YARNLAZER http://virb.com/yarnlazer Virb 2.0 (@yarnlazer) en frontpagefeb06 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/photos/1106518 ]]> Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:11:39 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/photos/1106518 stuff http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649441 BRAVE PRIEST (DAN, MATT and BRIAN of Dark Yoga) w/ Eternal Tapestry, Plants and Rollerball(!) friday jan 11th 2008 at the someday lounge in Portland

second:
A rare Dark Yoga performance at PROPER EATS (kindest raw food restaurant up in St John's, Portland) Saturday Jan 12th with Illyas Ahmed.

third:
Honey and I just got done practicing with our new band Atlas Sound, which is the solo project of Bradford from Deerhunter. The band also includes Brian Foote (Nudge) on keys and Stephanie Macksey on drums and guitar. Shit is sounding so deeply shoegaze/ambient/LOUD/noise/grunge/90s/pop. White Rainbow, Valet and Atlas Sound are touring the country mid-feb to mid march:
Atlas Sound White Rainbow Valet "Pary Ferill Solo Tour 2002" Feb/March 2008
Feb 19 ATL, GA THE DRUNKEN UNICORN (MJQ)
Feb 20 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
Feb 21 Washington, DC Black Cat
Feb 22 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
Feb 23 New York, NY The Mercury Lounge
Feb 24 Brooklyn, NY
Feb 25 Poughkeepsie, NY Vassar College
Feb 26 Cambridge, MA The Middle East Upstairs
Feb 27 Montreal, Canada Casa Del Popolo
Feb 28 Toronto, Canada The Horseshoe Tavern
Feb 29 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Mar 1 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Mar 2 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club
Mar 5 Vancouver, Canada Pat's Pub
Mar 6 Seattle, WA TBA
Mar 7 Portland, OR Holocene
Mar 8 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill
Mar 9 Palo Alto, PA somewhere on the Stanford Campus
Mar 11 Echo Park, CA The Echo
Mar 16 SXSW

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BE THERE

w/ ILYAS AHMED
around and after 8 or 9 until like 11 or 12
so mellow
Proper Eats Vibratious I-tinual Raw Foods Restaurant and Lounge
St Johns
Portland
BE THERE, MON]]> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:07:15 -0700 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649440 Video of White Rainbow @ Towne Lounge 1/19/08 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649439 Jordan Dykstra filmed the entire white rainbow set at Towne Lounge at the show with Tres Gone and Citay on Saturday. Thanks man!

WHITE RAINBOW from Jordan Dykstra on Vimeo.]]> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:07:14 -0700 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649439 Awesome show at RAD SUMMER http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649438 Rad Summer, the Vintage Clothing Co-Op that Honey helps run. This one is also an art opening for some drawings and paintings by Jeff Kriksciun

WHITE RAINBOW, PLANKTON WAT (Dewey of Eternal Tapestry solo)
Art on the walls by Jeff Kriksciun
Sunday, January 27th 2008
RAD SUMMER
3611 SE DIVISION
Portland, OR
All Ages
FREE

]]> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:07:14 -0700 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649438 WHITE RAINBOW SHOWS IN SF & LA THIS WEEKEND http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649437
If you are in SF or LA come check out the awesome shows going down

SATURDAY FEB 2nd @ ELEANOR HARWOOD GALLERY S.F.
W/ LUCKY DRAGONS & A CLASSICAL INDIAN ENSEMBLE
8pm $8 All Ages
295 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
cross street is 25th
415. 867. 7770
(visit www.eleanorharwood.com to buy tickets)



SUNDAY FEB 3rd @ McCabe's Guitar Shop in SANTA MONICA
ARTHUR MAGAZINE PRESENTS
ENTRANCE GROUP
WHITE RAINBOW
WINTER FLOWERS
7pm $12 All Ages
Visit McCabes.com to get tickets]]> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:07:13 -0700 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649437 24 HOUR RAVE MAY 3RD 2008 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649436
24 Hour Concert & Vibe Zone_May 03, 2008! from Audio Dregs Recordings on Vimeo.

