Blind Pilot With Molly Sarlé
Wed Nov 13, 2024 7pm - 21+
Artist Website:
https://www.blindpilot.com/
Artist Website:
https://www.blindpilot.com/Blind Pilot:
Oregon’s Blind Pilot combines lush West Coast indie pop and elegant folk-rock to create a sound that’s both intimate and panoramic. Emerging in 2005, the band found mainstream success in 2011 with the release of their Billboard-charting sophomore effort, We Are the Tide (2011), and elicited acclaim for 2016’s And Then Like Lions, which reached the upper echelons of multiple Billboard charts. An eight-year hiatus preceded the arrival of the band’s fourth long-player, 2024’s In the Shadow of the Holy Mountain.
Blind Pilot was founded in Portland in 2005 by singer/guitarist Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski, who first banded together in college before combining their talents and touring the northwestern Oregon circuit. By 2006, however, they’d decided that a change of scenery might help their songwriting. Blind Pilot consequently relocated 90 miles north, where the duo spent three months inside an Astoria warehouse while recording demos for a full-length album. Afterward, Nebeker and Dobrowski launched a “bike tour” that saw them traveling from Vancouver to San Francisco on their bicycles, playing shows and selling EPs (not to mention saving gas money) along the way. They returned home to finalize their 3 Round and a Sound debut, which was released by Expunged Records in June 2008.
Molly Sarlé:
From the cliffs of Big Sur to the North Carolina backwoods – Molly Sarlé brings open-hearted, unflinching songwriting perfect for late-night karaoke comedowns, plaintive morning walks, and conjuring the spirit world. West Coast incantations with a warm, Appalachian glow.
Her debut solo LP Karaoke Angel is a collection of songs by a woman who was born understanding that her ability to feel – deeply and without shame – is her greatest strength. It is the result of a free and open-hearted devotion to the search for passion, and the complete, unwavering depiction of truth. Molly’s songs observe their own kind of internal logic, always a few steps behind or ahead of where you expect them to be – occasionally funny, always uncannily real.
The work on Karaoke Angel began in a trailer on the pacific coast and continued with stints in Los Angeles, CA, and Durham, NC. Recorded by Sam Owens (Sam Evian) in a church-turned-recording studio in Woodstock, NY, a minimal but carefully assembled palette of guitar, bass, and percussion form the foundation; an orchestra of unrecognizable atmospherics bounce off the high ceilings—but Molly’s mosaic, expressive voice is always at the center.