Laura Gibson Premieres "The Carob Trees" Track On NPR's All Songs Considered
Releases "Down By The Riverside" Deschutes River Recordings Video On Pitchfork
The Basin And Range Tour Starts In Two Weeks
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The Basin And Range Tour
In November, Laura Gibson will team up with Portland fellow bands Typhoon and Lost Lander for The Basin And Range Tour.
Tour Dates
11.15 - Soda Bar - San Diego, CA ^
11.16 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA #
11.17 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA #
11.18 - G Street Wunderbar - Davis, CA #
11.20 - Wow Hall - Eugene, OR #
11.23 - Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR #
12.13 - Capetown International Convention Center - Capetown, South Africa
12.15 - Wits Theatre - Johannesburg, South Africa
# w/ Typhoon & Lost Lander
^ w/ Lost Lander & Run Luca
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Laura
Gibson gathered a group of musical friends and turned Oregon's Smith
Rock into a recording studio for a day, incorporating the unique
acoustics of the cliffs, caves and water ways, resulting in a
surprising, inspired take on the old spiritual "Down By The Riverside".
The video and the song premiered on Pitchfork Monday, October 22nd. The
production is the third in a series of River Song Covers sponsored by
Deschutes Brewery, which also includes Blitzen Trapper's Eric Earley
singing "Up The Cripple Creek", and Eric D. Johnson of the Fruit Bats
covering "The Ballad of Easy Rider". All proceeds will benefit the Deschutes River Conservancy.
An unreleased Laura Gibson song, "The Carob Trees," was picked today as NPR's Song Of The Day.
'"The Carob Trees" came after a
visit to my friend Raul's family home in the countryside near Valencia,
Spain. The house and land had been in his family for many generations.
Raul told stories of trapping quail and collecting olives when he was a
child, of his parents stomping grapes into wine. Raul's great
grandfather collected stones to build terraces up the hillside in order
to plant trees on the land. There were olive trees and almond trees,
and then also a type of tree that wasn't familiar to me. Raul didn't
know the English word, and didn't know the Spanish word. Finally, after
he called it "poor man's chocolate" I realized they were carob trees. I
was thinking of all the generations who spent time under those trees,
and how we move forward in time and in relationships, both within and
also outside of our own will. Thinking of will in relationships, and of
trees, and of lineage, I was reminded of the story of Adam and Eve. The
narrator in the song became a mix of Eve, of Raul's great great great
grandparents, and of myself.
Back
home one day, I had been singing the refrain melody in the living room,
and my boyfriend and sometimes musical collaborator Sean (Sean Ogilvie
of the band Musée Mécanique)
sat down at the piano and began playing and whistling the
counter-melody, perfectly embodying the other character in the story.
The song didn't quite fit among the songs on my La Grande record, but
it is really dear to me, and I'm really happy to share it now.'
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