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The Odditorium, the Dandy Warhols’ famed studio in their hometown of Portland, OR, is more than simply one band’s space. It’s also home to their friends, the touring and local bands looking for a place to play, to record. The band has always striven to build and promote a community for musicians, and in 2007, they took a very purposeful step in making this a definitive part of their ethos. The Dandys began inviting other bands to participate in a collective project, the artists coming in on their own time to record new ideas over tracks others had already laid down, together creating what becomes a nearly living musical entity.
Called Breathe Easy, the project calls on the talents of artists like the Raveonettes, the Black Angels, J Mascis, Saul Williams, Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Midnight Movies, and of course the Dandy Warhols, to bring their separate musical perceptions and abilities to finished product. Genre becomes loosely articulated; what unites the pieces is the emotion, the spontaneity that comes from collaboration and inspiration. It’s music that conveys both the individual contribution and the integrity of the whole.
Beginning October 21, 2008, the first of 12 tracks will be sold digitally at specified Breathe Easy sites and embedded stores, and 100% of profits will go to the Three Rivers Land Conservancy.
The Three Rivers Land Conservancy is a non-profit organization that works to conserve and preserve land by the Clackamas, Tualatin, and lower Willamette Rivers against urbanization. The Dandy Warhols and the Three Rivers Land Conservancy believe that conserving land and protecting against errant urbanization creates stronger healthier communities now and for future generations.
Through consumer purchases, and corporate contributions the initial goal is to save 10,000 acres of Oregon’s natural habitat.
Pitchfork announced the news this morning, too.
Check out the official trailer here:
For more information, go to:
www.trlc.org/
www.myspace.com/breatheeasybenefit
In other Dandys news, the band is finishing up the last two dates of their fall tour.
Oct 01 - San Diego, CA @ Belly Up*+
Oct 03 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern #+
Oct 04 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield &+
Oct 05 - Portland, OR @ The Roseland Theater (No Pre-Sale)^
+With The Upsidedown
*With Darker My Love
# With A Place to Bury Strangers
^With Monstrous
& With Helio Sequence
DOWNLOAD their song “The Last Of The Outlaw Trucker AKA The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty” here.