BOISTER

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:46:00 +0000

Boister will perform our original score to Buster Keaton's incredible silent film "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", May 8th at the historic Prince Theater in Chestertown, MD. Roger Ebert called it "Wonderful music...spot on timing.." when he introduced us to a sold out house at the Virginia Film Festival. We'll be woodshedding and writing new material for most of the rest of 2010 so come out and get a good dose of homegrown boisterous life-affirming noise while you can. "With the right bohemian yet unpretentious crowd, seeing "Steamboat Bill, Jr." can bring back what James Agee eulogized as the lusty innocence of silent movie-going: 'the laughter of unrespectable people having a hell of a fine time, laughter as violent and steady and deafening as standing under a waterfall.'" -from Michael Sragow's "Ten Reasons to Support Boister Does Buster." Get your tickets here.

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:22:00 +0000

Boister's "Limes", the first cut on Some Moths Drink the Tears of Elephants, is featured on a podcast out of Valencia, Spain. Listen here.

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Baltimore's WYPR's The Signal is replaying the piece they ran in honor of Boister's 13th birthday in a special 2-hour program. It'll run Friday, March 12th, at 12:25 pm, and then again at 7pm. Love and thanks to Lisa Morgan and Aaron Hankin. Check it out here.

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:32:00 +0000

Boister is band of the month at Germany's Next Big Thing. Here's the podcast featuring Anne discussing her songwriting process and working with legendary producer Jim Dickinson.

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:37:00 +0000

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:55:00 +0000

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awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:37:00 +0000

Boister on Germany's NBT podcast, Feb 23rd, 2010
http://nextbigthing.libsyn.org/index.php?post_id=585620

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:10:00 +0000

Anne will do a short set with Boston's Session Americana, Saturday March 13th...at the beautiful and intimate Stoltz Listening Room upstairs at the Avalon Theatre in Easton MD. We'll do some Boister, some covers, and a brand new version of David Fair's "Ride Called the Middle of the Night." Here they are doing a classic Townes Van Zandt tune.

http://www.sessionamericana.com/index.php?page=video&display=413

for tix:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/172510

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Happy Valentine's Day

Hot Snow

by Doug Retzler

www.artandeffects.com

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:09:00 +0000

Review of Boister's Some Moths From Germany's Next Big Thing: "A near perfect release........."

Ah this delightful disturbance, this redemption in the darkness. Do you know how ghostly carnival lights seem, from a distance, on a rainy night? This is the soundtrack to that feeling.
Produced by legendary maverick/storyteller Jim Dickinson, who once channeled the sweet twilight of Big Star into something eternal, this collection, seems to be ancient Pop, perhaps even tomorrow’s Americana, Though with wonderful contradiction, there is a fragmented European soul breathing between the lines too.
It starts with a languid gasp perhaps, sigh, definite slow motion thoughts catching up to the moment; the music subtly builds, the room the picture fills with detail, the story unfolds ragged yet elegant. Funeral music that makes you feel very much alive.
Then a lullaby morphs into a sly grin take on Brecht; the band swaggers, the curtains, windows, thrown open onto a vibrant street gathering, a party full of tension.
Then a drum thing that seems to be slowed fractured down sympathy for the devil grooving into horns and guitar, washing up against the vocals, then without noticing we have slid into a perfect rock song sway, a gift with gentle hooks that we will be humming months from now.
These are tunes that are built fragile, crafted intricate standing there, the title track: quick take a snapshot before it all falls down, but it never falls down, no matter how harsh the rhythms that swirl around it, rudely affectionate.
Then the weirdest thing: I hear the east, the far east, not east America, but also: I hear almost a ska thing going, I hear the islands, come on dance and Thank You.
Then invited into this strange tent at this strange market, we shiver into an exotic fumbling before the band throws another cruel ballad or three our way, and as they are wrapped in the most beautiful melodies, we catch them easy, we are captured easier.
Layered and complex, yet never contrived this is a near perfect release.
http://www.boister.net
Catch tunes from this release on the NBT Podcast going out on the 23^rd Feb 2010
http://nextbigthing.libsyn.com/

http://nbtmusic.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/the-nbt-review-48/

