EXITMUSIC

OUR CD IS FINALLY AVAILABLE ON CD BABY AND iTUNES! ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... http://cdbaby.com/cd/thedeclineofthewest ............................................................ ............................................................ ...........Devon and Aleksa met on a train ride across Canada. They drank coffee all night and argued about the existence of evil. They listened to early Bob Marley and Blood on the Tracks. They were 18 years old. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... Aleksa went home to New York City, where she worked as an actor. She told her mom she'd met the man she was going to marry. Her mom asked her where he was. She said she didn't know. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... Devon went home to Winnipeg, where he worked in a subterranean pool hall/crack den. He saw some strange, bad things there. At night he would walk home in the ridiculous cold through a snow-covered golf course. A thick mess of stars pressed down on him and he thought about her. He left town and went all the way around the world and finally wound up in New York City. He found Aleksa and they moved in together and started making music on Aleksa's four track. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... They moved to Los Angeles, bought a computer and began writing the music that would become EXITMUSIC. In 2004 they got married at a scenic overlook on Mullholand Drive. On their wedding night they drank champagne and made demo covers out of cardboard and glue and pictures they took at a train station photo-booth. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... Their new album, The Decline of the West, was entirely self-produced, engineered and recorded in various Los Angeles apartments. With zero prior knowledge of recording technique, Devon and Aleksa managed to coax from their cheap equipment a uniquely lush, sophisticated, arresting, sometimes massive, sometimes delicate, always endearingly lo-fi sound by sheer force of will. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... Aleksa Palladino is a critically-acclaimed actress who has starred in over 20 film and television roles, including her debut opposite Scarlett Johanson in the indie hit, 'Manny & Lo', 'The Adventure's of Sebastion Cole' with Adrien Grenier, Todd Solonsz's 'Storytelling,' and legendary director Sidney Lumet's 'Find Me Guilty'. In October of 2007, Aleksa stars alongside Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Marissa Tomei in Lumet's brilliant new film, 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'. She also appears with Henry Rollins in the second installment of the cult horror franchise 'Wrong Turn', and as Sybil Vane in the avant-garde adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', by maverick director Duncan Roy. ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... Devon Church is rounding out EXITMUSIC's cinematic vision by writing screenplays about underground cities, 200-storey prisons, spiritual conmen, Emma Goldman, Helena Blavatsky, god in the form of a jellyfish, and the devil in the form of a tyrranical 1940's studio boss. ............................................................ ............................................................ ..........."THE DECLINE OF THE WEST" directed by the great Matthew Wilder ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4