Sacred Harp – Rappahannock JR

Sacred Harp (aka Daniel Bachman) has long been a skilled guitar finger picker in the mold of Fahey, Sandy Bull, etc. Now he’s teamed up with the equally talented Ryley Walker to form Of Deathly Premonitions, in which doubtlessly the two wunderkinds will blow us away with their guitar skills. While we cannot yet offer you a new Of Deathly Premonitions tune, here’s one of Bachman’s older works, “Rappahannock JR,” which should give you some idea.  Of Deathly Premonitions is a four track EP that is available now from Plustapes.  More importantly, the duo will be performing in the Twin Cities at Hymie’s Record Shop on July 1st (as well as the previous night at Club Med).

     — Jon Behm

Sacred Harp – Rappahannock JR

Whole tour here

june 15 – Boston – The Whitehaus
june 16 – Biddeford – The Oak and the Ax
june 17 – Portland – Strange Maine
june 18 – Burlington – Gazelig Theater
june 19 – Drivin
june 20 – Pittsburgh – Garfield Artworks
june 21 – Cleveland – The Boo Box
june 22 – Detroit – WORKIN ON IT
june 23 – Cincinnati – Mayday
june 24 – Bloomington – Outside Park Show
june 25 – Carbondale – house show
june 26 – Bloom – Normal – Magic Waters
june 27 – Chicago – Schwag City
june 28 – Viking Fuck
june 29 – Madison
june 30 – Minneapolis – Club Med
july 1 – Minneapolis – Hymies Records
july 2 – Fargo – Camping
july 3 – medora Camping
july 4 – Rapid City area – Mount Rushmore – cool 4th of july Camping
july 5 – Bighorn National Forest – Camping
july 6 – Yellowstone – Camping
july 7 – Billings Montana – House show
july 8 – Palouse – Grain Silo Show
july 9 – Seattle – The Hazelwood
july 10- Anacortes – The Business
july 11 – Olympia – The Northern
july 12 – Portland – Alice Coltrane Memorial Coliseum
july 13 – Portland – TBA
july 14 – Eugene – Ditch Projects Dudes
july 15 – Beach Camping
july 16 – Sacramento – KDVS – Backyard Griller
july 17 – Oakland – Mama Buzz
july 18 – Oakland – Gallery Spot
july 19 – Big Sur
july 20 – LA – backyard griller at my place 2310 meadowvale ave
july 21- Sand Diego – Tin Can
july 22 – Drivin
july 23 – Phoenix – TBA – Help
july 24 – Drivin
July 25 -Albuquerque – TBA – Help
july 26 – Drivin
july 27 – Houston – Super Happy Fun Land
july 28 – Austin – 29th St. Ballroom
july 29 -Denton – J&J’s Pizza
july 30 – Tulsa – TBA – HELP
july 31 – Little Rock – TBA – HELP
august 1 – Memphis – HOUSE SHOW
august 2 – Chattanooga – TBA
august 3 – Atlanta – TBA
august 4 – Athens – TBA
august 5 – Savannah – TBA
august 6 – Charleston – TBA
august 7 – emerald isle (beach bum beers no show)
august 8 – Chapel Hill – The Nightlight
august 9 – Asheville – House Show
august 10 – Campin
august 11 – Lexington – TBA
august 12 – Louisville – TBA
august 14 – Richmond – TBA

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New haunts for Paranormal Activity

Winnipeg Free Press October 22, 2010 | Horn, John LOS ANGELES — Throughout the making of Paramount Pictures’ Paranormal Activity 2, an unsettling spectre floated over the production.

The apparition had nothing to do with the earlier haunted house blockbuster, a micro-budget thriller that exploded into a pop-culture sensation and grossed more than US$107 million in U.S. theatres a year ago, becoming one of the most profitable releases in show business history. Instead, the sequel/prequel was haunted by memories of Hollywood’s last effort to clone a similar scary story: Artisan’s Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, which took in less than 20 per cent of the preceding film’s revenues and was so decisively despised by critics and audiences that it tainted 1999’s original Blair Witch Project by association.

“We were worried more than anything else that the new movie wouldn’t work,” says Oren Peli, the former video game designer who wrote, directed and edited the first Paranormal Activity and served as a producer on the update. “And I’m sure there are a lot of people who will want to make sure that it’s not Blair Witch 2.” Paranormal Activity 2 plays very much like the original blockbuster, sharing its look and internal logic. Screenwriter Michael R. Perry (TV’s Persons Unknown, Stephen King’s Dead Zone) and director Kip Williams (The Door in the Floor) set the new film in the days just preceding, and then the hours overlapping with, the ghostly invasion of Katie and Micah’s nearby dwelling in Paranormal Activity. here paranormal activity 2 online

The followup unfolds in the Carlsbad residence of Kristie and Daniel Rey, Katie’s sister and brother-in-law. The couple has just welcomed newborn son Hunter, but he’s far from the only new arrival in the house. As security cameras document, their German shepherd, phantom-savvy teenage daughter and incantation-chanting nanny are no match for whatever is causing pans to fly off a rack, doors to slam without warning, and one person to exit a room rather swiftly.

That mysterious burned photograph found in the attic in the original film? Kristie and Daniel might have something to do with it.

Paranormal Activity 2 was made for a comparative fortune, some $3 million versus the first film’s initial $15,000 budget, largely because Paramount is obliged to use union labour in all phases of production. But to preserve the first film’s discovered-footage feel, the movie was cast with unknowns (the studio is not even releasing the actors’ names yet) and shot in the same shaky, home-movie style that was central to the original thriller.

Peli, who is finishing work on the sci-fi thriller Area 51, at first resisted making a followup, but Paramount vice-chairman Rob Moore, production head Adam Goodman and executive Ashley Brucks all believed there was a way to catch lightning in a bottle twice. web site paranormal activity 2 online

Any number of possible sequel ideas were rejected because they disregarded the first film’s DNA. “A lot of the pitches didn’t relate to the first movie — it was just a different kind of scary story, two other people in a house,” says producer Jason Blum, who supervised the movie’s development and production with partner Steven Schneider and Peli.

“We tried to keep it in the same language,” Blum says. “There was a desire on our part and the part of Adam and Ashley to not spend a lot of money on casting recognizable people and remain true to the spirit of the original film.” But the two films also are intractably different, ultimately shaping how the new movie is marketed.

Given its homemade history, Paranormal Activity was about as organic as apples at a farmers’ market. The film was discovered by audiences as much as Paramount sold it to them — the release was jump-started by screenings at college campuses, and Paranormal Activity’s long lines were as influential in promoting the film as paid advertisement.

The new movie is a soup-to-nuts studio construction, not an independent film that Paramount acquired, and audiences no longer can unearth the movie on their own. The initial thriller premiered in 12 theatres in September 2009 as part of a gradually building platform release; Paranormal Activity 2 will open wide on about 3,000 screens.

As the new movie’s opening draws closer, Peli says he’s starting to relax. “A lot of people are skeptical, but once people see that it works, they will start to spread the word. We won’t know until this weekend, but it feels like we pulled it off.” — Los Angeles Times See tomorrow’s Free Press for a review of Paranormal Activity 2.

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