Concerts | Folk | Primavera Sound 2008 |


The good M. Ward knew what he was doing when he pointed out Port O’Brien as one of his favourite bands. Not in vain, what started as the young Van Pierszalowski playing guitar and shaping the impressions that assaulted him when he was going fishing salmon with his father in Alaska has turned in just two years in one of the most interesting intimate folk projects born on the seashore. With their gaze fixed on the ocean and a "The Wind And The Swell" that likes playing at transforming in rituals of choirs and percussion those songs that Pierszalowski had recorded in the self released albums “When The Rain Comes Out” and “Nowhere To Run”, Port O’Brien turns sea songs into messy intimate folk pieces that the Decembrists would gladly sign after some time on the open sea.

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