Here are some shows we're doing really soon with our good friends from Baltimore, Celebration, from Oct 25th through Oct 30.
Tuesday, October 25- Arbouretum+Celebration+White Tiger and the Bed of Roses
Reggie's 42nd Street Tavern, Wilmington NC
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Wednesday, October 26- Arbouretum+Celebration
The Tin Roof, Charleston SC
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Thursday, October 27- Arbouretum+Celebration+Back Pockets
The Earl, Atlanta GA
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Friday, October 28- Arbouretum+Celebration+The Moaners
World Famous Milestone Club, Charlotte, NC
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Saturday, October 29- Arbouretum+Celebration+the Judas Horse+The Moaners
The Get Down, Asheville NC
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Sunday, October 30- Arbouretum+Celebration+The Moaners
The Nightlight, Chapel Hill NC
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
October Shows with Eternal Tapestry!
Tue Oct 4 Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery w/ Eternal Tapestry
Wed Oct 5 Columbus, OH - Bourbon Street w/ Eternal Tapestry
Thu Oct 6 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub w/ Eternal Tapestry
Fri Oct 7 Chicago, IL - The Hideout w/ Eternal Tapestry
Sat Oct 8 Cleveland, OH - Now That's Class w/ Eternal Tapestry
Sun Oct 9 Buffalo, NY - The Mohawk w/ Eternal Tapestry
Mon Oct 10 Boston, MA - O'Briens w/ Eternal Tapestry
Tue Oct 11 Portland, ME - Flask w/ Eternal Tapestry
Wed Oct 12 Winooski, VT - The Monkey House w/ Eternal Tapestry
Thu Oct 13 Ithaca, NY - Angry Mom Records w/ Eternal Tapestry
Fri Oct 14 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands w/ Eternal Tapestry
Sat Oct 15 Philadelphia, PA - O'Reiley's Pub w/ Eternal Tapestry
Wed Oct 5 Columbus, OH - Bourbon Street w/ Eternal Tapestry
Thu Oct 6 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub w/ Eternal Tapestry
Fri Oct 7 Chicago, IL - The Hideout w/ Eternal Tapestry
Sat Oct 8 Cleveland, OH - Now That's Class w/ Eternal Tapestry
Sun Oct 9 Buffalo, NY - The Mohawk w/ Eternal Tapestry
Mon Oct 10 Boston, MA - O'Briens w/ Eternal Tapestry
Tue Oct 11 Portland, ME - Flask w/ Eternal Tapestry
Wed Oct 12 Winooski, VT - The Monkey House w/ Eternal Tapestry
Thu Oct 13 Ithaca, NY - Angry Mom Records w/ Eternal Tapestry
Fri Oct 14 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands w/ Eternal Tapestry
Sat Oct 15 Philadelphia, PA - O'Reiley's Pub w/ Eternal Tapestry
Sunday, July 10, 2011
A reminder about a slightly older project- Coil Sea
Coil Sea - Waking the Naga from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.
For those who are new to Arbouretum, Coil Sea is a project and album that features Matthew Pierce and Dave Heumann from Arbouretum, and was released over a year ago. It's composed of four instrumental improv-based tracks that are the result of documenting a band whose members had never previously played together as a group. It was recorded over the course of two sessions, the results of which were edited together to create a seamless whole.
Recently it has come to my attention that there are still quite a few copies of this LP-only release at the Thrill Jockey Store, and well, I figured it was as good a time as any to mention this...
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The Gathering Song Lyrics
The White Bird (Heumann)
there's somewhere that I have been meaning to revisit
in and among all, even as its true nature is hid
here, in the gloaming and black night
here, in the dawn and the golding bright
there is a design with the larger in the smaller
I found it in time and the lethargy of matter
sing, as would a white bird of mine
here, in this hall of a thousand rooms
I've seen it at night tessellating and unfolding
sheer gossamer threads, delicate and sacred shimmering
and if you reached for it, it would shatter
as things that you'd hold quickly fade away
there's something that's grown, spreading underneath through each inside
go see for your own, more and more the air is rarefied
now that the spires are crumbling down
and new holes appear where there once were none
if you should become separated from the restless herd
and you're hearing that hum, know that to this place you may return
wandering alone in a city of towers
one with the leaves and mycelia
When Delivery Comes (Heumann, Wilson)
there's a hollow on the right
might be wise taking cover for a while
won't be long until it's night
and some may not make another mile
we made talk and walked a road
made the climb up and over angel's crest
left dsaster down below
and all the unfailing and the good
by night's falling, by a fire
lines are drawn and divided in the dark
who stands watch and who retires
and who gets to break the silence
well my vote's as good as yours
and it don't matter who you were before
of all things, just two endure
high heaven and the howling wind
All the birds took flight at once
just before the thunder roared in
sprung the sirens and alarms
and walls and bridges fell
Oh the fault was opened up
and let in a surging ocean
Oh and all the western parts
were lost below
were they left there, are they still?
