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album - Big Beautiful Sky (Advance)
artist - Venus Hum
label - MCA Records
genre - Electronic
retail - 03/25/2003
rip - 12/20/2002
ripper - Kournikova
quality - 192k HQ True Stereo
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01 4:00 Hummingbirds
02 3:46 Montana
03 3:51 Soul Sloshing
04 4:05 Wordless May
05 4:20 Alice
06 3:16 Lumberjacks
07 3:20 Beautiful Spain
08 4:23 The Bells
09 4:37 Springtime #2
10 4:07 Honey
11 3:54 Sonic Boom
12 3:50 Bella Luna
47:29 total playing time - total size 65MB
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r e l e a s e n o t e s
New album... Enjoy
Nashville, TN might not be the first place for a dream-pop
band to come together, but the birthplace of American music
was a nice fit for Venus Hum. Comprised of vocalist Annette
Strean and multi-instrumentalists Kip Kubin and Tony
Miracle, the trio formed in 1999. Strean, who grew up with a
logger father in Whitefish, Montana, found Nashville to be
her cultural calling. She grew up singing show tunes for
fun, but her fondness for The Cure and Kate Bush pushed her
creatively. Strean fell for kitschy films from the 50s, too.
Later, she designed her own clothing from vintage apparel.
Miracle had a similar upbringing. He was locked into the
typical family suburbia in Cincinnati, OH and sought comfort
in England's new wave reign. Depeche Mode and The Cure
allowed him to explore various electronic dance acts of the
80s. Kubin was a Jersey kid. A friend of his had a Dad who
made his own keyboards, so Kubin naturally picked up the
instrument. From there, Strean, Miracle and Kubin connected.
Miracle set up Chessington Synth Labs Studio in his basement
and Venus Hum created a lush, dynamic pop sound. Their
self-titled debut appeared on Mono-Fi in spring 2001.
Shows in and around Nashville were successful for Venus Hum
as well. Lucky for them, Electroclash producer/scenester
Larry Tee (RuPaul) took Venus Hum under his wing. The band
appeared on Tee's ElectroclashFestival in New York City
during summer 2002 and Stereolab asked Venus Hum to open for
them in Nashville. Shortly thereafter, Venus Hum scored a
deal with MCA and prepped for the release of Big Beautiful
Sky. The Hummingbirds EP coincided joint U.S. tour with
Sing-Sing that October.
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