Being a weeklie podcaste from Madison, Wisconsin featuring several remarkable curiosities therein occurring being a compendium of live music from divers artistes
Indie Folk to Rock Gates of Heaven
October 1st, 2007
DATE: October 11th (5-9pm)
PERFORMERS: Geneviève Castrée, Wilhelmina Baker, & Vid Libert
VENUE: Gates of Heaven Synagogue at James Madison Park (302 E Gorham Street)
Madison music & art blog www.JustSayinIsAll.com PRESENTS Geneviève Castrée, a Canadian musician and visual artist best known under the moniker WOELV and for being married to The Microphone’s Phil Elverum. But mostly for singing delightfully whimsical French songs that waft like dreams. Other showcased performers will include Madison’s avant-opera mystery Wilhelmina Baker and emerging solo talent Vid Libert.
VENUE INFO:
Gates of Heaven was built in 1863, the tiny Gates of Heaven structure is the fourth oldest surviving synagogue in the nation. The capacity is less than one hundred, so come early to secure your seat.
TIMING:
5-9pm with acoustic aftermath encouraged until 10pm
~~~~~6:00 Vid Libert
~~~~~6:45 Wilhelmina Baker
~~~~~7:45 Geneviève Castrée
~~~~~$5 cover
ARTIST INFO:
Geneviève Castrée [from www.JustSayinIsAll.com] is a Canadian drawer of pictures, composer of stories, dreamer of dreams, and singer of songs. Her world is a musical storybook exhaled in one natural breath from the side of her tiny, hesitant mouth. In comics, her pictures are French fables about children and animals giggling with the characteristic whimsy of rounded edges, but frightened with careful fragility and introspective abstraction. Translated to music, her songs are acoustic scaffolding for the vulnerable treasure of her voice – subtle like a jazz singer, pure like a wailing Bjork, and beautifully broken like Cat Power. It’s all unusual yet familiar, all painfully cute, all offered with an intimacy akin to being gently touched.
Wilhelmina Baker [from myspace profile] is a solo project of Madisonian Nicole Gruter, who sings arias through effects pedals, bares her heart through a megaphone, pops out of a box to chastise the Iraq war, turns from Muslim to redneck with the help of Brooks and Dunn, and hands out tasty morsels that correspond to the song at hand. Every show is different, multi-sensory, sometimes political, sometimes silly, and her chance to explore ideas no one else would be remotely interested in collaborating on.
Vid Libert [from CD Baby bio] is also a Madison solo artist. His background in music is steeped in an appreciation of some of the finer moments in protest music, be it punk, reggae, folk etc. But it seems to travel even further than that. An intense love for the Kinks and other 60’s pop has also influenced his work here. When listening to his music you find it hard to find what specifically inspired it since it sounds little like any of his inspirations (except perhaps Neil Young) but good songcraft and lyrics are apparent albeit in his own lofi psychadelic style. A custodian during the day and all around normal nice joe, I don’t think he would appreciate much lauding over here or elsewhere so I will simply leave you with a goodbye.
MUSIC SAMPLES:
Geneviève Castrée – “Post Partum”
Geneviève Castrée – “Drapeau Blanc”
Wilhelmina Baker – “Lasciatemi Morire”
Vid Libert – “No One Knows”
Contact Kyle Pfister at (608) 628-5672 or kylepfister@gmail.com for more information.
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