17 Pygmies Return for Rare Live Performance at International Pop Overthrow
WHAT: International Pop Overthrow LA
WHERE: Spaceland. 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026, 323-661-4380
WHEN: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
COST: $8.00/21+
International Pop Overthrow (or IPO, as its friends call it) is a pop music festival celebrating its tenth year in Los Angeles. There have also been IPO festivals held in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, and in Liverpool, England (at the world-famous Cavern Club). Each International Pop Overthrow features between 100-180 of the world's best pop bands. The purpose of IPO is two-fold: to give every worthy band who'd like to play their music in a festival atmosphere the chance to do so, and to bring honest, delightful pop music the attention it so richly deserves.
Featured at the upcoming Los Angeles IPO is the legendary post-punk ensemble 17 Pygmies, featuring Jackson Del Rey (founding member of influential L.A. band Savage Republic). 17 Pygmies will be performing brand new songs for this show.
Band leader Jackson Del Rey has recently received world-wide attention for his DVD releases featuring original soundtracks for the silent films"Battleship Potemkin" and "Nosferatu." Recent press includes a six-page spread in Blow Up Magazine (Italy) and a feature in Wound Magazine (U.K.), both including in-depth interviews with Jackson where he discusses composing film scores and returning to music making after a 17-year hiatus.
17Pygmies, 17 years? If we know Jackson, this is no accident!
Of the 17 Pygmies' live show in Boston last year, Lucid Culture raved "If it's possible for a sometimes quirky, often transcendentally beautiful art-rock band to slay, The 17 Pygmies slayed, bringing to mind other great, artsy jangle bands like the Church, the Byrds or Fairport Convention. Mix in major and minor chords, verses that built slowly to towering refrains and then subsided again, the band held the audience spellbound. If the live show is any indication, the new album must be amazing. This is a band you should get to know."
Sharing the IPO bill on August 5th at Spaceland are: Kristian Hoffman, 17 Pygmies, Saucy Monky, Io Perry, Aaron David Gleason and The Holliston Stops
The 2007 releases "Ballade Of Tristram's Last Harping" and "13 Blackbirds" were well-received and left no doubt that Jackson Del Rey is back to stay. A new experimental record "Celestina" is slated to be released this fall.
For more 17 Pygmies and on the Trakwerx label, visit
http://www.trakwerx.blogspot.com
http://www.trakwerx.com/label.htm
http://www.myspace.com/17pygmies
For Spaceland info, visit http://clubspaceland.com
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