BLITZEN TRAPPER
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BOOKING : Trey Many | 206.782.2073
AVAILABILITY : Feb - Apr 2008 : For Support
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Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
Blitzen Trapper, the teeming Portland, Oregon-based musical clan, are pleased to announce the impending arrival of their third brood of offspring—songs, that is—in the shape of an album called Wild Mountain Nation, to be self-released on June 12th.

From outerspace to down at the farm, campfire singalong to dystopic atonal deconstruction, Wild Mountain Nation presents a raucous and varied constellation of favorite souvenirs from the Trapper’s musical adventures. Brought forth in a spasm of creative mania, Nation is rough-hewn but lush, crackling (sometimes audibly) with a weird and lucid energy. The album was recorded and arranged by the band themselves, using a dizzying variety of techniques and media, including a secret process learned from friendly extraterrestrials. As always, though, the group’s trusty four-track was used to capture the “soul”, “essence”, or “kernel” of each song, which was then buried in a rich humus of articulation, embellishment, and attenuation, so that after the summer a nutritious, colorful variety of fresh music was drooping from the vine (so to speak). A rich harvest: dusty bones, sunrise, Philip K Dick, Guernica, barley wine, sycamore or doug fir, snowflake, Sally Mack’s School of Dance, Scooby-Doo, bigfoot.

"Remember Beck before his career devolved into magazine-pleasing genre exercises? These guys have the same bent, rustic perspective on popcraft, and a heap of ambition" --Pitchfork Media


Tue Apr 01 Montreal QC @ La Salla Rossa
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Wed Apr 02 Toronto ON @ El Mocambo
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Thu Apr 03 Buffalo NY @ Mohawk Place
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Fri Apr 04 Cleveland OH @ The Grog Shop
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Sat Apr 05 Detroit MI @ The Magic Stick
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Sun Apr 06 Chicago IL @ Schubas
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Mon Apr 07 Rock Island IL @ Huckleberry s Pizza Parlor
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Tue Apr 08 Madison WI @ High Noon Saloon
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Wed Apr 09 Minneapolis MN @ 7th Street Entry
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Thu Apr 10 Grinnell IA @ Grinnell College - Gardner Lounge
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Fri Apr 11 Omaha NE @ The Slowdown
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Sat Apr 12 Lawrence KS @ Jackpot
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Mon Apr 14 Denver CO @ Hi-Dive
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Tue Apr 15 Salt Lake City UT @ Urban Lounge
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Thu Apr 17 Vancouver BC @ Media Club
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Fri Apr 18 Seattle WA @ Neumo's
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Sat Apr 19 Portland OR @ Holocene
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Sat Apr 26 Salem OR @ Wulapalooza
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