tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43450795249170137622024-03-13T08:55:32.395-04:00LeVautourChroniqueBernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-57057829654185579572019-05-24T16:14:00.001-04:002019-05-24T16:14:50.720-04:00Upcoming live appearanceEscape Goat Orchestra doesn't play out all that often, so when we do, you should probably be there.<br />
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-19322732208950520872019-03-16T03:39:00.000-04:002019-03-16T03:41:05.947-04:00Live Footage. Since the last time I posted here, <a href="http://www.escapegoatorchestra.com/" target="_blank">Escape Goat Orchestra</a> has released a series of live-videos. check it out-<br />
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-30831858153146698892018-08-30T05:00:00.001-04:002018-08-30T05:00:53.329-04:00New music/ videos. My new/ current act is called Escape Goat Orchestra.<br />
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Dystopian indie dance-rock from the desert.<br />
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-56464960232266087902016-03-22T03:01:00.000-04:002016-03-22T03:01:19.594-04:00New videos, shows, updates, etc.My band <a href="http://devilgrass.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Devil Grass</a> has just released a new (our first!) official music-video!<br />
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Check us out live, our next show is scheduled for Saturday, April 9th, at Cactus Jack's in Ahwatukee (South-East Phoenix), with Zeppapotapuss.<br />
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I've also recently released a video from my much-delayed forthcoming solo-record... which could potentially come out at some point...? I recorded this thing last spring, filmed the video last summer, and finished editing it some time in the fall... and then pretty much forgot about it. This one's dedicated to my comrades in the bar-business.</div>
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-5669237140626830732016-02-04T16:40:00.000-05:002016-02-04T16:40:13.876-05:00Devil Grass- Debut Single, Upcoming Shows. My band Devil Grass has recently released our debut single, "In The Cut."!<br />
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We recorded the track with acclaimed Phoenix-based producer Cory Spotts (Lydia, Stiletto Formal, Job For A Cowboy, The Maine... etc), who was absolutely phenomenal, and we can't wait to get back in and work with him again soon.<br />
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To celebrate that release, and our "official" live-debut (that first run of shows was sort of a "test-run" ;) ), we're throwing a party! </div>
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Saturday, February 20th, Rogue Bar, Scottsdale, Arizona. Be there.</div>
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We've hand-selected and curated the lineup for the night to make for a fun event... and Cultures has decided to release their awaited full-length album "Life Is Dream" that night as well! It should definitely be an exciting night, so mark your calendars. </div>
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Shortly after that, we are opening for Shawn James and the Shapeshifters (check them out <a href="https://shawnjamessoul.bandcamp.com/">here</a>, they kinda sound to me like if Man Man were from Arkansas...?) at Last Exit Live in Phoenix on Tuesday, March 9th.</div>
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In the meantime... promoters, press, bookers, venues, etc... <a href="http://devilgrassaz.wix.com/presskit">Consult our Electronic Press Kit</a> for all the necessary details. ;)</div>
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-68069347188055927282015-12-14T20:48:00.001-05:002015-12-14T20:48:17.814-05:00New Music- Devil Grass<div style="text-align: center;">
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For those of you who follow me on various forms of social-media, this might seem like old news... but it's time to finally officially announce my new band- Devil Grass.</div>
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Devil Grass came together in early September of this year, thanks to the hard work, vision, and determination of our bandleader/ frontman, Michael Roberts. Somehow, within mere months of relocating to Phoenix from the New Jersey/ Philly-area, Michael had assembled a four-piece lineup of players who had all recently relocated from the East Coast. (If you understand the nod to that irony in our name, you win a prize. Message me.)</div>
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Devil Grass is a Phoenix-based desert-rock/ dark alt-country act. </div>
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Michael Roberts- Vocals and guitar (New Jersey)</div>
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Joshua Motley- Keys and vocals (Kentucky)</div>
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Bernard LeVautour- Bass and backing-vocals (New Hampshire)</div>
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Craig Codrington- Drums and percussion (Vermont)</div>
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We played a series of three low-key, but super-fun, testing-the-water sort of live-shows over the last couple weeks... Look for information about a more elaborate and larger-scale "official" live-debut soon. It'll be fun, I promise.</div>
