of the ebb and flow
Dearest Everyman and Everywoman
It seems all things must pass, ebb and flow if you will. Our Album Attack and Decay is finally being released on Huevo Imaginary Records on October 28.So please go to their website for free mp3 tracks and other updates.
Our LAST SHOW (for a very very long time) will be on October 28 at Great American Music Hall with Scissors for Lefty. We're saying "So Long" and "C'ya" but also "Big Thank You" to all that seen us through since that Odeon gig in the early oughts and a "Super Big Thank You" to our manager Joyce, whose special showcase party this night also is. See you there!
expect us to keep creating and performing in different outfits and different locations.
One such outfit is
WE IS SHORE DEDICATED (Sam's new project)
of the ebb and flow
Fall is the busy c-son for the E&F. the biggie news is that the album is finished, done, put a spork in it it's done! it's the best we ever did done, and a lot of kudo goes to Christian Hanlon and AAAron Prellwitz.
now, where and how will you hear it? we're working on that, stay tuned...
We organizing an extra awesome benefit show for a non-profit World Access for the Blind
This unique org teaches blind kids and adults how to echolocate. And it deserves all of our support. The benefit show will happen on January 18, 2007 at Cafe Dunord with the gracious help from
Michael Zapruder's Rain of Frogs,
The Ebb and Flow performing our album "Time to Echolocate"
and amazing new band from Bart Davenport
HONEYCUT
But that's still a few months away in the meantime come see us at Bottom of the Hill on 10/30 playing with legendary PERE UBU
news of the autumnal swish approaching
the E&F has had a very good tour. we definitely enjoyed ourselves, yourselves and the elves. If the first tour was like Ebbers in Wonderland this tour was Through the Flooking Glass. Some shoutouts go to Mike (batteries), Daniel (Dallas), Greg (Tulsa), Michael (Madison), Faiz (International) and Cassettis, Whelpleys, Kheshtis, Casanovas and Carmi Smiths, fourlegged bowlegged and no legged all, for letting us crash. (Forget anyone?)
an extra special wink goes out to Sean P. for making our last show in Portland sweet and lowdown.
Award season is over, now it's time to finish our grand scheme album and prepare for the battles of suitable release.
await for this, it's not a bus but like the rust on carcass of your once beloved mutt, will shiver you should you
it
ever
find
news of the spummer approaching
it's the busy season for us at the E+F...we're mixing our album, planning our tour and putting out an EP.
This Ep is going to include 3 songs from the new sessions and also 2 remixxxes of songs from Time to Echolocate. You'll be able to purchase it at our shows only for now... limited new edition, as they say, bobby brown. The EP release home party is scheduled for June 22nd at Amnesia with Big Bend and Andre Karpov (featuring one of our own on accordion hands)
In July we set off on our second world tour, this time confining the world to 16 major towns in the mid, south, and west western american states. We can confine the world alright. Check for updates on our shows page or on our myspace.com/theebbandflow
news of the spring constant
They will know us by the trail of the magnetic bits on the 2 inch tape, if they know us at all. Folks we've recorded some songs in a 4 day session that felt like 4 hours (to sam of us at least), now comes the careful part of mixing and fixing. Overall we're very excited with what we've got.
In the mean green time as you're fighting off the spring bugs, we could use your help in suggestions for album names.
Go to this wiki page elbumname,pbwiki.com Log in to Edit with
Password -" ebb"
and add your suggestions to the list.
Indian Ocean
Southpaw
Lady Liberty
Here are caught white falcons
IndepenDance Day
Two Trains Are Better Than One
Alaska: Lost & Found
Carefully Woven Network of Lies
Patriots of Absurdity
Burning Bush
besides working on this, we'll be touring in North West at the end of May and throughout the USA in July.
the rice is burning-sumac!
quick update: we're busy writing and rehearsing songs for our new album to be recorded in March and April.
Icecold Shows up on the Shows page!
In the meantime don't burn the rice and check out these two nice end-of-year nods from press
1. SF Chronicle
2. Houston Press
ok that's enough bragging. come see us live on March 3rd at the Rickshaw - All Agers welcomeover
and thank you for being a friend
smoke gets inner eyes
Year in Review:
Album, Tour, Festivals, Flowers, Fans and Frowns. Frocks, Fights and Faiz. Farf faults and Fender bolts.
NEXT YEAR IN PREVIEW:
New Album (recording will begin in January), More Tours (March and Summer), More Winning Home Shows, the Movie Version of "Gelatine Dream" selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
stay tuned here for updates. in fact always keep this page open in your browser and hit reload every day!
Attention: for those that keep small children:
THESE BEAMS BRING DEATH!
licking our wounds and getting reaquainted
CMJ what can we say/
bass pedals farked/
on went anyway/
Portland trip back/
we hit a quack/
windshield cracked/
rental wrakked/
Goddamn where's the plate with the blue rim on which we'll buck our bang?
