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VIDEO: "How Can You Luv Me" (Yours Truly Session) -
Unknown Mortal Orchestra first dropped into the world in late 2010 as a bandcamp account carrying a single called "Ffunny Ffrends."
"Ffunny Ffrends" was everything you imagined it might be - alien beatnik pop music that echoed 60s psychedelia and krautrock minimalism with just a hint of gentle weirdness that suggested its roots might equally lie in the verdant indie of the equally distant New Zealand scene.
Ruban Nielson is a New Zealand native who had transplanted to Portland, Oregon with his band Mint Chicks. UMO was a project conceived as Ruban's escape hatch to a new musical dimension where his vision of junkshop record collector pop could be realized in a sound that recalled Captain Beefheart, Sly Stone and RZA jamming on some kids TV theme too dark to ever be broadcast.
Out of the home studio, Ruban was joined by local Portland producer Jake Portrait on bass and teenage prodigy Julien Ehrlich on drums. They have been on the road all year, sleeping in ditches and running drunkenly from venues when need be, curling ears and turning heads with their intoxicating sound all the way.
The eponymous UMO debut album was released in June on Fat Possum. Its probably something you should listen to.
UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
07/22 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill Block Party *
07/23 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret *
07/24 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge *
07/26 San Francisco, CA The Independent SF *
07/28 Visalia, CA Cellar Door
07/29 San Diego, CA The Casbah *
07/30 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour *
07/31 Los Angeles, CA Satellite *
09/09 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club #
09/10 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Music Festival #
09/11 Washington, DC Black Cat #
09/12 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church #
09/14 New York, NY Webster Hall #
09/15 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands Gallery
09/16 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club #
09/17 Montreal, QC Le National #
09/18 Toronto, ON Opera House #
09/19 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre #
09/20 Bloomington, IN The Bishop #
09/21 Grinnell, IA Grinnel College Gardner Lounge
09/22 Urbana / Champaign, IL Pygmalion #
09/23 Cincinnati, OH Midpoint Music Festival #
10/03 Los Angeles, CA El Ray Theatre #
10/06 El Paso, TX Lowbrow Palace #
10/07 Dallas, TX Club Dada #
10/08 Austin, TX The Mohawk #
10/09 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's #
10/10 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jack's #
10/11 Tallahassee, FL Club Downunder #
10/13 Birmingham, AL Bottletree #
10/14 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade #
* = w/ Yuck
# = w/ Toro Y Moi
Twitter - http://twitter.com/UMO
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/unknownmortalorchestra
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