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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
It's a Brand New Day: Athens' own wetlspring,
of positivity and poetry, Cetest Divine, is cur
rently working up new material for her long-
running project African Soul. She's also got
a new run of Poetic Release Therapy shows
booked. These are open mic nights for ''poets,
singers, spoken-word artists, friends, lovers
of the arts, couples, singles, all of the inter
nally and externally beautiful people of the
universe," and everyone is welcome to attend
and/or participate. The monthly event hap
pens every first Saturday (the next three being
May 5, June 2 & July 7) from 8-11 p.m. at
the Suburban Lounge (2005 Danietsville Rd.).
Each event costs $5. For more information
and a ton of streaming material from Divine,
please see www.celestngeve.com.
Alone in Springtime: The long-suffering, or at
least long-performing, Chris Ezelle released
his newest album this week. The 10-track
digital download, titled Summertime Bleeding
Heart is yours for the taking over at www.
reverbnation.com/
chrisezelle. Most of
the material here fol
lows the same path
Ezelle has been paving
for the past few years
(i.e., solo acoustic
country-folk-blues),
and, because of this,
some of it can sound
rote and laborious, but
there are at least a few
inspired moments here.
Especially notable is
the painfully tender
"Rosary from New
Orleans," which closes
out the record.
It Means Golden
Peak: Panama City,
FL-based video artist
and composer Scott
Bazar (Disco Vato, Pig
Chicken) is inviting any
Athens musicians and/ Lazer/Wulf
or sound improvisors
to participate in his "video conducted spon
taneous game composition" named "Pico
Dorado." This happens at 7:45 p.m. Saturday,
Apr. 28 at ATHICA. Athens' own KiUick will be
your co-host this evening. There's a $6 sug
gested donation, but no one will be turned
away for lack of funds. If you'd like to partici
pate, just drop a line to Bazar via scottbazar@
bellsouth.net, but you should probably bone
up on the whole concept over at www.picodo-
rado.com.
Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape:
Although not really shooting out of nowhere,
but you'd be forgiven for thinking that,
Grass Giraffes has enjoyed nothing less
than a meteoric rise from a garage-y col
laboration between friends to a full-fledged
operating outfit whose live shows are among
the most heavily anticipated among rising
Athens bands. The band is set to release its
debut EP, Transportation, digitally on May
8. Although there's no offirial.release show
planned, they'll be playing the 40 Watt Club
on May 4 along with Reptar—who's celebrat
ing its own release that night—and Grape
Soda. A cassette version of Transportation
is to be released soon after the digital ver
sion goes live via Athens Provisions, a
project-based conception between Eddie "The
Wheel" Whelan and Jay Steele that has no
end-game other than "to bring fun things
into the world." I've been privy to the as-
yet-unreleased tracks and have been playing
them quite a bit, but I would implore Athens
Provisions to use the blank side of the cas
sette to include a live recording of the band
because live is where so much of their oomph
resides. Oh, look, what do ya know? Here's
one from Halloween of 2011 right Here:
www.southemshelter.com/category/grass-
giraffes. It looks like the track "On a Subway"
is going to be the "single" from the EP, and
you can stream it at www.grassgiraffes.com.
Y Three-Way Tie: Although officially residing
in Atlanta now, Lazer/Wulf spent enough
time in Athens to maintain at least "honorary
Athenian" status. In addition to being among
the most dynamic and determined bands to
rise up in the regional metal scene of the past
several years, it's about to release a new EP
titled There Was a Hole Here. It's Gone Now.
The self-released record is coming out on
vinyl, cassette and digital download formats,
with the physical versions featuring an extra
track. The record officially comes out Apr. 24,
but you can celebrate with the band locally at
the Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, Apr. 21
when they play between Vincas and Manray.
Don't Hate. Appreciate: The aforementioned
Manray is headlining the show mentioned
directly above, and in addition to blowing
your minds with their usual flair, the broth
ers Olivera (Ryan, Derek and Jordan) and
Gene Woolfolk will be shooting a video that
night for the lead single off their debut LP,
Tournament. Incidentally, the song is named
"Gordon Lamborghini," and this just goes to
show what can happen when your song-title
focus-group is composed solely of the four
members of the band that wrote the thing.
You can stream the track at www.manrayband.
tumblr.com, so you're prepared to go appro
priately nuts during the shoot. Keep up with
Manray via www.facebook.com/Manray.band
because I'm confident they'll add anything you
need to know there.
Gordon Lamb threalsandpromsies@flagpoie.com
14 FLAGPOLE.COM APRIL 18,2012