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SAN FRANCISCO--Cubby Creature Brian Weaver announced recently that "Embryo 4," the latest
installment in his long-running series of homemade compilations of rare musical works by
mostly unsigned local talent, is ready for release. The details of the release party
(set to take place October 7th at Rodent Records Headquarters, SF) for the CD can be found
on the Cubby Creatures shows page. The latest in the Embryo series features 20 never-before-released tracks, all specially recorded and mixed for this compilation. Many of the artists on the comp will appear live at the release party on Saturday, October 7, 2006. The roster appears online on the Cubby Creatures shows page. Weaver says the recently completed project—two and a half years in the making—is his way of celebrating and sharing with the public the homemade music of his musical circle of friends, a peer network that counts among it the venerable likes of Thee Druggles, Mos Eisley, Thee More Shallows, Jason Yakich, Dax Pierson, Go Go Galaxion, That Hideous Strength, Alec Way, The Angelo, Jai Young Kim, The Slow Poisoner, Planethead, the Cubby Creatures, Stigmata 9000, The Oscillator Gang, Roxy Bloom and Patina Praxis, Oahu, Cookin' with Kurt, and the Andy Peters Show. All of these, along with Brian Weaver himself, appear as featured players on Weaver's "Embryo 4," the first new Cubby product since 2005's "After the Deprogramming." Brian Weaver's the man to know—and probably do—if you're a musician in San Francisco. He's played actively in six bands during the 10 years he's lived in the city: Coolidge, National Holiday, Go Go Galaxion, The Andy Peters Show, Thee Druggles, and the Cubby Creatures. The featured players on the new compilation are Weaver associates old and new, people he's known throughout his life as a musician. For Embryo fans there will be a lot of name recognition; many of the songsters on this compilation have been featured on earlier editions of the "Embryo" series, and it should delight longtime fans to hear these acts in their evolved forms and to witness the permutations of the various projects, side-projects, and anti-projects that recur on the series. For newcomers, a mindblowing listening experience should be expected. This is music as passed between musicians, in all its raw, jagged, embryonic freshness. Weaver first began his Embryo comps in 1997, the year in which the Cubby Creatures officially banded. He followed it up in 1998, and then released the third installment in 2001. Fans worry that at this rate the next installment may not show up until around 2012, which seems like an awfully long time away. Weaver, in addition to being a Cubby founder and the Cubby Creatures' sole bass player, is also a recently minted library scientist who currently serves the people of San Francisco as a floating librarian for the San Francisco Public Library. |