Name: Clem Snide
Start: 2023-10-03T20:00:00
End: 2023-10-04T00:00:00
Location: Ivy Room

ivy room presentsTUESDAY OCTOBER 3RD----<h2>CLEM SNIDE </h2><h2>AARON SPACE AND HIS TERRESTRIAL UNDERLINGS </h2>(closing)<h2>MINI MARSHMALLOWS </h2>(opening)----Doors 7pm / Show 8pm$18 Advance / $20 Door----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ <h2>CLEM SNIDE</h2>----“The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “That this record even exists, as far as I’m concerned, is a genuine miracle.” Indeed, the road to ‘Forever Just Beyond,’ Barzelay’s stunning new album under the Clem Snide moniker, was an unlikely one, to say the least. Produced by Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers, the record is a work of exquisite beauty and profound questioning, a reckoning with faith and reality that rushes headlong into the unknown and the unknowable. Thesongs here grapple with hope and depression, identity and perception, God and the afterlife, all captured through Barzelay’s uniquely off-kilter lens and rendered with an intimate, understated air that suggests the tender comfort of a late-night conversation between old friends. Avett’s production is similarly warm and inviting, and the careful, spacious arrangement of gentle guitars and spare percussion carves a wide path f or Barzelay’s insightful lyrics and idiosyncratic delivery. Listening to the album now, Avett and Barzelay sound like an obvious pairing, but the truth is that there was nothing obvious about the survival of Clem Snide, and the series of cosmic coincidences that led to ‘Forever Just Beyond’ remains inexplicable even to Barzelay himself. <h2>AARON SPACE AND HIS TERRESTRIAL UNDERLINGS</h2><a href="https://aaronspace.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/aaronspacespeaks/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>----Aaron Space &amp; his Terrestrial Underlings is a five piece experimental soul actbased in Berkeley, CA. The group’s shared background as close childhood friends and jazz musicians deeply influences their soulful and experimental tunes. Their work has often been compared to a variety of artists including Jon Bap, Sun Ra, Pulgas, Os Mutantes, King Krule, and Standing on the Corner. <h2>MINI MARSHMALLOWS</h2><a href="https://theblackmarshmallows.bandcamp.com/album/the-envelope" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067873401379" target="_blank">Facebook</a>----"An off-shoot of The Black Marshmallows, Mini Marshmallows are a paired down duo consisting of David Knowles and Roderick Wyllie, who have played music together for more than 30 years in bands inspired by punk, experimental rock, klezmer and alt. country and bossa nova."