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Oxbow "1000 Hours" (Official Video)
The first single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by John David Levy
The inimitable four-piece OXBOW announce their first new music in six years with the anticipated release of Love’s Holiday.. The album is preceded by the lead single “1000 Hours”, a song featuring Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish/Beck).
About the track, vocalist and lyricist Eugene Robinson comments: “’1000 Hours’ for the OXBOW completist, 100 percent ties into our other song “1000,’ thematically in my mind. But filming the video, given that I just had surgery a few days before, felt very much like Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’ to me. You know where waiting to die never felt more beautiful, which really feels like the essence of love. Or at least one of them.”
Guitarist Niko Wen...
published: 18 Apr 2023
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Oxbow "Icy White & Crystalline" (Official Video)
The second single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Kiran Acharya (https://www.instagram.com/whoismrbishop)
Directed by Northern Irish filmmaker Kiran Acharya, the video for "Icy White & Crystalline" shows Oxbow as you've never seen them before, performing in San Francisco on the disused set of The Snow Queen. The video not only captures the band's ferocious live energy, but literally shows them in a new light. "Icy White & Crystalline is about as spontaneous as filmmaking can be," says Acharya. "We had many ideas on the go, including an abstract graphic approach inspired by the work of Josef Albers. But Eugene found the set of The Snow Queen with 24 hours to go and said "this is the place". We loaded in, set up as live, strapped an icicle to t...
published: 16 May 2023
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OXBOW "COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE"
"COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE" the first video from OXBOW's new album THIN BLACK DUKE, out May 5, 2017, on HYDRA HEAD INDUSTRIES.
Directed by Chris Purdie
RIFF.Underground - https://www.facebook.com/RIFF.Underground/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JiBDyelIiv4NjKmEamThQ
Second camera Pierre-Alain Clauzin
published: 14 Mar 2017
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Oxbow "Lovely Murk (ft. Lingua Ignota)"
Taken from the new album, Love's Holiday, in stores now:. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Zev Deans
About the video and track, Niko Wenner says;
"I started Lovely Murk in late 2011 imagining the perspective of my mother then dying from Alzheimer’s, and what it would feel like to lose everything, even one’s self. So personal, I kept the song for myself; she died in early 2012. But soon Lisa Meyer at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham England asked us to play, encouraging me to orchestrate a version for an Oxbow Orchestra performance. And eventually I was ready to record the song for our new Oxbow album Love’s Holiday, with new lyrics. I asked Kristin Hayter to create a Lingua Ignota choir using my melody from 2011, she also added voice over the bridge, altogether creating a stunning ...
published: 19 Jul 2023
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Oxbow "Gunwale" (Official Video)
"Gunwale" is from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday. Get it now at https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Director-Filmmaker-Editor: Annapaola Martin
Assistant: Xabier Iriondo
Special thanks to Chris Holden
"
If you listen to it, Gunwale is a sound wave that drags you away.
If you look at it, Gunwale is a journey on the surface of the water, on the border
between our reality and the world of abyss, where all of our dreams and fears
live.
Three men are trying to capture the stranger who comes from the sea: who’s the
Watcher that can see everything?" - Annapaola Martin
"I would record my improvised singing to each of my newborn kids going to sleep or when they would wake predawn needing a diaper or a bottle. Listening later I realized I was at concert pitch, oddly in-tune with the piano there i...
published: 17 Oct 2023
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Oxbow "Dead Ahead" (Official Video)
The third single from Oxbow's album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“’Dead Ahead’ was made to order for starting our new album, Love’s Holiday,” says guitarist/pianist Niko Wenner. “It is one of the few songs without choral singing and the only in D Minor, my co-producer in crime Joe Chiccarelli calling for fast and abrasive, it was birthed playing for my kids on an acoustic guitar given to me at age 6 and handmade before 1957 in Umeå, Sweden by Göran Frii. The recording features both the tiny toy tine piano Dan [Adams] gave our children and my 1981 white Stratocaster, the chorus adds a Little Big Muff Pi fuzz pedal I bought in 1979 from Tom Stevenson, my friend from age 4, recently deceased, who taught me to play AC/DC, Judas Priest and Van Halen son...
published: 20 Jun 2023
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Oxbow - Stallkicker (Live at the Vanguard, Los Angeles, 6 Jun 2006)
Taken from "Blood, Sweat + Vinyl - DIY in the 21st Century" documentary.
