Pitchfork

Athens, GA-based psych-pop purveyors Circulatory System are about to hit the road for a 16-date tour that will include some shows with The Sea and Cake, as well as a few headlining gigs. The band, which last year offered six homemade CD-R recordings on their own Cloud Recordings label-- including Inside Views, a disc consisting of remixed versions of songs from their self-titled debut-- is planning on making another such CD-R available on this tour. Entitled Toybox, the new disc documents some home recordings that head-Circulator Will Cullen Hart has been working on for the past few months. According to bandmate John Fernandes, Hart "literally uses a toybox full of stuff (shakers, bells, sheet metal, whistles, balloons, etc.) in [creating] the songs."

Fernandes also told Pitchfork that the band has been busy recording new material at Cloud that will become the next Circulatory System album proper, with plans for a late 2003 release. You can look forward to some of this new material being previewed on the road next month. Tour dates:

04-09 Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
04-10 Lexington, KY - Mecca
04-11 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center (with The Sea & Cake)
04-12 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall (with The Sea & Cake)
04-13 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace (with The Sea & Cake)
04-14 Montreal, QUE- Cabaret (with The Sea & Cake)
04-16 New York, NY- Bowery Ballroom (with The Sea & Cake)
04-17 Brooklyn, NY - Southpaw
04-18 Hudson, NY - Hudson River Theater
04-19 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts (with The Sea & Cake)
04-21 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street (with The Sea & Cake)
04-22 Boston, MA - Somerville Theatre (with The Sea & Cake)
04-24 Purchase, NY- SUNY Purchase (with The Sea & Cake)
04-25 Swarthmore, PA - Swarthmore College Olde Club
04-26 Charlottesville, VA - Tokyo Rose
04-27 Carrboro, NC - Go! Room 4

In other Circulatory news, the band just bought back the rights to the Olivia Tremor Control catalog. The Flydaddy Records versions had been out of print since 1999, and the label had since filed for bankruptcy, having owed the band a substantial amount of money. An agreement was worked out, and Cloud now plans to issue expanded and remastered versions of both Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 this fall. Said Fernandes, "The re-issues will include bonus discs which will uncover some lost 'Green Typewriters' sections, as well as songs like 'The Sky Is a Harpsichord Canvas' and 'Trilogy', which were cut from [those records] because of time constraints." He said that they may also include the Black Swan Network/The Olivia Tremor Control split EP as a bonus disc with one of the albums.

Expect Cloud Recordings to also reissue an album by the German band Workshop, entitled Meiguiweisheng Xiang, which was originally released only in Europe in 1997.