Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Arc Iris Release Video + Tour Dates


Today we have for you "Kaleidoscope" from Arc Iris. The clip was directed by Julia Liu. The track is from their upcoming album, Moon Saloon which is set to be released on August 19. You can pre-order it HERE.

Arc Iris will begin their residency at C'mon Everybody on July 5. See below for dates.

Moon Saloon developed from the band’s distillations of musical influences, combining traditional elements with percussive structures and dense, beguiling harmonies. In many ways this second album captures Arc Iris’ musical odyssey as a band. “It has a heavier sound, more intense,” says Arc Iris keyboardist Zach Tenorio-Miller, who makes liberal use of sampling in many of the songs. The group matches an unusual array of organic acoustic instruments with layered electronic sounds. 
Lead singer and lyricist Jocie Adams, Tenorio-Miller, and drummer Ray Belli form the core of Arc Iris, all virtuosic musicians in their own right. Adams spent eight years as a key member of indie darlings The Low Anthem, effortlessly zipping from hammer dulcimer to clarinet to bass to vocals, sometimes barely pausing to take a breath. As the band members see it, Moon Saloon works like a song cycle that parallels the arc of Everyman’s passage through modern day dilemmas. According to Adams: “The album is meant to be cathartic. There’s an imbalance in everyone’s lives. When there’s often so much going on, we yearn for simplicity.” 
Adams wrote most of the songs during a songwriting retreat on an island in New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee several months before the recording session. For Adams, it was a week-long creative rush with no electricity, no running water, no cell phones—just a bed in a cabin and an acoustic guitar. She took her work back to Providence, where she and Tenorio-Miller worked on the songs, layering sounds, developing ideas, “transforming them into the world of Arc Iris,” Tenorio-Miller recalls.

Tour Dates

  • 7/5: Brooklyn, NY - C'mon Everybody
  • 7/12: Brooklyn, NY - C'mon Everybody
  • 7/19: Brooklyn, NY - C'mon Everybody
  • 7/21: New Haven, VT - Cafe Nine
  • 7/26: Brooklyn, NY - C'mon Everybody
  • 9/9: Elizabethtown, NY - Otis Mountain Get Down