published: 03 Jan 2012
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Oxbow "The Night The Room Started Burning"
From the new album, Love's Holiday, out now. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“Lyrically it’s a purposeful take on Johnny Hartman’s ‘The Day the World Stopped Turning’ but instead of the power of love to alter our proximal relationships it’s, in my mind, all about the incendiary nature of suchlike love. It fulfills specifically because it fills you with that which burns. And that’s something that absolutely no one slow walks.” - Eugene Robinson
Niko Wenner comments, "I began the music for “The Night The Room Started Burning” on my fathers old folk/classical nylon string guitar, a tune to amuse my young son. My mother played clarinet in high school but it was my father who took me to see my first string quartet concert in Seattle when I was a kid, and who inspired my l...
published: 23 Aug 2023
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OXBOW - Down A Stair Backward
live @ La Villette Sonique 2011
camera :Romain Siergie & Mariexxme
edit :Mariexxme
son: Manuel Liebeskind
published: 10 Jun 2011
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Oxbow - Thin Black Duke ALBUM REVIEW
Listen: https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/track/letter-of-note
Thanks to Thin Black Duke's lavish orchestration and tour-de-force vocal performances from frontman Eugene Robinson, eminent underground rock outfit Oxbow has delivered a comeback album that leaves me lost for words for all the right reasons.
Buy this album: http://amzn.to/2vxVMr9
More rock reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP4CSgl7K7ori6-Iz-AWcX561iWCfapt_
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FAV TRACKS: COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE, ECCE HOMO, A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMA...
published: 07 Aug 2017
6:01
Oxbow "1000 Hours" (Official Video)
The first single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by John David Levy
The inimitable four-piece OXBOW announce their ...
The first single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by John David Levy
The inimitable four-piece OXBOW announce their first new music in six years with the anticipated release of Love’s Holiday.. The album is preceded by the lead single “1000 Hours”, a song featuring Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish/Beck).
About the track, vocalist and lyricist Eugene Robinson comments: “’1000 Hours’ for the OXBOW completist, 100 percent ties into our other song “1000,’ thematically in my mind. But filming the video, given that I just had surgery a few days before, felt very much like Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’ to me. You know where waiting to die never felt more beautiful, which really feels like the essence of love. Or at least one of them.”
Guitarist Niko Wenner adds: “’1000 Hours’ began life with the bright, extroverted feel you hear most, but inevitably the darker introspective mood of the coda and intro emerged. Both qualities are essential to Love’s Holiday. Roger (backing vocals), John (video director) and Joe Chiccarelli (co-producer of Love’s Holiday with Wenner) all did extraordinary work to heighten these emotions.”
Previous OXBOW albums found their impetus in a lyrical framework provided by Robinson, with Wenner applying his musical compositions to the singer’s narratives. However, Love’s Holiday began with the music. “The music was chiefly inspired by and written for my family. We’ve had two children born and my father die while writing and working on this record,” Wenner says. “The songs are just a collection of music that I sang to my babies and then wrote guitar parts for, and brought to the band as, OXBOW songs.” Love, the guitar confirms was the organizing principle behind these songs, even if they still carry the band’s signature brand of drama and conflict.
“I’ve always been chagrined that no one understood that our songs were love songs,” Robinson says while reflecting on the band’s output from the last 35 years. Love may not have been the most obvious music in their earlier work, but the subject has never been more obvious now.
One of the more apparent manifestations of this new approach is the orchestration on Love’s Holiday. OXBOW has often employed auxiliary instrumentation as an addendum to the guitars on their recordings, but this time around, human voices are the primary addition. Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) lends her soaring, operatic vocals to “Lovely Murk,” while the layered choral bed of “1000 Hours” was provided by Roger Joseph Manning Jr (Jellyfish/Beck). The album also features a 15-person choir plus strings, oboe, flute, and clarinet.
For the differences in the process, Love’s Holiday is still very much an OXBOW album. Across its 10 tracks, Love’s Holiday feels feverish, disorienting, hostile, beguiling, defeated, and triumphant.
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Oct 20 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
Oct 21 Portland, ME SPACE
Oct 22 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
Nov 5 Seattle, WA Substation
Nov 6 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
Nov 7 Portland, OR State Theatre
Nov 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Nov 10 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
Nov 11 Mesa, AZ Pub Rock
Nov 12 Austin, TX Mohawk
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love.
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
https://wn.com/Oxbow_1000_Hours_(Official_Video)
The first single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by John David Levy
The inimitable four-piece OXBOW announce their first new music in six years with the anticipated release of Love’s Holiday.. The album is preceded by the lead single “1000 Hours”, a song featuring Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish/Beck).
