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██▓▀ Album......[ Songs For Waiting ▀▓██
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▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2008-05-03 ████▄ ▀
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█▓ 01 The Two Calls (Of Dietrich Bonhoeffer) 4:51 ▓█
█▓ 02 Masood 5:44 ▓█
█▓ 03 Old Bones 4:49 ▓█
█▓ 04 Pike County 6:02 ▓█
█▓ 05 After The FIres 3:19 ▓█
█▓ 06 The Attraction Of The Pilgrim 3:48 ▓█
█▓ 07 Here I Am Again 3:26 ▓█
█▓ 08 War Changes Everything 4:11 ▓█
█▓ 09 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter 7:54 ▓█
█▓ 10 Song For Waiting 4:11 ▓█
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█░█▒ In late 2003, just two years after 9/11, The OaKs's ▒█░█
█░█▒ Ryan Costello sold everything he owned, joined a ▒█░█
█░█▒ humanitarian organization and moved to Afghanistan. ▒█░█
█░█▒ Costello lived there for two years, working in the ▒█░█
█░█▒ Central Afghan mountains with returned refugees, ▒█░█
█░█▒ teaching them creative agricultural techniques and ▒█░█
█░█▒ becoming fluent in their native language, Farsi. ▒█░█
█░█▒ Late at night, while the dust storms blocked out ▒█░█
█░█▒ the stars and rattled the windows, he would sit and ▒█░█
█░█▒ work out impressions of what he had seen and heard ▒█░█
█░█▒ that day on his acoustic guitar. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ After returning to the United States, Costello ▒█░█
█░█▒ joined back up with his long-time creative and ▒█░█
█░█▒ song-writing partner Matthew Antolick, who was ▒█░█
█░█▒ drumming full-time in a Moroccan band. Antolick and ▒█░█
█░█▒ Costello began working out CostelloÆs melodic ideas ▒█░█
█░█▒ and lyrical concepts, home-recording in AntolickÆs ▒█░█
█░█▒ apartment what eventually became Our Fathers and ▒█░█
█░█▒ the Things They Left Behind. Exploring themes of ▒█░█
█░█▒ self-sacrifice and introspection over roots-folk ▒█░█
█░█▒ and jazzy melodic layers, Our Fathers... was an ▒█░█
█░█▒ original breath of fresh air for independent music. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ The release of Our Fathers... drew immediate ▒█░█
█░█▒ attention to The OaKs in Orlando's press and music ▒█░█
█░█▒ scene, and the attention quickly went national as ▒█░█
█░█▒ Paste magazine featured Costello and The OaKs in ▒█░█
█░█▒ their July 2007 cover story "Can Rock Save the ▒█░█
█░█▒ World." The OaKs also partnered with Global Hope ▒█░█
█░█▒ Network on the release of Our Fathers...and agreed ▒█░█
█░█▒ to donate 50% of the profits from each CD or track ▒█░█
█░█▒ download from that album to aid widows and ▒█░█
█░█▒ recently-returned refugees from Afghanistan. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Costello and Antolick immediately realized the ▒█░█
█░█▒ difficulty of translating their multi-tracked ▒█░█
█░█▒ compositions into a live setting with just a duo, ▒█░█
█░█▒ and began working to put together a band of diverse ▒█░█
█░█▒ musicians who could make the compositions come to ▒█░█
█░█▒ life on stage. They were joined by Jeremy Siegel, a ▒█░█
█░█▒ classically trained bassist steeped in Led Zeppelin ▒█░█
█░█▒ and Bootsy Collins riffs, and also fluent in ▒█░█
█░█▒ classical and jazz trombone. Tim Cocking came next ▒█░█
█░█▒ - a piano major and audio engineer who's as ▒█░█
█░█▒ dexterous on his trumpet as he is on his keyboard ▒█░█
█░█▒ and accordion, and Greg Willson, a seminary student ▒█░█
█░█▒ wielding a mandolin and electric guitar and who ▒█░█
