Friday, July 1
PETRA HADEN SINGS 'THE WHO SELL OUT'
STEPHEN PRINA
The premiere live performance of the recorded work Pete Townshend calls "unnervingly exciting." Petra Haden revisits the classic Who album with an all female a cappella choir featuring Haden and Dawn Frinta, Sandy Howell, Delphine Robertson, Tanya Haden, Amanda Mullins, Tammy Hart, Cindy O'Connor, Justine Kragen and Carla Commagere.
Plus renowned contemporary artist and musician Stephen Prina returns to Los Angeles for a solo, acoustic performance of original songs and — according to him — "contemporary standards."
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Petra Haden, daughter of legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden was introduced to a wide variety of musical stimulation at an early age. She soon developed her extraordinary ability to vocalize the sounds of the instruments she heard in the jazz and classical music that was now a steady part of her musical appetite. Blessed with an uncanny musical ear, she began forming arrangements in her head, translating the works of favorite artists Pat Metheny, Cocteau Twins and minimalist composer Steve Reich into her own unique musical language.
In the early '90s Petra, her sister Rachel, and friend Anna Waronker formed the Los Angeles-based indie-pop group That Dog, which quickly became a staple of the L.A. club circuit. They released a self-titled debut LP in 1994. An energetic and quirky punk-pop effort highlighted by sunny harmonies and the intriguing use of violin and cello, the record became a college radio hit. The follow-up project, Totally Crushed Out!, was released a year later, and the group's third recording, Retreat From the Sun, appeared in 1997, and the band's breakup was announced that September.
Petra recorded a solo album Imaginaryland, which was released in 1996. In recent years, she has cultivated a number of important musical relationships reflected in her collaborations with Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda and Victoria Williams - the most recent being with the celebrated guitarist and composer Bill Frisell.
Commenting on Petra Haden Sings 'The Who Sell Out', Petra writes: In 2000, my friend Mike Watt (the bass player for the Minutemen), called me and suggested that I recreate "The Who Sell Out" using just my voice. He gave me his 8-track cassette recorder and put the Who on the 8th track. I started singing the bass first, then gradually filled up the tracks singing the instruments and the lead vocals. It was fun but it took three years. I really did it for Mike but when he heard the finished project, he said, "You should put it out Pet!" In late 2003, Bar None records got a copy of it and liked it just how it was, recorded on a tape machine.
Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out was released by Bar/None Records on February 22nd.
Bridging work at The Harbor Lights Supper Club and The Taco Hideout Lounge in Galesburg, Illinois--his birthplace--to work as a so-called serious "paper" composer, music has always played an important role in Stephen Prina's art practice. Since his re-emergence in 1992 as pop performer, concerts have been staged in Athens, Beacon, Berlin, Boston, Cambridge, Dijon, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Helsinki, New York, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo, and Vienna. In 1999 Prina released his first solo recording Push Comes to Love on Drag City. Push Comes to Love utilizes all the conventions of pop album construction albeit using lyricis by contemporary fiction writers such as Dennis Cooper, Amy Gerslter and Lynne Tillman.
Prina's performance at the Ford is his second for sound. In 2001, SASSAS and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture presented Sonic Dan, a 1-/3/4 hour solo performance consisting of covers of Sonic Youth and Steely Dan songs, punctuated by prerecorded fragments of Anton Webern's string quartets and an encore culled from the Allman Brothers.
To clarify his relationship to pop genres, Prina has been known to say, For me, only two things exist in music: drones and love songs.
Performance begins at 8:30 p.m.
Grounds open 2 hours prior to show time for picnicking.
Location:
The Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East
Hollywood, CA 90068
Advance admission: $16; $12 for students with valid I.D. and SASSAS members.
$20 at the door
Stacked public parking is available at the Ford for $10. Non-stacked FREE parking is available at the Universal City Metro Station lot at Lankershim Blvd. and Campo de Cahuenga. A FREE shuttle to the Ford stops in the "kiss and ride" area and cycles every 15 to 20 minutes. Please see www.FordAmphitheatre.org for map.
sound. 2005 is curated by Cindy Bernard, Carole Ann Klonarides and Renee Petropoulos; produced by SASSAS.
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS)is supported in part through grants from the City of West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Composers Forum, a special donation from Amoeba Music, promotional support from Bar/None Records and the generous contributions of our members. For further information on SASSAS: www.sassas.org or contact us at 323.960.5723.
Contribute to SASSAS at the $50 level and receive a copy of soundCd no. 1 or soundCd no. 2 as well as discounts for sound.
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