Ledaswan

Video shot and edited by Santa Slice

This is a picture snapped by Ernesto Olivo via iphoneography last night at Luminaria 2012. It was a pretty amazing night & we want to thank everyone for listening. We got to connect with a diverse and large audience that respects and appreciates the arts. At first crowd was a bit shy but then we got everyone to come closer to the front in waves. I’m super tired and sore from the nights festivities. A big thank you to Laura Grace Robles‘ amazing visuals that really helped bring this live show home. We played the following new songs last night: Introducing the 5th, Mountains, If You Can, Dark Trees, Class of 88… along with a few songs from our last EP NUM83R5 that we released in 2011. I’m super happy with the compositions we have been churning out thus far for our full-length album. A great creative force lies within our current lineup. I hope you all join us for the ride. Ledaswan hopes to see you at our next show May 18th at Nightrocker Live with Bleep Attack and Given A Chance. Going to get some much needed zzzz…Thank you. Erica.

Ledaswan in collaberation wtih Laura Grace Robles Visual Artist @ Luminaria 2012

We will have this cool super comfy t-s at our shows! Silkscreened blue logo on cream color baby dolls or blue guys w/white logo. See you then! Erica~

Ledaswan performed 3 acoustic songs on #goodjobtexas last week and we bootlegged our own performance. Catch us Wednesday, April 4th on KRTU at 10pm to hear us play some more acoustic songs. We will also be playing plenty of great shows during Local Music Week. Here’s a list followed by our bootleg.

Wed, Apr 4 KRTU 10pm. Listen on www.krtu.org

Thurs Apr 5th Studio 1400 for the Local Music Week Music and Media Mixer. 6-9pm. 1400 West Ave All Ages

Fri Apr 6th Moses Rose’s Hideout 518 E. Houston. Show at 10pm w/Love Hate Affair, Sons of Sancho, Cnataloupe St. Pierre. Free 21+

Sat Apr 7th Sam Ash 25 NE Loop 410 # 110 2pm. All Ages

Sat Apr 7th 502. 502 Embassy Oaks Phonolux CD Release Party Show at 10pm w/Tiaggo Splitters, Phonolux $5

Ledaswan proudly supports the 3rd annual Local Music Week 2012. Co-Sponsored by the SA Current and some other new great sponsors. Jaime and I volunteered to help make this city wide cross-promotional event. Many people have asked me if Local Music Week is a festival or if we are trying to make San Antonio like Austin? To answer the first question, no LMW is not a festival. And the answer to the second question is a loaded question….the way that I envision Local Music Week is to first improve the relationships of the people within the music scene, because scene still means “community.” If we can create a music scene starting from organizing and educating musicians and anyone else that is tied to the business of music, then we can at least start at the source of the people that care about creating a music scene. Creating a music scene takes a village and cannot be done by the musicians alone, but with city support, and support from independent businesses and music advocates. The venues need to play a bigger role in our music scene…and respect and care more for the bands in their city. For example, venues should still book in-house, try to pay the bands as much as they can, investing in soundproofing their venue, and invest in a great sound system with a great sound person. These are essential in creating a music scene today. Fostering bands because those bands may be the next “big” thing. If bands do not have a place to be fostered then there can be no music scene. Creating a music scene in 2012 means venues invest in their club aesthetically and sound-wise. I spoke with another musician the other night and he said something that is true here and in every city that doesn’t quite have a thriving scene. He said that we (musicians) are all waiting for that great venue and it doesn’t quite exist yet. Some places have come very close. 502 Bar being one of the newer musician friendly venues. Kudos to them. They’ve actually invested in a green room for all bands and print well designed colored flyers and posters in house. They pay their local bands as much as they can. So far my experience working with 502 Bar has been a pleasure. They’ve invested in a dedicated sound person and excellent sound. Something all venues need to be proud of. Of course there are many other aspects to answer the second part of that question. And way too much to go into now. But writing about it puts things into perspective. I don’t have all the answers but those are just things I’ve learned along the way. Hopefully bands will become less clique-y and take the time to get to know other musicians as people and not just care about getting ahead.   I’m hoping to make more efforts in being the change for that instance and remaining positive.  I hope everyone makes an extra special effort to get out of the house and support a local band next week.  Please check out our shows page as we have several events during LMW and excitingly some ALL AGES events as well.  Scene = community. Without a community there is no scene.  check out http://local782.org/schedule

Our friend Ismael Rodriguez is a great local filmmaker who shot our first video Faulkner with the help of Doc Evans. He decided to come along with us to our Austin show at Cedar Street a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t know he was making a video till he put it up online. This clearly captures the intensity of a Ledaswan live show. This new song will be on our upcoming album due out later this year. Enjoy!

Ledaswan – If You Can (Live) from Ismael Rodriguez Cervantes on Vimeo.

Ledaswan just completed their first tour of the year.  Their Swans by Number Tour consisted of 4 cities:

Austin, TX
Tulsa, OK
Joplin, MO
Ft. Worth, TX

We would like to thank all the incredible people that we met along the way.  Thanks for all your help and support.  We plan to come back to all those cities as well as venture to newer cities later on this year.  Our next show will be Saturday, Jan 21st at 502 Bar in San Antonio, TX with Phonolux, Darstar, and Mrs. Howl, which will be releasing their cd that same evening. We hope to see everyone there.  We will be debuting a couple of new songs that evening including the song from the following clip.

Love,
Ledaswan

Ledaswan took a little time from recording to talk about their new album and what you can expect from it.
Thanks to Ismael Rodriguez for filming and editing.