http://gregorsamsa.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:12:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're very pleased to announce that Gregor Samsa's music will be featured along with BON IVER, PAN AMERICAN, SPOKANE and ROBERT DONNE in a new film by Rick Alverson entitled The Builder. Following an Irish immigrant carpenter from coastal Queens to the Catskills and beyond, THE BUILDER is an american existential portrait that explores the ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/the-builder/ Jan 2009 Europe Tour On January 5th, 2009, we'll be once again traveling to Europe for a month of playing music every night. Confirmed gigs will be posted very soon. We'll have two new musicians joining us for this excursion. The first is Mike Ashley, who plays drums with Cory in ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/wintertime/ Towards the end of our last European tour we made a stop in Amsterdam to record a live session for Dutch radio station, VPRO. You can listen to it here (click our name under "audio" on the right). http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/vpro-session/ From Kora Recrods: The Collectors Edition of Gregor Samsa's new album is sold out. The vinyl version is on sale in the kora store as a 140 gram double LP enclosed in a two piece heavy card stock double folio design featuring the same die cut and artwork from the CD ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/collector-edition-sold-out/ We are very happy to announce that the Collector's Edition AND the US Vinyl Edition of Rest are officially available for order! We are very pleased with both these versions of Rest and we thank everyone who worked so hard to make them happen. Here's a link if you are interested in either ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/collectors-edition-and-us-vinyl/ From our US Label, Kora Records, regarding the Vinyl and Collector editions of Rest: Details for Gregor Samsa's new album on vinyl and the Collectors Edition are in! Both will go on sale in the kora store on September 1st. Vinyl - Rest is being pressed as a 140 gram double ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/announcement-from-kora-records/ Just a quick update on this extremely hot afternoon in NYC... The shows last week in Boston and New York were really great. After not playing in two years, we weren't quite sure what to expect, but we couldn't have been happier with the turn out and both of the ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/summertime/ Finally, after a long break, we'll be playing a few shows in the US. There will be more to come, but hey, it's a start. We'll be doing two dates with Iceland native Olafur Arnalds -- one in Boston and the other in NYC at a beautiful new venue called ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/nyc-and-boston-shows-announced/ Hi - just a quick note to show off the limited edition of Rest. I have to say this is the most proud we've been of any packaging we've put together so far! Many thanks to the Kora Records for helping make this happen. These are handmade and limited to ... http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/limited-edition-of-rest/ We posted a new video for "Jeroen van Aken", taken from our new album Rest. The video was filmed and directed by our good friend, Rick Alverson, who also plays in the wonderful band, Spokane. http://gregorsamsa.com/posts/video-for-jeroen-van-aken/