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FELL
Fell first came to the world as a series of four-track tapes recorded by Josh Wambeke, half of the Denver space rock outfit Phineas Gage. The experimental demos, heavy on electronics and drum machines, marked the beginning of Wambeke's drift away from the psychedelic pop of Phineas Gage. In early 2001 Wambeke set out to create a full length LP, written and recorded with Michael Dewey on bass and guitar and Josh Cedillo on drums. After almost 2 years of sessions, the first album was completed in 2003, and in early 2006 it was eventually released by Australia's Camera Obscura Records. With its swirling textures and dismal mood, the album was well liked and met modest critical acclaim, but fell short of Wambeke's aspirations.
In late 2006, bassist Bryan Romero joined the band, and Fell played a handful of successful live shows. After parting ways with their drummer, Wambeke and Romero set out to finish an album Wambeke had been quietly working on since late 2004. During this period Fell began playing various shows locally with different drummers, including Wambeke's comrade in Phineas Gage, the ever prolific Patrick Porter. Eventually, after months of cycling through band members, Fell was reunited with Michael Dewey, this time with cello in his repertoire, as well as being joined by local drummer E. J. Ulery, and longtime friend and collaborator Bryan Lee on guitar and keys. In late 2007 Fell completed the recordings for their follow up album, Incoherent Lullabies. The album was originally scheduled for a late 2008 release on Camera Obscura, but the unfortunate illness of label founder Tony Dale has delayed the album for the foreseeable future.
In the mean time, Wambeke and Romero have recorded a follow-up record titled A Farewell To Echoes, which the band has decided to release independently. While not entirely abandoning the swirling guitars and walls of post-rock noise hinted at in Incoherent Lullabies and fully present in their live shows, Wambeke wanted with A Farewell to Echoes to return to the quiet introspection of Fell's first album, bringing a bit of maturity to the space rock sound that informed his musical adolescence.
Currently the band is in the studio writing and recording as a single unit with plans of both a vinyl ep and another full length release for 2010.
PHINEAS GAGE
Met on Madge’s school bus, dirt road Bailey Colorado back when with metal bands’ acronyms Sharpee’d on their knuckles. Rode cheapo BMX bikes to Pablo Honey walkmans and smashed bottles on Hangman’s for cowboy trucks to flatten. Met again in white trash community college in the flatlands coming up the escalator. Much anticipation and Porter smashed his amplifier. First sessions in Frisk’s classic rock basement with the les paul clock and broken pool table our boys struggle earnestly making shoegaze hoola-hoops on wobbly ADAT glorified VCRS and no (absolutely no) $$$. First EP reverb and stars and staring down at 1-225 heart to heart and teenaged girl trouble talks. Cam Obscura wins international bidding war and inaugurates many fights over Hairgel and cornpone reverie rock stardom that never happened. First LP ‘Reconsidered’ recorded and released after many chalk-blank millenniums. More brawls over Hairgel and the band tentatively divorces (who needs YOU?!?!?) around LP release time and Lindsey’s red trees for nil but sporadic, weird fan mail from Akron OH and infinitesimal niche in underest underground bubbles. Long dark night of the soul ping-pong between each other and pointed not. Wam simmers in Zita’s basement and Porter splatters the big apple to similar upshot. Back together like old lovers needling the quilt and Porter smashes another amp and throws his guitar in the street and cries. Unreleased EP ‘Winchester Mansions’ Hockenberry radio Hairgel for later box-set retrospective release and snicker. More years. Everyone gets old and mellower. Wambeke always pays for Porter’s hamburgers. New album for what the hell and for Christ’s sake and posterity it seeps easy like golden honey out of a bear’s head. Love for life and Wam BBQs a mean bratwurst out on the front porch. New LP ‘Spilt Milk’ recorded over the course of 2007 to the sound of new/old Lakewood stars and unexpected tranquility. A weird, jagged circle closes and opens again very elegantly into butterscotch highway lights. It is the sound of two people whose lives are wound together in plaid forever for whatever reason. It may not mean much to you but it means the world to them because it’s the world they live in every day. Selah oldest Selah. OK. That’s all.
BRYAN CHRISTOPHER LEE
Singer/songwriter Bryan Lee grew up surrounded by music in the mountain churches of central Colorado. Nestled between the high-country communities of Bailey and Conifer, Lee began his own musical aspirations trying to imitate Garth Brooks in art class in elementary school. He was shunned by many, but was steadfast in his aspirations. At fifteen he left country music behind or country music left him behind, depending on which day you ask him. When he was in high school he just wanted to play rock and roll, but there was only one band in his cow town and he wasn't in it. Now he is busy developing his own unique blend of provoking lyrics and indie melodies, influenced by local and national artists alike.
While Lee's influences are present in his music, he exudes his own personal style of individuality and lyrical wisdom in a combination that captures attention and provokes thought. When asked about his own music, Lee admits that he hasnt tried to classify it in the traditional sense. "Im not very good at describing it," he says. "Its a part of me, necessary to live a life that doesnt consist of raisin bran and light beer." Artist manager, Aaron Doenges, says of Lee, "His music is of a genre that is powerful and simple, uncluttered, full and pure." More recently Bryan has said of his music, "I guess its kinda folky."
Lee eventually moved back to Bailey often perplexed at how he ended up back in this one horse town, he likes to think of it as a growing experience. Currently Lee is residing in the big city of Denver where he is busy getting married, recording, and endless other tasks.
