Brass Tree Sessions

So Jens Lekman came to our house a few weeks ago. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I think everyone else there felt the same way. Here are a few of the songs he played for us.

Part 1-  A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill

Jens was supposed to come to Denver two years ago to play the Gothic Theatre but his tour bus was caught in a snowstorm in Wyoming. A few weeks ago, someone in Denver booked him for a wedding. He sent out feelers looking for a house to play the night before and through a few texts our friends at the Illiterate Gallery connected us Jens and now our house became the venue for Jens Lekman's Denver debut.
This show was magical and the perfect kickoff for the Summer. "A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill" might as well have been about this night.

I've never heard this room so quiet. This was a secret show, but we still had more people then we could really even hold in this tiny room and every single one of them were in awed silence, hanging on Jens' every word.

Part 3- The Opposite of Hallelujah

Jens Lekman starts this one off with a story about why he loves to play house shows. I couldn't agree more with him. The kind of intimacy you experience when you're packed into a tiny room with friends and strangers, mere feet (sometimes inches) from the performer that just can't be replicated on any kind of stage no matter how small. This song is one of my favorite of Lekman's and I was ecstatic that I got to see him play it live in my dining room.

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Jens Lekman Part 1- A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill

Jens Lekman Part 2- Black Cab

Jens Lekman Part 3- The Opposite of Hallelujah

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Round 3. FIGHT. Fighting is stupid. Especially when you're drunk. BTW if you argue drunk you are automatically wrong. It's a fact. Oof. I hope that didn't get too preachy. I'm just saying. Episode three was an experience. More people, bigger production, two more drumsets. We started of hazy with Bury My Bones, got pepped up with the Don'ts and Be Carefuls, and then Night of Joy smashed the pitch black infinity mirror to pieces as we tried to glimpse our own reflection. Does the void make me look puffy? Anyways this one got dark, but the better kind of dark. The interesting kind of dark. Not sad dark. Is there a band called Sad Dark? There shouldn't be. Enjoy!.

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Episode 3 - Night of Joy, Don'ts and Be Carefuls, and Bury My Bones

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Holy crap this one was crazy. Way more people this time around, our floor was pretty well destroyed by about 10 PM. Moshing happened, Crowdsurfing happened, vases smashed, hearts broken. Well maybe no hearts were broken.. it just sort of rolled off my mind's tongue. But it's a possibility. There were certainly enough people there and I'm pretty sure a few of them made out on our couch. By the way: gross. That's gross. Those couches are gross. They are dog beds.

Digressions aside, enjoy Nipples & Dimes and Thee Goochi Boiz and Hot White! They put on an incredible show. Legendary, even. I real felt like this night was pretty special. I hope you think so too.

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Episode 2 - Hot White, Thee Goochi Boiz, Nipples & Dimes

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An outtake from our first episode, Sauna's instrumental closer "Lust".

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Sauna - "Lust"

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Episode 1

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Welcome to the first episode of the Brass Tree Sessions. Each month, we'll post a new show full of live performances from our favorite artists live from DNVR. This week, Lust Cats of the Gutters perform "Housewife with a Loose Grip on Reality", Sauna play "Sun-A" and a cover of the Who's "Tommy the Spider", and the Skeleton Show perform "Body and Soul".

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