About the track, vocalist and lyricist Eugene Robinson comments: “’1000 Hours’ for the OXBOW completist, 100 percent ties into our other song “1000,’ thematically in my mind. But filming the video, given that I just had surgery a few days before, felt very much like Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’ to me. You know where waiting to die never felt more beautiful, which really feels like the essence of love. Or at least one of them.”
Guitarist Niko Wenner adds: “’1000 Hours’ began life with the bright, extroverted feel you hear most, but inevitably the darker introspective mood of the coda and intro emerged. Both qualities are essential to Love’s Holiday. Roger (backing vocals), John (video director) and Joe Chiccarelli (co-producer of Love’s Holiday with Wenner) all did extraordinary work to heighten these emotions.”
Previous OXBOW albums found their impetus in a lyrical framework provided by Robinson, with Wenner applying his musical compositions to the singer’s narratives. However, Love’s Holiday began with the music. “The music was chiefly inspired by and written for my family. We’ve had two children born and my father die while writing and working on this record,” Wenner says. “The songs are just a collection of music that I sang to my babies and then wrote guitar parts for, and brought to the band as, OXBOW songs.” Love, the guitar confirms was the organizing principle behind these songs, even if they still carry the band’s signature brand of drama and conflict.
“I’ve always been chagrined that no one understood that our songs were love songs,” Robinson says while reflecting on the band’s output from the last 35 years. Love may not have been the most obvious music in their earlier work, but the subject has never been more obvious now.
One of the more apparent manifestations of this new approach is the orchestration on Love’s Holiday. OXBOW has often employed auxiliary instrumentation as an addendum to the guitars on their recordings, but this time around, human voices are the primary addition. Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) lends her soaring, operatic vocals to “Lovely Murk,” while the layered choral bed of “1000 Hours” was provided by Roger Joseph Manning Jr (Jellyfish/Beck). The album also features a 15-person choir plus strings, oboe, flute, and clarinet.
For the differences in the process, Love’s Holiday is still very much an OXBOW album. Across its 10 tracks, Love’s Holiday feels feverish, disorienting, hostile, beguiling, defeated, and triumphant.
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Oct 20 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
Oct 21 Portland, ME SPACE
Oct 22 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
Nov 5 Seattle, WA Substation
Nov 6 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
Nov 7 Portland, OR State Theatre
Nov 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Nov 10 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
Nov 11 Mesa, AZ Pub Rock
Nov 12 Austin, TX Mohawk
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love.
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
- published: 18 Apr 2023
- views: 23542
3:47
Oxbow "Icy White & Crystalline" (Official Video)
The second single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Kiran Acharya (https://www.instagram.com/whoismrbishop)
Direct...
The second single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Kiran Acharya (https://www.instagram.com/whoismrbishop)
Directed by Northern Irish filmmaker Kiran Acharya, the video for "Icy White & Crystalline" shows Oxbow as you've never seen them before, performing in San Francisco on the disused set of The Snow Queen. The video not only captures the band's ferocious live energy, but literally shows them in a new light. "Icy White & Crystalline is about as spontaneous as filmmaking can be," says Acharya. "We had many ideas on the go, including an abstract graphic approach inspired by the work of Josef Albers. But Eugene found the set of The Snow Queen with 24 hours to go and said "this is the place". We loaded in, set up as live, strapped an icicle to the microphone and went for it." The result speak's to Oxbow's formidable reputation as performers, showcasing one of the most direct songs on Love's Holiday. Neither the band nor director knew how things would turn out, joking that they ended up with something like 'Shiny Happy People, directed by David Lynch'.
About the making of the video Eugene S. Robinson comments, "Funny going all the way to a UK-based filmmaker/journo from Belfast in Kiran Acharya for directing the video for Icy White & Crystalline but if you take the same elements and expect something different, you're on the road to madness. Which is precisely why we used wildly disparate elements to visualize our first "live" music video for Love's Holiday. Sixteen takes all the way through...'you don't know how...hearts burn" is the opening lyric. For probably the best of all reasons here: this video almost killed us to make."
Niko Wenner continues, "Icy White & Crystalline” began as a blown-out ferocious rehearsal phone-recording we've aimed to match in high fidelity, the bridge another improv, the two joined make a classic Oxbow banger we’ll doubtless rock live for as long as we plug-in. Enjoy!"
