jeremy
boise, idaho
for mp3s, go here: Quilt from "It's Called Finishing" and broken back from the super secret collection, "Hello Wide" (hidden in mp3 format on it's called finishing)
so, I forgot a couple of things in the liner notes of the "It's Called Finishing." One of them is Andrew Wagner's name should have been on the list of thanks. He was a great help in getting the thing pressed. Thank you Andy!!! The other thing is a contact email for the man whom drew the inside and disc art, Jaffe Zinn. Please don't send him junk email. Thanks. somasjaffe @ hotmail (dot) com....
There's a couple of live appearances coming up! These will be the first shows in a long while, MonsterDudes has been very consuming.
Sept. 19th somewhere in Portland, with friends
Sept. 22nd @ the Smell in Los Angeles with Anni Rossi, Solitary Hunter (member from Rainbow Blanket and Men Who Can't Love) and Whitman.
BIG NEWS:
The split cassette with Lazy Magnet on the Breaking World Records label out of Western Mass...
Collaborative recordings with george3.5 of bengeorge7 on breaking world records, the project is called The Buggy Songs, the CDR is titled "the days before the break-up." there's an mp3 on the Breaking World site...
the ernesto diaz-infante/jeremy from boise collaboration "delay and dismay" cdr is being made available soon on fort hazel
A Radio with Guts (featuring Luke Bait) "TRASCH" cdr is out now... only ~30 copies made and only a couple left... at Fort Hazel
coming soon:
A full-length of blather and drither on the some label-label
you can email me at this space.... jeremy1 @ forthazel
thanks
reviews
Jeremy From Boise It's Called Finishing
Released 2003
buy it here CD $8
"It's all plucky strumming and out-of-tune persistance on the most recent release from this backwoods boy: It's Called Finishing. I use "backwoods" in the most endearing of ways considering I've no clue to the specifics of his upbringing. What I do know is that there is the thing that they call el corazon in his recordings as well as the things that are labeled as experimental, avant-garde, lo-fi, blah-blah-blah. Layered vocals peppered with the spoken meanderings of a philosophical everyman help create harmonies that hang and sway like flags at half-mast; acoustic mourning that isn't trite or forced, just charmingly dissonant.
-ES in LA Record Vol. 1, Issue 4
"The definition of ambient alternative: Lethargic acoustic-guitar dissonance, soothing dual-tracked vocals, lo-fi environmental strangeness and miles of empty sky. Harmless yet mildly disturbing."
-Idaho Statesman.
"It's Called Finishing is the type of album I can never get enough of. Jeremy From Boise (also known as A Radio With Guts) is an absolute champion of needly, angled acoustic pop music. His fingers sound as if they've been made to pluck all those notes that sound like their wrong but work so perfectly together nonetheless. On this four-label release's fifteen songs, he uses very little more than his guitar and his voice - but somehow, I never become bored with it. His songs may often be morose and slow, but on this pleasant Sunday morning I could want nothing more. It's Called Finishing is a thinking album, a collection of songs that you can lie back and daydream to.
'My Golden Balls' is quite exemplary of the Jeremy From Boise sound. A subtle melody is planned, and then sung nearly atonally under a complex puzzle of clinky, usually minor-key guitar plucks, designed to win over the listener note by bote. The effect is unusual, but will prove to be eye-opening for the true enthusiast of abnormal pop music. The 'epic' 'Misery Palace', the almost twangy 'Dull Grey', and the creepy 'Someditch' are also standouts. The finale, 'Fear Is A Good Thing,' could be the album's best song.
Despite all the guitar-and-vocal tunes, there are also quite a few instrumentals. 'The 2/3 Least Reciprocated' is a study in bizarro melody, while 'The First Subdivision' messes around with a weird sound sample.
This is a very good album, and one that should garner a lot more attention than it likely will. If needly, obscure experimental pop sounds good to you, It's Called Finishing needs to be in your collection."
88%
Matt Shimmer, indieville.com
"Every aspect of It's Called Finishing seems like it was dictated by The Cute, Endearing Lo-fi Guitar Guy Handbook. Jeremy laid down a veritable plethora of songs for the album -- 15 to be exact -- and a great many of them are mere sonic sentence fragments, missing pivotal structural pieces and conveying incomplete, underdeveloped thoughts. Jeremy also sounds as if he's missing notes or accidentally altering his pace, just like a guy who records his album in his own home is supposed to do. Even the disc's packaging is designed to further this image; it consists of a picture of a guy (presumably Jeremy) and his dog, as well as a few quirky sketches that scream DIY. Whether you actually find this sort of thing endearing or gimmicky is a matter of personal preference, but it weighs heavy on my mind because analyzing the shtick is more interesting than analyzing the music. It's easy to feel like nothing happens during the disc's 40 minute run-time; Jeremy's vocals are so unassuming and muffled that they barely register, and his song construction is so loose that it's easy to lose the story. There's a fine line between minimalism and a lack of substance, and It's Called Finishing crosses that line far too often.
-- Phillip Buchan, Splendid E-zine
check out some neat stuff
Noise Research Program
L'entrepot (unconventional music magazine)
indieville review
a radio with guts