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Цитата:Dredg's first studio album, Leitmotif, was released by the Universal music label on September 11, 2001. Prior to that, it had been self-released by the members of the band. After the album gained retail space, dredg acquired an almost immediate cult following, owing much to Leitmotif's unique sound and concept. A movie has been planned to be released, as a music video for the entire album, though the project has been stalled.
Industry Demos is a collection of four songs from 2001 that dredg recorded before they were signed to a record label. The four songs are "Of the Room", "Redrawing the Island Map", "Running Through Propellers", and "The Papal Insignia."
El Cielo, their second album, which was released on October 8, 2002, is also a concept album. Prominent influences on the album's concept and themes are painter Salvador Dali's life and a particular painting, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening (the first track on the album is named "Brushstroke:dcbtfoabaaposba").
On June 21, 2005, dredg's third album, Catch Without Arms, was released; a video for the single "Bug Eyes" was released. For the spring of 2006, dredg played on the Taste of Chaos tour, which also featured Deftones, Atreyu, Thrice, and Story of the Year as headlining bands. Also, dredg headlined their own tour with Ours and Ambulette to hit cities that they did not tour in during the Taste Of Chaos tour (they came on the Taste Of Chaos tour about mid-way through).
Dredg also composed the score for the 2006 independent film, Waterborne.
In addition to music, Dredg also creates artwork, which is available for viewing on the band's official website. Drew Roulette's works have twice appeared on shirts released by Artus Clothing.
On May 11, 2006, Dredg recorded their performance for a live CD entitled Live at the Fillmore. Dredg announced in a MySpace bulletin on October 9, 2006 that the CD is available for pre-sale and that it will be released on November 7 2006. Remixes that currently exist are Dan The Automator's "Sang Real" and Serj Tankian's "Ode to the Sun." Both songs are off Catch Without Arms. The "Sang Real" remix is being made available as an added bonus for purchasing Live at the Fillmore off of iTunes. It is currently unknown what will become of the "Ode to the Sun" remix, or if the "Sang Real" remix will see wider release.
In the beginning of August 2006, dredg announced that they would be playing two "special events" back-to-back on September 14 and September 15, 2006 at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, California. It was later revealed that the special events would be Leitmotif performed in its entirety on the first night and El Cielo in its entirety on the second night. Both nights would also features selections from Catch Without Arms. Recordings of these shows can be obtained via archive.org in FLAC format (the links can be found on the news page of traversing.net). Videos of the two shows have been edited and are currently available on various BitTorrent trackers. An early version of "It's not worth it" was performed on each night.
On November 7 through November 10, 2006, Dredg debuted a new song, "Ireland," at in-store performances that were held in California to promote the release of their first live album, Live at the Fillmore. Along with the new song, selections from Catch Without Arms and El Cielo were played, as well as "The Warbler," which has only been officially released as a live track on the Fillmore CD.
The band appeared in the 2007 membership list for The Coterie with honorary membership.
On February 14, 2007, dredg issued a new update on their website detailing production on a new album. dredg also released several working song titles to go along with "Ireland." The titles listed were: "Hurricane Felix", "Pieces of Gold", "Wondrous Miracle", "Fleeing to Mexico", "It's Not Worth It", "Long Days and Vague Clues", "2001", and "Fucking Smile Pt. 2.," the final song being a reference to a b-side from the El Cielo sessions entitled "Fucking Smile." In the same announcement, dredg said that they will debut some of the new songs during a handful of live shows in California, during the first week of April.
At said shows, new songs, as labeled on the set lists, included "Push Away," "Ireland," "It's Not Worth It," "Quotes," "Wu," and some short musical interludes. Variations of "Symbol Song," "Whoa Is Me" and "Movement I" were also played with the main guitar parts replaced with a horn section consisting of Ben "King" Perkoff on Tenor Saxophone and Terry "The Bari" Forgette on Baritone Saxophone. "Matroshka (The Ornament)" was performed for the first time during these four shows. |
Участники
Гэвин Хейс — вокал, слайд-гитара, гитара
Марк Энглз — гитара
Дрю Рулетт — бас
Дино Кампанелла — ударные, клавишные
Хейс и Рулетт увлекаются художественным искусством и участвуют в оформлении собственных альбомов и концертов.
Дискография
Группа завоевала место на инди-сцене своим релизом 1998 года — концептуальным альбомом «Leitmotif». В 2002-м выпущен «El Cielo», а в 2005-м — наиболее массово успешный «Catch Without Arms».
Альбомы
1998 - Leitmotif (переиздан в 2001)
2002 - El Cielo
2005 - Catch Without Arms
2009 - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
EP
1996 - Conscious
1997 - Orph
2002 - Extended Play for the Eastern Hemisphere
Живые концерты
2006 - Live at the Fillmore
Интернет EP
2005 - Sony Connect Sets
2007 - Napster Sessions
DVD
2003 - Crickets
2005 - Live from the Henry Fonda Theater
Музыкальные клипы
"Same Ol' Road" (2002), с альбома El Cielo.
"Of The Room" (2003), с альбома El Cielo.
"Bug Eyes" (2005), с альбома Catch Without Arms.
"Information" (2009), с альбома The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion.
Страна
USA (Los Gatos, California)
Год образования
1996
Лэйбл
Interscope, Universal
Стиль
Alternative / New Prog Rock
Лирика
Conceptualism
Сэмплы
http://www.myspace.com/dredg
Полезные сайты:
Wikipedia
Официальный сайт:
http://www.dredg.com/
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