well it's something to ponder in the pines
there's no truth that can be spillled
no reason that can be divined
there's a black crow on a line
looking down at the basin far below
but I've left that life behind
to wander among the vertigo
when delivery comes
I'll be waiting for it
on the high ground, in the sun
there underneath the billowing
Destroying to Save (Heumann, Wilson)
there's a righteous band that's marching
they're beating on drums, and even speak in tounges
they're passing plates around
clothed in garments of the sun
bringing the weight of everything to bear
they're calling everyone
out to comb the fields for stones
eyes casting for harlots and for heretics,
heels worn down from the road
onstage rocking back and forth
the choir's rattling swords, they stomp and shake the boards
the rest, they sing along
Cheering for a firefight, praying for the end
praisers of oblivion go round a bend
not to be a downer here, but I have my doubts
see here a tide and river turned about
you, who sought the water's purity
drank deep as the voices of the virtuous rang out, aloft in air
come, and I'll take you outside
walk with me to out beyond the barriers of what is said and known
bones and lodestones might be found
on ground that's not sown nor plowed, but opened up
like eyes to sight and sound
All around, through all the towns, word spread of a fire
a blaze had brought the building down, but who conspired
right out in the daylight, none saw him there
the ashen rider on a shadow mare
Orbits bend and ages end, soon may come a time
when nothing that remains of this is recognized
people don't you wait around, won't be no train
best go inside before it starts to rain
Highwayman (Jimmy Webb)
not written here.
Waxing Crescents (Heumann)
what lens is offering to give blurred things clarity?
what influnce is this, that compels me to you?
night was thick, and jasmine deep
by a stream that was all right
there was talk in ancient tones
silver, sparkling, and new
these lines go on for miles
in the distance, they converge
but you'll hear none of this
so I keep it aside
when your secret was exposed
smooth and shorn of adornment
gripping fingers pulling close
crescent hoofprints in snow
one more imagined slight
and I'm going internal
gonna make it there tonight
to the crest of the hill
The Empty Shell (Heumann)
this place is curved and copper-tinged
I'm aquamarine, measured in fathoms
he has no tounge to taste the brine
because he's an empty shell
she holds on to his arm and leans
he sips his drink and says the right thing
sometimes a fuzzy plan succeeds
hatched out of an empty shell
it's like that swindle on the streets
the one that everybody loses
the thimblerigger hides the pea
they're betting on empty shells
the vacuous and the esteemed
walk hand in hand into the distance
the battlefields and beaches gleam
all covered in empty shells
Song of the Nile (Heumann, Wilson)
wandering down in Egypt
dressed in beggar's clothes
I lost my direction
in a lotus grove
well I must have been distracted
to forget about the pearl
but it's strange how time unravels
in the navel of the world
I put on a mantle
stars were shining through
there in my reflection,
a kingdom split in two
well the fruit it was inviolate
and was hanging from the bough
and the sepent there was sleeping
so I took it as allowed
blinded by a prism
seen in second sight
caught between the breastbone
by a lance of light
well I stopped because a woman
was lying in the road
it was then that I remembered
which way I was supposed to go
there's somewhere that I have been meaning to revisit
in and among all, even as its true nature is hid
here, in the gloaming and black night
here, in the dawn and the golding bright
there is a design with the larger in the smaller
I found it in time and the lethargy of matter
sing, as would a white bird of mine
here, in this hall of a thousand rooms
I've seen it at night tessellating and unfolding
sheer gossamer threads, delicate and sacred shimmering
and if you reached for it, it would shatter
as things that you'd hold quickly fade away
there's something that's grown, spreading underneath through each inside
go see for your own, more and more the air is rarefied
now that the spires are crumbling down
and new holes appear where there once were none
if you should become separated from the restless herd
and you're hearing that hum, know that to this place you may return
wandering alone in a city of towers
one with the leaves and mycelia
When Delivery Comes (Heumann, Wilson)
there's a hollow on the right
might be wise taking cover for a while
won't be long until it's night
and some may not make another mile
we made talk and walked a road
made the climb up and over angel's crest
left dsaster down below
and all the unfailing and the good
by night's falling, by a fire
lines are drawn and divided in the dark
who stands watch and who retires
and who gets to break the silence
well my vote's as good as yours
and it don't matter who you were before
of all things, just two endure
high heaven and the howling wind
All the birds took flight at once
just before the thunder roared in
sprung the sirens and alarms
and walls and bridges fell
Oh the fault was opened up
and let in a surging ocean
Oh and all the western parts
were lost below
were they left there, are they still?