24 Hour Concert Vibe Zone & Double Record Release Party: featuring Strategy and The Eternal Now Jamm Squad PDX

24 hours: May 3rd 5 pm until Sunday May 4th 5 pm

@ Hippodrome,
SE 3rd behind Office Depot, below Rotture, used to be called Loveland, Meow Meow, etc)
free admission,
all ages,
all night.
bring a cushion!

This 24 hour long concert will have no breaks in music, and will take place inside an installed vibe zone at The Hippodrome. There will be psychedelic projections and ambient tone bursts from the largest Jamm Squad in Portland psychedelic history (featuring members of White Rainbow, Valet, E*Rock, Strategy, Rob Walmart, Dark Yoga, Jackie-O Motherfucker, and 71,000,000 other local drone/psychedelic/ambient bands TBA...)
This concert/installation is also a celebration of the new collection of ambient recordings by Strategy, entitled Music for Lamping (Audio Dregs Recordings) as well the release of Ambient Not Not Ambient compilation (Audio Dregs Recordings) which features such local musicians as White Rainbow (as heard in this clip), Valet, Yellow Swans, Grouper, E*Rock and Smoke & Mirrors .]]> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:07:13 -0700 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/649436 Valet covers Pearls Before Swine http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362024
surrealistic waltz]]> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:51:35 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362024 NEWS AS OF SATURDAY AUGUST 25TH 2007 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362023
Valet has been hard at work on a new record for Kranky, which will probably come out early next year. And she's got an awesome new seven-inch of the songs 'Fire' b/w 'Beach Gaze' on the new Burnt Brown Sounds Label out of Chicago. Aquarius has some now.

Two new White Rainbow releases are about to drop. Prism of Eternal Now CD on Kranky comes out October 1st. The double-vinyl gatefold fancy version on Marriage is available NOW. Secondly, the sequel to SunShifts called SKY DRIPS DRIFTS is coming out on States Rights very very very soon. White Rainbow will be on tour with Dirty Projectors and YACHT on the west coast in early September 2007. Check the white rainbow page or myspace or virb for the dates.

Valet, White Rainbow and Rob Walmart are all playing the second annual Halleluwah Festival here in Portland. This time Aug 31st thru Sept 2nd at Holocene, 21+. We play our own sets on friday the 31st and then on sunday the 2nd we play with Damo Suzuki as part of a portland improv super group of 'sound carriers' as part of Damo's ever expanding Network.



Also, this fall Valet and White Rainbow are playing an all-day festival at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California with a bunch of cool groups including Whysp, Akron Family and other weirdos. The show is called "((3D)) PICNIC: A Musical and Visual Arts Gathering." Saturday October 13th. Get in if you fit in! White Rainbow will be in full vibe-hut healing prism audio/video formation, after dusk.

Lots of famly-band collaboration going on all summer. I just helped T Greenwood and the JOMF crew finish up a new record called 'Valley of Fire', which should drop from the Textile label by year's end. Both Honey and I have been playing lots of cool jams with Adrian Orange and Curtis and anybody else who stops by the Marriage Records Official Jam Room and Club House upstairs from Yarnlazer HQ. Honey's been working with M. Evan Burden of Silentist on her new record, which is rad and cool. She's also working on starting a new vintage store in portland tentatively titled Rad Summer. No direct relation but also rad is my deeply un-official title of Assistant Regional Manager (Northwest and parts of Asia) of Rad Records Skateboards and Other Sundries, a new sub-label of Marriage Records curated by Kyle Field of Little Wings. People should check out the first release on Rad, Little Wings' Soft Pow'r.

Well thats the update for you, thanks for visiting! Drop us a line sometime! adamforkner()yahoo.com and honeyo()gmail.com

adam]]> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:51:34 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362023 NEW RELEASE: GALACTIC CORE http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362022
GALACTIC CORE: DIRECT TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE HUNABKU...its Brian Thackeray from Dark Yoga on some crazy fuzz freak-out guitar shredding, recorded with some homies from back east slamming drums (Matthew Clark) and moog bass swoop (Abel Okugawa) on a series of improv burners! recorded at Monkeyclaus, a studio and production facility located in the blue ridge mountains near charlottesville, virginia. covers were screened by brian and dan of dark yoga.....insert illustrated by Brian..

From the Galactic Core Myspace:

While receiving direct transmissions from the Hunab Ku on Summer Solstice 2007, Brian Thackeray, Matthew Clark, and Abel Okugawa recorded over two and a half hours of raw improvisations in the Monkeyclaus Studio. This took place just after a high noon Sun worship ritual. The session was then mixed a week later, as one 59 minute chron-illogical chunk of the transmission was chosen to be given to the people. The Mayan Factor can be credited with planting seeds, and at times clarifying certain far out notions that encouraged the creation of this particular music. Brian is known for his guitar shredding in West Coast pysche rock bands such as Dark Yoga, and Brave Priest. Matthew is the drummer for Ostinato as well as Grand Banks. Abel is the chief engineer of the Monkeyclaus studio and recorded the session, while laying down some heavy synths. Abel is a fountain of music.


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EDITION OF 100 CDs in hand-screened cases.
Most of them were sold on their brief east coast tour in Nov 2007.]]> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:51:34 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362022 officially now a bloughe http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362021 until its all finished, you can go to the old website here to look at all the old releases and stuff. hope to have the new site up and running soon.]]> Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:51:33 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/362021 Rob Walmart's Tom Blood: Oregon's Best Poet!!! http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/354086 The Sky Position (Published by Marriage Records) took the Grand Prize for Poetry at Literary Arts 2007 Oregon Book Awards
CONGRATULATIONS TOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ROB WALMART 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:15:55 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/354086 DARK YOGA LIVE BROADCAST HEAVY TRUTH - REPRESS http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/313109 DARK YOGA BREATH OF LIFE: LIVE BROADCAST HEAVY TRUTH (SECOND EDITION)

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Crucial re-press and re-design of the Dark Yoga CD that came out in very limited numbers a little while ago.

Dark Yoga is an obscure Northwest American Psychedelic NOW VIBRATIONAL Music Commune founded in early 06 by Adam Forkner, Honey Owens, Brian Thackeray, Matt McDowell, Aria Benner and Dan Barone. Dark Yoga's music is a heavy heavy weird brown fog of loose psychedelic improv in a fuzz-wah style with 70's Miles vibes, distant flutes, bongos, etc etc etc.

LIVE BROADCAST: HEAVY TRUTH is a Radio Transmission from the Spiritual Heart of this Commune at the Apex of their groove recorded in May of 2006. Its an hour-plus of continuos improvisation that wanders from heavy psyche fuzz funk to strange passages of pastoral hippy bongo and flute melt-downs, and everything in between...

EDITION OF 100 in hand-screened covers

now officially SOLD OUT!!

THANK YOU!!!!

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TUNNELS is Nicholas Samuel Bindeman (of Eternal Tapestry, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Hustler White, Malibu Flacon, Alarmist etc) in full-on beautiful pastoral dreamy psychedelic drifted drone mode. Colour Seance is four ambient clouds of gentle, blurred color-blasts of sampled/looped/delay-drenched guitars chimes, synths, voice, etc. that evolve in dream-time and slowly fold in on themselves. A key example of the power, breadth and sophistication of the Portland Psychedelic-Drone underground.

EDITION OF 100 IN HAND-SCREENED COVERS

now officially SOLD OUT!! ]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:25:39 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/313108 new yarn lazer vibe http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/313107 here is a picture of some stuff:
vision creation tree sun
trip on it

new glactic core (members of dark yoga) and strategy records will roll out this fall/winter. we'll let you know..

