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Hello folks, I’m looking forward to playing some sounds in the next Overlap event held at Public Works SF! Should be a great evening of music, film, food, and local art’s… Hope you can make it! Thursday March 1st 8 … Continue reading
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Adam Pearson from KZSU Stanford to discuss some of my work as well as help promote the upcoming Day Of Noise event I’ll be playing at held on the Stanford University campus. The station will be broadcasting 24 hours of live performances starting at 12am Feb.12th and running through length of the entire day. My set will be from 3:00-3:30pm, followed by fellow Root Strata mates En from 3:30-4p. Some other participating folks include Bill Orcutt, Matt Davignon, and The Lickets.
If you’d like to listen to me gab about music and such, you can find a link to the interview kindly hosted on Adam’s blog Ghosttrees, aptly named after a Tarentel song – Thanks Adam!
Hope you can tune in to KZSU Feb. 12th!
~DPG
One of my favorite SF web/print publications The Bold Italic wrote a nice article recapping the recent opening I played at for Far Far Near over at Adobe Books curated by artist James Sterling Pitt. It was a beautiful coming together of art, music, and community. The show will be up for a solid month so if you didn’t make it to the opening, please do yourself a favor and go check out the artwork! One of the three artists is my dear friend Billy Joe Miller who came all the way out from Albuquerque to show. Billy is responsible for both the covers to my albums Fountain & more recently In Search of Light. He’s amazing! Thanks very much to Marion from The Bold Italic for the kind words and pics….
Head on over HERE to read the full article!
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FAR FAR NEAR
new work by: Lauren Douglas, Billy Joe Miller, and Christopher West
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
January 14 – February 12, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, January 14, 7-10pm
Curated by James Sterling Pitt
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery is pleased to present FAR FAR NEAR, a group exhibition featuring the work of Lauren Douglas, Billy Joe Miller, and Christopher West. The exhibition concept centers on memory, its dissolution and recollection, viewed through an autobiographical lens. Curator James Sterling Pitt initiated conversations with the three artists around such diverse images and events as a disintegrating beach house, a mother whale stranded in the Klamath River, and a World Series baseball game inturrupted by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The resulting mixed-media exhibition expands on such universal ideas as nostalgia, family ties, and attempts to fix a fleeting moment in time.
The opening reception will feature special musical sets by three Bay Area bands: Upside Drown, fieldguide, and Danny Paul Grody. Please visit the Backroom Gallery blog for more info and updates on events to accompany the exhibition.
Image: Billy Joe Miller, Sea Light, 2010
Greetings and Happy New Years to you all!
A list of what made this year memorable – enjoy!
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Adopting our little feline companion named Eli. What a dream he is!
Music (in no particular order):
Grouper – AIA: Alien Observer / Dream Loss
Talk Talk – Laughing Stalk (reissue)
Mark Hollis – s/t (reissue)
Gillian Welch – The Harrow And The Harvest
The Psychic Paramount – II
Leyland Kirby – Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
James Blake – s/t
Peaking Lights – 936
Golden Retriever – Light Cones
Bombino – Agadez
Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos
Live:
Tinariwen @ Yoshis, SF – can’t remember the last time I danced with such abandon!
Solo set’s by Neil Young & Bert Jansch (RIP) @ The Fox Theater, Oakland – woah!
J.D. Emmanuel @ Brava Theater, SF – absolute blissssss!
Hearing Kenric sing his heart out with 30 person choir IOCSF (International Orange Choral) at the lovely St. Marks cathedral. It was an Eastern-Block themed program – so amazing!
Playing solo more than ever, and in so many wonderful non-club venues with such great musicians; The beautiful SF Zen Center w/ Barn Owl & Date Palms, St John’s w/ Myrmyr and art spaces like Subterranean Art House w/ amazing guitarists Chuck Johson & Alexander Turnquist, both of which put out excellent releases this year.
Getting back on the road with my band The Drift and touring Europe supporting our good friends Explosions In The Sky. So grateful for the experience and a nice anecdote to what had been some very challenging times – Rest In Peace Jeffrey! Your still with us.
Film:
Nostalgia For The Light – hands down one of the most achingly beautiful documentaries.
Arbor – find this doc and see it. it will blow your mind on so many levels.
Midnight In Paris – Woody’s best in years.
Bridesmaids – LOL!
Cave of Forgotten Dreams – great Herzog doc. see it in 3-D for maximum effect.
Wine tasting with the family…
Becoming an Uncle to my third nephew Charlie.
All the best to you in 2012!
Love,
DPG
Thrilled and honored for the invitation to be a part of the first in an ongoing concert series in conjunction with Oakland’s First Friday’s!!
The show will take place in a large beautiful historic neo-gothic cathedral called The Sanctuary located on Broadway, just walking distance from many participating galleries and venues. The series is brought to you by the folks from Mission Creek (Oakland) Music and Art Festival and Macarthur B Arthur’s founder Kevin Clarke.
Line-up:
DANNY PAUL GRODY (solo guitar)
THE DIRTY SNACKS ENSEMBLE (vibraphones)
JAMES & EVANDER
*Plus classically trained musician HILARY GUTER will perform on the amazing 32-foot tall pipe organ!
Doors – 7:30p
Show – 8p
Sliding Scale – $5-15 (no one turned away for lack of funds!)
ALL AGES
Hope you can make this special event,
Happy Holidays!
DPG
Seasons are definitely a relative thing when it comes to temperate climates like San Francisco’s. Markers of cold here are more associated with the light, longer nights, and adding a scarf or gloves, but without a doubt our modest version of Winter seems to be in full swing these days and I’m loving it. The light hangs low and golden and the sunsets have been particularly epic, especially on a clear night. All are perfect ingredients to make music to. I’ve been working on a couple soundtrack projects, both of which are for documentary films. They are unfinished so I’ll spare the particulars until they’re done. I thought it would be nice to periodically share some of the ‘works-in-progess’. This track felt like a good one to start with considering the recent cold weather and how it always seems to take hold of me and inspire. Hope you enjoy what you hear and wishing you a very happy holiday and New Year! As always, thanks for taking the time to read and listen.
More to come…
Love & Light,
DPG
