For Immediate Release
Contact: Casey Jarman
casey.jarman@slcgov.com
801.596.5000
The 2011 Twilight Concert Series Continues Thursday, August 18
Ghostland Observatory / Phantogram
At Pioneer Park, Free Admission
Salt Lake City, UT: The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Twilight Concert Series continues Thursday, August 18 with headliner Ghostland Observatory and supporting artist Phantogram. The series is presented at Pioneer Park (350 South 300 West) and admission is free.
The Twilight Concert Series is presented on Thursday evenings through August 25. Gates open at 5pm and the music begins at 7pm. There is standing only in the immediate stage area; no chairs or blankets allowed in the immediate stage area. No alcoholic beverages can be brought into the venue. Beer and wine are available for purchase on-site. Smoking, coolers and pets are not allowed; service animals are welcome.
Although the concerts are free, if patrons choose to donate to the concert series, they can simply text “TWILIGHT” to 20222 from any cellular phone to contribute $5.00. Messaging and data rates may apply.
Find Twilight Concert Series on Facebook. For artist details, photos, information and updates visit www.twilightconcertseries.com.
GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY / PHANTOGRAM
Ghostland Observatory’s approach to music–sonically, aesthetically and conceptually–is a melding of the different personalities of its two members, Thomas Ross Turner and Aaron Behrens. Whereas Turner, the producer/drummer/keyboardist of the duo, finds solace in minimal, bleak cable-patch squawks and analog-disco-thump, Behrens’ interests lie more along the lines of ‘psychedelia,’ rock and various country and blues artists. The result is a shimmering, pulsing pop music that is at once kinetically alive with Behrens’ striking vocals and driving guitar work and anchored firmly by Turner’s percussive beats and Moog-generated melodies and hooks. Behrens and Turner formed Ghostland Observatory in Austin in 2003 and haven’t looked back since. With their newest album, Codename: Rondo, Ghostland Observatory has taken a step in a new direction, both creatively and technically maintaining the essential elements of their unmistakable sound: “sweaty, raw-boned, and direct from the future.”
Phantogram’s music sounds as though it is urban-based, despite the fact that the band calls the town of Saratoga Springs, NY home. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, pop—each finds its way into their music. Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, the duo that make up Phantogram grew up in the nearby town of Greenwich and have flourished in Saratoga. They drive almost every day to a barn they call Harmony Lodge to write and record. Serving as their homemade studio/practice space/think-tank/bat-cave, the barn is equipped with various samplers, tapes, records, synths, drums, and both percussive and stringed instruments. It’s here that Phantogram allows their natural surroundings and metropolitan influences to meld together and create the beautiful, beat-driven dreamlike pop songs that appear on their 2010 release, Eyelid Movies.
Final Twilight Concert:
August 25: Lupe Fiasco / Big K.R.I.T.
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Download press releases and photos at www.twilightconcertseries.com/press
Eugenie Hero Jaffe
Bombshell Music & Media
801.599.2040
eugenie@getbombshell.com
www.getbombshell.com
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