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As for "sound" and "content," we're going into the studio in mid-January to record our first single (peel your eyes), but in the meantime, check out this teaser-video we put together from some press-kit demos we tracked recently... This one's a cover of a Misfits song.</div>
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This is a live-show focussed, conceptually-driven project. The goal is mostly original-music (as opposed to covers), aimed at performing in music-venues (rather than primarily as bar-entertainment.) </div>
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The concept? In simplest terms, maybe call this "Doom-Country." In a more specific sense, think old-school Country & Western (most specifically from the Murder-Ballad and Outlaw-Folk traditions) played in a slower, doomier, louder, darker, stompier, dustier, scarier, heavier, high-lonesomer high-lonesome, sense... The darker end of old-school country mixed with big-beat and doom-punk, if you will? </div>
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I have recorded a demo-track to capture the sound in my head for this one... As an original-music, venue-focused concept-act, I'm aiming to keep cover songs limited to a maximum of two per set, but, in the name of demonstrating an example of what my sonic intentions are here, I decided to start by recording a cover-song. This is a 1965 C&W classic by Dick Curless, called "Tombstone Every Mile." (For other covers that might fit into future sets- think Cash- "Long Black Veil," Robbins- "Big Iron," Cave- "Where the Wild Roses Grow"... etc. Important additional influences, in terms of sound, include The Cramps, Bauhaus, Decemberists, Misfits, Joy Division, Soilent Green, Clutch, My Dying Bride... etc.) Check out the demo... and keep in mind that I recorded absolutely every instrument on this recording by myself (with the exception of some backing-vocals by my lovely-and-talented girlfriend Catherine Klabouch), so the sound will undoubtably become further fleshed-out by the influence of additional hands and ear-bulbs.</div>
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I intend to play bass (starting on electric, hopefully switching to stand-up once we get going) and vocals. I'm searching for a guitarist, a drummer, and "something else" (a dedicated lap-steel, fiddle, banjo, accordion, honky-tonk-piano, organist, etc. would be ideal... but a versatile multi-instrumentalist who understands the concept and desired sound would also be a good fit.) </div>
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I've also been posting a whole lot of new visual-art content on my Etsy site, including some props and set-pieces built for the new video above... and there's still a little bit of time left to get orders (in most circumstances) delivered by Christmas, but that time is running out... and original art and quirky decor makes phenomenal gifts! </div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Green-Sea/125715320792073">The Green Sea</a> has changed formats yet again... because... why not? What we've been doing lately is some sort of live-improv noise that usually falls in a somewhat electro-punk-meets-comedy-rock vein. Basically, we've found that we thoroughly enjoy playing extended-sets without content, making absolutely everything up on the spot... which naturally incurs some hilariously unpredictable lyrics and sudden genre-shifts. We now have a site on Bandcamp, where you can stream or download loads of various fun content... We currently have four records up there- our debut EP from 2006, two live-improv mixtape records, and an ongoing collection called "...bits and pieces..." that houses lots of stuff that hasn't shown up or been appropriate for any of the other albums.<br />
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I've also begun working on a solo-record... (at the moment it's separate from the electro-jazz album I mentioned in the last post, but time will tell... I've got a few tracks from it up on my personal Bandcamp account since relocating to the desert... This is an indie-rock record at its core. I'm making the dusty, wild-west rock songs that occur to me, without trying to sculpt them into any particular context. This record is a snap-shot into my mind at the moment, as it evolves... It's called "Future Tense." </div>
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-75897881502074442172014-06-25T20:04:00.000-04:002014-06-25T20:07:53.405-04:00Hello, Phoenix.It's been a hectic few months so I haven't posted an update here in a while, so I have a lot of catching up to do. (I plan to start frequent updates again, I've just had a whole lot on my plate lately.)<br />
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At the beginning of April, my girlfriend Cat and I relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. I had lived in the valley for about 5 years in the past, and absolutely loved it. After about 6 years back in New Hampshire, there were many elements of desert-living that I missed more and more, and was growing increasingly stir-crazy and ready for a change. Sometime around the second blizzard into the winter, we decided it was time to make that change, and started making arrangements. Early in the morning on April Fools Day, we loaded all our combined possessions into a 16-foot box-truck, loaded my little Kia onto a trailer on the back, and began our cross-country drive.<br />