Fell first came to the world as a series of four-track tapes recorded by Josh Wambeke, half of the Denver space rock outfit Phineas Gage. The experimental demos, heavy on electronics and drum machines, marked the beginning of Wambeke's drift away from the psychedelic pop of Phineas Gage. In early 2001 Wambeke set out to create a full length LP, written and recorded with Michael Dewey on bass and guitar and Josh Cedillo on drums. After almost 2 years of sessions, the first album was completed in 2003, and in early 2006 it was eventually released by Australia's Camera Obscura Records. With its swirling textures and dismal mood, the album was well liked and met modest critical acclaim, but fell short of Wambeke's aspirations.
In late 2006, bassist Bryan Romero joined the band, and Fell played a handful of successful live shows. After parting ways with their drummer, Wambeke and Romero set out to finish an album Wambeke had been quietly working on since late 2004. During this period Fell began playing various shows locally with different drummers, including Wambeke's comrade in Phineas Gage, the ever prolific Patrick Porter. Eventually, after months of cycling through band members, Fell was reunited with Michael Dewey, this time with cello in his repertoire, as well as being joined by local drummer E. J. Ulery, and longtime friend and collaborator Bryan Lee on guitar and keys. In late 2007 Fell completed the recordings for their follow up album, Incoherent Lullabies. The album was originally scheduled for a late 2008 release on Camera Obscura, but the unfortunate illness of label founder Tony Dale has delayed the album for the foreseeable future.
In the mean time, Wambeke and Romero have recorded a follow-up record titled A Farewell To Echoes, which the band has decided to release independently. While not entirely abandoning the swirling guitars and walls of post-rock noise hinted at in Incoherent Lullabies and fully present in their live shows, Wambeke wanted with A Farewell to Echoes to return to the quiet introspection of Fell's first album, bringing a bit of maturity to the space rock sound that informed his musical adolescence.
Currently the band is in the studio writing and recording as a single unit with plans of both a vinyl ep and another full length release for 2010.
PHINEAS GAGE
Met on Madge’s school bus, dirt road Bailey Colorado back when with metal bands’ acronyms Sharpee’d on their knuckles. Rode cheapo BMX bikes to Pablo Honey walkmans and smashed bottles on Hangman’s for cowboy trucks to flatten. Met again in white trash community college in the flatlands coming up the escalator. Much anticipation and Porter smashed his amplifier. First sessions in Frisk’s classic rock basement with the les paul clock and broken pool table our boys struggle earnestly making shoegaze hoola-hoops on wobbly ADAT glorified VCRS and no (absolutely no) $$$. First EP reverb and stars and staring down at 1-225 heart to heart and teenaged girl trouble talks. Cam Obscura wins international bidding war and inaugurates many fights over Hairgel and cornpone reverie rock stardom that never happened. First LP ‘Reconsidered’ recorded and released after many chalk-blank millenniums. More brawls over Hairgel and the band tentatively divorces (who needs YOU?!?!?) around LP release time and Lindsey’s red trees for nil but sporadic, weird fan mail from Akron OH and infinitesimal niche in underest underground bubbles. Long dark night of the soul ping-pong between each other and pointed not. Wam simmers in Zita’s basement and Porter splatters the big apple to similar upshot. Back together like old lovers needling the quilt and Porter smashes another amp and throws his guitar in the street and cries. Unreleased EP ‘Winchester Mansions’ Hockenberry radio Hairgel for later box-set retrospective release and snicker. More years. Everyone gets old and mellower. Wambeke always pays for Porter’s hamburgers. New album for what the hell and for Christ’s sake and posterity it seeps easy like golden honey out of a bear’s head. Love for life and Wam BBQs a mean bratwurst out on the front porch. New LP ‘Spilt Milk’ recorded over the course of 2007 to the sound of new/old Lakewood stars and unexpected tranquility. A weird, jagged circle closes and opens again very elegantly into butterscotch highway lights. It is the sound of two people whose lives are wound together in plaid forever for whatever reason. It may not mean much to you but it means the world to them because it’s the world they live in every day. Selah oldest Selah. OK. That’s all.
BRYAN CHRISTOPHER LEE
Singer/songwriter Bryan Lee grew up surrounded by music in the mountain churches of central Colorado. Nestled between the high-country communities of Bailey and Conifer, Lee began his own musical aspirations trying to imitate Garth Brooks in art class in elementary school. He was shunned by many, but was steadfast in his aspirations. At fifteen he left country music behind or country music left him behind, depending on which day you ask him. When he was in high school he just wanted to play rock and roll, but there was only one band in his cow town and he wasn't in it. Now he is busy developing his own unique blend of provoking lyrics and indie melodies, influenced by local and national artists alike.
While Lee's influences are present in his music, he exudes his own personal style of individuality and lyrical wisdom in a combination that captures attention and provokes thought. When asked about his own music, Lee admits that he hasnt tried to classify it in the traditional sense. "Im not very good at describing it," he says. "Its a part of me, necessary to live a life that doesnt consist of raisin bran and light beer." Artist manager, Aaron Doenges, says of Lee, "His music is of a genre that is powerful and simple, uncluttered, full and pure." More recently Bryan has said of his music, "I guess its kinda folky."
Lee eventually moved back to Bailey often perplexed at how he ended up back in this one horse town, he likes to think of it as a growing experience. Currently Lee is residing in the big city of Denver where he is busy getting married, recording, and endless other tasks.