Re: GIG info Juana Molina/Bill and Rick Walker Santa Cruz RIO THEATRE 2/14 VALENTINE's DAY

[Kevin Spears <kalimbaman7@yahoo.com>]

Rick and Bill,  "Congratumalations" if there were such a word !!   I would 
absolutely love to be there to witness it......Tell us how it 
went.........-Kevin

Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

>He y'all,
>
>Bill and I are proud to announce that we will be opening for the
>wonderful Argentinan looper/singersongwriter  *Juana Molina* on 
>*Valentines
>Day * at the *Rio Theatre *in *Santa Cruz, California*,  next *Saturday, 
>2/14*
>
>I saw Juana the first time opening for the Swedish singer/songwriter, 
>Jose Gonzalez
>in San Francisco and then drove up there again to see her (and that's a 
>3 hour round trip
>for us) to see her headling Yoshi's in SF.
>
>She's really amazing.........combining acoustic guitar and beautiful 
>whimsical songs with
>really unusual synthesizer and found sound elements woven in to make a 
>very magical effect.
>She uses live looping extensively in her set.  I love her music so am 
>very excited for
>the chance to play there and to meet her.
>
>In Bill's project,  *New Delta*,  we will both be mining the territory 
>that we began mining at the Y2K8 loofestival
>combing stylistic elements of harmony, melody and rhythm from the Nile 
>Delta,
>the Ganges Delta,  the Yantzte Delta and the Mississippi Delta with 
>modern electronic
>psychedelic sensibilities.
>
>If you didn't catch that performance,   please come check us out.
>Bill's doing just beautiful stuff on lap steel guitar with his LP-1 
>firmly in control
>and I'll be doing all kinds of , hopefully tasetful, ,craziness to 
>accompany him.
>
>Please come up and say hi if you can make it.   And Bay Area loopers,   
>this one really is
>worth the drive.  You'll thank me if you make it.
>