Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The History Revisionist

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for the support of your ears, hearts, and minds over the years and to say that the band will be making some notable changes in the months to come. In September, we will be relocating to the west and going into a hiatus of sorts until further notice.

Meanwhile...

We have decided to record one last record at the old Station Studios (where we've recorded the last three) before we move on to bigger things. Released for free on our website Virb.com/Viviancircle in early June of 2008,

we give to you....

" The History Revisionist"

Singing for Hercules
Atom Accelerator
Witness for the State
The Box I keep you in.
Pitchfork
Luster
Transponder (Southampton Mix)
Five weighs two
July 8th 1947
Re-enactment
Figure 9a
Milford
Afternoons at Balcony House

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"A real treat!... interspersed with intersecting soundscapes of white noise and garbled conversations, mixed with lo-fi jangled guitars, and it sounds to me like the beginning of a new kind of a summer pop record. "

-Miriam Albion for Islands Arts & Culture Magazine

-"Like a collection of Rares and B-sides, the band has dug deep from the hits and misses and even designed some new songs around this idea of a clean summer place..Mining their emotional past to come forward with a mature and sublime "summer record".

-Tracy Jergins Fresno Bee

-"Vivian Circle continue to corner the market on tiny songs. Coming in at just under 15 minutes, "The History Revisionist", is a quick poke in the ear of lush sounding pop music mixed with incoherent news casts and whispered vocals. It examines what we get when we get to the end of a pop song that is barely there. Letting nothing linger on the pallet past the 3 minute mark, the band keep a tight reign on the songs lengths. We are left at the end of some of these brief vignettes of beautiful sounds with the yearning to play them again. Pop perfection..."

-Grant Russell East Village Music and Arts

"Inspired by the theories and writings of Walter Benjamin and the avante-garde artist William S. Burroughs, "Revisionist" takes place as an art installation, in-between in your ears. Fragments of music come in and out of the speakers, grabbing your attention and then quickly fleeting, begging for you to seek them out again and again."

-Shelly Silverberg of The Indy Micro-Music Source

Available free at Virb.com/viviancircle until the end of the summer. Get it while you can.

Thank you and have a great summer.
-Barney Flowers