Solo Piano Sonatas by Sound Bath & Morgan Elizabeth

Last week, Drew released music with Morgan! The album was released under his moniker Sound Bath. It consists of 12 piano sonatas that Morgan composed.



The Spotify link is here.

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve

Rayvon Browne

With ukulele and vocals by Morgan!

a ukulele virtuoso named Morgan Heringer

From the October 6, 2011 Arts Section of the New York Times!

Staying Undefined at the Antifolk Festival, and That's Fine

The music at this year’s festival is all over the map and it’s sometimes hard to tell what aesthetic binds the acts together, other than a desire to find something new to say in a song. The festival includes acts like the New Jersey duo, Crazy and the Brains, which fuses punk rock and classical xylophone, a ukulele virtuoso named Morgan Heringer and Debe Dalton, a banjo-playing folksinger who has been a fixture on the Lower East Side for decades.

'via Blog this'

www.morganheringer.com

www.morganheringer.com

migration by Morgan Heringer

I bought a copy of migration by Morgan Heringer from bandcamp.com last night!

Morgan Heringer at the Cake Shop NYC

Morgan Heringer at the Cake Shop NYC

Right Now!: the Cassette Session

Morgan Heringer Music

Right Now!: the Cassette Session

Live recording session, lo-fi style, recorded on cassette and transferred to digital. Recorded by Mike Rechner, mastered by Major Matt Mason USA.

The Ampeater Review - Hank and Pigeon

There is a write-up on Morgan's music on the ampeater review. You can download two of their songs from this site.

AEM110 Hank and Pigeon

New York City, more than any other place I’ve ever lived or visited, isn’t so much an objective location as it is a flexible concept. My New York isn’t Your New York, and it’s definitely not His or Her New York, or god forbid, That Guy’s New York. Most people carve a comfortable space for themselves that’s situated between the extremes of Gotham City’s criminal dystopia, Sex & The City’s 5th ave glitz, and GG Allin’s East Village nest of debauchery. Somewhere in this mess of fictional bubbles is an objective portrait of the city at large that accounts for the millions of people struggling to reconcile their fantastic projections of life in the big city with the reality that most of us wake up, go to work, do some shit, go home, eat some shit, and go to bed. We value good art as a culture because it pulls us just a little bit outside this reality and into the liminal space that separates the daily grind from what we always thought life would be like “when we grew up.” That’s good art, but truly great art keeps us there long enough to grasp whole handfuls of fantasy. It’s a precious thing. The dream isn’t to escape the metropolis but to feel like we’re living inside some highly stylized version of it that could only exist in someone’s head, and for but a moment at that. Filmmakers have it easy, they can literally mold a world and present it to viewers, and writers have hundreds of pages to describe and expand upon their thoughts, but songwriters have a meager 2 to 5 minutes to do the same, and so pop songs seldom grant listeners this level of creative freedom. But when I hear Hank and Pigeon, I imagine two people, living in a New York that’s not mine and can never be mine; a New York in which pigeons become trapped inside apartment walls, in which people stand on opposite street corners talking on the phone, in which songs are written like letters to a friend, and in which all of this can be boiled down into a simple melody.

autumn songs

Morgan's new album, autumn songs, is available at:

http://morganheringermusic.bigcartel.com/product/autumn-songs

This second season-themed album charts the autumn of 2009 spent getting to know New York City.

Morgan and Drew cover Basket Case by Green Day

Hank and Pigeon on iTunes

Morgan's latest album is on iTunes at:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hank-and-pigeon/id355418477

It includes In the Ridge, the song performed in this video.

Hank and Pigeon - In the Ridge

Ukulele

Summer Songs by Morgan Heringer

Morgan's new album is on iTunes!

She gave me a copy for Christmas and I have been enjoying it for the last week.

The link to the album in iTunes is here

You can preview and download songs in iTunes.

Even if you don't have iTunes, this link should open a web page where you can sample the songs.

Big Tree: Making Nests in the Heights

Kaila and Morgan's Band, Big Tree, was featured on Daytrotter.com. There is a write-up on the band and some songs available to play on-line and download.

