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Vale and Year

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About Me

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NEW ALBUM "FAMOUS FIGHTS" AVAILABLE AT PAUL'S CDS, DESOLATION ROW, AND AT SHOWS!
Vale and Year is a two-piece band from Pittsburgh, PA whose music has been described as "understated indie-folk to squealing No Wave sax and wild experimental passages, incorporating everything from banjo to melodica" (Ed Masley, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). We have released four albums: Vale and Year Create A Perfect History, Vale and Year's Holy Music and Art, Civil, and Cardinal. In addition, we have released two eps and a string of limited edition improvisational pieces.
Over the two years of our existence, we have played shows with Wilco, Ted Leo, Prefuse 73, Early Day Miners, Okkervil River, Mary Timony, The Evens, On Fillmore, Tim Barnes, Mattin, Tatsuya Nakatani-Jack Wright-Michel Doneda, Grand Buffet, The Dirty Projectors, Keenan Lawler, Make Believe, Wolf Colonel, Mersault, and The Impossible Shapes.
We write, perform, engineer, and produce all of our recordings.
Selected in WYEP's Top Ten Local Artists for 2004. http://www.wyep.org/wyep/yir/local.asp
ALBUMS
1. Vale and Year Create A Perfect History
1a. Field Recordings Vol. 1
2. Vale and Year's Holy Music and Art (2CD)
2a. I'm So Fast EP
3. Civil
3a. Field Recordings Vol. 2
4. Cardinal
5. Famous Fights
FORTHCOMING ALBUMS
6. I Can Remember At Her (2007)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/23/2005
Band Website: valeandyear.com
Band Members: Dave Bernabo and Greg Cislon and Josh Beyer
Influences: recent listening:
Glenn Kotche, Mobile
Jim O'Rourke, Jim Computer Hotel
Quincy Jones, In Cold Blood
Raymond Scott, Manhattan Research, Inc.
Phill Niblock, Touch Three

Sounds Like: Vale and Year albums and live shows
Record Label: Enamel Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

It's Been A While

Sorry it has been so long since the last blog update.  Anyway, "Snow Leopard" from our Famous Fights record was featured on WYEP's year end local music wrap up.  It was played 4th in a 2 ho...
Posted by Vale and Year on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:55:00 PST

Thank You!!!

Thank You!!!Very special thanks to everyone who came to our release show last night. I think everyone involved had a good time. Personally, it was one of my favorite shows we've played, up their with ...
Posted by Vale and Year on Sat, 27 May 2006 03:21:00 PST

Recent and Future V&Y Music

Just a note to say that Vale and Year has had a few tracks come out of compilations recently. First, 20/20 Proof release the Steel City Scene Dead End World compilation with Vale and Year's most trib...
Posted by Vale and Year on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:21:00 PST

Play Football This Saturday!

Play Football This Saturday at 1:00 at Dan Marino Field in Oakland. Bring two shirts, black and white.  Featuring members of Vale and Year, Modey Lemon, Marichal, Ice Capades, and more tba. $...
Posted by Vale and Year on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:56:00 PST

New Recordings, Photos

Hi.  This is the first blog.  We are releasing the second album in the Field Records Series on July 22 at the Future Tenant Gallery (Downtown Pgh).  We will be playing with our new "lab...
Posted by Vale and Year on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST