excited about this one. It’s two pieces, and will be released on cassette. I also recorded a collaborative album with Brian John Mitchell this past week. We’ll see what happens with that. Also being released soon is a 4-way split on Eric Hall’s Echolocation Records. It’s a great line-up: ll (Eric Hall & Matt Dill), Michael Vallera, & Noose of Laurels. This one should see the light of day in a next few months.

video from cs13

just found this video from a recent show in Cincinnati. the only light is from my computer and my ebow. i think it’s pretty cool.

new album now available!

i am really happy and excited to say that, after a long wait, my new album, A Great Southern City, is available. i’ve been working on the album since the summer, and we’ve been working on it’s release since october, and i think it shows. i’m very excited to share the music with everyone. we want to give you guys options for purchasing the album, so here’s what we’ve set up.

you can buy physical copies of the album from our brand new full spectrum website here

you will be able to buy a cheaper digital version at this bandcamp site we’ve set up here

and in a couple of weeks, it should be available via cd baby, if that’s a better option for you. please pick it up if you can, i want you to hear this music.

wichita, ks

so after a brief rest on new year’s day, we’re back on the road again. the first show of the new year was last night at Gypsy Coffee in Tulsa. I have to say that Tulsa is a much better place than Oklahoma City. There are actually people there, believe it or not. Coffee shops are always a bit peculiar for me to play. One might think it would work well, since my music is essentially ambient music, but it really doesn’t. There is too much extraneous sound for my music to really work; people on dates, espresso machines, porcelain clinking, etc. The moments within the music are lost because the details aren’t there among the noise. But I always learn more about the piece when I’m performing in a space that’s not quite optimal. i also got paid with a coffee mug, rather than money. i’m into that.

we drove in snow on the way to wichita. i like driving through the snow. it removes the human element of the world a little bit. i feel that after this, it’ll only get colder. lincoln, nebraska tomorrow. but we press on, wearing many layers of clothing. the cold isn’t like this in the south.

live set online, & oxford, ms

you can check out my set from Radio Greensboro a couple of weeks ago here: http://radiogreensboro.tumblr.com/post/286520582/andrew-weathers-12-06-09

rad. the shows so far have been going well. Full of friendly people, and good times. playing in a converted warehouse last night in Huntsville, AL. I think more buildings need to be revived like that. It makes for such a beautiful environment. Today we drove to Oxford, MS, passing the NASA space museum and a tree full of shoes. I’m looking forward to playing tonight. This is a nice town. The home of William Faulkner.

wintour

so now comes the best part. here is where we cram all of the equipment, clothes and non-perishable food i’ve piled in my living room into the car. leaving tomorrow morning, and we’ll be gone for exactly a month. i’m hitting a lot of places i haven’t been to since last year, so come out if you can, and spread the word!

December 17th – WonderRoot – Atlanta, GA

December 18th – U*Space Gallery – Atlanta, GA

December 19th – Flying Monkey Arts – Huntsville, AL

December 20th – U of MIss – Nutt Auditorium – Oxford, MS

December 21st – One to One Studios – Jackson, MS

December 22nd – Open Ears at Blue Nile – New Orleans, LA

December 26th – The Stafford – Bryan, TX

December 28th – Club 1808 – Austin, TX

December 29th – EARLY SHOW – End of An Ear – Austin, TX

December 29th – LATE SHOW – Wake the Dead – San Marcos, TX

December 30th – Notsuoh – Houston, TX

December 31st – Super Happy Fun Land – Houston, TX

January 2nd – Gypsy Coffee House – Tulsa, OK

January 3rd – Donut Whole – Wichita, KS

January 4th – Clawfoot House – Lincoln, NE

January 5th – Fishtank Performance Studio – Kansas City, MO

January 7th – Schlafly Tap Room – St. Louis, MO

January 8th – Mixtapes! – East Moline, IL

January 9th – Swan Dive – Louisville, KY

January 10th – Contemporary Space 13 – Cincinnati, OH

January 12th – Howler’s – Pittsburgh, PA

January 13th – Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA

January 17th – Porcelain Rose Men’s Home – Greensboro, NC

compilation

i’ve got a track – autumn drone no. 4 – on this year’s silber christmas compilation. download it here

preparation

i have been reading Martin Duberman’s Black Mountain to unwind after a weekend packed with good tunes. there was a great time had at the porcelain rose, dancing and improvised sing-and-stomp-along included. i performed the new piece that i’ll be playing on this tour twice this weekend. first at legitimate business, and also on Reed Benjamin’s Radio Greensboro.

now that the semester is closing out, and the weather is getting cold, it’s time for me to get ready for this tour. i will not forget heavy socks and several pairs of long underwear. my face is all clogged up, as it has been for the past few days, but i see that being healed by orange juice and vanilla chai tea. or healed by delicious. whichever you want. anyone that listened to the interview on WUAG tonight would tell you how ridiculous my stopped nose makes me sound. anyway, having played this piece twice, there are definitely a few kinks that need to be worked out, but it’s pretty much ready to go. i’m excited about this one.

listening to willits + sakamoto’s ocean fire. during my trip to miami, i saw a sound intallation that sakamoto did at the art museum on FIU’s campus. it consisted of speakers playing into some kind of thin, horizontal membrane covered in sand. it was intended to mimic the elaborate mandalas made by buddhist monks. i saw it as a modern take, and therefore an acceleration, on the deliberate process of making a mandala. i remember watching monks make a mandala at the NC art museum as a child.

i’m still booking a couple of dates for this one. please get in touch if you think you could possibly help, or have any ideas about someone who might be able to.

Jan 1 – North TX

Jan 3 – Southern Kansas

Jan 5-6 – Kansas City, MO (Maybe)

Jan 11 – Ohio