Portland Weekend forecast: Clouds

This weekend, the men of Cloud Shepherd will head up to Portland, OR to play a couple of shows! We are stoked and excited. Shows will happen here:

Sat., 4/28-Private house gig with Eureka, Sagas, Inez Lightfoot
Sun., 4/29-The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave.

Hopefully I will have lots of pics, vids, and fun memories to recount a bit later. 

 

Spaced out jamming redux

Yesterday I had the pleasure of jamming with Michael Grandi, Saber Khan, and Brian Lucas at Michael's West Oakland pad. These tracks went to Soundcloud as performed. Why not share here, too?

Michael Grandi-Guitar
Saber Khan-Electronics
Brian Lucas-Bass guitar, electronics, voice
Mark Pino-Cloud Kit

  Sounds from Sunday evening by m_Lowe_g

  Sounds from Sunday evening by m_Lowe_g

  Sounds from Sunday evening by m_Lowe_g

  Pearly Gate by m_Lowe_g

  Sounds from Sunday afternoon by m_Lowe_g

  Sounds from Sunday afternoon by m_Lowe_g

  Night Train XX by m_Lowe_g

  Shove by m_Lowe_g

  11:11 by m_Lowe_g

Spaced-out jamming in West Oakland, 4/14/12

Yesterday I had the pleasure of getting together with Michael Lowe Grandi, Saber Khan, and Brian Lucas in West Oakland to jam. Michael recorded the proceedings to Soundcloud.

Saber Khan-Electronics
Michael Lowe Grandi-Guitar
Brian Lucas-Bass
Mark Pino-Cloud Kit


   Sounds from Saturday afternoon by m_Lowe_g

   Sounds from Saturday afternoon by m_Lowe_g

Cloud Shepherd with India Cooke, 3/24/12 Swarm Gallery, Oakland CA

Cloud Shepherd had the pleasure of playing a gig with India Cooke aka Li'l Nimbus at the Swarm Gallery at Jack London Square in Oakland, CA.
We played three pieces. The first one featured Shepherd and Nimbus. I have to admit that I was in a rockin', take no prisoners kind of mood. I feel that I played really hard and hyper, and was definitely a bit noisy. Clouds can be dark and foreboding, too!

Above: making a racket with the Wind Gong!

Above: India rocks on the electric M'bira, Mark scrapes the gong.

Sometimes it's OK in art to not be too pretty or mannered, to let it all hang out. That was my mood at the Swarm show. I hope that those in attendance were not too put off by my antics on the first piece.

For the  second and third pieces, two of the members of Solace Trio, who were also on the bill, joined us. One piece felt a bit hesitant, the other just rocked out, and had India very happily singing encouragement, along with other audience members. It was a fun jam!

 Above: Cloud-Nimbus-Solace jam!

All told, it was a fun, surreal night for me. Thanks to everyone who braved the rain to show up, and thanks to Melissa for taking photos! 

rRope/Lithium Milkshake/Vienna Noise Choir poster

I found this cool flyer today, figured I'd put it up. This show was in April of 1993, at the Brave New World club in S.F. BNW was a cavernous, dive-ey bar on Fulton St. in S.F. It has gone through several iterations since that time, most notably as a Punk Rock bar owned by one of the guys in NOFX. The last time I went past, it was a stylish place that featured live Soul and Urban music.
Thanks to rRope for posting this flyer.

Lomax Helper

Dedicated to Alan Lomax and all those that he recorded.

Cloud Shepherd will play with India Cooke at Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA 3/24/12!

CLOUD SHEPHERD, INDIA COOKE & SOLACE TRIO AT SWARM

 Above: Cloud Shepherd-inspired collage by Artist Richard Waara! An awesome gift!