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Vapors Of Morphine
Atwood's Tavern
Cambridge, MA
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Vapors Of Morphine
The 90s band Morphine pioneered a new type of music  Low Rock  featuring the unusual yet seductive lineup of baritone sax, 2-string slide bass and drums. Morphine burned bright and fast but was snuffed out before its time when leader Mark Sandman passed away in 1999. From its ashes have risen Vapors of Morphine.

Vapors of Morphine honors the progressive legacy of its predecessor. Original Morphine members Dana Colley (baritone sax) & Jerome Deupree (drums) formed Vapors of Morphine with transplanted New Orleans blues guitarist  vocalist, Jeremy Lyons.

In 2019, upon Jeromes departure, Boston area drummer Tom Arey (Peter Wolf, J. Geills Band, Ghosts of Jupiter) joined the band. They continue to seduce audiences with dreamy soundscapes, applying inventive arrangements to the unique instrumentation of electric baritone saxophone (evocative of Jimi Hendrix guitar), the Sandman-style 2string slide bass or electric guitar and mad jazz-rock drums. Morphine songs are complimented by psychedelic renditions of West African tunes, originals and obscure covers by the likes of Brian Eno, Dock Boggs, and Latin Playboys, all of which and more are featured on their latest release entitled A New Low. Vapors of Morphine leave audiences from Boston to Brazil, New Orleans to the Netherlands wanting more.

The band was officially formed in 2009 to perform a tribute to Mark Sandman in Palestrina, Italy, where Morphines singer, composer and 2string bassist died of a heart attack on the very same stage, ten years earlier. Since then the group has released two CDs: one under their original name The Ever Expanding Elastic Waste Band, and now the definitive A New Low, which is being enthusiastically discovered by fans worldwide. VoM plays selective shows at home and abroad, including recent bookings in Kansas City, Chicago, New Orleans and Lafayette, LA; Houston and Austin, TX; San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR, Portland, ME, New York City, Brooklyn, NY; Boston and Cambridge, MA. Festivals have included Utopia Fest (Utopia, TX, 2016), Mês Da Cultura Independente (São Paulo, Brazil, 2014), The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (USA, 2012); Virada Cultural Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2012), New Orleans Voodoo Experience (USA, 2011); and Maquinaria Festival in Santiago, Chile (2011). VoM have appeared at Film Festivals across the US and Europe, all in tandem with screenings of two documentary films, Cure for Pain: the Mark Sandman Story and the more recent Morphine Journey of Dreams. (VoM contributed original music to the latter film).

All three surviving members of Morphine  Dana, Jerome and succeeding drummer Billy Conway  met blues guitarist Jeremy Lyons in September 2005 after he was washed up on Massachusetts shore from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. A personal and musical friendship began. (Besides offering equipment and studio time, Dana got Jeremy a house-painting job.) After informal collaborations prompted Dana to invite Lyons to the gig in Italy, the guitarist had a 2-string slide bass like Sandmans built and began learning much of the Morphine cannon. Meanwhile they continued to develop a trance-blues style and a knack for reinterpreting a disparate variety of artists songs, sometimes with the baritone sax taking the role of the bass, and Jeremy on either guitar or electric bouzouki. Jerome Deupree was the bands primary drummer, though Billy Conway (who now resides in Montana) has joined the group for some big shows and  along with Boston drummer Jeff Allison  filled in sometime for Deupree during an 18 month health-related absence. (Now that Jerome has retired from the band, Tom Arey is the primary drummer.)

Morphines Film Noire-tinged sound was inspired by the Beats, by dime store crime novels, and by the Blues. Jeremys background help anchor the new band in the bedrock of the old. The bandmates interest in experimental and exotic musics (of West Africa and beyond) reflect a restlessness that insures that this group will always be more than a simple tribute band. Their tendency to segue between songs with dreamy, ethereal improvisations is a sonic tribute to the mythology of Morphine, which was not in fact named for the narcotic, but rather for Morpheus, a winged Greek God of Dreams (tapping into the Sandman mystique of European folklore, much like Sandmans previous group with Dana and others Hypnosonics, named for Morpheus relative Hypnos, the personification of sleep).

VoM has had some hiccups along the way; they were unable to agree on a band name early on, beginning by alternating between Members of Morphine & Jeremy Lyons and the Elastic Waste [sic] Band, which morphed into The Ever Expanding Elastic Waste Band until early in 2014 when someone asked Jeremy if he didnt play with the um the vapors of Morphine? And there was the name.

Vapors of Morphine is currently finishing a new record, to be released in the fall of 2019. They are accepting bookings across the world.

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Location

Atwood's Tavern (View)
877 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
United States

Categories

Music > Rock

Minimum Age: 21
Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: Atwood's Tavern
On BPT Since: Dec 21, 2011
 
Atwood's Tavern
www.vaporsofmorphine.com


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