Living Hour with Crystal Eyes and Bad Bodies
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Saturday September 30, 2023
Doors: 8:00pm / Music 9:00pm
Admission: $15.00 advance at www.showpass.com
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
Living Hour
Living Hour is Sam Sarty, Gilad Carroll, Adam Soloway, and Brett Ticzon. Someday Is Today, the group’s third full-length effort, features contributions from three producers: Melina Duterte (Jay Som, Chastity Belt), Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail), and Samur Khouja (Cate le Bon, Regina Spektor).
Someday Is Today is Living Hour at their most pensive and longing. It was recorded over seven straight days during the depths of a Manitoba winter, with the band cocooned in sounds as the temperature hit -30 outside. “It’s a grind, and it’s incredibly challenging in a frustratingly beautiful kinda way,” Sarty says of their local environment. “It pushes you to keep going, to keep finding glimmers to move forward. A silver piece of wrapper sticking out a
snowbank becomes your altar. The big grey sky gets me giddy.”
Sam Sarty’s lyrics – pulled from journals, iPhone notes, and napkin scribbles – come suffused with reflections on disassociation, human interactions with technology, and a poignant contemplation of life in liminal spaces.
The band’s sound grows to warm and earthy new perimeters on Someday Is Today with lush and generous instrumentation. The album thrives by keeping enough connection across its sonic and thematic palettes to feel like one cohesive world. The songs on Someday Is Today feel bound by something bigger than themselves; an energy that flourished in spite of it all, a human connection that grips just strongly enough even when pushed to its frayed, unreachable extremes.
https://www.livinghourband.com/
https://www.instagram.com/livinghour/
https://www.facebook.com/Livinghourband/
Crystal Eyes
CRYSTAL EYES are an Indie dream rock band with touchstones of psych, shoegaze, 60’s pop and 90’s grunge. Led by vocalist/guitarist Erin Jenkins, the band features warm effect-drenched guitar and synth, at times layered or alternately stripped down. Their early recordings are defined by live off the floor performances and the analogue recording techniques of producer/musician Chris Dadge (Chad van Gaalen, Alvvays, Lab Coast).
Drawing on a vast array of musical influences, landscapes and collaborations, Crystal Eyes have thrived in a diverse and supportive cross-Canadian music scene, honing their live show through multiple tours and as consistent hometown favourites. In 2019, they released Radical Softness, a split with Edmonton’s Marlaena Moore, and traveled to Montreal’s Breakglass Studios to record their second full-length album, produced by Andrew Woods (The Operators) and mixed by Mark Lawson (The Arcade Fire)
https://www.crystaleyestheband.com/
https://crystaleyesband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/crystaleyestheband/
https://www.facebook.com/crystaleyestheband
Bad Bodies
This Calgary soul and R&B four-piece arrives like a summer breeze, with the disarmingly sweet and plaintive vocals of frontperson Tomi Nu set adrift on the chill vibes of simple melodies and subtle structure. It’s sublime, immersive and anything but “bad.” – https://www.sledisland.com/2023/bad-bodies
https://badbodies.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bad.bodies/
*This event takes place on the territory of the Blackfoot and the people of Treaty 7 Region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai, the Tsuu T’ina and the Stoney Nakoda First Nations. Calgary is also home to the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
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