Gena Rowlands Band
Indie / Experimental / Soul
Los Angeles and Washington and Mars
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About
THE GENA ROWLANDS BAND plays songs about b-movie starlets, x-movie starlets, waitresses, people born in the wrong skin, blonde strangers, barstool wisdom, bad parties, hope in the face of long odds, and the Man in Black looking back at the love of his life.
“These songs are barstool ruminations about women, wine and faith,” says Bob Massey. “Because all three can be sources of mystery or revelation. And they’re all intoxicating, in their own ways.”
“It's tragic, hilarious, brilliant writing,” says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of The Gena Rowlands Band. “A stunner,” says Miami New Times. “Every song is great,” according to The Houston Press.
Flesh and Spirits is The Gena Rowlands Band’s third full-length recording for Lujo Records. It’s is the band’s most focused, cohesive, and catchy work yet.
To create his finest album yet, GRB ringleader Bob Massey assembled a virtuosic band of Washington, DC’s most acclaimed musicians. GRB regulars Jean Cook (who also plays with Beauty Pill, Ida, and Jon Langford) and David Durst (Maritime, Fast Eddie) were joined by Vin Novara (formerly of CrownHateRuin, Oswego and Canyon) as well as Jason Caddell and Eric Axelson (formerly of The Dismemberment Plan).
The result is eleven instantly memorable songs built on Massey’s trademark lyrical formula that combines dry wit, darkness, and glimmers of love and light. If the band’s debut (La Merde et Les Etoiles) was the soundtrack for a night of heartache, Flesh and Spirits is the jolt to get you out of bed in the morning.
Flesh and Spirits was recorded and produced by Chad Clark of Beauty Pill (Dischord) and TJ Lipple of Aloha (Polyvinyl) of Silver Sonya, in Washington DC’s legendary Inner Ear studios.
The GRB has toured with Andrew Bird, Enon, The Dismemberment Plan and others. In March 2007 the band will make their third appearance at SXSW in Austin, TX, as part of a tour of the southwestern U.S. A tour of the entire U.S. will follow in May 2007.
The Gena Rowlands Band are graduates of the Washington D.C post-punk community. But what you hear is utterly unexpected. Strings stolen from a b&w movie score or New York's experimental scene. The skitter of jazz brushes. A voice that draws more power from a whisper, a wry lyric, or a soulful falsetto than a scream.
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Jun 29, 2008
Strange Times
Funny how time moves. You can walk into a movie theater and come out having experienced a lifetime. You can lose nine months and it seems like a week. The headphones are on the head but no music is playing. It's kind of nice. Blocks out the helicopters, the car alarms, …
Sep 25, 2007
Circle
I used to hate the band that sang this:I quit.I give up.Nothing's good enough for anybody else, it seems.And I quit.I give up.Nothing's good enough for anybody else, it seems.And being alone's the best way to beWhen I'm by myself it's the best way to beWhen I'm all …
Jun 25, 2007
The 2007 Summer Jam?
It's summer!Where I come from back in The Nation's Swamp the advent of summer always meant one thing: We must determine the identity of The Summer Jam.Generally, The Summer Jam identifies its own self. Because it's blasting out of every other car window, dorm window, …
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Green, Apr 14, 2008:
Althea is a cool song. Keep up the good tunes!
Gagosian Liga, Mar 27, 2008:
"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov)
Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany!
Feel free to download my music!
Andy Zipf, Nov 16, 2007:
How was/is India?
Ifch, Apr 16, 2007:
i love your music! :D