Letters To Kurt

Eric Erlandson will be giving readings from his new book Letters To Kurt this upcoming Wendesday and Thursday in the Bay Area. 

Moe's Books
2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 @ 7:30pm

City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133
Thursday, April 26, 2012 @ 7:00pm

Eric Erlandson was born and raised in San Pedro, California. He is best known as cofounder, songwriter, and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which he formed with Courtney Love. Their albums Pretty on the Inside, Live Through This, and Celebrity Skin achieved international recognition and success. Live Through This was named one of the top 100 albums of all time by Time magazine. Since the breakup of the band in 2002, Erlandson has been involved in a number of musical and literary projects. He has a BS in Economics from Loyola Marymount University and practices Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Letters to Kurt is an anguished, angry, and tender meditation on the octane and ether of rock and roll and its many moons: sex, drugs, suicide, fame, and rage. It's part Dream Songs, part Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, and the Clash. Rants, reflections, and gunshot fill these fifty-two prose poems. They are raw, funny, sad, and searching. This will make a beautiful book for anyone who loved Nirvana and Hole and the time and place when their music changed everything. Ultimately, it's an elegy for Kurt and the "suicide idols" who tragically fail to find salvation in their amazing music.

What has been said about Letters to Kurt:

"Eric was the spirit-boy in the Nirvana/Hole dynamic. Quiet, bemused, intelligent, and curiously intuitive to the power of hugging the devil, to say we will all be okay. The early 1990s were an explosive and defining period of creativity and excitement for the underground punk/post-punk scene, particularly with the manifest poetry of Kurt, who we were so proud to have as a light in our shared time and space. Eric expresses how enchanting Kurt was, how the whole scene was, with his thoughtful, radical adult/prose love. Bring on the future, darling."
--Thurston Moore, musician

Laney Campus Recordings

I've been a busy little bee around the east bay (and campus), here are some of the most recent recordings I've made:

On campus, I caught another of Laney's World Music Series. On February 23rd 'Great Wall Faculty' performed classical Chinese music. Also of note: I Ustream'd the event live, and will try to do the same at the upcoming shows (a steel drum band, a brazilian jazz trio...)

Great Wall Faculty

http://traffic.libsyn.com/peralta/chinese.mp3

At the Berkeley Art Museum, I've continued to capture parts of Land and Sea records Sun and Moon series.

Some of the best of the recordings are:

Julia Mazawa 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/timbercast/julia_mazawa_moon.mp3

Believer (Danny Grody of Tarantel and Trevor Montgomery of The Drift)

http://traffic.libsyn.com/timbercast/Believer.mp3

There's more-  go to the Timbercast page to find another Berkeley recording, an amazing violin performance by

Jennifer Curtis featuring both her own compositions and a piece by Bach, plus recordings of a great night of music the new Oakland art/music spot Liminal Space.

http://www.9thfloorradio.com/timbercast/

Recordings by Aaron Harbour

Tana Sprague

 

Tana Sprague is an Oakland based artist and musician who creates complex and interesting electronic music. At a L@TE performance called 'The Moon Part 1'at the Berkeley Art Museum, curated by Land and Sea Records, she performed an excellent set of lunar inspired sounds, delicate, soothing and complex. In addition to her music making she recently co-founded Liminal Space, an artist run warehouse space that hosts residencies, art projects and performances. Here is an excerpt of her performance, and some links for finding more information about some of the things mentioned.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/timbercast/Lissomedit.mp3

Tana Sprague: http://sensory-perception.net/

L@TE at the Berkeley Art Musuem: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late.php

Land and Sea: http://landandseelandandsea.blogspot.com/

Liminal Space: http://liminal-space.org/



Posted by Aaron Harbour