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NewVillager

NewVillager Radio

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U.S. Booking: Ben Dickey - ben@billions.com
U.K. Booking: Claire Courtney - clairec@freetradeagency.co.uk
U.S. Press: Dana Meyerson - dana@biz3.net
U.K./E.U. Press: Ash Collins -ash@gluepress.co.uk

General Info

  • Genre: Chinese pop / Psychedelic / R&B

    Location CA + NY, Un

    Profile Views: 182821

    Last Login: 1/27/2012

    Member Since 9/13/2006

    Website NewVillager.com

    Record Label IAMSOUND

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    'It's about time some bands started sounding like they could be opening for Devo on their Freedom of Choice tour or Sparks supporting No. 1 in Heaven." - RCRDLBL ••• "Pop shamans taking meticulous steps towards a mysterious, musical nirvana" -NME, from "NewVillager - Through The Doors Of Perception" ••• "NewVillager is NewPop, Michael Jackson meets the Beatles. Here it comes." - Bob Berryman, Big Direction Music, April 2009 ••• "Listen to "Rich Doors" and feel the weight of a snowy world lift from your shoulders. Watch as your feet start to tap and your hips sway gently from side to side. Feel the love as a smile glides across your face. Wonder is this what they're spinning on daytime radio on Venus. Think about what tomorrow might sound like." - Jim Carroll, Irish Times ••• "Buried deep in the American memory hole is this thing called NewVillager that threatens to—if not watched, and studied, and cornered—collapse all that is around it in on itself. NewVillager is, as you no doubt know, a part of a tradition that begins with Villager. Continued to Villager 2. And VillagerVillager. And VillagersAgain. And now to NewVillager. The Villager tradition ingests itself periodically, in its way following the model created by the Puerto Rican pop group Menudo. In fact, the only major difference between the process by which Menudo evolves and the way a Villager iteration forms is the Villager commitment to what they refer to as Radical Parthenogenesis." — Matthew Simmons, The Daily Press, Escanaba Michigan, April 15, 1985, excerpted from the article, NewVillager Shakes Its Finger At Pop's Lucid Dream ••• "NewVillager, who recently played with Brooklyn dream-weavers High Places, can be forgiven a little bravado-- especially when it's sort of justified. "Rich Doors" starts with clanging Hot 97 percussion and shape-shifting electronics, then drags the whole thing through drifting, effects-soaked translucence. The bright earworm of a melody reminds of nothing so much as (sorry) "Truly Madly Deeply", but the production is, well, "rich" enough you can forget I ever said that." - Pitchfork ••• "There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began." - Daniel Levin Becker, L.H.O.O.Quarterly ••• "Excellent NewVillager." -Stereogum ••• "[Rich Doors] shifts enough to initially demand dancing from all of the ears it retains to leaving you standing still, trapped inside your own head with ambient melodies promoting that type of intellectual floating. The duo are on the upswing, releasing a 7" via Two Syllable and slowly turning the heads of all those who listen." - iguessimfloating.blogspot.com ••• "Ear-grabbing rumble"! - Time Out, New York ••• "Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini seem determined to fuck with the face of dance music. Rich Doors does just that, kicking off confidently with a stomping beat that leads you to believe things are about to get mental, but instead surprises you with the soft kiss of sweet, interweaving vocals and electronic atmospherics that combine to sound like a club hit beamed in from the dance floor of some distant planet. Not that I'm trying, but I can't seem to get this one out of my head." - myoldkyhome.blogspot.com ••• "NewVillager is a mythology. Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini, for their part, are exploring the mythology through songwriting, video, performance, language, sculpture, drawing, collage, and lifestyle. For the last few years they have been working in the forest, by the sea, and in the city to finish their debut album." - Black Crow Boy ••• "thumping"! "mantra"! "tribal"! "percussion"! "cascading"! "very, very"! "Bi-coastal duo"! "bang"! "brawny"! "pop"! You wish"! "fangs"! "sharper"! - Rolling Stone ••• The twin men of the earliest incarnation of the musical contritionists now know as New Villager (brothers, born in a wood room with blacklight) had been in strict negotiations with Pier Pasolini on the eve of his death (the 3 men shared candlelit