andrew weathers

i am really happy and excited to say that, after a long wait, my new album, A Great Southern City, is available. i’ve been working on the album since the summer, and we’ve been working on it’s release since october, and i think it shows. i’m very excited to share the music with everyone. we want to give you guys options for purchasing the album, so here’s what we’ve set up.

you can buy physical copies of the album from our brand new full spectrum website here

you will be able to buy a cheaper digital version at this bandcamp site we’ve set up here

and in a couple of weeks, it should be available via cd baby, if that’s a better option for you. please pick it up if you can, i want you to hear this music.

so after a brief rest on new year’s day, we’re back on the road again. the first show of the new year was last night at Gypsy Coffee in Tulsa. I have to say that Tulsa is a much better place than Oklahoma City. There are actually people there, believe it or not. Coffee shops are always a bit peculiar for me to play. One might think it would work well, since my music is essentially ambient music, but it really doesn’t. There is too much extraneous sound for my music to really work; people on dates, espresso machines, porcelain clinking, etc. The moments within the music are lost because the details aren’t there among the noise. But I always learn more about the piece when I’m performing in a space that’s not quite optimal. i also got paid with a coffee mug, rather than money. i’m into that.

we drove in snow on the way to wichita. i like driving through the snow. it removes the human element of the world a little bit. i feel that after this, it’ll only get colder. lincoln, nebraska tomorrow. but we press on, wearing many layers of clothing. the cold isn’t like this in the south.

you can check out my set from Radio Greensboro a couple of weeks ago here: http://radiogreensboro.tumblr.com/post/286520582/andrew-weathers-12-06-09

rad. the shows so far have been going well. Full of friendly people, and good times. playing in a converted warehouse last night in Huntsville, AL. I think more buildings need to be revived like that. It makes for such a beautiful environment. Today we drove to Oxford, MS, passing the NASA space museum and a tree full of shoes. I’m looking forward to playing tonight. This is a nice town. The home of William Faulkner.

so now comes the best part. here is where we cram all of the equipment, clothes and non-perishable food i’ve piled in my living room into the car. leaving tomorrow morning, and we’ll be gone for exactly a month. i’m hitting a lot of places i haven’t been to since last year, so come out if you can, and spread the word!

December 17th – WonderRoot – Atlanta, GA

December 18th – U*Space Gallery – Atlanta, GA

December 19th – Flying Monkey Arts – Huntsville, AL

December 20th – U of MIss – Nutt Auditorium – Oxford, MS

December 21st – One to One Studios – Jackson, MS

December 22nd – Open Ears at Blue Nile – New Orleans, LA

December 26th – The Stafford – Bryan, TX

December 28th – Club 1808 – Austin, TX

December 29th – EARLY SHOW – End of An Ear – Austin, TX

December 29th – LATE SHOW – Wake the Dead – San Marcos, TX

December 30th – Notsuoh – Houston, TX

December 31st – Super Happy Fun Land – Houston, TX

January 2nd – Gypsy Coffee House – Tulsa, OK

January 3rd – Donut Whole – Wichita, KS

January 4th – Clawfoot House – Lincoln, NE

January 5th – Fishtank Performance Studio – Kansas City, MO

January 7th – Schlafly Tap Room – St. Louis, MO

January 8th – Mixtapes! – East Moline, IL

January 9th – Swan Dive – Louisville, KY

January 10th – Contemporary Space 13 – Cincinnati, OH

January 12th – Howler’s – Pittsburgh, PA

January 13th – Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA

January 17th – Porcelain Rose Men’s Home – Greensboro, NC

i’ve got a track – autumn drone no. 4 – on this year’s silber christmas compilation. download it here

i have been reading Martin Duberman’s Black Mountain to unwind after a weekend packed with good tunes. there was a great time had at the porcelain rose, dancing and improvised sing-and-stomp-along included. i performed the new piece that i’ll be playing on this tour twice this weekend. first at legitimate business, and also on Reed Benjamin’s Radio Greensboro.

