Like Dancing about Day-chitecture

Frank said it first. Or was it Dave? Daychitecture. Design your day! Don't be a chump. 

Back in December, Dan Goldman and I played some improvised music at a contact improvisation dance class in Toronto. I did a little banging on the radiator, bell ringing, and crazy-time vocals, and dan played some guitar and piano. The facilitator, Kathleen Rea of REAson d'etre productions, decided that she wanted us to be the live musicians for her upcoming dance piece set to open in July of 2008. 

She ended up choreographing the piece to the entirety of the new Snowblink record, Long Live, as well as several of Dan's songs from his forthcoming record, Luxury Pond. 

It is a tribute to antlers, friendly apparitions, and loss, loss, loss. 

Most importantly, however, you will get to see me in a headset microphone and a wireless guitar. 

(This photograph was taken by Greg Slick)

Hope to see you there!

www.reasondetre.com

when: 

preview dress rehearsal thursday july 3rd 8pm

premiere friday july 4th 8pm

saturday july 5th 8pm (7:30 pre-show choreographer/audience forum) 

sunday july 6th 2pm (1:30 pre-show choreographer/audience forum) 

where: 

Betty Oliphant Theater

404 Jarvis Street

(west side of Jarvis, three blocks east of Yonge) 

Toronto, ON

 

order tickets

or call ticketweb 1.888.222.6608

$32 at door cash only

$22 advance

$18 senior, student, or artist

$5 for preview dress rehearsal

$50 gold package

p.s. for Toronto locals: Dan and I are playing a show at the Tranzac July 1st at 9pm with Great Aunt Ida. Sneak preview? We will NOT dance outwardly. 

 

silver medal bloggist

When the events in which I participate also include Dave Wilson, one thing is for sure: he will beat me to blogging about it.
So with utter reverence, I will pass the blog-baton to him for two recent occasions. All the photos are by the illustrious Hannah Barr-DiChiara or possibly the also-illustrious Dave Wilson.

1. Opening for Rogue Wave at the Fillmore on May 3rd.
Example:


Extrapolation:



2. The Bay Area Snowblink CD Release Party at Woulds Gallery in Oakland on April 26th.
Example:

Extrapolation:



The best send-offs I could have ever dreamed up.

RELEASE(S)

Dears,

In drafting my band pep chat email about our forthcoming san francisco album release, I came up with some words/phrases for the type of darts that I intend to throw at the dartboard of this most beaming of events (the release of our 2008 album LONG LIVE): I thesaurused "exuberance" and thankfully found 1. ADRENALIZED and 2. FULL OF BEANS.
With this frippery in mind I invite you to both the Bay Area and Los Angeles release of LONG LIVE.

This Friday in LOS ANGELES I (show-lo) will join Viking Moses and Golden Ghost, and it is not one but ALL AGES! ! !

FRIDAY Apr 25, 8:00 PM
AT GROTESQUE GALLERY
1932 Echo Park Ave.
Cost : $12


And this Saturday in OAKLAND we will join Viking Moses and Avocet, and also Golden Ghost, and it is also ALL AGES! ! !


SATURDAY APRIL 26TH AT 8PM
WOULDS GALLERY in OAKLAND
5861 san pablo ave
$5 ish

AND
for this occasion Dave Wilson is building a giant indoor tent that will womb not only you and me, but some of his drawings as well. Keep up with that at ribbonsribbons.blogspot.com

With devotion and yes impossible expectation,




p.s.:

You can sneak listen a few tracks from the new record at myspace.com/snowblink. We recorded it in Mammoth Lakes, Sacramento, San Francisco, Toronto, Brooklyn, and LA with the help of recording engineer Jay Pellicci and mixing engineer Thom Monahan.

Pupping

That's what I watched seals doing the other day on a sunny sandbar in Stinson two days ago. Human-sized fuzz slugs playing doctor.

And you can finally watch us pup LONG LIVE at the end of this very month. Dave Wilson is building an indoor tent in Woulds Gallery in Oakland, and Viking Moses and Meara's solo project, Avocet, will climb into the big top with us for this most festive of births. We're due Saturday, April 26th. If you haven't already done so, send your snail mail address to snowblinksendsregards@gmail.com, and you will receive more details.

But first,
tomorrow night, april 15th, at Li Po Lounge, I'll blow out my own trick candles with 60 Watt Kid, and LA's Shitna and John Thill & Fantastic Magic. It's in Chinatown, so if you can find the restaurant in which my kith and I are eating my birthday dinner in Chinatown, I will give you a free Men of Snowblink Wall Calendar 2008.
9pm
916 Grant Avenue at Washington

With ripe feelings,
Daniela + Snowblink


--

Daytrotter (rhymes with fey daughter, grey water, spayed otter)

Live recordings of three new songs and one old (but masterfully
re-arranged with Dave and Frank's floor tom fondling) are available
for download today and forever after at this site:

http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1220/snowblink

There is also a hilarious illustration of me. They unwittingly
portrayed my seventh-grade face with uncanny accuracy. If I had my bat mitzvah pictures in san francisco, I would post them, and then you would know.