well it's something to ponder in the pines
there's no truth that can be spillled
no reason that can be divined
there's a black crow on a line
looking down at the basin far below
but I've left that life behind
to wander among the vertigo
when delivery comes
I'll be waiting for it
on the high ground, in the sun
there underneath the billowing
Destroying to Save (Heumann, Wilson)
there's a righteous band that's marching
they're beating on drums, and even speak in tounges
they're passing plates around
clothed in garments of the sun
bringing the weight of everything to bear
they're calling everyone
out to comb the fields for stones
eyes casting for harlots and for heretics,
heels worn down from the road
onstage rocking back and forth
the choir's rattling swords, they stomp and shake the boards
the rest, they sing along
Cheering for a firefight, praying for the end
praisers of oblivion go round a bend
not to be a downer here, but I have my doubts
see here a tide and river turned about
you, who sought the water's purity
drank deep as the voices of the virtuous rang out, aloft in air
come, and I'll take you outside
walk with me to out beyond the barriers of what is said and known
bones and lodestones might be found
on ground that's not sown nor plowed, but opened up
like eyes to sight and sound
All around, through all the towns, word spread of a fire
a blaze had brought the building down, but who conspired
right out in the daylight, none saw him there
the ashen rider on a shadow mare
Orbits bend and ages end, soon may come a time
when nothing that remains of this is recognized
people don't you wait around, won't be no train
best go inside before it starts to rain
Highwayman (Jimmy Webb)
not written here.
Waxing Crescents (Heumann)
what lens is offering to give blurred things clarity?
what influnce is this, that compels me to you?
night was thick, and jasmine deep
by a stream that was all right
there was talk in ancient tones
silver, sparkling, and new
these lines go on for miles
in the distance, they converge
but you'll hear none of this
so I keep it aside
when your secret was exposed
smooth and shorn of adornment
gripping fingers pulling close
crescent hoofprints in snow
one more imagined slight
and I'm going internal
gonna make it there tonight
to the crest of the hill
The Empty Shell (Heumann)
this place is curved and copper-tinged
I'm aquamarine, measured in fathoms
he has no tounge to taste the brine
because he's an empty shell
she holds on to his arm and leans
he sips his drink and says the right thing
sometimes a fuzzy plan succeeds
hatched out of an empty shell
it's like that swindle on the streets
the one that everybody loses
the thimblerigger hides the pea
they're betting on empty shells
the vacuous and the esteemed
walk hand in hand into the distance
the battlefields and beaches gleam
all covered in empty shells
Song of the Nile (Heumann, Wilson)
wandering down in Egypt
dressed in beggar's clothes
I lost my direction
in a lotus grove
well I must have been distracted
to forget about the pearl
but it's strange how time unravels
in the navel of the world
I put on a mantle
stars were shining through
there in my reflection,
a kingdom split in two
well the fruit it was inviolate
and was hanging from the bough
and the sepent there was sleeping
so I took it as allowed
blinded by a prism
seen in second sight
caught between the breastbone
by a lance of light
well I stopped because a woman
was lying in the road
it was then that I remembered
which way I was supposed to go
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
European/UK Tour Dates
Wed Mar 16 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
Thu Mar 17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
Fri Mar 18 Brighton, UK - Jam
Sat Mar 19 Penryn, UK - Miss Peapod's
Sun Mar 20 Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institute
Mon Mar 21 Glasgow, UK - Captain's Rest
Tue Mar 22 Newcastle, UK - The Cluny
Wed Mar 23 Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds
Thu Mar 24 London, UK - The Borderline
Sat Mar 26 Bonn, Germany - Crossroads Club Festival
Sun Mar 27 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko
Mon Mar 28 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
