Edison Glass On Tour Supporting Their New Credential Recordings Release A Burn Or A Shiver
NEWSDAY - ...beautiful melodies and ringing guitar lines.
GOOD TIMES - ...the songwriting is accessible yet intricate, the playing
expert yet playful.
Edison Glass, the hypothetical collaboration of Thomas Alva Edison and
composer Philip Glass, formed in 1999 when Joshua Silverberg
(singer/guitar), brothers Joe (drums) and Mountain (singer/bass) Morin, and
James Usher (guitar) came together for a singular cause - making rock music
for the kids.
Music for the kids with short attention spans as well as the vinyl and
mix-tape graduates.
Each member of the Long Island band found music to be their creative outlet
at an early age. While some in the band began piano lessons at around the
age of 8 years old, Silverberg penned his first song in kindergarten. Being
stuck in piano lessons at the same time you are forming a band means that
you have dabbled in everything from Nirvana covers to Bach, from complex
orchestral arrangements to the murkiest depths of punk rock. Drawing from a
soup of Indie rock, smart pop and classical influences, Edison Glass has
developed a sound that, while akin to The Police and The Mars Volta, is very
much all their own. After all, being in a band was never about being cool;
creating music has always been a necessary outlet. "It¹s like breathing, if
don't I will die," Silverberg talks of the bands dedication to their art.
"It¹s burning inside and it needs to come out. To me, composition, and
creative thinking is absolutely essential."
Back in the winter of 2004 the band's Credential A&R guy sent a cd out to
Smashing Pumpkins and Sunny Day Real Estate producer Brad Wood, who was
impressed with the sound of the early demos. As fans of SDRE and other
Wood-produced projects, the band jumped at the chance to record with Wood in
Los Angeles. Before moving into a hotel room for the last couple of weeks
of recording, the band spent their nights in their converted school bus
parked behind a Jack in the Box near Wood's North Hollywood home studio. The
accommodations didn¹t seem to hurt. "I am floored by the energy that Edison
Glass puts out- manic drums and bass, two singers in full voice." Wood
continues, "They love what they do and it shows. It was a thrill to try and
catch it all on record."
Highlights abound on the record, from the driving energy-sopped choruses of
'Forever,' to the weighty measured intensity of 'This House,' at times there
are both lush pop orchestration and complete Devo-esque breakdowns in the
same song and it works masterfully. The first four tracks alone reveal a
group capable of almost anything sonically imagined. And while the band has
spent a substantial amount of time in do-it-yourself studios creating their
music and is comfortable behind the boards, an Edison Glass live performance
is not to be missed. Immobilized by the visceral sense of life and
authenticity that comes blaring through the speakers, onlookers enjoy a show
that is equal parts exhibition and experience. On playing live Usher adds,
"When I'm performing I get to be someone I can't be anywhere else. I can be
wild, I can dance, and I can scream as loud as I want and no one can hear.
It's cathartic."
After seven years of constant writing, recording and playing basement shows
for friends, Edison Glass release their debut A Burn or a Shiver on
Credential Recordings in the spring of 2006. 13 songs built around tight
rhythms, intricate guitar lines, dueling lead vocals, A Burn or a Shiver, is
as dizzying and frenetic as rock can be. But still there amidst the chaos
is the focused and well articulated musicianship that makes rock and roll
compelling in the first place.
CONFIRMED DATES
4/05 Nesconset, NY The Green Room
4/06 Virginia Beach, VA Thalia Lynn Baptist Church
4/07 Grayson, KY Nash Chapel / Kentucky Christian University
4/08 Bedford, PA The NoteWorthy
4/10 Nashville, TN 12th and Porter
4/13 Amarillo, TX The Refuge
4/15 Jonesboro, AR - TBA
4/17 Bartlesville, OK The Wherehouse
4/18 Claremore, OK Will Rogers Auditorium
4/19 Mission, KS Main Street Cafe
4/21 Irmo, SC The Address
4/22 Charleston, SC ChuckSoFest / Charleston Southern University
5/25 - North Port, FL Gulf Coast Assembly God Church
5/27 Ft. Lauderdale, FL South Florida Festival
7/01 Mt. Union, PA Creation East Fringe Stage
7/07 Tulsa, OK D Fest
7/13 Willmar, MN Sonshine Festival
7/22 Buffalo, NY Dunn Tire Park / Buffalo Bisons
8/2 Gilford, NH Inside Out Soul Festival / Inside Out Stage
8/4 Smithtown, NY Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle
