The Summer Storm Journals - 2007
1. Woods Part of When
2. Prayer For Beauty
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3. Sea of Possibility
4. Ice Dragons
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5. Into the Wild
6. Onion, One Day
7. Swim With Me
8. Flower in Time
9. Sparrow I Will Fly
10. Fangs of Discipline
11. Ambassador
12. Army of Nows
13. Lion Dreams
More music samples available at myspace.com/noevenable.
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produced by Noe Venable and Todd
Sickafoose
The Musicians:
Noe Venable - voices, acoustic guitars, piano, keyboards
Todd Sickafoose - basses, keyboards, programming, also
piano on Prayer for Beauty, Ice Dragons, Sparrow I Will Fly, and Onion,
One Day
Dean Sharp - drums, percussion
Alan Lin - violin on Lion Dreams, Sparrow I Will Fly,
Flower in Time, Fangs of Discipline
Jacob Lawson - violin on Into the Wild, Ambassador
Adam Levy - electric guitar, also acoustic guitar on Lion Dreams
Payton MacDonald - marimba
Russ Johnson - trumpet
Justin Kantor - cello
Duncan Neilson - additional keyboards on Prayer For Beauty
Ken Rich - additional programming on Into the Wild, bass on Prayer For Beauty
The Crickets of Saint Dorothy's - as themselves
Artwork by Rachel Salomon
Album design by Liz Gill Neilson
Photos by Eric Metzgar
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The World is Bound by Secret Knots - 2003
1. riverWide
2. Juniper
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3. tower
4. Black Madonna
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5. garden
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6. is the spirit here?
7. midsummer night's dream
8. feral
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9. simple song
10. wings again
11. lilies
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12. doll comes to life
13. in the dark
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produced by Todd Sickafoose
musicians:
Noe Venable - voices, guitars, mandolin, wurlitzer
Todd Sickafoose - piano, keyboards, basses, guitars, programming
Alan Lin - violin & effects
Dan Morris - percussion
Nels Cline - electric guitars (Nels Cline, on recording on Secret Knots)
Photos by Patrick Roddie (See more photos from the album photo shoot)
Secret Knots was made over the course of a number of months at Eary Canal studios in Oakland, forged
in the furnace, sheltered from chill winds and given ample time to come to fruition. Much of the CD is
material which the NV Trio were playing and developing on the road with Ani Difranco, Boz Scaggs, and
They Might be Giants, so if you saw the Trio at one of those shows and asked about a song, chances
are it's on here.
Any questions, just send us an e-mail
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Boots - 2002
1. Boots
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2. Prettiness
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3. Tinkerbell
4. Stolen Thing
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5. My Insomnia
6. Climb
7. Happiness
8. Look, Luck
9. Julia
10. Wild Blue & Yonder
11. Don't Stop Crying
12. In Memoriam
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An urban odyssey, seen through the eyes of a girl. This record is something of a departure
for Venable, whose previous records have tended to explore the pathology of "characters who might
have felt at home in Tom Waits' worst urban nightmares". Those characters have ranged from the
down and out (a dying transvestite) to the downright bizarre (an abandoned car singing to its
murdered driver). Boots on the other hand presents a much more unified statement. It seems to be
an investigation into what it means to be a woman. "In so many of my favorite stories," says Venable,
"these troubled men dream of finding a woman to save them. You read stories like that and you're
troubled, and you start dreaming of the same thing. Then one day you wake up and say, wait, I am the
woman in those stories. But I'm troubled! So now who's going to save me? I think that's where Boots begins."
Boots is a living room effort, born of 6 months of sonic experimentation and obsessive tinkering.
Arrangements are lush, featuring electric guitars, violin, keyboards, old synths, drums, and many
sounds that producer Todd Sickafoose and Venable can't remember how they made.
