Artist David Owen recounts how he created the cover for the new Jackie Oates album "Jackie originally asked me to design her sleeve similar to the Valentines [cards] that I make – lots of jewels and gold foil and fine detail with a photograph of a folk heroine, such as Barbara Allen or Polly Oliver. But we also talked at great length about the ideas and influences that feature on the recording and in Jackie's personal life at that time. We looked mainly at the work of Alphonse Mucha and also Joseph Cornell and Ivan Bilibin [...]
What's that coming over the hill? It's six folk punkers armed with jangling guitars, carnival strings and a snarky sneer. It's The Sans Pareil, with their new Saturnine EP, which they have graciously made available for free download. Click Read more..
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Before moving back to Vermont a few years ago and becoming the bass player in The New Year , Mike Donofrio released five albums and toured the US repeatedly with his NYC indie rock band Saturnine . This year marked the end of Saturnine with the release of their final album Things of Remembrance Past . The album is a conceptual rock opera based upon the work of Marcel Proust. With a sentence like that as a lead-in, an album can sound quite high minded and unaccessible. However, the album is stuffed with [...]
Before moving to NYC in the early 90's and starting the indie rock band Saturnine with guitarist/vocalist Matt Galloway, bassist Mike Donofrio grew up in Vermont. Plus, he has since moved back to the Green Mountains from the Big Apple. So, I think it's safe to call Saturnine's new album Remembrance of Things Past a "Vermont album" even if the rest of the band is scattered across the country. That's close enough for me. Remembrance of Things Past [...]
It's with real pleasure that I'm able to play a part in helping Saturnine get their latest and last full-length offering out into the world: "Remembrance of Things Past" is the band's sixth and final album, and rather than release it through traditional (i.e. physical) means, they've decided to share it digitally, and free of charge, under a Creative Commons license. The entire eight-song,
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