Vetiver

You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix)

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Live

May 1 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow's
May 2 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre Grill w/ Kelley Stoltz
May 3 - Vancouver, BC - Media Club w/ Kelley Stoltz
May 4 - Seattle, WA - High Dive w/ Kelley Stoltz
May 6 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall w/ Kelley Stoltz & The Mumlers
May 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour w/ Kelley Stoltz & Jonathan Wilson
May 8 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah w/ Jonathan Wilson
May 9 - Santa Cruz, CA - Crepe Place w/ Jonathan Wilson
May 10 - Visalia, CA - Howie & Sons w/ Jonathan Wilson

May 16 - Brighton, UK @ Theatre Royal, Fat Cat Nights with the Great Escape w/ Vashti Bunyan, Haushka, and Tom Brosseau
May 17 - Brussels, BE - Les Nuits Botanique w/ The Teenagers & Man Man
May 18 - Fulda D - Das Kreuz
May 20 - Zurich, CH - Rote Fabrik-Ziegel Oh Lac
May 21 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso Small Hall
May 23 - Coventry, UK - Tin Angel
May 26 - Cambrige UK - Barfly
May 27 - Leeds, UK - Faversham
May 28 - Liverpool, UK - Sound City Festival
May 29 - Edinburgh, SCT - Cabaret Voltair
May 30 - Glasgow, SCT - Arches
May 31 - Aberdeen, SCT - The Tunnels
June 1 - Newcastle, UK - Cluny
June 2 - Nottingham, UK - Bodega Social
June 3 - Bristol, UK - Cube Cinema
June 4 - Manchester, UK - Road House
June 5 - London, UK - St. Giles in The Fields Church
June 6 - Cardiff, UK - Barfly
June 7 - Belfast, North Ireland - Black Box
June 8 - Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
June 10 - Birmingham, UK - Barfly
June 13 - Porto, PT - Passos Manuel
June 14 - Lisbon, PT - ZDB Gallery
June 17 - Barcelona, Spain - Sidecar
June 18 - Madrid, ES - Joy Eslave w/ Akron/family
June 19 - Seville, ES - Teatro Central w/ Akron/Family
June 20 - Granada, ES - Teatro Alhambra w/ Akron/Family
June 21 - Malaga, ES - Teatro Canovas w/ Akron/Family
June 27 - Paris, F - Café De la Danse
June 29 - Glastonbury, UK - Glastonbury Festival

VETIVER

MP3: Vetiver - "You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix)" Short Edit | One Sheet: Download PDF | Press Photos: 1 2 3 4 5

Press photos by Alissa Anderson

Vetiver is the project of Andy Cabic, one of the founders and operators of Gnomonsong. Nearly two years on from the release of Vetiver's highly-acclaimed second album, To Find Me Gone, their latest single and first for Gnomonsong is a stunning 12-inch featuring remixes of two of that album's tracks, a different direction and the first project of the year, kicking off an exciting new period of activity for the band.

During the recording and mixing of To Find Me Gone, Andy Cabic and producer Thom Monahan talked about doing something more "deconstructive and electronic" than they had previously done with Vetiver. The two tracks they picked, "You May Be Blue" and "Been So Long", stood out for various reasons. "The beginning of 'You May Be Blue,' the delayed Wurlitzer organ figure," says Cabic, "on its own suggests what might follow could be quite different from the song that does....[It also] promises some kind of electronic shuffle, and the remix is an opportunity to follow through. My favorite parts of 'Been So Long' are the harmonies of Nathan, Rachael and myself, and I wanted to create an instrumental drone dub version of that song which focuses on the backing harmonies."

Long-time studio partners, Cabic and Monahan--a.k.a. "Neighbors"--built these remixes in spurts between their busy schedules. After a lot of layering and ProTooling, practically nothing of the original "You May Be Blue" remains; the bulk of the dark and danceable instrumentation consists of keyboards played by Cabic and Otto Hauser, and electronic drums played live by both. Cabic and Monahan also reordered the basic tracks of "Been So Long" and added powerful new droney parts on the melodica and pedal steel by "Farmer" Dave Scher and the breathily intoned flute-playing of Alissa Anderson. Much additional editing wizardry on the part of Monahan helped complete the metamorphosis of these tracks with new, unique characters that sit alongside the original versions.

Besides the new 12-inch, Vetiver has just finished work on a new album (and singles) comprised entirely of cover versions of some of their influences and favorite songs, which is set for release in Spring '08 on Gnomonsong. Entitled "Thing Of The Past", it is a far-reaching assortment of first-rate songs and performances from Andy and the gang. An album of all-new Vetiver material is also currently being written which will be recorded shortly and is set for release in 2009. The band will be touring throughout the year.

Links: Vetiver's Website I Vetiver on MySpace