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:54:00 +0000

Here's a fun Dutch review of Boister's Some Moths from this week and another eloquent Google translation. We are not commonplace in musical collective face.

http://www.keysandchords.com/page6/cds/page73_files/6f51a3af079bf14fa8e457fc782c9846-582.html

The title just speaks that we are not commonplace in musical collective face. Led by Anne Watts, who next plays the piano accordion and vocals, the band from Baltimore a sometimes strange mix of avantgardische jazzpop richly interspersed with vaudeville and cabaret-like elements. The title song is an adaptation of a poem by Bertold Brecht and radiates through the guidance of the pre-war atmosphere of Berlin. The French in the proposed 'Nantes' convinced us less. Instruments like the trombone and bass clarinet of Denis Malloy play a prominent role. Malloy yielded "Thought Bubble" an intimate atmosphere with horns instrumental work on guitar and banjo player and Curt Heavey spent two compositions on "Ocean Boy" and fingerpickin interlude "Lia". The singer is Anne who demands attention. Watts worked in a psychiatric hospital where she reportedly in a not insignificant part of her inspiration. The slightly understated vocal makes depressing songs like 'Limes', 'Thank You' and 'Old House' is impressive. The title song a beautiful piano ballad sounds a little more accessible, but the other work by the legendary producer Jim Dickinson and meanwhile lamented (see Aretha Franklin, Big Star, Replacemants ...) in his Zebra Ranch studio in Mississippi was included, deserves your attention.

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:32:00 +0000

Jacob Hambleton Buhler's amazing video for Some Moths Drink the Tears of Elephants, and John Lewis' interview with the late great Jim Dickinson with Boister at Zebra Ranch.

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:21:00 +0000

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:12:00 +0000

A lovely German review. Don't ask me what it says, it makes my head spin.

http://www.rocktimes.de/gesamt/b/boister/some_moths_drink_the_tears_of_elephants.html

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:24:00 +0000

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:23:00 +0000

boister at an die musik, oysters and chocolate, 2 shows 8 and 9:30pm, http://www.andiemusiklive.com/EvntDtl1.cfm?&E1CNTR=3950&YR=2009&MN=11&DY=14&T=162248

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:52:00 +0000

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8&u=http://www.moorsmagazine.com/muziekbites/boister/moths.html
Some Moths, Belgian review

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18:00 +0000

An Die Musik November 14th in Baltimore.....oysters and chocolate.......lovey dovey....

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Boister's 13th Birthday Bacchanalia, with Lizzie Downing, Laure Drogoul, and Jenny Keith

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:34:00 +0000

Boister on the Eastern Shore, Night Cat, Goldsborough Street, Easton, MD 9pm

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Swedish review of Some Moths comparing us to Cat Power and Edith Piaf
http://www.rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEUW/2009/OKT1/CD81.htm

All the Pieces Matter

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:39:00 +0000

All the Pieces Matter

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awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:33:00 +0000

http://www.wypr.org/MD_MORNING.html#100609C1
Boister interview on composing for Buster Keaton
Here's a cute pic of David Bowie doing a mind meld with Keaton.

Keaton show on October 10th at Chesapeake Arts Center buy tickets http://www.chesapeakearts.org/

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:56:00 +0000

Anne talks about why Neil Young matters.

http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/allthepiecesmatter/index.php/2009/09/life-changing-art-anne-watts-boister/

awatts@boister.net (anne watts) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:54:00 +0000

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wypr/arts.artsmain
A couple of Boister interviews you might like, one with Lisa Morgan at WYPR's The Signal in Baltimore, on 13 years together, the other on Buster Keaton with Tom Hall on their Maryland Morning show.