We just released the soundtrack for Trevin Matcek's short film "Life Begins At Rewirement," which debuted this spring at the Tribeca
Film Festival (Trevin Matcek is seen at left taking questions
after the premiere). See the trailer for the
film here.
Matcek's "Life Begins At Rewirement" takes place in a near and familiar, yet tilted, future. It
follows Simon Ender as he wrestles with the decision to put his centurion mother into a futuristic elder care facility where tenants upload their
consciousness into hard drives to achieve eternal life.
The film is now available online
here.
Meanwhile, see the trailer here.
The 10-track album was composed and
performed by Keith Ruggiero, aka Soviet, and has been described by Trevin as "the heartbeat" of the film. Striking "hot and cold balance by mixing analog and digital."
Says Matcek, "The result is synthetic, but never artificial. It's warm and earnest, with a layer of loneliness just below the surface.
Keith summed up the feeling it creates with a single word: chills."
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The video for the debut single from
Austin's Your Mouth And Eyes is below:
On Friday, May 4, Elysian Fields will make their first West Coast appearance in 5 years (maybe 6!) in Los Angeles at
The Mint. Click the poster below for details.
This week, Ojet will release the soundtrack for Trevin Matcek's short film "Life Begins At Rewirement," which debuted this past Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival (Trevin Matcek is seen at left taking questions
after the premiere). See the trailer for the film here.
The score was composed and
performed by Keith Ruggiero, aka Soviet, and the film will appear at next week's Tribeca Film Festival in New York. You can
RSVP to attend that free screening here.
The 10-track album has been described by Trevin as "the heartbeat" of the film. Striking "hot and cold balance by mixing analog and digital."
Says Matcek, "The result is synthetic, but never artificial. It's warm and earnest, with a layer of loneliness just below the surface.
Keith summed up the feeling it creates with a single word: chills."
On Friday, May 4, Elysian Fields will make their first West Coast appearance in 5 years (maybe 6!) in Los Angeles at
The Mint. Click the poster at right for details.
The video for the debut single from
Austin's Your Mouth And Eyes is below:
"Farm The Moon" is the first digital single Ojet has ever released, and
marks Matcek’s return to a label that itself was on hiatus for almost ten years before our releases by Bull Thieves and Elysian Fields last year.
The video is directed by Thane’s brother Trevin Matcek, who has directed for The Postal Service ("The District Sleeps Tonight”),
and whose short film Life Begins At Rewirement will debut on PBS this spring.
Elysian Fields will leave on another European tour this March, with dates in Switzerland, Portugal and their adopted homeland of France. To kick it off,
they'll be appearing at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on February 24. Full tour schedule here.
There will be a new full-length by The White Papers this Spring, the first since the 2000 self-titled EP we released as OJET-008. This one is
called Bonfire On West Beach. Lots more info on that as we get it.
We have a few other things on the burner that we don't want to jinx. To keep up with us:
Meanwhile, see "Red Riding Hood," the first video from the new Elysian Fields album Last Night On Earth, above.
During their recent trip to France, Elysian Fields made two live radio appearances
on France Inter: first on fou du roi, and then later that night
they did a Black Session.
EF were also on French television the week prior to all of that. Oren was getting down on the piano in a white hat and
Jennifer wore a raincoat. Chris Votolaro and Sarah Murcia accompany in a guitarless arrangement of "Church Of The Holy Family" from the new disc.
Can't miss it; see it here.
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Elysian Fields
Last Night On Earth CD (OJET-015)
The veterans this time take off in new directions musically while at the same time releasing the
record in new directions geographically. Last Night On Earth is the first record released in the U.S. by Elysian Fields in over
10 years. The material on this one, a heady throwback to the classic rock records to which the duo grew up listening, is reason enough
to make it available in the States. 6-page digipak includes all of the lyrics, liner notes and full conceptual artwork, with a band photo by Peter Beste.
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Tour dates here | See their full bio here
The new DC Shoes commerical for their Initials campaign features an instrumental version of "House of Atmospheres" by
Bull Thieves, and bonus clips of
Josh Kalis, Nick Dompierre, Matt Miller, Chris Cole and Evan Smith from each of their own Initials commercials.
Watch it here.
More ink on the
Bull Thieves here.
There will be a new record
from The White Papers this summer. The follow-up to the EP we released
in late 2000, this will be a full-length entitled Bonfire On West Beach. We'll also have a single from Dope E of The Terrorists as well as one from All Transistor/Sad Like Crazy stalwart Thane
Matcek and his new project Your Mouth and Eyes.
Our first release in the better
part of a decade is the full-length debut by NYC's Bull Thieves:
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Bull Thieves
Bull Thieves
1. Sons Of The Morning Town (3:03)
2. The Auld Haunts (5:35)
3. Summer Clothes For Anne Marie (4:07)
4. The Quiet (3:56)
5. On Laza's Tab (7:13)
6. Slippin On The Dry Spots (2:31)
7. Nervous (3:57)
8. House Of Atmospheres (4:19)
9. Across The Ice (5:06)
10. My Sheep Still Sleeps In Your Meadow (5:10)
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Available as a digital download here:
To purchase via iTunes click here
(iTunes version comes with a full-color digital booklet)
Bandcamp shoppers can purchase here (also includes digital booklet).
Amazon shoppers can find the album here (no booklet).
Bull Thieves are also on Last.FM, as are The White Papers.
Along with the above, we will continue with
the process of dusting off our releases from their places among our archives and making them available
in digital form. Full album and EP releases will include a full digital booklet with new layouts and more information
than was in the original releases. Currently only iTunes and Bandcamp
offer this, but we expect that to change, and we'll soon make the booklets available for download here.
So far we have released Port Vale's 1999 Western Winds EP and The White Papers self-titled
EP, but we're working on the rest. Check it out in the
store, and look for more releases appearing in the future. No guarantee the
entire catalog will be available, but the winds are blowing us in that general direction.
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