Off Label showing at San Francisco International Film Festival!

I’m thrilled and honored to say the new documentary feature film Off Label which I scored music for is coming to town for the San Francisco International Film Festival this week!  The film, Directed by Donal Mosher & Michael Palmieri (October Country, 2009), is a powerful coast-to-coast exploration of pharmaceuticals and the role they play in American life.  It’s hot off a premiere at NYC’s Tribeca Film Festival and really could use your love and support (i.e. attendance!), so please rally your troops and come out to one of three showings at the lovely Kabuki Theater.   Shows starting TOMORROW (4/30!!!) and runs thru Wed. the 2nd.

Schedule & Tickets HERE

Much love,
DPG

Show @ Liminal Space w/ Lula Cruza …

Very much looking forward to playing at the artist-run Liminal Space in Oakland with the fantastic duo Lulacruza coming all the way from South America and Lovage Sharrock from Alameda.  Should be a very nice evening of music.   Hope you can make it out!

LIMINAL SPACE | 950 54th St. Oakland 94608
Thursday April 19th | 8pm
Contribution: $7-$10

Love,

DPG

*RSVP at the Facebook Event Page

 

Track featured on “Eight Trails, One Path” LP for Record Store Day!!!

I recently had the honor of contributing a track for the beautifully curated Eight Trails, One Path LP.  The compilation will be released in April on Three Lobed Recordings for this years Record Store Day!  It will include original and exclusive contributions by guitarist’s Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth, Steve Gunn, Six Organs Of Admittance/Ben Chasny, Sir Richard Bishop, David Daniel, Alan Bishop William Tyler, Grayson Currin, and Casey Burns.  I’ll leave you with a little teaser of the lovely interior designed by Casey Burns.  It will feature silver and brown ink, letterpressed by Jeff Mueller at Dexterity in a matchbook-style folded stapled cover.  So excited to be a part of this!!!

More details TBA…

OVERLAP at Public Works SF )))

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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 →

KZSU Stanford Interview + Day Of Noise

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

Nice recap of the Far Far Near show at Adobe Books!!!

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!

FAR FAR NEAR

Hello folks!

I’ll be playing some music for an exciting group show coming up in SF at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery curated by James Sterling Pitt.  One of my dear friends Billy Joe Miller will be coming all the way from Albuquerque New Mexico to show work!  Billy’s done the cover art to both of my solo albums Fountain (Root Strata 2010) and In Search Of Light (Students Of Decay 2011) so it’s really special to be able to play music in the same room with his artwork.  Please have a look at the press release below for details and share it with your peeps ) ) )

Really hope you can make it out!

Love,

DPG

My desire to see the light, my desire to be pure
Underground I visualize sighing ocean dream
Returnal – You’ve never left, you’ve been here the whole time
-Returnal, Oneohtrix Point Never

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