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Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet

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About Me

Welcome to the birth of Jennifer Faust: Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board. This recording (which will soon be released..) was made possible due to two factors: Love and Death. Love of music, love of life on earth, and love between two people, myself, and Christian Hurd, who took my simple songs and turned them into emotional compositions. Death of my grandfather, John Stellatino, or Nono, as I lovingly knew him: a farmer, a vitner, and a full-blooded Italian with four daughters, one of whom was my mother. His passing left me a chunk of money, which allowed for this recording. What can I say? Timing is everything, and these two events crossed paths, and so here is this record. I imagine when I die, this recording will be one of the strongest momentos of my life on earth. I hope I can give someone a gift like this after my passing.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/9/2007
Band Members: On Recording:JENNIFER FAUST - Voice, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Celeste, Hand Drums CHRISTIAN HURD - Backing Voices, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Bass Guitars, Drums, Upright Piano, Casio WK 1630 (Drum Machine and Reed Organ), E Bow, Pump Organ, Celeste, Analog Delay/ Noise, Fake Strings, Casio SK-1 Sampler, Trombone MIKE COYKENDALL - Drums (T7), Organ (T7), Keyboard (T6), Reverb Tank (T6) RYAN LYNN- E Bow and Lap Steel (T3, 7, 8), Space Echo (T8) JESSE MONROE JOHNSON - Cornet and Trumpet (T9), Samples (T3) GEORDIE THOMPSON - Drums and Percussion (T2) NATHAN JR - Upright Piano (T1) TUESDAY FAUST - Backing Voice (T8)
Influences: P Floyd, The Thrills, Ambulance Ltd., Cotton Jenny, Mike Coykendall, Aimee Mann, The Electric Light Orchestra, King Crimson, Patsy Cline, Spoon, Elliot Smith, Cat Power, The Beach Boys, Carol King, witchcraft, the passing of generations, fun
Sounds Like: Roger Waters started a band with his eldest daughter, Jennifer Faust, and got some of Portland's finest ambient noise makers to mingle with Nashville's most expensive paid-by-the-hour studio rats. They used her songs and his aesthetic. And while her childhood may have been a tad bit more cheery than her father's, how perfect could your life really be with Mr. Goodbye Blue Sky occasionally dropping by to say "clean your room"?
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

CDs are in...and were now playing shows

CD copies of our (as of yet) unreleased album entitled "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" are now available to friends and family. We'll wait to release it to the GP until we can decide which labe...
Posted by Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:56:00 PST

good intentions, love of music, fireworks, and the sea

Well, two Saturdays ago I was involved in organizing a day-into-night of music on the beach in Arch Cape, Oregon, and what a day! Gorgeous weather, bands (8 of them) playing on time, all good, all pr...
Posted by Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:57:00 PST

Introducing The Jennifer Faust Sextet

We have been rehearsing with a six piece band as of late and have been talking of adding two string players and a trumpet to make a total of nine members. Wow. The sextet has been sounding great and w...
Posted by Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:41:00 PST

A word from Lukas Membrane (evil genius)

LAAFSAAB is beautiful (Whoa, I just realized after typing it that the acronym for your album spells laugh/sob... awesome).  Congrats to you two on creating a true work of art. So far I've listene...
Posted by Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:48:00 PST

post-partum elation

Who thought giving birth could be so fun? So, the site is fully functional, Christian has spread the word as only he can, and suddenly we have friends and a family. What next? A band, but of course...
Posted by Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet on Sun, 06 May 2007 03:15:00 PST

Album Credits

(To be released Fall 2007)Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Boardby Jennifer FaustProduced and Arranged by Christian HurdEngineered by Mike CoykendallSongs (words and melodies) by Jennifer Faustexcept "M...
Posted by Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:14:00 PST

The birth of Jennifer Faust

Welcome to the birth of Jennifer Faust: Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board. This recording (which will soon be released..) was made possible due to two factors: Love and Death. Love of music, lov...
Posted by Jennifer Faust and The Jennifer Faust Sextet on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:41:00 PST