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saw them at sxsw -- incredibly impressed. also, i think i stayed at the same hotel as the band. spied them outside starbucks!!!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Hehehe. Nice. The word spreads. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Still trying to find out about the San Diego gig (there isn't any club called "Voltaire"), if anyone has any info.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

maria - why you didn't join us?! it would have been nice to meet you!
(on a non-related note, starbucks was okay for our italian stomachs, even if muffins can kill you).

tim - i'll try to contact alessio again, and let you know about this rather mysterious venue!

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

marco, i deal with so many bands that i just kind of leave them alone. at sxsw, if you can get a quiet moment, take it. but i wanted to! next time around. i was going to mention that id be in italy this summer but ill be down in palermo [where my family is from], so we wouldnt be able to hang.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

So good...

Great five piece band. Really pulled off so many of those different types of songs on the album live, and "with teeth," as my wife said. People dancing to gorgeous cover of "Blue Jay Way." Ended their set with a long improvisation piece that was total UFO Club action.

Great.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 17 April 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I just heard this album for the first time last week. I find it quite nice. Kind of reminds me of the Circulatory System album, but not as strenuously weird or droney and more varied melodies. Nice and catchy psych-pop.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

:-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm, I don't know about this band. I saw them opening for Dead Meadow and their non-screechy songs lost momentum after 10 minutes. In fact, most of their songs went on for just a tad too long.
I'm sure the vocals are also an acquired taste, but they were sure cranked up on that night.

-- alex in montreal

I saw them that night, too - I really liked the show (the album was a favourite of mine, too), but something about the sound that night made the vocals a bit too trebly for my tastes. That opening band was fucking awesome - Hemisphere Gauche's house band or what not! Ha!

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Friday, 27 May 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

They were really excellent in B-more. The second band I've seen open for Dead Meadow that's about a million times better than them (the other being Oneida).

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Do Dream You" is the kind of song that I want to listen to again as soon as it finishes playing.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 June 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

They're great but I find it hard to imagine them as Italians and not from Cambridge or somewhere.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 June 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Trust me, I find it very easy to believe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

"Nothing Makes Sense" reminds me a bit of Ennio Morricone in places.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Marco, news please!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not Marco but...

New album for Sub Pop coming together, band doing well in general.

http://www.jennifergentle.it
http://www.myspace.com/jennifergentle

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, news! più musica, per favore! valende popped up on my ipods shuffle yesterday and i was like "oh man, this band is so good..."

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Just as Ned said, they're working quite hard.
New lp & cd of weird/unreleased stuff out; the soundtrack for a documentary about Joe Meek to be recorded soon; the remastered re-release of their second album "Funny Creatures Lane" (plus bonus tracks) for an American label out in early 2007; and, obviously, the next Sub Pop album that will be recorded this August...about whom I won't add anything else :)

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

But but but you have to mention the 50-person choir and the trained elephant percussion and how you're recording in that huge Montreux studio where you see Queen sitting around looking bored in the gatesleeve from Jazz.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

no, I won't mention that...but Thursday night they will play live here in Padova backing an actor reading something out of HP Lovecraft short novels - and this is for real...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

But that is brilliant! :-D

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Hopefully yes.
The location is beautiful too: just under the ancient walls of the town, in a kind of 400 years old catacomb.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

This album popped into my head recently and I gave it a play for the first time in almost 20 years. Yowzer, it's really great! I love how the singer leans so hard into his Steve Marriott impression it becomes his own thing.

It made me think that I haven't really heard a contemporary band that is directly influenced by sixties psychedelic music or iconography for a while. So is that it? Is sixties rock/pop no longer a thing to be mined, other than say, country-revival albums etc? Would it be a bit like someone referencing 1940s music in the 2000s?

― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 29 April 2024 09:51 (six months ago) link

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