OLDFOLKS HOME
TUESDAY, JUNE 29 • 10 PM
PYRAMID CABARET
Club Pass and Wristband venue
Individual show ticket: $15 adv./$18 door
Armed with a mountain of forward-thinking ideas, Winnipeg producer / experimentalist Ricardo Lopez makes music as Oldfolks Home – an exciting project which has gone from musical enigma to full-on one-to-watch in just a couple of years.
Lopez made his debut as OFH with 2007’s full-length electronic art-pop opus We Are the Feeding Line. The record charted on campus radio stations, soaring to No. 2 on UMFM. But the buzz surrounding We Are the Feeding Line wasn’t restricted to the confines of the perimeter highway; positive reviews started piling in from street weeklies across the country, and the record started climbing the charts on 10 different radio stations coast to coast.
The fuss about the record wasn’t surprising. We Are the Feeding Line is a collage of muscular riffs, squiggly hooks, and sparkling harmonies, expertly crafted from sequenced sounds and live instruments. The record serves as an intriguing juxtaposition between the organic and the manufactured, but it also proves that music made by machines can have a great big heart. In 2009, OFH found itself sharing the stage with the likes of In-Flight Safety, Library Voices, Hooded Fang, Think About Life, Cadence Weapon, and Mother Mother.
2010 is shaping up to be an especially exciting year for OFH, which has grown into a full-fledged band. Lopez has teamed up with drummer Shaun Gibson (The Details) to take his vision to the next level, and the pair is currently writing new material which they plan to take into the studio this summer. Keep your ears out—the evolution continues.
