january
06 ...and
Happy New Year! There is now a MySpace music profile
dedicated to all things beam/Hélène related:
http://www.myspace.com/helenerenaut Please
drop by and take a listen to some unreleased tracks
we put on there : Kaleidoscopes and To
those of you.
-2005-
december
05 Happy
Holidays! check out the listen
page for a few downloads available for a limited time.
I became quite haunted by this song 'Liverpool lullaby'
and couldn't stop singing it so I decided to test my
hallway's acoustics and record it on my computer. As
for 'To be a child', it was inspired by the birth of
my nephew in Paris; I started thinking about the worlds
of possibility that a new life holds...The third song
I wrote on a poem by French surrealist Paul Eluard.
Forgive the poor sound quality...and enjoy until mid-january!
More shows coming in 2006, check out the shows
page.
november
05 Helene
wrote the music for two songs in a new production of
The False Servant by French
playwright Marivaux, put on by the San Francisco theater
company Abydos.
Director Jessica Heidt transposed the 18th century play
to the 1920s, and the songs, with lyrics by translators
Ann & George Crowe (also responsible for the new
adaptation), are wonderfully performed by the actors,
in a 20s jazz/broadway style.The play is running fridays
and saturdays at the Exit on Taylor
from November 4 to December 17 (except on Thanksgiving
weekend). For more details, showtimes, and tickets,
visit the Abydos Theater website at www.abydostheater.org.
october
05
Perfection's somewhere near your bones is now
available through the Antenna Farm Records online store
: click here
then browse 'beam'. Other website updates and mp3s on
their way soon...Happy Autumn!
02.05
The band is in the studio, acoustic shows are listed
in the shows
page .
-2004-
10.04
The return of BEAM happens
on October 8th at the Mile
High Club in Oakland with a full band performance
alongside Winfred
E. Eye and Willow
Willow. Reciprocal collaborations to be expected!...Check
the shows page
for details.
09.04
The East
Coast mini tour was a success! Thank you to
everybody who came to the shows and to my kind hosts
(Alexia, Sarah, Christina, Joey, Linn and Keith). A
special mention to the wonderful Nightlight audience
in Chapel Hill- one of my best nights...I ended up playing
two radio shows: one in Cambridge, MA
(WMBR)
and one in New York (EVR,
the tiniest radio station I've ever seen!-right on 1st
Avenue in the East Village...) - some of the WMBR
show is on the listen
page, as well as a few numbers from the Pianos
show in New York City.
08.04
Hélène's
new cd of acoustic songs, Perfection's somewhere
near your bones, is now available.A limited
cdr pressing with collaborations and recording assistance
by Nino Moschella, Sam Flax Keener, Willow Willow, Jay
Bronzini and Gordon Root. The cover art was kindly provided
by Scott Hewicker- try some mp3s on
the listen
page.
07.04
Beam is still in the
process of recording...meanwhile Hélène
is playing some acoustic shows and planning an East
Coast mini tour for August: New York City,
Washington DC, Virginia and North Carolina so far...check
the shows page
as we add more dates.
06.04
Our next show is coming
up! We've been invited to play the sf_indie
list party.SF_indie is a local online discussion
group around...you guessed it, indie music.Their parties
are always fun and this one will be on Thursday
June 10th at the Cafe du Nord.Our
talented friends Miranda and Jessica of Willow
Willow will be singing back up vocals for us. Details
and more in the shows
page.
05.04
We've started working on recording a Bert Jansch
song, 'Do you hear me now' (from his first album), a
number we've been playing live for a while now. This
is for a British Folk Tribute to be
released by DBK
works this winter.
03.04
Helene will be playing a solo acoustic show at South
By Southwest on Saturday March 20th
at Club de Ville (900 Red River, Austin,TX) as part
of the RUNT
showcase.
