CALIFONE - November Tour - New Album 'STITCHES' on Dead Oceans - Stream 'Frosted Tips'

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CALIFONE - UK TOUR ANNOUNCED


Califone have announced a full run of UK and European shows throughout November and December 2013. UK dates listed below... Support comes from Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers. The tour will be the first time audiences on this side of the Atlantic can hear the fizzing electronics and Americana of current album 'Stitches' performed live. 'Stitches' was released earlier this month on glorious vinyl, cd and mp3 through Dead Oceans (Phosphorescent, Julianna Barwick, Akron/Family et al)

November
18th    NEWCASTLE - The Cluny
19th    MANCHESTER - Roadhouse
20th    LEEDS -     Belgrave Music Hall
21st    DUBLIN - Whelans
22nd    COVENTRY - Taylor Johns
23rd    OXFORD - Audioscope Festival
25th    LONDON - Lexington
26th    BRISTOL - Bonaventures
 - support on all dates is from Tony Dekker -

Stream 'FROSTED TIPS' from the album 'STITCHES' out now on Dead Oceans

Listen to 'FROSTED TIPS':   HERE

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Listen to 'FROSTED TIPS'  from CALIFONE'S new album 'STITCHES' released by DEAD OCEANS. Blended and frayed at the edges, the track starts with the sound of rain on a metal ceiling vent mixed with a hurdy gurdy. These sounds bleed into a rumbling refrain'In the old, watching the new world die'. There are horns, there is fuzz bass, the vocals get chopped and screwed under the expert direction/execution of CALIFONE mainman TIM RUTILI

Listen to 'FROSTED TIPS':     http://youtu.be/rG7rT0463bg

'FROSTED TIPS' lyric:
- In the old, watching the new world die - guardian angel/ belly full of twins / churning in the long con jury and judge
my heroes are all junkies / cold and easy
- In the old, watching the new world die - frosted tips and blood / drying in st john's beard you made me mean
wait and circle / tremble and burn and let it, let it, let it try
- in the old, watching the new world die - (bee-stung lips - your frosted tips are never growing out)

In a groundbreaking use of Tumblr, CALIFONE in conjunction with filmmaker Braden King and programmer Jeff Garneau, recently debuted the new video for their first single, 'STITCHES'. This ever-changing 'music video' creates itself on the fly using static imagery and animated GIFs drawn from a curated subset of blogs within the Tumblr ecosystem. It is available via a secret link by clicking "show me your stitches" in the lower left-hand corner at califonestitches.tumblr.com

The interactive video was featured on Mashable , The Daily Dot , Noisey's You Need To Hear This  and by Morgan Spurlock and Superchunk

Watch 'STITCHES' on Tumblr:  www.califonestitches.tumblr.com

Tim Rutili says: 'To me, the song and the album stitch together the flood of images and feelings triggered by opening yourself up and loving someone; the courage and freedom found in the acceptance of vulnerability and joy crossed with the familiarity and alienation that can be found in co-dependence and pain'

'STITCHES' was released 2nd September on Dead Oceans. Anchored by Rutili, the album threads together a flock of musicians from different times and places, sounds he recorded in his backyard and while driving his car, gritty electronics, eerie keyboards, garage-sale drum machines. All these disparate parts are sewn together at their adjoining borders to create something that sounds wholly new.

September 12, 2013 1:46pm ET by Triad Publicity   Comments (0)

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