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ROOFTOP MUSIC:
THE QUAVERS, FUGAZI & VIC CHESNUTT
ON A ROOF IN VIENNA, INSPIRED BY JEM COHEN

Filed under: Home Movies, Rooftop Music, Watch Short Films

Rooftop_VicChesnutt.jpgAt Rooftop, we love the quiet, lovely experimentations of The Quavers (who played our festival in 2007), and are glad to post about their latest music-film collaborations. So it's sure to get us excited when you set up this scenario: T. Griffin from the Quavers, Guy Picciotto from Fugazi (other members of which played at Rooftop in 2006) and Athens, GA, indie-folk hero Vic Chesnutt, brought together by a screening for Brooklyn indie-film legend Jem Cohen . . . on a rooftop!

Observe, listen, reflect and enjoy.

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"Holed up in a basement once used as a bolthole for Latvian sailors, Brooklyn's T. Griffin teamed up with singer/violinist Catherine McRae for this spectral third album. His grainy blend of electro-folk and found sounds (he calls it "porch techno") resembles a hushed collision of Vic Chesnutt, Low and Jim O'Rourke. Deathly strings and lonely guitar - allied to telephone static, samples and snatches of Casio - make this record appear salvaged from some creaky urban junk shop. It holds together admirably, though, its wounded ambience both delicate and dense." - Uncut Magazine (UK)

Saturday, November 15th, 8PM
The Quavers play at Barbes
376 9th Street, Park Slope Brooklyn
all ages
$10 suggested donation

Tags: Fugazi, Guy Picciotto, Music, Nocturnal Darkness The Beginning, r kelly are you serious comedy show michael stern, Rooftop, The Quavers, Vic Chesnutt, Vienna

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