breadloaves and St. Pauli Girls on the tab of the richest man in Vienna) in regards to the creation for a meta-verbal and aurally backmassaging soundtrack for the auteur's would-have-been next masterpiece, a 4D video experiment including recently destroyed footage of Klaus Kinski's breech birth and a Braille monologue by the grandson of Brian Eno. At Pasolini's passing, said soundtrack was said to have been buried in the moss marshes in a restricted region of Port St. John, Florida, guarded by two men who had previously been employed as doormen at the Lordmendum Pyramids in Bazul. In light of good fortune, and a multi-digit grant from the estate of a second generation relative of Mark Rothko, the New Villager soundtracks have most recently been extricated, retouched, and fed through light detectors for maxmial conductivity and gleam pleasure. Prolonged exposure to said soundtracks, methodically being leaked to you and yours via methods in which we can not hereof speak, is said to have, in lab chickens, and in children made of sun, stretch the earlobes into elevator cables, which, when strung up in the correct building, will lead the listener to a room where his new forehead, glands, and jeweled wristwatch waits." - Blake Butler, Liquid Parisian ••• "a surreal yet effortlessly appealing sound" - Boomkat ••• "NewVillager (should be said as one word, like "Terwilliger") is the musical project of Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini, two multi-instrumentalists who remain friends. Goalball is a game designed for the blind, kind of like handball. A lot of good bands came out of the goalball scene back in '83, '85— the Sweetie Motions, the Sans Larrys—and NewVillager listened to all of them, mostly in Ross's car, a Karmann Ghia he bought from Ben's mom, against the wishes of Ben's dad. They formed the band to carry that torch forward, and started out playing low-level Goalball tournaments, rigged games in bad neighborhoods, but Goalball is supposed to be played in total silence, because the ball has bells on it. They should have known; it was a tough time for the two of them, tougher than most. The thing is, they listened, they soaked it up, the sound of that ball and its bells, and then they went into the woods and wrote a record. Everything matters, is the point, even when you're in the woods and your name implies isolated tribesmen. It's like George Steiner says: 'Explorers' postulates about totally isolated tribes, about corners of tropical forest or mountain innocent of any contact with the outside are largely spurious. Good shivery stuff for the glossy magazines. How word sped across the barbed lines of mutually incomprehensible tongues, how iron utensils from the distant fringe stations came to be found in the inmost of the Mato Grosso, was something of a riddle. But the facts were certain. News could tear like invisible fire through thicket and across cataracts. You had only to listen and it came humming back.'" -Jordan Bass, Philadelphia Herald-Times, Sept 25th 2008 ••• "A weird contraption made of stitched together colorful cloths draped on poles....The songs jog the collective pop memory while adding an element of surprise and fascination." - The Deli ••• "Take the intensity of a severe marijuana-induced panic attack. Now sap it of all anxiety: only a supercharged, translucent husk remains. Meet the New Villager: Seal, the performer, blissed- out and fetally coiled in the trunk of a black 1992 Audi sedan. NewVillager are only the most prominent members in a slew of new bands in the loosely affiliated "Diet Shaman" movement. A self-described "rag-tag crew," Spielberg won't touch them. NewVillager's music creates a hot, moist aura that actually reduces the appetite and tends to increase physical activity. Sexual intercourse and modern dance become indistinguishable. Would you like a falafel sandwich as tall as a mangrove, filled with curried, salted plant stamens? The sandwich shakes with frequencies that bake in the mozzarella, turning the cheese a deep golden brown."-Andrew Leland, Chief Film Critic, The Uncle- Valley Herald, October 6th, 2008 ••• "Je n'ai jamais fait l'amour doux que l'exubérant avec des sons de New Villager qui coule à travers le haut-fi." - Scheherezade Blum, editor, New Seine Review, Sept 27th 2008......

  • Members

    Ben Bromley, Ross Simonini, Collin Palmer, Ben Dickinson, Adam Newport-Berra, Eric Lister, Judge Dylan, Sonya Genel, Katie Bachner, Brian Villanueva-Mendez

  • Influences

    yin, yang, and the elusive yong

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