Dead Gowns (Album Release)
Oxbow Live: Dead Gowns (Album Release) with Lily Seabird with Kafari
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The night kicks off right at 7pm! Join us for tarot card readings, vintage musings, a photo booth, and treats from Dear Dairy Ice Cream inspired by Dead Gowns’ new album. Featuring Dear Dairy, sexoracle, and My Mother’s Diaries.
Also available, Oxbow will have in rotation, “Swimmer,” a blonde farmhouse ale brewed with 100% Maine-grown grains and hopped with whole-cone Saaz. This celebratory Saison was brewed in collaboration with Dead Gowns for their debut album!
| Dead Gowns |
How does one cope with the pang of desire? It’s the tender, sometimes volatile question that confronts Genevieve Beaudoin on her debut full-length as Dead Gowns.
A deft lyricist with a sweeping range of poetic color and texture, Beaudoin paints her story in dark romantics, presenting a woman in the high summer of adulthood deciphering life’s capacity to fulfill desires or let them go painfully unmet. These cravings – to be touched, to be known, to have just one more encounter with someone lost to time – are a lacuna Beaudoin prods at insistently throughout the album’s twelve songs.
Though never named outright, Beaudoin’s home in Maine – and its ragged, granite-strewn coastline – is an evocative character inhabiting the album, a force even more implacable than Beaudoin’s emotions. Also present is the acute awareness of time passing. Pulled from an Eileen Miles poem, the album’s title, It’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded by Snow, evokes a feeling of disorientation and the inevitability of change. External and internal forces charge Beaudoin, her inner world shifting much like the dizzying change of the seasons. “We get swept up in the blizzard, and then we are set down in the hot salty haze of August,” she says, remembering the Maine winters of her childhood.
By the album’s end, Beaudoin holds her longing in the balance, no longer overcome but embodied. And if you listen carefully – these songs will pick you up and put you down again, transformed, raw, and satiated.
| Lily Seabird |
Lily Seabird is a perceptive songwriter who can channel moments when everything feels raw and overwhelming into something healing and galvanizing. With Alas, the Burlington, VT-based artist’s sophomore album, she confronts grief with palpable clarity on tracks that careen from delicate folk to blistering indie rock.
| Kafari |
Kafari (he/him) is the alias of Cincinnati, OH born, Portland, ME based pianist, rhythm bones player and beatmaker Ahmad Muhammad. Kafari’s warm, soulful sound synthesizes his love of ambient piano music, experimental hip-hop and acoustic percussion, taking inspiration from jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby, beatmaker J Dilla, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who in a 2014 performance sparked Kafari’s interest in traditional music and the Irish rhythm bones. Through his intimate and magical live performances and numerous moodsetting ethereal instrumental albums, Kafari explores music-making as a balm for the spirit, inviting his listeners on a journey of spiritual discovery.
[$20 Tickets | Doors 7]