Gentle Whale
Acoustic set at Hudson River Loft this Friday 7pm
Vernous will play a short, stripped down, acoustic set in between readings this Friday at the Hudson River Loft Reading Series! WORD.
The Series is quality experience of literary nonfiction readings, spanning calm readings to shouting and dancing and crying readings. It’s pretty fucking great. The event is curated by Chloe Caldwell, who herself just released a book, Legs Get Led Astray.
New album + kickstarter +tour(?)
Heading into the studio to record album number two this month.
Album is called “Everyone Hating Everyone Hating”
Help fund it here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1396298354/help-mylets-record-album2
Late summer tour? I don’t know. Help me out a little first and we’ll see!
LISTEN TO THE NEW VERNOUS EP
There are many different ways to listen, love, and keep this forever:
Buy/Stream on Bandcamp
Buy/Stream on JunoDownload
Stream on Soundcloud
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EP…
ver-n-ous:
vern (noun) - shield; anything which protects or defends
n - (from Latin) - infix used to denote an action
ous - suffix used to form adjectives from nouns. From Latin -ösus (“full, full of”)
nous (noun) - common sense; practical intelligence
Vernous is music with synths, slides, strings, strums and staccato sticky drums. Stylistically, the core of the tracks is electronic dance music, though strains of industrial, noise, rock and ambient music can be heard. Vernous’ second release, Vernous I,picks up from where last year’s self-released Vernous left off: dark and nostalgic songs induce a feeling that is reminiscent of the thick winter air and stark branches of upstate New York, the place where the sounds of Vernous were first conceived. Each song is a montage of drum samples, chopped and delayed vocals, soft and analog synths, and guitars with ebows, slides, and good ol’ pickin’. Aside from drum samples, everything is recorded live. Arranging and sequencing take place simultaneously with recording. Lyrics touch on politics, sex, abandonment and the divine. Live performances are loud, fun and danceable.
(Source: vernoushound)
Crywank - Nostril Tampon (Moon & Back Session)
Crywank - You Couldn’t Teach Me Integrity (Moon & Back Sessions). 2012.
Everyone Hating Everyone Hating Announcement
Album name:
Everyone Hating Everyone Hating
Track list:
A Itch
Seven Diamonds Plus One
Cartilage Colosseum
David Victory Jones
Died
Solid Gold Modesty Machine
Anthem
Preview:
This album, whew. It will be 7 songs and roughly 25 minutes long. Where the last one was sort of angry, nostalgic, and vague, this one is angry, ambitious, and vague. There is definitely a more triumphant feel within the songwriting, but the lyrics and singing tinge on sarcasm and boredom. Album artwork is in the process, but like last time, it’s just sort of a nonsensical ‘thing’ representing what’s going on up in that head of mine. There’s a lot more swearing (including a very angry and deliberate f-bomb), but I’m really happy with the lyrics and will probably make them available upon release. I’m looking at recording early summer and will spend more time in the studio with this one. The instrumentation is noticeably more complicated on these songs, as I’ve had time to expand my technological and playing capacities. I’ve also spent a lot of time working on vocals and plan to keep at it in studio until I am fully content. There are some catchy pieces, weird pieces, instrumentals, heavy vocals, references within songs, and I’m way looking forward to this voyage.
Favorite lyric off the whole thing:
“Even though I know you have it all, I just wanted to say that
You have my heart, you have my home and I hope to retrieve them someday.
Admit I know as you’re halfway out the door that I don’t want you to stay, but
You had my heart, you had my soul and it looks like I’m well on my way.”
-Mylets
Henry Kohen
check out his blog for more art)I recorded this album in my parents dining room. Most of the songs on this album are the first take of me trying to record them (some needed a few more takes as I messed up my first attempts) and so it’s riddled with mistakes, but hopefully you can forgive that. Where my first album was tied to the topic of dealing with a breakup, this album has less of a definate focus. Most of the songs are about coping with and deconstructing my sadness, some are about odd things that happened in my past, and others are just about people and scenes. They where mostly fueled by stupid dark thoughts, and through songwriting I’ve tried to get past them.
I’m not signed to any labels, I don’t pay for any adverts or send out any press releases to magazines, so hopefully if you do enjoy my album, please blog about it, reblog it, play it to a friend, or post it on a forum or anything. I don’t want any money for my music, just for it to reach as many people as are willing to listen. I’d like to thank my friends Joseph Thorpe for recording me, and Daniel Watson for his incredible artwork (http://www.defectiveobjective.blogspot.co.uk/
Crywank - Narcissist On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (2012)
http://www.mediafire.com/?03yoqg056ejd8dl
Treat your ears right. Listen to this album. Support independent music and share the link.
About us
We are a small community of artists and friends that enjoy making music together, especially while most normal people are sleeping. The goal of Gentle Whale is to give us a way to share this music with you.