Check out the first single "1000 Hours (ft. Roger Joseph Manning Jr.)" at https://youtu.be/1v2j1EjNIdI
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Oct 20 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
Oct 21 Portland, ME SPACE
Oct 22 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
Nov 5 Seattle, WA Substation
Nov 6 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
Nov 7 Portland, OR State Theatre
Nov 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Nov 10 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
Nov 11 Mesa, AZ Pub Rock
Nov 12 Austin, TX Mohawk
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love.
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
https://wn.com/Oxbow_Icy_White_Crystalline_(Official_Video)
The second single from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Kiran Acharya (https://www.instagram.com/whoismrbishop)
Directed by Northern Irish filmmaker Kiran Acharya, the video for "Icy White & Crystalline" shows Oxbow as you've never seen them before, performing in San Francisco on the disused set of The Snow Queen. The video not only captures the band's ferocious live energy, but literally shows them in a new light. "Icy White & Crystalline is about as spontaneous as filmmaking can be," says Acharya. "We had many ideas on the go, including an abstract graphic approach inspired by the work of Josef Albers. But Eugene found the set of The Snow Queen with 24 hours to go and said "this is the place". We loaded in, set up as live, strapped an icicle to the microphone and went for it." The result speak's to Oxbow's formidable reputation as performers, showcasing one of the most direct songs on Love's Holiday. Neither the band nor director knew how things would turn out, joking that they ended up with something like 'Shiny Happy People, directed by David Lynch'.
About the making of the video Eugene S. Robinson comments, "Funny going all the way to a UK-based filmmaker/journo from Belfast in Kiran Acharya for directing the video for Icy White & Crystalline but if you take the same elements and expect something different, you're on the road to madness. Which is precisely why we used wildly disparate elements to visualize our first "live" music video for Love's Holiday. Sixteen takes all the way through...'you don't know how...hearts burn" is the opening lyric. For probably the best of all reasons here: this video almost killed us to make."
Niko Wenner continues, "Icy White & Crystalline” began as a blown-out ferocious rehearsal phone-recording we've aimed to match in high fidelity, the bridge another improv, the two joined make a classic Oxbow banger we’ll doubtless rock live for as long as we plug-in. Enjoy!"
Check out the first single "1000 Hours (ft. Roger Joseph Manning Jr.)" at https://youtu.be/1v2j1EjNIdI
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Oct 20 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
Oct 21 Portland, ME SPACE
Oct 22 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
Nov 5 Seattle, WA Substation
Nov 6 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
Nov 7 Portland, OR State Theatre
Nov 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Nov 10 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
Nov 11 Mesa, AZ Pub Rock
Nov 12 Austin, TX Mohawk
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love.
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
- published: 16 May 2023
- views: 18978
4:52
OXBOW "COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE"
"COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE" the first video from OXBOW's new album THIN BLACK DUKE, out May 5, 2017, on HYDRA HEAD INDUSTRIES.
Directed by Chris Purdie
RIFF.Underg...
"COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE" the first video from OXBOW's new album THIN BLACK DUKE, out May 5, 2017, on HYDRA HEAD INDUSTRIES.
Directed by Chris Purdie
RIFF.Underground - https://www.facebook.com/RIFF.Underground/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JiBDyelIiv4NjKmEamThQ
Second camera Pierre-Alain Clauzin
https://wn.com/Oxbow_Cold_Well_Lit_Place
"COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE" the first video from OXBOW's new album THIN BLACK DUKE, out May 5, 2017, on HYDRA HEAD INDUSTRIES.
Directed by Chris Purdie
RIFF.Underground - https://www.facebook.com/RIFF.Underground/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JiBDyelIiv4NjKmEamThQ
Second camera Pierre-Alain Clauzin
- published: 14 Mar 2017
- views: 151386
5:26
Oxbow "Lovely Murk (ft. Lingua Ignota)"
Taken from the new album, Love's Holiday, in stores now:. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Zev Deans
About the video and track, Niko Wenner says;
"I star...
Taken from the new album, Love's Holiday, in stores now:. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Zev Deans
About the video and track, Niko Wenner says;
"I started Lovely Murk in late 2011 imagining the perspective of my mother then dying from Alzheimer’s, and what it would feel like to lose everything, even one’s self. So personal, I kept the song for myself; she died in early 2012. But soon Lisa Meyer at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham England asked us to play, encouraging me to orchestrate a version for an Oxbow Orchestra performance. And eventually I was ready to record the song for our new Oxbow album Love’s Holiday, with new lyrics. I asked Kristin Hayter to create a Lingua Ignota choir using my melody from 2011, she also added voice over the bridge, altogether creating a stunning and essential addition. A long journey for what for me is a beautiful, powerful song, made with love."
