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Ember Schrag - 'I Ain't A Prophet' April 27, 2011 Borg Ward Milwaukee, WI w/ Gary Foster on Drums Jeff Mitchell on Electric Guitar
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Ember Schrag - 'I Ain't A Prophet' April 27, 2011 Borg Ward Milwaukee, WI w/ Gary Foster on Drums Jeff Mitchell on Electric Guitar
Ember Schrag - "Sutherland"
Ember Schrag, "Sutherland"
Ember Schrag is playing with Debbie Schwartz tonight at Quinn's. You should definitely go.
Ember Schrag is a singer and guitarist hailing from the plains of Nebraska whose unassuming and quaint style is evocative of the work of other artists such as Laura Veirs. She also happens to be playing a show tonight at Quinn's starting at 8:30.
Her work feels like a long walk into the hinterland with autumn nipping at your heels and the deadly promise of winter beckoning just behind. A feeling we at this point are all too familiar with. Check out the link below to see what I mean. It's the official video for her song "Sutherland."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXnV1-mB10
I would highly recommend going to this show.
Although frost-bitten and weary from a long, dark, winter we can find solace in this siren from the west.
We can all huddle in the bar together tonight, letting her voice remind us of the impermanence of the seasons, and how the inevitable will happen. The sun will return, and we will be free from winter's bonds again if only for a short while.
Until then at least the music and the whisky is a good deterrent from the Seasonal Affective Disorder that is ravaging my body. I'll see you there.
Singing From the Bottom of a Well, 2013, was a series of prints, papercuts and performances inspired in part by landai, two-line songs anonymously authored by Pashtun women and collectively remembered through oral tradition. One young poet who was not anonymous, Zarmina, set herself on fire in provincial Afghanistan 2010. Her landai challenged God from "the dark cage of the village." Zarmina and other legendary figures appear in the work, along with music, images and lyrics inspired by this astonishing and sensual poetic tradition. Give me your hand, my love, and let us go into the fields So we can love each other or fall together beneath the blows of knives.
Singing From the Bottom of a Well was performed as a semi-improvised collaboration with pedal steel genius Susan Alcorn (Baltimore) and folk chanteuse Ember Schrag (Brooklyn) in NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC, and shared stages with Daniel Higgs, Nathan Bell, Mike Andre, Ohioan and more.
Video available here.
Papercuts for a forthcoming performance project with vocalist Ember Schrag and pedal steel player Susan Alcorn, touring this fall. Inspired by Pashtun landays written by contemporary Afghani women. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/magazine/why-afghan-women-risk-death-to-write-poetry.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
"Sutherland" by Ember Schrag, Shadows by Erik Ruin (http://erikruin.tumblr.com/), Filming and Editing by Natalja Kent (http://nataljakent.com/). From The Sewing Room, released 2012 by Edible Onion / Single Girl Married Girl. www.emberschrag.com
Silkscreened poster for performance I did alongside Ember Schrag, Orion Dommisse (of the Eyesores) and Twoheaded Dog, 2012. First collaborative audiovisual set I did with Sakiko Mori (Daily Life) and Scott Reber (Work/Death).
