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SUMMARY:Daniel Rodriguez\, Jesse Blake Rundle
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Rodriguez\n\n \n\nWhether it was personal heartbreak or the seismic shift in his daily life when exiting his longtime band\, Elephant Revival\, Daniel Rodriguez’s latest album\, Harboring Pearls\, is a snapshot of a singer-songwriter simply trying to navigate the choppy waters of existence to the best of his ability. \n“I preserved my own sanity. I preserved my own integrity\,” Rodriguez says. “There’s something about not being comfortable\, knowing my integrity and ethics\, knowing my path and where I’m headed — I’m fueled by not choosing to be comfortable.” \nCaptured by producer David Baron at his Sun Mountain\, situated atop a ridge amid the ancient Catskill Mountains of Woodstock\, New York\, Harboring Pearls was co-produced by Wesley Schultz\, lead singer for indie-folk juggernaut The Lumineers. \n“Now? It’s just me and the storm\,” Rodriguez says. “All the chips are in on this one piece of art. Am I crazy? Do I trust myself? What I am doing? It’s this lingering feeling that I have no idea where it’s headed\, but I need to go wherever it’s headed.” \nThat internal\, more so existential quest of self\, of purpose and pursuit\, lies at the core of Harboring Pearls. Numbers like of “El Dorado\,” “Anything and Everything” and “Graduation” paint vivid indie-folk pictures of Rodriguez’s journey unfolding in real time. \n“It’s about transcendence\, and that’s been such a wild process\,” Rodriguez says. “There’s been this pressure cooking with the songs. A lot of coal being compressing into diamonds.” \nAnd what resulted was this steadfast platform of trust and radiance offered by Schultz\, one where Rodriguez felt comfortable standing on\, the culmination of those sessions being this cultivation of truth and sacrifice the lies within each selection of Harboring Pearls. \n“You’re on your own and these are your pearls\,” Rodriguez says of this latest batch of tunes. “And you’ve been harboring them for so long. It’s time to pass them out.” \n\n\nSocial Links\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse Blake Rundle
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LOCATION:Knitting Factory\, 416 S 9th St\, Boise\, Idaho\, 83702
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SUMMARY:Matisyahu\, Electric Kif
DESCRIPTION:Matisyahu\n\n \n\nSince first emerging on the international stage in 2005\, Matisyahu has established a reputation for following his muse—from the stripped-down roots reggae of the gold-certified Live at Stubb’s to the trippy ministrations of Youth to the polished pop eclecticism of Light. Then\, in 2010\, he returned to the venerable Austin venue that introduced him for Live at Stubb’s II\, demonstrating that all those travels had somehow only strengthened his connection to his musical bedrock. It was a whirlwind half-decade journey\, one that earned Matisyahu a place in pop culture at large. \n  \nAnd it was only the beginning. \n  \nNow based with his family in Los Angeles\, Matisyahu blasts off yet again with Spark Seeker\, a bold new studio album that finds the one-of-a-kind vocalist and songwriter exploring uncharted territory with help from an expansive cast of collaborators. “My musical tastes are all over the board\,” he says in reference to a record that mixes ancient traditional sounds with futuristic electro beats\, rapping with singing\, songs of the spirit with songs of the body. “And\, besides\, my music has never been about the outer garment. It’s about searching out inspiration wherever it lies. This album is about seeking that spark within.” \n  \nOuter garments\, of course\, long defined Matisyahu in the eyes of many. “I was the Hasidic reggae superstar\,” he says with a knowing laugh. So when Matisyahu took to Twitter late last year to post a picture of himself with his new look\, he did it with a certain amount of relief. “It just felt good to sort of restart everything\,” he says\, adding that the transformation actualized one of the central themes of Spark Seeker: the impermanence of the physical form. “The spark seeker digs for truth and meaning and is willing to let go of everything to find it. He’s honest and authentic with himself and lives life from the inside out. He creates music from the depths and doesn’t worry about what category it or he fits into.” \n“We live in a world where people tend to think in extremes and categorize with ultimate statements\,” Matisyahu says. “While it’s true that at one point it would’ve been pretty accurate to describe me as Hasidic reggae\, for most of my career my music has been a blend\, a mixture.” \nFor Spark Seeker—not just a collection of random tracks\, but a complete piece of work made with one producer—Matisyahu spent a year recording with Koool Kojak (Nicki Minaj\, Travis Barker\, Ke$ha) at the latter’s home studio in L.A. Then the pair went toIsrael with an open slate. “We booked a studio there and invited various friends and musicians—including Zohar Fresco\, Daniel Zamir\, Ravid Kahalani and rapper Shyne—to come and simply play music\,” Matisyahu says. “We began to blend all of this live instrumentation to create a unique record\, made by multi-faceted human beings who have many sides and many sources of inspiration.” \nThe result reflects that wide array of voices and experiences. In the hard-hitting “Warrior” Matisyahu describes feelings of frustration and desperation\, while lead single “Sunshine” rides what might be the most uplifting groove in his catalog; elsewhere\, “Searchin’” pairs a gritty digital-dancehall beat with chanted lyrics and “I Believe in Love” exemplifies the album’s deep melodic streak. Throughout Spark Seeker you can hear Matisyahu embodying the album’s title—and embracing its humble promise. The album has a depth to it as well as a lightness\, which alludes to the most essential theme of the record–that everything in life\, especially music\, exists in mixtures and blends.  “Things are not as black and white as we would like to think.  Not everything can be oversimplified\,” says Matisyahu. \n“This is definitely pushing the boundaries of what I’ve done before\,” he acknowledges. “It’s a new kind of record for me.” At this point we’d expect nothing less.
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LOCATION:Knitting Factory\, 416 S 9th St\, Boise\, Idaho\, 83702
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