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Upon arrival, we moved into half of a split-floorplan house in a nice suburban-ish section of North Central Phoenix called Moon Valley... We both lucked-out on the job-front, and were able to sorta-kinda "transfer" our existing jobs- I'm working behind the bar at a sushi/ Japanese/ nightlife spot in North Scottsdale called Sapporo that happens to be owned by the same company as the bar I worked at in Nashua, and Cat is working for an eye doctor in the Camelback Corridor.<br />
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Besides the "how we pay the bills" nuts-and-bolts, we are here primarily in order to advance our "actual" careers as working artists, in a scene and cultural-climate that I have always felt to be more exciting, vibrant, inclusive, and inspiring than that of the Boston area. (no offense to my New England people who are working hard and getting shit done, it's just an entirely different vibe here. I feel like desert cities have a sort of "wild wild west" take on creative endeavors- almost everyone's from somewhere else, so there's always a refreshing sort of "you're doing something interesting? Sweet! How can I help?" vibe that tends to be lacking in older-school, more established communities where everything's about how well you follow certain rules and who you happen to know.)<br />
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Despite a VERY busy couple months getting settled in and situated, we're well underway diving headlong into those sorts of goals. Here's a quick run-down of current and future projects in the works-<br />
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We've revived <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Green-Sea/125715320792073?ref_type=bookmark">The Green Sea</a>, a side-project act that I had maintained for a couple of years before leaving the valley the first time around and continued to collaborate with across the country during the intervening time. This former experimental side-project has now become our primary band- a high-energy, live-show-focused electro-punk trio. I'm on lead vocals and guitar, Wes Hopeless is playing synths, sequencers, and general electronic-wizardry, and Cat is on live electronic-percussion and keytar. We aim to be ready to start playing out with a spastic set of fun new songs by the end of the summer. In the meantime, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Green-Sea/125715320792073?ref_type=bookmark">like us on Facebook</a> and check out some teaser-content that we're dropping a little bit at a time.<br />
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Cat and I have also begun work on an additional musical-project, a bar-entertainment cover-duo called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UrbanForestryEntertainment?ref_type=bookmark">Urban Forestry</a>. Check out some basic info on what that's going to entail <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UrbanForestryEntertainment?ref_type=bookmark">here.</a></div>
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In writing-news, I have finally almost finished editing the book-project I've been working on writing since I finished grad-school... Look for updates on that soon. </div>
<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-33995726804597277792014-02-20T18:48:00.000-05:002014-02-20T18:48:06.322-05:00New solo-music and art. I've added a second track to my slowly-evolving first solo-record (tentatively titled <a href="http://levautour.bandcamp.com/album/ironically-untitled">{ironically untitled}</a>, without the pretenses of project-title, concept, experimentalism, etc... this one is simply intended to eventually be a stripped-down collection of songs that I would actually want to listen to. As strange as it sounds, with as many records as I've been involved with the release of (8 or so in the past 5 years, I think?) I've never actually done that.<br />
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In other news, I have new listings at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LeVautour">my Etsy shop</a>... and my "make an offer" liquidation-sale for friends and acquaintances is still underway, so <a href="mailto:bernard.levautour@yahoo.com">email me</a> if you want to barter or work out alternate delivery before you order.<br />
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My acoustic duo, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldVineEntertainment">Old Vine</a>, is working on 3 simultaneous demo-records, and posting new content regularly to <a href="https://oldvine.bandcamp.com/">our Bandcamp page</a> as they become available. One is our "real" EP, <a href="https://oldvine.bandcamp.com/album/cavernous-spaces">Cavernous Spaces</a>... an album of original-material and original-arrangements of creative covers.<br />