It's all good. Hooray for Fran San!
SPECIAL UPDATE: tour photki album
Not pictured there but very real is our new booking agent Faiz from Satellite Booking
He is on fire!
will be hard not to remember
we are a back. the tour was a screaming success (except for a few screaming disasters : van breaking down, lights out St. Louis, a lasting farewell present from a careless losangeleno and other unmentionables). We got a metric tonn of new friends and played with some decksellent bands (the Dimes (houston), Magic Surprise (austin), Uphollow (Denver) to name three). Now we're back in our city of francis, satisfied and ready to face a few months of regular life on the home front.
A big grizzly hug to all the fams and frans that hosted us, boasted about us and basted their allegorical turkeys for us. We have never been so drunk with appreciation.
(as soon as time permits)-->
look on the press page for new presses that we got on the tour
look on the imogens page for new pics from the tour
what's ahead? Mezzanine, Northwest Music Fest, CMJ and Acid Mother's Temple. And a green light that never goes out.
wry and pompous
the first piece of cake for us is the big tour. please join us and tell people you know, throw some salt for us
http://myspace.com/theebbandflowor our TUR pagina.
perhaps there will be some tour blog on Myspace, or maybe we'll send you postcards from the edge.
the second piece of cake is confirmation of us performing at
CMJ Music Marathon 2005 (That's this year!) in New York City.
ray and rune
We got to get out of this place! We loave you SF, but we gotta go. We're going to NorthWest May 26th-29th. And our North American Tour is being booked for July-August. Updates on http://myspace.com/theebbandflow or on our SHOWERS pagina.
Also our CD TIME TO ECHOLOCATE is now available on iTunes!! And T-Shirds are available on TiShtunes!
Later this month: Mission Creek MF
together in April
(from our headquarters in Alma-Ata)
the okra crop is coming up
the CD is scheduled to be realeased in these United States on May 3rd. The grand CD release show is now going to be at Bottom of the Hills on Sunday May 8th. We are going to perform the album in its entirety with special agents and fogger.
there are a tours small, and a big being planned for the future. Northwest in late May and the rest of these "united" states in July and August, with the first blossoms of the gooseberry crop.
we're going 'Bama, 'Rkanso, and even Bawstuhn. So if you live anywhere but Cali and want to share gig/venue/bill ideas do not hesitate my sisthers and brosters.
for current showes (there are a many) ->
SHOWES
psst: know any bass players? send them our way. you'll get a seal pup for one succesful referral.
finally the new t-shirds are in, check the merch page soon for hott pixx.
FEBRU NEWS
NOVOSTI FEVRALYA
NOISE POP!
you'd be crazy not to augment your routine by swinging by to our first GNOISE POP show
Also more shows added!
SHOWES
stay tuned for the news about the CD release and the events hereafter associated with the aforementioned release.
Jan Uary Nues!
in quick format!
TIME TO ECHOLOCATE- the album
is finished. look for it's release on Three Ring soon
we have once again decided to add a bassplayer to our line-up.
if you know anyone email us KaraBASS BaraBASS
or come whisper the secret word "senegalese" to us at one of our shows
next one is Jan. 19th at 12Galaxies
We have SHOWS
Ebb + Flow - A Second for DECEMBRR
The Title of our new album can be found amid the following citation:
Despite the effectiveness of echolocation, studies show that a visually-deprived dolphin takes more time to echolocate on an object than a dolphin using vision in tandem with echolocation (Akamatsu, et al., 1995).
Also this illustration is helpful-
here then is the proposed track list:
1. Sonorous
2. Firefly
3. Body and Soul
4. Framer
5. See You in the Fjords
6. Country Verses
7. Sweet Southern Harmony
We have SHOWS
Ebb + Flow report: JULY/AUGUST
While the Gentlefishman reflects upon the ruins of some Western Civilization, we are busy like foxes. In brief you should know about:
the TOUR:
0) 7/28 San Francisco, CA - Red Devil
pre-tour Bands Against Bush showcase
a) 7/29 Redding, CA or Chico, CA
b) 7/30 Portland, OR - Tonic Lounge
c) 7/31 Longview, WA - Reid's Pit Stop
d) 8/1 TBA
j) 8/2 Seattle - Jewel Box Theater
u) 8/3 Seattle, WA - ToST
f) 8/4 Eugene, OR - Luckey's Cigar
PLEASE check the shows page for updated information and details, as you always do anyway.
AS soon as we come back from said tour we go in to the studio with Aaron Prelwitz and Xian Hanlon and David Dupuieau with 7-9 new songs.
Our last SF show of the year will be at Cafe Dunord 8/25 w/ Crime in Choir and Continental. We are taking a break from gigging Sept-Dec so you have to go to this show. It will be absolutely fantasmic.
