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Zachary Cale, Megafortress, Matt Kivel
Oct 02, 2015 - Oct 03, 2015
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Live webcast with three performers, rebroadcast on 90.7-FM the next day at the same time. Zachary Cale is a NYC based songwriter/musician originally hailing from the small southern town of Enon, Louisiana. His music ranges from lyrically driven balladry over American Primitive inspired guitar playing to Cosmic Country music and cerebral folk rock to darker torch songs with Western themes. Cale has played hundreds of shows traversing both the US and EU sharing stages with Sharon Van Etten, Robyn Hitchcock, Neko Case, Six Organs of Admittance, Deer Tick, Ryley Walker, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Pratt, The Black Swans, War on Drugs, Steve Gunn, Villagers, Hiss Golden Messenger, Foxygen, Wooden Wand, Michael Chapman, William Tyler, Chris Forsyth, Angel Olsen, Dan Melchior, and many others.
Duskland is Cale’s 5th album under his own name, an album that employs full band arrangements and western motifs to further chronicle Cale’s haunted vision of Americana. The album will be released August 7th 2015 via No Quarter.
Megafortress is the music of Hudson resident Bill Gillim. Pitchfork said of the 2014 album, Believer, “For all the album’s well chilled minimalism, Gillim’s voice is the most immediately striking thing about Believer. It’s virtuosic, in its own way; his lyrics are delivered in neat, easily graspable phrases and with piercing plainness, but the notes are pure. He’s not trying to confound or mystify, even though his range can plunge from heavenly falsetto to tormented moan.”
Los Angeles-based songwriter Matt Kivel got his start working as a player in various bands during the first decade of the 2000s. Around 2013, Kivel quit playing with other bands to focus on his solo material. The first evidence of his work came in the form of some limited-run cassettes, but he truly came into his own with 2013’s full-length album Double Exposure, released on the Olde English Spelling Bee (Julian Lynch, Ducktails) label. Kivel’s solo work took a decidedly more subdued path than his previous affiliations, with shimmering ambient synths meeting muted acoustic songwriting and understated vocals. Second album Days of Being Wild, recorded with Palace Brothers member Paul Oldham over the course of the previous summer, saw release on the Woodsist label in 2014.