It’s in the blood: Hear the meticulous song construction of Mount Pressmore, led by son of 14-time Grammy-winning conductor.

Austin-based band’s idiosyncratic jazz-rock brings to mind Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel.  Listen now via Relix, Blurt.

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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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Check out the premiere of “Dry Land” by Mount Pressmore exclusively via Relix!

Check out the premiere of “Trampoline” by Mount Pressmore exclusively via BLURT!

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“Trampoline” is the latest single from the upcoming debut Enjoy by Mount Pressmore

 

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Mount Pressmore is currently in post-production on the music video for “Trampoline” starring this guy!

“This is as close as we get to a pop song,” says Thomas Shaw of the Austin-based band Mount Pressmore of the band’s tune “Trampoline.”  The song recalls Talking Heads and Peter Gabriel’s more intricate moments, and is a fine example of Shaw’s musical pedigree, raised as he was amid technical exercises, music theory, and classical recitals.

“Music was his religion,” 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.  Then I heard Oscar Peterson and I was blown away,” Shaw 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 3^rd , 2013.

Thomas Shaw of Mount Pressmore is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Austin!  See the Mount Pressmore record release show at The Parish Underground on Sat., Dec. 7^th!

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Mount Pressmore

Enjoy

(Pressmore Records, Dec. 3^rd, 2013)

01. Here We Go

02. The New Regional Branch Manager

03. Dry Land (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)

04. Trampoline (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)

05. A Place in the Sun

06. Vice-Presidential Material

07. Interchange

08. Dawn, Bingham

09. Agnostic

10. Dakota

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Seattle-based musician Barbara Trentalange claims Dusty Springfield, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone as influences on upcoming album.

New video for title track from Martin Feveyear (Brandi Carlile, Mark Lanegan, Jesse Sykes) produced “Same Illusion” streaming now.

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Barbara Trentalange as photographed by Kamilla Chaudhery.

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“Same Illusion” is the latest single and video from the upcoming album by Trentalange

 

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[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy4W1SW8E3E

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See the premiere of the “Same Illusion” video by Trentalange via SSG Music

Grab a download of “Same Illusion” via an exclusive premiere at Grungecake

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“She could freely break hearts and fill dark, smoky rooms with her confident and alluring songs.” – NPR

“’Same Illusion’ is an acknowledgment that reality is just a distortion,” says Seattle’s Barbara Trentalange of the title track from her upcoming new album, out January 28^th, 2014. As such, the video for the song (recently premiered via Seattle-based music discovery website SSG Music) was shot in grainy black and white, giving it a dreamlike quality.

“The main characters are mirrors and water. The mirrors are the illusions we create for ourselves and the water is out collective unconscious I'm suggesting we smash the mirrors and jump into the pool,” Trentalange explains.  The clip also showcases the singer's live band: Arthur Roberts (The Posies, Peach) on Guitar, Janice Lee (Seattle Philharmonic) on Piano, Jason Harris-Talley (Modest Mouse) on Bass, and Stuart McLeod (who also plays on the new album) on drums.  As with all previous Trentalange records, Same Illusion was produced by Martin Feveyear (Brandi Carlile, Mark Lanegan, Jessie Sykes), who Trentalange met during her time as a touring member of Crooked Fingers.

“I wanted to draw on my love of soul music and singer-songwriters for this record,” listing Dusty Springfield, Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Lou Reed, Nina Simone, and Bruce Springsteen as artists that influenced the tightly focused album.  “I needed to wait until my daughter was in pre-school before I could concentrate on writing again,” Trentalange says of her new life as both artist and mother. “And once she was in school, I treated making this record like a day job.”

Same Illusion by Trentalange arrives on January 28^th, 2014.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Trentalange

Same Illusion

(S/R – Jan. 28^th, 2014)

Track Listing:

01. Without Your Love

02. Uh Huh

03. Reconnected (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)

04. Lies

05. In Your Grace

06. Same Illusion (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)

07. Freedom

08. River Child

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David Bronson’s two-album song cycle “The Long Lost Story” finally released in 2013 after being hidden for a decade.

