Click here to also visit VERTIGO BUTTERFLY on MySpace. A good friend told us to keep going with our music since it dispels some of the dross that's in the world today, which I find funny because I've never considered us to be people who cheer people up. These songs aren't exactly comedic. They are expressionistic, perhaps scandalous. Nonetheless, it's quite possible that the light cannot be seen unless you stand in the shadows.
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Vertigo Butterfly is a sparse arrangement of familiar characters set into motion by a series of unpredictable, cataclysmic and sometimes harrowing events.
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Based out of Portland, Oregon; the recording artists VERTIGO BUTTERFLY are releasing their 12-song debut album entitled ‘1932’ this month (Officially, March 21, 2007). The music is being self-described as Gypsy Folk Rock. A new website has only this week been launched in conjunction with the availability of the album. Please check out the website for LOTS more: www.vertigobutterfly.com.
For those following our progress over the past few years and for those wondering if we would ever reach this point, we feel passionate that the wait has been worthwhile. The music on the CD was entirely written, performed, recorded, engineered and mixed by us in our studio while we simultaneously run a vintage clothing business and raise our daughter, hence the amount of time it took to complete the CD and re-design the website. We have apparently taken the whole idea of being a full-blown DIY family to a level we would rather recommend against.
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A note from John:
I would like to say 'thank you' to everyone who has encouraged and helped guide me in the right direction throughout the engineering of this collection of songs. It has been no easy task for me to accomplish and has easily consumed a rather large part of a whole year to produce. I have known for several years that what would ultimately satisfy me is to be in a position to be able to perform, produce, record and mix a whole album of original music on my own terms. My lifetime conspirator, Luray (who just so happens to be my all-time favorite vocalist) and I have co-written, co-arranged and performed all of the songs you will hear on this cd. Not all of the songs were written traditionally; for example: Luray had presented me with a completely arranged, yet unaccompanied vocal track that had to have all of the instrumentation you will hear on the song written around that vocal track (Hell in the Heart). Each of us has had an equal part in the final arrangements of all the songs and no 'pop song formula' has been followed or applied. We encourage all of our songs to grow in the direction they choose and steer as many of them as possible from crossing any bridges... no matter how accustomed people may be to hearing a bloody bridge written into every popular song, we refuse to do it. BTW; I am playing all of the acoustic & electric guitars, bass guitar, mandolin and playing a drum set... there is not one single note of computer programmed music on this cd. |
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