Search - Gena Rowlands Band & Anti-Social Music :: Nitrate Hymnal

"The music could qualify as chamber pop if it had any pretense of wanting to be pop - instead the violas, vibes, clarinets and cellos drift along behind Massey's wine-stained baritone, forming a sort of stream-of-consciousness backdrop that drifts in and out of dissonance, occasionally dissolving to a minimalist wisp." - PITCHFORMEDIA "Tragic, hilarious, brilliant writing." - PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE "Beautifully dissonant; unsettling and enrapturing in equal measures...this ambitious experiment succeeds on pretty much every level." - SPLENDID The Gena Rowlands Band follows their Lujo debut Le Merde et Les Etoiles with a joint recording with Anti-Social Music called The Nitrate Hymnal, taken from the hit indie opera of the same name. Anti-Social Music is a collective of musicians and composers from New York that includes members of the Hold Steady (French Kiss), Ida (Polyvinyl), Gutbucket (Cantaloupe) and World/Inferno Friendship Society (Gern Blandsten). The two bands met three years ago during the creation of the original production of a multimedia opera by Bob Massey and David Wilson. The opera, inspired by 50 years of home movies given to Massey by his grandfather, told the fictional story of a couple who obsessively filmed their own lives. For this recording, the score was cut into songs and re-orchestrated, then recorded in three days powered by passion and caffeine.