Eugene S. Robinson continues,
"My favourite part of filming the entire video was during a break in the recording when the home owner of the historically significant house in Pennsylvania where we recorded it, walked into a room where I was sitting and screamed on account of him believing I was an actual ghost. In his mind I guess 17th century ghosts have iPhones."
"When Kristin's voice comes swelling up in the song's centre, right about the time my dying and almost dead carcass ascends to the sky gods, I actually had a moment where it felt like that's precisely and 'for real' what was happening. Her voice, my voice, the voices all contributed to...yes: that feeling of... release."
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday formats, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love.
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
VIDEO CREDITS
Directed by Zev Deans
DP: Christopher Raymond
Drone Operator: Daniel Feighery
Gaffer: Luke Martin
Locations: Troy Coffee
Locations ASST: Reetu Shah
MUA: Ali Ciotto
Fencing Choreo: Daniel Feighery
Line Producer: Paula Armas
Duelists:
Eugene Robinson & Erica Densmore
Niko Wenner & Al Groppi
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
https://wn.com/Oxbow_Lovely_Murk_(Ft._Lingua_Ignota)
Taken from the new album, Love's Holiday, in stores now:. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Zev Deans
About the video and track, Niko Wenner says;
"I started Lovely Murk in late 2011 imagining the perspective of my mother then dying from Alzheimer’s, and what it would feel like to lose everything, even one’s self. So personal, I kept the song for myself; she died in early 2012. But soon Lisa Meyer at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham England asked us to play, encouraging me to orchestrate a version for an Oxbow Orchestra performance. And eventually I was ready to record the song for our new Oxbow album Love’s Holiday, with new lyrics. I asked Kristin Hayter to create a Lingua Ignota choir using my melody from 2011, she also added voice over the bridge, altogether creating a stunning and essential addition. A long journey for what for me is a beautiful, powerful song, made with love."
Eugene S. Robinson continues,
"My favourite part of filming the entire video was during a break in the recording when the home owner of the historically significant house in Pennsylvania where we recorded it, walked into a room where I was sitting and screamed on account of him believing I was an actual ghost. In his mind I guess 17th century ghosts have iPhones."
"When Kristin's voice comes swelling up in the song's centre, right about the time my dying and almost dead carcass ascends to the sky gods, I actually had a moment where it felt like that's precisely and 'for real' what was happening. Her voice, my voice, the voices all contributed to...yes: that feeling of... release."
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday formats, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love.
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
VIDEO CREDITS
Directed by Zev Deans
DP: Christopher Raymond
Drone Operator: Daniel Feighery
Gaffer: Luke Martin
Locations: Troy Coffee
Locations ASST: Reetu Shah
MUA: Ali Ciotto
Fencing Choreo: Daniel Feighery
Line Producer: Paula Armas
Duelists:
Eugene Robinson & Erica Densmore
Niko Wenner & Al Groppi
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
- published: 19 Jul 2023
- views: 18996
5:01
Oxbow "Gunwale" (Official Video)
"Gunwale" is from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday. Get it now at https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Director-Filmmaker-Editor: Annapaola Martin
Assistant: Xabier Iri...
"Gunwale" is from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday. Get it now at https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Director-Filmmaker-Editor: Annapaola Martin
Assistant: Xabier Iriondo
Special thanks to Chris Holden
"
If you listen to it, Gunwale is a sound wave that drags you away.
If you look at it, Gunwale is a journey on the surface of the water, on the border
between our reality and the world of abyss, where all of our dreams and fears
live.
Three men are trying to capture the stranger who comes from the sea: who’s the
Watcher that can see everything?" - Annapaola Martin
"I would record my improvised singing to each of my newborn kids going to sleep or when they would wake predawn needing a diaper or a bottle. Listening later I realized I was at concert pitch, oddly in-tune with the piano there in the dark, often straight from sleep. A real discovery after a lifetime of singing. This particular melody which became the song “Gunwale,” sung to my intently focused baby boy one early morning in 2018, fit a D Major blues. I arranged the melody for a 15 voice mixed choir and we recorded two layers in the studio. We had used our final bass, drums, and guitar take, the only one with an extended improv at the end. Protools crashed midway in the first vocal take so we had to restart from there; the final choir chord gave me a shiver of pleasure hearing it sung in the studio the first time. One of my favorite moments on Love’s Holiday." - Niko Wenner
"Gunwale and the gerund form “gunwaling” describes a trick that you use when/if you’ve lost your paddles and it sees you standing at the boat’s stern ON the stern and moving the boat by squatting and then standing. The lyric itself? Nothing at all to do with that. And yet it does.” - Eugene S. Robinson
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
https://wn.com/Oxbow_Gunwale_(Official_Video)
"Gunwale" is from Oxbow's new album, Love's Holiday. Get it now at https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Director-Filmmaker-Editor: Annapaola Martin
Assistant: Xabier Iriondo
Special thanks to Chris Holden
"
If you listen to it, Gunwale is a sound wave that drags you away.
