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Grandchildren
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09/14/10
Clark University w/ Dum Dum Girls
Worcester, MA
09/20/10
First Unitarian Church w/ No Age
10/08/10
Everlasting Record Release @ Johnny Brenda's
10/18/10
Larimer Lounge w/ Seabear
10/19/10
Kilby Court w/ Seabear
09/14/10
Clark University w/ Dum Dum Girls
Worcester, MA
09/20/10
First Unitarian Church w/ No Age
10/08/10
Everlasting Record Release @ Johnny Brenda's
10/18/10
Larimer Lounge w/ Seabear
10/19/10
Kilby Court w/ Seabear
10/20/10
Neurolux w/ Seabear
10/23/10
Mississippi Studios w/ Seabear
10/25/10
Independent w/ Seabear
10/26/10
Troubadour w/ Seabear
10/27/10
Casbah w/ Seabear
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About Grandchildren
In Grandchildren, every memory is a montage of sound. The beat-driven, orchestral-pop epics on Grandchildren’s forthcoming album Everlasting play like an audio scrapbook of nostalgia and pop-culture inspired by memories from the songwriter’s life. Sentimental harmonies and globally sourced rhythms weave through every track, reflecting a history that is both chaotic and serene, but ultimately uplifting. These energies manifest in Grandchildren’s “larger-than-life” live performances, the six multi-instrumentalists swapping instruments in what reviewers have called “a choreographed musical chairs.”
Grandchildren’s story is as eclectic as its sound. An army brat with a nomadic upbringing, in flux between Europe, Latin America and the US east coast, songwriter Aleks Martray found inspiration from his global childhood experiences and early exposure to everything from pop, Motown, jazz and classical music. These influences coalesced when he began collaborating with Croatian transplant Roman Salcic and realist painter Russell Brodie, while they all attended college together in Baltimore. The band developed further when the trio moved to Philadelphia and joined math-thrash musicians Adam Katz, John Vogel and Tristan Palazzolo, who’d taken residence in a dilapidated Victorian house to establish what would become the infamous underground venue Danger Danger. The band created a scene and a sound out of the musical energy that surrounded them. They threw high-profile illegal shows that filled the house from basement to attic, often with 20+ acts ranging from legends like Sun Ra’s Marshall Allen to emerging artists like Genghis Tron, and Times New Viking. Meanwhile, locked in a tiny third-floor bedroom crammed with electronics and an acoustic guitar, Martray began writing and recording the tracks comprising Everlasting while bands played on all floors of the house. In this make-shift studio, the sonic experimentation took on a life of its own, evolving from bedroom music to complex arrangements through the addition of horns, strings, live percussion, and recorded samples from Martray’s world travels.
Grandchildren have toured extensively, carving out their own niche in the national scene and emerging on the festival circuit through appearances at CMJ, SXSW, and the Virgin Mobile Festival. Grandchildren have played on bills with such incredible artists as Battles, Dan Deacon, Moby, and The Very Best. Their debut album Everlasting will be released by Green Owl in 2010 followed by a national tour. In the vein of such bands as Animal Collective, Yeasayer and Vampire Weekend, Grandchildren pulls from a limitless mix of pop and world influences with a fresh approach that aims to tear down the walls between pop and experimental and speak to higher truths.
Grandchildren’s story is as eclectic as its sound. An army brat with a nomadic upbringing, in flux between Europe, Latin America and the US east coast, songwriter Aleks Martray found inspiration from his global childhood experiences and early exposure to everything from pop, Motown, jazz and classical music. These influences coalesced when he began collaborating with Croatian transplant Roman Salcic and realist painter Russell Brodie, while they all attended college together in Baltimore. The band developed further when the trio moved to Philadelphia and joined math-thrash musicians Adam Katz, John Vogel and Tristan Palazzolo, who’d taken residence in a dilapidated Victorian house to establish what would become the infamous underground venue Danger Danger. The band created a scene and a sound out of the musical energy that surrounded them. They threw high-profile illegal shows that filled the house from basement to attic, often with 20+ acts ranging from legends like Sun Ra’s Marshall Allen to emerging artists like Genghis Tron, and Times New Viking. Meanwhile, locked in a tiny third-floor bedroom crammed with electronics and an acoustic guitar, Martray began writing and recording the tracks comprising Everlasting while bands played on all floors of the house. In this make-shift studio, the sonic experimentation took on a life of its own, evolving from bedroom music to complex arrangements through the addition of horns, strings, live percussion, and recorded samples from Martray’s world travels.
Grandchildren have toured extensively, carving out their own niche in the national scene and emerging on the festival circuit through appearances at CMJ, SXSW, and the Virgin Mobile Festival. Grandchildren have played on bills with such incredible artists as Battles, Dan Deacon, Moby, and The Very Best. Their debut album Everlasting will be released by Green Owl in 2010 followed by a national tour. In the vein of such bands as Animal Collective, Yeasayer and Vampire Weekend, Grandchildren pulls from a limitless mix of pop and world influences with a fresh approach that aims to tear down the walls between pop and experimental and speak to higher truths.
