Finnish Krautrockers, Circle, began their US tour with a FREE performance at Other Music in NYC on Tuesday night and will soon be heading west. Circle will play with a few different bands along the way, including Endless Boogie, Grails, Assemblehead in Sunburst Sound, OM and Oneida. Should be a fantastic tour. I saw them at the Great American Music Hall about 3 years ago and it was such an experience… Growing and Earth opened the show with incredible sets of experimental metal and then Circle took the audience to another dimension! The music was psychedelic and totally trance-inducing. For some reason they remind of Les Savy Fav, but with really long, drawn out jams that take you deeper and deeper into the music. They also put so much energy into the performance, much like LSF do. If you are near one of their shows, I highly recommend checking them out. The recorded versions do not come close to describing the sounds and experience of their live performance.
Circle Tour:
Thurs 13 Sept - Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH - with Endless Boogie and OM
Also on this monster show is Emeralds AND DANIEL HIGGS
Fri 14 Sept - The Empty Bottle, Chicago IL - with Endless Boogie and OM
Sat 15 Sept - Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge, Louisville, KY - with Endless Boogie and Sapat
Sun 16 Sept - Springwater, Nashville, TN - with Endless Boogie
Mon 17 Sept - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta GA - with Endless Boogie and Big Bear
Tues 18 Sept - Static Age, Asheville NC - with Endless Boogie
Wed 19 Sept - Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville, VA - with Endless Boogie
Thurs 20 Sept - DC9, Washington DC - with Endless Boogie
Fri 21 Sept - Latvian Hall, Philadelphia PA (531 N7th Street) - with Endless Boogie and OM
Sat 22 Sept - Knitting Factory, New York, NY - with Endless Boogie and Oneida
Sun 23 Sept - BAR, New Haven, CT - with Endless Boogie
Mon 24 Sept - Chop Suey, Seattle, WA - with Grails and Assemblehead in Sunburst Sound
Tues 25 Sept - Roturre, Portland, OR - with Grails and Assemblehead in Sunburst Sound Plus DJ Joe Preston!!!
Thurs 26 Sept - Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco, CA - with Grails
Fri 27 Sept - Fernwood Lodge, Big Sur, CA
There is definitely some connection between Circle and Southern Lord artists. Grails, Joe Preston, Earth and Growing all have a similar fan-base and distribution and you usually find some combination of them playing with Circle. Also, Oneida has been playing together for 10 years (same with Circle) and they come highly recommended by Liars! In a recent post on the Liars blog, they cited Oneida as a huge influence on Liars music and wished they could be at the Oneida performance in Brooklyn…
Check out the album that Circle released at the beginning of this summer: Katapult.
Circle Links
You can listen to songs on Katapult via their music$pace chamber.
Loads more info on everything pertaining to Circle and their avant rock experimentations can be found on their website Circle Finland.
Liars Big Up Oneida
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