Photo of summer-winter

summer-winter

summer-winter Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Americana / Down-tempo / Folk Rock

    Location Pittsburgh, Un

    Profile Views: 16569

    Last Login: 8/31/2011

    Member Since 9/2/2007

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vc3VtbWVyLXdpbnRlci5iYW5kY2FtcC5jb20vcmVsZWFzZXM=

    Record Label http://summer-winter.bandcamp.com/releases

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    HERE IS OUR WEBSITE: http://summer-winter.bandcamp.com/releases WE DON'T USE MYSPACE ANYMORE! THANKS! Orphaned in Northern Ireland at a young age, Terry O'Hara was sent to a distant aunt's residence on the outskirts of Galway Town. Though she was an alcoholic and floozy, she loved music and went through musicians like the whiskey. She often had musician boyfriends to the ramshackle house, and O'Hara would come in from the fields to try his hand at all sorts of instruments. After the death of his aunt, and following a series of low-paying, arduous jobs full of back-breaking consciousness, O'Hara found himself in Pittsburgh, yet he was aloof from the tight-knit music scene, talented and dominated by indie pop music. Nationwide, men and women with beards and high end flannel shirts took up guitars and glockenspiels and sang epic harmonies involving epiphanies, redemption, and triumph. Bands sprouted up with animal names like Bear and Deer. Pop music responded to and reflected an inevitable cultural shift towards alienation and superfluity with catchy choruses and vacuous smiles. Meanwhile, O'Hara, ever engrossed in banalities, was victimized in a brutal mugging while collaborating with unknown street artists in Baltimore, and given less than a month to live by ER physicians--it was inaccurately reported in the local paper that he had died. His convalescence was spent reading Sherwood Anderson, disabling televisions, shaking anxiety, and experimenting with minor chord folk songs. Struck dumb by the falsities in his life, like the recording of music versus simply playing guitar under a telephone pole, and feeling death was tracking him down, O'Hara, hyper-aware of the cliche, rented a dilapidated shack in northern, rural Pennsylvania to escape the tedium of everyday existence and play music most of the time, except to do menial jobs for his curious, rustic, and salt of the earth neighbors. This was one of the few times O'Hara felt embraced by life as he was drawn into the interior of the seasons and of words and music. Locals would stop by unannounced, often at strange hours, to catch a glimpse of this unkempt recluse who seemed absorbed in vague dreams. The second album from Summer-Winter, Bewildered, was feverishly written in a week during dreamlike spells of insomnia. See http://summer-winter.bandcamp.com for all songs from both albums. Booking: nordpgh@hotmail.com

  • Members

    Terry O'Hara: keyboards, organs, piano, guitar, vox, harmonica, banjo, mellotron. Several Pittsburgh and New York City musicians contributed to the effort, including Ian Peksa, Chris Belin, Ian Toole, Megan Williams, Matt Booth, Steven Miller, Peter Freeman, Matt Sutton, Kiki Neuroto, Ben Hartenstein, and Gerry O'Hare. Recorded mostly at Mr. Smalls Studios (as well as at IT and KS Studios in Pittsburgh). Mixed and Mastered by Larry Luther.

  • Influences

    self-deception

  • Sounds Like

    PRESS for ALONE IS YES: "...Summer-Winter...have fashioned a record of mesmerizing depth, beauty and articulation." - Americana UK**** "Alone Is Yes floats through ten lovely folk songs that sound like they were recorded in a spaceship..." - NPR****** "...Alone is Yes is more than a good folk record, it's a devastating one...Terry O'Hara has brought together a small symphony of collaborators to create an elegiac, beautiful, singular sound." - Speed of Pittsburgh Sound**** "...the gorgeous debut album from the Pittsburgh project Summer-Winter is indeed suited for solitude, coming on like a narcotic..." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette******** "The album has a soothing, spacey sound, similar to a sedated Radiohead...disjointed melodies laden with loaded pauses lull the listener into a calm, yet melancholy, stupor." - The Globe**** "...any sweetness is tripped up by the mellow nature of the songs, which manage to be absorbing and beautiful..." - Easy Music for Difficult Ears***** This is for fans of the shoegaze genre (Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine). The CD is full of slow, sombre songs with delicate instrumentation. - WYEP**** Terry's music is wonderfully, wonderfully mellow...It's well composed and well played. It's smooth and yet complex, all at the same time. The lyrics are compelling and pull you closer in. - Radio Free David****

Login

Forgot password?

Need an account? Sign up