“It was just too painful,” says the NYC-based songwriter of why it took so long to make this deeply personal music public.

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“Animals” is the latest track from David Bronson’s 22-song cycle “The Long Lost Story”

 

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“Bronson has soaked up all the best parts of ‘70s rock and created his own vibe.  Captivating.” – MAGNET

“It’s a song about the opposing forces of recklessness and restraint that fight within us,” David Bronson says of “Animals,” the latest track from his 22-track, two-album song-cycle “The Long Lost Story.” “Like the whole project, it was written as a reaction; a somewhat idealistic plea-scream from a young and wounded bleeding heart. It’s also a very pronounced statement of loss.”  “The Long Lost Story” isn’t just an imaginative title for the NYC-based songwriter’s collection of Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin evoking songs that have seen release over the course of 2013.  It’s actually the only way to describe a wealth of material that was so painful for Bronson to make public that he hid the recordings for nearly a decade.

“It’s the most definitive meaning of the name,” he says.  “The other parts being a description of a person who’s quintessentially ‘lost,’ and it also alludes to a lost relationship, as well.”  Bronson found catharsis in writing and recording the material at the time that he cut the tracks some 10 years ago, but explains, “it was just too painful to face, which is why it took so long to make public.”  The material finally saw the light of day this year with the release of the louder tunes as Story in early 2013 and then its quieter, acoustic-based prequel The Long Lost last month.

The albums, produced by Bronson and mixed by Godfrey Diamond (Lou Reed, Sparks, Glen Campbell), have earned the attention of music discovery websites in the US such as Under The Radar, Baeblemusic, American Songwriter, and My Old Kentucky Blog among others, and Bronson has also found welcoming ears in the UK where his work is currently being heralded.  As for revisiting all of these feelings up nearly a decade after the fact, Bronson explains, “I suppose it’s unusual to release a record so long after its making, but being so far away from where I was during the writing and recording really emphasizes the documentary aspect of the whole thing for me. I’m very happy that this period of my young life was recorded, and very excited to let it out into the world at long last.”

Bronson has now moved on to new work and is back in the studio (once again with Diamond) completing an all-new full-length. “Benefitting from Godfrey’s decades of experience, it’s been done in a very different manner than the first two,” Bronson says. “The album is very far along, and sound-wise, it’s a whole different thing; a real evolution from ‘The Long Lost Story.’ Song-wise, it’s a new level of maturity, being that it’s the first music I’ll be putting out that’s contemporaneous with my life.” When Bronson isn’t writing and recording his solo material, he can be found working as a contributing composer and editor on filmmaker Jennifer Elster’s “The Being Experience.”  The project is an unflinching look at existence, featuring a cast of actors, thinkers, and musicians including Dave Matthews, Moby, Questlove, Rufus Wainwright, and Yoko Ono among many others.

David Bronson’s “The Long Lost Story” (comprised of the albums Story and The Long Lost) is out now.  Bronson is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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David Bronson

The Long Lost

(S/R – Out Now)

Track Listing:

01. The Lost

02. October

03. Animals (STREAM | DOWNLOAD)

04. Crooked Trails

05. Incompetent Assassin (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)

06. Idols

07. Living in Name (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)

08. In a Cave

09. Once when I was god

10. One Simple Myth

11. Stay in Touch

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David Bronson

Story

(S/R – Out Now)

Track Listing:

01. The Turns (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Times (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO | REMIX | REMIX VIDEO)

03. If

04. Easier (VIDEO)

05. The Ones

06. Us (VIDEO)

07. Momentary (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO | REMIX)

08. Adrift

09. Watch the Sun (October Reprise) (VIDEO)

10. Outside (VIDEO)

11. Unending (Underture)

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David Bronson Links

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