Sunday, October 24, 2021
Sunday, October 24, 2021
VAPORS OF MORPHINE
VAPORS OF MORPHINE
217 E Houston St
New York , New York
05:30 PM
October 24, 2021
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Vapors of Morphine with Rose Blanshei
 
Vapors of Morphine
 
Vapors of Morphine performs the music of 90s “low rock” cult band Morphine alongside new
 
sounds — ethereal, hypnotic and expansive. Formed over a decade ago by Morphine
 
saxophonist Dana Colley with singer & multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Lyons, and Morphine’s
 
original drummer Jerome Deupree, the group now includes drummer Tom Arey (J. Geils
 
Band, Peter Wolfe's Midnight Ramblers, Ghosts of Jupiter). Their latest album, Fear &
 
Fantasy (featuring both drummers), comes out on Schnitzel Records (UK) in a combined
 
180 gram coloured vinyl/CD audiophile package.
 
A chance encounter between low rocker Colley and a street singer has coalesced into a
 
creative partnership breathing new life into the genre created by Morphine. Struck by a
 
busking blues band while on tour in New Orleans, Colley stopped, listened, and grabbed his
 
Polaroid to capture a couple of moments, leaving a snapshot in the guitar case along with a
 
tip. Years later, well after the tragic passing of Morphine front-man Mark Sandman after a
 
fatal heart attack onstage in 1999 and Lyons's relocation to Boston following hurricane
 
Katrina, Lyons and Colley were introduced by mutual friends and began collaborating
 
informally. They soon discovered the photo of Lyons and his street band pasted into one of
 
Dana’s tour journals, along with a detailed description of the band. Years later, Jeremy
 
discovered that he had the matching Polaroid to the one in Dana’s journal amongst the few
 
of his photos that survived Katrina’s flooding.
 
Lyons, Colley and Deupree jammed and played some small bar gigs, but they never touched
 
a Morphine song until 2009 when invited to perform at the Nel Nome Del Rock festival in
 
Italy; the scene of Morphine's last gig. The response cemented the trio's bond & Vapors of
 
Morphine was born.
 
Vapors of Morphine honours Mark Sandman's legacy by blazing musical paths in new
 
directions. A restless spirit, Sandman headed several bands in different styles, some of
 
which shine through Vapors. The influence of Southern American music is heard in Lyons's
 
swamp-tinged treatment of traditional songs. Colley's processed saxophone — testing the
 
upper limits of low rock and blurring the line between wind instrument and electric guitar —
 
continues the Morphine tradition of sonic exploration. And the group's arrangements of
 
African guitar music bring to mind the variety of world music one experiences walking
 
around the multicultural Central Square, Cambridge, where there is a corner named for Mark
 
Sandman. All of this was on full display in their 2015 release A New Low.
 
Their new album Fear & Fantasy represents both a new era and a return to form for Vapors.
 
There are new songs and sounds, including a lot of guitar and Colley’s electric “low sax,” but
 
also the familiar rumble of two-string, slide bass. In its often-lush arrangement, it recalls
 
Morphine's final album, The Night, where Deupree teamed up with Billy Conway, the
 
drummer who had replaced him; this time Arey plays on one side, Deupree on the other. It
 
only seems fitting when both bands have been blessed with a revolving cast of top-notch
 
percussionists.
 
Contrary to the obvious misconception, Morphine was named for the ancient Greek dream
 
deity Morpheus, not for the drug. But the Vapors of Morphine experience is an alleviation
 
that can take you places people only visit in dreams. Nevertheless, Vapors of Morphine
 
music might be pulling the listener deeper and deeper into that hazy state between
 
consciousness and unconsciousness.
 
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Rose Blanshei
 
Rose Blanshei is a singer/songwriter “who tells emotional stories which range from satire to confession, all delivered with an undeniable raw intensity” (Rough Trade). For nearly a decade she has cultivated a reputation in New York City as a direct and powerful performer, transforming every concert she touches into a humanist event.
 
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