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Rachel Grimes / Europe

July 29, 2010

Rachel Grimes will join Erased Tapes Records’ Nils Frahm this fall in Europe:

September
14 Seven Artspace – Leeds (UK)
15 Vortex – London (UK)
16 Cellule 133A – Brussels (B)
18 Theater Kikker – Utrecht (NL)
19 Roepaen – Ottersum (NL)
21 La Centrifugeuse – Pau (F)
22 La Chapelle Royale – Rodez (F)
23 Barry Room @ National Concert Hall – Dublin (EIR)
24 Model Arts Centre – Sligo (EIR)
26 Private Show – Hamburg (D)
27 Dreikönigskirche – Dresden (D)
28 Divadlo Dobes¹ka – Prague, Czech Republic
29: Approximation Festival – Düsseldorf (D) (Rachel only)

October
1 Platform – Glasgow

Read these kudos from CMJ and Done Waiting about Rachel’s recent tour with On Fillmore.




“Book of Leaves” SOLD OUT!

January 25, 2010

Thanks everyone!

XO,
KBR




Pitchfork hails Book of Leaves

January 25, 2010

Read Joe Tangari’s review here.




“Book Of Leaves” in Wire

January 9, 2010

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Rachel Grimes: Detroit, 12.18

January 4, 2010

Motor City Blog has posted photos from Rachel Grimes’ Dec. 18 solo piano performance at Detroit Institute of Arts. View them here.




Rachel Grimes / 12.18.09 / Detroit

December 17, 2009

Rachel Grimes closes out 2009 with a concert this Friday, Dec. 18, at Detroit Institute of Arts, where she’ll perform selections from her new solo piano album, Book Of Leaves. In today’s edition of The Detroit Free-Press music columnist Mark Stryker says of Grimes’ work, “Her best pieces emit a reflective yet focused shimmer that seems like a plea for peace in a world that moves too fast and loud for its own good.”

Book of Leaves vinyl LP is available here at karatebodyrecords.com and it as well as the CD version are in independent record stores nationwide. It is sold digitally in the United States through Think Indie. In Europe, Book of Leaves is out now on RuminanCe Records.




MOJO loves “Book of Leaves”

December 4, 2009

Rachel Grimes
Book Of Leaves
RUMINANCE
4/5

With Rachel Grimes’ day job chamber ensemble Rachel’s (who are not, curiously enough, named after her) currently inactive, an album that bears at least one of that group’s compelling hallmarks is welcome. Book Of Leaves is more than a Rachel’s record sans cellos, drums or electronics, however — its crisply recorded piano essays distinguished by a particular intimate lyricism, invoking autumnal wistfulness and poignant contemplation without recourse to maudlin soundtrack cliché. “Satie-esque” is frequently shorthand for any generic, reflective piano music, but the French impressionist’s dreamy Gymnopédies are a palpable inspiration here, notably on stately opener “Long Before Us.” Elsewhere, Grimes paints vivid landscapes with iridescent arpeggios, dulcet counterpoints and Michael Nyman-like staccato pulses. So transporting is her flickering right hand playing that the birdsong which decorates “The Corner Room” feels superfluous — as, by the album’s close, do those Rachel’s associations.




Louisville Courier-Journal features Rachel Grimes

November 22, 2009

Read classical music writer Andrew Adler’s interview here.

Book Of Leaves gatefold vinyl LP in stores now via Think Indie in the U.S., Code 7 in the U.K., and online here at karatebodyrecords.com.




10.8.09. 21C. Louisville

November 13, 2009

Hear + Now concert at 21C Museum Hotel, October 8, 2009

Hear + Now concert at 21C Museum Hotel, October 8, 2009




WRUV spins Rachel Grimes

November 12, 2009

Ben & Jerry’s, and now this: University of Vermont radio station WRUV has spun selections from Book of Leaves for the last two weeks, we’re happy to report. Rachel’s new solo piano gatefold LP and CD will be available at her upcoming concert at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at The Detroit Institute of Arts.