SUNDAY MAY 22

@ THE TREEHOUSE
887 CHAMBERS ROAD
COLUMBUS, OH

DAMIEN JURADO
Damien Jurado's solo career began during the mid-1990s, with him releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, Casa Recordings. Gaining a local cult following in Seattle, he was brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records by Sunny Day Real Estate singer Jeremy Enigk. After two 7" releases ("Motorbike" and "Trampoline") Sub Pop issued his first full album, Waters Ave S. in 1997. His second album Rehearsals for Departure, released in 1999, was a relative breakthrough. Produced by Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star), Jurado's second album established him as both a singer and songwriter of great ability. He often makes use of found sound and field recording techniques, and has experimented with different forms of tape recordings. In 2000 he released Postcards and Audio Letters, a collection of found audio letters and fragments that he had found from sources such as thrift store tape players and answering machines. Also released in 2000 was Ghost of David, Jurado's bleakest and most personal sounding record to date. I Break Chairs (2002) was produced by long time friend, Pedro the Lion's David Bazan. It was his last album for Sub Pop, and was a much rockier, electric affair. After signing for the Indiana-based label Secretly Canadian, Damien Jurado reverted to his trademark folk ballad-based style, releasing five more albums: Where Shall You Take Me? (2003), On My Way To Absence, (2005) And Now That I'm In Your Shadow (2006) Caught in the Trees (2008) and Saint Bartlett (2010).

WINTER MAKES SAILORS
Sean Gardner produces pop songs full of simple, catchy melodies under the moniker Winter Makes Sailors. The songs are often of the slower breed, with a nod to both shoe-gaze greats and North-American folk heroes. Sean Gardner originally started Winter Makes Sailors as a songwriting project. But, after playing a few shows, friends started asking for more and it's become a main focus. You can catch W.M.S. solo or as a live band. When the full band is in tow, he incorporates drums, bass, keys, lap steel, violin, trumpet, synth exploration, vibraphones and guitars. Sean has been playing in the Columbus, Ohio music scene for just over a decade and touring regionally the whole time. In addition to the Winter Makes Sailors project, he currently shares the stage and studio with bandmates in Melty Melty and The Receiver. In the past year he released records from now dissolved bands Kopaz, and Bookmobile. He stays very busy. For more information on Winter Makes Sailors or other projects involving Sean Gardner, visit We Want Action. .... .... "In between blunt song introductions and his fiddling with an arsenal of rare instruments, shows of his one-man band Winter Makes Sailors are packed with the type of well-crafted tunes that make the coffee shop crowds take notice. .. Calm and humble on stage, he gives the fans their money's worth by packing his shows with brief, puncuated songs, sure to entertain most breeds of indie music fans."-Backdrop Magazine. ....

JOEL WALTER
Armed mainly with a guitar and harmonica, Central Ohio-based singer-songwriter Joel Walter examines the core of blue-collar life via portraits of broken souls worn down by hard living and the lost dreams that are often buried within them. His debut full-length album, Heart of Branches, portrays these lost souls unsparingly, illuminating their fractured desperation and frustration yet always celebrating their fiery will to get by and survive. ‘Heart of Branches’ comprises a collection of wearily reflective songs written and recorded over the past two years. Bleak, bitter, yet hopeful; Walter's songs have an austerity that you discover via his honest vocal delivery even before you experience it in the songwriting itself. Walter’s singing is raspy and unbridled, and the intricate yet uncluttered arrangements on his debut provide the perfect aural setting for them to shine. Weaving together sounds both classic and modern, the tapestries of voice, guitar, and harmonica, sometimes augmented by mandolin, piano, and Magnus, add luminous musical textures to the power of the songwriting, itself revealed to be sometimes lyrical, sometimes ominous, but always haunting. The opener ‘Bleeding Hands’ immediately establishes these strengths and the sense of unrelenting weight that permeates throughout the rest of the album. From the defeated memories contained in ‘Photo Album’ and ‘Went Home’ to the volatile contempt overflowing in ‘William Clay’, Walter’s songwriting somehow always still finds the beauty in survival, regardless of the degree of dejection. The honest reflection revealed in both ‘Leaves’ and the bittersweet ‘Swimming’ only add to the exquisitely complex emotions contained in the album. These sentiments are even further examined in the desolate anger of ‘Snake’, the gentle pauses of the two ‘Magnus’ instrumentals, and the crushingly beautiful and epic final track ‘Heart of Branches’, transcendent in its mixture of stark emotions and ghost-like instrumentation.

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