{"id":23610,"date":"2017-03-25T08:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23610"},"modified":"2017-03-25T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T12:45:45","slug":"on-stage-extra-a-phishy-connection-between-performers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23610","title":{"rendered":"On Stage (Extra): A &#8216;Phishy&#8217; connection between performers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Staff Writer, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3581\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/natalie-cressman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3581\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3581\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/natalie-cressman-304x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Cressman<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over the next few days, two talented female artists who share an unusual link will be performing in Philadelphia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The link is the band Phish and the artists are Natalie Cressman and Holly Bowling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cressman, who will be performing on March 25 at the Ardmore Music Hall (23 East Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, 610-649-8389,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ardmoremusic.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">www.ardmoremusic.com<\/span><\/a>), is a songwriter, trombone player and a vocalist with a crystalline voice.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Steadily evolving in many directions, the 25-year-old Cressman has already put down deep roots in several overlapping scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A prodigiously-talented New York City-based trombonist, she\u2019s spent the past seven years touring the jam band circuit as a horn player and vocalist with Phish\u2019s Trey Anastasio (and recently played with Phish at Madison Square Garden).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Deeply versed in Latin jazz, post-bop, pop, and Brazilian music, she tapped the interlaced traditions on her first two solo albums, 2012\u2019s \u201cUnfolding\u201d and 2014\u2019s \u201cTurn the Sea.\u201d Her new EP five-song EP \u201cTraces\u201d reveals her latest evolution &#8212; a sleek electronica-laced sound with dance-floor elements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI recorded \u2018Traces\u2019 about a year-and-a-half ago,\u201d said Cressman, during a phone interview Wednesday from her home in Brooklyn, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt was very much a layered process which was very new for me. In the past, most of my recording was done live in the studio. This time, I layered the elements one-by-one. It was a long process. But, it was nice to not have the pressure of working in a studio with deadlines. I was interested in the way other production techniques changed the mood of a song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was also working on an album with Mike Bono. We recorded the music for that album in fall 2015. With only the two of us, it took less time. We turned that one around in under a year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cressman came from a very musical family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy mom Sandy Cressman is a singer who has worked a lot with Brazilian music,\u201d said Cressman. \u201cMy dad Jeff Cressman is a trombonist who plays jazz, fusion and Latin. He played in Carlos Santana\u2019s band for 16 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI grew up in the Bay Area and studied music in high school at the School of the Arts in San Francisco. Then, I came to New York to go to college at the Manhattan School of Music, where I majored in jazz trombone performance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jeff Cressman was with the Carlos Santana Band from 2000-2016. In addition to his work with Santana, he has recorded and toured with such diverse artists as Don Cherry, Trey Anastasio Band, Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, the Charlie Hunter Trio, Tito Puente, Sheila E., Jon Jang and the Pan Asian Arkestra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was through him that his daughter landed the gig with the Trey Anastasio Band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy dad was unable to do a tour with TAB in 2009 and he recommended me to Trey,\u201d said Cressman. \u201cTrey was concerned that I was only 18 and had never toured before. But, he gave me the opportunity and it worked out well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHaving improv music in my DNA was helpful. You have to have it in your ear and be very adaptable. It made it easy for me to adapt to jam band music. I just had to work on developing a more aggressive tone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anastasio said, \u201cI was instantly floored by how melodically and naturally she played and sang. Natalie is the rarest of musicians. Born into a musical family and raised in a home filled with the sounds of Brazilian music, jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms, musicality is in her DNA.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cressman\u2019s music career is filled with diversity &#8212; playing salsa with Uruguayan percussionist Edgardo Cambon e Orquesta Candela, Latin jazz with Pete Escovedo\u2019s Latin Jazz Orchestra, world music with Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, and globally-inspired avant-garde jazz with multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cressman and her parents recently were in Brazil and were able to perform together there \u2013 and to immerse themselves in the Brazilian music style known as frevo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe were in Recife, Brazil,\u201d said Cressman. \u201cSpok, who is one of the premier frevo musicians with his band Spok Frevo Orchestra, invited me to go to Brazil to experience carnival,\u201d said Cressman. \u201cI had performed with him before at Lincoln Center in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt was a pleasure to go to Brazil and be exposed to that style of music. Frevo is found only in the area around Recife. It\u2019s really amazing music and so is the dancing they do to frevo with colorful outfits and umbrellas. I was there for two weeks at the end of February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNow, I\u2019m back and doing a few dates of my own. After this, I\u2019ll be going on the road with Trey. The TAB will be on tour from April through July.