New Music From Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (SGM), the gloriously uncategorizable American band, has regrouped after 13 years to complete a fourth studio album titled Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being. Due on February 23, it will be the very first release of AVANT NIGHT – a new imprint headed by Nick Ohler and facilitated by Joyful Noise Recordings. Originating in Oakland, California, the band got its start in 1999 and released three albums during its initial run – Grand Opening and Closing (2001), Of Natural History (2004), and In Glorious Times (2007). Comprised of multi-instrumentalists and rotating vocalists Nils Frykdahl, Carla Kihlstedt, Michael “Iago” Mellender, Matthias Bossi, and Dan Rathbun, SGM plays an arsenal of instruments ranging from the somewhat standard (drums, electric guitars, bass, electric violin) to the rare (bass harmonica, nyckelharpa, marxophone) to the homemade (Slide-Piano Log, Electric Pancreas, Pedal-Action Wiggler). The group has consistently evaded easy categorization, garnering accolades from across the aisles of contemporary classical music, prog rock, industrial music, metal, avant-garde improv, and more. Their music, in turns bashing and bucolic, enveloping and unsettling, tends towards long-form epics interspersed with mysterious field recordings.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum has also announced a lengthy 2024 tour, including two nights at the legendary Stanley Hotel, the location where The Shining was filmed.
2/29 – Arcata, CA – Humbrews
3/1 – Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
3/2 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
3/3 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile Club
3/4 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
3/5 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
3/7 – Denver, CO – The Bluebird
3/8 – Estes Park, CO – The Stanley Hotel
3/9 – Estes Park, CO – The Stanley Hotel
3/11 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
3/12 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fine Line
3/13 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
3/14 – Indianapolis, IN – Irving Theater
3/15 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
3/16 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
3/17 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
3/18 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
3/19 – Baltimore, MD – The Ottobar
3/20 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
3/21-24 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
3/25 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
3/26 – Winter Park, FL – Conduit
3/27 – Tampa, FL – Orpheum
3/28 – New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf
3/29 – Houston, TX – Secret Group
3/30 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk
3/31 – Dallas, TX – Trees
4/2 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar
4/3 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
4/4 – Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole
4/5 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre
4/6 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre
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Recommended Tracks: Track 1, “Salamander In Two Worlds, “Track 9,” “Hush, Hush,” Track 11, “Burn Into Light”
Label: AVANT NIGHT/Joyful Noise
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