Odawas

8 tracks / 34'20" / Ltd 300 copies / Mastered by James Plotkin

Here's the live recording from our set last Tuesday evening at the Stork Club in downtown Oakland. http://www.odawas.net/audio/odawas_storkclub_1242012.mp3

Tomorrow we are playing a Good Morning, Africa set at the Stork Club in Oakland in support of some of our brethren on tour. Word is we go on last. The Black Swans - folk-rock (Columbus,OH) The Fishermen Three - indie folk (Brooklyn,NY) Lauren Norton and the Souterrain - singer/songwriter (Davis, CA) Will Sprott Odawas

OUT IN FE­BRUARY /Vi­nyl 12'' / 8 tracks (34'20) / BKM04 / Ltd 300

Honky Tonk Medusa is Donovan Quinn’s first album that he’s both recorded and produced since the Skygreen Leopards’ adventurous Life & Love in  Sparrow’s Meadow. Along with Quinn’s work on vocals, guitar and synth, the album also employs San Francisco musician’s Jason Quever (Papercuts), Michael Tapscott (Odawas), along with his regular rhythm section of Nick Marcantonio and Michael Carreira. Working in reverse order to many current acts, the sound of Honky Tonk Medusa is molded to each individual song; letting the lyrics and spirit of the song dictate the instrumentation and style with the lyrical narrative tying it all together. The story of the album is one of decaying American cities, Internet age entropy, and equal parts romance and loneliness. In addition to the music the album features artwork by San Francisco artist Joe Roberts and liner notes by Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers, 200 Years) & Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance).

100% of the profits from this year's instrumental holiday compilation will benefit Stepping Stones, a local organization that gives a hand to teenagers experiencing homelessness. www.steppingstones-inc.org

Odawas Update: Friends, we are in the midst of putting the finishing touches on our next release, an EP entitled Reflections of a Pink Laser. More news on that release soon. We have also recorded drums, pedal steel, bass and other instruments for our 4th full-length album - this is all a lot of work. Keep shinin.

pedal steel player, L-der's last Odawas show for a while.

stork club photo from last month

-Johannes Brahms

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. Gustav Mahler

The 90s.

When Isaac and I started Odawas about six or seven years ago with Jessica Halverson, our band goal was to put a record out on Michael Anderson’s BlueSanct label. He was an early supporter of us and a huge inspiration, not just for the indelible wealth of material he was releasing upon the world but with his own music and local performances around Bloomington, Indiana. Anderson’s Drekka and Turn Pale projects, Elephant Micah, In Gowan Ring, Justin Vollmar, The Iditarod, and Static Films (now Pillars and Tongues) served as both revelation and foundation for the fledgling Odawas crew. Things obviously worked out a bit differently for us, but I’ll always have rose-colored glasses for that era of Michael’s life and label and what it meant to me. I was proud that Michael chose to put out Isaac’s solo record a couple years ago. Though I always felt like part of the family, it was good to make it official. Now Michael has chosen to move away from running a label and is selling off his wares. I suggest you pick some titles up if you can because they may start becoming hard to find. He sent us the remaining copies of Isaac’s record and I still have several copies of the Twelve-Foot Wizé compilation that features unreleased tracks from BlueSanct artists, including an early Odawas one. In the interest of sharing and glorification of the day-glo dream, we would like to give out these things for free if you can pay postage, please contact me or send me $2 ($6 for international) via Paypal (arcticanimals (at) hotmail.com)and I’ll send you both.   Michael Tapscott 6/22/11 Oakland, CA