Smashing Pumpkins, Do Make Say Think, Stereolab, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Dirty Three, Rachel's, Built to Spill, Apples in Stereo, My Bloody Valentine, Manitoba/Caribou, Flaming Lips, Fly Pan Am, Prefuse 73, Four Tet, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Pavement, Polvo, Tortoise, Landing, Mars Accelerator, Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album, Beatles Magic Mystery Tour album, and old lo-fi tapes from the pre-CDR underground.
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A thick, dreamy, emotional rock sound created by 7 ampliers + drums
Terrene started as the solo project of John
Dylan. Recording, distributing, and performing everything himself,
Dylan built a small empire around his unique style of music. Keeping
expectations at bay, Terrene's music can be as tetra-aural
and cacophonous as Sonic Youth, as ethereal and haunting as
Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and as folksy and
pop-savvy as Sufjan Stevens and Built to Spill.
While working as a solo artist in the
late nineties, Spin magazine
dubbed Dylan's "Fifty-One" to be the "Cool Track of
the Day" due to the widespread internet distribution of the song.
Canadian production company, Propaganda Culture, then
commissioned Dylan to create the theme song for their self-titled TV
Show and also contribute a track to the soundtrack for their film,
Parasidium, shooting a tie-in video (which Dylan directed). Fans
launched a fan site cataloging all the songs and interviews Dylan gave
while a college radio program did a 30-minute documentary on his
do-it-all-yourself project.
Overwhelmed at having accomplished so
much by doing relatively little -- and all by himself -- Dylan
formed Terrene in 2003 to pursue his music more seriously. That
December, Terrene completed a 4-song demo with longtime friend
Bobby Nath of noted Seattle band Mars Accelerator, whose
production credentials include Kinski (Sub Pop),
Transitional (Pehr), Welcome (RXRemedy), and Mars themselves.
The demo landed pieces on
Terrene in the magazines Magnaphone ( Philadelphia), The
Stranger (Seattle), The Tablet (Seattle), and UW Daily
(Seattle). It also secured shows for Terrene at all of
Seattle's major venues, as well as opening spots for Of
Montreal. Gaining steam, they were awarded a full-length
broadcast of a Terrene set with the the purveyor of talent,
KEXP.
In 2004, wanting to record a full
length, Terrene sent the demo to producer Phil Ek (Built To
Spill, The Shins, Modest Mouse). Blown away, Ek came
on board to record Terrene's first album titled The
Indifferent Universe. Initially recorded at Jupiter and AVAST!
Studios with Ek at the helm, Dylan continued expanding and refining the
sounds on the record -- a process that took over two years to
complete. Resulting in a 42-minute mini-epic, the record captures
Terrene's stormy instrumentation as a huge wall of
overdubs.
Slated for a July 2007 release on Wax
Orchard, The Indifferent Universe, will be released as a
dual-disc featuring a full-length live performance and a documentary
featurette. Several videos are in production, with directors including
famed avant-garde flash animator Mumbleboy, and feature directors, The
Nee Brothers.
A North American tour is scheduled for
the fall where Terrene and their laptop (which produces six different
amp feeds) will deliver the atmospheric sound live as an immersive,
sense-o-round experience.
Good to know the album's out at last! The pre release CDs been a regular play since we met you on our tour.
Long shot, I know, but just in case you're in London next week:
To mark the tenth anniversary of the release of Arco's debut e.p. Longsighted, we're playing a gig in London! This is the only Arco performance on UK soil since October 2004. As our next UK gig will, therefore, quite probably be in 2011, I would suggest it might be worth popping along.
Here are the details:
on Mon 18th August arco play the electroacoustic club @ The Slaughtered Lamb 34-35 Great Sutton St London EC1V 0DX (Farringdon / Barbican / Old Street tube - directions) Doors 8pm, on stage probably around 9-9:15pm £6 door, £5 advance.
ARCO began making music in 1998, releasing the "longsighted" and "ending up" eps on dreamy records in the uk. then came the "coming to terms" album in 2000 (also on pehr (us) and pastel in korea), the "transparency" compilation (2002) on pehr, and the "restraint" album (2004). in 2005 they played a short tour of the us west coast, and they are recording again in 2007.
"mesmeric - the aural equivalent of a human being pausing for thought as the world speeds on around." [Q MAGAZINE]... "...
Can I just say that I can't stop listening to you guys? Have it on my ipod, Blackberry and the Sidekick just because I change my phone day by day but besides the point... You guys effin rock!
Hey Terrene, we dig your sound! low-fi from Boise, ID. will be in Seattle playing two shows next Saturday April 19th! Silver Platters in Queen Anne @ 7pm and a bar called 'Solo' @ 200 Roy St, show starts @ 8:30pm! Hope you can make it! :)
Please come to CMJ in NYC so I can see you play live. And please also send me a copy of a CD so I can spin it and introduce the world to you. Thanks, Sharon
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