Free Concert: Japonize Elephants & The Bodice Rippers | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Peralta Junction Pop-Up Creative Commons | Oakland

Weekends from Oct. 4 – Nov. 30, 2012, the previously vacant 24,000 square-foot lot at the corner of Mandela Parkway and West Grand has been transformed into a creative community space filled with art and commerce.

Featured events include a series of three highly interactive, large scale art installations, a Pumpkin Patch, a Pop-Up Market, featuring local artisans, DIY workshops and demos, Community Movie Night on Thursdays, local performing artists and Oakland-based food trucks.

Saturday, November 10, 2012
Japonize Elephants & The Bodice Rippers | Peralta Junction Pop-Up Creative Commons | Oakland

Japonize Elephants
With haunting melodies, surf guitar, spy soundtracks, Appalachian fiddling, lush string arrangements, knee-slapping banjo, country ballads, eastern modes, 4-part vocal harmonies, Mariachi flair and a heavy jazz influence, the new Japonize Elephants album is an inimitable take on the modern American experience. Songs about space travel, Publisher’s Clearing House, pirates, buses, whiskey, and dancing in the fast lane intermingle with instrumental numbers showcasing highly developed melodic and harmonic vocabularies. The sound is twisted and ambitious yet instantly recognizable, the result of 18 years of collaborative experimentation. The cinematic nature of heavily orchestrated melodies joins seamlessly with the driving rhythmic undercurrent provided by the junk percussion and guitar, carrying the listener through an ever-changing narrative.

The Bodice Rippers
The Bodice Rippers are based in Shadetree, in Oakland’s little-known 5th Ave Marina Arts district, and is comprised of members of Rube Waddell, The Apocalypse Puppet Theater, Knees and Elbows, and the various guises of The Reverend Screaming Fingers.

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