*Postponed* Mint Mile Record Release • OUT • Advance Base • Resurrectionists • DJ C. Vadi
Sat 04/25/20
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Mint Mile
(Chicago, IL)
Genre: Indie Rock
Ambertron is the first full-length album by Mint Mile, a musical concern from Chicago, Illinois.
Amber is a preservative. It’s used to hold things in suspension, to keep them still forever so they can be examined and appreciated. It imparts a tint to what it holds.
-tron is a suffix indicating an instrument.
Art is an ambertron. Bands are ambertrons.
Mint Mile is helmed by Tim Midyett, who spent eighteen years in the acclaimed Silkworm, eight more in the critically lauded Bottomless Pit and currently plays bass with SUNN O)))).
After three four-song EPs in as many years, Mint Mile piles up the tunes on Ambertron with over an hour of music across this sprawling, dare-we-say epic double LP. From stripped-down twisters to languid drifters to opulent jams alternately joyous, gripped, hopeful and desolate, Ambertron explores the optimistic, rueful space between the personal and global, the emotional and political, and the places (sometimes dark) where memory and reality meet and sometimes disagree with each other.
Baritone guitar, pedal steel, rock solid rhythms predominate, with keyboards, strings, horns, and atmosphere woven into the mix as expert spices.
The Mint Mile cast includes:
-Tim Midyett (Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, SUNN O)))) sings and plays mostly baritone guitar.
-Jeff Panall (Songs: Ohia) is on drums.
-Justin Brown (Palliard) plays pedal steel, most of the electric guitar, and dobro.
-Matthew Barnhart (Tre Orsi) handles almost all bass and most of the engineering.
-Howard Draper (Shearwater, Tre Orsi) does his magic spackling thing.
-Greg Norman (Bitter Tears) plays the trumpet.
Mint Mile were fortunate to be enlivened by a variety of talented guests, from corners of music as varied as Helen Money (Alison Chesley), Poi Dog Pondering (Susan Voelz), modern classical music (Mabel Kwan), and Glen Hansard’s band (Rob Bochnik). Then there’s the all-world vocalist Kelly Hogan, with whom Tim was thrilled to work again, after her contributions to Silkworm’s Italian Platinum so long ago.
OUT
(Kalamazoo, MI)
Genre: Indie Rock
Kalamazoo’s OUT features Chafe Hensley, TJ Larmee, Mark Larmee, and Ike Turner. OUT grew naturally out of a couple of areas: the relegation of Chafe, Mark and Ike’s other band, Minutes, to cryogenic stasis, and the icing of the short-lived Shark Beach.
Around the summer of 2015, TJ, Mark and Chafe would get together to jam, play Fruit Ninja, and bro-down on the regular. This evolved into writing songs and covering The Cure. Eventually, Ike wormed his way into the group, bringing only La Croix as an offering. They played their first show in December of 2015 and have been steadily active.
OUT spent the summer of 2016 recording their album “Swim Buddies” (cmo040) and playing shows around the Great Lakes region. Their second record “Billie” followed in 2020.
Advance Base
(Chicago)
Genre: Indie Rock
Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen
Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano,
Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, &
nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance
Base has been described as “lo-fi,” “depressed” & “weirdly uplifting.”
Animal Companionship, the third & most recent “studio” album by Advance Base, was released September
21, 2018 by Run For Cover Records / Orindal Records. GoldFlakePaint & Various Small Flames both listed
Animal Companionship among their favorite albums of 2018. Since then, Advance Base has released Wall
of Tears & Other-Songs I Didn’t Write, a home-recorded collection of (mostly) country/Americana covers
arranged for electronic instruments & Live at Home, a collection of mid-quarantine livestream concert
performances & the closest representation of an Advance Base live set commercially available. A new
single titled ”Little Sable Point Lighthouse” was released on March 31, 2022.
“It’s with no exaggeration we describe Owen Ashworth as one of the most consistent and important
songwriters in contemporary indie music. From the earliest Casiotone For the Painfully Alone demos to
most recent Advance Base single ‘Little Sable Point Lighthouse‘, Owen has crafted a catalogue of
characters and circumstances with few rivals in the modern era. His is an ever evolving body of work which
stands out in its deftness and humility and empathy and care, bringing to life individuals from across the
spectrum of human experience while remaining unerringly attuned to the tender, fallible heart at the centre
of each.” – Various Small Flames
“A Raymond Carver short story collection set to music by a Joan of Arc-era OMD” – MOJO Magazine
Resurrectionists
(Milwaukee)
Genre: Indie Rock
Resurrectionists is informed as much by the back-country wail of Dock Boggs as it is by the meticulous punk of Television, or Low in their most glacial moods. High lonesome songs, sometimes with shrieking banjo feedback. Featuring current and former members of WORK, Nutritious & Delicious, Brainbats, and Delicious Monsters.