We posted a little about Ellery in regards to Paste Sampler 21, but, since Anna was my favorite song on the Paste compilation, I thought the husband-and-wife duo were due a second mention.
Tasha and Justin Golden hail from Cincinnati, and Anna is the first track from Lying Awake, Ellery’s new album from Virt Records. You can listen to four of the tracks on Ellery’s MySpace page and Bunch of Betty’s Podcast posted Anna here [MP3]
There’s a nice interview with Ellery on Jumper; here’s a sample:
You're now known as "Ellery", but your former name was "Dividing the plunder". Shakespeare would ask "what's in a name?" as in Romeo & Juliet: what happened and how this new name represents it and your present?
We began making music together in college, and at the time we knew very little about who we were as people - let alone as individual musicians and as a band. That was five years ago, and since then we've of course been immersed in our relationship, in our music, in traveling, and in getting to know our community in Cincinnati.
Over time we began to realize that the music we were making, the songs I was writing, and the way we were relating it all to our audiences was changing. We had become different people, with a different take on what we wanted to create, even who we wanted to be.
So early on in the process of recording this new EP, the idea struck us to change our name - to give ourselves a fresh start and articulate where we felt like we were headed. And while changing our name was at first a very timid idea, it quickly kind of took us over, and we were sold. We found the name "Ellery" in a book at a shop in Iowa, and by a few days later it had us hooked.
Good Music:
NPR Song of the Day: Central Booking by Bishop Allen
Live Guster | Full Show [MP3 Flac Ogg] | One Man Wrecking Machine [MP3]
Good Reading:
Said the Gramophone | Sam Cooke
Village Voice| Loose Fur
The Independent | Don DeLillo Interview
Random Wiki: Educational Records Bureau
Non Sequitur: I received a bunch of hits from Vietnam last night – this Intarweb thing is amazing.
Tasha and Justin Golden hail from Cincinnati, and Anna is the first track from Lying Awake, Ellery’s new album from Virt Records. You can listen to four of the tracks on Ellery’s MySpace page and Bunch of Betty’s Podcast posted Anna here [MP3]
There’s a nice interview with Ellery on Jumper; here’s a sample:
You're now known as "Ellery", but your former name was "Dividing the plunder". Shakespeare would ask "what's in a name?" as in Romeo & Juliet: what happened and how this new name represents it and your present?
We began making music together in college, and at the time we knew very little about who we were as people - let alone as individual musicians and as a band. That was five years ago, and since then we've of course been immersed in our relationship, in our music, in traveling, and in getting to know our community in Cincinnati.
Over time we began to realize that the music we were making, the songs I was writing, and the way we were relating it all to our audiences was changing. We had become different people, with a different take on what we wanted to create, even who we wanted to be.
So early on in the process of recording this new EP, the idea struck us to change our name - to give ourselves a fresh start and articulate where we felt like we were headed. And while changing our name was at first a very timid idea, it quickly kind of took us over, and we were sold. We found the name "Ellery" in a book at a shop in Iowa, and by a few days later it had us hooked.
Good Music:
NPR Song of the Day: Central Booking by Bishop Allen
Live Guster | Full Show [MP3 Flac Ogg] | One Man Wrecking Machine [MP3]
Good Reading:
Said the Gramophone | Sam Cooke
Village Voice| Loose Fur
The Independent | Don DeLillo Interview
Random Wiki: Educational Records Bureau
Non Sequitur: I received a bunch of hits from Vietnam last night – this Intarweb thing is amazing.
