MEMORY PEARL - Music for 7 Paintings LP Japanese Folk performing at University of California

performing at University of California

The band formed when guitarist / vocalist and pro-skater Riley Hawk (son of skating legend Tony Hawk) and drummer Bruce McDonnell decided they wanted to try their hand at something more distinct than they’d done previously

with Terry Gross writing and refining their songs

the band has since released several splits as well as one full-length

in 1971 on Futura

MEMORY PEARL - Music for 7 Paintings LP Japanese Folk performing at University of CaliforniaFor Memory Pearls Music for 7 Paintings Moshe Fisher Rozenberg traveled to art galleries throughout North America searching for paintings which would enrapture him. Like the experience of being drawn into the worlds of those paintings, these seven tracks each one directly referencing a single work by Joan Mitchell, Robert Ryman, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, or Jackson Pollock are love letters to the sympathetic vibration of one