Leo Blais - guitars/wurlitzer/theremin; Greg Burgess, Jonathan Hall - guitar; Jay Rice, Dave Osgood - bass; Dave Westner, Dave Brophy, Jay Breen, and Erik Froburg - drums; Sean Mannion - Vibes/xylophone/percussion.
The Story:
Almost every musician now-a-days stages themselves as artists and environmentally conscience, but Leo Blais is genuinely all of the above. Leo Blais combines the musicianship of Jason Collett and Ben Folds with the eccentric verve of David Byrne and the mission of Al Gore. We’ll be bringing you a collection of maxi-singles that will eventually combine to become the Everyone’s Feelin Alone Collection. In total, this collection will have 40 songs. The first installation, Slow Drivin, boasts 5 total tracks, 4 of which are b-sides, including a version of George Harrison’s song, “Beware of Darkness”. There will be a new maxi-single/EP from the collection released monthly, beginning with the song “All In All” off Slow Drivin (Part I of the Everyone’s Feelin Alone Collection). If Leo Blais sounds familiar, you may recognize him from performances with Snow Patrol, Dispatch, The Dresdon Dolls, Sam Roberts, and The Neighborhoods.
The Art:
With thousands of letters and many gallons of paint, it took Leo over two years of constructing, painting, and displaying to get the artwork ready for the Everyone’s Feelin Alone LP and the other 10 maxi-single EP’s in the collection. Using an X-acto knife, a sharpie, and quite a bit of patience, Leo carved out and constructed all of the letters that make up each of the lyrics and liner notes inside each of the albums. Every single one of the song titles are hand painted and shaded gray for a 3-dimensional look. His debut LP has a poster inside, which is a wrap around of his apartment in Lowell, MA. See more here:
Leo Blais constructs The Free EP over a weekend inside his apartment in Lowell, MA and talks about the ‘everyone’s feelin alone’ collection that took 5 years to record and over 3 years to construct. For more information about the collection go to http://www.leoblais.com
The Environment:
Leo is also taking a progressive approach to “going green”, as they say, ensuring that the Everyone’s Feelin Alone LP and the subsequent touring will all be carbon neutral. The carbon footprint made by making the LP will be offset by the planting of trees in forests that have been ravaged by wildfires.
Layout of the installation of Leo Blais’ Everyone’s Feelin Alone collection:
Slow Drivin - maxi single Part I (2008)
Sincerity - maxi single Part II (2008)
Everyone’s Feelin Alone - LP (TBA)
The Free EP - Part IV (2008)
Nice Day - maxi-single Part V (2009)
Come Again - maxi-single Part VI (TBA)
All in All - maxi-single Part VII (TBA)
Life is Fiction - maxi-single Part VIII (TBA)
Show Me Love - maxi-single Part IX (TBA)
Everybody Was The War - EP Part X (TBA)
Press:
“Leo is not only creative, but incredibly hardworking as evidenced by the hours of effort put into his art projects to complement his “Everyone’s Feelin Alone” project. In addition, he’s among the most personable and attentive artists that we’ve had through the WERS studio. Psyched to have local talent of his caliber!” - John Parsons, WERS 88.9FM Boston
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For any questions regarding Leo Blais please contact:
Steve Theo @ Pirate!
Phone: 617.256.8709
Email: steve at piratepirate dot com
IM: SteveTheo1
Hi! How are you doing? Not checked in with you in a while but hoping all is ticked-booo.. Please go and check out my latest creation- video to Ivory Tower. I am immensely proud and happy with it! Downloads available too! Would love to hear your feedback. Love and light to you. xx
How's life in your area? Were setting up a couple tours for Summer 09' & 10' and wanted to know your favorite venues, if any in your area? (Name and Location). We'd love to play for you, and hopefully go from "virtual friends", to becoming "real friends" one day. Cheers!!
i just had a "slow drivin" is awesome moment. made me wish i had better stereo to pump it while cleaning. the lap top is doing you all the justice it can.
One of my buddies was promoting his CD release show that's coming up Saturday on the New England Product show so I was listening to that. My friend informed me that the DJ told them during the song that he loves your work! I'll get to say I knew you when. I had a great Turkey Day filled with family fun.
Raar!! Circuitastrophe! is about begin! E-mail circuitastrophe@yahoo.com to sign up for Saturday Workshops at Murmur! Art Damage Lodge this Thursday and Friday Night!! Installations at semantics on Saturday! Reed Ghazala Tribal Electronics Lecture on Saturday September 6th at the Mockbee! CAC Panel and Brunch on Sunday! Also on Sunday! Be-In Baby! Be-In! Click our site to see the whole schedule. Be there or Shivabot will come looking for you!! Raaar!
leo nothing would make me happier if you would rage david's wedding with me and all our crazy breslin family and head straight to logan and check out the rest of bumbershot with me. that's my game plan
im in seattle for at least the summer unfortunately im going to miss the fourth but you should get a show out here and come stay with me, the last weekend in july would be a good time there's this good two day concert thing, im trying to get erin to come to it. it would be awesome if you could get a little massachusetts coalition to make it out here together. by the way the album artwork concept is way cool.
