Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Versprille’

PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” The Downtown Lights ” (Feat. Ben Gibbard & San Fermin) The Blue Nile Cover

Posted: December 6, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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hi friends! we’re excited to announce that our version of The Blue Nile’s “Hats” is being rereleased and will now be available to stream everywhere for the first time! it will be out in full 12/18 via Better Company. it’s been remixed and remastered and features additional arrangements by the wonderful San Fermin today you can hear The Downtown Lights featuring backing vocals from the great Benjamin Gibbard.

The Portland based indie pop outfit Pure Bathing Culture have covered the Blue Nile’s 1989 album Hats in its entirety. In a statement, Pure Bathing Culture’s Sarah Versprille said, “We became immediately obsessed with their world of nostalgia and longing and the way the songs were simultaneously extremely sad at times but also intensely romantic and modern. It made us feel like the music we wanted to make was validated in some way by the fact that their music had already existed in the universe.” Listen to their take on “Saturday Night,” featuring Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard.

The album is part of Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious series, which finds artists covering their favourite albums in their entirety. (Previous entries included Ben Gibbard’s take on Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque, Jonathan Rado doing Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, and Mutual Benefit playing Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day). Pure Bathing Culture’s Hats is limited to 1,000 copies and is available exclusively through Turntable Kitchen.

FRUIT BATS – ” Found a Round Stone: Live in Portland “

Posted: July 18, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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From Eric D. Johnson:
This recording is cut down from a much larger show, a rare “evening with Fruit Bats”—no opener, two sets—that ran a little over two hours. Which was really long for me. How does Phish pull it off every night?

Revolution Hall is one of my favourite venues. It’s a nice theater with comfy seats, which is plush but also leads to people sitting down. I mean, a seated audience is kinda classy in a lot of ways, but I’m always looking for that extra rush of energy as the songs ramp up. At one point, you can hear me (gently) implore folks to stand up (!!). But as it was a long evening—and it being Portland, the beer selection was dank and flowing—naturally the audience got rowdier (and on their feet) as the night progressed, which you can clearly hear in the later points of this recording.

This was the last night of a short tour of the Pacific Northwest in January 2019, so in it you hear some of the earliest live versions of songs off of Gold Past Life which didn’t come out until a few months later. It also includes the only live version of “The Banishment Song” ever, plus a couple of rarely played cuts off of Spelled in Bones.

The band lineup was really special here, an expanded 7-piece lineup that included my stellar frequent co-conspirators Josh Mease (guitar), David Dawda (bass), Josh Adams (drums), and Frank LoCrasto (keys), plus extra special sauce provided by the members of the great Pure Bathing Culture: Sarah Versprille, taking the harmony vocals to a heavenly level (and playing Mellotron), and Daniel Hindman, giving the whole show a delicious gauzy Fender Strat flavor. I’m really happy that our excellent front-of-house engineer Aly Carlisle-Steinberg thought to hit record that evening.

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Released June 5th, 2020
The Band:
Eric D. Johnson – vocals, guitar, banjo
Josh Mease – guitar
David Dawda – bass
Josh Adams – drums
Frank LoCrasto – pianos, organs, synths
Sarah Versprille – vocals, Mellotron
Daniel Hindman – guitar

Recorded January 19th, 2019, at Revolution Hall, Portland, OR

Aly Carlisle-Steinberg – live mixing / engineering / recording
Nathan Vanderpool – additional post-production engineering and mastering