Volcano Choir Books Fall Tour

Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has been busy making more music with his side project Volcano Choir. The experimental indie group has announced dates for a fall tour in support of its sophomore album, a project that has been in the works for years.

Volcano Choir features Vernon along with members from Collections of Colonies of Bees, a Milwaukee group described by the city’s Journal Sentinel as a “post-rock instrumental band.”

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Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Great Stage Park, Manchester, Tenn.

After releasing Volcano Choir’s debut album, Unmap, in 2009, the band will put out its follow-up, Repave, in September.

“There were writing sessions that continued for years, sometimes within a couple of months of one another, sometimes within half of a year between November 2010 and March 2013,” Volcano Choir says on its Facebook page. “The drafty ideas were being sealed up, slowly. The way Volcano Choir likes it. Suddenly there was Repave.

“Repave brings Volcano Choir into sharp focus. The glitch-laden, cautious presentation of the band’s previous work serves as points of both reference and departure across these eight songs, the product of growing conviction and trust, of a fully-operational band, gifted in shading and nuance, and rumbling with power. It’s the sound of the creative process as it evolves and ultimately explodes, the seamless structuring of electronic and acoustic/amplified instruments, multi-threaded with the timbre and technology of the human voice as it enters and exits the equation. Moreover, Repave is the sound of confident musicians extending their reach to anthemic peaks and pulling back to reveal moments of the utmost vulnerability, sure enough of themselves to let those moments stand on their own.”

Volcano Choir hits the road in early September. Here is the routing:  

Sept. 6 – Chicago, Ill., Metro / Smart Bar     
Sept. 7 – Indianapolis, Ind., The Vogue     
Sept. 8 – Toronto, Ontario, Phoenix Concert Theatre     
Sept. 9 – South Burlington, Vt., Higher Ground    
Sept. 11 – Boston, Mass., Paradise Rock Club    
Sept. 12 – Washington, D.C., 9:30 Club     
Sept. 14 – New York, N.Y., Bowery Ballroom     
Sept. 27 – Madison, Wis., Orpheum Theater     
Sept. 28 – Milwaukee, Wis., Pabst Theater     
Oct. 18 – Minneapolis, Minn., First Avenue

Select dates go on sale May 31. Tickets for some gigs are already on sale.

For more information visit VolcanoChoir.com.
 

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