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HOUSE OF VANS BROOKLYN | PARADOX: A VISUAL EXPERIENCE BY ABBY PORTNER

Last Friday, Abby Portner transformed House Of Vans Brooklyn into a funhouse-like experience with her newest immersive art piece 'Paradox'. The night was further brought to life by intense haunting and angelic recordings performed by Zola Jesus and Yves Tumor. Check out our favorite moments from the illusive night. 

📷: Laura June Kirsch

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Campfire Songs - Campfire Songs

What’s it sound like?

Avantgarde campfire sing-along

Thoughts

An album to get lost in and wonderful introduction to the band. Animal Collective’s early trademark strummed guitars and chant like vocals are the core of the album. The sound is defined by it's lo-fi recording technique that somehow provides both a boxed in but outside. An ode to the human experience of singing together, it definitely has the effect of transporting you to the moment.

I'd like to include this as part of my piece about our 'desire to be outside' and how self mythology strives for this.  

More Info

https://www.discogs.com/Campfire-Songs-Campfire-Songs/release/475021

Listen!

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4xG5kFHrC0

Spotify

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John Cale s’emmerde et le fait savoir

John Cale vient tout juste de sortir un nouveau morceau clipé. Lazy Day est son nom et comme son titre l’indique, on y voit l’ex-Velvet Underground vivre des jours tranquilles. Un peu trop trop tranquille même, tant il a l’air de s’emmerder au soleil.

Alors que tout le monde attend de se prendre en pleine face la seconde vague virale dans un automne pluvieux, John Cale prend un bain de soleil, passe son temps à lancer des billes, contempler les animaux sauvages, jouer aux petits soldats et aux grenouilles sauteuses… On est heureux pour lui. Mais on aurait été encore plus heureux si on n’avait pas l’impression d’être en face d’un gros foutage de gueule.  Le clip réalisé par Abby Portner (sœur de David Portner d’Animal Collective) ne vole pas très haut, tout comme le morceau d’une grande pauvreté mélodique. John Cale a fait mieux. On préféra donc s’affliger quelques Vintage Violence en réécoutant Songs For Drella composé en compagnie de Lou Reed et qui fête son trentième anniversaire cette année.

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A few days ago Avey Tare released a new song called “Wake My Door”, along with a stunning music video courtesy of his sister, Abby Portner. “Wake My Door” is a one-off single that you can buy from Tare's Bandcamp page for whatever price you want, and all the proceeds with be donated to Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, a nonprofit that provides assistance to struggling musicians. “Wake My Door” is a languid psych-pop lullaby that bounces blissfully along a choppy organ rhythm, a multitude of analog synth textures, and some of the most angelic singing I’ve heard from Tare in years. Aside from his effect-laden opening yelp, Tare’s singing is sweet and subdued, occasionally so weightless that the reverb seems to almost tear it apart. Roughly halfway through the song Tare’s voice retreats, the synths continue to gradually swell with intensity, and snatches of additional percussion drop into the mix periodically.

Tare’s double-tracked vocals, immediately reminiscent of Panda Bear’s on “Boys Latin”, return to the fold and provide an infectious polyrhythm alongside the now thrashing organ chords. After Tare’s vocals fade from the mix a second time everything else in the mix begins to grind to a gradually halt behind them, with a lone synth sputtering erratically in the background for a few seconds before fading out with everything else. It’s a beautiful synth composition that’s well within Tare’s wheelhouse, but true to form it’s hardly a simple retread of something that’s come before. Although it’s one of the stronger Tare songs from the last several years, and the vocals might be somewhat telling, I wouldn’t necessarily peg “Wake My Door” as anything to expect the next Animal Collective or Avey Tare records to sound like. But as a standalone song for a great cause, “Wake My Door” is a wonderful surprise.

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You like animal collective? Their early work was a little too Psychedelic pop-ey for my taste. But when Live at 9:30 came out in '15, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. theyve been compared to Abby Portner, but I think they have a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. Yes, it is! In '04, animal collective released this; sung tongs!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Leaf House". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself. Hey, Paul! Try winning a rabbit now, you fuckin' stupid bastard!!!!

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AVEY TARE - “Wake My Door”, new single via Domino.

Video by Abby Portner

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UNDER THE RADAR: Watch Animal Collective’s Video for New Song “Strung With Everything”

UNDER THE RADAR: Watch Animal Collective’s Video for New Song “Strung With Everything”

UNDER THE RADAR: Watch Animal Collective’s Video for New Song “Strung With Everything” Animal Collective are back with another new song from Time Skiffs, which is out February 4 via Domino. The new single “Strung With Everything” comes with a new video directed by Avey Tare’s sister Abby Portner. .pitchfork

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Video: Animal Collective - “Strung With Everything”

Photo courtesy of Hisham Akira Bharoocha

Time Skiffs, the forthcoming album from Animal Collective, is shaping up to be something special, and not just because it’s got all of the animals on board this time around with Panda Bear rejoining Avey Tare, Deakin, and Geologist in their weirded out avant-pop merry making, but because every single that they’ve set forth before us in the stoner-friendly meander “Prester John” and the Scott Walker-as-reimagined-through-the-Beach Boys delight of “Walker” have been some of the band’s most rewarding work since rejecting immediacy in their post-Post Merrieweather Pavillion years. Add “Strung With Everything” to the bunch, as this one again adds weight behind AnCo coming into their own as a jam band on their own terms without disregarding their freak-folk roots of early on. The listen is attached to a colorfully symbolic silhouette video directed by Avey Tare’s sister Abby Portner. Get “Strung” up below...

Animal Collective’s Time Skiffs will be released February 4th on Domino Records.

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art by abby portner

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Animal Collective’s Avey Tare Announces New Album Cows on Hourglass Pond, Shares Song: Listen

Spoil me - I'm a DJ and I'm cute!

New track “Saturdays (Again)” arrives with a music video directed by Avey Tare’s sister Abby Portner [Read More ...]

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AVEY TARE : NOUVEAU SINGLE "TAKEN BOY" 

Après la récente annonce de la sortie de son album, Cows On Hourglass Pond, disponible le 22 mars chez Domino, AveyTare, alias Dave Portner d’Animal Collective, en dévoile aujourd’hui un nouvel extrait « Taken Boy ».

La tournée US d’Avey Tare débutera juste avant la sortie de Cows On Hourglass Pond, au festival Big Ears à Knoxville, TN. Avey Tare se produira ensuite sur la côte Est, puis sur la côte Ouest et finira la tournée en Floride. Retrouvez toutes les dates ci-dessous, les billets sont disponibles sur son site :  http://aveytare.com

Cows On Hourglass Pond a été enregistré entre janvier et mars 2018 par Dave Portner au Laughing Gas à Asheville, en Caroline du Nord, sur un multipiste analogique Tascam 48. L’album a été mixé par Adam McDaniel et Dave Portner aux studios Drop of Sun à Asheville.

Regardez la vidéo de son précédent single “Saturdays (Again)” réalisée par Abby Portner.

Cows On Hourglass Pond fait suite à Eucalyptus sorti en 2017 et à l’album visuel Tangerine Reef sorti en 2018, fruit de la collaboration entre Animal Collective et Coral Morphologic (duo d’artiste et scientifique pionnier sur la macro vidéographie des coraux).

Cows on Hourglass Pond est dès à présent disponible à la précommande sur le store d’Animal Collective aux formats CD et Deluxe LP + 10”. Ce dernier est composé d’un pressage unique de l’album sur un vinyle 180 gram heavyweight et d’un 10’’ en édition limitée contenant deux titres bonus “Tipped in Hugs” b/w “Dog Says Goodbye.” 

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Zola Jesus and Yves Tumor will be performing at House of Vans on February 23 as part of an immersive installation by visual artist Abby Portner titled Paradox. Portner, who did visuals for John Cale's Velvet Underground 50th Anniversary shows last year, will turn House of Vans into a funhouse-like experience.

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NYC! Join us on February 23rd at 7PM for the unveiling of Abby Portner's newest immersive art piece 'Paradox'. The night will also include live music by Zola Jesus and Yves Tumor to further accentuate Portner’s vision. Free RSVP: http://bit.ly/2HjSWJu

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Video: Animal Collective - “Walker”

Time Skiffs, the 11th studio effort from Animal Collective, is one of the early good things to look forward in 2022, with the experimental art-pop group returning in full with Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Deakin, and Geologist all signed on for the effort following a Panda-less album in 2016′s Painted Shut. The band have always been outliers in everything they do, and most especially when there’s a unified front among the Animals, they can be relied on to offer up a strange, oozy fermentation of musical singularity in their sound which we most definitely heard in the pseudo-stoner jam turn that was its lead single “Prester John”.

“Walker”, its latest advanced single, bubbles back into AnCo’s sun-tilted sway of avant Beach Boys reverence in its harmony breeze and seashell percussion despite being a homage in spirit to that of Scott Walker and his dark narrows as a songwriter. “Going through the motions / Put the baggage down / Going to resign and grieve,” Panda Bear casts some shadows through the light. Avey Tare co-directed the track’s music video with his sister Abby Portner, camouflaging each members against the panels of the album’s artwork motif. Listen and watch it below...

Animal Collective’s Time Skiffs will be released February 4th on Domino Records.