Los Angeles based guitarist/composer, Cole Berliner, stops by the KALX studios on Friday, June 5th at 10:30am for a short live acoustic performance followed by an interview with The Genderwave.
Cole plays the Make-Out Room in SF on June 4th with openers Jas Stade and MAYYA.
Berliner’s writing, arranging and playing highlights an album of rich-grained, acoustic, west coast parlor music and modern electro-acoustic instrumentals in the challenger tradition of Bert Jansch’s Avocet, Marc Ribot’s Saints and Jim O’Rourke’s Bad Timing. Cole’s ambient chamber folk gets into the spirit as it evolves, a growth continuing into speakers, ears and minds wherever it is played.
The music of his latest album, The Black Door (Drag City), is honest modern folk—west coast folk!—with a rad amount of odd psyche laced within. A presence in the production eco-system of ominous (but friendly) ghost theater, elegant framing for a perfectly civilized, surreal mystery and exquisite, acoustic folk-chamber puzzle.
Photo: Em Monforte
