Austinist Show Preview: Viking Moses at Beerland

Image by Rebecca Carlisle-Healey on MySpace

Viking Moses at Beerland
Tuesday, April 15
Beerland (711-1/2 Red River)
10 pm, 21+
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Viking Moses has been self-releasing cassettes since 1994, and ten years after his start, the music he made found a truly receptive audience when it was included on the Golden Apples of the Sun compilation put out by Arthur magazine. The comp, curated by Devendra Banhart, also featured Joanna Newsom, Iron & Wine, CocoRosie, Little Wings and Jana Hunter. It signaled the rise (in popular perception, anyway) of what came to be known as New Weird America.

In the intervening years, Moses has kept a busy recording schedule, cutting a record for the Marriage label out of Portland, contributing to a Will Oldham tribute album, and releasing an EP of Neutral Milk Hotel covers called Swollen & Small.

Tonight, Moses is hitting up the Red River haunt Beerland with his friends Golden Ghost in tow. Hailing from New York, Golden Ghost make plaintive, sweet songs that fit easily in to that New Weird American canon. Three Austin acts round out the bill: David Israel and the Platelets, The Domesticated, and Cera Barret. Cera Barret is Kevin Adickes of Moth!Fight!’s noisier alter-ego, and The Domesticated are a bluesy/hard rocking outfit led by Erik Bradford. David Israel is a local singer-songwriter who pens delightful, lovelorn folk songs, and joining him at this show are his Platelets; horn, percussion, and guitar players who also perform in bands like Canopy and The Pillow Queens.

Viking Moses: [website] [myspace]
Golden Ghost: [myspace]
The Domesticated: [myspace]
David Israel and the Platelets: [myspace]

See Viking Moses' video for the Quem Quaeritis song "Werewolves In The City" below the cut: