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Morningbell is one of the more prolific, inventive, and fiercely independent bands in the country. With six albums and four EPs over nine years (including an album released only on custom-made USB cards, a choose-your-own-adventure album, and 2009’s universally lauded Sincerely, Severely), Morningbell has gone more places with their music than most bands do in an entire career. They are constantly stretching themselves musically and creatively in a way that very few bands do.

The band hails from Gainesville, Florida—a hotbed of musical creativity (see Hundred Waters, Levek, Hot Water Music, etc)—and consists of brothers Travis and Eric Atria, Stacie Atria (married to Eric), and drummer Chris Hillman.

Boa Noite is the band’s 6th studio album. It was written, recorded, mixed, and produced by the band in their home studio. It draws influences from romantic classical music, African field recordings, Hungarian folk music, the poems of Jorge Luis Borges, “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” “Finnegan’s Wake,” “Ulysses,” Chopin’s polonaises, classic hip-hop, Charles Mingus, Paul Simon, Curtis Mayfield, Kurt Vonnegut, and the compositions of Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, John Cage and Arvo Part.

With Boa Noite, the band wanted orchestral backing. Without access to an orchestra, however, they pieced one together during half a dozen sessions with multiple classical musicians. The result is a grand, sweeping, ambitious album with songs that often contain upwards of 150 tracks of instruments.

Morningbell has always rejected label backing (although they ran their own label, Orange Records, between 2005 and 2011), yet by the power of their music and hard work, they performed at Bonnaroo and SXSW, toured the country many times over, were featured in a film that debuted at SXSW, and appeared on MTV’s “The Real World,” GQ.com, and in hundreds of blogs and magazines from their hometown to Greece.

released 11 April 2013 
Written by Richard Larsen and Rowan Pierce
Produced by Bevan Smith
Independent Release 2013

Shy Boys - Ride

Time for a summer tune

Cat Power - Bully - Later… with Jools Holland - BBC Two (by BBC)

Girls got a voice on her

New vinyl!

Tyler Stout version of the official Drive soundtrack

Cat Power - Manhattan (by CatPowerVEVO)

disconaivete:

“Falling for a guy / fell down from the sky” is one of our favorite lyrics of the year so far, especially when sung by such a fierce woman as Karen O. It’s taken from Sacrilege, the first single off the forthcoming new Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ record Mosquito, which now has a Megaforce-directed video featuring actress/model Lily Cole kissing a whole lot of guys. 

Milan - San Remo 2013. My car couldn’t race in that

Pic courtesy of Team Sky  

Dan Scroll - From Nowhere