Let the recordings be sneak previews of LONG LIVE, which will be ready
in about a week's time. The San Francisco release will be in late
April.

With devotion,

Men of Snowblink Wall Calendar 2008

I am elated to announce the arrival of the MenofSnowblink Wall Calendar
for 2008 (January 2009 included).

It is a petite calendar full of the rotating roster of Snowblink dreamboats
in their chosen pin-up form.

Trust me, it's a treat.

To order, follow two simple steps.

ONE
please send an email to Snowblinksendsregards@gmail.com including:

1. Quantity
2. Your name and shipping address

They are $9 each including shipping. We accept paypal (to Snowblinksendsregards@gmail.com).

TWO
pay via paypal.

With devotion,

The past two years in summary in bloggary

Here is the fossil news on which you totally missed the boat:


“As Snowblink, songbird Daniela Gesundheit makes hushed and eerily gorgeous music with a rotating cast of musicians, backup singers, and assorted whisperers. Gesundheit's voice is exquisite — a warbly, smoky, and delicate thing, somewhere between Jolie Holland and Cat Power. Her alias means "a white sky glow reflected from snowy fields," which aptly captures her sound, which is as crisp as a clear morning after a blizzard. "Ruby" is a showstopper.” --- Flavorpill SF

“Snowblink is a true pleasure. You can dance to this, but it should be a slowdance. With someone you care about, please.” —Shitparade, Los Angeles, CA


News

2/11/2008 MEN OF SNOWBLINK WALL CALENDAR 2008. We are elated to announce the arrival of the Men of Snowblink Wall Calendar for 2008 (January 2009 included). It is a petite calendar full of the rotating roster of Snowblink dreamboats in their chosen pin-up form. TRUST US. Send an email to Snowblinksendsregards@gmail.com for ordering information. See "photos" for sneak previews

7/27/2007

The Crater Show, the next incarnation of Ribbons' deep and dirty outdoors shows, is upon us. It is a snail mail invite event, but on the bill are Hisham Bharoocha, Parasol, Jeff Manson, Martin Salata, Ship, and Trevor Healy. With extended curiosity you can try ribbonsribbons.blogspot.com

7/27/2007 Our Record project for this July is well under way. Caley Monahon-Ward and Dan Goldman are producing and playing on the record with me, as will the beloved San Francisco cast of cats. We recorded with Jay Pellicci, angel engineer, at the Hangar studio in Sacramento and in Mammoth Lakes, California. Thom Monahan will mix it in the fall.
5/15/2007 Appearances on records by the following bands/solo projects: Dan Goldman featuring string arrangements by Owen Pallet performed by the St. Kitts Quartet, Rogue Wave, The Dry Spells, Birds & Batteries, and Ryan Granville-Martin.

3/4/2007 Gesundheit's Poem, Blatantly Marble the Majority, and Good for Nothing, and Yet, published in Brooklyn's Cannibal Maagazine. Cannibal is seventy pages, hand-sewn in signatures and screen printed. Copies are available through Paypal for $12 at flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com. Poems also published in Brooklyn's Saltgrass, available at SaltgrassJournal.Blogspot.com.

2/26-3/9 2007 EAST COAST TOUR with The Finches, Forest Fire, Belly Boat, Michael Leviton, John Southworth, Scary Mansion, Balloon, and Laura Goldhamer. Check "shows" for dates. Daniela joined by Frank Lyon and Caley Monahon-Ward


2/18/2007 Ribbons Publications presents the Marin Headlands Tunnel Show, with Ship, Okay, Living Breathing Music, Hector Zapana, and Charles Lloyd's classical Indian Ensemble. ******The boys of Ship were fined $500 by the Park Services for this event, so if you attended and would like to send them some cash, email ribbonspublications@gmail.com.*******

10/16/2006 Snowblink featured on NPR's All Song Considered. The site, below, will be up by 4pm Eastern Standard Time on Oct. 16th. http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1094.

9/2006 Petite East Coast Tour late September/Early October: Snowblink will share bills with Charlie Looker's Extra Life, Michael Leviton, Nat Baldwin, Au Revoir Simone, and Belly Boat, in cities such as Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Middletown, and New York. See show listings for more details.

8/2006 Snowblink featured on saidthegramophone.com

“In a brilliant partnering, Goldman is on the road with lovely lark Snowblink. If he is the torturous night, she is the first glimpse of fateful morning. Her gentle, revolving instrumentation is ripe with put-on-your-slippers optimism.” —Riverfront Times’ Critic’s Pick, St. Louis, MO