TARTUFI and The Proxemics Sunday Late Matinée

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High Mayhem Emerging Arts
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*TARTUFI and The Proxemics*

*Sunday, April 17 at 2:30pm*

High Mayhem Studio
2811 Siler Lane
Santa Fe, NM

Suggested $10 donation at the door

*TARTUFI*

Formed in 2001, San Francisco’s TARTUFI released three albums as a power-pop
trio, Westward Onward (Thread Records- 2002), So We Are
Alive<http://cdbaby.com/cd/tartufi> (Thread
Records – 2004), and Trouble <http://cdbaby.com/cd/tartufi2> (Acuarela –
2005), and garnered heaps of press and “Best of…”s before members Lynne
Angel and Brian Gorman decided switch gears and head in a new direction. In
2006, having just played a South by Southwest showcase and with an album at
#75 on CMJ charts, the now duo had much to prove and an eager desire to
fulfill their like-minded sonic vision. Ditching their previous material and
hitting the studio armed with bigger amplifiers and modified loop stations;
Angel and Gorman began developing their new sound. In 3 months time, the
reinvented band had written and recorded Us Upon Buildings Upon
Us<http://cdbaby.com/cd/tartufi3> (2006-
Thread Records) with the help of Tim Green (Joanna Newsom, Melvins,
Monotonix) in the engineer’s seat.

Having shed many of the band’s previous pop sensibilities, UUBUU’s rich,
epic and complex sound surprised many critics and fans alike. The album
propelled Tartufi farther onto the national stage. Tartufi made three laps
around the U.S. in support of UUBUU. Audiences nationwide were left
awestruck as the duo was able to reproduce the complexities of the album
using live looping as opposed to with the aid of a laptop or Midi time
clocks. Critics around the country picked UUBUU as one of the best albums of
the year. In 2007, after more than 120 shows, Tartufi was voted Best Indie
Band in the Bay by The San Francisco Bay Guardian.

The Proxemics

Founded in early 2009, The Proxemics are an autonomous music project with a
revolving cast of musicians led by lynch pin and frontman Alex Neville (The
brilliant Dullards, A. Barnhouse, Audible Whispering 1/2 Quartet).

The Proxemics are a stripped down assembly, sometimes appearing as a
garage-based, dirty wall of sound, sometimes as deconstructed balladeers
offering you their hearts on their sleeves. Neville unites crunchy, angular
alt-rock with a singer-songwriter sensibility while never letting go of his
experimental roots. Mimicking the definition of their moniker, The Proxemics
are at times both distant and intimate, treating their audience to an
emotional tug-of-war. The songs appear effortless on the surface, but upon
deeper investigation they become a complex system of asymmetrical forms with
sonic threads and noise, weaving songs into a larger, continuous theme.

The shifting members of The Proxemics are all long-time members of the High
Mayhem Emerging Arts Collective, also based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
which has helped shape the City Different’s unique underground scene for the
last ten years.
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