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“If the Northwest has its own musical sound, it’s exemplified on Leviethan Cecil’s 2007 release, Monuments in Memory of Nothing So Far. It’s vintage indie-rock made modern. The lyrics have a dreamlike quality, beautiful and deep. Monuments gets a place in my Top 10 CDs of 2007.”
-Amy Atkins, Boise Weekly

Singer-songwriter Leviethan Cecil (of Heroes and Villians, KBOO Midnight Mixtape and DIY, Portland fame) is in the right place at the right time. And if you’re lucky, you will be too: Cecil performs here for FIRST THURSDAY, April 3, 6 pm –no cover and all-ages.

Building a strong following through the noble art of storytelling and song, Cecil’s music brims with evocative melody and emotion, harmony and a certain honesty and earthiness—values that Portlanders have an insatiable yen for.

Not only does he have a hammer, he uses it, hammering in the morning, producing, “the kind of lo-fi bedroom pop the Northwest seems to have perfected,” according to the PTrib’s Barbara Mitchell.

Cecil’s kaleidoscope presents mesmerizing strands of steely independent punk conviction and a lyrical underpinning of elliptical, folk-rock imperative that seems equal parts Elliot Smith, the Minutemen, Neil Young , Skeleton Key and Fugazi, Sandy Bull, Utah Phillips and Syd Barrett. The result: a keening, inspired tonic that both charms and enlightens.

If that weren’t enough, Cecil tells us he’ll be joined by, “Miss Ali Ippolito, wonder-pianist, vocalist, accordionist from Heroes & Villains and her own band.”

Sample This, then plan on stopping by the Gerding Theater at the Armory on First Thursday for the real thing.

“As compelling as anything in recent memory.”
-Casey Jarman, Willamette Week

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