ceremonial apple pie (karl blau live at ash’s place & 96 is this week in mail order)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Last Thursday Karl Blau graced Ash’s Place in Williamsburg with his presence. This was my first time at Ash’s, and I was a little bit surprised at the vibe the Karl and his K Records crew were greeted with. Instead of the usual quite, smallish, attentive crowd Ash’s Place was packed…half with people who were there for the music, and the rest seemed to have mistaken the show for a drunken rowdy Thursday night party.
Karl was backed by LAKE (who also opened). This was my first time seeing Karl perform an entire set with a backing band, and it was as wonderful as I expected (despite the loud talking of the crowd). It made possible the recreation of many of the songs off of Zebra, and even some from last years phenomenal Nature’s Got Away.
While it wasn’t possible do to background noise to capture any of the quieter songs I was able to grab the two singles off of the new album…check out the new dance Karl invented for Brooklyn at the beginning of the extended live version of “Dark Sedan.”
Karl Blau- “Dark Sedan”
Karl Blau- “Apology to Pollinateurs”
It was a pleasure seeing Karl with a full band, and I hope I have this opportunity again, but I did miss the mesmerizing loop building of his solo sets. Karl also mentioned that they were shooting the music video for “Dark Sedan” this weekend in New York…I can’t wait to see how that turns out.
If you haven’t grabbed a copy of it yet, Karl has a new volume of his Kelp Lunacy available for sale. This time it is called 96 (pictured above) and is limited to 175 copies. All copies have letter pressed covers, and are printed on the back of other album covers. K Records describes it:
Those who follow Karl Blau’s prolific trail may find 96 to be of the Double Duty Booty /Dance Positive dance vein of Blauisms. Extra-hott dog.
I picked mine up at the show (along with Blau’s reggae tribute to the Nutcracker!), but you can grab one from Karl off of his website…as always with Karl this album is totally worth it. I can’t get enough of his smooth dance jams.
Buy Karl Blau’s 96 here.
To give you a taste of 96 here is a song from the previously mentioned Double Duty Booty. It is an amazing, kind of creepy, dance jam titled “Ceremonial Apple Pie.” The song starts off with almost a hip hop or dance hall style beat and vocals, and then turns into one of Karl’s wonderful reggae influenced dance jams…full of of his smooth voice, and other vocal experiments.
[mp3] Karl Blau- “Ceremonial Apple Pie”
off of Dubble Dooty Booty. buy it here.
Links:
- More on Karl Blau (tour dates, mp3s, release info, videos, ect) click here.
- Buy other Karl Blau releases directly from him here.
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- More on K Records here.
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