VIKING MOSES + LITTLE WINGS + Tiger Saw + Golden Ghost

Mon 3rd Dec 2007

The Luminaire presents
VIKING MOSES + LITTLE WINGS
+ Tiger Saw
+ Golden Ghost


Doors 7.30
£8.50 via WeGotTickets | £10 door

Raw, howling folk and intimate, intriguing story-telling. Viking Moses is music as seen through the lens of Brendon Massei’s truly nomadic life.

Many musicians adopt a bohemian persona to fit their music, but Viking Moses is the real deal. Brendon has released banjo and acoustic guitar albums under several names. Perpetually on tour (since 1996), he has played with Will Oldham, Cat Power, Songs: Ohia and Devendra Banhart, to name a few, yet his body of work has received little commercial or critical attention.

His newest full-length under the Viking Moses moniker, the story-song cycle 'Crosses', is by far his most accomplished work, and ranks among the best of the newest crop of American folk recordings. For anyone who has seen Massei perform live, the delicate mood of 'Crosses' may come as a bit of a surprise. While a Viking Moses show often finds Massei on his knees wailing like a man possessed, 'Crosses' consists of nothing more than a softly picked nylon-string acoustic guitar, a bass, and some piano flourishes, with Massei's trademark baritone rarely reaching its cathartic heights.

Supporting is Tiger Saw, a musical collective founded in Newburyport, MA in 1999 by Dylan Metrano. It is an ever-changing group of friends, whose ranks can vary to form a hushed duet or fifteen-person orchestra incorporating piano, cello, horns, percussion, and a small choir. Their simple, heartfelt songs celebrate friendship, community, the beauty of everyday life, and love in all its forms.

Tiger Saw has toured extensively in North America and Europe, and is known for playing unorthodox venues from beach bonfires to treetop sing-alongs, as well as basements and barrooms from coast to coast.

Since 2002, Tiger Saw has released four albums on Kimchee and Tract Records, and has performed with Grizzly Bear, Kimya Dawson, Jens Lekman, Jad Fair, Laura Veirs, Magnolia Electric Co., Explosions in the Sky, The Gossip, and many others.

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