If you look at it, Gunwale is a journey on the surface of the water, on the border
between our reality and the world of abyss, where all of our dreams and fears
live.
Three men are trying to capture the stranger who comes from the sea: who’s the
Watcher that can see everything?" - Annapaola Martin
"I would record my improvised singing to each of my newborn kids going to sleep or when they would wake predawn needing a diaper or a bottle. Listening later I realized I was at concert pitch, oddly in-tune with the piano there in the dark, often straight from sleep. A real discovery after a lifetime of singing. This particular melody which became the song “Gunwale,” sung to my intently focused baby boy one early morning in 2018, fit a D Major blues. I arranged the melody for a 15 voice mixed choir and we recorded two layers in the studio. We had used our final bass, drums, and guitar take, the only one with an extended improv at the end. Protools crashed midway in the first vocal take so we had to restart from there; the final choir chord gave me a shiver of pleasure hearing it sung in the studio the first time. One of my favorite moments on Love’s Holiday." - Niko Wenner
"Gunwale and the gerund form “gunwaling” describes a trick that you use when/if you’ve lost your paddles and it sees you standing at the boat’s stern ON the stern and moving the boat by squatting and then standing. The lyric itself? Nothing at all to do with that. And yet it does.” - Eugene S. Robinson
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
- published: 17 Oct 2023
- views: 4636
4:00
Oxbow "Dead Ahead" (Official Video)
The third single from Oxbow's album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“’Dead Ahead’ was made to order for starting our new ...
The third single from Oxbow's album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“’Dead Ahead’ was made to order for starting our new album, Love’s Holiday,” says guitarist/pianist Niko Wenner. “It is one of the few songs without choral singing and the only in D Minor, my co-producer in crime Joe Chiccarelli calling for fast and abrasive, it was birthed playing for my kids on an acoustic guitar given to me at age 6 and handmade before 1957 in Umeå, Sweden by Göran Frii. The recording features both the tiny toy tine piano Dan [Adams] gave our children and my 1981 white Stratocaster, the chorus adds a Little Big Muff Pi fuzz pedal I bought in 1979 from Tom Stevenson, my friend from age 4, recently deceased, who taught me to play AC/DC, Judas Priest and Van Halen songs. RIP and rock on, Tommy.”
On the Chris Purdie-directed video, who also created a pair of clips for the band’s 2017 album, Thin Black Duke, vocalist Eugene Robinson shares: “This may be the only video wherein we appear just as actors/characters and while the gaming scene recalls nothing if not Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal,’ the lyric is pure OXBOW: ‘This god of love destroys and creates’…indubitably.”
Purdie adds: “The concept for the mirrors used in ‘Dead Ahead’ were inspired by Orson Welles noir, ‘The Lady From Shanghai,’ a film partly based in and around San Francisco. The idea of mirrors and reflection were used to evoke themes of duality, and the idea that there are multiple perspectives, or that things aren’t entirely as they seem.”
The Bay Area quartet have simultaneously announced their first tour dates in support of the 10-song album, with both east and west coast swings slated for this Fall. Tickets for all shows are on-sale now, with ticketing links and additional details available here.
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love. OXBOW previously released two previews from the upcoming collection: “Icy White & Crystalline,” a pulsing song with an equally dynamic live clip, and “1000 Hours,” which Stereogum described as “a rumbling, wide-open landscape that sort of sounds like an apocalyptic yet hopeful Soundgarden song produced by Mark Hollis.”
