HELIOTROPE

a two day festival of local underground and underexposed music

May 14 & May 15, 2004

 

Streaming Audio Webcast:

http://abinadimeza.net/heliotrope/


   

Franklin Art Works


   

Tickets, designed and hand silkscreened by Matt Zaun

 

Poster, designed and hand silkscreened by Steve Shaskan

 

Postcard, designed by Rich Barlow



FRIDAY, May 14th


             

Milo Fine


           

Sean Connaughty




Blitzen


           

Dallas Orbiter


           

TVBC


           

White Map




SATURDAY, May 15th



           

International Novelty Gamelan




Barlow/Petersen/Wivinus


           

Paul Metzger


           

Jesse Petersen


           

Charles Gillett




Jaron Childs




Andrew Lafkas


           

Brown Rainbow




Davu Seru


           

Terry Eason


           

Michael Yonkers


           

SHit-Fi


           

Dm




The Pins


           

Salamander


           

The Reverend Angus Strychn



(more photos at: http://skinling.tripod.com/somemorefeelings)

 

 

 

Press:

 

CITY PAGES
Ah, May. When tiny little lettuces poke through the ground and touring bands gas up their vans, you know your schedule will be jampacked with NBA playoff games, Art-a-Whirl, and other rites of spring. But take a few hours off from raking up last year's vegetal debris to help nurture and support Heliotrope's hardworking genre cross-pollinators. With 23 artists performing over a day and a half, the lineup is a quality slice of TC experimental diversity--gently bent pop (Eason, the Pins, Rev. Angus Strychn), psych old and new (Michael Yonkers, Salamander), improv (Milo Fine, bassist Andrew Lafkas), and even movie music (TVBC's live accompaniment of the film Man with a Movie Camera ). Other intriguing new hybrids include Low's Zak Sally teaming up with Noise Quean Ant's Scott Brown to form White Map, and the International Novelty Gamelan giving Balinese traditional music a modern spin.
-Cecile Cloutier

THE PULSE
A local and universally adventurous gathering of experimental rockers of all stripes, the Heliotrope Festival, a two-day exhibition of underground and underexposed music presented by Flaneur Productions, will provide damn near 20 hours of sonic revelry sure to please those who like a little feedback with their rock action. Among the notables of the more than two-dozen performers stretched out over two days are White Map (featuring Zak Sally of Low and Scott Brown of Skin of Earth/Noise Quean Ant), Michael Yonkers, TVBC and Eason. I’m not one to advocate the usage of mind-expanding drugs to begin with, but you’ll definitely want to leave them at home for Heliotrope – this stuff is so crazy you’ll feel like you’re tripping.
-Nathan Dean

 

MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

Art galleries are the unlikely hot spot for rock this weekend: The Heliotrope Festival at Franklin Art Works, 1021 E. Franklin Av., Mpls., is presenting a couple dozen experimental noisemakers. TVBC, Milo Fine, Dallas Orbiter and Zak Sally's White Map perform tonight, and Michael Yonkers, Rev. Angus Strychn, Shift-Fi, Terry Eason, the Pins and lots more play Saturday starting at 1 p.m.

-Chris Reimenschneider

 

ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS

The underground rears its musical head to throw the Heliotrope Music Festival at Franklin Art Works (1021 Franklin Ave. E., Mpls.) today and Saturday. From psych pop to experimental guitar explorations, the festival highlights some of the ignored, forgotten and/or hidden expertise of the local scene, including performances by Michael Yonkers, Davu Seru, the Pins, Milo Fine and International Novelty Gamelan .TVBC takes things a bit further by performing its live soundtrack to the 1920s Russian film "Man With a Movie Camera" today