Itasca w/ PG Six & Anthony Pasquarosa

Itasca (veritas-caput) (a Latin / Ojibwe portmanteau place name meaning "true source" or "truth-head") The first Itasca record in over four years begins, in “Milk,” with a dream of Genevieve, “the myth in the mirror’s gleam”—perhaps, on this faith-haunted album, a reference to the fifth-century saint, or the chaste, cave-dwelling heroine of medieval legend. It ends with Olympia, standing at the shore—maybe, among these myth-haunted songs, a reference to the ancient Greek sacred site, or, considering the artist narrator of the title track, to Édouard Manet’s revolutionary 1863 painting of a defiant sex worker. Across its suite of smoky nocturnes, Imitation of War finds Los Angeles-based songwriter, singer, and guitarist Kayla Cohen continually embracing the tangled ambiguities of its evocative title, with its suggestions of artfulness, artifice, and antagonism alike. Her characteristically ethereal vocals precipitate, among orange and laurel trees, upon rockier terrain than ever before, negotiating a “muse’s crown” and “a snare set by the devil.” The uneasy idyll, set to a brisker tempo and more spirited and spacious band-centered arrangement than most anything on Spring (2019) or Open to Chance (2016), her prior two albums with Paradise of Bachelors, captures the flexibility and finesse Cohen wrings from reduction.

P.G. Six is the moniker used to denote the solo work of singer and multi-instrumentalist Pat Gubler, a prolific New York musician whose other endeavors include Tower Recordings, Metal Mountains, and Garcia Peoples. As P.G. Six, his music takes influence from British and American folk music and combines elements of experimental indie rock, lo-fi, and improvisation. After making his debut with 2001's Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, Gubler released a string of acclaimed P.G. Six albums over the next decade, including 2011's Starry Mind.

P.G. Six name went on an extended hiatus while Gubler busied himself with an array of other projects. He collaborated with artists like Debby Schwartz, Samara Lubelski, and played in Helen Rush’s Metal Mountains. In the late 2010s, he joined the indie rock/neo-jam band Garcia Peoples and entered the next decade touring and recording as their keyboardist. He also has collaborated in Western Massachusetts acts Weeping Bong Band and Stella Kola. Finally, in 2023, Gubler re-emerged as P.G. Six with another album for Drag City. With its pastoral harp arrangements and delicate guitar work, Murmurs and Whispers hearkened back to the project's early days, albeit with a greater sense of peace.

Anthony Pasquarosa lives and works in Western Massachusetts. Some selections of solo work can be found here https://4theyemusick.bandcamp.com/ and here https://vdsqrecords022.bandcamp.com/

Doors are at 7pm and music will begin at 730. Seating is first come first served!

Event Venue

Nova Arts Block/Brewbakers Cafe, 48 Emerald Street, Keene, United States