The Black Pine

The Black Pine
The Black Pine
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California
Genres	Alternative Rock, Soft Rock, Dream Pop, Shoegaze, Neo-Psychedelia, Slowcore
Years active	1999–present
Labels	The New Black June le Fit Records
Associated acts	Troy Von Balthazar, Adam Goldberg
Website	blackpinemusic.com
Members	Mitch Cichocki Emma Kathan Ian Latchmansingh
Past members	Jason Bacher Adeline Fargier Jasso Nate Farringer Vanessa Irena Dani Anderson Andrew Lynch Troy Von Balthazar Daphne Chen Michael Panes

The Black Pine is an American Alternative Rock band from Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1999 and have released four albums.

History

The Black Pine consists of Mitch Cichocki (guitar, lead vocals), Jason Bacher (bass guitar, vocals) and Emma Kathan (drums, guitar, vocals).

The Black Pine formed in 1999 in Los Angeles, CA. They played their first show in 2000 at Los Angeles club, Spaceland, with Lou Barlow and Chokebore. In summer 2002, The Black Pine released its first E.P. entitled The Sexlife of Flowers. The band worked with the actor/director Adam Goldberg to score two of his films, Running with the Bulls, which was premiered on the Independent Film Channel in 2003, and I Love Your Work, which starred Christina Ricci, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Lee and Franka Potente. The Black Pine also played as the backing band for the comedian Sarah Silverman's one woman show, "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic",^[1] performed at Second City in Los Angeles and The Canon Theater in Beverly Hills, California. The band released its second album, With Us, on the independent label, The New Black, founded by the Los Angeles band, The Antarcticans. Two songs from the album "With Us" : Early Morning and Focus 6 were featured in the film "Under Still Waters"^[2] starring Lake Bell, Jason Clarke, and Clifton Collins Jr. . The band's third album, "Still Life" was released in September 2008 on June le Fit records. "The Morning Sun", the band's fourth album was self released in February 2012.

Members of The Black Pine played on Troy Von Balthazar's album "How To Live On Nothing", released on Third Side Records in 2010^[3] and Troy Von Balthazar sang on the song, "Paradise" from The Black Pine album "Still Life".

Members of The Black Pine played with the actor/director/musician Adam Goldberg under the name LANDy;^[4] the title of the album is Eros and Omissions, and was released in June 2010 on Apology Music Records.

Guitarist from The Black Pine: Adeline Fargier Jasso toured with Cat Power as guitarist and backup singer for the Sun album released 2012.^[5] Adeline also toured as a guitarist and backup singer with Troy Von Balthazar.

Discography

The Sexlife of Flowers (2003)

1. Sinusoid
2. Disappear
3. Sexlife of Flowers
4. Lighter
5. Deep Water
6. Peru

With Us (2006)

1. Let Go
2. Laurel Canyon Sunrise
3. There's Always Been A Way
4. Focus 6
5. Early Morning
6. Some Will Come With Flowers
7. Black Jack David
8. Stray

Still Life (2008)

1. Goodbye Hollywood Forever
2. Near
3. Diamond
4. The Morning After She Left
5. It Will Out
6. All Together
7. Supernature
8. Imperfect People
9. Now
10. Paradise
11. 9 Minutes
12. Natural
13. Decca
14. Lark

The Morning Sun (2012)

1. Game Over
2. Every Night
3. Start Over
4. Come In
5. The Morning Sun
6. Cruel World or Not
7. Windows
8. Home of Ghosts
9. Far Away
10. Clearer

References

1. By Lisa Brenner, last on January 26, 2007 10:05 AM
2. AZ Movies, 2008
3. Because Editions, 2010
4. By Scott Thill, Special to Metromix, June 18, 2009
5. Matador Records, September 25th, 2012

External links

• The Black Pine official web site