On July 4, after the fireworks in Nederland, CO at the Shining Star Cafe, 'The Elephant Revival' will celebrate the release of their debut album.
This eclectic/blood rhythm/Celtic, Gyptic, Blue-Grass, Reggae roots band will also be celebrating the source/sauce of their musical attraction/influence.
The source/sauce of their musical attraction/influence begins with the fundamental attractiveness and talent of these prodigious song writers/musicians/singers. Dan Rodriguez, Bridget Law, Sage Cook, Dan Rose, Anna Rose Paine are all bright, shining, rising stars.
And then the angelic song and way of Bonnie May Paine is simply irresistible magic.
The career of this band has just begun. And yet 'The Elephant Revival' has already drawn communities of devotees, bands of camp followers that extends from the Rockies to the Ozarks, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
In these anxious, troubled times, as business-as-usual tethers, as people are further anxiously alienated from the source/sauce of life, from their cultural/evolutionary origins, alienated from their basic humanity the song of 'The Elephant Revival' is one of integration with blood rhythmic musical roots, the song is one of integration of experience, the song is of shamanistic healing.
The origins of this musical band's song is diverse including but not limited to Celtic (Scottish/Hebrides), Latin American, Cherokee, Progressive Blue Grass, Gypsy, Reggae, folk, rock 'n roll influences. In the totality of these influences, everyone is provided the possibility of access, can be participants in the song and the blood rhythm dance of the song, can be part of a musical community sharing intent and purpose.
In these anxious, alienated times the song of 'The Elephant Revival' is a song of hope, a song of engaging the greater and further possibilities of the end of business-as-usual and the beginning of this new age of the not-business-as-usual.
The band's vehicle is an old school bus named Bessie who has been transformed by the mechanical genius of Sage Cook into a bio-diesel powered vehicle of a hopeful future.
'The Elephant Revival' moves resonates with the political, social transformative tides of the not-business-as-usual of what comes after the ways of wretched excess, of what comes after the time when mystery can no longer be denied.
A message of the song of 'The Elephant Revival' is that we all can potentially seize this anxious, trouble day and not only survive, but elegantly, audaciously thrive.
A message of the song of 'The Elephant Revival' is that we need not be anxious, we need not be alienated, for we are all connected, we are all one, we all resonate in the song of our common, musically-integrated humanity.
The song is about the embracing of the mystery that surrounds and pervades the human condition.
This debut album is a musical photograph of 'The Elephant Revival's' vital, dynamic continuous movement in the song.
They are much greater and further along.
[read blog-style -- first entry at bottom of page]