Holy Holy!! Ukraine Choir covers Big Blood's "The Grove"... and nails it....

 The collective "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Choir" 
"Хор одиноких сердец сержанта Пеппера" or ХОССП (in abbreviated form)  was founded in 2011 in Kharkiv, a city in thе west part of Ukraine. 

Their repertoire — basically covers, combines the traditions of academic sound with love for classic rock and beyond.  Anna Minakova, creates all the incredible arrangements (chorus and accompaniment), piano player and choirmaster. Anna, a writer, blogger, and ceramicist is the only professional musician among 25 choir members consisting of doctors, managers, scientists, IT-specialists, bakers, housewives, travelers, etc. The  conductor is Victoria Melikentsov.

Elizabeth "Liza" Bannikova, the lead singer and visual artist for the performance contacted me in 2011. She wanted the lyrics to "The Grove", promising that she'd let me know if she ever made anything out of it. 7 years later I got an email with this video below. 
Tears followed. 




Thanks to Liza, Anna, Victoria and the incredible voices of the choir.
We are honored and blown away!

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Choir" youtube channel: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyZvMC2DR0GRspk87kkfpw       
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-983655170

Updated info on Live performances w/ new shows added!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjxfrIkh0b4/?hl=en&tagged=bigblood

Here's the hot'n'cool details - 

BIG BLOOD + COLBY NATHAN - two weekends of mid-August mirth

Friday, August 10th - BURLINGTON, VT @  AMY E. TARRANT GALLERY 

                                                                       at the FLYNN THEATER 

                                                                       153 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401

                                                                        w/ Wren Kitz

Saturday August 11th - BOSTON, MA @ DORCHESTER ART PROJECT 

                                                                  1486 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA 02122

                                                                   w/ Ian Kovac JR JR

AND

Friday August 17th - PROVIDENCE, RI @ COLUMBUS THEATER 

                                                                     270 Broadway, Providence, RI 02903

                                                                     w/ The Huntress and Holder of Hands

                                                                     doors 8pm, show 9pm, I'm guessing I'm on first.

                                                                 

Saturday August 18th - BEACON, NY @ QUINN'S 

                                                                  330 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508

                                                                  w/ Sowndhauz

                                                                   I open the show at 8:30pm sharp > no joke!

Big Blood ... L I V E! Summer 2018!

7/27 Big Blood @ the Dreamaway Lodge  in Beckett, MAThe dreamiest inn in Western Mass

7/28 Kennebunk Barn w/ Colby Nathan, Tom K, and Clay Camaro.

8/10 Big Blood, Colby Nathan, Wren Kitz 

Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington, VT  

FREE & open to the public. Cash bar.

8/11 TBA

8/17 Big Blood, Colby Nathan, The Huntress and Holder of Hands

        @ The Columbus Theater, Providence, RI 

Upstairs at the Columbus Theatre .   Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm .   $10 advance, $12 day of show. ALL AGES .     Tickets on sale now at https://huntressbigblood.eventbrite.com

8/18  Big Blood @ Quinn's in Beacon, NY w/ Soundhauz

OUT NOW!!! OPERATE Spaceship Earth Properly

Our newest Big Blood record out on Feeding Tube Records... Operate Spaceship Earth Properly 

PRE-Orders up now, officially out on June 20th

Spaceship Earth is a massively psychedelic investigation of science fiction, science fact and the mythic spot where they reconcile. Specifically referring to the work of writers such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and Buckminster Fuller, the music mixes the thunder of riff-thuggery with vocals beamed in from planet Comus and beat-slaps equally indebted to the Purple Revolutionary and the Neue Deutsche Welle. The combination is headspinning and gloriously original, but will be immediately identifiable as Big Blood by anyone who knows the band’s music.

I mean, it’s so freaking Strange and so freaking Maine, who else could it be?

+Byron Coley

Get it here: Feeding Tube Records... Operate Spaceship Earth Properly 

New Stuff + Shows.....

Playing live with the family band!!!

6/7 The Thing in the Spring Festival in Peterborough, NH

Ovlov / Big Blood /Half Sour / Wren Kitz
Toadstool Bookshop, 7pm, $10 adv / $15 door, all ages

*Lonnie Holley exhibit and performance on Sat. + Broke Arts Fairwhere I'll be selling prints & rekkeds. Bonnie Prince Billy on Sunday, plus writer Ayobami Adebayo andso much more.

6/16 Ladies Night@ the Apohadian Theater in Portland, ME 

White Gourd(Million Brazillians), Janane Tripp(Visitations, AM Frank) and 
Colleen Kinsella(Big Blood) w/ special guests at the best venue in town for weirdness and joy!

7/27 Big Blood @ the Dreamaway Lodge  in Beckett, MA

The dreamiest inn in Western Mass.

8/18  Big Blood @ Quinn's in Beacon, NY w/Soundhauz

Our newest Big Blood record out on Feeding Tube Records... Operate Spaceship Earth Properly 

PRE-Orders up now, officially out on June 20th

Spaceship Earth is a massively psychedelic investigation of science fiction, science fact and the mythic spot where they reconcile. Specifically referring to the work of writers such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and Buckminster Fuller, the music mixes the thunder of riff-thuggery with vocals beamed in from planet Comus and beat-slaps equally indebted to the Purple Revolutionary and the Neue Deutsche Welle. The combination is headspinning and gloriously original, but will be immediately identifiable as Big Blood by anyone who knows the band’s music.

I mean, it’s so freaking Strange and so freaking Maine, who else could it be?

+Byron Coley