August 2008 - Announcing U.S. tour, "burnin' gasoline while there's still such a thing":
late August till early October. Check back here for tour dates.
Our first cd, "Purse-Seine" is still available from littleblackcart.com but we won't be re-pressing them, so when they are gone they are gone. The new album, "Swidden" will be out soon and available from the same places as the last. Also, expect a split 7" with the San Diego band Di Nigunim as soon we figure out a way to pay for it.
February 2008: RAUM is on a Southwest tour with the Hail Seizures (of Olympia)!
Here are some of our tour dates (more may be posted soon):
Feb. 4th - Oakland, CA / with Bookends / 921 Apgar, 8pm
Feb. 5th - Santa Cruz, CA / with Abandon Ship and Thumbs Down
Feb. 6th - San Luis Obispo, CA / 578 Buchon St.
Feb. 7th - Santa Barbara, CA / S.B. Infoshop
Feb. 8th - Long Beach, CA / 1212 Linden Ave.
Feb. 9th - San Diego, CA / with Di Nigunim / The Treehouse, 29th and Broadway (Golden Hill)
Feb. 10th - Tucson, AZ / The Jerk Store 1223 N 1st Ave
May 2007: Our first album is finally available.
It is entitled "Purse-Seine." You can order it by mailing $10 cash to quiver distro or by credit card from little black cart.
1. pistol dance
2. honey in the hair [mp3]
3. we believe in us versus them
4. coal [mp3]
5. witches
6. sadie's [mp3]
7. it is a poor sack that turns everything it contains to shit
8. ars goetia
9. cities
11. fortuna, i am a spear fisherman
What kind of music is Blackbird RAUM? We have no idea, leave the name of the genre for some hack critic to invent. We're influenced by american string band music of the nineteen twenties, anarcho-punk bands like CRASS and a score of other disparate and incongruous bullshit too numerous to mention.
How we think of ourselves: in the same way that gypsy bands like Taraf de Haidouks feel equally comfortable playing village weddings and large concert halls, we're equally comfortable playing squats, parking lots, and riots as we are playing big folk festivals like Folklife in Seattle. In the same way that your local klezmer band act as emmisaries from their tightly knit jewish community to the world at large, we act as emmisaries from your local tightly knit community of anarchists and squatters to the outside.
for booking, etcetera: adyingearth [at] gmail [dot] com
for non-business correspondence, we prefer real letters! write to us:
RAUM c/o quiver - pob 993 - santa cruz, ca 95061
"Raum is a great earl, he is seen as a black bird... he stealeth wonder-fullie out of the King's house and carry it whither he is assigned, he destroieth cities and hath great spite unto dignities of men, he knoweth things present, past and to come, and reconcileth friends and foes."
Pseudomonarchia daemonum
Johann Weyer
Hail Seizures - folk punk like you thought it was going to be when someone described it to you but you hadn't heard it yet.
Madame Flodd - your new soundtrack to shoplifting red wine from Red Apple in the Whiteaker.
Dandelion Junk Queens - drunken anarchist traveling punks (who gave these people an accordion?)
Inkwell Rhythm Makers - ex-crusties that gave up and started playing rag-time, really really well.
The Curse is Cast! - two of us are were in this band.