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So... <a href="https://oldvine.bandcamp.com/">Listen</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldVineEntertainment">"like"</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Old_Vine_">follow us on Twitter. </a><br />
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We are currently in the process of sculpting our content for two different sorts of sets, both as bar-entertainment, and playing original content in music-venues. We are always for hire, so book us as entertainment for your bar/ event/ party, or to play creative indie-rock shows in your performance-space. <a href="mailto:bernard.levautour@yahoo.com">Email for details. </a><br />
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If you <a href="http://oldvine.bandcamp.com/">visit our site</a>, you'll notice there are two records currently up on it. Both are works-in-progress at the moment... "<a href="http://oldvine.bandcamp.com/album/cavernous-spaces">Cavernous Spaces</a>" is our forthcoming EP... original music, and a couple of original arrangements of creative covers. "<a href="http://oldvine.bandcamp.com/album/voodoo-folk-live-b-sides-and-covers">Voodoo-Folk Live; B-Sides and Covers</a>" is... pretty much how it sounds. An evolving collection of live covers and alternate takes. Alternately, "Cavernous Spaces" is our "actual" record, and our demo aimed at concert-venues, "Voodoo-Folk Live" is our demo as a bar-entertainment duo. Together, they should showcase pretty thoroughly what me and Mickey do as Old Vine.<br />
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We are currently also looking for suggestions as to where YOU'D like to see us play. (not just the city... we get lots of "play in Nashua/ Manchester/ Boston!" requests; we're looking for more specific suggestions... like, what bars or venues would you come out to see us play at?) We have two alternate sets- a longer bar-entertainment set (mostly covers), and a shorter, venue-focused set (mostly originals). Versatility is my favorite aspect of this particular act.Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-83626278018548964652013-11-03T21:19:00.000-05:002013-11-03T21:19:29.794-05:00More Old Vine... <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldVineEntertainment">Old Vine </a> returns this Wednesday to <a href="http://greatamericantavern.net/">Great American Tavern </a>in North Reading, Massachusetts. (We are resident there every week, but the first one was different than most because we were up against World Series Game 1 [an interesting challenge], and the second was cancelled because of the sixth and final game of that series [go Sox!]... so this is our first "normal" week of our stint there.).<br />
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"Like" us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldVineEntertainment">Facebook</a>, say "yes!" to the venue's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/196149210568694/">event-invite</a>, come down, drink some beers, sing along!</div>
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I recently played a benefit-show, as a duo with my friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mickey.fearon?fref=ts">Mickey Fearon</a>... it was for a good cause; we put together a 3-hour set of eclectic and entertaining covers, peppered with a few originals, to entertain a crowd aimed at helping out a friend in need. This was done somewhat spur-the-moment, with very little preparation.<br />
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Surprising to both of us, this worked out pretty well. Somehow, this collaboration turned into an actual "thing." That "thing" is now called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldVineEntertainment">Old Vine</a>.<br />
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Here's the thing. Me and Mickey have been friends for a while, but we have pretty opposite tastes and musical-backgrounds. Turns out, that works out pretty well. Mickey is a classic-rock kid, I'm an indie-rock kid. I'm a jazz guy, Mickey digs the blues alot. Mickey learns covers note for note as a guitarist and NAILS them, I'm a performer first-and-foremost with a background in original music in concert-venues; I hadn't played or learned any cover at all in YEARS. Turns out, we balance each other out well. My weaknesses in regards to what we're doing are Mickey's strengths, and vice-versa.<br />
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Sure, we're playing acoustic bar-rock. But I promise- our set is WEIRD. Me and Mickey's ideas of "standards" are VERY different... which should make for an interesting experience for just about any sonic-palette. We seriously cover everything from Cab Calloway to Outkast to Johnny Cash to Death Cab to Clapton to M.J. to Kanye... and pretty much everything in between. Expect to hear some hippie shit, expect to hear some hipster shit. All in the same set, mixed with stuff your grandmother might whistle along to. I'm not kidding. And then we mix an original tune in just to mix it up a bit. </div>
