ARTIST: Unwed Sailor
TITLE: The White Ox
LABEL: Burnt Toast Vinyl
GENRE: Instrumental Rock
BITRATE: 172kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 33m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-10-17
RIP DATE: 2006-10-05
Track List
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1. Shadows 7:17
2. Gila 7:26
3. Numbers 5:05
4. Night Diamond 6:01
5. Pelican 2:57
6. The End 4:40
Release Notes:
http://www.unwedsailor.net/
http://www.myspace.com/unwedsailor
http://www.burnttoastvinyl.com/
Born in Seattle in 1998 at the tender age of intent, Unwed Sailor is helmed by
Oklahoma-born songwriter Johnathon Ford. The basis for the instrumental project
came into being while Ford was still writing with Seattle luminaries Roadside
Monument. Pulling towards a bass guitar-oriented sound, the songs he had begun
to craft did not fully feel right for Roadside Monument, thus the unbeknownst
predestined forming of Unwed Sailor. Not aiming for Unwed Sailor to fall into
the regular confines of a typical band, Ford's ever evolving cast and crew has
been tirelessly composed over the years of good friends and company. The band
has since been relocated and based out of cities across the United States,
including Chicago, New York, Jackson MS, and most recently Little Rock, AR. With
over 14 US tours and four in Europe, the band has traveled almost as much as it
has evolved.
Since their 1998 debut release, Firecracker, the band has strived to endeavor
side door studies into the pictures behind sound, opening multiple avenues of
instrumental excavation on their first full-length, The Faithful Anchor. These
studies also produced two short film soundtracks for independent film maker
Chris Bennett - Stateless (a musical collaboration with Early Day Miners), and
For Jonathan, a multi-genre compilation featuring artists as varied as The Album
Leaf and Mikael Jorgensen to Jessica Bailiff and Her Space Holiday.
In 2003, the shape of Unwed Sailor changed dramatically as the sound became less
a standard suite of songs, developing instead into a growing creature,
cinematically-operated and tell-tale both in its sonic and packaged
presentation. The resulting album was recorded and released as The Marionette
and the Music Box; music set to tell the painted story of a lonely little
marionette in search of a cherished, lost music box. Describing the picturesque
brushes and swells of a rather unique orchestra, Unwed Sailor composed pieces as
suited for concert halls as they are the hot, impassioned stages of dark night
clubs from city to city. As a live performance, the music is only more chaotic
in its finely-tuned restraints. Here audiences are treated to a powerful
performance, played out as though on the screen; they walk away from the shows
as though from a theater, excited and curious about the world again. On stage,
Unwed Sailor as people melt away, becoming nobody and everybody at the same
time; a two hearted octopus with every arm working twice as hard.
2006 will see the band with two brand new full length recordings as well as an
EP in between, all of which will be recorded and released in between stretches
on the lonesome, always stretching road.