Late Show
The Echo Friendly
Thieving Irons
Tue, September 18, 2012
Doors: 9:30 pm
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY
$10
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The Echo Friendly - (Set time: 10:30 PM)
Jake Rabinbach and Shannon Esper are best friends, ex-lovers, who live two blocks away from each other in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and sing together in the Echo Friendly. They have released one single "Same Mistakes" with Cantora records and are preparing to release their debut full length in 2013. Recorded at High/Low studios in Memphis, TN with Jake Vest and Greg Faison, the record will chronicle their turbulent relationship in a moody song cycle equal parts digital age correspondence and anthemic pop. Live, The Echo Friendly play as a 5-piece band in the New York area.
Thieving Irons - (Set time: 9:30 PM)
Brooklyn dream rockers, Thieving Irons, are proud to announce the release of their second LP, Behold, This Dreamer!, an ethereal, lyrical exploration of texture and sound from a group of seasoned and acclaimed musicians. The songs and themes of Behold, This Dreamer! are a nuanced study in perspective; offering, at once, a bird’s-eye-view and telescopic lens. Rarely are the songs outright declarations, but rather multi-layered awakenings; true sonic translations of a sense of awe.
Nate Martinez started Thieving Irons in late 2009 during the break-up of his band, Pela. The first album, Midnight Hum released in 2010, was met with critical acclaim, named a “blissed-out alt-country epic” by Gothamist and an album of “beautifully textured indie folk, highlighted by Martinez’s distinctive voice” by KEXP. There is a sense of relief about Behold, This Dreamer! a musical departure discovered in re-positioning toward a new, directed path to joy.
Martinez has been involved in familiar indie staples for over a decade. He has recorded and toured with The National and was a founding member of Pela. He also had a hand in the writing and production of Pela's last album, We Are Augustines’ debut, “Rise Ye Sunken Ships”. He has been playing music with close friends, Josh Kaufman (Josh Ritter, Bob Weir, Dawn Landes) and Andy Nauss in several other projects for the past 15 years. They met while at college in New Paltz, NY and immediately discovered a musical kinship, starting their first band 2 weeks into freshman year. Martinez met Dan Brantigan (Kaki King) through a mutual friend at a coffee shop where Martinez worked in 2005. They immediately hit it off and Martinez asked Brantigan to play trumpet with Pela for their shows in New York. This planted the seed of collaboration between Brantigan and Martinez.
In the winter of 2011 Martinez set off to begin writing the next album in between a couple tours playing guitar for Alexi Murdoch. While in Chicago he walked into an old bookstore seeking inspiration. Inspiration he found- while combing the aisles he stumbled on a book entitled 'Behold, This Dreamer!' which ultimately became the name of the album. Throughout the spring and summer of 2011 Martinez finished writing the songs for the album and recruited Brantigan, Kaufman, and Nauss to join him for the recording. During this time Martinez met D. James Goodwin, whose in-studio talents would prove to be a perfect marriage for the songs and the group. The album was recorded mostly live in Woodstock, NY at D.James Goodwin's Isokon Studios with Martinez and Kaufman producing and D.James Goodwin engineering, mixing and mastering. Thieving Irons is a collective of close friends navigating together through dense sonic terrain with Martinez's songs as the guides. Each one providing a sense of comfort while also implying that there is no safety net. We're all in a free fall so we might as well wake up and enjoy the ride.
Martinez has been involved in familiar indie staples for over a decade. He has recorded and toured with The National and was a founding member of Pela. He also had a hand in the writing and production of Pela's last album, We Are Augustines’ debut, “Rise Ye Sunken Ships”. He has been playing music with close friends, Josh Kaufman (Josh Ritter, Bob Weir, Dawn Landes) and Andy Nauss in several other projects for the past 15 years. They met while at college in New Paltz, NY and immediately discovered a musical kinship, starting their first band 2 weeks into freshman year. Martinez met Dan Brantigan (Kaki King) through a mutual friend at a coffee shop where Martinez worked in 2005. They immediately hit it off and Martinez asked Brantigan to play trumpet with Pela for their shows in New York. This planted the seed of collaboration between Brantigan and Martinez.
In the winter of 2011 Martinez set off to begin writing the next album in between a couple tours playing guitar for Alexi Murdoch. While in Chicago he walked into an old bookstore seeking inspiration. Inspiration he found- while combing the aisles he stumbled on a book entitled 'Behold, This Dreamer!' which ultimately became the name of the album. Throughout the spring and summer of 2011 Martinez finished writing the songs for the album and recruited Brantigan, Kaufman, and Nauss to join him for the recording. During this time Martinez met D. James Goodwin, whose in-studio talents would prove to be a perfect marriage for the songs and the group. The album was recorded mostly live in Woodstock, NY at D.James Goodwin's Isokon Studios with Martinez and Kaufman producing and D.James Goodwin engineering, mixing and mastering. Thieving Irons is a collective of close friends navigating together through dense sonic terrain with Martinez's songs as the guides. Each one providing a sense of comfort while also implying that there is no safety net. We're all in a free fall so we might as well wake up and enjoy the ride.