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<a href="http://snazzmobb.tumblr.com/">Snazzmobb</a> is still plugging away at refining our set, now that we've finally settled into a refined bass/ drums/ keys trio arrangement... we're currently polishing edges and editing our press-kit, hoping to start shopping it to venues and promoters soon. I'm not going to lie, it's been a tumultuous year for the outfit, with quite a few strange setbacks befalling the initial lineup I set up a year ago this month, with the intent to fast-track the act to playing out quickly and often by mid-winter of last year. Through that time-period, we ended up writing a set three times longer than it needed to be, featuring songs from all the various phases of the band's still young, yet already rocky, lifespan. That long-form set meandered and wandered, was probably interesting in some ways, but not at all moments what we had initially set out to do. We've recently sliced that set by a third, leaving the content that reflects what we sound like NOW, and we're really happy with what we're almost ready to unleash. Accordingly, the demo that we recently released already feels outdated, as it was recorded as a duo with a bit of a different focus... I hope to drop some sort of an accompanying single soon to demonstrate the current feel of our content.<br />
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I recently also started playing with a downbeat instrumental dub act on the seacoast, called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tonal-Couture/222245761265346">Tonal Couture</a>. This project is POLAR opposite from Snazzmobb, and I LOVE that. While the snazz is a rambunctious, high-energy, venue-focused dance act, Tonal Couture is super relaxed and ambient, better suited for swanky martini-lounges and chill-out-rooms. It's fun to play, and fun to listen to. We record our sessions, and we've made select cuts available on our Bandcamp page, as part of the possibly-fictitious un-album (quickly becoming a bizarre future box-set of some sort), called "Future Rarities and B-Sides Without A-Sides." There are 12 tracks up at the moment... check them out, and enjoy.<br />
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It is available for free streaming and download on our brand-new <a href="http://snazzmobb.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp page...</a> Five tracks are streamable live, plus four downloads rounding it out to nine if you choose to download!<br />
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-75478975058492713302013-05-19T11:54:00.000-04:002013-05-19T11:54:32.740-04:00Updates... Etsy, Snazzmobb, etc.I updated <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/levautour">my Etsy site</a>... in addition to the prints and original-pieces associated with the initial "5 Icons" series that I made the site to make available, I've now expanded it to include... well, pretty much all of the pieces of my work cluttering the walls of my studio that I would be more than happy to find a new home for. Accordingly, I think the listing-prices on this stuff are mostly pretty good deals... but nothing's set in stone, so message me directly if you want to haggle. Or if you live in the greater-Boston area, message me before ordering to see if it's possible to avoid shipping and fees.<br />
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-55831965705882554862013-04-03T15:39:00.000-04:002013-04-03T15:42:13.072-04:00Help Wanted- Consummate Performer/ Snazzmobb Keyboardist.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Want to play the coolest key-rig in the business? My band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/snazzmobb">Snazzmobb</a> is looking to fill a hole in our live-lineup. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are looking for a consummate, energetic performer to join our show, to spazz out behind this contraption while filling in some holes in our live sound. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While a skilled keyboard player would be the ideal fit, this role, to be perfectly honest, is not particularly musically challenging if the right person doesn't choose to make it such. First and foremost, we are looking for an absolutely electric performer with a basic working knowledge of music, the ability to push buttons and follow directions. Someone who is, say, usually a guitarist, with a good sense of rhythm and the desire to put on an explosive show, could be as good a match for this role as someone with professional synth experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Job responsibilities would involve playing some very basic keyboard parts (many of which are already written) on this rig, which is extremely simple and easy to use (it's built from a mid-'80's Casio- an ultra dummy-proof keyboard.). Additionally, this person would be responsible for controlling a rack of assorted noise-making junk... pushing play-buttons on sampling-devices, cuing loops, etc... basic tasks that would free up the hands of other members, to allow us to do more of our trademark spastic performing and less gear-juggling and button-jockeying. All such tasks are carefully and clearly documented on extensive set-notes ("$nazz-Note$") that we meticulously (compulsively?) update following each weekly session. