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The Hourglass Orchestra

About Me

The Hourglass Orchestra perform miscellany folk, jazz, and pop with an emphasis on poetic lyrics, pure songwriting, and soul over sophisticated recording. It's a little sloppy, but it's got heart.
The project was started by poet/songwriter Devin William Daniels as an outlet for his folk and jazz influenced home recordings. He released his two-sided debut album, Love & Rockets, in Spring of 2008, after recording most of it in his Penn State dorm room with a headset microphone. Since expanded to include two of Devin's oldest musical comrades - guitarist Chris Morrison and pianist Ethan Palmer, The Hourglass Orchestra is at work on a second album to be released sometime in 2009. It will feature twice the number of songs as Love & Rockets, with better recording quality, orchestration, and dynamics. A significant portion of the new songs will be written by Chris Morrison, with Ethan Palmer handling production. The album will hopefully feature various players from the State College and Allentown music scenes in supporting roles.
Devin and Ethan can also be found playing for State College-area rock band The Exclusive Document [http://exclusivedocument·com]. Devin also provides vocals for the noise-rock duo The Orwellian Death Squad. Chris plays guitar in Macungie-based hardcore band A Long Awaited Tragedy.
Download the debut album - Love & Rockets - for free at http://www.exclusivedocument·com/dwdjazz/Love_and_Rocke ts.zip
CONTACT US @ [email protected] (srsly, we're lonely)
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/01/2006
Band Members: Devin William Daniels -
scrawled poetry in cliché notebooks, desperate yells and echoed whispers, too much reverb, low bass buzz and piercing treble fuzz, drum machines have no soul, magic boxes do magic things, where do you think we are? Hawaii? put that thing away.

Chris Morrison -
chords made of steel, playing circles 'round circles, sinful boy listens in on a gospel choir, where did you come up with that idea?, pound the signal to warn the town, we're running out of tape, maybe next time.

Ethan Palmer -
a wizard of keys (both plastic and ivory), in Germany they'd use the phrase 'tonemeister' perhaps, you keep a steady beat but your breath's shaking, angels would cry at such a pathetic display of beauty.
Influences: Pavement, Silver Jews, Guided by Voices, Cursive, Pearl Jam, Bright Eyes, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Andrew Bird, The Mountain Goats, Beirut, Destroyer, Elliott Smith, The National, M83, Titus Andronicus, Neutral Milk Hotel, My Bloody Valentine, The Mae Shi, Townes Van Zandt, Beach House.
Sounds Like: A bad demo recording of a decent street performer.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New Song - South Dakota

Here's one of the songs we've completed for the as-yet-unnamed second album that will hopefully be finished within the next 365 days, but you never know.Chris Morrison wrote the music, I wrote the lyr...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:18:00 GMT

Back to Solo Project

Zomg, The Hourglass Orchestra is a solo project again! Yep, the assemblage of five previously known as The Hourglass Orchestra is now known as The Exclusive Document, so check us out over at myspace.c...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:35:00 GMT

New Member, New Song!

Hello friends,We have recorded a new song, the first that comes from the band's "second era" - the full band. It is a group composition, I hope you enjoy it. Entitled "Tigers in Dumpsters," it's for B...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Love & Rockets for Free Download!

Hey everyone,Making CDs is fun and exciting, and I want you (the fans?) to be a part of it! That is, if you don’t want to wait to get a physical copy of the new album from me, hop over to our so...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:26:00 GMT

Love & Rockets is out! Also, are we a real band?

Hey, as you probably see on the front page...the debut of The Hourglass Orchestra, Love & Rockets, is out and about. If you want a copy, contact us at [email protected] or in person and ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:39:00 GMT

devin pimps his writing blog - http://hourglassman.blogspot.com/

http://hourglassman.blogspot.com/I don’t feel like double posting stuff, so all blog posts I used to do here that go under the the categories of lyrics and stuff like that will be posted at my b...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:41:00 GMT