“Dry
Land” single straddles the jazz-rock
line with a level of proficiency that brings to mind an indie-rock Steely Dan. Hear it now
via Relix.
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Mount
Pressmore (L-R): Kris Studebaker, Danny Anderson, Thomas Shaw, Alexei Sefchick.
Photo by: Vanessa Reiser Shaw.
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“Dry Land” is the first single from Enjoy by Mount Pressmore
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“Music was his religion,” Mount Pressmore vocalist and keyboardist Thomas Shaw says of his father Robert
Shaw, a famed conductor with 14 Grammy awards to his name. “His obsessions
were Bach’s ‘Mass in B minor,’ Mozart’s
‘Requiem,’ and Beethoven’s ‘Missa
Solemnis.’ This was the music I
heard most frequently as a child.”
Raised amid technical exercises, music theory, and classical recitals,
the young Shaw was none-the-less
eventually drawn to more popular sounds.
“I heard Oscar
Peterson and I was blown away,” he recalls of the development of his own
obsessions. “Then I listened to B.B.
King, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, and Fela Kuti.” Relocating to Austin after school, Shaw formed Mount Pressmore
in late 2011 with drummer and fellow New
York Collective School of Music classmate, Kris Studebaker. Bassist Alexei
Sefchick and guitarist Danny
Anderson, both graduates of Boston’s Berklee
School of Music, complete the quartet.
Owing to the deep history, education, and influences
of its players, Mount Pressmore’s
music is a technical revelation. Its
music straddles the jazz-rock line with a level of proficiency that brings to
mind an indie-rock Steely Dan on the
debut album Enjoy, scheduled for release on Mount Pressmore’s own Pressmore
Records on December 3rd ,
2013.
“It takes time for all of us to adopt and memorize
this material, but I’m hopeful that we can release an album annually. If we could, I’d like to release a record
every six months.” For now, Mount Pressmore can enjoy the
completion of Enjoy and its first single “Dry
Land” streaming now via Relix.
Thomas Shaw of Mount
Pressmore is available for interviews.
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Mount Pressmore
Enjoy
(Pressmore Records, Dec. 3rd,
2013)
01. Here We Go
02. The New Regional Branch Manager
04. Trampoline
05. A Place in the Sun
06. Vice-Presidential Material
07. Interchange
08. Dawn, Bingham
09. Agnostic
10. Dakota
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Mount Pressmore Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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