You are the carrion. It's okay, it was a long time coming.
For the better part of the past decade, the members of Old World Vulture have lugged their ageing bones from venue to venue. They’ve slugged the frayed equipment of countless bands from stage to stage. Just never together in their current form.
Friends before they were ever band mates, Devin Hughes (synthesizers), Jamie Hunter (drums), Mike Costanzo (guitar, samples) and Anthony Perri (bass) decided they'd spent more than enough time waiting for the right opportunity. A meeting of minds and musical notes took place in the twilight of 2008. Old World Vulture was born.
Through a purely instrumental approach, the band weaves elements of rock, surf, psychedelia and electronica into a pulsing swirl of melodic sound; a sweeping shadow gently raking a crusty desert floor. It’s a mixed bag but unified, abrasive yet alluring.
Over the span of two months in the summer of 2009, the band recorded its self-titled EP in Toronto at Audiolab Recording Company with Chris Hegge (Career Suicide, Fucked Up, The Meligrove Band). The release opens with “Benny”; its gentle, rhythmic keyboard pulses and distant house beat soon hijacked as the band kicks in, introducing a heavier sound and a relentless intensity that foreshadows much of what is to come. “How the West Was Lost” follows with a pummelling bass line, taking charge and leading the ears on a sonic and cinematic road trip. Rounding things out is “Bastard Engine” and the persistent, repetitive drone that aptly reflects the song’s title – melodic, metallic and triumphant.
The band feels most comfortable within the confines of the stage, where their live set has been described as “a sonic landscape that hovers through a fusion of primordial noise and plaintive beauty, flowing into a swirl of electronics and bass throb” (www.lonelyvagabond.com).
There’s a certain gracefulness to the music of Old World Vulture, much like the soaring patterns of the large birds with which the band shares its name. But beneath the surface lies an angry, festering rumble, waiting to explode and swoop down upon the ears of the unsuspecting listener.
We are the seasoned; we are the scavengers.
Carry on…
– September 2009
For booking and other inquiries email: OLDWORLDVULTUREBAND@GMAIL.COM
thanks for being our friend, we really appreciate the support and so do the animals around the world! if you're interested we also have an official website at, www.ourvoicesforanimals.org
as of fall 2009, emma t and dana b will no longer be with us :( it's sad, but emma b and i will be looking for some new band mates. our band will be temporarily on hold probably until early 2010. we're moving to toronto, and need to get settled in before we get right onto the music thing/finding new ppls.
best of luck to you guys, and your music. please, keep in touch :D
i'm totally into instrumental music and we actually used to be totally instrumental... sometimes i wish we still were. you guys are excellent, and i would LOVE to see u guys in toronto some time. amazing musicianship. enough said.
Thanks for adding us! Two tracks from our upcoming EP ***BIG DUMB ROCK SONGS*** have just been posted on our page. Plus, please check our videos for silly things like ripping off the bass player's tutu...
That was a great set at Rancho Relaxo. Damning evidence that The Mothership has landed. Striking a balance between prog, spacey post-rock, and heavy doses of guitar into a rhythmically intoxicating tour-de-force. A sonic landscape that hovers through a fusion of primordial noise and plaintive beauty, flowing into a swirl of electronics and bass throb that explores the outer limits of interstellar overdrive. Ready for liftoff.
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