Alessi's Ark Love Is The Currency Download UPDATED
Alessi's Ark Love Is The Currency Download
Mystery Spot Antiques' free Music for Front Porches series kicks off its 2013 season with a special acoustic performance by Alessi'due south Ark (Alessi Laurent-Marke) this coming weekend. We're thrilled that Alessi is flight over from London for a U.s. tour in support of her wonderful new anthology The Withal Life, and that her first stop volition exist the Catskills hamlet of Phoenicia NY, to perform on our front porch on Sabbatum, June 1st. The music starts at 1 PM and all are welcome.
As with all of the shows presented past the Mystery Spot these past few seasons, it's admittedly FREE, made possible through DIY/grassroots efforts and the generosity of the performers. All are invited.
Alessi Laurent-Marke, photo by Rebecca Miller
Furthermore, as part of the Mystery Spot's sister musical projection, Dittypalooza!, Alessi wrote and recorded a delightful Mystery Ditty in her London chamber, which you can hear at this link:
Mystery Spot by Alessi's Ark.
Says Alessi: "I institute the chords on the guitar immediately after looking through the beautiful photographs of the Mystery Spot'south nooks and crannies. I was blown away at merely how fast the song revealed itself – – it must be downwardly to the Mystery! I tried to imagine the scent and atmosphere of the shop, its surrounding surround and how the floorboards sound as visitors wander around. A gem."
Alessi first began writing and performing at the historic period of sixteen, and was chop-chop signed to Virgin/EMI, recording her debut album Notes from the Treehouse (produced by Mike Mogis/Bright Optics) when she was eighteen. In fact, Mystery Spot proprietress/artist Laura Levine was commissioned by the tape characterization to paint the album'south cover art, which is how she and Alessi start met.
"Notes from the Treehouse" album encompass artwork past Laura Levine
Travel, adventure and personal revelation marker the trunk of piece of work past Alessi Laurent–Marke. At present the ripe old age of 22, having performed with Robyn Hitchcock and toured with Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons, Alessi's newest album, The Even so Life, is a work both lucid and heartbreakingly lovely, a sonic landscape that roams a broad range of emotions, with (as the songwriter explains), "Nature and love, as common threads".
'The Still Life' is out now in the U.S via Bella Spousal relationship.
At present in its 12th season, Mystery Spot Antiques is a ramshackle (but surprisingly organized) vintage store run by artist/photographer Laura Levine, housed in a old 1800'south hotel on the Main Street of Phoenicia, NY in the Catskill Forest Preserve.
Long a favorite haunt of vintage wearable lovers and vinyl diggers, Homer and Langley's Mystery Spot Antiques is the kind of vintage shop y'all didn't think existed anymore. Part museum/function odditorium, every nook and cranny of its 7 rooms is packed to the rafters with 100% vintage goodness. Named after the world's most famous hoarders – and role models – the Collyer Brothers (who were tragically crushed under their 136 ton aggregating of "collectibles"), this unusual and beloved "shrine to clutter" is home to an amazing array of manus-picked vinyl records, tons of vintage clothing, Forties housewares, antiquarian fine art books, Rusticalia, mid-century lighting and found objects, and draws fans and repeat customers from all over. Even when the doors are airtight, customers with a yen to store at iii AM are welcome to dig through the dollar tape bins and famous K Sale in a Box on the front porch, with an honor coin drop at your service.
Proprietress Laura Levine, a Soho-based artist/filmmaker/ lensman, opened The Mystery Spot in 2001 as an outlet to incorporate the overflow of vintage items collected at weekend yard sales, flea markets and state auctions. In improver to her burgeoning career as a junkmonger, Levine is known primarily as a highly regarded photographer and documentarian of the downtown NYC music scene in the 1980s and early 90s. She was the master photographer and photo editor of the New York Rocker and shot for numerous publications at that fourth dimension including the Village Voice and the New York Times. As an artist, her primary focus has since evolved into a cross-disciplinary visual practice spanning painting, illustration and animation to directing music videos and documentary movie. She has published three children's books and she made her directorial debut at at theast Sundance Picture Festival. Levine'southward photographs have virtually recently been exhibited at the Museum of Mod Fine art, the Annenberg Space for Photography, the Steven Kasher Gallery, and the Brooklyn Museum, and are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.
Previous Music for Forepart Porches performances have featured Mercury Rev and Dean + Britta, Laura Cantrell, Gail Anne Dorsey, Tommy Ramone and Claudia Tienan (Uncle Monk), Ida, Ambrosia Parsley and Holly Miranda, to name just a few.
Upcoming Dittypalooza! Mystery Ditties this flavor include new releases written for and near The Mystery Spot by Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate/Baseball Projection), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), and David Fair (Half Japanese). You tin can hear previously released ditties (Holly Miranda, Ambrosia Parsley and Uncle Monk) at www.dittypalooza.com. Again, all free to download!
Travel annotation: As always, delight contact us start if you're planning to come from a distance, just to make sure in that location are no concluding-minute scheduling changes.
Mystery Spot Antiques
72 Main Street
Phoenicia, NY 12464
(845) 688-7868
info@mysteryspotantiques.com
June Hours: Fridays – Sundays, eleven – 5
Summer Hours starting in July: Thursdays – Mondays, 11 – v
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