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This act has been practicing primarily as a bass/ drums/ vocal/ noise duo for the past several months, following some complications with the original lineup that was put together in the Fall of 2012. With this arrangement, we have an entertaining set of songs written, a demo, a press-kit, and a stage-rig, all nearly complete and ready to start booking shows, waiting mostly on finding the right person to fill this particular role. We also collaborate remotely with a cast of talented individuals for song-craft, sample-production, etc, such as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adhesiveslipper/182180248533537?fref=ts">Adhesiveslipper</a> (Noise-wizard/ <a href="http://www.headhat.net/webhat">Headhat Records</a> bossman), Sammie Ryan (<a href="http://www.headhat.net/webhat/wh028.html">Sinestetici</a>), etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ideally, this act will perform live (hopefully soon) as an extremely high-energy bass/ drum/ keys trio. Despite the stage-rig built extensively out of modified pieces of mannequins (this keyboard rig is just one of several elements that work within a coherent visual theme) this is most definitely NOT a concept-art project. Our goal is is merely to entertain people, to make weirdos dance, to offer audiences a crazy good time, to turn concert-venues into really wacky parties while we play. If this sounds like something you could get passionate about, you might be the person we're looking for. If so, we practice on Friday mornings, usually 10:30 to 2 or so, in Hudson, New Hampshire. Email me at <a href="mailto:bernard.levautour@yahoo.com">bernard.levautour@yahoo.com</a> if you're interested<span style="font-size: large;"> in <span style="font-size: large;">giving it a try. Fe<span style="font-size: large;">el free, of course, <span style="font-size: large;">to share this <span style="font-size: large;">with your friends if YOU'RE not who we're looking for, but you think you might know someone who is.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, here are a couple examples of the sort of thing we're doing, a couple teaser-videos we've dropped with some content from our forthcoming demo "The Violent Taste of Hot Sauce"-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one's the only content that we didn't write in our current set (ready to debut live soon... peel your eyes.) This is an original medley arrangement, with all due respect and reverence to His Purple Highness.</span><br />
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-44671994918606993322013-01-24T14:48:00.002-05:002013-01-24T14:52:09.753-05:00Project-update post, Part 3- Visual Art.<span style="font-size: large;">After a hecti<span style="font-size: large;">c holiday<span style="font-size: large;">-season, I finally got my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/LeVautour">Etsy shop</a></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">back up to da<span style="font-size: large;">te.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are currently 41 items for <span style="font-size: large;">sale there... some are made-to<span style="font-size: large;">-order prints, others a<span style="font-size: large;">re one-of-a-kind<span style="font-size: large;"> originals... all are part of my <span style="font-size: large;">"5 Icons" series... Which is a <span style="font-size: large;">project that I'm calling "finished" for the time<span style="font-size: large;">-being, <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">with the exception of</span> special requests or <span style="font-size: large;">custom <span style="font-size: large;">commissions.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(If you're <span style="font-size: large;">local to the New Ha<span style="font-size: large;">mpshire/ greater-Boston area, please get at me directly before ordering from the Etsy site to see if I can p<span style="font-size: large;">oss<span style="font-size: large;">ibly save <span style="font-size: large;">us both</span> some shipping/ surcharges/ hassle.)</span></span></span></span></span>Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-41574507435762212282013-01-22T13:11:00.000-05:002013-01-22T13:14:23.330-05:00An Unorthodox Album Release...<span style="font-size: large;">I have a new album out and available now... in a totally different form and format from how I usually release material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one's called "Bernard LeVautour- Vulture From the Vaults {a live dj-set of unreleased rarities and back-catalog cuts}"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A physical, limited-run pressing is available via my Etsy site-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/121116834/vulture-from-the-vaults-cd-print">Click here!</a></span><br />
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cassette-tapes on an ancient Tascam 4-track, because that seemed appropriate,
as there’s material in this mix that dates back far enough that we were using
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irreverent. In terms of mixology, my impulse veered often toward stubbornness-
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mix tend to be the ones that I made the largest effort to dirty up and in some
