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The NONVIOLENCE Rockethub campaign has recently been launched to raise funds and it’s a great opportunity to get involved in a multi-media project led by this innovative artist. The campaign will help raise the necessary funds to manufacture and merchandise the record. It’s the debut album for NONVIOLENCE, as well as the launch of new indie label Hummingbird Ink.
Upcoming Shows
Thursday September 9th – Lit Lounge, 8PM [NONVIOLENCE performs as part of a Fat Possum Records showcase]
Tuesday October 19th – National Underground, 11PM [A ''CMJ Kickoff" show]
The History of NONVIOLENCE
The ‘NONVIOLENCE’ project has been falling together quite rapidly. It’s been a speedy, though beautiful, gorgeous, serendipitous progression. In short, for the past couple of years I’d been jumping around town working as an assistant to film shoots and recording sessions. It wasn’t until last fall that I’d taken out an acoustic, grown confident in a few complete songs, and for the first time, performed live.
Those first performances, September & October of ’09, took place within the Local Correspondents community. I was howling one of my songs on a friends rooftop, when they mentioned that I should check out the Bar4 scene. From there, it was people like Greg Tuohey (Lowry) that heard the little bits of nervous, singing before people for the first time antics, and demanded that I set off to capture something tangible on tape.
That is exactly what I did, in December, in only 11 days, with the help of friend Marc Goodman (http://strangeweatherbrooklyn.com). Holed up in his studio, we tracked and mixed the entire 11 song debut. Marc ran the knobs and helmed the console, while I jumped from instrument to instrument, quickly constructing what I’d been composing consciously and subconsciously, asleep and awake, for the better part of the past 2 years. It sort of just happened…
Under the name NONVIOLENCE, it’s a very serious, lifestyle sort of thing… I truly believe that these songs are important. These songs are posing questions, and attempting to ‘get under the skin’ – jabbing at the inner and outer realities of this transitional, universally spitfire way of life. Now more than ever there is a way to truly use ‘campaigning,’ advertising, and our uncanny technologies to draw large exposure to social movement. This project is my first attempt at moving forward with inspiring what seems to be ‘lost values’ in the sense of self and the rapidly endangered natural plain around us.
Now it’s about once and for all getting a solid cast of players together (which is currently happening). From there it’s funding the album and getting it finally released, then slowly unveiling an experimental video piece for each song on the record, then moving (at blazing speeds) towards the road, hoping for as many solid opportunities to showcase this debut as possible.
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