Warm Gospel 28: Skyscraper - K & L c42

Skyscraper - K & L c42

“I spliced my sampler into the timeline of a world filled with religious traditions and listened to too much gritty hip-hop to keep it from sounding pretty. Then, I started having these perfect dreams about a tall, dark-haired girl named Luney, who came to represent the line I drew as a guidepost for judging both my sanity and the state of my soul. And then I stopped having the dreams and let the samples ride out toward infinity, unchanging in search of eternal youth.”

Warm Gospel 23: Skyscraper & DJ DJ TANNER - Tan Sky c32

Skyscraper & DJ DJ TANNER (AKA Kamrar) - Tan Sky c32

"Using live cassette tape loops and effect manipulation, Kamrar repurpose thrift store tape selections into a kind of new age take on meditative world music."

-Art Beacon Des Moines

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Warm Gospel at the Vaudeville Mews

The Warm Gospel label was created based on the concept of recreating the grand, layered spectrum of gospel music using the contemporary ideas and tools of electronic, noise, and ambient music. The result is something new. Over the past year, Warm Gospel has collected releases from many of Iowa's beat and noise makers, including DJ DJ TANNER, Tires, Olsen Twinns, Juxwl, and others. In combining these artists under a single label, Warm Gospel has established a foundation of rumbling noise, tidal waves of synth, and layers of clouded harmonies in a part of Iowa where, previously, experimental music was never fully realized as an important part of the state's overall music output.

On December 18th, the Vaudeville Mews will showcase nearly every artist on the Warm Gospel label, bringing an entire night of electronic sound exploration to Des Moines.

Vaudeville Mews
December 18th, 2012
8:00 pm
$5

Tires
Is Home Is (Olsen Twinns)
Juxwl
DJ DJ TANNER
Big Digital
Seezureface
Skyscraper

This show is going to be so much fun.

http://www.vaudevillemews.com/events/warm-gospel-showcase/?sId=2307

Warm Gospel 13: Skyscraper // DJ DJ TANNER - Halloween Split (c30)

Skyscraper // DJ DJ TANNER - Halloween Split c30

For whatever reason, Halloween and Christmas are the only 2 holidays fully represented by the kind of garbage vinyl one finds littered all over the dusty shelves of thrift stores. To us, it’s gold. Repurposing the cheesy sounds of our parent’s childhoods, through mountains of effect pedals and tape hiss, we manage to turn the silver age of baby boomers into the second round of the dark ages.

Warm Gospel 10: Skyscraper - Worn Gospel (c30)

Skyscraper - Worn Gospel c30
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I started Warm Gospel with the idea of recreating the oldest trends in hymnals and gospel music using current techniques in noise, drone, and electronic music. This Skyscraper release is the closest I’ve come to pinpointing that exact vision. Chapel ceilings crumble as the choir sends the vibrations from harmonies upwards into the ceiling beams. And after the entire church has fallen into rubble, a warm light seems to reflect off the once hallowed stone and woodwork.

Warm Gospel 03: Skyscraper - Skyscraper (c24)

Skyscraper - Skyscraper c24

It’s when the wind picks up. Slowly, at first, but more fierce with each swing it takes. And it was such a nice day. Now, the wind has begun knocking your things over, and you knew you shouldn’t have brought paint out this time, but it actually looks really beautiful spilled out all over your blanket like that. It keeps swinging harder. The wind through the trees begins to sound like a low, dull drone, so you pack up and move everything inside, but it slithers across your windows and walls, booming. You begin to think this may be something truly from above, like bigger than you or today or the color of paint. And when you finally draw up the courage to peak out of the assaulted window, you see that light breaking through the clouds, one beam at first, but two more pierce through while you stare; a witness.

Warm Gospel 02: Skyscraper - Germany (c24)

Skyscraper - Germany c24

If postcards could speak, they would tell you they have never seen the places they depict. “It’s just a tattoo on my back.” You feel uncomfortable. The postcard is just spewing out the absolute truth of its life, but you feel uncomfortable. Hundreds of thousands of pictures of places and events that it’s never seen, and that you’ve never seen. And you begin to realize that postcards, in general, are just reminders of places you haven’t been.
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