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    Secret Chiefs 3 news - albums/tours

    From the Secret Chiefs 3 web site forums:

    Secret Chiefs 3 announce the release of two full-length installments of their long awaited Book of Souls album, and two USA/Canada tours in support of them. The first - Book of Souls: Folio A - comes out in late May, and the second - Book of Souls: Folio B - comes out in September.

    BOOK OF SOULS: FOLIO A (CD), RELEASED IN MAY

    Listeners have come to expect a lot from Secret Chiefs 3, and for Book of Souls, second in the band’s mega-trilogy (first being Book of Horizons, 2004), they expect nothing less than a vertigo-inducing follow up. True to expectation, Book of Souls: Folio A is a full-length album densely-packed with musical skyscrapers. Over a decade in the making along with Folio B, Book of Souls is Secret Chiefs 3’s most elaborate work yet. Following the 7-band schemata laid out in Book of Horizons, both Folios of Book of Souls thoroughly establish the depth of SC3’s journey into otherwise lost musical possibilities. With productions based in studios in the SF Bay Area, NY, LA, Seattle, UK and France over the last 11 years, the band’s leader Trey Spruance enlisted a small army of musicians — or actually not so small, since the orchestral tasks demanded by the music seem effectively unlimited in number.

    But familiar names in the SC3 canon form the backbone of the recording-band: Timb Harris, Ches Smith, Shahzad Ismaily, Anonymous 13, Danny Heifetz, William Winant, with live-band initiates Matt Lebofsky, Kenny Grohowski and Toby Driver adding extra life among the zillions of enlisted musical enablers.

    On Book of Souls: Folio A, it is evident that Secret Chiefs 3 continues to operate in blissful ignorance of current musical fashions, remaining enchanted only by what can be unlocked in modern mediums by applying a specific recipe of pre-modern (often ancient) processes to them.

    While it's true that the album represents the kind of titanic, almost Faustian undertaking that one would expect as being uniquely appropriate to Secret Chiefs 3, for all the pomp it’s easy to forget that everything having to do with the recording is DIY to the core. Book of Souls: Folio A is a fully organic production. Everything is honed with love in one of the last hermetically-sealed laboratories. Some may snort at the notion that there even could exist such a cauldron of limitless fascination extending so rigorously beyond the time/space boundaries of modern occidental groupthink; a place in-between, suspended, where the simplest motifs have the freedom either to radiate upward into geometric complexities that are beyond description, or to refine downward to a state of simple musical essence. But it's the usual thing at the SC3 lab.

    This press-release is offered as a summons to the impartial jury of all earthly ears. All snorts and scoffs will be answered with a supra-sensory choir. Coming in May and September.


    MAY RESIDENCY TOUR

    Two USA/Canada tours are happening in 2013 (May and October), one in support of each Book of Souls release. The first has already been booked: Secret Chiefs 3 will play multiple-night ‘residencies’ in select USA/Canada cities in May, in support of “Book of Souls: Folio A”. These residiencies will involve multiple sets per night. The music of SC3 “Heptad” bands FORMS, Ishraqiyun, UR, as well as other Secret Chiefs 3 material will be performed, including works arranged for John Zorn’s Masada. Check listings soon to see which configurations SC3 will be in on which night.

    Tue May 7, 2013 - Seattle, WA @ The Sunset

    http://www.strangertickets.com/event...ecret-chiefs-3

    Wed May 8, 2013 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile

    http://www.ticketfly.com/event/247809

    Fri May 10, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
    Sat May 11, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord

    http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/EventLi...on?orgId=17518

    Sun May 12, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Bar

    http://www.songkick.com/concerts/160...at-bootleg-bar

    Tue May 14, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Bar

    http://www.songkick.com/concerts/160...at-bootleg-bar

    Fri May 17, 2013 - Manhattan, NY @ Mercury Lounge

    http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00...=mercurylounge

    Sat May 18, 2013 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool

    http://www.ticketfly.com/event/252943

    Sun May 19, 2013 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool

    http://www.ticketfly.com/event/252945

    Tue May 21, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern

    http://www.schubas.com/Shows/05-21-2013+Secret+Chiefs+3

    Wed May 22, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Township

    Fri May 24, 2013 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake

    http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/ev...077FCFE703DED2

    Sat May 25, 2013 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake

    http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/ev...077FCFE703DED2

    and then a full week of even more in-depth work @:

    THE STONE (NYC) RESIDENCIES
    MAY 28—JUNE 2

    For a band that has been busy playing over 300 shows in over 30 countries in the last few years, one could imagine how well-seasoned a unit it might've become. And yes, the lineup has stabilized over the last few tours into the following elite team, who can handle everything and then some for both tours in 2013:

    Trey Spruance, Timb Harris, Matt Lebofsky, Toby Driver, Kenny Grohowski


    OCTOBER NATIONAL TOUR, SUPPORTING “BOOK OF SOULS: FOLIO B” (CD) RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER

    After a brief pause to digest Folio A, listeners will hear the second installment, Book of Souls: Folio B in September. Intimately thematically-intertwined with the previously-released Folio, Book of Souls: Folio B has more Autumnal sheen. Darker, in some ways more ballistic, but also intoxicated with Beauty and high on diabolical humours, Book of Souls: Folio B remains unquestionably secure at SC3’s well-established fulcrum between rationalistic chaos and anarchistic elegance.