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Video link for Natalie Cressman &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FMKhiIAdZN4\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/FMKhiIAdZN4<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show in Ardmore, which also features Splintered Sunlight, will start at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $13 general admission and $20 reserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other upcoming shows at the Ardmore Music Hall are Will Power \u2013 Tower of Power Tribute on March 26 and Galway Guild with special guest The Whiskey Trail Band on March 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3582\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/holly-bowling-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3582\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3582\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/holly-bowling-2-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holly Bowling<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Holly Bowling, who will headline a show on March 28 at the World Caf\u00e9 Live (3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 215-222-1400, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcafelive.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">www.worldcafelive.com<\/span><\/a>), is a university-educated pianist who began playing classical piano at the age of five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There is one thing that sets Bowling apart from other classically-trained musicians. That one thing is Bowling\u2019s devotion to the legendary rock band Phish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Having attended over 300 shows by the Burlington-based quartet, she became obsessed by their\u00a0famous rendition of \u201cTweezer\u201d from Lake Tahoe on July 31, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It led Holly to transcribe this 37-minute improvisational masterpiece note-for-note and arrange it for solo\u00a0piano. The process, both painstaking and fulfilling, inspired her to transform other Phish songs and well-known live jams into solo piano interpretations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Holly\u2019s breathtaking renditions of Phish classics like \u201cIt\u2019s Ice,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Squirming Coil\u201d and \u201cHarry Hood\u201d serve not only as a tribute to the modern-day kings of jam, but stand on their own as fully developed classical pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI grew up in Michigan and New Hampshire,\u201d said Bowling, during a phone interview last week from a tour stop in Roanoke, Virginia. \u201cI moved to San Francisco in 2003 and haven\u2019t left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI started playing piano when I was five. I learned by the Suzuki Method which is mostly training by ear. I started with piano recitals and later entered into competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI had dual interests in piano \u2013 classical and pop. That had been a thread through all my life. When I was young, my parents took me to a Little Feat concert and exposed me to the Grateful Dead. As I got older, I ran around the country seeing shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy parents listened to the Dead but not to Phish. A friend turned me on to Phish when I was in high school. The first time I got to see them was in New York City in 2002 at Madison Square Garden. I\u2019ve been a huge fan ever since.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The seeds of her current obsession had been planted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFour years ago, there was a clear moment when things clicked and it all came together,\u201d said Bowling. \u201cI went to see Phish play a show in Lake Tahoe<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey did a 37-minute version of \u2018Tweezer.\u2019 The improv just struck me. It was very well-developed. I went home and wrote it out \u2013 note-for-note \u2013 and arranged it for piano. That inspired me to do an album.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The past year has seen Bowling expand her repertoire into the realm of the Grateful Dead, including an \u201cEyes of the World\u201d based on the band\u2019s 1974 performance at Freedom Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Using classical piano technique to reinterpret these legendary jam bands, Bowling\u2019s live performances infuse new with old \u2013 tradition with surreal. Texture, nuance, and a gift for dexterous high-wire improvisation are her trademarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy live show is a mix of my arrangements of Phish music and Grateful Dead music,\u201d said Bowling. \u201cI play a lot of stuff that didn\u2019t make it to my albums.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the 1970s, there was a popular television show called \u201cBowling for Dollars.\u201d Now, it\u2019s 2017 and time for \u201cBowling for Phish\u201d \u2013 and fans are getting hooked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Video link for Holly Bowling \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RH6bpTZ1hTI\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/RH6bpTZ1hTI<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show at the World Caf\u00e9 Live will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance and $14 day of show.