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SIMON JOYNER WANTS TO PLAY IN YOUR LIVING ROOM
Simon Joyner is planning a few, short tours to support his new album Out Into the Snow. He is known for special likeness towards beading and that kind of decor, so probably the scene will be decorated with some exotic . Instead of performing in the typical indie rock venues and bars with, he would like to explore a more intimate setting for these shows—living rooms and art spaces around the country and enjoy. The house (or art space) show removes the elevated stage that separates the performer from the audience. It removes the distracting noise from the bar and provides an environment that allows the music to be the main focus. [.]Simon has always felt that house shows and D.I.Y. spaces are often the best places to perform but it hasn’t been feasible to base a tour on this preference until now reading effective.
If you’d like to host a show or express interest in attending a show, please visit http://simonjoynertours.com. Simon is planning on going to the Southeast U.S. in March, the Northeast in May, and the West Coast in July . If the house show tours work in the U.S., he's going to try the same model in the U.K. and Europe.
New Record "Out In The Snow" --- release date SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 on Team Love records
http://team-love.com/home/releases/tl-41
1. The Drunken Boat
2. The Arsonist
3. Ambulances
4. Sunday Morning Song for Sara
5. Last Evening on Earth
6. Peace in My Time
7. Out into the Snow
8. Roll On
Simon Joyner’s twelfth record, Out Into the Snow, is another challenging and rewarding song-cycle which grows richer from repeated listening. For this outing Joyner has assembled a small group, including Alex McManus? (Lambchop, Bright Eyes, The Bruces, , Ryan Kennedy, Mike Friedman, Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble),[desentupidora] and Chris Deden, as well as background vocals by Sarah Gleason and Pearl Lovejoy Boyd and string arrangements by violinist, Laraine Kaizer. Sounding sometimes like Doug Yule era Velvet Underground (with some Paris 1919 John Cale thrown in for good measure and [relogio de ponto]), On the Beach period Neil Young , Happy/Sad era Tim Buckley, and Our Mother the Mountain period Townes Van Zandt, the album is littered with characters in transition, moving toward or away from complicated pasts and futures. [health insurance]
Here you have a man floating away in a dilapidated drunken boat borrowed from Rimbaud. He escapes a past of imagined persecution, only to face deeper problems of self-identity after entering a storm at sea. There are lovers separated by distances difficult to summit at [otimização de sites]. Others survive rocky starts to find peace, acceptance, and the real joy available to those who may have been born to run but now choose to stay and fight. The title tracks seems to be telling a simple story of friendship, but, after a man is called out on a winter night to buy a, he goes to bed that night and has strange transformation dreams that lead him to [cabos eletricos] question the direction of his own life. Stepping out into the snow then becomes a metaphor for engagement and risk. Joyner seems to be saying that life is full of these worthwhile struggles, whether they result in sorrow or mirth, pleasant or unpleasant discoveries, ie . Joyner requires the same of himself artistically. Out Into The Snow is full of gorgeous human gestures from well-developed characters rising and falling in overlapping arcs of time . Brazen songwriting, like all great art of [transportadora], challenges even more than it entertains. Team Love is proud to introduce another milestone performance from Simon Joyner, perhaps the greatest songwriter you’ve never heard.
Cowardly Traveller Re-release
From Simon's Myspace --- "Cowardly Traveller lp/cd reissue out May/Team Love" [acompanhantes] . It is available now on 180g vinyl and CD from Team Love (cat. number TL-016).