Seven Crows (Chris Murphey) & The Donkey Bone Chronicles (Tim O'Gara)

125 South Topanga Canyon Boulevard,Topanga CA 90290

27 April, 2022

Description

Chris Murphy, violin virtuoso will be sharing his solo hauntingly beautiful body of work, Seven Crows at 9:00. Followed by Tim O'Gara. Thursday April 27th, 9PM violinist and composer Chris Murphy's Seven Crows is a stunning project with live looping, violin tone poems, reverbs, ambient echoes. Followed by Tim O'Gara's Donkey Bone Chronicles. Tim will be singing some new songs, some old and some from his soon-to-be-released album: Underground Waltz. Join the evening's magic. “ Based in Los Angeles, a prolific songwriter, composer, and performer; Murphy presents his latest masterful instrumental opus Seven Crows: Secrets of Navigation. This 8-song cycle of layered violin compositions melds artfully nuanced plucked rhythmic figures, lyrical phrasing, and shimmering sustained lines, all refracted by reverbs, echoes, and modulation pedals. Touching on the varied terrain Murphy has explored in the past, Secrets of Navigation takes listeners into areas of high intrigue and suspense, as on the eerie “Last Letter from Orson Welles,” and to gulfs of vast space as on the aptly titled “Nightsong.” But you’re just as likely to find yourself in a bustling North African souq, as on “Chamoru” or “Ancient Ways.” Or, perhaps you’ll arrive in the artsy Southwest enclave of Bisbee, Arizona, where Murphy tracked these ambient violin elegies with producer Dan Simonis. While violin is the only instrument being played, don’t be surprised if you hear echoes of kalimba, pipe organ, birdsong, bagpipes, vintage synthesizers, or Miles Davis’ wah-wah trumpet warbles coming from that fiddle. Like fellow violin iconoclasts Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three) and Lisa Molinaro (Modest Mouse), Murphy travels with a supernatural violin in that beat-up, brooding black case. Who knows what you’ll find in there, or where it will take you. “ - James Rotundi, Jazz Times, Acoustic Guitar 8:45PM DOORS OPEN $25 Sit Down Chair (2 for $40) $20 Pillows, Standing and Gardens (2 for $30)