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Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-2717001516382996852013-01-20T14:25:00.000-05:002013-01-22T13:13:50.357-05:00Snazzmobb content-teaser.<span style="font-size: large;">As I mentioned at the end of the last entry, I do have a third project-installment update coming, about visual-art. Soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, my band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/snazzmobb">Snazzmobb</a> now has a sample-track from our forthcoming demo-EP streaming on Youtube!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This song was inspired by a spam-bot that was harassing the band's Twitter account (@Snazzmobb) mercilessly for a while. We got literally HUNDREDS of messages a day for about a month that just read, "Real People; Real Sex!" (followed by a link that we're not quite dumb enough to open.)</span><br />
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<br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-59362097033149261392012-10-31T16:14:00.001-04:002012-10-31T16:17:25.903-04:00Project-updates, part 2.<span style="font-size: large;">Music-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I currently have two records and a brand-new live band in the works. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">First, the third record from my solo experimental electronic project </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/LeVautourEnsemble/126584474031268"><span style="font-size: large;">LeVautourEnsemble</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> is well underway. This one’s called “From the Sketchbook.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Like the first two (</span><a href="http://www.headhat.net/webhat/wh002.html"><span style="font-size: large;">2010’s “…whose wings are a dull reality”,</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://www.headhat.net/webhat/wh022.html"><span style="font-size: large;">2011’s “Machinique Meltdown”</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, both available for free download [with a whole lot of other neat stuff] on </span><a href="http://headhat.net/webhat/"><span style="font-size: large;">Headhat Records</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">) this one is also a bit of an oddball repurposing of the idea of the “concept-record.” This time around, as the name of the record may imply, I’ve assigned myself the task of navigating a sketchbook where I had been jotting down fragments of transient ideas over the course of several years… and writing songs based on those fragments… even if (or, especially if) I have NO idea what the hell the initial note meant. To throw myself an additional layer of challenge, I’m tracking this record entirely on an ancient Tascam 4-track cassette recorder. (Special thanks to Dan Holmes for loaning me this phenomenally monstrous device).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve nicknamed him “Brutus.” If anyone remembers tracking audio with these things, add about twenty-five years to let Brutus’s physical parts get downright-elderly in electronics-years, and you can begin to imagine how beautifully cantankerous and temperamental he is now. Working with Brutus is much like riding an ornery rodeo-bull; I’m definitely not in charge here. (I’ve always joked that the other members of LeVautourEnsemble’s “Ensemble” are machines and robots… this has never been more true.) By design, this record will sound NOTHING like what I envision it sounding like in my head. (Special thanks for this one are also due to the guy who owns "The Music Connection" in Manchester, NH, for having had the foresight to stock-pile the Type-II cassette-tapes that Brutus requires back when they stopped making them, while everyone else's response when I was trying to track them down was more like "You're looking for <em>what</em>? <em>WHY??"</em>)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Some sneak-peak sample of tracks from this record can be heard here-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><a href="http://starvingraptors.bandcamp.com/track/mamihlapinatapei-searching-for-words-in-other-tongues"><span style="font-size: large;">.. streaming/ download from a recent charity-compilation...</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Additionally, this album will be the last material I’ll release under the “LeVautourEnsemble” name. My plan is to consider the three records some odd sort of a “trilogy” (maybe even make some sort of limited-edition packaging of them as such available) and retire the moniker. This isn’t to imply that I’m going to stop making this sort of music (who knows), but more that the idea of maintaining false separations between various sorts of solo-content has run its course. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The second record I am working on is a recording of a live-DJ megamix-set of sorts… It’s called “Vulture From The Vaults”… basically, I spin and remix a collection of my back-catalog material from a variety of projects that were never officially released, linked together with improvised live shards of my particular breed of lo-fi indie-electronic music. This is sort of like a bizarro take on a B-sides/ rarities/ out-takes/ greatest (non)hits collection, mashed up with my sort of gadfly take on the “live-mix” records that DJ’s more traditional-style than myself like to release. My plan is to release physical-copies of this disc in such a way that make it very unclear whether it’s more of a CD that comes with a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork, or a piece of art that comes with a free CD… or something in between, or both. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">My new live-band is called Snazzmobb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Expect a crazy-high-energy explosion of indie-dance-rock madness. We’re brand-spanking-new (and dealing with an unforeseen early-lineup restructuring issue at the moment) so we’re not playing out yet, but we will be soon. (I’ve already given my band-mates an ultimatum; if this isn’t going anywhere by early spring I’m heading someplace warmer). In the meantime, follow us on Twitter (@Snazzmobb) and “like” us </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/snazzmobb"><span style="font-size: large;">on Facebook</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">… we’ll be dropping plenty of teaser-content soon enough. Peel your eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Snazzmobb is currently a trio; I'm on bass and vocals, Adhesiveslipper (solo-artist/ Headhat Records boss-man) is on electronic-noise-wizardry and vocals, and Alex Hurschman is on drums and vocals. Think high-energy noisy funk meets post-punk? This <em>will </em>be a fun show, I promise. </span><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">(the third installment of this update-series will cover visual-art and odds-and-ends, soon.)</span></em>Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4345079524917013762.post-81659809255766229602012-10-23T20:08:00.001-04:002012-10-23T20:20:13.887-04:00Project-updates, Part 1. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It’s been a while since I’ve posted a collected update here of the assortment of projects I currently have in the works. It seems overdue, since I have a lot going on, and only make passing mentions of various parts of these things in assorted places online. Here, then, is a bit of a catalog of my present endeavors, collected conveniently in one spot (though broken up into three entries to pardon your eyes and attention-spans.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It might go without saying if you keep tabs on my work at all, but as someone who is rather transfixed with various ideas of “intermediality,” the media and format of most of my projects overlap and intersect with each other by design, concept, and necessity. Regardless, I will attempt to structure these updates by artistic-medium as an attempt at SOME semblance of coherency for those who happen to be outside of my head (you).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Writing-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I currently maintain four tiers of shorter-than-book-length content in various stages of the publication-submission process. These tiers are short-fiction, poetry, academic/ scholarly, and mainstream-non-fiction. In all of these tiers I try to maintain a sort of “go-big-or-go-home” submission-strategy… My thought is, why sell content to tiny, accessible outlets with extremely limited readership before you know for sure that the biggest fish in the sea don’t want the work… right? In certain tiers, then, I’ve been joking with friends lately that my current “job” as a writer is collecting rejection-letters from The New Yorker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition, I’m currently working on a somewhat-unorthodox book-project. The piece is (at least tentatively) titled “Frantic Overture in Gray Minor: The Neon Sonata.” It’s not exactly a novel, not really a short-story collection, not quite a combination of the two… yet somehow all of that at once… with some additional intermedial, format-blurring twists thrown in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My idea with this one, in terms of the goal, is self-publication… partly to help myself try to overcome a knee-jerk distaste for that “scene”… largely by allowing myself to think of that format as an experimental way of bypassing the conventional book-market in order to find unconventional sources of eyeballs for experimental works. In other words, this book is intentionally “unpublishable” by traditional “gate-keeper” publishing-industry channels, but possibly marketable to an entirely different sort of readers. (Of course, I’m well aware that this idea is particularly dicey at the moment, in the recent wake of the “50 Shades” phenomenon demonstrating so aptly WHY the traditional “quality-control” gate-keepers are in place- to keep the masses from hand-selecting complete and utter garbage… But I digress. I would be lying if I claimed that the challenge provided by such dicey-ness doesn’t excite me. I tend to like challenges.) This work is deeply connected to and overlapping with my current musical projects... which I'll talk about next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">…to be continued… </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Bernard P. Provencher LeVautourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06401245997875675733noreply@blogger.com0