June 6, 2009, 8pm
Skully’s Music Diner
1151 N. High Street
(614) 291-8856
$12 in advance / $14 at door
18+ under 21 pays $3 surcharge at door
Black Moth Super Rainbow
http://www.myspace.com/BlackMothSuperRainbow
A notoriously enigmatic band hailing from Pennsylvania, Black Moth Super Rainbow made waves on the indie circuit in the early 2000s with their brand of otherworldly, psychedelic indie pop. The project began in Pittsburgh in 2002, and expanded to include five members (Tobacco, the Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, Iffernaut, and Father Hummingbird) in the following year. Packing a sound that nodded to contemporary retro-chic electronic acts like Air and the Octopus Project (who they would eventually collaborate with), the group released their first album, Falling Through a Field, in 2003. Basing their operations in an undisclosed location somewhere in rural Pennsylvania, the group released two more albums, Start a People and Lost Picking Flowers in the Woods, over the course of the next three years. A critically acclaimed collaboration with the Octopus Project, 2006’s The House of Apples and Eyeballs, combined with a successful debut at that year’s SXSW launched the group into the indie limelight. Their sticky, rainbow-tinted fourth release, Dandelion Gum, hit stores the following year. - ©1992-2008 All Media Guide, LLC
School of the Seven Bells
http://www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells
Ben Curtis fled Secret Machines in 2007 to focus on School of Seven Bells, an electronics-enhanced dream pop group formed with twin sister vocalists Claudia and Alejandra Deheza (also of On!Air!Library!). They debuted in 2007 on Sonic Cathedral with the 7″ recording My Cabal, which featured a remix on the B-side from Robin Guthrie — Guthrie’s Cocteau Twins, as well as several of the artists the Cocteaus inspired, from My Bloody Valentine to Medicine, being apparent touchstones. Two other releases were out before the end of the year: the Face to Face on High Places 7″ (Radium) and The Class of 73 Bells (Warp), a four-track Prefuse 73 EP featuring the group’s input. The group’s activities the following year included Silent Grips, a 7″ released on Suicide Squeeze, and that fall’s Alpinisms, released on Ghostly International. Claudia has also recorded an album with Prefuse 73/Scott Herren, Singular (2006), as A Cloud Mireya. - ©1992-2008 All Media Guide, LLC