7 inch RELEASE!!!! April 27th

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The Spinning Leaves = excited to release their new 7″ inch record called “Head Aglow” on APRIL 27th at Underground Arts! Be the “there for it.”

Playing the night:
+ JULIET HOPE WAYNE – hilarious good flipping gripping stories – she tells them, weaves them, relates them, spanks them, etc. the moth
+ LIGHTNINGING – fun! dance! rock horn party good tasty energy band explosion going on house smash blam blam
+ DIVERS (EmilyAna Zeitlyn and co., former – The Weeds) – oh so good songs and feels inviting mystery passion like needed bread AND buttah
+ THE SPINNING LEAVES – pure release good

We all share in common “good”. This will make for a grand freaking awesome show. Get there early, stay late.

APRIL 27TH, 2012
UNDERGROUND ARTS in the basement of the Wolf Building at
12TH & CALLOWHILL ST.
Philadelphia, PA
9 PM
$10

Underground Arts is new and awesome and underground and so real. They will have a kitchen open for dinner and plenty of delicious local beer and fine spirits.

A little about the record ————-
“Head Aglow” was recorded at Waterfront Studios in Hudson, NY inside a large 19th century church with the renowned producer and engineer Henry Hirsch(Lenny Kravitz, Mick Jagger, Madonna). The Spinning Leaves collaborated on the production of three songs with Hirsch, their long-time friend and sonic trustee Rachel Alina, guitar galaxy genius Ross Bellenoit, and saucy beatist Spencer Cohen. The result is a record with incredible depth, both audibly and emotionally. With access to mics from the 30′s to the present and recording straight to 2 inch tape, the vinyl sounds so so so warm and their voices fly. The songs themselves are ripping and putting back together. “Knife Arms” is a spell of a song, about the beauty and snares of love, the simultaneous gut slices and clear comfort of a partner. “Shades of Red” is like catching fire, an elemental musing on the vigor and mystery of life. “Dulcimer Grove” is a big dream gift, a wonder scene of time and space given from one to another, whole again.

It is being released on Mad Dragon Records.

For the release show, The Spinning Leaves band will consist of Michael Baker, Barbara Gettes, Phil D’Agostino, Ross Bellenoit, Jonas Oesterle, Larry Toft, and Adam Hershberger. And surely some special guests ;) It will be killer!

Poster for the release beautiful – painted by Frank Kolbmann – Francis2Good.com – words art laid on by Angela Miles

Hope everyone can make it! Spread the word!

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Visuals and comments on east to west:

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20111001-020014.jpg **Alternate $ system in Madison. We love this. Read about it here- www.madisonhours.org/

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20111001-020508.jpg The Food Co-op had it going on. We loved the seed bomb machine, tinctures in bulk and the diversity of bulk medicinal and nutritional herbs. Perhaps Mariposa will get a bulk tincture distributor at it’s new location— hint, hint!

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The land in through the plains felt haunted by the ‘cowboy’ and native spirits of the land. It was long and flat. We stopped off at two spots off of Highway 90. One called Wall Drug, boasting advertisements for a $.05 cup off coffee. The other spot we stopped off at was called 1880 Town.

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This is where we got a $.05 cup of coffee. Wall Drug is a few blocks of kitchy tourist stuff. My favorite thing about it was some of the beautiful art work on the walls. Other than that, it was an obvious marketing ploy for the white man to capitolize off of mass produced cowboy and indian ‘relics’.

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And here are some pictures of 1880 town;

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By the time we got through 1880 town, we had a growing pit in our stomaches about the lack of presence of the Native American perspective. The lack of perspective from women as well.
The land kept opening up wider and wider. We heard about the wild buffalo we would see but saw none.
As we drove we saw our first ghost mountains. They looked like clouds over the plains for miles. As we got closer tears welled up in my eyes. We both wondered what it must have been like to make this journey on horse.. or with a wagon. We wondered what it would be like to know the land. And then- we came to the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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