Audio: Live At The Kennel May 16 2009

Posted 20 May 2009, 22:50 by The Kennel

To celebrate our first year of operations, The Kennel presented the first of what we hope will become a regular series of in-studio performances. Following are MP3 streams of each the three sets performed this evening.

ARLT.

http://www.myspace.com/arltmusic

ARLT. is a French group composed of the singer Eloïse Decazes and guitarist/singer Sing Sing. Highly recommended by headliner Michael “Sport” Murphy (whom they backed at La Maroquinerie, Paris, in spring 2008) but unheard by us before this evening, ARLT. debarked a train from Toronto, rushed to The Kennel and delighted one and all with their delicate, sophisticated Parisian pop.

Thinguma*jigSaw

http://www.myspace.com/thingumajigsaw

Hailing from the little town of Drammen, Norway, Seth Horatio Buncome (banjo, voice) and Martha Redivivus (saw, mouth organ) purvey a genre of music they call “splatter folk.” Blending British and American folk traditions with influences drawn from horror films and other pop culture references, Thinguma*jigSaw is haunting, human, vulnerable, creepy, gorgeous — in short, unforgettable. Their second LP was recorded last fall at The Kennel.

Michael “Sport” Murphy

http://sportspiel.blogspot.com/

Sport Murphy is one of America’s great songwriters, albeit one of the most criminally unheralded, as can be heard in this endearingly relaxed, intimate performance of songs from his three LPs for Kill Rock Stars — Willoughby, Magic Beans and Uncle — as well as a few choice numbers by his brilliantly shambolic former rock band, The Skels, whose Willy Liguori accompanies Sport on acoustic guitar. If this set does not renew your faith in music, check your pulse.