now that the semester is closing out, and the weather is getting cold, it’s time for me to get ready for this tour. i will not forget heavy socks and several pairs of long underwear. my face is all clogged up, as it has been for the past few days, but i see that being healed by orange juice and vanilla chai tea. or healed by delicious. whichever you want. anyone that listened to the interview on WUAG tonight would tell you how ridiculous my stopped nose makes me sound. anyway, having played this piece twice, there are definitely a few kinks that need to be worked out, but it’s pretty much ready to go. i’m excited about this one.

listening to willits + sakamoto’s ocean fire. during my trip to miami, i saw a sound intallation that sakamoto did at the art museum on FIU’s campus. it consisted of speakers playing into some kind of thin, horizontal membrane covered in sand. it was intended to mimic the elaborate mandalas made by buddhist monks. i saw it as a modern take, and therefore an acceleration, on the deliberate process of making a mandala. i remember watching monks make a mandala at the NC art museum as a child.

i’m still booking a couple of dates for this one. please get in touch if you think you could possibly help, or have any ideas about someone who might be able to.

Jan 1 – North TX

Jan 3 – Southern Kansas

Jan 5-6 – Kansas City, MO (Maybe)

Jan 11 – Ohio

we are getting closer to the release of A Great Southern City, but we’re not quite there yet. In the meantime, I have a new split with Philly’s Noose of Laurels out. NoL is the project of Jeff Bumiller, who also plays in Northern Valentine. His work is great, peaceful and harsh at the same time. My piece is the piece that I performed during my trip to Italy over the summer. For electric slide guitar and computer. More glitchy sounds than usual, but also some rich textures. It’s called Existing From All Sides at Once. Check out some Sartre.
We handscreened the covers, and I made paintings on mylar to go inside. Only 50 of these, so pick them up! Only $5 plus shipping.

http://fullspectrumrecords.com/shop

Performance from Full Spectrum benefit show at the Porcelain Rose Men’s Home. Video by Paul Marino

Acid of All Ruins at the Porcelain Rose Men’s Home. Marino/Weathers/Mason/Gunselman

so the album is as done as it will ever be. it’s very different from anything i’ve done before this, and i’m excited for people to hear it. i’m proud of the work i’ve done on it. i might possibly post some of the tracks on myspace soon.

i’ve started the process of booking the winter tour – i’ll be out for about a month, and i’ll be hitting the south, the midwest, and little bit of the east coast. i think that it’s harder to book as a solo act without a moniker. when i went by pacific before tiger, i could pretend to be a band. people like bands. here are the dates i’m looking for, and what’s already booked, incase you’d like to help

December 17 – Atlanta, GA

December 18 – GreenCup Books, Birmingham, AL

December 19 – Mississippi/Louisiana/Alabama

December 20 – MS/LA/AL

December 21 – Jackson, MS

December 22 – Open Ears Music Series, New Orleans, LA

December 27 – Bryan, TX

December 28 – Dallas/San Antonio, TX

December 29 – End of An Ear In Store, Austin, TX

December 30 – Notsuoh, Houston, TX

December 31 – Super Happy Fun Land, Houston, TX

January 1 – Denton, TX

January 2 – North TX/Oklahoma

January 3 – Lawrence, KS

January 4 – Manhattan, KS

January 5 – Kansas City, MO

January 6 – Kansas City, Mo

January 7 – St. Louis, MO

January 8 – Illinois/Indiana

January 9 – Louisville, KY

January 10 – Dayton/Cleveland/Colombus

January 11 – Dayton/Colombus/Cincinatti

January 12 – Pittsburgh, PA

January 13 – Philadelphia, PA w/ Northern Valentine

January 14 – Baltimore, MD/ Washington, DC

January 15 – Greensboro, NC w/ CJ Boyd

mixing finished. performing tonight at the Good Cherry in Lynchburg, VA with The Late Virginia Summers and Arms and Sleepers.