Read reviews of Boots: East Bay Express, Pure Music, SF Bay Guardian
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Down Easy - 2000
1. Timebird
2. Stolen Thing
3. Dear Carolyne
4. Look, Luck
5. Badlands
6. Strange Companion
7. Six Prayers, No. 1
8. Shoeshine Man
9. Dandelion Hills
10. Tarbaby
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11. Aren't Captives
12. Angelyne
13. I'm Sad Too
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14. Down Easy
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A live recording of the Noe Venable Trio performing at Mo's Melody Mansion in
San Francisco, Saturday Night January 20, 2000. There's no clapping until the end,
so you can listen to it at night without bursts of applause to jolt you out of your
twilight haze. This album, along with its title song, is featured in the
movie "Cherish" by director Finn Taylor (Dream of the Fishes) which stars Tim Blake Nelson,
Robin Tunney, and Liz Phair. In fact, in the film, Tim Blake Nelson's character asks
for a copy of Down Easy at Mod Lang in Berkeley! (Released through Fineline in 2002)
Noe Venable (voice & guitar), Todd Sickafoose (acoustic bass), Alan Lin (violin)
Read SF Bay Guardian's press about Down Easy
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No Curses Here - 1998
1. Five On The Dime
2. Jawbone Canyon
3. Papa Ain't Comin' Home
4. Alcina's Things
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5. Paint Mine Blue
6. The Man With The Disease
7. 3 AM Call
8. Mr. Viper
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9. You Talkin' To Me?
10. Broken Bird, Broken bird
11. Starboy Coming Soon
12. On Time
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No Curses Here was produced by Lee Townsend (Bill Frisell, Elvis Costello) for German
Indie label, Intuition Music and Media. The album consists of 12 songs, each of which
tells a story. Arrangements are eclectic, but center on acoustic instruments. Alan Lin
plays violin, Viktor Krauss (Lyle Lovett) plays acoustic bass, Scott Amendola (T.J. Kirk)
plays drums, Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio) plays keys, Ryan Rosenberg plays pedal steel
guitar, and Tom Meshishnek, who also runs a marvelous house concert in SF called Mo's Melody Mansion,
plays electric guitar.
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You Talkin' to Me - 1996
1. Blues Song / Burning Moth
2. Koltez' Girl
3. Jamie Goes Home
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4. Paint Mine Blue
5. We Run
6. Euridyce
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7. Out Waiting
8. Resistance
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9. Streets of Fire
10. Giuliano
11. Left Behind
12. Slow Down
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Early recording, produced and played mostly by Noe Venable and Tom Meshishnek and recorded
in Tom's basement, SF. A lot of the percussion tracks are Noe banging on pots and pans.
"We also used a vegetable steamer, a squeaky oven door, and a big old metal candy machine."
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Compilations featuring songs by Noe
Cherish soundtrack
to the 2002 film by Finn Taylor (on Newline Records)
A collection of mostly 80s pop tunes. Noe has two songs on the soundtrack, Down Easy, and
Noe's cover of the Tom Petty song, Breakdown, which Amazon calls "fragile" and
"haunting". Produced by Todd Sickafoose and featuring Jim Campilongo on guitar and Todd
Roper on drums, Noe's version of Breakdown has been in played a number of times on
KFOG, in SF. If you're
in SF and would like to hear it, you could call in to request it.
Breakdown (30 second clip)
[Download MP3]
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Music Stew—Bazaar Café First Anniversary Compilation - 2000
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This CD features songs by many of the local songwriters who frequent the
Bazaar Café in San Francisco.
The Bazaar has done much to foster a strong sense of community amongst local
songwriters, this CD is an example of the cool things they do.
Included is Noe's song "Hotel de la Clef D'or", produced by Lee Townsend &
engineered by Tom Meshishnek at Tom's house. This is the only available recording of this song.
Wine, Women and Song - 1999
Proceeds from the sales of this CD go towards the fight against breast cancer.
Produced by local diva Suzan Z, the CD features local songwriters, including Gunnar
Madsen and Shelley Doty X-tet.
Noe's song is "Where is the Kid?" from the same recordings as "Hotel", produced by
Lee Townsend & engineered by Tom Meshishnek at Tom's house. Again, this is the
only available recording of this song.
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Live Recordings
Check out Juniper, a live track recorded during Noe's tour with Ani DiFranco.
The performance was on March 6th, 2002 at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa, CA.
[Download Juniper MP3]
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Unreleased Songs
Oktober 29th [Lyrics]
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