    * NOTE A deluxe vinyl edition of the complete Book of Souls corpus, with expanded artwork and comprehensive conceptual material will be released in October.

    ** artwork and preview mp3s forthcoming
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    Yay!! Fantastic news!!
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    YehhehESSSSSSSSS! And at the Drake in Toronto? Holy small venues!!

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    about time

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    Wonderful news indeed. Really looking forward to this!

    Matt, not to digress but just out of curiosity - did you ever consider doing anything "projectively" with Toby D. outside of SC3 live appearances?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Matt, not to digress but just out of curiosity - did you ever consider doing anything "projectively" with Toby D. outside of SC3 live appearances?
    I'd love to, but we live 3000 miles apart and are both currently swamped with our own various projects. We'll see though. There were a couple Kayo Dot/miRthkon shows together on tour last year at least...

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    Hopefully the October tour will pass within driving distance of Boston. Would love to see these guys.
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    I'm bumping this as I edited the original post to include our week residency at the Stone in NYC tacked on at the end of the tour. There's gonna be a whole lotta NYC love this time around... Woo-hoo!!

    - Matt

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    I might just make it down to NYC for one of those.
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    Union-Pool website won't let me buy tickets....I hope they fix it soon.

    ETA: Nevermind. Buying tickets works fine for some other shows. I guess you can't buy tickets for this one right now. The only time given is 'two sets.' That makes travel planning difficult.
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    I'm just gonna go ahead and bump this one more time, as I added links for tickets in the original post...

    - Matt

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    I've got my tickets for Toronto for both nights! Can't wait for those and the new music!!

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    Planning on being there for the May 14th show, Matt. Have a kick-ass tour!

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    This is a definite must see, loved the last show. Got my tickets for the shows at the Drake!!

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    Think I'll have have to wait for the Fall. Looking forward to it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lebofsky View Post
    I'm just gonna go ahead and bump this one more time, as I added links for tickets in the original post...

    - Matt
    Thanks! Tickets purchased. I would have been seriously bummed if I ended up with bus tickets, hotel room, and no tickets to actually see the show.

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    MAN, I need to see this. I don't suppose the possibility of a Twin Cities date is in the cards anytime soon?

    Either way, the new disc is an auto-buy to the extreme.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lebofsky View Post
    From the Secret Chiefs 3 web site forums:

    True to expectation, Book of Souls: Folio A is a full-length album densely-packed with musical skyscrapers. Over a decade in the making along with Folio B, Book of Souls is Secret Chiefs 3’s most elaborate work yet. Following the 7-band schemata laid out in Book of Horizons, both Folios of Book of Souls thoroughly establish the depth of SC3’s journey into otherwise lost musical possibilities.

    On Book of Souls: Folio A, it is evident that Secret Chiefs 3 continues to operate in blissful ignorance of current musical fashions, remaining enchanted only by what can be unlocked in modern mediums by applying a specific recipe of pre-modern (often ancient) processes to them.

    While it's true that the album represents the kind of titanic, almost Faustian undertaking that one would expect as being uniquely appropriate to Secret Chiefs 3, for all the pomp it’s easy to forget that everything having to do with the recording is DIY to the core. Book of Souls: Folio A is a fully organic production. Everything is honed with love in one of the last hermetically-sealed laboratories. Some may snort at the notion that there even could exist such a cauldron of limitless fascination extending so rigorously beyond the time/space boundaries of modern occidental groupthink; a place in-between, suspended, where the simplest motifs have the freedom either to radiate upward into geometric complexities that are beyond description, or to refine downward to a state of simple musical essence. But it's the usual thing at the SC3 lab.

    This press-release is offered as a summons to the impartial jury of all earthly ears. All snorts and scoffs will be answered with a supra-sensory choir.
    These descriptions are just fucking priceless... the anticipation is maddening.
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    These descriptions are just fucking priceless... the anticipation is maddening.
    Yeah ! Trey besides a million other things Trey also has his way with words doesn't he ?

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    can't wait i lovedtheir last tour

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    Just scored some of the older releases from the Mimicry website. Plus I'm still in awe of Xaphan. It was not at the website and I had a tough time finding a hardcopy, but it is really spectacular.
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