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Dark Dark Dark http://www.myspace.com/darkdarkdarkband If you listen, the story of the band DARK DARK DARK is woven into the haunting songs of their debut album, “The Snow Magic.” It’s a story of love and heartache, death and loneliness, and the persistent sense of hope that keeps you living and moving. These familiar themes are tangled up with tales of ghosts, fermenting bodies, and magical dreams. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Since 2006, Dark Dark Dark has crisscrossed the country from ocean to ocean, playing in basements and bars, warehouses and street corners. When Nona Marie Invie (accordion/voice) and Marshall LaCount (banjo/voice) first began to play and write music together, they had no intention of starting a serious band – they just needed a way to earn passage to New Orleans. Marshall had run away from home to spend a summer sailing and singing down the Mississippi river on homemade rafts, and Nona had spent time hopping freight trains and wandering across the US and Europe. With no desire to settle down, the two set out, picking up band members Jonathan Kaiser (cello/voice) and Todd Chandler (upright bass) along the way. They are an awesome band, and have playing in Providence on many occasions. Check them out! If you like what you hear, buy their record. On one last note, check out this video. If you are a fan of experimental films or movies in general, you will perhaps enjoy this film teaser, which features the members of DARK DARK DARK as the primary cast: FLOOD TEASER from flood movie on Vimeo. Here is the synopsis of the clip via Vimeo: “FLOOD is an experimental narrative film. It begins on the water, on a fleet of hand crafted boats pieced together from scrap and found materials. On the water time twists and bends in mysterious ways. Some people aboard the rafts cannot remember a time before the boats. Others are lost in their memories from a previous life on the land. Some remember the journey starting out as a summer adventure among friends. Still others remember leaving their homes, that the way of living they used to know was no longer working, and that something had to give. As the flotilla creeps down the river the past, present and future stories of the boats and their inhabitants becomes both clearer and more elusive. A mash-up of genres, FLOOD blends narrative, cinema verité, musical, and improvised experimental film. The film was shot amidst the street artist Swoon’s 2008 Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project, in which seven homespun boats were built and crewed by an eclectic group of artists and performers. The boats floated down the Hudson River staging performances in towns along the way. The film is loosely structured and largely improvised by non-actors playing themselves with fictionalized trajectories. The primary cast includes the bands Dark Dark Dark and Fall Harbor, members of which were actual crew on the boats. In addition to acting and performing in the film, the bands will be collaborating to write and record its musical score. There will be two final versions of the film: one will be a stand-alone feature length film screened theatrically and at festivals, and another which will tour galleries, performance and community spaces in Spring 2010 with the musician/actors providing a live musical soundtrack.” -Lou

Dark Dark Dark

http://www.myspace.com/darkdarkdarkband

If you listen, the story of the band DARK DARK DARK is woven into the haunting songs of their debut album, “The Snow Magic.” It’s a story of love and heartache, death and loneliness, and the persistent sense of hope that keeps you living and moving. These familiar themes are tangled up with tales of ghosts, fermenting bodies, and magical dreams. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Since 2006, Dark Dark Dark has crisscrossed the country from ocean to ocean, playing in basements and bars, warehouses and street corners. When Nona Marie Invie (accordion/voice) and Marshall LaCount (banjo/voice) first began to play and write music together, they had no intention of starting a serious band – they just needed a way to earn passage to New Orleans. Marshall had run away from home to spend a summer sailing and singing down the Mississippi river on homemade rafts, and Nona had spent time hopping freight trains and wandering across the US and Europe. With no desire to settle down, the two set out, picking up band members Jonathan Kaiser (cello/voice) and Todd Chandler (upright bass) along the way. They are an awesome band, and have playing in Providence on many occasions. Check them out! If you like what you hear, buy their record.

On one last note, check out this video. If you are a fan of experimental films or movies in general, you will perhaps enjoy this film teaser, which features the members of DARK DARK DARK as the primary cast:

FLOOD TEASER from flood movie on Vimeo.



Here is the synopsis of the clip via Vimeo: “FLOOD is an experimental narrative film. It begins on the water, on a fleet of hand crafted boats pieced together from scrap and found materials. On the water time twists and bends in mysterious ways. Some people aboard the rafts cannot remember a time before the boats. Others are lost in their memories from a previous life on the land. Some remember the journey starting out as a summer adventure among friends. Still others remember leaving their homes, that the way of living they used to know was no longer working, and that something had to give. As the flotilla creeps down the river the past, present and future stories of the boats and their inhabitants becomes both clearer and more elusive.

A mash-up of genres, FLOOD blends narrative, cinema verité, musical, and improvised experimental film. The film was shot amidst the street artist Swoon’s 2008 Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea project, in which seven homespun boats were built and crewed by an eclectic group of artists and performers. The boats floated down the Hudson River staging performances in towns along the way.

The film is loosely structured and largely improvised by non-actors playing themselves with fictionalized trajectories. The primary cast includes the bands Dark Dark Dark and Fall Harbor, members of which were actual crew on the boats. In addition to acting and performing in the film, the bands will be collaborating to write and record its musical score.

There will be two final versions of the film: one will be a stand-alone feature length film screened theatrically and at festivals, and another which will tour galleries, performance and community spaces in Spring 2010 with the musician/actors providing a live musical soundtrack.”


-Lou

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