Touch and Go recording artists THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION play at Howie and Sons in Visalia with Merced's EL OLIO WOLOF and DEVICS.

The Black Heart Procession took root in San Diego in 1997, when Pall Jenkins (vocals, guitars, synths, etc.) and Tobias Nathaniel (piano, guitar, organ, etc.) put their previous band, Three Mile Pilot, on an open-ended hiatus. They are the core members of Black Heart, joined by drummer Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, the Magic Magicians), bassist Jimmy LaValle (The Album Leaf) and violinist Matt Resovich (The Album Leaf).

Theirs is the sound of driving at night across the West. Like the wide-open landscape, this is music that knows how to be both desolate and lush. And it knows that while sadness pulls you down, discontent pushes you forward. So the Procession never stops. Here, a song's 6/8 beat will pull you into a moody seductive waltz and next, the violin and piano evoke the house band of a lonesome cabaret with the lights turned low. Then the strings stop their mournful crying and shift into a propulsive thrum, and now we've got the pedal to the metal and we're heading straight down the open road into a cinematic twilight.

The Black Heart Procession play at Howie And Sons with Merced's EL OLIO WOLOF and DEVICS.

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Location: HOWIE AND SONS, 2430 S. Mooney Boulevard, Visalia
Starts: 2006 Aug 12 - 8:00pm
Ends: 2006 Aug 12 - 11:59pm
Website: http://www.myspace.com/theblackheartprocession