EARTH DAY w/ EGHBCFPIB + Brigid Dawson & the Mothers Network @ Furstwurld

8528 Desert Shadows Road,Joshua Tree CA 92252

22 April, 2022

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EARTH DAY w/ the Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Planetary Intelligence Band + Brigid Dawson & the Mother's Network // MDLT Fundraiser Proceed benefit the Mojave Desert Land Trust: Our mission is to protect the Mojave Desert ecosystem and its scenic and cultural resource values. Our vision for the Mojave Desert includes dark night skies, clean air and water, broad views and vistas, and an abundance of native plants and animals. https://www.mdlt.org/ Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Planetary Intelligence Band: The Earth Girl Center for Planetary Intelligence Band is an inclusive, expansive, participatory ensemble interested in creative communicative art practice and the longevity and wellness of the big blue ball and all its inhabitants and systems. We like peace, happiness, collective intelligence, music, art, popular education, social responsibility and the terrible powerful skies. The Center for Planetary Intelligence Band and related media artists includes: Heidi Alexander, Madeline Allard, Jamie Barron, Jamin Barton, Eric Bauer, Aylin Beyce, Cole Berliner, Emilee Booher, Ryan Browne, Tim Cohen, Grace Cooper, Dave Cousin, Brad Caulkins, Mikal Cronin, Bart Davenport, Brigid Dawson, John Dwyer, Chris Fallon, Lars Finberg, James Finch Jr., Glen Jennings, Brain Girgus, Davin Givhan, Dylan Hadley, Dustin Hamman, Kiran Harlow, Wilder Harlow, Arvel Hernandez, Graeme Gibson, Larry Hardy, Tahlia Harbour, Anna Hillburg, Douglas Hilsinger, Warren Huegel, Emmett Kelly, Nora Keys, Shannon Lay, Will Lemon, Raven Mahon, Rusty Miller, Charlie Moonheart, Jack Name, Ethan Novikoff, Enrique Tena Padilla, Tim Presley, Andres Renteria, Ty Segall, Dave Sitek, Sean Smith, Sonny Smith, Kelley Stoltz, Alicia Vanden Heuvel, Lida Vanden Heuvel, Chelsea Jene Woodard, and Mikey Young. https://earthgirlhelenbrown.bandcamp.com/ Brigid Dawson & the Mother's Network: Tip-top of our osmosis list is the first quiver of tunes from Brigid Dawson and her newly minted Mothers Network: wise warnings dyed in dark hues, knotted and hard-won torch songs from the edge of a turbulent sea, bittersweet balladry spun in defense against evils familiar and unknown. Lovely though it may seem from a distance, the striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. “Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls - in Australia with Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring), in San Francisco with Mike Donovan (ex Sic Alps), Shayde Sartin (ex Fresh & Onlys/lifetime ringer) and Mike Shoun (ex Oh Sees/Peacers), and in Brooklyn with instrumental heavy-weights Sunwatchers - and the results are spellbinding. At the focal point of this maelstrom, our lady, as if illumined by candlelight, intones, pleads, consoles - white magic perhaps but it carries with it the anodized tang of blood. This is thrillingly potent stuff. [Castle Face Records] https://brigiddawson.bandcamp.com/