love

yarnlazer

ps honey started a vintage clothing store called RAD SUMMER in portland on SE division between 36th and 37th. it looks like this, rad floor paintexcept now it has lots of awesome clothes from the 60s 70s and 80s in it....beyond clothes she's gonna have lots of cool new obsure records, CDs, tapes, skateboards, art zines and other stuff. they also have a blog, linked in our links section, and a myspace which is myspace.com/radsummer check em out!]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:25:39 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/313107 NEWS AS OF SATURDAY MAY 19th: http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/313106 VALET WHITE RAINBOW GHOSTING CALIFORNIA TOUR MAY/JUNE 2007:


MAY 26th - LA - @ Mr T's Bowling Alley (as part of the Bottled Smoke Festival) (no WR or VALET)

MAY 27th - LA - @ The Echo Curio Gallery (as part of the Bottled Smoke Festival)White Rainbow, Valet, Ghosting, Gregg Kowalksy, Theo Angel & others

MAY - 28th - off

MAY 29th - SF - White Rainbow, Valet, Ghosting and Gowns @ Annies Social Club

MAY 30th - Oakland - Valet, White Rainbow, Ghosting/Axolotl colab, Crystal Village & Joshua Churchill @ The Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut

MAY 31st - off

JUNE 1st - Sacramento - White Rainbow, Valet, Ghosting, Faulouah @ Fools Foundation

JUNE 2nd - Woodland (outside of Davis) - White Rainbow, Valet, Ghosting & many more @ KDVS Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom Festival V all day festival of music


IN OTHER NEWS:

Tunnels 'Colour Seance' is sold out on our end. Try aquariusrecords.org, tomentosarecords.com volcanictongue.com....they may have some! Also try Nick/Tunnels if you see him at a show! He jams in JOMF and Eternal Tapestry too! We have a few more Dark Yoga 'Breath of Live: Live Broadcast Heavy Truth', but they are going fast.. email us or go to the aformentioned web stores to grab a copy!



COOL RUNNINGS MEANS PEACE BE THE JOURNEY!

]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:25:38 -0800 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/313106 MID MAY 2007 YARNMAN'S LAZER UPDATE http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/45373 Sat, 19 May 2007 13:01:49 -0700 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/45373 dark yoga temporarily out of stock http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/3639 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:05:45 -0700 http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/3639 ACRE "CANDYFLIPPING" AND DARK YOGA "LIVE ON KBOOZ" FINALLY OUT! http://virb.com/yarnlazer/posts/text/2341 ACRE "CANDYFLIPPING":
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Acre is our new friend Aaron, who recently moved to Portland from Olympia who knows his synthesis and plays extremely reduced, refined synesthesia-enducing and generally psychedelically affective minimal drone using a (again) minimal amount of equipment (including mixer feedback, sampler/loop, various filters, phase-shifters, tremelos and the like). For more info on Acre go HERE.
CANDYFLIPPING is three tracks of straight-up DENSE micro-tonal, synesthetic stereo brain-wave sync, hallucinatory DRONESCAPES that will seriously TRIP YOUR BALLS OFF.
edition of 100 copies SILK SCREENED WITH GLOW IN THE DARK INK HAPPY-FACE DEEP RAVE COVERS
CLICK HERE FOR ORDER INFO

Dark Yoga "Live on KBOO":
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Dark Yoga is an obscure Northwest American Psychedelic NOW VIBRATIONAL Music Commune founded in early 06 by Adam Forkner, Honey Owens, Brian Thackeray, Matt McDowell, Aria Benner and Dan Barone. Dark Yoga's music is a heavy heavy weird brown fog of loose psychedelic improv in a fuzz-wah style with 70's Miles vibes, distant flutes, bongos, etc etc etc.

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LIVE ON KBOO is a Radio Transmission from the Spiritual Heart of this Commune at the Apex of their groove recorded in May of 2006. Its an hour-plus of continuos improvisation that wanders from heavy psyche fuzz funk to strange passages of pastoral hippy bongo and flute melt-downs, and everything in between...
edition of 100 copies BUT WE HAVE A VERY LIMITED NUMBER ON HAND
CLICK HERE FOR ORDER INFO
(Live Dark Yoga Photos from 2007 © Michael J Demeo... more can be found HERE)
also check the criptic (ie not updated that much) Dark Yoga myspace

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