Levi Landis began recording and experimenting with new types of roots music under the jovial, albeit almost sardonic moniker Levi Landis and the Nobodys in the fall of 2004. "The idea," says Landis, "was to put forth a full band sound, with layers and life, to support the smallest of one person's musical ideas."
The tapes and demos eventually became what is known as "Something About Repairs," a trial in portable recording. Whereever Landis composed a set piece of music- an old church sanctuary, a bathroom or basement, a living room of conversing friends- he would revisit in order to track the song. This Romanticized belief in the environmentalization, or framing, of particular music really permeates throughout "Repairs," an LP of 14 songs and psuedo-songs that touch on themes of tension (healing in the midst of fracture), responsibility (peace and pain), and hope (personal faith and freedom).
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Levi Landis hit the road to promote a self-released EP "Levi Landis and the Tulip Opera," in the summer of 2007. With stops in and around Tulsa, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Fransisco, Seattle, Portland, Madison and in between, the ends of the trip were multi-fold. Levi Landis and tour partner Hannah Kern offered "repairs" in the form of physical service for people across the country (in whatever way we find need), and offering music from the past album of the same themes.
Landis has shared the stage, be it solo or with a band, with the likes of Denison Witmer, Better Than Ezra, John Mallinen, Glenn Philips (of Toad the Wet Sprocket), Andru Bemis, Audio Adrenaline, Relient K, Thousand Foot Krutch, Mars Volta, Chevelle, and T-Bone.
Get your copy of SOMETHING ABOUT REPAIRS by visiting CdBaby.com!! Money from each CD goes to Roots of Peace, an organization that works toward global demining (www.rootsofpeace.org). Copies of the LEVI LANDIS AND THE TULIP OPERA EP are currently sold out and are out of print. Sorry for all those that have inquired!
