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Ryland Bouchard - streaming Seeds, racy videos, tour dates

By Andrew Frisicano

Ryland Bouchard

We reported last week that Ryland Bouchard (formerly The Robot Ate Me) will be releasing a “Seeds” box set on October 15 on his own Swim Slowly label. The box will contain Ryland’s first new material since TRAM’s 2006 release, Good World, and will include, among other things, a DVD that, curiously, his website notes will contain “EXPLICIT CONTENT”. His MySpace further points out that “videos from the SEEDS DVD will be posted soon.” The tracks from the project that are now streaming online at Ryland’s site seem to follow a vein more personal than some of his more politically charged work. Orders for the set, with all its various accoutrements, can be made through Swim Slowly.

While the supporting tour is still being filled out, Ryland has announced a Brooklyn date for Sunday, November 23, at Surreal Estate, a “new community space,” at 15 Thames St, Brooklyn, NY in E. Williamsburg/Bushwick.

I’ve seen Ryland twice, once at CMJ in 2005 in the basement of the Knitting Factory and once in spring 2007 in Ithaca, NY, and both shows were completely different (acoustic+poppy to electronic+noise-based). Both leaned heavily on (non-cheesy) crowd participation.

See (NSFW?) stills from the Seeds video shoots below for scintillating clues to what will be on the DVD, as well as all tour dates and a video from CMJ 2005 featuring unreleased track “Human Head Soccer”…

Robot Ate Me

the robot ate me – human head soccer @ KF, NYC in 9/16/2005.

Seeds video stills…

Ryland Bouchard

Ryland Bouchard

Ryland Bouchard – Seeds:

disc one
A
1. married to the ground
2. another day 1
3. woke up alone
B
4. loved a girl
5. bye bye love 3

disc two
A.
1. henry the devil
2. born in the middle
B.
3. drinking
4. no hands no clothes

disc three
A.
1. tongues
2. sugar
B.
3. sweetheart
4. golden you

disc four
A.
1. awake all night
2. another day 2
B.
3. lover
4. your ghost
5. seeds

Ryland Bouchard – 2008 Tour Dates:
Oct 2 2008 – Centro Cultural España Mexico City, Distrito Federal
Oct 3 2008 – TBA Mexico City, Distrito Federal
Oct 4 2008 – TBA Guadalajara, Jalisco
Nov 1 2008 – THE ARTISTERY PORTLAND, Oregon *
Nov 2 2008 – TBA Seattle, Washington
Nov 4 2008 – TBA TBA, Washington
Nov 5 2008 – TBA TBA, Idaho
Nov 7 2008 – TBA Salt Lake City, Utah
Nov 8 2008 – BROOKS ARTS CENTER DENVER, Colorado
Nov 10 2008 – TBA SPEARFISH, South Dakota
Nov 14 2008 – TBA TBA, Iowa
Nov 15 2008 – TBA Madison, Wisconsin
Nov 16 2008 – TBA Chicago, Illinois
Nov 17 2008 – BIRTHDAY PARTY BLOOMINGTON, Indiana
Nov 18 2008 – DAAC Grand Rapids, Michigan
Nov 20 2008 – FRANKS DETROIT, Michigan
Nov 23 2008 – SURREAL ESTATE BROOKLYN, New York
Nov 27 2008 – TBA Baltimore, Maryland
Nov 28 2008 – THE DEAL WITH PINE TREES FESTIVAL WESTMINSTER, Maryland
Dec 4 2008 – THE SPAZZ HAUS GREENVILLE, North Carolina
Dec 5 2008 – WUAG 103.1FM GREENSBORO, North Carolina
Dec 6 2008 – TBA TBA, Florida
Dec 7 2008 – STARDUST ORLANDO, Florida
Dec 8 2008 – TBA ATLANTA, Georgia
Dec 9 2008 – TBA Athens, Georgia
Dec 10 2008 – TBA Knoxville, Tennessee
Dec 11 2008 – TBA Nashville, Tennessee
Dec 14 2008 – TBA Kansas City, Missouri
Dec 15 2008 – TBA Wichita, Kansas
Dec 16 2008 – VAULT VIDEO STILLWATER, Oklahoma
Dec 17 2008 – TBA Denton, Texas
Dec 18 2008 – TBA Austin, Texas
Dec 21 2008 – TBA Phoenix, Arizona
Dec 22 2008 – TBA San Diego, California
Dec 23 2008 – Ports ‘O Call House West Covina, California
Jan 2 2009 – ITALIAN TOUR VARIOUS
Jan 14 2009 – EUROPE TOUR VARIOUS
Feb 1 2009 – UK TOUR VARIOUS
Mar 2 2009 – JAPAN TOUR VARIOUS

* Seeds Release Party