Wed Mar 30 Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur
Thu Mar 31 Schaffhausen, Switzerland - Tap Tab
Fri Apr 1 Padova, Italy - Unwound
Sat Apr 2 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti
Sun Apr 3 Pescara, Italy - Monospazio
Mon Apr 4 Vienna, Austria - Arena
Tue Apr 5 Dresden, Germany - Beatpol
Wed Apr 6 Berlin, Germany - White Trash
Thu Apr 7 Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang
Sat Apr 9 Brugge, Belgium - Cactus
Thu Mar 17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
Fri Mar 18 Brighton, UK - Jam
Sat Mar 19 Penryn, UK - Miss Peapod's
Sun Mar 20 Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institute
Mon Mar 21 Glasgow, UK - Captain's Rest
Tue Mar 22 Newcastle, UK - The Cluny
Wed Mar 23 Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds
Thu Mar 24 London, UK - The Borderline
Sat Mar 26 Bonn, Germany - Crossroads Club Festival
Sun Mar 27 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ekko
Mon Mar 28 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
Wed Mar 30 Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur
Thu Mar 31 Schaffhausen, Switzerland - Tap Tab
Fri Apr 1 Padova, Italy - Unwound
Sat Apr 2 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti
Sun Apr 3 Pescara, Italy - Monospazio
Mon Apr 4 Vienna, Austria - Arena
Tue Apr 5 Dresden, Germany - Beatpol
Wed Apr 6 Berlin, Germany - White Trash
Thu Apr 7 Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang
Sat Apr 9 Brugge, Belgium - Cactus
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Corey finds out Ray from Castanets is his long-lost brother
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Today, our fourth record was released.
It's crazy looking back and realizing Arbouretum has been around this long. It still feels like we're at the beginning, but I suppose that's how it should be...It's about not becoming so satisfied with where you've been that you get complacent, you know? You have to hold onto whatever it was that got you started down the path in the first place. If anyone saw me post "to always begin" on our facebook a while ago and wondered what that meant, well, this is what I meant.
We had an excellent show the other night in Baltimore to celebrate this album's release. So many people came out to share the music with us and the vibe and sound in the room were conducive to us playing at our best. Secret Mountains opened and were fantastic.
We'll be in San Diego Thursday night, then up (and back down) the coast, and after that, a lot more places.
See you soon.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Soon, we will be on the West Coast
Thu Feb 17 San Diego, CA - Tin Can Ale House w/ Endless Boogie
Fri Feb 18 Big Sur, CA - Maiden Publick House w/ Endless Boogie
Sat Feb 19 Santa Cruz, CA - 105 Pioneer w/ Endless Boogie
Sun Feb 20 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern w/ Endless Boogie
Tue Feb 22 Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret w/ Endless Boogie, Kikiilimikilii, Nathan Wheeler
Wed Feb 23 Olympia, WA - Northern w/ Endless Boogie, Eternal Tapestry
Thu Feb 24 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios w/ Endless Boogie, Eternal Tapestry
Sat Feb 26 Seattle, WA - Comet Tavern w/ Endless Boogie, Eternal Tapestry
Mon Feb 28 Oakland, CA - TBA w/ Endless Boogie
Tue Mar 1 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite w/ Endless Boogie
Fri Feb 18 Big Sur, CA - Maiden Publick House w/ Endless Boogie
Sat Feb 19 Santa Cruz, CA - 105 Pioneer w/ Endless Boogie
Sun Feb 20 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern w/ Endless Boogie
Tue Feb 22 Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret w/ Endless Boogie, Kikiilimikilii, Nathan Wheeler
Wed Feb 23 Olympia, WA - Northern w/ Endless Boogie, Eternal Tapestry
Thu Feb 24 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios w/ Endless Boogie, Eternal Tapestry
Sat Feb 26 Seattle, WA - Comet Tavern w/ Endless Boogie, Eternal Tapestry
Mon Feb 28 Oakland, CA - TBA w/ Endless Boogie
Tue Mar 1 Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite w/ Endless Boogie
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