Ebb + Flow report: JUNE edition
As we are mourning the passing of one the worlds greatest presidents, that's presidents of JAZZ, Steve Lacy, we are behooved to look back at our own body of work and ask, have we done enough if one of us would perish tomorrow (from a mysterious fever)? And this dizzying retrospection yields one answer - no.
that's why the plans are now set in stone and blood to record a full length album in August.
our next show will be at BOTHon 6/25
New Interview with the better 2/3 of the E&F at SF STATION
the spring chickens have hatched!
April's NEWS!!
From the newsdesk of the Ebb & Flow ...
Southern California , here we come.
4/9 L.A. at the Derby
4/10 San Diego at the Casbah
4/11 L.A. Knitting Factory
more info on the shows page...
our next local show April 29th at the Hotel Utah.
this month's reportage however brief but punchy, so if questions arise there, call us any time.
or better yet if your question is "why"
Marta/Marzo/Adar NEWS!!
Official Report...
Our new EP "Architects and Engineer" is finished and furnished.
All the songs are available exclusively online WHERE?!!!
March 19th at Hemlock Tavern
March there in great numbers!
Also Fillmore Lounge shows!
and
our tour is booking up!
more exciting news on the way,
Onward with the E&F, ho!
1/04-2/04
A Briefing for the Curious
February 17th at Bottoms of the Hill
February 2nd show at Cafe DuNord
January Show at El Rio on Jan 7th!
Another college Radio Performance KDVS UC Davis on 2/26
Southern California tour in the spring.
And, finally the removal of bandages!
nuws
10/03
Denning bears, including brown and black bears, are
not true hibernators. Though their heart rate slows,
their body temperature fails to undergo a dramatic
decline, usually dropping to about 361K (Kelvin) from 365K. They
may sleep deeply, but have no difficulty waking up.
Similarly, The Ebb & Flow are not true hibernators. Metaphorically, yes, but literally no.
Take for example the fact that The Ebb & Flow will be recording next week with friends Christian (name , not faith) Hanlon and Dave Dupuix (pronounciation to be confirmed later). They will be locked inside a turn-of-the century blacksmiths workshop-cum-21st century tunesmiths workshop hoping to emerge with 3 crisp new songs with which to taunt and tease prey. *Be on the lookout for a (cross-yer-fingers) 7" to be born in Spring of 2004. After that, The Ebb & Flow can be spotted on stage at Bottom of the Hill opening for Firewater on November 13.
the promissed Ebb-wear will be on sale then (tees, tube-tops and tanks).
news
9/03
the ebb and flow, like anyone with a smidgen of dignity, decided to quit the race. We are forming the 51st state with ourselves as governor. Get involved.
in other news, we are working on new songs for more recodings, which will be gutsier, furrier and different. Also there's going to be a merchandise section of the site soon, cause we got the sweatshop cranking out t-shirts and tubular-tops.
p.s.oranges that come all the way from China taste terrible.
knews
8/03
the ebb and flow, like anyone with any sense of nobility, is running for governor of California. We will go to Sacramento and CLEAN HOUSE!You can't trust those other candidates, because they are compulsive liars. We will really CLEAN HOUSE, when we go to Sacramento. The campaign kick-off party will be August 29th at the Bottom of the Hill with our running mates Gogol Bordello. Stay tuned for poster distribution and donor opportunities.
(But if you must support other candidates we strongly advise NOT to bring your baby to a Shwarzenegger rally for him to kiss. It might scar the baby, it must)
also we might be adding a bassist to our permanent line-up. more details as they develop.
remember to vote early, vote often and
with Ebb and Flow you'll get Quid pro Quo!
(p.s. we are working on a better slogan)
we have been reviewed by the press and by the folks at Aquarius Recording Store
don't believe the lies, but believe the truths.
the CD ep, if you want, should you go to Amoeba and Streetlight on 24th
in SF, it's in the racks. Also now at Aquarius.
old
news
We are playing all around, pope! Heard about the Mission
Creek?
also, go to ebbandflow.iuma.comfor
2 new tracks
cd release
party at Bottom of the Hill April 17th
Also an ebb & flow track on the new Amoeba Records
compilation "Homegrown Volume Four" Pick it at Amoeba near yous
sign up on maillist
knews
7/03
the Ebb & Flow has been on vacation/ commandirovka but is once again back and ready to fight the good fight with the local authorities. Our next show is at the Tongue and Groove August 1st Friday.
knews
6/03
the Ebb & Flow has wrapped up our first comprehensive
tour of the North American Peninsula, our last show being at the Make Out
Room. We were quite happy to share the stage during most of our tour with
Rogue Wave, but we weren't so happy to share all the gift baskets we got
from our fans. Thank you for the baskets!
also at Amoeba/Mod Lang in Berkeley
Up next for us -
Kalx Live
Secret Tenderloin Show
A new 7-inch later this year out on Electra
our CD is done
to recap our magnificent guests
dmitry ishenko - bass
jeff jacobs - trumpeta
ralphy carney - bar sax
