Campfire Sounds

Jul 15, 2005 - Jul 16, 2005
Wave Farm + WGXC Acra Studio

5662 Route 23 | Acra, NY 12405 | 518-622-2598
http://wavefarm.org/

This weekend long event featured avant folk performances from:

FEATHERS | THE DUST DIVE | IN GOWAN RING | NICK CASTRO | MATT VALENTINE + ERIKA ELDER MEDICINE SHOW | LATITUDE/LONGITUDE | SAMARA LUBELSKI | DJ MATT MIKAS | DJ MIKEY IQ | BUNNYBRAINS | MIKE WEXLER | DJ TOM ROE | CHRISTINA CARTER + GOWN
Free Admission, $15 Camping Fee
Untitled Document
Images from Campfire Sounds

  Friday July 15, 2005
Nick Castro
In Gowan Ring
  Friday July 15, 2005
Christina Carter + Gown
  Saturday July 16, 2005
Latitude/Longitude.
  Saturday July 16, 2005
Bunnybrains
  Saturday July 16, 2005
  Saturday July 16, 2005
  Saturday July 16, 2005
Mike Wexler
  Saturday July 16, 2005
The Matt Valentine + Erika Elder Medicine Show
Twice Aquarian Matt "mv" Valentine is a guitarist, writer, and blue-collar hollerer as well as being the founder/director/flint of The Tower Recordings. Very active in the subterranean community throughout the northeast United States, he is heavily involved in a personal musical fabric that ties free blues/free jazz, minimalism, psychedelic folk/rock, and the avant garde, into a unique and highly individual creation that is instantly recognized as his own music. Usually accompanying him is artist, poet, filmmaker, and multi-instrumentalist Erika Elder, forming The MV/EE Medicine Show. Together they established their grassroots label Child of Microtones dedicated to archiving contemporary ragas, country blues, and free-thinking happenings that the two have long been associated with, presenting them to the public in small handmade pressings of the highest quality form.

Samara Lubelski
Samara is a native New Yorker who grew up in the haze of artist infestation of Soho. She has been involved with various projects ever since she was allowed to cross the street on her own for an egg cream and spilled it on John Cage. Through the time of playing in various groups she has compiled an impressive resume that covers myriad of genres such as her work with the avant/psych/folk outfit of Hall Of Fame into the lair of those bohemian German musos Metabolismus and onto the indie rock interpretations of The Sonora Pine with some serious treks into the world of The Tower Recordings and off world with Jackie O Motherfucker, to name just a few.

  Saturday July 16, 2005
The Matt Valentine + Erika Elder Medicine Show
Samara Lubelski
  Saturday July 16, 2005
Feathers
  Saturday July 16, 2005
The Dust Dive
Experimental campfire music . . . muddy-water trances . . . parking-lot anthems . . . .
The Dust Dive employs Magnus chord organ, violin, samples, ambient field recordings, guitar, and three vocalists to create unusual sound-visions that have been described as "urban pastoral," "ghostly," "mesmerizing," "bittersweet," "psychedelic," and quirkily sincere "like a youth recital." As a cerebral bonus, their lyrics borrow from ill American landscapes, subterranean teenage hangs, photography, lost birds, lost love and running away.