Celebrity Picks: Yoke Lore (Musician)!!
Today for Celebrity Picks is the very talented musician Yoke Lore. He is the brother of actor Noah Galvin.
“A ‘yoke’ is something that holds things together. ‘Lore’ means a set of stories or a collection of ideas about an event, time, or culture,” explains Adrian Galvin, when asked about the meaning behind his musical moniker Yoke Lore. “I want to tell stories about how things are bound and held together. I think something’s value is in its relationship to everything else. Work in the joints; where things come together.”
Brooklyn-based project Yoke Lore is the musical venture of Adrian Galvin, previously of Yellerkin and Walk the Moon. Yoke Lore layers the harmonies of Panda Bear, the soulful beats of M83, and the modern pop of Blackbird Blackbird to tell “the stories of how we are bound.” Galvin’s songs start with the folksy timbre of a banjo and add echoing waves of vocals and percussion to create unforgettable pop music with tactile sincerity and conviction.
Galvin grew up in an artistic family, his mother a director and his father an actor and sculptor. He was immersed in painting, photography, and ballet from an early age, eventually finding his first musical passion in the drums. While pursuing music, his artistry in other disciplines has not faltered, even lending his own artwork as the cover of his 2016 debut EP, Far Shore. It received glowing reviews from Consequence of Sound, Pigeons & Planes, The Fader, NYLON, and more. Far Shore achieved over 3 million Spotify streams, 3 Hype Machine top ten singles, and songs from the EP were featured in MTV’s The Real World and Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet. Galvin ended 2016 on a fall tour with Elliot Moss and a winter run of dates supporting Handsome Ghost.
To follow up the success of Far Shore, he released another EP. On the new
single, “World Wings,” Galvin warns those who “want the world to keep cool.” He explains, “This song is about starting to whip the wings you have to shake things up around you. If you sit still, you’ll be left behind; get up and don’t let anyone tell you to sit down. When things are hopeless, just keep moving.” When he’s not writing and recording new music, Galvin can be found teaching yoga or performing with his modern dance company Boomerang in Brooklyn. The physicality of his dance background helps Galvin communicate his message and connect with an audience while performing on stage as Yoke Lore. The live show finds Galvin using his entire being to connect his words and movement in a physical performance of the songs.
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CABIN IN THE WOODS:
I love stories that incorporate wider, broader histories and sets of stories. Its camp allowed it leeway to explore something deeper than its gore. I love the multivalent.
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THE ORPHANAGE:
I like this slow, quiet film for its unexpected brightness. One gets to the bottom of a dark, dark tunnel, only to be met with light on the other side. I think that is what the whole genre might be about.
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NOSFERATU:
Exemplifying political art making, Nosferatu came out of a culture of despair in Weimar Germany. It still reigns as the first and most powerful of vampire films, forever instantiating the genre of horror as a platform for those who wish to speak to the collective unconscious.
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THE SHINING:
This story is one of such lore. It is about a creepy haunted mansion, but, in the end, the haunting is carried out by the spirits of disenfranchised Native Americans whose land it once was. It is a true tale of tragic vengeance.
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JAWS:
Again, horror is so beautiful in the way it communicates broad, eloquent truth with such a heavy hand. Jaws is the archetypal story about what lies beneath. The unseen evil is usually the most insidious. Its also just a wonderful creature story.
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THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS:
For me, this story is about an instinct we all have, or a feeling we all get from time to time, that is taken to the extreme in a fantastic way. Everyone around you is replaced by malicious aliens. All. The. Time.
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ALIEN:
The groundbreaking performance by Sigourney Weaver is enough to make this film worth every minute. One of the strongest female lead characters of all time.
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THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE:
In the 70’s, after the economic crises, the Vietnam war, and the death of coal and domestic oil industries, you have whole swaths of America that were left abandoned to rust and rot. People whose government had forgotten them. The poor, the destitute, the hungry. The devil dwells in desperate men. How do men treat one another when all honor is removed from life? Badly. It’s a sarcastic warning, but a warning none the less.
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