Album release show this Saturday, with 3 Leafs

The time has finally come to debut our new album! We'll be playing the whole thing live this Saturday at 222 Hyde, with support from SF Psych legends 3 Leafs. Vinyl won't be ready until the end of the year, but you'll be able to buy CD's download codes, T-shirts, and posters at the show. We have a few other surprises in store for the performance as well, so this is one Shores show not to miss. See you soon....

2 shows this weekend, & opening for Lumerians

Heyall we got two shows coming up this weekend. The first is the big one, opening for Lumerians this Friday 4/22 with Late Young at Catacombs in SF. Here is the FB event link for info, and, here is the cool flyer:























Then on the next day Saturday 4/23 we're playing a house party at our friend and sound engineer Leslie's house. He's celebrating the 20 year anniversary of his car hehe... A couple members of Animal Liberation Orchestra will be playing solo stuff and our good friends friends Antenna will also be performing. Here's the FB event link for that one and here is its flyer:

Green Sound Flyer

Four more days!

Update update update

Hello friends,
Sorry it's been so long since we've last posted. We've been under the radar but very busy continuing to prepare for our performance at Project Soundwave's Green Sound Festival this summer.

Here are some details about the show. We'll be performing on Friday, July 17. Our show will take place in the Illuminated Forest at The Lab in San Francisco. The installment we are contributing to is titled "Ground/Shift", where (as discussed in our project proposal for Green Sound) we will be exploring the aural and visual relationship between human consciousness and natural environments via a continuing collaboration with filmmaker Jaakko Vilpponen. That evening electronic artists Jim Haynes and Lissom will also be performing.

Another couple words on the Green Sound performance. The band has been working hard on developing both the songs and Jaakko's visual documentary for Ground/Shift. We've been renovating "Reflection", which we initially wrote as an ambient track back in October, into a kind of psychedelic blues piece that more accentuates the presence of natural environments, how we correspond and interact with them, both unconsciously and as a form of naturalizing consciousness.

"Refraction" is the companion piece to "Reflection". Conceived originally as a kind of antithesis to "Reflection", in its developing form it further explores our consciousness of an environment, both in its natural state and in response to human effects of and upon that environment, whether that be through pollution or preservation. We'll be recording these pieces very soon.

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In other news, Sean and I recently moved into a warehouse space in the Mission district of San Francisco, together with Jaakko and film blogger and longtime friend Brian Darr. The space is a live-work artists' loft space where Shores have moved their operations, after about a year of rehearsals at Darr el Salaam (i.e. Alex's living room, which we'll miss very much!)

We are almost done conceiving material for our first studio album. It will be called "Open-Ended", or some variation on that evocative antiphrasis. In addition to Reflection and Refraction as the first movement, it will also contain two new songs titled "Emersion" and "Extension", which continues our score upon environmental experience. "Emersion" is almost written, and "Extension" is in its rudimentary stages. We are also considering a cover of Flying Saucer Attack's song "Oceans" I've been developing as a kind of interlude near the end of the album.

Finally, and this on the down low, we will be performing a private outdoor show in Big Sur at the Apple Pie Ranch, in a beautiful meadow space which offers vistas looking down on the main valley and oceanside of Big Sur. The show will be taking place on Saturday, June 5th, with camping offered between June 4th and the 6th. The ranch features a pool, 150 tree orchard, miles of surrounding hiking, and some of the most sublime private coastal views in California: we're very excited! Since it is a private show, apart from this blog entry we will not be announcing or advertising the show, but as a special offer to blog friends, if you'd to come contact us at our email address (weareshores@gmail.com).

Lots in the works, expect a profusion of new material this summer. Peace and sounds,
Jude

Bluesix tomorrow night, with the Lickets in quad and a Marmalade Mountain full band set

We're looking very forward to tomorrow night's Saturday evening show at Bluesix. Playing with us are two of my favorite local bands, The Lickets also from here in SF and Marmalade Mountain from Oakland. Both have a very original and saav songcraft all of their own, and each's albums from late last year is on our short list for best of 09.

To boot, both are playing special sets. Marmalade Mountain's recently released first album features full instrumentation, but from what I understand when Zack plays live it's usually solo or with basic accompaniment. For the Bluesix show though, Marmalade Mountain will be a full four piece, which'll give the crowd a great and rare taste of the album's dynamic sound live.

The Lickets also have cool plans. They'll be playing a quadraphonic set. You don't catch those that often live anymore, and with their sound in particular at a venue like Bluesix, it promises to be a soft deluge full of texture and warmth.

Shores also have also been working on a performance style that we hope fabrics Bluesix's bucolic feel well. We've been practicing our songs in a more mellow, psych bluesy style. The sound we've been exploring our last couple practices is quite different from our other shows or recordings, more mellow and less galvanic force, and very jammy ("psych preserves" I call it) and rich with breath. We like it, and are looking forward to sharing with you.

Doors 8, Show 9, The Lickets go first, then Shores, and Marmalade Mountain to close the evening out. See you at the show....

Pictures from the LiPo show

A recording of one track from this show is complete and will be posted for limited download soon. More to come, keep your eyes blinking....

Show show

Hey we got a big show coming up. It's our first performance since the mirror room show last June and our first as a full band with Sean included, and we've been putting months of work into preparing for it.

The occasion of the show is to celebrate the release of the short film "IntoOut" that we made with filmmaker friend and frequent Shores collaborator Jaakko Vilpponen. We'll be doing a live score to the film, in costume even haha

Our good friends The Thralls will also be playing, together with Al Qaeda and White Pee.

The show's at the LiPo Lounge in Chinatown, which means we can decorate the space up however we like, so we're going to be bringing a lot of decorations and set pieces from the film and Undertakers' stocks to make the space a kind of Shores wonderland.

There'll also be limited edition posters of the artwork for the show, done the very talented artist Kate Bowman to celebrate the show (that's the flier at the top of this blog), and we may throw some CDs of a couple of our recent demo recordings together to give out.

Doors open at 8, Bands start at 9; bands are playing in the order White Pee, Al Qaeda, Shores, Thralls. We'll prob go on 10:30 or so. Should be a lot of fun, see you at the show!