Big Tree: Making Nests in the Heights

You can just go right ahead and throw out the very real fact that this Brooklyn band have the name Big Tree. It's so close to the bone that it must be talked about anytime they are. Band names are just band names most of the time. The Arctic Monkeys aren't from anywhere near the Arctic and they aren't monkeys - just one example of millions. It's almost always gibberish gunk, serving the purpose of recognition and nothing else. Well, not so in the case of this mood-inducing, mood-furthering band led by vocalist Kaila McIntyre-Bader. Each of the five members of this ensemble harbor tree houses and nests in their heads, places that they shy away to when they need to feel things in their lives getting easier, even just for a second, for a half hour. They have these places of solitude that they can just scamper away to for a much-needed retreat, getting to where the out of control expansion of the frightening hecticness cannot get at them directly. The songs on the band's self-titled debut are scattered with hints and references to big, thick trees, their boughs and the kind of safety and escape that they can offer to those seeking a disappearance, for whatever reason that may be. Really, who needs a reason to disappear? It's okay to just leave today and Big Tree gives us that out, that ability to just swiftly leave here, to tear up the trunk of a huge maple or spruce and just get lost in the green leaves and the heights. It's not even just the urge to scale up a hunk of bark and leave the ground and all of the pestering and irritating people and problems below, it's getting lost in the piping and duct work of the trees that McIntyre-Bader and band are suggesting. She sings on "Woods," a breezy and slightly rowdy (for them) newer, non-album track about how all she wants to do is climb through the roots of a tree to the ocean, where they must lead, she figures. The songs are slow cookers, letting all of the instruments move at an easy-going pace, stretching and silently groaning in delight - the cymbals shimmering a clanging shower and the pitter-patter of tom feel outdoorsy, as if we're all being made aware that we might need to find real shelter if the skies turn evil and unreasonable. There are nests being made in heads of hair and McIntyre-Bader is left thinking such vulnerable thoughts as, "I'd like to see a time-lapse of daylight/I'd like to see a time-lapse of the spring to summer/I'd like to see a time-lapse of the change of hearts," and leaving us to recognize that somehow in the time from when the song started to when it finished, we'd moved into the tree too, keeping close to as many parts of it to hold onto, but really relishing that we're now in the same space - out of the way and feeling relatively safe.

Big Tree - Little Brother

One final long video from Saturday night. This was the last song of Big Tree's set. I particularly enjoyed this song because Drew's band gets up on stage with them. After a brief appearance, Drew is out of the picture to the left of the stage for the last half of the video. Morgan is on the left on the stage in purple.

Big Tree - Little Brother
from heringermr on Vimeo.

Big Tree - Whale Song

In the soundtrack for my life, the song for 2008 is the Whale Song by Big Tree. I got to see the song performed live on Saturday night.

Big Tree - Whale Song
from heringermr on Vimeo.

Big Tree Huge Country

After her graduation, Morgan's band Big Tree will be doing a west coast tour, including several stops with Drew.

The current tour schedule includes:

Jun 5 2009 8:00P
Monterey Live w/ Andrew Heringer
Monterey, California

Jun 6 2009 8:00P
Steynberg Gallery w/ Andrew Heringer
San Luis Obispo, California

Jun 8 2009 7:00P
UCLA coffee house
Los Angeles, California

Jun 9 2009 7:30P
The Andrews Gallery
Encinitas, California

Jun 10 2009
TBA
Somewhere, California

Jun 11 2009 3:00P
The San Rafael Farmer’s Market
San Rafael, California

Jun 12 2009 8:00P
TBA
Somewhere, California

Jun 13 2009 8:00P
Beatnik Studios w/ Andrew Heringer
Sacramento, California

Jun 14 2009 1:00P
Evelyn St. BLOCK PARTY!
Albany, California

Big Tree Big Tour

Morgan's band is going tour in March!

Facebook | BIG TREE BIG TOUR

Big Tree is so excited to say we are going on our first tour together. We will be getting in our huge van (we named her TWAMPUMUS MAXIMUS) and singing songs from New York to Maine. We're still working on solidifying dates, but boy, will this be grand.

Pete's Candy Store
March 13th, 2009
709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
9:00 pm w/guests TBA

Bard College, SMOG
March 18th, 2009
Annondale-on-Hudson, Red Hook/Tivoli, New York

Skidmore College, Fallstaff's
March 19th, 2009
815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866
FREE w/guests TBA

Union Pool
March 20th, 2009
484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Cost: $10
Playing with The Extraordinaires from Philly and Tavo Carbone from Brooklyn.


Boulder Coffee
March 22nd, 2009
100 Alexander St., Rochester, NY
8:00 pm w/TBA

Middle East Upstairs
March 23th, 2009
472 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
8:00 pm w/TBA

Langdon St. Cafe
March 25th, 2009
4 Langdon St., Monpelier, Vermont 05602

The Monkey House
March 26th, 2009
30 Main St., Winooksi, Vermont 05404
Cost: $5

Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge
24 Preble Street, Portland, Maine
9:00pm