garcia peoples

Aquarium Drunkard EOY list brought me here. Good stuff!

New one is so good and varied.

Definitely. Closest analogy I can think of is Dungen 4, another great and varied album.

We don't have a dedicated thread for their label, Beyond Beyond is Beyond, and I'm not sure it's worth a whole new thread... but RIP BBiB:

After 8 bonkers years, I’m leaving ye olde record label, Beyond Beyond is Beyond, behind in 2021. It’s been a dream to work with all the amazing artists we’ve released records with. ✌️♥️ 🎶

— mikenoomin (@mikenoomin) February 23, 2021

Really bums me out, they'd been a roll lately with Garcia Peoples of course, but also Tengger, Elkhorn, Kendra Amalie, Matt Valentine and De Lorians, to name a few.

Oh man, I misread this yesterday as a guy leaving the label, not ending the label. This is a bummer! Tengger is my faaaaave...

Yeah, that's what I was hoping it was, but reading through the replies it looks like the label is done, sadly. I guess it makes sense, considering they hadn't announced any forthcoming releases since the last Garcia Peoples record came out last October.

Yeah I noticed after a busy couple years, things seemed to have quieted down quite a bit. Oh well ... it was a good run, and that label in particular did a lot for the indie/psych/jam resurgence.

Dodging Dues, new album due out in January, produced by Matt Sweeney and released by No Quarter since BBiB closed shop.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2846999757_10.jpg

Good news.

Three preview tracks up at bandcamp are excellent, I'm stoked.

https://garciapeoples.bandcamp.com/

They are playing in Chicago next weekend (they were actually the last show I saw before the pandemic kicked off) but with an unvaxxed kid at home I'm not ready for an indoor show quite yet. Hopefully they hit the area again on a tour after this comes out.

New one is very very good, tighter and more concise than the stage show, but they still manage to pack so much into every song.

Very nice. Starting the year off right.

Rather than starting a new thread for an album that maybe only three people will care about, I'm going to bump this to say that fans of Garcia Peoples will probably very much dig the debut full-length from Color Green. The closer, "Blizzed Out" is really great and hits a similar vibe for me. Liking this a lot.

https://colorgreen.bandcamp.com/album/color-green-2

Ryley Walker is putting out Danny Arakaki's solo album, Tumble in Shade, in January on his Husky Pants label.

Pretty heady lineup for this one:

Danny Arakaki - Guitar/Vocals
Ryan Jewell - Drums/Percussion
Mike Bones - Guitar
Chad Laird - Bass
Samara Lubelski - Violin (on "All Thanks")
Andi Magenheimer - Vocals (on tracks 1, 2, 4, 7)
Helen Rush - Vocals (on tracks 3&4)
Winston Cook-Wilson - Piano/Organ/Rhodes
Jef Brown - Saxophone
Rachel Herman - Violin
Dan Iead - Pedal Steel/Guitar

^^

This is out Friday, but my copy came yesterday. It's really good.

Great sound and a blistering live performance of a good chunk of "Dodging Dues":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtG5e7JKYx8

love these dudes. danny's new record is really good too.

finally checking these guys out. just wow.

The Arakaki solo record is fantastic — just a really great rock record.

Missed this revive, but yeah that's a great performance. Loving the new Arakaki album and still bummed I had to miss the GP/Forsyth tour due to life stuff.

Also been really getting into Taper's Choice lately, on that "indie-jam" tip.

They really were not good live when I saw them recently which was a bummer because I was expecting great things. Part of it was the sound at the venue (bad) and part of it could have been my general mood that day (not great) but they didn’t really seem all that into it either and the vocals can be a little rough.

i saw them about a month ago and didn't come away super impressed tbh. they are a band i should like on paper.

'vocals are rough' comes with the dead/any dead adjacent act, something i'm willing to overlook if the jams are good, which,

if they weren't called 'garcia peoples' i might like them. maybe

I also saw them a few months ago & wasn't particularly impressed after having previously dug a couple sets of theirs on the archive. Just figured that my expectations were too high, but maybe they've fallen off a bit as of late.

I haven't caught them on the recent tour, bummed to hear they haven't been great. The two times I saw them pre-pandemic were absolutely killer. I've caught a couple tapes of other shows from 2021 and 2022 that were good, but not much has been circulating yet from the most recent tour.

Can’t decide whether I love or hate this band name. I go back and forth.

they did suffer a bit from following Chris Forsyth, his band has Doug McCombs from Tortoise and Ryan Jewell as the rhythm section and they give him a really strong almost krauty vibe, Forsyth can verge on guitar mag stuff at times for me, but he's a much better soloist than anyone in Garcia Peoples (at least that night)

Not surprised to hear that, makes sense.