UNWED SAILOR (Seattle, US / Burnt Toast Vinyl) zagra koncert w Poznaniu, 18.10.2006

# Unwed Sailor (Seattle, US / Burnt Toast Vinyl)
18.10.06 Poznań, @ Eskulap

koncert! g.21, bilet:15 PLN
info: dawid@ladoabc.com

About Unwed Sailor
Born in Seattle in 1998 at the tender age of intent, Unwed Sailor is helmed by Oklahoma-born songwriter Johnathon Ford. The basis for the instrumental project came into being while Ford was still writing with Seattle luminaries Roadside Monument. Pulling towards a bass guitar-oriented sound, the songs he had begun to craft did not fully feel right for Roadside Monument, thus the unbeknownst predestined forming of Unwed Sailor. Not aiming for Unwed Sailor to fall into the regular confines of a typical band, Ford’s ever evolving cast and crew has been tirelessly composed over the years of good friends and company. The band has since been relocated and based out of cities across the United States, including Chicago, New York, Jackson MS, and most recently Little Rock, AR. With over 14 US tours and four in Europe, the band has traveled almost as much as it has evolved.

Since their 1998 debut release, Firecracker, the band has strived to endeavor side door studies into the pictures behind sound, opening multiple avenues of instrumental excavation on their first full-length, The Faithful Anchor. These studies also produced two short film soundtracks for independent film maker Chris Bennett - Stateless (a musical collaboration with Early Day Miners), and For Jonathan, a multi-genre compilation featuring artists as varied as The Album Leaf and Mikael Jorgensen to Jessica Bailiff and Her Space Holiday.

In 2003, the shape of Unwed Sailor changed dramatically as the sound became less a standard suite of songs, developing instead into a growing creature, cinematically-operated and tell-tale both in its sonic and packaged presentation. The resulting album was recorded and released as The Marionette and the Music Box; music set to tell the painted story of a lonely little marionette in search of a cherished, lost music box. Describing the picturesque brushes and swells of a rather unique orchestra, Unwed Sailor composed pieces as suited for concert halls as they are the hot, impassioned stages of dark night clubs from city to city. As a live performance, the music is only more chaotic in its finely-tuned restraints. Here audiences are treated to a powerful performance, played out as though on the screen; they walk away from the shows as though from a theater, excited and curious about the world again. On stage, Unwed Sailor as people melt away, becoming nobody and everybody at the same time; a two hearted octopus with every arm working twice as hard.

2006 will see the band with two brand new full length recordings as well as an EP in between, all of which will be recorded and released in between stretches on the lonesome, always stretching road.