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PALACES/WHIDBEY ISLAND DOUBLE EP ON 12†VINYL & LIMITED-EDITION DOUBLE-CD, ON BAD DRONE MEDIA. "Palaces' 'talking songs' are creaky, deconstructed, abandoned-sounding Americana; catatonic silence meets boozy violent celebration and rattling, ghostly field hollers. Finger-plucked banjo sounds out alongside mutilated piano, craggy vocals, space-clearing bells, swampy (modified 5-string) guitar, and tape/noise/hiss collages, all played by San Diegan/Virginian/Portlander Adam Gnade. Written on tour in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and on Amelia Island, and recorded in Portland, Oregon, Palaces runs through its five tracks in shambled, rickety warmth. The Whidbey Island side was recorded in a house on the cliffside of Washington State’s Whidbey Island with David and Thaddeus Christian. As damaged and noisy as the Palaces side is, Whidbey Island is clean and roomy with mellow fingerpicked acoustic guitar, Puget sound field recordings, doomy acoustic bass, and cascading mandolin. Lyrics follow a chilly, pastoral narrative about frost, pioneers, backseat visions, war, and folk remedies. West coast burnout vibe meets Southern Gothic death-folk. Whidbey Island is part one of Adam's 'island trilogy,' which will continue with the limited-edition EP Become an Island in late 2008" To order, paypal $10 to [email protected] or see mail-order address below. If you have any ordering questions, email [email protected] Drone Media bio
ADAM GNADE & YOUTHMOVIES, HONEY SLIDES, COLLABORATIVE EP, OUT NOW ON TRY HARDER RECORDS "Adam Gnade (guh-nah-dee) and Youthmovies' "Honey Slides EP was written on tour in England, improv'd during drunken collaborative sets, and recorded on a chilly, grey day at Oxfordshire's Warehouse Studios while a bottle of murky port was passed around the room. A full-on culture clash, the music is like an American marching band playing a British rave. Thumping micro-house morphs into a psychedelic brass band while landscapes of android ghost beats emerge from luminous pools of ambient noise. The vocals shout and proclaim in surreal tones like the spooky hollers of a Southern Baptist preacher inside a swampland chapel. Ideas and images cycle back, flashing brief visions of haunted wilderness, rising seas, decadent youth, faith healers, urban decay, and midnight carnivals in torch-lit clearings. A new animal born to two mothers, an engaging, weird, dancy, absorbing, freaked-out electronic pop tapestry." To order: go to Try Harder Records . --from Try Harder Press Release
SEASONS LOVING NOTHING LIMITED-EDITION NOVELLA Brand-new 60-page novella featuring four stories, one of them a preview section from Adam's debut novel Hymn California. True stories about Mexico, fistfights, murder, and Greyhound buses. Hand-drawn/colored covers, each one original. To order, paypal $5 in the US, $10 international to [email protected] or see mail-order address below.RUN HIDE RETREAT SURRENDER FULL-LENGTH CD From Punk Planet review: "'It is winter again and you are fighting with your woman.' So begins the sprawling and sometimes stream of conciousness narrative Adam Gnade unreels on this Loud + Clear disc, a surprisingly resonant pseudo-update of On the Road for the lo-fi singer-songwriter set ... 'Dance to the War,' an urban landscape dirge with a groove, is the record's most song orientated offering and also the best summary of Gnade's rapid fire approach. In it, he jumps from alcohol-fueled description of Brooklyn and platitudes about needing to keep riding the nation's highways to a news collage about Irag and the Middle East without skipping a beat. By the last minutes of the closing title track, you almost wish Gnade never discovered the story's ending." --Justin Velluci, Punk Planet magazine. To order, paypal $5 in the US, $10 international to [email protected] or see mail-order address below.
SPECIAL DEAL: Get all of the above--the Palaces/Whidbey Island double-CD, the 60-page novella Seasons Loving Nothing, the Run Hide Retreat Surrender CD, and one hand-drawn pin--for $20 ($30 international.)
SPLIT CD WITH OHIOAN, SOLD OUTWE ARE GHOSTS AND BONES DOWN STONE WALLED WELLS LIMITED-EDITION CD, 50 COPIES ONLY This 40-minute continous song-cycle was recorded as a full-band psyche burn-out in 2006 full of delayed guitar, electronics, organ, drums, trumpet, noise loops, and loud, dark drones. (It also has a Donovan cover.) It’s the only record played as a full-band for the entire course of the album. "Lost" until April 2008. Reissued as a limited-run. To order, paypal $10 to [email protected] or see mail-order address below.HYMN CALIFORNIA ADAM GNADE'S DEBUT NOVEL Full-length novel continuing the stories and characters from Adam's songs. A "shared universe" of life and magic and trouble. Violence, road stories, joy, superstition, love, and restlessness set against a wide-sweeping panoramic view of America. New world folk tales. Available for pre-order here .Other things you can order: hand-drawn 1" pins ($1 a piece), posters $3.
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Adam Gnade (guh nah dee, which means "grace") is writing a new record called Trailerparks for the Try Harder label. He says, "The Trailerparks record covers a year's worth of time and it's divided up into seasons, the first conceptual album I've done since Run Hide Retreat Surrender. The ghost of this past winter is all over the thing, just sunk right into its flesh. But there's also a lot of fighting-back in there, so I'm hoping people'll find some happiness in the midst of its dark heart." His debut novel, Hymn California, is available for pre-order now and will be out in May on Dutchmoney Books . It's "fiction, as much as anything is fiction, and it's prose (all the lyrics come from prose too.) It continues the stories of the characters from the songs and ties up plots left open by the records." He says, "I've tried to keep the books and songs separate in the past but it didn't work. The only way I could pull off doing both was to integrate them as much as possible, immerse the songs in the books and the books in the songs. One reviewer said that, in the process, 'it's created its own universe' but I don't know if that's true." Adam's next tour will be this August in the US and, after that, UK and Europe in November. "If you don't have good tour-mates, you're gonna have a shitty fucking time," he says. Recent tour-mates have included label-mates Jonquil, Youthmovies, Blood Red Shoes, and Blanket, along with friends House of Brothers and Eugene McGuinness. Adam enjoys sunshine, books about folk magic and the occult, Greyhound buses, MadDog 20/20, swimming in rivers, playing shows on staircases with his banjo, gin, pomegranate tea, Neutral Milk Hotel, the great state of Virginia, Saul Bellow, noise music, and country music.
