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Purified by fire, Scout Niblett is back and we are very excited to have her here at OTO for an intimate set. Originally hailing from Nottingham UK but now ensconced in Portland, Oregon, Scout Niblett has made a name for herself across a string of LPs for Too Pure and now Drag City.

Raw, honest and direct, Scout Niblett reduces audiences around the world to jibbering wrecks with the sheer force of her performances. A pretty girl in a wig, playing the drums and singing so loudly and gleefully it sounds like her lungs might burst: 'It's all for you!' she yelps onstage, like a kid offering a present of slugs and petals and drawings. It's all for you!



LINKS
Scout Niblett homepage
Scout Niblett myspace
Listen to ‘The Calcification of Scout Niblett’ on the Drag City website

ELEPHANT MICAH

"Much of the press around Elephant Micah seems to be about how there is so little press around Elephant Micah... What Joe O’Connell, under the name Elephant Micah, has in spades that other no-namers don’t is truly heartbreaking songs. It’s slow, it’s mournful, it’s deep and brooding and it’s pretty as all get out."
- Glorious Noise

Elephant Micah is music by southern Indiana based singer and sound recordist Joseph O'Connell. Taking cues from 1970s songcraft (Townes Van Zandt, Joni Mitchell) as well as midwestern lo-fi rock (Guided by Voices), Elephant Micah has gradually built a cult audience over a decade of do-it-yourself releases and tours.

O'Connell's work is perhaps best known among other musicians. Country rocker Jason Molina (Magnolia Electric Co., Songs:Ohia) is one such enthusiast, going so far as to arrange a string of impromptu opening slots for Elephant Micah on his 2005 European tour. More recently, art-folk darlings Dark Dark Dark have adopted the Elephant Micah song "Wild Goose Chase" as a staple of their repertoire, recording the song first for the popular Daytrotter website and subsequently on their Bright Bright Bright EP.

2010 saw Elephant Micah release Echoer's Intent, a stripped-down, almost "old-timey" album that is perhaps the first to foreground O'Connell as a songwriter and solo performer. Alongside this new work, Time-Lag Records (home of recordings by Espers, Six Organs of Admittance, Woods) issued a deluxe CD and LP edition of Elephant Micah Plays the Songs of Bible Birds, a previously shelved concept album from 2006. In support of the new output, O'Connell embarked on a marathon 9-week spring tour across the United States.