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February 5, 2015
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COASTAL LIFE
El Greco’s journey
Take a trip to see an El Greco masterwork on display
THE ARTS
‘Life gets messy. Let’s show it.’
Coaster Theatre presents ‘’night, Mother,’ a drama about suicide, choice
FEATURE
‘Orange on Blue’
Darren Orange makes his mark this February with an Astoria art show
DINING
Roasted rack of lamb
Think this tasty dish is too fancy? Wrong! It’s easy
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GRAB BAG ....... .......................................................................... 19
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There Is No Mountain, Ghost Towns on tap
ASTORIA — Fort George Brew-
ery will host two bands — There
Is No Mountain and Ghost
Towns — playing live music
Sunday, Feb. 8. Head to the sec-
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there is no cover.
Portland-based husband-and-
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combines percussion, guitar and
vocal harmony to create a brand
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The band’s virtuosic style has
been compared to acts like The
Dirty Projectors and classics
like Paul Simon’s “Graceland,”
but it’s perhaps more telling
that reviewers have tried to peg
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classical to psychedelic rock,
and world music to doom metal
— all are correct. Kali Giaritta
and Matt Harmon usually just
call it “pop with a short attention
span.”
There Is No Mountain’s live
set-up is an exercise in multitask-
ing — the duo sings nearly every-
thing in harmony while Giaritta
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struments and Harmon animates
his acoustic guitar using nimble
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psychedelic swirls seep through
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violin and banjo, Ghost Towns
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Songs alternate between joy
melancholy but are anchored in
the rain-drenched, earthy sensi-
Ghost Towns was formed in March 2014 at the Sou’Wester Lodge.
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The band was born in
March 2014 when Lukas Bor-
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a week-long residency at the
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came apparent that the experi-
ence and arrangements had co-
alesced into a band rather than
There is No Mountain will perform at the Fort George Brewery on Feb. 8.
merely a recording project.
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