AU (USA)
Saturday Feb. 04 – AU (USA) at 01,00
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Au (pronounced “ay-you”) is the work of multi-instrumentalist Luke Wyland. Begun while finishing up his degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, then moved across the US to find to its roots in the thriving community of Portland, OR. Currently a full time duo with Dana Valatka on drums (Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Mustaphamond), it is a loosely defined amalgam of players that can swell to double digit numbers with full choir in tow and sees some of Portland’s finest lending a helping hand.
It’s sound is vast and deftly treads a narrow bridge between the loose associations of the backwoods freak-folk crowd and the more formalized concoctions of art-poppers like Brian Eno; managing to erase the high art/low art boundary between American contemporary classical music and American pop music.
They have been compared to : Arcade Fire, Soft Machine, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Arvo Pärt, George Gershwin, Charles Ives and Parenthetical Girls.
AU – RR vs. D from Rainbow Dropshadow on Vimeo.