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3583\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/t-sisters-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3583\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/t-sisters-1-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The T-Sisters<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On March 29, the World Caf\u00e9 Live will present another female music act from the San Francisco Bay area that has covered songs by the Grateful Dead \u2013 especially a critically-acclaimed rendition of the Dead\u2019s composition \u201cBird Song.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The group is the T Sisters &#8212; Chloe Tietjen, Rachel Tietjen and Erika Tietjen<b>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The T Sisters are a genuine sister singing group based out of Oakland, California. The group\u2019s subtle throwback aesthetic calls to mind classic trios from the past such as the Andrews Sisters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With influences spanning folk, country, gospel, klezmer and early-90\u2019s R&amp;B, each sister brings a unique vocal and lyrical style to a sound that is at once modern and timeless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The T\u00a0Sisters embody harmony. It\u2019s in their blood, bones, and history. Erika, Rachel and Chloe have been singing and writing music together since childhood, and the lifetime of practice shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe grew up in Berkeley and did a lot of performing arts camps,\u201d said Erika Tietjen, during a phone interview last week from her home in Oakland, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe always sang casually at home. Our dad Ramsey Tietjen is a great musician \u2013 and a great singer-songwriter. I learned to play guitar when I was in high school and college but we didn\u2019t start playing instruments in earnest until after we left college.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cChloe and Rachel are twins and I was born 20 months earlier. We all went to different colleges. Chloe went to University of California Santa Cruz. Rachel went to MICA and I went to Amherst. I graduated in 2007 and then went to study in Russia for a year after graduating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey graduated in 2008. So, we all finished our programs at the same time. Then, when we started making music together, it was original music theater stuff. A little while later, it evolved into singer-songwriter stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe did our first EP in 2011 with Mike Marshall as the co-producer. Our dad played guitar and piano on the EP. Our first full-length \u2018Kindred Lines\u2019 came out in 2014 and was produced by Laurie Lewis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The T Sisters&#8217; sophomore studio album &#8220;T Sisters,&#8221; which was released in October 2016, features 10 songs that are inspired by\u00a0 the American folk tradition and, at the same time, embody a fresh and contemporary sound with inflections of pop, R&amp;B\/soul and country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe recorded the new album in San Francisco and Los Angeles,\u201d said Tietjen. \u201cWe did the instrumentals in the Bay Area and the vocals in L.A. We used our band and co-produced it with engineer\u00a0Cian Riordan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The three sisters\u2019 inventive songwriting is supported by their own acoustic instrumentation as well as upright bass (Steve Height), mandolin\/guitar (Andrew Allen Fahlander), and drums (Marlon Aldana). Their sound represents a continuum of music from traditional to pop influences &#8212; from moments of no-frills a cappella to swells of energetic Americana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe write separately and arrange together,\u201d said Tietjen. \u201cA lot of people after listening to our music remark how being sisters creates great vocal harmonies. We create a three-headed sound.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Video link for T Sisters \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p7KdjZIIv2Y\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/p7KdjZIIv2Y<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show, which has Lily Mae as the opener, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3584\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/minus-the-bear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3584\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3584\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/minus-the-bear-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minus The Bear<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It had been quite a while since Minus the Bear released an album. That all changed on March 3 when the Seattle-based band released a brand-new disc called \u201cVOIDS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Minus the Bear\u2019s long-time fans were elated by the news and were made even happier when the veteran quartet announced a 29-date spring tour across North America \u2013 a tour that brings the band to the area on March 25 for a show at Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, 215-232-2100, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">www.utphilly.com<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\">The line-up for Minus the Bear is <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Jake Snider (vocals, guitar), Dave Knudson (guitar), Cory Murchy (bass guitar), and Alex Rose (synthesizers, vocals).