PopGun Booking will present the Brooklyn band POINT REYES' record release party at Glasslands Gallery on Feb 9th.
About the band: POINT REYES lived in Warsaw, Poland, from April to September 2011, supported in part by a Fulbright grant awarded to bandleader Asa Horvitz. There, they wrote and recorded their debut full length album,WARSZAWA, released in Europe on CAKES AND TAPES (Portugal) in January.
WARSZAWA is a look at Communist architecture, ancient forests, and the spread of giant malls across Eastern Europe, and a look at America from afar. The quartet, who play vibraphone, cello, drums, bass, keyboards, laptop, guitars, and sing, will play songs from WARSZAWA and screen film projections made in collaboration with Polish artists. More info and music can be found at http://www.pointreyes.info/
To get Brooklyn band POINT REYES off the ground, Asa Horvitz suggested that percussionist Kyle Farrell and cellist Daniel Bindschedler join him in Warsaw, Poland (where he was working supported by a Fulbright grant) to spend four months writing, rehearsing, and giving concerts. Farrell and Bindschedler jumped at the opportunity and in May 2011 the trio moved into a sunny attic loft across from the Vistula river. Throughout the summer of 2011, POINT REYES immersed themselves in Poland: they performed in towns where no Americans had performed before, rehearsed ten hours a day in the basement of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, studied Polish, swam in flooded meadows, became obsessed with Communist architecture, played festivals in Krakow and Berlin, collaborated with Polish musicians and theater artists, and wrote and recorded their debut full length album. The project was funded in part by the Fulbright grant awarded to Horvitz. His compositions for Passport -prize winning theater director Michal Zadara were described by Jacek Cieslak in Rzeczpospolita, a major Polish daily newspaper, as “living minimalist music, impressive pieces of a larger work", and he has been traveling to Poland to collaborate with Polish musicians and theater artists since 2007. POINT REYES’ debut album WARSZAWA – the culmination of their time in Poland – will be released on CAKES AND TAPES (Portugal) in January 2012. It features cover art by Wilhelm Sasnal, the leading contemporary painter in Poland.
POINT REYES makes American music, unusual contemporary songs that combine a stunning list of influences; from Motown to mid-60s MiLes Davis, from Charles Ives to Captain Beefheart to Joanna Newsom, from the New York downtown scene to Walt Whitman.
POINT REYES was founded by Horvitz in Brooklyn in late 2010, and released their first EP as a trio,Wetnurse/POINT REYES, in March 2011.
When Bindschedler, Farrell, and Horvitz joined forces to become POINT REYES they brought together an eclectic range of talents: individually they had performed at venues like Tanglewood and the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, with free-jazz master Anthony Braxton, and in indie bands alongside artists ranging from Nat Baldwin to Kurt Vile to Megafaun.
