Portland Special: White Rainbow
Published 35 months ago
We speak to ambient performance prism Adam Forkner.
Having collaborated with a huge number of experimental bands, including Dirty Projectors, Microphones, Jack O-Motherfucker, and Devendra Banhart, Adam Forkner now does ambient performances under the name White Rainbow. This year he'll be touring the US with Atlas Sound, the solo project of Deerhunter's Bradford Cox. Sky Drips Drifts is out now on States Rights Records.
Dazed Digital: How and why did you end up in Portland?
Adam Forkner: I was in high school in '93 all grunged out of my mind, also getting into K Records and Maximum Rock'n'Roll and generally getting into underground music and I kept on hearing about Portland. People kept telling me I should go to Reed College. I ended up at Lewis and Clark '94 to '98 and I've never looked back.
DD: What's the best thing about Portland?
AF:That the underground still exists.
DD: What's the worst thing about Portland?
< b>AF: Things getting expensive and fancy and boring.
DD: What was your most memorable Portland gig?
< b>AF: Bugskull at Thee O aka the 'O-Hell' 1994 Sunday afternoon show.
DD: What's your favourite Portland spot?
< b>AF: The Oak Street Building.
DD: What are the best Portland bands that we haven't heard of?
< b>AF: Presently: White Fang, Rob Walmart, Acre, Tunnels, Ghosting, Privacy, Dark Yoga, Adrian Orange & Her Band, Watery Graves.
Past: Hochenkeit, Fire Fly Wreck, Jessamine, Bugskull, Calobo, Sylvia's Ghost, Golden Sunz of Eden.<><><><>