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s5\">\u201cThe new album came out at the beginning of the month,\u201d said Murchy, during a phone interview Wednesday from a tour stop in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s5\">\u201cWe\u2019re a couple weeks into the tour and feeling good about it. We\u2019re doing six of seven new songs. We\u2019re still massaging some things. The tour will be out for almost two months and then we head back to Seattle on April 15.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over the course of the band\u2019s 15-year career, the members of Minus the Bear have carved out their own unique musical world. They\u2019ve borrowed components from a wide array of genres \u2013 proto-punk, dance music, hip-hop, prog rock and R&amp;B.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Throughout the first decade of the band\u2019s existence, every new album offered a new musical approach, as seen in the idiosyncratic fretboard gymnastics of \u201cHighly Refined Pirates,\u201d the glitchy loops of \u201cMenos el Oso,\u201d and the modernized Fripp-inspired wizardry of \u201cPlanet of Ice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the group\u2019s sixth album \u201cVOIDS,\u201d Minus the Bear started with a blank slate. Then, the musicians inadvertently found themselves applying the same starting-from-scratch strategies that fueled their initial creative process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s5\">\u201cWe started recording \u2018VOIDS\u2019 last March in Seattle,\u201d said Murchy. \u201cThere were a couple different studios in town that we used. We went into the studio with about 40 things \u2013 pieces in various stages and done-ness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s5\">\u201cWe had quite a bit of ideas to pick from. We pared it down and made some lists. Then, we put some other tunes in there. The album\u2019s vibe started presenting itself halfway through. This was working and this was making sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s5\">\u201cUltimately, what kept it all together was to see it all the way through. At times, it was difficult to see the end game but that kind of propelled things for inspiration on their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s5\">\u201cJake and Alex write the lyrics and Dave writes the music. I don\u2019t do any of the actual writing. I just provide the bottom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cVOIDS\u201d was produced by Sam Bell, who is known for his work with The Cribs, Weezer, Bloc Party, and Two Door Cinema Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis was our first time working with Sam Bell,\u201d said Murchy. \u201cHe was the producer and engineer. It provided whole new opportunities to work in ways we never had before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHaving his ear and voice made a difference. He gave us the confidence to try different things. He was really instrumental in the sound of the record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSam didn\u2019t know any of us. We\u2019ve been doing Minus The Bear with this core for 15 years so it\u2019s hard for anyone to move in \u2013 but Sam did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe\u2019s become a friend. We really love the guy. His vibe was right. He had been living in Athens, Georgia but he just moved here to Seattle because he like sit so much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fifteen years is a long time for a band to stray together and still have three-fourths of its original line-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cA big reason for our longevity is communication,\u201d said Murchy. \u201cWe\u2019ve spent a lot of time together at various times in our lives. You can\u2019t manufacture the kind of love we have for each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAt the end of the day, we\u2019re brothers and we\u2019ll always love each other. We have something really special together and it\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Suicide Squeeze Records released \u201cVOIDS\u201d on March 3, 2017 on CD, LP, and cassette. Nick Steinhardt designed the artwork and layout for all formats. The first pressing of the album is available on 5,000 copies of splatter colored vinyl and 5,000 copies of 180-gram black vinyl. The LP jacket features PMS inks, a die-cut cover with a printed inner sleeve and contains a download code. The cassette version is limited to 500 copies and includes a download code as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Video link for Minus the Bear \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZdPpFpB4NYo\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZdPpFpB4NYo<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show at Union Transfer, which has Beach Slang and Bayonne as the opening acts, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other upcoming shows at Union Transfer are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/event\/1379217-foxygen-philadelphia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Foxygen<\/span><\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/event\/1379217-foxygen-philadelphia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Gabriella Cohen<\/span><\/a> on March 26, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/event\/1384084-vince-staples-philadelphia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Vince Staples<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/event\/1384084-vince-staples-philadelphia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Kilo Kish<\/span><\/a> on March 27, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/event\/1375712-hippo-campus-philadelphia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Hippo Campus<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/event\/1375712-hippo-campus-philadelphia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Magic City Hippies<\/span><\/a> on March 28, and SOHN and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphilly.com\/event\/1378022-sohn-philadelphia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">William Doyle<\/span><\/a> on March 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3585\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/enter-shikari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3585\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/enter-shikari-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enter Shikari<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There is another band coming to play an area concert this week with an even better record for longevity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\">Enter Shikari, which is headlining a March 26 show at the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Theatre of the Living Arts (334 South Street, Philadelphia, 215-222-1011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lnphilly.