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg David (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.facebook.com/OXBOW
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
http://www.instagram.com/oxbow_the_band
https://wn.com/Oxbow_Dead_Ahead_(Official_Video)
The third single from Oxbow's album, Love's Holiday: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“’Dead Ahead’ was made to order for starting our new album, Love’s Holiday,” says guitarist/pianist Niko Wenner. “It is one of the few songs without choral singing and the only in D Minor, my co-producer in crime Joe Chiccarelli calling for fast and abrasive, it was birthed playing for my kids on an acoustic guitar given to me at age 6 and handmade before 1957 in Umeå, Sweden by Göran Frii. The recording features both the tiny toy tine piano Dan [Adams] gave our children and my 1981 white Stratocaster, the chorus adds a Little Big Muff Pi fuzz pedal I bought in 1979 from Tom Stevenson, my friend from age 4, recently deceased, who taught me to play AC/DC, Judas Priest and Van Halen songs. RIP and rock on, Tommy.”
On the Chris Purdie-directed video, who also created a pair of clips for the band’s 2017 album, Thin Black Duke, vocalist Eugene Robinson shares: “This may be the only video wherein we appear just as actors/characters and while the gaming scene recalls nothing if not Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal,’ the lyric is pure OXBOW: ‘This god of love destroys and creates’…indubitably.”
Purdie adds: “The concept for the mirrors used in ‘Dead Ahead’ were inspired by Orson Welles noir, ‘The Lady From Shanghai,’ a film partly based in and around San Francisco. The idea of mirrors and reflection were used to evoke themes of duality, and the idea that there are multiple perspectives, or that things aren’t entirely as they seem.”
The Bay Area quartet have simultaneously announced their first tour dates in support of the 10-song album, with both east and west coast swings slated for this Fall. Tickets for all shows are on-sale now, with ticketing links and additional details available here.
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
Love’s Holiday pre-orders, including limited-edition indie exclusive red and Ipecac.com marbled grey vinyl variants, as well as standard vinyl, CD and digital, are available now: https://oxbow.lnk.to/love. OXBOW previously released two previews from the upcoming collection: “Icy White & Crystalline,” a pulsing song with an equally dynamic live clip, and “1000 Hours,” which Stereogum described as “a rumbling, wide-open landscape that sort of sounds like an apocalyptic yet hopeful Soundgarden song produced by Mark Hollis.”
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg David (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.facebook.com/OXBOW
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
http://www.instagram.com/oxbow_the_band
- published: 20 Jun 2023
- views: 13644
4:58
Oxbow "The Night The Room Started Burning"
From the new album, Love's Holiday, out now. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“Lyrically it’s a purposeful take on Johnny Hartman’s ‘The Da...
From the new album, Love's Holiday, out now. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“Lyrically it’s a purposeful take on Johnny Hartman’s ‘The Day the World Stopped Turning’ but instead of the power of love to alter our proximal relationships it’s, in my mind, all about the incendiary nature of suchlike love. It fulfills specifically because it fills you with that which burns. And that’s something that absolutely no one slow walks.” - Eugene Robinson
Niko Wenner comments, "I began the music for “The Night The Room Started Burning” on my fathers old folk/classical nylon string guitar, a tune to amuse my young son. My mother played clarinet in high school but it was my father who took me to see my first string quartet concert in Seattle when I was a kid, and who inspired my love for classical music. Including, as an influence heard in this song, baroque period music. “What’s not to like about baroque music? You can dance to it, it’s got a beat!”
Wenner continues, "And you can hear the steady dance rhythm in ...Room Burning. And a bit of baroque style in the way the guitar line sounds like two voices in a call and response, first higher “bah bah dee bah dee dee,” and the second, lower, answering the first and going down “BAH BAH BAH.” And of course the choir. The elephant in the room here is the guy, baroque composer J.S. Bach, whose name we should never speak in the same breath as our own, from humility, and respect. Enjoy."
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
https://wn.com/Oxbow_The_Night_The_Room_Started_Burning
From the new album, Love's Holiday, out now. https://oxbow.lnk.to/love
Directed by Chris Purdie
“Lyrically it’s a purposeful take on Johnny Hartman’s ‘The Day the World Stopped Turning’ but instead of the power of love to alter our proximal relationships it’s, in my mind, all about the incendiary nature of suchlike love. It fulfills specifically because it fills you with that which burns. And that’s something that absolutely no one slow walks.” - Eugene Robinson
Niko Wenner comments, "I began the music for “The Night The Room Started Burning” on my fathers old folk/classical nylon string guitar, a tune to amuse my young son. My mother played clarinet in high school but it was my father who took me to see my first string quartet concert in Seattle when I was a kid, and who inspired my love for classical music. Including, as an influence heard in this song, baroque period music. “What’s not to like about baroque music? You can dance to it, it’s got a beat!”
