Oshima Brothers ft. Louisa Stancioff

Oshima Brothers ft. Louisa Stancioff | June 22, 2024 | Doors open at 7:00PM, Show starts at 8:00PM | At the Sweet Spot Lounge in the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center Pavilion

This intimate live show in the Sweet Spot Lounge will offer delicious drinks, tasty snacks, and a cozy ambiance!

Ticket Prices:

General Admission: $25.00

VIP (First 3 Rows of Seating): $30.00

About the Oshima Brothers

Maine-based indie duo, Oshima Brothers’ have been creating music together since childhood. The brothers blend songs from the heart with blood harmonies to produce a "roots-based pop sound that is infectious."

(NPR) On stage, Sean and Jamie offer lush vocals, live looping, foot percussion, electric and acoustic guitars, vintage keyboard and bass - often all at once. They want every show to feel like a deep breath, a dance party and a sonic embrace.

When not recording or touring they find time to film and produce their own music videos, tie their own shoes, and cook elaborate feasts. Maine Public Radio’s Sara Willis describes their songs as “beautiful, those brother harmonies can’t be beat. They are uplifting and, let’s face it, we need uplifting these days.”

About Louisa Stancioff

“There are times in life when you’re so present, so fully immersed in the moment that you can catch a glimpse of another universe, of a realm beyond our own,” says Louisa Stancioff. “It might last for a second or an hour, it might come in the midst of bliss or sadness, you might be alone or with a lover, but when it happens, there’s nothing quite like it.”

When We Were Looking, Stancioff’s stunning Yep Roc debut, is full of those moments. Written and recorded through a period of deep heartbreak and uncertainty, the collection is the raw and unflinching work of a nomadic soul who spent stints living in Alaska, California, New York, and North Carolina before returning home to her native Maine, one that holds nothing back in its bittersweet reckonings with pain, healing, acceptance, and growth.

Stancioff writes with a cinematic eye here, conjuring up richly detailed stagings for her emotionally-charged character studies. The guitar-and-synth focused arrangements are immersive and nuanced to match, thanks in part to the evocative sonic landscaping of producer/keyboardist Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Craig Finn), who proves to be an ideal creative foil for the record. Add it all up and you’ve got a dreamy, nostalgic Polaroid of an album that blurs the lines between indie stoicism and folk sincerity, a lush cathartic work that hints at everything from Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks to Big Thief and Waxahatchee as it learns to find the beauty in grief and rebirth.