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.lnphilly.com<\/span><\/a>), was formed in 1999 and still has three of the four original members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rou Reynolds (lead vocals, programming, synthesizer, keyboards, acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, trumpet, percussion), Chris Batten (bass, vocals, synthesizer, percussion) and Rob Rolfe (drums, percussion, backing vocals) have been in the band ever since it began 17 years ago in St. Albans, England. Liam \u201cRory\u201d Clewlow (lead guitar, vocals, percussion) joined in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe have the same four members for a long time,\u201d said Reynolds, during a phone interview Wednesday afternoon from a tour stop in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor me, a band is a band because it\u2019s a collection of characters and musicians. We\u2019re not a pop band that relies on our popularity. What helped us is that we\u2019re all down to earth. We don\u2019t piss each other off. We all just enjoy what we do and each of us has the best interests of the band at heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tour that brings Enter Shikari to Philly is the North American Leg of the \u201cTake to The Skies 10th Anniversary\u201d shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs a band, we relentlessly try to progress,\u201d said Reynolds. \u201cWe thought that it would be nice for a few months to look back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year marks the 10-year anniversary\u00a0of the release of Enter Shikari\u2019s debut album \u201cTake to the Skies.\u201d It was recorded in Reading, England by the band when the band members were still in their teens and made on a budget of \u201cnot\u00a0very much at all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cTake to the Skies\u201d was released on March 19, 2007 and six days later reached Number 4 in the U.K. Official Album Charts. It contained re-recordings of many of the songs that had featured on the demo EPs and singles that were released prior to the release of the album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album went on to sell 140,000-plus copies in the U.K. alone, and in\u00a0a very short space of time, took Enter Shikari from a young band touring the small\/\u00a0medium-sized clubs of the U.K. to big venues and festival main stages worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe\u2019re celebrating the 10<\/span><span class=\"s6\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> anniversary of \u2018Take to the Skies\u2019 but we\u2019re not really playing the album start-to-finish,\u201d said Reynolds. \u201cWe\u2019re throwing a few other tracks in there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are playing the songs the way they were recorded. We didn\u2019t want to change anything because it encapsulated that era. It\u2019s all about playing a lot of songs again after not playing them for eight or nine years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAt the same time, there are a few of the singles from the album that have been staples in our live shows all along \u2013 songs like \u2018Sorry, You\u2019re Not a Winner\u2019 and \u2018Mothership.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band is taking time out from work on its fifth album to\u00a0perform a handful of shows worldwide over the space of a couple of months to celebrate the anniversary of \u201cTake to The Skies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Large shows in the U.K (including the three-city Slam Dunk Festival) and Russia (including a headlining concert at the 8,000-capacity Moscow Stadium) have already been announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe new album is coming along pretty good,\u201d said Reynolds. \u201cWe\u2019re going back into the studio soon. Hopefully, it will be out by the end of this year. The thing that\u2019s coming to the surface at the moment is that there is more of an effort to concentrate on simplicity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m the main songwriter of the band and there will be more singing and less screaming. I much prefer singing these days. I think I\u2019ve been improving with each album. My vocal range is a lot bigger with this album. Lyrically, the state of the world is a topic to be addressed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Video link for Enter Shikari \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1qCpoH4VO9Y\"><span class=\"s3\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1qCpoH4VO9Y<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s7\">The all-ages show at the TLA, which has <\/span><span class=\"s1\">As an Ocean and Your Persona, as the opening acts, will start at 8 p.m. <\/span><span class=\"s7\">Tickets are $16.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Denny Dyroff,\u00a0Staff Writer, The Times Over the next few days, two talented female artists who share an unusual link will be performing in Philadelphia. The link is the band Phish and the artists are Natalie Cressman and Holly Bowling. 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