Photos From The World Cafe, Philadelphia - November 11, 2006
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Published by hq November 21st, 2006 in shows, live
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Various Articles & Reviews
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Published by hq November 16th, 2006 in press
| The New York Press: Found Sounds - If you’re spending any time in Los Angeles, be warned: Not careful, and you might end up on the next Califone record without even knowing it. The Chicago-based band has always incorporated field recordings into their albums, and since the band’s lyricist, co-songwriter and founder, Tim Rutili, moved to the City of Angels last year, he has had plenty of fodder for these ambient snippets. To collect them, he stays perpetually alert to the surrounding soundscapes and is ready to capture them at the drop of a hat. |
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| “I just walk around with a portable DAT machine, and I carry a mic,” Rutili explains. “I just record stuff, and if anything kind of sticks out as something that you’d want to hear again, it usually finds its way into the record somehow.” |
| Washington Post: Roots & Crowns Review - Such standouts as “Burned by the Christians” and “Pink & Sour” rely primarily on Tim Rutili’s voice and guitar, gently bolstered by vocal harmonies and the chattering of rattles, gourds and chimes. If the effect is a little blurry, that suits Rutili’s impressionistic lyrics just fine. “Roots & Crowns”…[is]…a marvel of musical insinuation. |
| Independent Weekly: The Year’s Most Endearing Record - A masterpiece, [’The Orchids’] serves as mid-album assurance that it’s OK—necessary, even—to ask for help. Such sentiments don’t get sweeter in dreams, much less in real life. Sometimes, that can take decades for otherwise reasonable people to realize. When it happens, as with ‘Roots & Crowns’, it sounds so right. |
| Harp: Califone- Back From The Dead - Califone’s first record in three years, Roots & Crowns, is all about transformation and renewal—fitting topics for a band that nearly ceased to exist after a sanity-taxing five-year stretch of recording and relentless touring. |
| Rutili, for one, found his inspiration returning via the music of Psychic TV (Califone covers “Orchids” on R&C), White Light White Heat-era Velvet Underground, and the Ethiopiques compilations of ’60s soul jazz; the novels of John Dos Passos, Roberston Davies and William Faulkner, which inspired the record’s mix of elliptical imagery and memory; and a contemplative stretch of Highway 10 through the Mojave desert, which regularly provided Rutili with cell-phone-recorded song scraps as he drove from his new home in Los Angeles to visit his son in Arizona. |
Califone Up For Plug Award: Best Americana Album - Vote For Us!
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Published by hq November 15th, 2006 in press
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| Califone Up For Plug Award: Best Americana Album - Congratulations to the other nominees. Joanna Newsom, M. Ward, Grizzly Bear, The Knife, Beirut, Voxtrot, Jenny Lewis, Cat Power, Bonnie Prince Billy, Scott Walker, Sufjan Stevens, Thom Yorke, Yo La Tengo, Black Heart Procession, and others are all solid contenders, and we’re proud to be among them. |
| BUT YOU KNOW WHO TO VOTE FOR (CALIFONE)! (PLUG AWARDS BALLOT) |