Wenner continues, "And you can hear the steady dance rhythm in ...Room Burning. And a bit of baroque style in the way the guitar line sounds like two voices in a call and response, first higher “bah bah dee bah dee dee,” and the second, lower, answering the first and going down “BAH BAH BAH.” And of course the choir. The elephant in the room here is the guy, baroque composer J.S. Bach, whose name we should never speak in the same breath as our own, from humility, and respect. Enjoy."
OXBOW LIVE DATES
Sunday, June 16, 2024 CH Zurich X-tra w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 17, 2024 IT Milan Magnolia w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 DE Munich Feierwerk
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 DE Berlin Huxleys w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Friday, June 21, 2024 FR Bourlon Rock In Bourlon
Saturday, June 22, 2024 NL Den Haag Paard
Sunday, June 23, 2024 LUX Luxembourg Atelier w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Monday, June 24, 2024 NL Tilburg O13 w/ Mr. Bungle, Spotlights
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 DE Karlsruhe Jubez
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 CH Geneva Cave12
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FR Gigors-et-Lozeron CBGC
Friday, June 28, 2024 FR Pau La Ferronnerie
Love’s Holiday cover by Aaron Turner
Love’s Holiday track listing:
1. Dead Ahead
2. Icy White & Crystalline
3. Lovely Murk
4. 1000 Hours
5. All Gone
6. The Night The Room Started Burning
7. “ “
8. Million Dollar Weekend
9. The Second Talk
10. Gunwale
OXBOW is Dan Adams (electrical/acoustic bass), Greg Davis (drums/percussion), Eugene S. Robinson (vocals), and Niko Wenner (guitars/pianos). The San Francisco-born band have released seven studio albums since their inception in 1988, with Pitchfork saying the foursome have released “some of the most eccentric heavy music albums ever.”
http://www.theoxbow.com
http://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com
http://www.instagram.com/oxbowtheband
- published: 23 Aug 2023
- views: 6922
4:45
OXBOW - Down A Stair Backward
live @ La Villette Sonique 2011
camera :Romain Siergie & Mariexxme
edit :Mariexxme
son: Manuel Liebeskind
live @ La Villette Sonique 2011
camera :Romain Siergie & Mariexxme
edit :Mariexxme
son: Manuel Liebeskind
https://wn.com/Oxbow_Down_A_Stair_Backward
live @ La Villette Sonique 2011
camera :Romain Siergie & Mariexxme
edit :Mariexxme
son: Manuel Liebeskind
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 68733
6:39
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke ALBUM REVIEW
Listen: https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/track/letter-of-note
Thanks to Thin Black Duke's lavish orchestration and tour-de-force vocal performances from fron...
Listen: https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/track/letter-of-note
Thanks to Thin Black Duke's lavish orchestration and tour-de-force vocal performances from frontman Eugene Robinson, eminent underground rock outfit Oxbow has delivered a comeback album that leaves me lost for words for all the right reasons.
Buy this album: http://amzn.to/2vxVMr9
More rock reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP4CSgl7K7ori6-Iz-AWcX561iWCfapt_
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FAV TRACKS: COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE, ECCE HOMO, A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN, LETTER OF NOTE, HOST, THE FINISHED LINE
LEAST FAV TRACK: OTHER PEOPLE (if I had to pick)
OXBOW - THIN BLACK DUKE / 2017 / HYDRA HEAD / ART ROCK, EXPERIMENTAL ROCK, CHAMBER MUSIC, NOISE ROCK
8/10 http://www.theneedledrop.com/loved-list/2017/1/loved-list-2017
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
https://wn.com/Oxbow_Thin_Black_Duke_Album_Review
Listen: https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/track/letter-of-note
Thanks to Thin Black Duke's lavish orchestration and tour-de-force vocal performances from frontman Eugene Robinson, eminent underground rock outfit Oxbow has delivered a comeback album that leaves me lost for words for all the right reasons.
Buy this album: http://amzn.to/2vxVMr9
More rock reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP4CSgl7K7ori6-Iz-AWcX561iWCfapt_
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FAV TRACKS: COLD & WELL-LIT PLACE, ECCE HOMO, A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN, LETTER OF NOTE, HOST, THE FINISHED LINE
LEAST FAV TRACK: OTHER PEOPLE (if I had to pick)
OXBOW - THIN BLACK DUKE / 2017 / HYDRA HEAD / ART ROCK, EXPERIMENTAL ROCK, CHAMBER MUSIC, NOISE ROCK
8/10 http://www.theneedledrop.com/loved-list/2017/1/loved-list-2017
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
- published: 07 Aug 2017
- views: 96793