█░█▒ played the breathiest Stan Getz-style saxophone ▒█░█
█░█▒ they had ever heard. Their lineup was completed ▒█░█
█░█▒ shortly thereafter by Melissa Reyes, a ▒█░█
█░█▒ singer-songwriter whose alto voice and folk ▒█░█
█░█▒ harmonies complemented perfectly with CostelloÆs ▒█░█
█░█▒ high vibrato. From the first guitar riff at their ▒█░█
█░█▒ debut show on stage at the 2006 Anti-Pop Music ▒█░█
█░█▒ Festival, it was apparent that they were meant to ▒█░█
█░█▒ be making music together û the energy in the room ▒█░█
█░█▒ was electric, and the reviews were raving. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Out of this natural chemistry was born many new ▒█░█
█░█▒ songs over the winter of 2006/2007. Inspired by the ▒█░█
█░█▒ unique talents of each member, Costello and ▒█░█
█░█▒ Antolick began writing songs that would showcase ▒█░█
█░█▒ the bands rhythmic tightness and diverse ▒█░█
█░█▒ instrumentation. Lyrically, Costello delved into ▒█░█
█░█▒ themes of spirituality in the midst of brokenness, ▒█░█
█░█▒ of longing and searching, and continued to explore ▒█░█
█░█▒ the previous albumÆs themes of social justice and ▒█░█
█░█▒ self-sacrifice. The OaKs honed these tracks in the ▒█░█
█░█▒ living room of CostelloÆs wood-floored 1950Æs style ▒█░█
█░█▒ house, and at live shows across the state, until ▒█░█
█░█▒ the musical complexity and rhythmic tightness of ▒█░█
█░█▒ the music exceeded anything they had created ▒█░█
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█░█▒ In late July of 2007, Costello put in for part-time ▒█░█
█░█▒ employment at his social work job and the OaKs ▒█░█
█░█▒ began recording Songs For Waiting. Using the warm, ▒█░█
█░█▒ full sound of CostelloÆs old house, they determined ▒█░█
█░█▒ to use no artificial reverb on the new album, ▒█░█
█░█▒ instead using room micÆing techniques to mix the ▒█░█
█░█▒ elements together in the style of their favorite ▒█░█
█░█▒ 1960Æs jazz and rock albums. Even synthesizers were ▒█░█
█░█▒ played through amplifiers and speakers and run into ▒█░█
█░█▒ the room to give them the woody ambience of ▒█░█
█░█▒ CostelloÆs house. Over the next few months The OaKs ▒█░█
█░█▒ employed trumpet, trombone, sax, Hammond organ, ▒█░█
█░█▒ bells, synths from the 70Æs and 80Æs, acoustic and ▒█░█
█░█▒ classical guitars, electric and acoustic bass, a ▒█░█
█░█▒ plethora of shakers, tambourines, and hand-drums, ▒█░█
█░█▒ and a Wurlitzer electric piano from 1959. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ In mid October Antolick, Costello, and keyboardist ▒█░█
█░█▒ Tim Cocking began mixing the new album. Using as ▒█░█
█░█▒ few modern mixing tricks as possible, including no ▒█░█
█░█▒ artificial reverb or delay, they carefully arranged ▒█░█
█░█▒ each song. Throughout the mixing process they were ▒█░█
█░█▒ mentored and guided by Alan Douches of West West ▒█░█
█░█▒ Side Music, whoÆs hand has been on great recordings ▒█░█
█░█▒ from Paul SimonÆs Graceland to Grizzly BearÆs ▒█░█
█░█▒ Yellow House and Sufjan StevenÆs Illinois. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Finally, after over four long months, the OaKsÆ ▒█░█
█░█▒ Songs For Waiting was finished on November 8, 2007. ▒█░█
█░█▒ The new album is scheduled for release on March 4, ▒█░█
█░█▒ 2008. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ http://www.myspace.com/wearetheoaks ▒█░█
█░█▒ http://www.theoaksband.com ▒█░█
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