Month: April 2014

Welcome to the Foley Pit!

Joy of Joys! Perdix is finally available for all to hear!

Cut 8 from Coming Soon – Tiger Meets Lion. Check out the Coltrane references all over the place

Cut 7 from Coming Soon – Tiger Meets Lion. Check out my Hammond B3 skillz!

Got my Mutha Fukin’ signed copy!

In four days, the world will finally be able to hear this wonderful record. I’m soooo excited I could burst! But YOU can get blessed relief. Spin is streaming the whole damn thing! Name drop too!

Vensaire’s intricate fusion of international folk influences, Western pop, and indie-rock culminates with Perdix, their self-released debut due out April 15. Formed in late 2011 in New York’s Chinatown, the five-piece — Alex LaLiberte (vocals/guitar), Windowspeak‘s Robert Earl Thomas (guitars/vocals), Hunter Hawes (bass), Alex Jacobs (drums, percussion), and Renata Zeiguer (violin, vocals) — put out their self-titled EP in 2012. The release intrigued Grammy-winning producer Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Prince Rama) so much so that he traveled from Seattle to live with the outfit in their Brooklyn apartment and record the full-length.

With eight tracks that ooze otherworldly vocals and exotic instrumentals — thanks to the band’s collection of tablas, sitar, erhu, guzheng, and a variety of percussion instruments that come from Zeiguer’s Argentinian and Philippine roots — Vensaire’s new LP is a mixed batch of complexly fluid compositions. Case in point is “See, I’m You,” a daydream of a tune that transports listeners to a mystical place where glistening harmonies change pace in rollicking rhythm. If that wasn’t enough: The album’s last track (“Wanderer Christened”) wreathes right back into the first (“If”), allowing the record to be played on loop while showcasing Vensaire’s avant production techniques.

Catch the group at their record release show at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right on April 14 and stream Perdix in full below.

…and if you can’t go to the screening tonight, you can certainly go to the DVD signing and screening at Scarecrow tomorrow. Ah Hell! you could do both. Never too much “Junk”

If you are in Seattle, tomorrow night is your chance to see “Junk”. Sound Design by yours truly. At the SIFF Cinema

I had to draw on all my Arcade Fire-ness for this the 6th track on Coming Soon – Tiger Meets Lion